Build Your Own Computer!

What you need to know.

Hardware you’ll need

Case• Power

Supply• Fans

Mother-board

CPU• Heatsink

RAM(memory

)

Hard Drive

OpticalDrives• CD-RW• DVD-RW• Blu-Ray

Computer Case

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Make sure your case fits your motherboard!

ATX, 12 x 9.6Mini-ATX, 11.2 x 8.2Micro-ATX, 9.6 x 9.6

Does it come with a power supply?

How much power?http://www.journeysystems.co

m/?power_supply_calculatorHow many molex and how

many SATA connectors does the power supply have?

Does it come with case fans?What size? Inflow and outflow!

Molex Power SATA Power

Motherboard

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What form factor?

ATX?Mini-ATX?Micro-ATX?

What socket size?

Intel?1366 i7775

AMD?AM2AM3

Maximum RAM?SATA & IDE?Expansion slots?

PCIPCIEAGP

Onboard Video?

CPU/HEATSINK

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Intel or AMD processor?How many gigahertz?Dual Core or Quad Core?Heatsink included, or purchase separately?Do you want to overclock?

RAM/Memory

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How many slots in the motherboard?What’s the maximum per slot?How much do you really need???DDR2 or DDR3?

Hard Drives

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IDE or SATA?Refurbished?How large do I need?

80 gb—Surfing/Word160 gb—Photos250 gb—Music files500 gb-1 tb—Movies

How MANY do I need?Redundancy is key!

Internal or external?

RAID solutions

Optical Drives

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DVD-RWReads and writes CD’s and DVD’s$25SATA or IDE?

Blu-ray burner$180SATA

Operating SystemsWindows XP?

Windows Vista?Windows 7?

Linux Ubuntu?Linux Fedora?

Where to buy?

http://www.newegg.comhttp://www.geeks.comhttp://www.tigerdirect.comhttp://www.ebay.com

Best Freebie Software

Antivirus •AVG Free OR•Avira Antivir

Defrag •Iobit Smart Defrag•Auslogics Disk Defrag

VirusRemoval •Malwarebytes’ Antimalware

•Super Antispyware

Cleanup •Ccleaner•Iobit Advanced System Care

Backup•Macrium Reflect