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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Except most people don’t really customize anything. You’re just buying off the shelf bits and pieces built to spec and sticking them together. Your "customized" system can be built by the next person in line behind you at Memory Express.
If you’re milling your own heatsinks, or building your own heat pump out of component pieces based on your own specification to handle your target power dissipation, then yeah, that’s custom. Same for case modders that put some personal design or artistic vision into their work.
The rest is just assembly at best, consumerism at worst.
Let’s face it, you can buy any sufficiently rated power supply, a basic case large enough to accomodate SLI, and a run of the mill case fan, and the system will run within spec 99% of the time. |
Why the constant devil's advocate? I've taken a dremel to practically every case I've owned in the last 10 years as well as fabricating parts or making custom electronics. I'm not crazy enough to make my own waterblock though.
Assembly is buying something from Ikea and following the instructions and building it with everything that comes in the box and plastic bags. Customization is choosing whatever components you want and in some cases, installing them as specified but there are a myriad of other ways to do things and that fabrication or modification is also part of the fun. Are you saying that someone who customizes his car or buys off the shelf parts @ Home Depot to work on his home is simply a drone doing assembly or simply being a slave to consumerism? You sure like to take the piss out of hobbies. Maybe you just need more time to enjoy them, but I guess your time is more valuable than others as you've said before.