Simon Paja


I have had computers at home since the 80’s. I used to work in those days in Nokia Electronics computer factory. I was mainly building cash registers and cash register systems. 

 
During the years I have had computers running with i8085, i80286, i386, i486, Pentium (60MHz), Pentium Pro (200 MHz), Pentium II, Pentium III, AMD Sempron and so on.
I have about 20 different processors which I have kept after disassembling the old computers.
I have never bought a branded machine from a shop.
The first one I even soldered myself, all components to the motherboard.
After that I have built the computers from scratch buying the motherboards, processors, memories, power supplies, cases and built them then myself. 

 
Processors have been either AMD or Intel depending the prize or performance of the processor. At the moment I have two PC’s at home, my older machine runs by overclocked Intel Q6600 (overclocked from 2,4 MHZ to 3,5 GHz) and the operating system is Linux, Ubuntu Studio.
 
 
My Windows PC, which I built in spring 2013, runs by water cooled Intel i7-3770K overclocked to about 4,4 GHz. Hard disks are in RAID 0 setup having reading and writing speed about the double what a single drive can offer.


This machine cannot run Windows 11. Maybe I will build one more.





Motherboard:     ASUS Maximus Formula V, Intel Z77 chipset
Processor: Intel i7-3770K , 3,5 GHz, ylikellotettu 4,4 GHz:iin
Cooling: Corsair water cooling system
Memory: 16 GB, DDR3, clock 2400 MHz
Hard disks: Windows 10: RAID 2 pcs SSD 120 GB
Display: ASUS 28" (in the picture 20” and my Linux machine)
Keyboard: Logitech K850
Mouse: Logitech M720
Here's some processors and memory cards which I have kept from older machines after building a new one.
That old desktop PC started to have some problems when starting now and then. Anyway it was serving me about 10 years. I had to do some serious thinking if I would assemble still one desktop PC or buy a laptop. Result was that I got myself a new game laptop with two internal disks and a network disk station with almost 10 TB space. Laptop has enough power for my purposes nowadays.