Eisboch wrote:

"jim78565" wrote in message
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HK wrote:

Well..I am pretty good at assemblying computer from component parts,
and general soldering, but you guys are beyond my abilities.


By component parts do you mean assemblies or discrete components? Any
three year old can screw together a case fans PS MB etc. Especially if
he has a set of fine German screwdrivers to work with.



In the old days, real "skill" meant determining *what* component or
components needed to be replaced using a schematic, meter and/or an
o'scope.

Much of today's modern electronic circuitry has built in diagnostics
that scream "replace me" when they go bad.

Eisboch


Well, since moving over to the "silver side" with an Apple desktop and
an Apple laptop, I haven't given a lot of thought to building up another
fast "PC" computer. I did turn my last PC desktop into a server.

I have been keeping up to speed, though, on the "Hackintosh" projects.
These are computers built from standard PC components to run the Apple OS.

There's really no need to solder components in order to build a
superfast desktop computer, and there hasn't been for decades.