| rokken Member Level: 38 ![]() Posts: 293/634 EXP: 348478 For next: 21969 Since: 01-02-21 Pronouns: they/she From: Swapstone Hollow Since last post: 18 days Last activity: 9 hours |
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Maybe not so much in recent times, but people assembling their own computers from parts, sometimes down to the chip, had been since about the mid-1970s to about the late 2010s a relatively common practice. If you've built your own PC in the last century, feel free to describe it here and how happy you are with it.
I have never built my own PC, but I have been assembling the parts for a Blackbird. I have everything but the So, the tentative parts list goes: Raptor CS Blackbird MB -- POWER9 Sforza 8-core -- 2U HS 250GB Intel 520 that I wanted to use in my iMac G5 but it's incompatible ✓ -- 1TB NVMe to be bought -- 2x4TB SATA HDDs, I saw some for $100 each a while ago so I'm hoping I can find more that size. -- 32GB DDR4 2133MHz ECC(R) ✓ AMD Radeon RX 570 ✓ -- Audio card probably so I can record audio Compaq MV920 display (it does 1600x1200 at 75 Hz, which is important) ✓ Seasonic GM-550? ✓ for now, I might buy another one for this build. Rosewill Line-M case ✓ I'm pretty sure I bought one of the very last ones produced, and I love it, but also I can't find it. I really hope I still have it. ____________________ ![]() |
Uhhhhh the one I did back in 2007 sported a Pentium D and a Biostar motherboard and, like, 2GB of RAM. I brought the graphics card and the hard drive I used and dumped XP on it. Cost about 300 bucks adding in case cost at the time and got me out of the Compaq 5000 Presario poverty that I was in. Not to say it was a great machine at all (it was terrible - 2009 was met with an AMD build once the motherboard EXPLODED).
Still have that Presario in storage, actually, but the machine would kick back BAD_POOL_CALLER BSODs quite often so I doubt it's very useful anymore.
Anymore my builds are the zombiefied versions of older builds that have met with modern parts since then. I've got data from 2003 in my main rig as it is and about seven or eight hard/solid state drives in it of varying capacities.
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and a motherboard exploding sounds pretty eventful, was it bad capacitors?


