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Originally Posted by MTI
Hot rodding computers used to be so much easier, much like older cars used to be easier to work on and tune. Now, the systems seem to be ever so much more fragile, to gain performance, and reliant on an intgrated approach to hardware and software.
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How so? Hardware components are practically plug and play. Systems aren't that much more fragile, there are just more and more process and memory intensive programs out there that run the components closer to their limits. I just built a new PC 2 weeks ago, replacing the one I had for 7 years as my daily desktop (which I also built and remained stable). This one only started to see issues after it was overclocked by over 40% or so. I've backed it down to around 20% and it's been fine. And as I said plug and play--everything is standardized to fit with each other, so as long as you do a minimal amount of homework ahead of time you'll have a pile of components up and running in less than an hour. Longest part is usually depending on how you decide to run your cabling and how neat you want it all to look. If you just want it working, everything just snaps together, from the case studs and mobo to any peripheral components.
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Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.
Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth
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