The Joys of Using Your Own PC

Building a PC is like building a home. Once you’re done with construction, you get to settle into your new surroundings. Indeed, the whole reason you build a PC is so that you can use it to do the things you couldn’t do without it.

For example, software developers will be able to boot into the operating system (OS) at lightning speed, zip around their development environment, and compile and test their software faster than ever before. Video enthusiasts will be able to use sophisticated nonlinear editors to scrub through raw video faster than ever before. And gamers will be able to run the very latest cutting-edge games at their highest audiovisual settings. Doing so will exceed the graphics capabilities of the ...

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