Building a Simple Computer

            This instructable is design to give you an overview on how to build your own personal computer with Microsoft Windows 7 in mind. The project is split into 3 different Steps; A layout and diagrams of the parts needed, two video guides (which is divided into steps) on how to put the machine together and how to begin installation of your operating system.

Step 1 Layout of Basic Computer Components

Building a personal computer all comes down to personal preference; hence why it is called a personal computer in the first place right? Instead of using this instructable to analyze what kind of specifications each person needs to run a computer for themselves, It’s built around as more of a guideline to point you towards a direction for building your own personal computer; and exactly what key parts you need to do so with. Now with every computer, you need some key parts;

·         A Computer Case

·         Power Supply

·         Memory

·         Hard Drive

·         Motherboard

·         Processor with Heatsink (so the chip won’t overheat.)

·         A Graphics card (On-board or a separate card)

·         DVD/CD-ROM Drive

·         Operating system software (in this case Microsoft’s Windows 7 32-bit Software)

                Keeping in mind in this computer build will be running Windows 7, the parts used here are more than sufficient to run the operating system. Windows 7 requires;

·         One Gigahertz (GHz) Processor

·         One Gigabyte (GB) Ram (32-bit software) or two GB RAM (64-bit software)

·         16 GB available hard drive space for 32-bit software or 20 GB for 64-bit software

·         DirectX 9 Graphics device with WDDM 1.0 Higher driver.

Now before going on with each additional step and watching the video tutorials, I have included diagrams of each individual part being used in this particular build. Doing this will give you a little more insight on what is going on in the videos and hopefully give you a little more understanding on how everything on a computer works together. The Video’s are broken down into steps, and I have included what parts each step will require to complete the tasks.

Comments

[tinker234]

good guide i thinking of maiking one in the pc woarld magnze about making the perfect one