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Computer Building Price Considerations
When building your computer, besides searching for the lowest prices around, you should also consider the vendor's reputation. I've heard of many experiences where the cheap component turns into a headache, with extra 'service charges', countless phone calls, and an overall unhappy transaction. Just randomly picking any merchant site off of a Google search could very well lead to problems.
All the vendors I link to on my site are very reputable and trustworthy; I've dealt with them numerous times and have ended up satisfied each time. Building my computer, I had no problems whatsoever with receiving the components (even when I bought them off of eBay). It's generally a good idea to use a credit card for every purchase and carefully check the invoice to make sure you received everything.
Most of my purchases end up being retail packages, as I tend to trust the quality of the component more (plus the components have a long warranty with them) and I've always had a knack for finding sites that sell retail boxed components cheaper than "OEM" parts. Although there tend to be exceptions to this rule (as there always are), one must evaluate the benefits of price versus packaging. The alternative to buying the components in a box from Amazon is to buy the OEM version (or "white box" version as an OEM component is called).
Now that we've established some of the basic purchasing ideas, it's time to look at what exactly makes up a computer and in much greater detail. Many of the central problems people have with their computers can be traced to insufficient power supplies (not enough Wattage), low-quality RAM, and other similar deficiencies. In the pages that follow I describe the primary components of a PC in detail. From time to time, I'll also note what computer part you should consider purchasing, due to various technological innovations and price considerations.
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