whats a barebones ?

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I'm planning a gaming system for this fall. I'm a novice and this will be my first build. I'm good with pc hardware, but bad at installing cpu heatsinks. I've damaged a few cpu's by using the wrong amount of thermal paste or installing the heatsink incorrectly. So i was thinking about barebones. A barebones is just a case/mobo/cpu right? Do they come with the heatsink already installed on the cpu? If so that'd be perfect for me. But I dunno a good place online to get one. So if you guys could gimme some info on barebones and good online retailers that'd be great. Thanks =)
 
have a local store or friend install cpu for you. Barebones has different meanings depending on who i susing it. You have to look at the fine print, but basically it means not complete pc ;) .
 
I'm not 100% positive, but I think Monarch will pre-install a heatsink for you if you order parts from them.
 
A 'barebone' is usually a mobo, case and psu that needs YOU to install a CPU, RAM and HDD. Examples would be all of shuttles puter and tyans DIY rackmounts.
 
If you've screwed up 'a couple' how hard is it to figure out where you fucked up? We aren't talking landing a terd on the moon here..
 
Istalling Heatsinks isn't really dangerous any more, all the cpus have heat spreaders on them, and both amd and intel make the mobo manufactures use standardised mounting setups.

Just don't rush it, take a good look at the sink, and where it has to go, and play it out in your head first.
 
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