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People often ask me about building their own computer, and most people are afraid that they will spend money on parts and end up breaking them or not actually be able to finish it at all. But what is most common, is that they don’t know what to get. I assume that you have basic computer skills when it comes to hardware and you are reading this to get a little more. In this article I’ll go over what you need to get for your home-built PC.
The Case. The computer case, commonly known as the “Tower” is step one. You’ll need a place to put your computer parts after all.

The Motherboard. The Motherboard is the central meeting place for your computer. Everything plugs into the main board. Make sure that you write down what kind of parts your motherboard uses or you’ll have problems. Like what kind of memory interface does it use, does it come with graphics or just an expansion slot, if so what kind? Make sure you know everything about your board before you buy it and the other parts.

The CPU. (Central Processing Unit) better know as the Processor. I would tell anyone to go with Intel over AMD. Make sure again that your motherboard is Intel. Because Intel and AMD don’t work together. For the Processor you should go with the older Pentium 4 3.00 GHz. It’s good economically and for it’s age it is one of the best. Buy it’s supported Heat Sink, too.

Memory. The computers’ RAM, (Random Access Memory) is where it stores all of it’s temporary memory. Once your computer Reboots, than that memory is gone. The more RAM you have, the faster your computer will be. If you’re just surfing the web and not playing at lot of games then I would suggest going with 3 GB’s of DDR2 RAM.

Hard Drive. The Computer’s Hard Drive is where all of it’s information is stored. The operating system, pictures, songs, everything. For a Single web surfer who has a lot to store, I’d say go with a 500 GB SATA hard drive. (I’ll have an article on building a good gaming PC later)

Removable Storage. Removable Storage is a term used to define CD Drives, DVD Drives, Memory card readers, and so on. I’d say go with a DVD/CD RW Drive. This will burn CD’s and DVD’s, and it will read them both, too. That’s all you’ll really need.

Graphics Card. The display part of your PC. The Graphics card sends information from your CPU to your monitor. If you’re not going to be doing a lot of gaming, make sure your motherboard comes with a pre-installed graphics card. known as on-board or integrated. but if it doesn’t, since every motherboard has a basic PCI expansion slot, buy a 64mb PCI graphics card. It may be hard to find. People who buy graphics cards are gamers, and they’re not too fond of basic PCI.

I/O. I/O is Input/Output. Basically anything that plugs into the back of you computer. So now you need a basic keyboard, mouse, speakers, and a monitor and you’re good to go. I hope this article was helpful to you.