Continuing from yesterday, here are some more items to consider when building your own computer.
- You must choose which optical drives you will need. Do you want a DVD-Rom or a DVD-Writer? Or just a standard CD-ROM or a CD-Burner. Maybe even a Blu-Ray Drive. Consider what you plan to do with your personal computer. You may want to get a couple of drive to save wear and tear on the other. For example, you can get a plain CD-ROM drive to play music on and a DVD-Drive to play movies on. Sure the DVD drive can play audio CDs, but do you want to wear it out on them? Be mindful of the connection types on your drives as well. Is it SATA or PATA? This will determine how they will be connected to the motherboard. Also consider how may available drive bays you have on your computer case.
- You will also need a hard disk drive to house your operating system and your files. As with the optical drives, be mindful of their connection methods. Think about what you will do with your computer. If you are planning to run multiple operating systems, you may want to get a couple of drives or just partition the one drive. If you are planning a RAID setup, you will need multiple hard disks.
- If your motherboard doesn’t have an integrated graphics card, or you want a better one, you will have to look at compatible graphics cards that offer the features you want to have. More memory, more spend, and more power in general. This can be important if you are a big gamer.
- Think of any other peripherals you will need, modems, wireless modems, mice, keyboards, power supply, and a monitor of course.
Research anything and everything you could want in your computer. Take some time to check out compatibility issues with your chosen devices. But most of all, have fun doing it.
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