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I've never built a computer I didn't like (and I've built every computer I've ever owned ) ...Another quick tip, it might not affect performance too much but it will free up hard drive space. Reduce the default size for system restore, even more so if you have drive partitions (system restore on additional partitions has little value). If you're getting tight for room and have been using Windows defaults, you could get some space



My first computer I built from parts kits in 1976, s-100 backplane, z-80 based with 24K of RAM. It ran Basic that loaded off of a cassette player. To be quite honest it wasn't much fun. It took 3 minutes to load a 16K basic interpreter and it crashed on the least excuse.

OTOH the next machine I built (about 1982) had an 80186 and 512K of RAM, and a dual floppy. That is what I really learned to program on.

jwcolby
Ensoniq ZR-76 keyboard, m-Audio Minisport 2x2 Anniversary Edition
AMD x2-3800, 2gb RAM
XP SP3, BIAB 2008