WORK OUT WHAT YOUR PC IS FOR BEFORE YOU PIECE IT TOGETHER
PC BUILDING is a personal endeavor. Ask each member of the Maximum PC team to build a system for a given task or to a certain budget, and you’d get completely different systems from each one, as personalities and experiences come into play. One may focus on storage throughput, another on processing power, graphics performance, or connectivity. That’s before we even consider personal touches, such as case, lighting preferences, and so on. Despite these variations, there are general trends, and there are two broad camps when it comes to PC building: One revels in putting the latest technologies to task, while the other is focused on how the machine is going to be used. Both methodologies have advantages and disadvantages (not least of which is cost), but for most practical cases,…