Lab #6 - Research: Choosing Peripheral Parts for PC

Objectives:

 To become familiar with picking computer peripherals. Choose parts that would fit in a typical desktop system.      

Procedure:

Go to a computer parts web site to select peripherals to add to a desktop system. You can go anywhere you would like such as Amazon or New Egg or anywhere else you may use. Capture an image for all these items and include in your submission. Make sure the port or connector in the image can be seen.

1. You need to find a gaming video card. It should have 8G of RAM and fit a PCIex16 slot. Keep the price around $500.

2. Find a USB video card/adapter.

3. Find a video capture expansion card that has two ports either HDMI, Display ports, VGA or DVI and fits a PCIe x1 slot. Cost is not limited.

4. Find a USB 3.1 expansion card with Type C connector support.

5. Find a USB flash or hard drive drive that has the Type C connector. The ones I found have both Type A and C.

6. Find a Thunderbolt expansion card. The one I found has both Thunderbolt and USB 3.1.  

7. Find an external USB 3.1 hard drive with 8TB of storage, any type.

8. Find a "Connect Wireless" Flash Drive from SanDisk, which connects either through Wi-Fi to a system, it can also have regular USB.

9. Find a rollup type keyboard with any connector type. 

10. Find a USB cup heater to keep your coffee warm.

Put images or shopping cart images next to the questions into a document to upload to Lab #6 assignment. Each item is worth 10 points each and the lab is worth 100 points.