PC building is more fun when you have no idea what you’re doing

08 August 2026 | 09:53 Code : 60672 news
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A strange little hacker gadget reminded me that confusion, failure, and experimentation were always the best parts of building computers.

I don’t know about you, but the whole reason I got into upgrading and building PCs is because I wanted to play Doom II.

My age hadn’t hit double digits by the time the game shipped on DOS in ’94, but a year or two later I got my hands on a copy and realized our old family PC didn’t have the chops to run id’s latest. Thus began my 30+ years of PC enthusiasm, starting with me getting frustrated by memory management (death to HIMEM) and leading me here as a PCWorld veteran who can work a screwdriver and a solder gun almost as well as anyone.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3207230/pc-building-is-more-fun-when-you-have-no-idea-what-youre-doing.html

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