One PC Store
The decisions that make a build good are the ones nobody photographs
Component lists are easy. What separates a machine that stays fast from one that quietly slows down is cooling, power headroom and clearance — the parts of a specification that never appear on a comparison table. This is where we work those out.
By what the machine is for
Each of these prioritises the budget differently
The same components, ranked in a different order. Getting that order right matters more than the brand on any one of them.
Custom gaming PCs
CAD workstations
Engineering workstations
Creator PCs
Business PCs
Entry-level custom PCs
The invisible half
Where builds actually go wrong
Not in the component list. In the three constraints that only show themselves once the machine is under sustained load.
Cooling and thermal planning
Power-supply planning
PC components
Performance upgrades
How it works
From the work to the parts list
The work
What the machine must do, and what it must not — loud, hot, immovable.
The constraint
Which component governs your particular bottleneck.
The specification
A parts list with a reason attached to every significant choice.
Built and serviced here
Assembled in the DeLand workshop that will also repair it.
You may not need a new machine at all
Every computer has exactly one thing holding it back at any moment. Upgrading anything else produces a faster component waiting on the same bottleneck.
Identifying which one costs least of anything you can do, and is the step most often skipped.
Find the constraintMemory upgrades
Storage upgrades
Graphics card upgrades
Upgrade, repair or replace
Tell us the work, not the parts
"Video editing" spans a phone clip and a multi-camera timeline. "CAD" spans a bracket and a ten-thousand-part assembly. The detail is what makes the advice worth having — and what lets us tell you when something cheaper is enough.
- Building since
- 2003
- Workshops
- One
- On new parts
- 1-year warranty
- Benchmark claims
- None