If you are thinking of buying a great performing personal computer, then the best way is to personalize it. This means selecting all the components yourself, and assembling them together yourself. This way you can create a customized computer yourself, which meets your needs and budget. So, let us start discussing the parts you will need to buy and the steps involved in how to build a computer from scratch.
Selecting Components
Before you start building a computer, you need to pick up the hardware components. So, make a checklist of the configurations you want in your computer. Discussed below are the important hardware components like RAM, processor, graphics card, hard drive, CD ROM, which you need to pick while building a computer yourself.
*The two main things you need to decide in the mission to build a computer are processor and RAM. Decide if you want a 32 bit or 64 bit processor. Intel and AMD are the best manufactures when it comes to processors. RAM decides the speed of your computer, so go for minimum 1 GB of RAM, or higher if you are into gaming. For gaming 4 GB or more is recommended.
*Hard drive is another important component, which is your computers storage. 160 GB is decent size, but you can even get 1 Tera Byte if you like to make a collection of movies.
*A good graphics card will provide great picture quality. NVDIA is a well-known brand, so go for minimum 512 MB graphics card, or higher for gaming.
*Then picking up CD ROM is important, Sony and Creative are recommended brands. Now, there are Blu-Ray CD which are replacing ordinary CDs, so consider a Blu-Ray burner.
*Make sure you pick the PC case (cabinet) which has lots of ports. As lots of ports in a desktop computer is must, because you will be connecting many external parts to it. You can pick flashy cool looking PC cases, or go for a simple white/black colored case.
*Then comes selecting a monitor. You can go with latest slim LCD computer monitor models, or old big CRT monitors. You can pick an 18 inch or a big 21 inch monitor, which will make watching movies or playing games very entertaining.
*Other components like mouse and keyboard should be selected. You can also consider accessories like speakers, webcams, scanners, mikes, UPS, etc.