Building a Computer: What I need to know?

[Zet]

I've got no problems with the current debate of PSU vs Motherboards

 

[twocows]

I've got no problems with the current debate of PSU vs Motherboards

This is clearly devolving into a bunch of personal attacks that both sides are flinging at each other. I was going to report it myself, actually; I have no problems with debate, either, but can we please keep on track instead of derailing this into a "who has more friends" internet battle? :/

Both the motherboard and the PSU are important. However, you really don't want a PSU malfunctioning, as it can screw everything else up. If a mobo malfunctions, it's usually just a severe inconvenience; my brother's mobo malfunctioned about a month ago. He was lucky because a friend of his had a virtually identical mobo to replace it with (didn't even have to reconfigure Windows), but we still had to remove most of the old hardware and swap it in to the new mobo (cool story: I decided to combine the RAM from both motherboards since he had two slots free, so now instead of 2GB, he has 3GB; I was going to set up an SLI with the graphics cards, but he doesn't have a bridge and keeps putting off ordering one).

 

[Apple Inc.]

Does the Gigabyte EX58-UD3R Motherboard use IDE for the Optical Drives? I want to know if I have to buy a new Optical Drive or if I can reuse the one I have now.

 

[BenRK]

That seems to be a bit... enthusiast if you will. It's hard to tell, but I think it has it on there.

Oh, and sorry to fuel a dead fire, but I've since replaced my PSU with a better one. A Corsair 650TX. Told you I was going to replace my old one with something better.