I think you need to consider changing your mindset when coming here and consider the people who are here, volunteering their time to help you. People here are willing to help, if you are willing to listen and willing to show that you are doing your own research. In your first post you said you did " a little research", but you don't detail out what you have learned so far, aside from you "located a motherboard that looks like it will work." However you don't state which motherboard it is, or ask for someone to verify it will work. The rest of your first post reads (when paraphrased) as "Ok, I found a random motherboard that should work, tell me everything else I need to make this work?" Can you see how this can be off putting to someone who has spent the time to do their own research on the subject, and spent the hours reading forum posts, searching google, reading the IT Games manuals, and learning the terminology for the parts and how they work together? Additionally, your last sentence, "The worst thing you can do is tell me to give up and go buy it already done from someone else." already is coming across as negative/combative. (Spoiler alert: It can be cheaper/easier just to buy one done.
This complete unit is the same $1500 as the parts above )
Some suggestions for how to show the research you have done would be if your first post read something like this:
I am looking to build a Golden Tee 2015 from scratch, and would like to gather the components before building/purchasing a cabinet. I was originally going to start with a Golden Tee 2005 machine, but have since decided to start from scratch.
I have located a motherboard I think will work. It is an Intel DG31PR with an E8200 CPU and no Ram. I can get and install ram on the board. Will this board work with Golden tee 2015, or can someone point me to a list of the supported motherboards?
In addition to the motherboard, I know I will need a security chip and a video card. Is there a list of video cards that will work for these? I am also unsure how the Security chip works in these. Is it specific to the version?
I know I am probably missing a bunch of necessary parts, but this is what I have learned so far.
I am new to this and trying to learn. If someone can point me to the manuals for these, or good post topic to start reading, I would appreciate the help.
This retains the same information and shows that you have done some research. It asked some specific questions, and requests guidance to resources. Like you also, I wanted to build one from parts and was able to source them for under what the kit and unit I linked above cost, but it took me 2.5 years to do.
For your second post, this is not helpful for those of us volunteering our time to help. Nowhere in your first post do you mention having issues finding information, nor do you provide what you've searched for, what post topics you have found, and what details you have found. Just from your previous post that I linked above should have provided you with some of the additional items that you needed, but that were not mentioned here at all.
For your last post, if you don't know what something is, just ask for clarification. Don't complain that someone asked you to do some research like you have in the remainder of that post. Just to make sure I wasn't stating misinformation, I typed "Golden Tee CID" into google and the first batch of results had 5 from this site, 3 were for sale threads, and 2 had pictures of the CID and the I/O Board, along with some other pertinent details that could be added to your knowledge base for this project.
Lastly, the I/O board, CID and Nighthawn computer case and Interface board are custom IT Games parts and not always easy to find. The Motherboard, CPU, Ram, and Video Cards are all Off-the-shelf components (motherboards may have a IT Games Biod image for factory systems, but the motherboard is otherwise a factory one.
I wish you the best of luck on this project, and am willing to help if you have a change in how you converse with me here. I started from the same spot 10 years ago and had to do the same research with fewer resources that are available today.