[Hardware]I have been building my custom PC for almost 30 years and for me there is no turning back: I will never buy a brand-name computer again

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I've lost count of how many computers I've built since I discovered how I preferred to have my PCs.
I had my first PC in the early 90s, although that was not my first computer. My first contact with personal computing came thanks to the Spectrum with 48 KB of main memory (the first model with plastic keys and not rubber) that my parents gave me for my birthday in 1985. What great memories I have of that small and modest computer. And also the next one, an Atari ST 520 FM.
Then the PC arrived. I bought it in a small computer store in the center of Madrid. It was one of those clone computers that proliferated so much during the 90s, and I bought it assembled. It had a 66 MHz 80486 DX2 processor from Intel and 4 MB of RAM. At that time, setting up and building a PC from scratch was out of my reach, but shortly after purchasing it I decided to get a Sound Blaster 16 sound card from Creative.

Despite my inexperience, installing it inside my PC didn't seem difficult, so I plucked up the courage to open it. Everything was good. However, what was really important for me was not having installed that sound card correctly; Along the way I discovered that the architecture of a PC was not as complex as I imagined, so I immediately decided to take another step forward and expanded its main memory. There was no turning back.
Designing and building your own custom PC has (for me) many advantages
That was the first and last PC I bought assembled. Two years later I had learned enough to dare to configure and assemble my next computer myself, so I started with it, and my first discovery came: it was not cumbersome at all. Quite the opposite. I really enjoyed choosing each part, assembling it, and installing the operating system and all the software from scratch. And, along the way, I learned a lot. Although almost three decades have passed since then, this has not changed. I still really enjoy this whole process.

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Custom-assembling your own PC has several advantages over purchasing previously assembled equipment.
Honestly, I've lost count of how many rigs I've built since then. Many of them were for me, but I have also assembled some for family and friends, and for several months I worked assembling them in a small computer store to pay for my studies. Beyond how pleasant this experience seems to me from the moment you choose the components until you fine-tune every last detail of the BIOS and the operating system, I believe that custom building your own PC has several advantages over buying a previously assembled computer, especially if it is branded.

The most obvious is that it offers you the opportunity to choose each piece. Each component. I think it is worth investigating to find the brand and model that best fit the performance we aspire to achieve and the budget we have. Furthermore, knowing it inside out allows us to react quickly if a problem arises. When you configure and tune up your own PC you can relatively easily identify the source of a failure, and that is the first necessary step to successfully resolve it.

 

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