In the good old days before I got way too busy with life, and I had time to be a real computing nerd, I used to really enjoy building and upgrading my own computers. I was a bit of a Linux nerd on the quiet also, back when installing and running the OS meant really having to configure a lot of things to get it running just right, not like nowadays when Linux will just install and work on most people’s hardware. It was all the actual mucking about, putting things together, trying things out and the tracking down of obscure “How-to’s” and then deciphering them that I used to enjoy. Once things were working well and you had to get on with your real work well, that wasn’t half as fun. I would then catch myself starting to think things like “perhaps we need to upgrade the graphics card, mmmh that might be a bit tricky though, I wonder whether than would fit on my motherboard” etc.

If all this sounds a little familiar, then perhaps you are the sort who should try and build your next PC, or upgrade your existing one to use the new Quad Core processors that we looked at a few posts ago. I mean there is no point in fighting it is there? One of things that you are likely to find if you do fancy upgrading your existing desktop to a Core Duo or Quad Core is that you will likely need to upgrade the motherboard too. Of course if you are building a PC from scratch you are definitely going to need one! Something like the highly rated ABIT IP35 Pro Motherboard might be an excellent place to start your research.

Do you build your own PC’s? What is your motivation?