Today I am going to show how I am going to build my very own home computer. Firstly before I think about any aspect of building the actual computer I have to think about what I need the computer for and what tasks that will be carried out on this computer. So I have come to the conclusion that I am going to use the computer for my pictures, music and videos such as a media centre PC.
Below is certain aspects on which I want my computer to do:
·Use a hard drive to record and store television programs and play them back later.
· Watch TV programming (broadcast, cable, or satellite) on your computer monitor.
·Listen to music through your home audio system
· Edit your digital photographs and display them in digital slideshows
· Edit your digital home movies.
· Listen to local and Internet radio.
· Record music and video files to CD
Now I will start with the case I need to hold all of my hardware such as the motherboard and the DVD/CD drives etc. So I went ahead and bought this super slim Antec Minuet case for £50 which is just over 30cm wide.
The next piece of hardware that I needed to worry about was the motherboard itself which I needed to think about carefully. So I decided with AMD 780G Chipset as these have well enough onboard sound and audio for a media centre, so there’s no need for a separate soundcard or video card which keeps the costs down. The total cost of this motherboard only cost me £45.
The 780g motherboard that I purchased supports AMD, AMD2 and AMD3 processors and since I could not find any AMD2 CPU’s I decided to stick with the AMD3 Athlon X2 Dual Core 240 Which is quite to fast but it will have to do for now. The total cost was £55.
For my computer I will be running windows seven and this can run on 1 GB of memory but when adding memory sensibly i knew that 1 GB wouldn't be enough so i went ahead and bought 2GB's which ended up costing me £20.
Then one of the last pieces of hardware I had to get was the hard disk which didn't take that long to think about because i didn't need that much memory as i mostly store my files in an online database. So i went ahead and bought the 160GB 2.5 SATA Internal Hard Drive for the price of £50 on eBay and that was to buy new.
So at the end of all this and after I have built my computer I came to the conclusion that it was well worth the money as it only cost me £220 for all the pieces of hardware.
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
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