Building your own desktop or workstation is an incredibly fulfilling journey that will save money for you, and your business, in the long run. Understanding what components work best for you is the first and most important step in building a PC; we’re here to help!The basic components of a PC are the case, central processing unit (CPU), power supply unit (PSU), motherboard, random access memory (RAM), graphical processing unit (GPU), and storage (either a hard drive or solid state drive).CPUDeciding on the CPU first will help you narrow down your choices on the motherboard, which is the centerpiece of your hardware connectivity. CPUs have various specifications, such as cores, clock speed, threads, and cache. We will focus on the important specifications that matter most today.CoresCores refer to how many processing units are reading and executing program instructions. Each chip can be made up of one, two, four, six, or eight cores. For the professional video editor or designer, having...
