Hello!

I go by Dup in most parts of the online land and have been into hardware for a good chunk of my life.
Perhaps not as experienced as some--my journey into pc hardware and device repair started back in the era of the Core 2 Quads and Kentsfield chips.

I played around and begin building PC's back when an extreme edition QX6950 was well over a thousand dollars (3GHz, wowee!!) and pc cases still cut your fingers just from looking at them the wrong way. Funny to think that was a powerful chip looking at the 5800x sitting in my system now, tech really has come a...