A novice level talk about assembling your own Windows PC at home, from the guy who’s done it about ten times. A mix of formal talk and lots of audience participation. What’s the right motherboard for you? Processor, RAM, fans, disks, and a PSU which can cope? How to do it right and how to do it wrong, and how he tried and failed to build a homebrew laptop!

Paul is still learning, building powerful gaming PCs (with expensive, delicate components) and making sensible, purposeful, workstations for business (using lower spec components). Generally, he can do that for half the cost of buying a new PC off the shelf.

There’s a strategy, there’s a process, and there’s documentation! And once you get the first one working, you’ll never want to buy another retail PC, ever! Why? What's the crowning glory?