How to assemble a PC – What to know before you start?

Build a PC allows you to have a product designed around their needs and reduced price. It’s time to discover how to do it with minimal effort. 

Some time ago, we discussed the validity of the proposed pre-assembled computers in large chains of electronics and information, drawing conclusions not optimistic: great knowledge and save a lot of attention, it is difficult to bring home a really cheap product, and that it can meet the expectations.

The alternative, at least for desktop PCs, there is: create a computer by itself, piece by piece, by choosing the most appropriate components (or maybe those with the best quality / price ratio) and put them all together to the sound of a screwdriver afternoon of work is not too difficult. The reward for this alternative route is interesting: a product that not only meets your needs exactly, but it almost always turns out to be far cheaper than the same offer pre-assembled.

Assembling a PC is seen by many as something too challenging and difficult, something that only a technician or an experienced friend could accomplish. Now is therefore, the time to shed some light on the subject and to propose a series of buying guides and mounting that they are capable of giving a boost to those who hitherto remained undecided on whether or not to try.

How to assemble a PC all the necessary components.

In the series of guides who regularly see the light in our portal, we will, from time to time, to analyze in some detail (without going into too much technical, if not necessary) the components necessary to build a PC. In this introduction, it is good to make a very brief description of all the players in this process.

Within houses vary in size, also to choose carefully, there is no need to place several crucial components: the motherboard is a large plate that takes care of hosting all the remaining components and make them communicate effectively with each other.

The processor (CPU) is responsible to perform the calculations given by the system. The RAM retains data from time to time that the computer believes are the most important ones to keep ” handy ” to avoid delays. Inside the RAM, memory is stored, for example, a lot of data related to operating system processes and applications open at any one time.

Then there is the video card (GPU) that, similar to the central processor, takes care of all the calculations closely related to graphics and visual output that are played on the monitor. Conclude then list one or more hard drives, traditional or solid state, which deal to keep all data on your computer, any DVD / Blu-Ray, but above all, a power supply: as you can easily guess, from power is distributed electrical power to all the components inside the computer.

What needs? Choose your profile.

It would be all ready to go with the advice, but there is still a crucial issue open: it is possible to recommend a computer ” perfect ” for anyone? In a word, no: each person has specific needs that need a certain product, more or less advanced and above all, more or less expensive. True, spending very high figures can speak perfect product for everyone, but the goal that we will follow in this path is to offer a great deal to all types of users at the lowest possible price. Taking into account that the needs of a family man who wants to make a computer for family use are different from those of a filmmaker by profession, it is good to make distinction user profiles that follow in the course of these guides. Pay close attention and you identified in one of these four profiles.

• Base : the user profile Base looking for a reliable product and responsive to everyday use of common applications. The Basic user wants to surf the web in comfort, manage your files (music, videos, photos) and work on presentations and spreadsheet’s office text. Very important is the achievement of a band of the final price as low as possible, without sacrificing a fast and pleasant to use.
• Professional : Professional users often use the computer for their work, often navigating and managing dozens of documents. Every second lost before a jamming of the computer is due irritates minds in the long run, for which the primary requirement of this type of user is the full reactivity of the system, which allows to conclude the work in less time and with fewer pain heads.
• Creative : Creative requirements of the profile programs revolve around multimedia composition: suite to design and remodel, to compose music, and edit video. All of these programs have in common, besides being heavy, dependency calculations. This profile, therefore requires a computer that can calculate faster complex operations, such as the encoding of a video.
• Gamer : the PC gamer does not accept compromises and points to the visual rendering of the ideal games installed inside the computer. Perform an action game on PC is a very burdensome in terms of resources, so the primary requirement, the user similarly creative, is that of computing power. There are some minor differences between the two configurations by virtue of the presence on the market, most of the components brought to one or another user profile.

Where to start buying?

Ok, you have put a bit of money, and you have identified your needs. The question now is: how to buy the necessary components? We will be able to advise you already to have some reliable store with each specific component, such as Amazon and TigerDirect.

Be careful though, the value of the postage that, in the case of PC components are not always free. Take initiative and then pinned the most attractive offers in order to find a perfect balance between low price and actual saving’s net of shipments.