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Top 5 Tips For Building A Gaming PC On A Budget

August 12th, 2010 · No Comments · How To Setup

1. Pick a good CPU for gaming. High end doesn’t always mean better performance in terms of you noticing it. When it comes to gaming, video card requirements increase much faster than CPU requirements. Many companies will try to offer CPUs and claim things such as “ultimate performance,” but in reality if you look at [...]

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Building a PC: Connecting Peripherals

August 5th, 2010 · No Comments · How To Setup

You have done it! Your PC is done, we just need to hook everything up to it and turn it on.
You’re done!!!
Congratulations: You put a PC together! All you need to do now is connect your peripherals and install the OS of your choice. Obviously, the computer needs electricity. Connect the power cable to the [...]

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Building a PC: Closing the Case

August 4th, 2010 · No Comments · How To Setup

With everything inside the case and hooked up, we can close our brand new PC.
Almost Done!
We’ve covered a lot of ground; make sure you haven’t forgotten anything. Fans that connect directly to the power supply and other remaining elements should be hooked up now. Bundle and tuck loose any unused cables. Check the computer for [...]

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Building a PC: Connecting the Case’s Front Panel Ports – USB, Firewire, and eSATA

August 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · How To Setup

The extra-convenient places to plug things in on the front of your case won’t work unless you hook them up correctly inside your PC.

Specific Ports in a Storm
We hooked up the switches and audio in the previous article. Though we will now be able to turn the computer on and off, we still can’t use [...]

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Building a PC: Connecting the Case’s Switches and Audio

August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · How To Setup

Even the most stripped, budget, case has a couple lights and switches to hook up. These are tiny little wires that go on tiny little pins. The good news is you’re almost done building your PC.
The Basics
The front panel of your case has a bunch of stuff you need to connect to your motherboard. Most [...]

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Building a PC: Connecting the Hard Disk and Burner

August 1st, 2010 · No Comments · How To Setup

Our PC has taken shape; in this article we connect the drives.
Connecting a Molex Powered PATA Device
We put the burner in the case in the previous article; now we are going to hook it up.
First we’ll hook up the power. PATA (Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment) devices, draw power via a 4-pin molex connector Note that [...]

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Building a PC: Power Connections for the Motherboard and Fans

July 31st, 2010 · No Comments · How To Setup

Finally, the end is in sight as we begin to wire everything together: it is time to get your motherboard some juice!
Why Are We Doing All the Power Stuff Before we Do the Data Stuff?
Waiting until the end and doing all the cabling at once makes it a lot easier to put the system together [...]

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Building a PC: Installing Fans

July 30th, 2010 · No Comments · How To Setup

The inside of a PC can get pretty warm, and that can be very bad for your equipment. A simple fan is a cheap and simple way to get some of that heat out of there.
Whar She Blows?
If you are worried about how cramped things are inside of your PC, an extra fan or two [...]

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