I'm Ben and this is hyperfine resources and
tutorials for architects by architects today
I'm talking about building your own computer
for architecture school or for professional
practice and I'm going to talk about exactly
what that means how you do it and why you
should do it so this will probably be a two-part
video in this first part I'm going to talk
about why and there's four good reasons I
think for building your own computer I was
a lifelong Mac user and then when I started
graduate school in architecture I started
getting into Revit and 3ds Max and v-ray and
rendering and and it turned out that I basically
wasn't getting the performance I needed from
my MacBook Pro running parallels or bootcamp
and installing Windows so I decided to actually
go to a PC and as I began to research different
pcs I asked someone who knew about computers
if they had a recommendation and they said
you should just build one yourself and I had
no idea what they meant I thought you had
to solder microchips together and I just I
didn't understand at all what he meant by
build your own computer it turns out it's
a better term would just be to assemble your
computer so you buy all the different parts
that make up a computer and you assemble them
and it's it's really fun you learn a lot and
I think there's four great reasons for doing
yourself I'm gonna share them now right number
one you can save money when you pick and choose
the parts you want and assemble them together
you can usually end up with a more powerful
computer than you could buy for that same
dollar amount so if your budget is $1,200
if you buy a computer off the shelf for $1,200
you will not get the same performance as if
you had bought all the parts yourself separately
and assembled them together you can probably
get something similar but there's going to
be something whether it's the RAM the processor
speed the graphics card there's going to be
something with that off-the-shelf computer
that you're just not going to get the same
value for with if you do it yourself number
two I think this is a big one that you will
learn a lot about the link between the hardware
and a software that you use and you will in
turn become a better designer I think if you're
getting into a lot of the architectural softwares
especially if you're gonna be doing a lot
of rendering with say 3ds Max and v-ray the
performance of those softwares are very closely
tied to the hardware in your computer so the
more you learn about what's actually in your
machine it will make you a better designer
it will make you more efficient in the work
you do and you'll be able to make more informed
choices about sort of the way you use your
software based on what what hardware you have
in your computer number three is kind of closely
tied to that is that you can customize the
computer any way you want so when you are
searching for a premade computer you can definitely
filter out you know filter for the different
specifications you want but you might not
be able to find exactly what you're looking
for a hundred percent so when you assemble
it yourself you can pick and choose you can
basically handpick the pieces that you want
to go in your computer and you get exactly
what you want number four this is another
good one is that you can update parts along
the way so if your computer is a couple years
old you don't have to start from scratch and
build a completely new one you can update
individual components within that computer
so the computer I have downstairs right now
that I'm replacing it's actually about seven
years old over that period of time I've updated
the RAM I've added more hard drives I have
I have installed a new graphics processor
unit so I didn't have to start from scratch
with a whole new computer I was able to update
parts as I chose and some of those parts are
salvageable so the computer I'm building today
I decided not to buy new graphics card because
I updated the one in my existing computer
last year it's still perfectly good perfectly
capable and I can save a little bit of money
today by not having to buy a new graphics
card so you have the opportunity to remove
and install new pieces along the way so those
are four reasons that I choose to build my
own computers I've been doing this about seven
years now I've built maybe a dozen computers
between workstations and render nodes and
I highly highly recommend doing this if you
are going to be a professional architect working
for yourself or if you're student looking
for a powerful computer to use at school this
was part one of the video part two I'm gonna
actually put this computer behind me together
I'm going to talk about the different parts
that I chose you can also read all about this
and find my full parts list over on hyperfine
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students thank you
