Teen electrocuted while salvaging parts from a computer
Sharp edges inside a case can leave your hands and fingers looking like you lost ... to short out or otherwise damage fragile hardware. But for one teenager in Shawnee, Kansas, the stakes were much greater as he lost his life while reportedly stripping ...

Build a Free Computer from Spare Parts
But I had parts ... motherboard, I yank it out as a unit with the CPU and memory installed (in the case of the P3N-E SLI, that meant a Core 2 Duo E6700 CPU and 2GB of Crucial DDR PC-4200 memory). That immediately removes those two components ...

Identifying with the key components of a Personal Computer (PC)
The Hard Disk Drive (HDD) The HDD of a computer is its local memory storage, from the HDD all ... different socket types for RAM and in most cases the older style the socket type the more expensive the RAM can be for capacities from more modern ...

How to build a free computer from spare parts
But I had parts ... free. (All right, even if you had to buy it, you'd only be spending $70-$100 if you were smart. That's still cheap.) I happened to find an old Nvidia DualTV MCE tuner card wrapped in a freezer bag right under the X1600. (I managed to ...

building my PC choosing my parts
im making my computer for the first ... my main concern is budget, and i want the pc to last for many years, and to be upgradable, so that its useable for the years to come. ive got an idea for the parts i want graphics card im not so sure of but i dont ...

How to build a PC: Part 1 - choosing your components
The PC we're building will be built for video editing, so there will be a lot of high-end components, but regardless, every computer needs certain parts. The motherboard is the control centre of the PC, where most of the components and chips plug into.