Computer Building?

Question

I need a new computer, and I've decided to challenge myself into building my own one. I've never done this before, and since I am skilled in using a computer, I decided I would like to familiarize myself with the inside of a computer. I want the most high performance computer. I just don't know what are the most high quality parts. Can someone want to link me to all the best parts?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

What is the price range?  What are you going to do with it?  Heavy games or just what?  More information please.

Answer 2

Get the new 45mn  Quad Core processor, Extreme edition if can afford it,

A decent top end X48 chipset Gigabyte motherboard, one that takes DDR3 memory and has at least 2 pci-e slots for the video cards, and gigLan or more.

If u running XP or Vista 32 then 4 gigs ram,

x2 Raptor hard drives, they are really fast and can run in raid, and maybe a 500gb enterprise quality drive to start off with for storage,

a nice case to put all the stuff in.

DVD/CD/BluRay reader/writer

a nice aftermarket cooler for the cpu.

either NVidia 9800series or ATi 4800 series graphics card with dual GPU's.

A nice 24inch lcd screen.

thats about the basics.