Building your own computer and buying the right components should not be something you do on a whim. Before you spend hundreds of your hard-earned dollars, make sure you know what you are doing.

To build your perfect gaming PC, you must first decide what you want it to do, how much you want to spend, and what kind of parts will make it run.

If you're building your own computer, things can quickly get complicated. Here's what CPU or processor cores are and how many ...