How To Build A Computer
Computers these days are not cheap they can cost as much as $2,500. For a layperson, buying a computer can be a huge headache. People who do not understand the terms such as motherboard, hard drive, and ram written in a computer ad can be very confused. Understanding these terms gives the knowledge and the keys of the computer itself. A person might not think that building a computer is just like following a recipe for a certain type of food, but that is the way it is. In order to build a computer, one must get the right parts and then follow the recipe of putting the parts in one by one. Since computer's cost a lot of money, the cheapest and most effective way of getting one is to build it.The most essential parts of a computer are motherboards, hard drive, cpu (central processing unit), and memory (ram). The motherboard is the central component in computers, and allows other devices to be plugged into it such as a sound card, video card, and a network card, etc. The motherboard is known as the "brain" of the computer because every component will always be in the motherboard or connected to it. Motherboards can range in price from $100 to $350. Next is deciding how fast the computer will be.
Now that all the parts have been bought, the assembling can begin. First, the tower must be opened. The motherboard needs to be screwed in with the screws given with the tower when bought. Once the motherboard is in, parts can be added. The memory can be the first. There will be four slots towards the top of the motherboard that are black. Grab the memory, put it on top of the slots and push down till there is a click. The hard drive will go second. The hard drive does not go on the motherboard, but goes in a slot in the middle of the tower. Slide the hard drive in and screw it in. The video card and sound card will go into the white slots that are in the middle of the motherboard. Push each on in separately in its own slot, and screw them in. The cpu just slides in the middle right of the motherboard, but must be locked so pull the lever on the left of the cpu. The floppy and cd-rom drives go in the tower, in the drive bays, which are the five rectangle slots in front of the tower. In order to remove them, push out from inside the tower. Push two of them out to add the floppy and cd-rom and screw them in. The only problem that remains is to plug everything in. Everything that was bought came with a long cable called an IDE cable that has a red lining down the left side of it. Inside the motherboard there are connecters that are called power supplies in which everything must be connected with both. Plug in one of the IDE cables to the floppy, cd-rom, hard drive, and motherboard. Then plug in the power supply to each matching the red line to each. For example, the cd-rom is plugged in the left side showing red then the plug in the power supply should show red on its left as well. Since computers can cost so much these days, the most inexpensive
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