1. Firstly workout your requirement/application for which you are planning to buy your PC. For Example:

    Home Use: Study, E-mail-Internet, Letter Writing, Games, Multimedia

    Office Use: Letter Writing, Accounting, Email-Internet, Office Work

    Specific Use: Graphic Designer, Audio-Video Application, Data Server, LAN-WAN, Mobile Computing.

2. Check out your budget and find out various options matching your requirement and budget. You may take reference of various     advertisement appearing in news papers and IT Magazines.

3. If you are not very well conversant with PC technologies and intricacies, look for a Company Product offering a product matching your     configuration specifying make & model of components and get it assembled ensuring warranty & service issues.

4. Once you have worked out what to buy, you also need to work out where to buy. For this you can assess the level of your     Trust/Dependability of the vendor based on various factors, like:

    Vendor's Standing in the IT Field
    Vendor's Technical Knowledge
    Vendor's Supporting attitude
    Vendor's Registration with Trade Tax etc
    Vendor's Clients List/References of people you know

5. Still if you are in a fix, you may seek help of any known person of your trust who is either already using PC himself and/or has sound     knowledge about PC Hardware.

ON BEHALF OF BAREILLY COMPUTER DEALERS' ASSOCIATION.