Thinking of joining the ranks of hands-on PC users who build their own systems? To salute your courage, we tried to locate the best tutorials out there. We began with the following search term, "build your own pc," and luck was with us.
A site called Build Your Own PC offers step-by-step instructions for selecting the best possible hardware components for your budget (we're talking motherboards, drives, and cards here), putting it all together, and choosing an operating system that's right for you. There are also pointers to many other good resources for hardware geeks, er... connoisseurs.
Tom's Hardware Guide is one such resource. Once you've used theMainboard and CPU Guides, come back for card and component reviews and recommendations, news, and more. Another helpful site is Jef Poskanzer's Build a PC, which offers colorful, articulate advice:
Start by figuring out what CPU, chipset, and motherboard you want. These are respectively the brains, soul, and heart of your machine.
A search on "build computer" produced different results, many irrelevant to your question, but it did lead us to Eric Raymond's 1996 classic, "Building the Perfect Box: How to Design Your Linux Workstation."
The search results also gave us the idea of browsing the top-level Yahoo! Computer Hardware category for more information. This led us to Ars Technica's Complete System Building Guide, with an illustrated anatomy of the PC under construction and detailed photos and forums. PC Mechanic also offers rich tutorials on assembling a home PC or web server.
Although presentation styles and personal preferences vary from site to site, nearly all the tutorials agree that building your own computer guarantees that you'll save money (though not necessarily time!), get what you pay for as well as what you choose, and end up with a machine that you can understand, and therefore, upgrade effectively.
Just remember to keep yourself grounded and find a good forum or list where you can ask questions and get intelligent answers.
What You Need To Build A Computer
You can build a computer that's affordable, high-quality, and with eye-popping performance like My Super PC! If you're thinking of building your own PC and you'd like to see specific recommendations for components, actual costs, tutorials on how to assemble, help with BIOS and driver settings, what performance results you should expect, and all of this information for free - then you're at the right site! This site is dedicated to help you in building your own computer.
So Welcome! It's good to have you here to share my experiences researching and building My Super PC. The information on these pages should streamline your research and save you hours of time, a fair amount of money, and you'll end up building your own super computer. Although technology changes quickly, I update this site frequently to keep it up-to-date. This site provides:
Free tutorials on how to build a computer from start to finish - from component selection to assembly to testing.
Help in selecting quality, compatible components for building a PC.
The best places to buy top-quality components from reputable resellers at unbeatable prices to use to build your own PC.
Detailed Build A Computer guides providing step-by-step instructions describing how to assemble the computer.
Instructions on configuring BIOS settings and video card drivers to get the most out of your PC.
How to update and upgrade your computer.
PC support help, such as troubleshooting tips for during and after building your computer.
Official and unofficial FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions) for building a PC.
What benchmark tools to use to measure computer performance.
What diagnostic tools to use to look for computer problems.
What I used to build my computer into a super computer.
In short, everything you need to build a computer.
