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I remember building my first PC. A 286 10mhz tower with 2Mb of RAM using an add-on board, a 20mb hard drive, a floppy drive and EGA graphics.

I bought it right after I was hired for my first programming job out of college.

When my wife asked me what it could do, I told her I'd be able to write anything with that computer, it was all the computer I'd ever need. I'd never fill up all that disk space!

The computer I'm typing this post on is an 8 Core AMD FX-8350 with water cooling, 32GB of memory, a 250GB SSD Drive, 5 2TB SATA-3 Drives in a RAID Array, and two 24" Samsung LED Displays.

As I do with all my computers, I pick out the parts I want in my build and put it together myself. As I was standing in front of the memory display at the MicroCenter in Westmont, IL not far from where I live I had 16GB of 1866 memory in my hands. Wife asked if that was all the memory I'd ever need .... she's cute when she's snarky. I didn't say a word and picked another 16Gb off the display and put it in my cart.

It's funny because up until this build, I've always gone the cheapest route possible just building something that would meet my needs at the moment and no more. I'm a cheapskate when it comes to myself. I'll spend money on her and the kids all day long, but when it comes to spending money on me and what I want? Forget it.

This was the first build I've done where I actually listened to her as she kept telling me to buy what I really wanted for myself.

I love this computer. Oh, wife's ok too. ;-)