Anyone else here built their own computer?

[Ropo]

I am trying out Webroot antivirus because of its high rating. Tried Avast free for over a year. Any suggestions are welcome.

buy license for F-secure.

[Vince G, CSN MFT]

I wanted to upgrade my computer but couldn't find what I was looking for. So I decided to replace my motherboard and CPU. During installation I decided to replace the lot and keep my old computer as a spare.

Computers look complicated but are really components put together so it isn't that difficult to do. I got a Cooler Master case with many blue coloured fans. What else! New 1200 watts power supply.

Asus motherboard that accepts up to 64 Gb of RAM. I have 48 Gb installed to do photo processing and panoramas. 2011 pin CPU is required. A good graphics card as well. Then I got a Solid State Drive as well.

That was a pain to install because I had to reinstall Windows 7 then call Microsoft to get my numbers approved. Lots of USB 3 ports with hubs. 7 Tb hard drives with about 30 Tb external drives. 16 external drives in total.

New high end Asus sound card for high fidelity. DVD player of course. Really simple and straightforward to assemble. I didn't need any help and did it all by myself, like I do building gym equipment.

Works well. However, lots of problems installing all the software and sorting everything out. Finally, after a couple of weeks everything seems to work fine.

It was necessary to have a connection to the internet to get help for problems. My iPad saved the day there. Cost about $4000 for everything plus the software and new external drives.

Lot of money to spend on storing all of your kiddie porn....

[Army of One]

Antivirus is NOT important unless you're old or a moron. Not run an antivirus full time since the 90's and never found a virus on the occasion I did install it and checked. Don't run dodgy executables, don't open any email attachments that came from an unknown sender, ignore popups on websites, don't install any programs unless it was developed by a reputable company. Follow those rules and use a bit of intelligence, and you'll never have any issues. However, your average person is a fucking moron therefore the proliferation of antivirus software.

Not true, only way you'd be safe is to disable scripts/flash/java or even the most cautious would still get virus/malware, 10 years ago your school of thought worked, now not so much