By Anita Ortega


There are websites specifically made for everyone who always wanted to assemble their own PC for playing games, but never really had the courage to venture into it. You can follow a guide, that can teach you how to build your own gaming computer online. Find a site that covers almost everything you should know before you put together your own PC.

For the novice, it's a matter of basic identifying and separating of the many components you come across when you want to create your own PC. You can pick and choose the components you need. This is done so the machine does exactly what you want it without spending too much money on it.

When it comes to graphics cards, hard drives and optical drives, there are a few vital things you should be aware of (at least in terms of support). Broadly, any of the newer video cards sold today will take advantage of the PCI Express infrastructure, which should fit broadly in all newer motherboards. Similar is the situation with most hard drives you are looking at, as most uses Serial ATA (or SATA).

The graphics card is also one of the extremely important components of a modern PC. This is where a lot of casual gamers drop out and buying a ready-built PC instead. That is simply done because there are so many options on the market, and they all claim to be "the future of graphics".

You need a quick checklist of all the things you are most likely going to need. Although, there is probably something you could omit. Things like a processor, heatsink (sometimes supplied with the processor), motherboard, RAM modules, graphics or video card (in some cases integrated into the motherboard) and a hard drive are some of the more obvious ones. Other extras include a DVD burner or other optical drives, housing and a power supply (sometimes supplied with the tower).

All the data runs through the motherboard, and therefore it is of course important that you use a significant portion of the budget to buy yourself an affordable one that can keep up when the games expand and becomes more technically demanding. If you buy the best RAM, the best graphics, the best CPU in the world but fail to buy a similar motherboard, you will not get very far. You will also change your mind about the setup quickly.

Since the motherboard is one of the most important - if not the most important - part of the computer, it is advisable to buy a good one.Buy brands which appeal to gamers. These are ASUS, MSI, Intel and Gigabyte, which are really focused on quality and durability.

You can easily get away with using less money for a top- notch computer, without needing to complain in the future. Many people skimp on components in their computer's innards, so they can get a good graphics card and a good processor. That is not a smart choice, so try to avoid that exact mistake.




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