As the heading suggests, DIY is all about building your system from scratch, starting from the smallest component to the largest. To do this successfully, a thorough review of each of them is quintessential to coming up with the best possible configuration.
Let's go back to comparing individual components to those of branded PCs. We might come across many cases when opting for assembling a PC on par with the branded counterpart could cost much less in the long run. The savings you incur can be invested in making your PC even better than the branded model.
A DIY methodology gives you more freedom and flexibility in choosing your target system configuration. Since you assemble the system yourself, it becomes much easier in the future to diagnose any hardware issues you might come across. The reason behind this would be your familiarity with each and every component and their location within the case. In the case of a branded system, you might void its warranty whereas with an assembled system if you are sure of an issue you can troubleshoot it yourself or even upgrade your system with ease.
The NVIDIA corporation, as we mentioned in the previous chapter, provides great support to the academic community. So, let's begin by exploring the minimum system requirements to set up a GPU computing platform based on the three aforementioned levels of usage, and consumer NVIDIA cards.
This minimum set of requirements will be different for all three levels and is based on usage requirements. Here are three examples.