Personal Computer Building;

In 2004 my brother came over with a gift, a second hand (IBM Compatible) Computer.

Specifically it was a 233Mhz Pentium II and instead of what is the norm these days of having a 3D Graphics Card it had its predeccessor, the Video Card.

Starting off on a quest to upgrade it piece by piece the first step was to get a 3D Card and install it. I started attending the Computer Fair in Canberra (which I later started working at) and ended up getting a ATI Radeon Card which subsequently replaced the Video Card.

As Computer's and Computer parts were expensive when I started out I started sourcing spare parts from the newspaper and the Computer Fair. I enabled this hobby by reading Computing magazines every month and learning how to piece computers together bit by bit.

It eventually led into a career of PC Hardware upgrades & repair & the inevitable. Being at the Canberra Computer Fair so often I ended up getting a job there and staying until it eventualy shut down and later working at a PC Repair Shop.

So, in some ways I feel I share a lot with Linus from LinusTechTips (a popular PC Hardware Youtuber)

(Above) Linus from LinusTechTips showing off an Antec 900 PC Case (a remarkably good PC Case of the era) on the Computer Monitor, next to my own Antec 900.

(Above) Linus from LinusTechTips showing off a popular Zalman CPU HSF (Central Processing Unit - Heat Sink Fan) and an atypical NVidia SLI / ATI (now AMD) Crossfire multi GPU Configuration.