Whatfield-EDT7860: Building a Custom Personal Computer (with Minimum Specifications under a Maximum Cost).

By completing this project successfully you should now feel comfortable with and understand what the parts of a PC are as well as some of the different applications for desktop PC's. For more information on building PC's from scratch OverClock.net is a great place to start looking at what other people have tried and been successful or failed with. As well as expose you to an open online community who collectively have more information about the topic than I could hope to ever teach you with a project. Some other places to continue learning about this are tutorials:

• PCWorld: How to build a PC: a step-by-step, comprehensive guide
• DigitalTrends: A beginners guide to building a PC from scratch
• LifeHacker: How to build a computer - the complete guide