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How to build your own computer
Here's a basic guide to building computers from cheap computer parts. If you want to know how to build your own computer, read on... This page gives you an overview of the hardware you need with links to step-by-step guides to follow once you have all the parts and are ready to build your own computer. I think this type of computer offers the best value if you want to save money and build your own computer. Currently Pentium 4/Celeron socket 478 CPUs and motherboards are very cheap parts. This is a fast platform and a huge number of these computer systems are in use today.
If you want to build your own computer the best place to start is with the motherboard. Since all the other computer parts plug into the motherboard you can learn about the whole system from here.
Here is a standard socket 478 motherboard:
The installation guides on this page are for the type of computer
parts I recommend. If you want to get the best value I think you should get
a Pentium 4 computer system like this. You will not only get great performance
but if you build your own computer you will save hundreds of dollars. Recently it has become common for barebone computers to be sold. Barebone computers are very cheap and often come without a couple of components you have to buy and install yourself. I really like barebone computers as they come partially built and are easy for new computer builders to finish off. You get to choose which parts to install and thus save money or
spend more for better performance. This is one way to get a really cheap computer. On sale at under
$100 this package includes the motherboard installed in the case along with the
CPU and memory. Of course the CPU is not very fast but you can always upgrade it
later.
You will have to buy a hard drive and CD ROM drive to complete a
barebone computer system. Generally a cheap computer would be fine for school
reports and surfing the Internet. It will not be that great for games. It is totally upgradeable so you can increase performance in the
future with a new graphics card, more memory or a faster CPU. I think it would be very hard to get a computer for less any other way |
Screen Reading Software( can read text directly from the computer screen)
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