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Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing

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Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing

Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster up the

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Building a PC, Part VII: Rebooting

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Building a PC, Part VII: Rebooting

I’ve had more or less the same PC, with various updates, since 2007. I’ve written about most of it here: * Building a PC, Part I: Minimal boot * Building a PC, Part II: Burn in * Building a PC, Part III: Overclocking * Building a PC, Part IV: Now It’s

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Building Your Own Home Theater PC

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Building Your Own Home Theater PC

I’ve kept a PC in my living room for the past three years as my primary home theater interface, and I heartily recommend it. It’s shocking how cheap and easy it is to build a home theater PC these days. I’ve been pondering an upgrade to my

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Building a PC, Part IV: Now It’s Your Turn

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Building a PC, Part IV: Now It’s Your Turn

Basic Premium Deluxe Case Antec NSK 4400 $80 Antec Sonata III $150 Antec P182 $170 PSU (Included 380w) (Included 500w) Corsair 520HX $130 Mobo EVGA 680i $155 EVGA 680i $155 EVGA 680i $155 Memory Mushkin 2GB DDR2-1066 $160 Mushkin 2GB DDR2-1066 $160 Mushkin 2GB DDR2-1066x 2 $320 CPU Intel Core

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Building a PC, Part I

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Building a PC, Part I

Over the next few days, I’ll be building Scott Hanselman’s computer. My goal today is more modest: build a minimal system that boots. I’d like to dispel the myth that building computers is risky, or in any way difficult or complicated. If you can put together a

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Building a Quiet PC

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Building a Quiet PC

When the first version of Windows Media Center was released in summer 2003, I decided it was time to build my first home theater PC. After I placed it in the living room, I realized I had made a terrible mistake: I had to turn the volume up to 11

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