Hello!

VigiFlyer · 19 Sep 2021 at 19:55

Hi Everyone,

I've finally taken the plunge and joined the forums. I've been into PC building since I was in my teens. I took a break and went down the pre-built route (with customisations) but, it never really excited me and always is a trade-off. I'm now back to customised builds and I have ventured into an AMD processor which has really surprised me.

Has anyone else come back to the pc building scene? What is everyone's surprise purchase that was better than what you thought it would be like?

ATB

VigiFlyer.

Eddie · 22 Sep 2021 at 13:59

Hello, and a belated welcome to the forums

I'll never forget the first time I bought and installed an SSD, couldn't believe the difference it made!

It's the one bit of hardware that seemed to give the most return out of everything I have ever bought.

VigiFlyer · 22 Sep 2021 at 14:21

Indeed. Not wanting to count my chickens yet but I haven’t had a ssd failure yet. My father has had one but I can’t quite recall how it failed. It was some strange behaviour in windows

Eddie · 22 Sep 2021 at 14:24

Funnily enough, I've not had one fail yet and I've put them in a lot of PCs/laptops over the years.

VigiFlyer · 22 Sep 2021 at 15:43

I think I have now jinxed myself

Eddie · 22 Sep 2021 at 23:48

How come, have you just had one die on you?