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Hello, and welcome to my Blog! Here I plan to post a wide variety of content relating to many different areas of computing, including how computers work, how to build them, which parts to use, and much more.

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This blog will have posts to inform you about how to choose the right parts for a PC build, amongst many other things. If, however, you would prefer the simplicity of having someone else do it, I would be happy to help! Just contact me and I can either plan a PC for you, or build one.

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