Payton H. Wilmott, Gleaner Writer

Last week, Tech Savvy explored the essential parts you would need to soup up your PC. But a supercomputer that's not jazzed up with awesome accessories is as disappointing as a 5-Series BMW with only AM radio, chugging at 20 mph.

Here are some great ideas for putting your PC back on the tech-lust radar.

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Sound System

Your PC can't attain preternatural glory without butt-kicking surround-sound which endows you with bragging rights immemorial. The Logitech Z5500 5.1 surround-sound speaker system will certainly be the envy of all your friends. Just the mere sight of the enormous subwoofer will have your friends bleeding with envy. I heard this baby last week and I thought I was at The Quad in New Kingston.

Display

The piece de resistance is a mega monitor - visuals packed with enough punch and colour that make your eyes pop.

My pick is the LG Flatron wide LCD monitor series. These monitors offer a high-definition display for gaming and movie fanatics. The screens come in a wide range of sizes to satisfy your dimensional desires.

Printer and webcam

Rounding out your list should be a printer and web camera. The StarCam Racer webcam will web everything and everyone in its surveillance sweep.

For printing, I would recommend the HP DeskJet 9800 or any HP Colour DeskJet series.

Storage

Most people don't like the idea of prying open their PC, especially if it has expensive parts. The number one reason people pull apart a working computer is hard-drive problems. Either the hard-drive memory is full and needs to be replaced or the hard drive is dead and buried.

A quick fix to these problems would be an external hard drive, such as the Western digital one terabyte. The memory on this hard drive is equivalent to 1,000 gigabytes, which could store at least 150 movie DVDs.

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