Computer Build: The Basics

Building a PC is one of the best things I love to do. It's really satisfying specially after fully completing the process. However, it require tons of research to fully understand how to build a PC. I watch many guide videos, they were great but I when they start talking about the parts I got lost. Today, I'll be showing you this small guide on the parts of a PC and what do they do.






CPU-Think of this as the heart of your computer, without it your pc won't run. This is the most important and ,usually, the most expensive part of the system so be careful when handling it. (It's also EXTREMELY fragile)







Motherboard- I'm not going to details about each part (but I might do it later on).This is basically where you connect every piece of the pc. This is also where you can find the ports, such as the USB ports, the GPU ports, etc. Keep in mind that some motherboard contain more or less ports than the regular so research first before buying.

Graphics cards- If you are a hardcore pc gamer pay close attention. Motherboard contain an "integrated" graphics card, meaning its built in and ,in my opinion, it sucks. It can only handle low spec games. However, you can purchase and install a new graphics card. This will boost up the quality of your game so you can play new games in the highest quality without any frame rate issue. Just a heads up, the quality and performance differ between each cards.







RAM- This is basically your mini,temporary storage. This allow you to open many programs,software, or internet without them slowing down. The amount you need may vary. If your in coding or video editing you might need to buy more of these.






Hard Drive/SSD- Nothing too complicated, If RAM is your temporary storage Hard Drive/SSDis like your permanent storage. This is where you put all of downloads, pictures,videos, etc.










Cooling supply- As the name suggest this allow your pc to not overheat. They supply you this along with the CPU but you can buy different one to maximize the cooling process and there's even a water cooling supply (cool right!)

Optical Disk Drive- This isn't necessary but I highly recommend buying it because software, or games, such as Norton, PhotoShop need disk drives for you to install it (but if your like the others who downloads eveything online you don't need it ;)).





Sound Cards- Again this is integrated in the pc and you might not even need it but if your like me who is likes games and hate low quality sounds you might want to buy this.

Case- This is where you hold everything. You can pick out any type of case you want because it does not affect your computer's performance, for the most part.

Power supply- I put this in the bottom for a reason. I highly recommend buying this last. The reason being is that every piece of hardware in the of pc need a certain amount of power to run . I suggest adding all the hardware's needed power first then get the power supply that fit the hardware.


Keep in my mind that if you want to get a high performance computer you need to spend a good amount of money (I would say around close to a thousand). But don't let this stop you from building instead is buying. Trust me, in a long run, you will save tons of cash because you don't need to keep buying new pc every year, you can just buy the replacement parts and add it on.
(All photos is from Google Image)