This makes no sense at all. I feel bad for you.
Yes actually each piece does have a very obvious place that it plugs into.
Please pay attention. Do you know why I couldn't stick a PCIX card into an agp/pci slot? That's right sunshine because it's way to **** long. OBVIOUSLY way to long. So that retarted kid that I was talking about earlier would know that the card isn't going to fit into the slot that is 2" too short...
It's not hard man please say these things out loud to yourself before you put them on here so you don't sound like a moron. It would take less than ten seconds.
Also how is this possibly comparable to installing a car stereo? There is nothing even close to the difficulty and pain-in-the-assity of running cables, or removing a door panel or dash? Unless putting the 7 screws into a motherboard to hold it into the tower is really difficult for you.
You want to compare these two? Put an uninstalled HU, some rca's and an amplifier in front of a 4 year old kid on the floor. I bet he can figure out how to hook those three together, and even then it's more complicated because he wouldn't know what channel to plug the rca's into on the HU...
There is one video slot on most computers so you can't mess that up. Plugging in a PCI card? Stick it in any of the slots that it clearly would fit into; no thinking because you can put it into any one you want. RAM? It's the really thin long piece that goes into the thin long slot.
I fail to see where I'm wrong.
memory sticks
DIMMS are all the same size, but not the same speed. You have to get memory that runs at a speed acceptable by your mother board. Not to mention, running it in dual mode isn't difficult, but it's not just sticking it in whatever slot you want. You have 2 512s, 2 256 sticks, you need to stagger them.
Seriously tho, you couldn't take some retard off the street, say "go to newegg.com and buy whatever you want" and expect that he'll get parts that will all "fit together." When you say "put a computer together" I'm thinking of putting it together from the beginning. As in, buying all of the parts that will be compatible w/each other and getting everything to work. Computers USED to be a lot more "plugin" friendly.. but now that there's all sorts of front side bus speeds, it's slightly more intensive than it was before.
But hey.. what do I know about computers.. I've only been dealing w/them for 12 years, built 3, and graduated from college w/a comp sci degree, and had numerous people come to me w/problems because they couldn't just "plug things in."
EDIT: you also need to factor in a power supply based on your load.
I've corrected so many problems because people got an upgrade, just plugged somehting in, and then hosed their system becaue they didn't have the power to run it.
Imagine hooking up 2 06 XXXs w/out an HO alt or extra bat.
