LENGTH OF TIME: 1-2HOURS LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: EASY
A LONG TIME AGO, back in Maximum PC’s earlier days, PC builds were a lot more complex than they are today. The avenues that you could go down and the things you could do were more intricate, far more varied, and far more difficult.
There’s almost a weird homogenization going on right now, mixed with no small amount of refinement. As this particular hobby space has grown from a relatively small community to the mammoth gargantuan thing that it has become in recent years, it has lost some of that charm and that complexity as it’s done so.