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This way you aren't wasting money by paying for the assembly, or for a brand, or more to the point by paying for lots of features you aren't going to use. You don't necessarily need twelve USB ports or a great fan, and maybe you don't even need a huge hard drive - not when they can be upgraded so easily anyway should you change your mind. This way you can spend extra money on whatever it is that you did want your computer for to ensure that you get the very best computer for you needs. If a tailored suit is the ultimate suit then a tailored computer is understandably the computer that will give you the top performance. At the same time if you've bought a computer pre-built though, you can use a basic understanding of computers to not only repair but also upgrade your system far more cheaply than if you were to pay for a third party to handle it.
Of course to do all this you need to have some basic understanding of how the insides of a computer work. While most components simply require purchasing and replacing, you will need to know how and where to install these onto motherboards if you are to have any chance. In order to build you own computer, the motherboards are where you will start and you'll need to know how to select them and how to use them.
Motherboards you see are what make up the main 'bulk' of a computer's insides. They are the usually printed circuit boards that you find in most computers and that connect all the other components together. This then means that they can be considered as the 'circulatory' system of the digital world - just as our veins and arteries connect everything together so that they can work together. You can have a perfectly working heart and great lungs - but if there's nothing connecting them together then you are going to cease functioning which perfectly demonstrates how crucial motherboards are to a computer set up.
When you buy your motherboard you may be able to uy pre-made set ups with processors and hard drives built in. This can save a lot of work and you can then simply replace the individual components you want. Many come designed for upgrading and expanding but save you from needing to map out each connection at the same time. Considerations to bear in mind are the heat flow and obviously the performance of each individual component. When you buy your motherboards ready made, you will still need to add your own CD drives, monitors, keyboards etc, so it's important to check the ports available and that things like USBs are supported. You also need to ensure that the size of the board is suitable for the size of the chassis you hope to use.
Building your own computers will give you vastly increased flexibility and for a smaller price. Find motherboards and buy Intel online South Africa at the links.
