Every decision you make includes a trade off, and matching those tradeoffs is the key to designing a PC that’s perfectly meeting your requirements. Every project system chapters has a graphic that represents the relative significance of various fundamentals.

If you consider these elements at the time of designing your PC, you’ll soon find out that compromises are unavoidable. If compact size is important, for instance, expandability is compromised, and somewhat other factors as well compromise in other respects. The trick is to decide, before you start buying, which fundamentals are required, which are vital, which are useful, and which can be left.

One you decide about all of that, make rational resource allocations and good bargaining decisions. It’s important looking at all these fundamentals in detail.