Building a new computer; thoughts?

Any reason you can't recycle things from your old computer? Like former hard drives, CD/DVD drives, sound cards, or any of those sorts of things (aren't most onboard audio things nowadays pretty much just as good as a sound card?). Or if you want to stick with CRT, why can't you use the monitor you have right now? Are you planning on keeping both computers running all the time?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by The_Griffin

I did forget though that I have a DVD burner in the current computer. I also plan to get a new hard drive and possibly keep my current 120GB one (although it is starting to get filled up, sadly), but I'm not too sure it'll work since the old drive is IDE and the new one is SATA.

I think most boards out there still have at least one IDE spot for CD devices, so I imagine if you want you could hook your current one up as a slave drive and at least keep a buttload of storage room. Or, if not that, buy an external enclosure for $30 and have yourself a nice huge external USB drive.

Edit: Also, be careful with widescreen monitors. I think you generally have to keep fairly up to date with graphics cards and whatnot in order to play games at nonstandard resolutions at good settings. I dunno, maybe things have changed since a few years ago when my old roommate got his widescreen (and I suppose more and more games have support for widescreen nowadays).

There's nowhere I can't reach.