Computersight -

Assembling your own computer or a ‘white box’ is extremely rewarding and reaps many benefits to you. You can shop for the exact parts that you yourself want making your computer unique to yourself and so that it suits your needs and personality precisely. It also allows you to save a lot of cash by leaving out parts of a pc that you will NEVER use in your life time and in turn allows you to spend the money in stuff that you do want. My own previous desktop pc was hideous, but it had the stuff inside that I wanted, which is what counts for a pc user. What you do need for the computer is a good keyboard and mouse. (try playing Counter Strike or Battlefield 2 with a non optical serial mouse, try it!!) You should also insist on buying good quality speakers to go with your precious shell that will soon be a treasure to you, unless of course you are someone who mainly uses headphones. (as I do)

When you call up and implement the (insert: Parent, Wallet, Credit Card, etc.) to actually go out and buy the parts that you want you should make sure you check out all the latest deals from various manufacturers. (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, etc.) This is the part of construction that is the sweetest for me. You have the authority to transform the shell sitting on your shelf (if you haven’t already got the casing) into an incredible Gaming Rig, or a simple office pc that will never see the battlefields of the far future splayed across its monitor. Choose wisely! For a Gaming Rig get plenty of Ram, a decent graphics/video card and a dual core processor which will do you plenty of favors. If you love gaming (as I do), do yourself a massive favor and do not get Vista. Skip it. Vista drains your computer’s memory and processing power setting back much of what you bought to make your computer’s performance great. There are just so many things you do not need. The best places to get the parts are online at auction sites where they practically give away incredible stuff that would cost a bomb in a shop. If you do all of the above, you can several thousand dollars. (give or take your country’s currency that is!)

When assembling your pc you might groan and tremble at the thought. Halt! All is not lost! If you really cannot do it yourself you can probably pay someone at a computer shop to do it for a moderate fee. But it really isn’t that difficult at all! Today, assembling a pc is not that bad as most motherboard jumper settings will be preset when you purchase it. In prehistoric times, there were so many settings you would have to spend ages with the motherboard manual to set it up properly. BUT today, just slip the processor in the motherboard’s processor socket, slap in some RAM and the peripheral cards and voila! You have your very own pc. Don’t you feel so proud? Now you can boast to all your pals about what a pro you are at computers. Doesn’t it feel terrific? Just don’t forget to add in the DVD drive, etc., otherwise you won’t be doing much with it.

Good Hunting/Assembling!