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The Desktop Computer is Dead. Long Live the Desktop!

The Desktop Computer is Dead. Long Live the Desktop!

Visalia Direct: Virtual Valley December 5, 2011 Deadline January 2012 Issue The Desktop Computer is Dead. Long Live the Desktop! Prognosticators keep telling us the “Dark Tower” personal computer is dead. The experts have predicted the year of the handheld, netbook, tablet, all-in-one and media computer. Each of these smaller devices was supposed to mark the end of the tall tower or hulking…

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[concrete-tiddy]

I’m in the process of building my own pc and thought I’d document the experience here. I’ve never built one from scratch before (but I’ve Frankensteined a few) so we’ll see how this goes.

My current pc is donezo and while slow to save up the money for everything I think I’d rather build one for my own specs

[blod-stream]

Fractal Design Meshify C Dark TG

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB 4x4GB DDR3 1600

XFX RADEON RX 460 DD 4GB GDDR5

SanDisk SDSSDH3 256 GB

Toshiba MK6476GSX 650 GB

Toshiba MK7575GSX 750 GB

Samsung HD154UI 1.5 TB

An ancient amalgamation of passed down hardware from a bygone era, but she still buttchugs like a popped collar frat boy.

I'd drop links, but unfortunately the internet was not around when most of these components were first produced.

[modestandroid]

I got my G.Skill RGB RAM today and now my computer is 99% done!! Everything syncs with Asus Aura perfectly! I want to get some RGB strips for around the window, but for now it is nice and lively 😍