 It's easy to go overboard when spending on a computer. You think, bag-bag $1,000, I have more storage. What my RGB? Stay on target. We can make it work. Stay on target. And that's just on the actual computer. You can spend quite a lot without realizing it on accessories that you don't actually need. So for this video, we'll be going through commonly bought computer accessories, both hardware and software, and letting you know A. Yes, you need that. B, it's nice to have, but if budget is tight, you can skip it. Or C, absolutely don't spend your money on that garbage. Pero bago noon, definitely what's not garbage are the CD keys from our sponsor. Dati, Dati, ing-resin walang purpose ang life ko. But now, I'm a world-class Zumba instructor. So, web developer ako and content creator for a YouTube channel. And ngayon, ganun pa rin ako, pero activated na yung Windows ko. Kaya ako naghanap ka ng legit, mura, at original software. Check out cdkoffer.co. Check out cdkoffer.com. Check out cdkoffer.co. Sa atin siguro, yung pinakaman na accessory bought with a computer is an AVR. An AVR is supposed to protect against power surges and generally it's seen as protecting your investment. Ano ba naman yung kontin gastos para sa AVR? Ang mahal ng computer mo, might as well spend a little bit more on this little box which is supposed to protect it against power surges, spikes, et cetera. But do you really need an AVR? Most of the PSUs have a lot of protection already built in and those protections don't wear out over time. Yung common thinking kasi the PSU protections are like a shield which become thinner as they're used. Oh, there's a power spike. Yes, the PSU protected the computer but now the overall protection of the PSU has now been diminished. As if when the protection of a PSU gets engaged it becomes subject to wear and tear over time. But that's not true. All or nothing yung protection of PSU. Either it works or it fails but every time that it has to kick in it's working at 100%. First niya, don't use an AVR. My PC is plugged directly into the wall. We did have a customer before who was caught in a freak lightning strike near her house. That fried a lot of appliances including her computer kahit naka AVR sila. So my advice is 90% of the time you don't really need an AVR. Either it's useless because your PSU already has built-in protections or two, it's useless again because the AVR can't cope with a massive power surge coming from freak occurrences of nature like a lightning strike. There is an exception to that advice though in case you live in the province or in an area where you do experience a lot of random power surges which may overwhelm the built-in protections of PSU instead dama matay yung PSU mo dahil sa power spikes na yung the AVR will take the hit. So there are limited exceptions where I think an AVR would be useful but in general, I would say you don't need it. Aside from the AVR customers also get a UPS and the UPS is basically a big battery which your PC and your monitor are plugged into and if the power goes out they will start getting their power from the UPS. But the power supply is very limited it usually only lasts for a few minutes just good enough to give you enough time to shut down, save and turn everything off properly. So you won't be able to keep gaming or working with a UPS. It's not designed to let your computer for hours of operation. Its purpose is to give you just enough time to shut down properly. A UPS is nice to have but not critical. For most games and work anyway you should be saving reflexively even if you haven't done anything even if nothing has changed in your document or excel file or your save game you should always be doing CTRL-S it should be a reflex action burned into your muscle memory CTRL-S will save your life. It's free, doesn't need any new hardware and it's a good habit to inculcate for any computer user. Now of course there are exceptions when you're doing really important work and you can't be bothered to remember to save all the time or that particular program takes a long time compiling, saving and closing itself off properly. So there are use cases where yes a UPS is critical but just like the AVR for the vast majority of users you probably don't need it. I've been a computer user for 30 plus years I've never owned a UPS never used it for my personal use but if you do think of getting a UPS at least you can save some money because most UPS already have AVR protections built into them so you don't need to buy an AVR if you're already going to get a UPS. Syempre, kailangan na kailangan yung Windows activation and please don't forget to use our discount code HS20 but really that's not true Unactivated Windows, the free version is legit and it has all of the features of activated Windows You don't lose out on anything you're not missing out on anything if you're just using the free version of Windows That's right Microsoft now allows you to download Windows for free and that is purely legit it will work without any hacks or cracks So why activate Windows? Kasi sobrang kulit noon unactivated Windows their visual reminders such as the watermark on your screen there will be pop-ups from time to time I've experienced it myself when playing some Microsoft games like Halo even in-game the message follows you that please activate Windows So while you don't need to buy it it is very much nice to have for your peace of mind and sanity You're gonna be using your computer a lot and if you don't activate Windows you're going to be seeing that confounded message a lot There are also some cosmetic things which are disabled in unactivated Windows but to be honest there are easy workarounds for those situations So functionality-wise unactivated free Windows is really exactly the same But we put this in the nice to have category because it just really puts your mind more at ease when you don't need to worry about your OS constantly bothering you to activate it Still on software it's also very common for PC buyers to buy third-party antivirus programs You know the usual names McAfee, Norton and it's usually the same logic as an AVR It's a relatively small price to protect your expensive investment your expensive computer But this is a firm do not buy You don't need it One, Windows already comes free with its own antivirus Windows Defender and it's already pretty good Windows Defender will do all of the things that those third-party programs will do and it will do it for free Second, those third-party antivirus programs are usually performance hugs They start up immediately on your computer and yes, while they're protecting you they're not doing it very efficiently which might not be a big thing for high performance computers but if you're getting a mid-range or a budget rig every ounce of performance counts and you don't want to be wasting it on antivirus programs which you don't need in the first place Third and most important the best defense against antivirus against phishing attempts against all these sorts of digital trickery going around now the user it's not a program it's an acting basic digital sanitation such as never never clicking on suspicious links and emails don't go to dodgy sites and click on whatever picture or video looks interesting using 2FA logins not using the same password in all your sites all of these should be basic digital hygiene practices that we follow regularly An antivirus program won't save you from phishing emails or various means of infiltrating your computer Remember, if it's too good to be true like you're a long lost relative pala of a Nigerian prince or big lang natapkat to lead an advertising campaign for Starfield if it's too cool to be true it probably is Speakers are another common accessory because well, you need to hear stuff from your computer whether it's the latest video from hardware sugar or the voices of the other participants in your online class or meeting it's probably a good idea if your computer has a way to make noise but you don't actually need to buy standalone speakers because most monitors already have built-in speakers while they're not that great they're usually pretty functional so speakers or headphones are not needed but they are very nice to have because the jump in quality is pretty apparent even for mid range level speakers or headphones the sounds, whether games or voices or videos are really much better on standalone speakers they don't need to be that expensive they can even be older my brother uses 20 year old speakers for his computer and they're going just fine so nice to have and they can be a good investment because they can last over several computer builds you can keep reusing those speakers or headphones speaking of online meetings, at a certain point people will need to see your face and you need to buy a webcam for that and surprisingly a webcam but not necessary you can use your phone as a webcam using software like Droidcam and I've used Droidcam extensively it's super easy to use it's free and it enables you to use your phone as a webcam and the microphone of your phone as a mic as well for your computer so people will be able to see your face and hear your voice the quality of the image mostly depends on the quality of the camera of your phone but really for these kind of applications you're not expecting great quality it's just basically your face in a small square surrounded by other faces in other small squares so quality is not really an issue so you don't really need to buy a webcam or even if you do have one and suddenly it just breaks down you can use your phone as a backup so summing up a lot of the hardware and software you went through are very common purchases but they aren't really needed save your money spend it on a game spend it on better hardware like a new GPU preferably from hardware sugar pa minsan may nagtatanong kumikilala ba kaming computer shop na trusted yung hindi ka lolo ko hin actually meron kaming full service PC store ang hardware sugar nagbabenta kami ng PC components nagbabenta rin kami ng fully assembled rigs we clean computers kasama na rin yung excellent cable management namin and CPU cooler repasting sa cleaning we also clean and repaste GPUs na sa makati yung physical store namin and you can also buy from our site www.hwsugar.ph na 100% palaging up to date yung inventory dun kung instock yung item sa amin available yung sa site we also ship nationwide thanks for watching and maybe one of these days magkita tayo sa shop