Building A PC Designed To Meet One’s Need
I have wanted to build a gaming pc for a long time. Many people might just say, why build a pc when you can buy one. There are really a few reasons for this. It is a little known fact, but the reason that today’s desktops is so powerful is not really because they need to be. For most applications, such as word processing, surfing the web, and even watching movies, not all that much processing power is required. What happens is that the software companies, especially Microsoft, build large inefficient operating systems that hog a whole lot of processing power and drive up the demands. If software were designed in a reasonable fashion, we could probably get along with 90s technology, along with maybe a new graphics card.
The reason that I want to build a pc is because one of the few exceptions to this rule: gaming. In order to play the most powerful games, you need a pc designed to handle them. Although you can build a pc for well under a thousand dollars that can handle the graphics and processing intensive games of today and tomorrow, if you buy one from one of the big commercial pc sellers, it will cost you something like three times that. If you go to one of the small independent companies that offer to build a pc for you, you are still looking at easily 1600 dollars for a really good gaming pc. And I just do not have that kind of cash, nor would I want to spend it all on a computer that will be obsolete in five years if I did.
I have a friend who has offered to help me build my own computer for a good long while, but I do not know. He seems to be tech savvy, and really know what he is talking about, but he is not the most practical person. When I look at his own computer, it is always broken down and being fixed. Sometimes I think that he makes it break just so he can fix it again. I do not want to build a pc that needs constant tinkering. I want to build a pc that works and that requires as little maintenance as possible. Still, I have heard that building your own pc is really a difficult process to do without help. Maybe I will go to one of those little build a pc companies after all!
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