How to Build a computer

Buying a computer ready-made is a thing of the past. You go to a store, or an online store, and buy a ready-made computer, pay 800-1000 dollars for a gaming computer and you go home play it and done. Well, today there are so many guides on how to build computers there is no longer a need to go buy a ready-made one. Why not? Hell, it’s ready for me and it’s not that expensive? The reason it isn’t that expensive is because they are using parts that aren’t on par for a computer that you can make yourself for 800$. What I mean by that, is, let’s assume an 800 dollar computer comes with, a CPU, GPU, PSU, RAM, HDD, DVD Drive, Motherboard. Now, 800$ 7 parts, that comes to 114$ per piece give or take a few.

Now when you buy a computer ready-made, you are also paying a fee for them to build it for you. Hey, after all, they do need to make money. So let’s assume they charge $150 for building it let us subtract that from the 800 that will give us 650. So now we have 7 parts and 650 dollars, which is about 93 dollars per part.

What was all that math and stuff for? This next point. If they actually buy decent parts and are not skimping on them then it will come out to be more than 800 dollars. So what are they doing? They are buying generic parts. For example, you probably own a car. Would you have bought your car if the steering wheel wasn’t the same company? If the brake and gas pedals are from a factory that is known for not having good quality? What about having the outside parts ½ the companies and ½ not. No, when you buy a new car you want all the parts to be made with quality and with the same company, or any good company. But to buy a Toyota that has the engine of a Saab, makes no sense (Saab is going out of business).

Here is how I break down the parts of a computer. A decent CPU will cost anywhere from 170-210 dollars. A decent graphics card is upwards of 150 dollars, a PSU is about 50-100 ram is about 50-100. A HDD if it’s 500 GB will be about 70, a DVD drive about 30, motherboard about 130-170, and finally the case about 100 dollars. That comes to 840 dollars if we meet in the middle. Now they need to make money too, so we need to knock off the 150 from the 800 they are charging and they only have 650 dollars for parts. So where they get the parts make the difference.

As far as building a computer for yourself. You get the best parts for the money you have and don’t have to worry about getting generic parts, and you can always upgrade it. The build I made for you guys can last you 2 years at the minimum using games. This cannot run games on the highest graphics but it is close.