Advice please - desktop purchase

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Originally Posted by Polixenes [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm not really keen to try to build a PC myself - my only experience with the inner workings is to replace a dud RAM chip, and even then I was crapping myself due to dire warnings of the slightest static electricity frying it.

The nearest I ever got to a lesson in computers at school was making a stickman in BASIC language to walk across the screen and go up in an elevator.

But I can get expert help here from the IT guys and as I said earlier, bung them some cash to get the job done.

Honestly, if you've replaced RAM, you can put together a PC. CPUs no longer have pins, they have pads on the CPU and the pins are on the MotherBoard. Its much harder to break the pins now-a-days if you follow the MOBO installation directions. The rest of the connections are either plugging in a cable (possibly slightly more fickle than plugging in a power chord) or plugging another component into the mobo (the same as pushing RAM into a socket). If you are worried about electro-static discharge on your brand new rig, build it on a linoleum/hardwood/tile floor, and between every component touch something near you that you know grounds you (you've touched it before and gotten the static shock). If you do that between every component/every 30min, I highly doubt you'll build up enough static electricity to break your new build.