The First Step to Build a Computer

Example of Computer Parts

Building your own Computer:

Have you ever thought about building your own computer? Actually buying a motherboard and a case ­along with all the supporting components and assembling the whole thing yourself?

Why to build your own Computer?

Here are three reasons why you might want to consider taking the plunge:

1. You'll be able to create a custom machine that matches you needs
2. It will be much easier to upgrade your machine in the future because you'll understand it completely 
3. You may be able to save some money

And, if you've never done it before, you'll definitely learn a lot about computers.

In this article, we'll take you through the entire process of building a computer. You'll learn how to choose the parts you'll use, how to buy them and how to put them all together. When you're done, you'll have exactly the machine that you need.

The Inside of a neat Computer

The first step in building a computer is deciding what type of machine you want to build. Do you want a really inexpensive computer for the kids to use? A small, quiet machine to use as a media computer in the living room? A high-end gaming computer? Or maybe you need a powerful machine with a lot of disk space for video editing. The possibilities are endless, and the type of machine you want to build will control many of the decisions you make down the line. Therefore, it's important to know exactly what you want the machine to accomplish from the start.­

Example for building a Computer:

Let's imagine that you want to build a powerful video-editing computer. You want it to have a quad-core CPU, lots of RAM and at least 2 terabytes of disk space. You also want to have FireWire and USB 3.0 ports on the motherboard. Look for a motherboard that supports:

• Quad-core CPUs (Either Intel or AMD)
• At least 8GB of high-speed RAM
• Four (or more) SATA hard drives
• FireWire connections
• USB 3.0

Then it all needs to go in a case with enough space to hold multiple hard disks and enough air -flow to keep everything cool.

With any computer you build, knowing the type of machine you want to create can really help with decision-making.

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DreamHack Winter, The Winners of the E-Sport Tournaments

DHW Logo

DreamHack Winter "DHW"

DHW was held in Jonkoping, Sweden from November 28 to December 1. It included a lot of activities like the expo where companies like AMD, Intel, Valve and more showcase their products. However we're not here to talk about the festival itself, but we're here to talk about the E-Sport part of it and who won each tournament.

DHW E-Sport: 

In this year DHW held various number of tournaments during the period of the festival. For example, there was StarCraft2 "SC2", Battlefield4 "BF4", Counter-Strike: Global offensive "CS:GO", Defence of the ancients2 "Dota2" and much more tournaments. we're going to talk about the tournament which was held in DHW prefily and who won each tournament. 

SC2:

Taeja After celebrating his win

The winner of this tournament is the Korean star, Taeja from TeamLiquid. Taeja managed to win the SC2 tournament after six games against StarTale’s Life, Taeja steeped out of the booth to lift the DreamHack Winter trophy as well as the $30,000 cheque. This is the fifth gold medal for Taeja this year and his third DH title overall.

Fnatic.BF4 celebrating their win over aAa

BF4:

After four quick games on two maps the Fnatic squad "former Epsilon lineup" managed to win DHW BF4 Grand Finals against the French team against allauthority "aAa". Fnatic looked strong all the way through and even if aAa put up a valiant effort, it wasn't enough in the end to stop the crowd favorite from taking home the gold and the 50,000 SEK "approximately $7,636".

HoN:

StayGreen Matching Fnatic.MSI Record After Winning HoN DHW 2013

StayGreen has done it again for the second time in a row. The best team in Heroes of Newerth right now came to Jonkoping, Sweden with only one goal and once the dust settled, they have reached that goal. The squad can now legitimately challenge for “Best Team of All Time” tying the major titles of the legendary Fnatic.MSI. Congratulations to them on winning the 70,000 SEK prize for the first place.

Daigo After Winning the Final

Fighting:

Every year and in every DreamHack festival there must be a fighting tournament. This year it wasn't anything different from that. DHW had a Street Fighter Iv arcade tournament, and the winner was Daigo. He managed to take the first place defeating his opponent Gamerbee in a series of nail-biting close games and won the prize of 50,000 SEK.

CS:GO:

Fnatic.GO After Winning Against NiP

With the grand final being played between the defending champions Ninjasin Pajamas "NiP" and Fnatic, the biggest Counter Strike tournament to date kicking off,  most viewers anticipated an easy win for the defending champions. However, last time these two teams met was at Dreamhack Bucharest two months ago in the group stages and Fnatic were the team who came out on top. Both teams looked determined to win that $100,000 prize but in the end but with everything on the line, Fnatic came out victorious in this Best of 3 series and won the biggest Counter Strike tournament to date. 

Left to Right, Na'Vi Xboct, Funnik, Puppy, Kuroky, Dendi

Dota2:

The tournament had some of the best teams from Europe like The Alliance, Fnatic, Na'Vi and American team of TeamLiquid.

The competition kicked off with The Alliance losing 1-2 to Fnatic and Navi defeating Liquid with the same score in the upper-brackets semi-finals. And in the upper-brackets final Fnatic managed to pull a surprise by defeating Na'Vi in a best of five match with 3-0 sending them to the lower-bracket final to play against the alliance who won with the same score over Liquid sending them back to America. The lower-bracket finals between Na'Vi and The Alliance finished with a win for the Ukrainians over the Swedes with a 3-0 victory sending Na'Vi to the grad final to play against Fnatic again, but this time for the grand prize of 160,000 SEK, approximately $25,000.

What's Gaming? From a Hobby to Making Money

What is Gaming? 

That's a question which a lot of parents and people ask. Gaming can be defined in a lot of ways. However, most people agree to one definition. Gaming refers to playing electronic games, whether through consoles, computers, mobile phones, tablets or any other medium. Gaming is a term that suggests regular gameplay, possibly as a hobby or a medium of making money, as widely known as E-Sports. Although traditionally a solitary form of relaxation, online multiplayer video games have made gaming a popular group activity as well. For example, a lot of the current generation youth love to play games like Call of Duty (COD), counter-strike (CS), StarCraft (SC) and Defense of the Ancient (Dota). They play it on both consoles and computers. Furthermore, a lot of people started playing games like these as a hobby. 

From a Hobby to Making Money 

From a Hobby to Making Money

With time and practice a lot of players managed to get good with specific games and go on to make teams. These teams with the right attitude can become a world class teams. The teams are able to get sponsored from big companies like Razer, SteelSeries, LG, Zowie and more. Those sponsors are willing to offer salaries to those players just to have their names on the players’ cloths and equipment’s. From here came the term E-Sports (Electronic Sports) in which more sponsors and companies are arranging LAN events (local area network) for the players to test their skills in their games against players from all over the world. A good example for a LAN is DreamHack. 

What is DreamHack?

DreamHack is the world largest digital festival hosted in Jonkoping, Sweden. They hold the official world record for the largest LAN party in Guinness Book of Records. During 2009, DreamHack reached over 200,000 unique visitors with live activities around the world. They hold several festivals each year with activities ranging from Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) tournaments to expos for companies to showcase their products.

Example of the companies: 

• AMD
• Intel
• MSI
• ASUS
• Telia
• Blizzard 
• Valve 

The major festivals take place during 4 days, 24-7 LAN festival and they are always streamed on DreamHackTV and TwitchTV . Moreover, all of DreamHack festivals are alcohol and drug free on top of that, it's open to all ages.

DreamHack LAN Event