Build A Computer Help

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Hi Simtropolis, This summer i plan to build my own desktop computer but i dont know where to start. Here are some nessesities. It needs to do the following.

• Must be able to play Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition
• Must be able to acces internet and stuff like that
• Microsoft Office is a MUST 

• Downloads (music, videos, pictures etc)
• MUST BE ABLE TO RUN Windows 7 or Vista

If there is anyone out there who has experience or a video or a website or tips ANYTHING on building selecting and installing these parts,  please message me or email me at (e-mail address removed for security purposes, Private Message is a good option) --Liv, ST Staff.

Thanks Guys

PS list of parts would be nice to

[Easy Bakes 253]

Try New Egg.

they have parts list galore and can pretty much custom build a system to do whatever you want.

[SC4BOY 20]

Obviously this is not the first time this has been discussed, so there are many threads of this nature. I'd refer you to THIS RECENT THREAD  on thie topic that covers the issue fairly well.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Microsoft Office is never a must.  You should, by this time, have figured out that there are other, less incestuous, office suites available.  What do you want to do in Microsoft Office that you can't do in Open Office?

[Philadelphia 25]

I have Microsoft Office and It works fine.

[Larks2242 251]

Originally posted by: N_O_Body

Microsoft Office is never a must.  You should, by this time, have figured out that there are other, less incestuous, office suites available.  What do you want to do in Microsoft Office that you can't do in Open Office?

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What is it about Microsoft Office that you don't like, personally i don't like Open Office but that is probably because I'm used to the Microsoft one.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Originally posted by: Larks2242

Originally posted by: N_O_Body

Microsoft Office is never a must.  You should, by this time, have figured out that there are other, less incestuous, office suites available.  What do you want to do in Microsoft Office that you can't do in Open Office?

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What is it about Microsoft Office that you don't like, personally i don't like Open Office but that is probably because I'm used to the Microsoft one.quote>

My principal objection to Microsoft Office is its price.  Furthermore, it doesn't run on my current operating system.  But I did have both of them up for a while when I was still an XP user.  They seem to be interchangable with only small differences in interface. 

In principle, I object to any application package that has special deals with the Operating System, so morally I am also against MS' use of the package as a hooker for Windows.

I have the same $$ objection to Adobe's megapackage for graphics.  I use the GIMP, and have for a long, long time, even on XP.

I have a long and admiring relationship with the Free Software Foundation.  I don't think you should be obliged pay and pay and pay for things like word processors or graphics manipulation systems. 

{rant}

I also most strongly object to the takeover of the certification business by Microsoft.  They have made it impossible for people like myself to honestly get work because I haven't ponied up the bucks to get their latest piece of paper.  I have been in this business since before there were even degrees in computer science, programming and everything attached.  When I was at Queen's there was exactly one computer on campus, an IBM 1700 series machine, that was kept as a lab curiousity in the Electrical Engineering lab.

When all this certificaton stuff started, I did take the trouble to get certified.  I have a CCP which I partially got on the grandfather clause (ACM membership), but I did write the exam (cold) and passed it.  My version of this does not require recertification, but the AICCP got into that business shortly after.  Pfaugh!

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