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Buying hardware components to assemble into a working computer system
Computer Buying Summary
I thought it would be helpful if we went through picking out the components we’ll need for a computer system as a way of a summary before we start assembly. Without picking the speed of the CPU, let’s decide on … Continue reading →
Buy or Build – a Price Comparison
We started this series of articles stating that you could not beat the price of a Dell or HP by building your own computer from components. Before we get into assembly, I thought we would double check how far off … Continue reading →
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Motherboards
The motherboard is where it all comes together for a PC. The motherboard connects everything together in your computer. The CPU may be the heart of your computer. The motherboard is the skeleton on which everything connects to and comes … Continue reading →
Extra Cables
One of the most frustrating things that can happen when your building a computer system is to try to plug a cable in, and find out that the cable you have is too short. It stops you dead in your … Continue reading →
Power Supplies
Power supplies are a bag of worms, and I mean this in more ways than one. You have a mess of wires, and you have a mess of specs, you have a mess of power requirements, and yet out of … Continue reading →