Every four or five years, my dad gets a new computer. I then get the hand me down computer. So this year before he got his new computer I suggested we build our own.
“It would be hard,” he said,” It’s also going to cost a pretty penny.” So later that day, we drove to the nearest Micro Center, which was about 20 miles away from us. Once we got there we took bunches of the free parts catalogues, and left. The deal was if I picked out, and tracked town all the parts that weren’t too expensive, my dad would pay. So naturally I got excited. This was my first time ever building a computer. I’ve spent hours researching parts and comparing them to other parts and writing them down. After I picked out all the parts that didn’t have to be specific (mouse, keyboard, etc), I showed them to my dad. I also showed him the rough estimate of the cost which was $1100.
“That’s too expensive!” he argued.
“That’s not as expensive as I could have gone.” I argued back. “I could have gotten parts that did the exact same thing for double the price!” I told him.
“OK,” he submitted.
He then told me to go order the parts so we could drive back to the store and pick them up. I ordered them online. We got into his big red truck and departed for the store.  Once we got there we went for the pickup/customer service station. Once we paid the clerk, he then started to get our parts. We then had to deal with the mountain of parts to carry around the store. We still had more shopping to do. I roamed through the aisles carrying some of my parts while staring at all the other cool parts. I eventually found all the nonspecific parts that were needed. So we went to checkout again. The total ended up being around $1200. We put all the parts in the back of the truck and drove home.
Later that evening when my mother and sister fell asleep, I began to assemble my computer. First I had to disassemble an old 2000(year) computer, so I could use the case for the new one. After everything was unscrewed or unfastened, I began to put in the motherboard and the power source. After screwing those in carefully I put in the memory cards/chips and the hard drive. Then came the hard part. I had to put in the CPU (Central Processing Unit) without really touching it. If I were to touch it I could have broken it or screwed it up. After I finally put the CPU in place using tweezers I put the video card in. I screwed in the fans after that. They were important because the computer could overheat fast. Not that the next part was hard but I found it extremely boring. I had to determine where the thousand or so cables connect to each other. I probably spent the most time trying to figure out where each one goes. After I finally finished with the cables, I then moved the monitor. More cables. But this time they were easy to manage. So I turned it on. It worked (so far). So I started to install Windows 7. I went to bed at 1:00am with updates still going.
When I woke up my dad was downstairs. He was looking at my computer.
“Nice job,” he exclaimed.
“Thanks,” I told him. “I finished putting it together last night.”
“Because you put it together yourself, you can have it.” He told me.
“Thanks a lot!” I exclaimed.
He got up to go to work, so I then went to my computer. I started loading all of my games onto it. In a few days my computer was optimal.