buying/building your own pc. ryan allen. price $500 or less $1000-$2000 $2000+
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Buying/Building your own PC.
Ryan Allen
Price
$500 or less $1000-$2000 $2000+
Mobility Desktop
Ability to expand. Affordable
Laptop Mobile More Costly Small with less
space taken.
Name Brand Dell
America’s Computer Affordable
HP/Compaq Sony Vaio Toshiba Apple Alienware Falcon eMachines
Operating Systems
Linux Microsoft Windows Apple Leopard
Processors Intel
Xeon Centrino Core 2 Extreme Core 2 Duo
AMD Athlon 64 Athlon 64 X2 Sempron
Monitor
17”+ LCD Widescreen Flat Panel Widescreen Digital Flat Panel Ultrasharp Widescreen Digital Flat Planel
Memory
Help improve multi-tasking, speed up gaming, and take your PC’s performance even higher with increased RAM. 256 MB - 4GB Single or Dual Channel DDR or SD RAM 667MHz – 4DIMMs
Hard Drive Capacity
More space means more room for your memories – keep your pictures, music, videos, and more on one hard drive. 60GB’s-5TB’s SATA or IDE High RPM Also maybe a Recovery Disk
Optical Drives
CD-ROM Read only Memory
DVD-ROM Read only CD’s and DVD’s
DVD+/-RW Drive Rewritable
Suggested to buy two optical drives.
Video Card
Higher Performace wideo cards can speed up your whole PC and make viewing pictures, videos and games more enjoyable. NVIDIA or ATI PCI Express (fast) AGP (Acceptable) SLI (Gamer Status)
Sound Card
Motherboard based is acceptable. Usually with a high powered sound
card it is recommended you have a powerful speakers.
Printers Inkjet
More common Cartridges are less expensive Cartridge change more often
Laser More Expense especially the color ones. More Business oriented Faster prints Cartridges need changing less.
Mice and Keyboards
Mouse Optical or Laser Wireless or Wired
Keyboard Wireless or Wired Gamer Keys Fast Keys Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard