How to Build Your Own Computer: The Complete Guide

Did You Know? If you look closely over John Lennon’s shoulder on the iconic cover of The Beatles Abbey Road album, you can see a man standing on the sidewalk. That man was an American tourist, Paul Cole, who was outside at the time simply because he didn’t feel like visiting the tourist stop his wife had popped into moments before. Geek Trivia The First Movie Exhibition Spaces Were Called? Nickelodeons → Screenies → Film Corrals → Peepers → Advertisement Free eBook: Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition ($19 Value) FREE For a Limited Time This eBook includes all the guidance you need to make the most of this latest update of Windows. This freshly updated resource cuts through the jargon and covers everything you need to know. It shows you how to set up multiple user accounts, create a Homegroup for easy sharing between devices, backup your files, and troubleshoot common problems. Download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles How to Turn Your Computer Into a DLNA Media Server How to Reboot Google Wifi From Your Phone How to Make Phone Calls from Your Mac Through Your iPhone How to Build Your Own Computer, Part One: Choosing Hardware Uber vs. Lyft: What's the Difference and Which Should I Use? The Amazon vs. Google Feud, Explained (and How It Affects You) How to Turn an Old Android Tablet Into an Auto-Updating Digital Photo Frame How to Tag and Share Screenshots on the PlayStation 4 or Pro How to Share Your Location With Your Friends in WhatsApp Bitcoin Is Not a Currency, It’s an (Unsafe) Investment Today's Review Geek Articles Should You Buy Physical or Digital Switch Games? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Transducer A Transducer is a device that is capable of converting one type of energy into another. Examples of Transducers include: read/write heads (magnetic energy to electrical energy and vice-versa), microphones (sound energy to electrical signals), antennas (electronic signals to electromagnetic waves and vice-versa), etc. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger We've lost track of how many breaches HP has had this year. Expect more on this later today on our site. [BBC News] Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society Chamath Palihapitiya: "The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we've created are destroying how society works." [The Verge] Time's up for the Ticker? Facebook appears to axe feed for tracking your friends' activity We're not sure people are going to miss this feature very much, but we're also not sure people will love the "Stories" function that's taken up its screen real estate. [TechCrunch] Las Vegas Casinos Are Now Testing Covert Gun-Sensing Technology Metal detectors at the doors would kill the Las Vegas vibe, so casinos are exploring other, more subtle ways to keep guns out. [Wired] How to Turn Your Computer Into a DLNA Media Server Many boxes you plug into your TV, including the Roku, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and even some smart TVs themselves offer DLNA (“Digital Living Network Alliance”) streaming support. They can stream video files and music over the network from your PC—as long as you set up a DLNA server on the PC first. Read This Article → How to Reboot Google Wifi From Your Phone Look, sometimes routers need to be rebooted. If you’re a Google Wifi user, you could go unplug all of your units—or you could just reboot them from your phone. Read This Article → How to Make Phone Calls from Your Mac Through Your iPhone With Continuity, your Mac and iPhone work pretty well together. You can seamlessly transition between the two platforms…including make phone calls right from your computer. Here's how. Read This Article → How to Build Your Own Computer, Part One: Choosing Hardware So you’ve decided to take the plunge and assemble your own desktop PC. Maybe you’re ready to take your PC gaming to the next level, build a tiny entertainment machine, or just save some money by assembling your own budget machine. Whatever your intentions, our five part guide is here to help you. Read This Article → Uber vs. Lyft: What's the Difference and Which Should I Use? Uber and Lyft are two very similar services. Both are “ride-sharing” apps you pull up on your phone to quickly get a ride somewhere from driver using their own car. These two services have become more and more similar over the years, but there are still some major differences between them. Read This Article → The Amazon vs. Google Feud, Explained (and How It Affects You) Users shouldn’t have to know about tech company feuds. In an ideal world, where the user experience is the top priority, your ability to watch videos would not depend on how well two multinational corporations are getting along this month. Read This Article → How to Turn an Old Android Tablet Into an Auto-Updating Digital Photo Frame When’s the last time you touched your Android tablet? If it’s been more than a year or so, it might be time to find some other use for that thing—after all, it’s not like it’s getting any software updates, right? Here’s how to use it as a digital photo frame. Read This Article → How to Tag and Share Screenshots on the PlayStation 4 or Pro Sometimes you just have to stop and take some screenshots while gaming, because modern games are overwhelmingly beautiful. And when you get the perfect shot, you want to show people. Or maybe those people are in it! Here’s how to tag people in screenshots when you share them directly from your PlayStation 4. Read This Article → How to Share Your Location With Your Friends in WhatsApp Meeting up with your friends in an unfamiliar spot is a pain. Once you get away from rigid grids, finding a location becomes a challenge. The best thing to do, rather than sharing an address, is to actually share your exact GPS location. Here's how to do it with WhatsApp. Read This Article → Bitcoin Is Not a Currency, It’s an (Unsafe) Investment If the creators of Bitcoin wanted it to act like a currency, they sure made a lot of weird decisions. Bitcoin doesn’t function well as a currency, for reasons that are inherent to its design. It’s an investment people are speculating on…and even then, it’s more gambling than it is a stable investment. Read This Article → Advertisement Free eBook: Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition ($19 Value) FREE For a Limited Time This eBook includes all the guidance you need to make the most of this latest update of Windows. This freshly updated resource cuts through the jargon and covers everything you need to know. It shows you how to set up multiple user accounts, create a Homegroup for easy sharing between devices, backup your files, and troubleshoot common problems. Download