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Originally Posted by noumenal

I like changing the hardware in my PC. It's a hobby of mine. It's just a different view of computers. Mine is the sweetest lego set ever. That's basically what it is. After I got too old for legos, I started building computers. Macs are magic. You plug them in and they work - no maintenence, no grease on your hands. I'm not interested in this. I want to have to replace my power supply because I got a new graphics card. I like doing this. I like buying new motherboards and spending days figuring out which one I want. Reading about latency in my RAM and shit.

oh, oh, i hear you. picking the right chipset is like hunting for truffles. and then the customization is such a pleasure-- i installed my OS on a raid 1 array-- if one disk happened to crash due to cosmic rays, its twin would carry on without loss of data. thinking about that makes me all tingly inside.

as a matter of fact, i'm already considering my next behemoth-- maybe a file server for the house/office where i can store every goddamn file.