# Critique this PC build **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** computer-hardware\ **Created:** [January 12, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critique-this-pc-build/978106 "2023-01-12T16:12:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critique-this-pc-build/978106/81 "2023-01-28T22:32:50Z")
And futzing around with QEMM to get that 384K of extended memory. No, expanded memory. Extended? Expanded? Gah! ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critique-this-pc-build/978106/82 "2023-01-29T03:05:26Z")
And remember futzing with IRQs to install something like a sound card and no internet to help? Not fun. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critique-this-pc-build/978106/83 "2023-01-29T03:08:33Z")
Going to be a drooling mass in some chair when I’m 94 and, all of a sudden, I’m going to shoot up straight, look my daughter in the eye, and clearly say “Goddamned DIP switches, whoever invented these things can join me in Hell”, promptly dropping dead after. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critique-this-pc-build/978106/84 "2023-01-29T03:14:24Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > And futzing around with QEMM to get that 384K of extended memory. No, expanded memory. Extended? Expanded? Gah! There was both, right? Fucking Memmaker.exe ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critique-this-pc-build/978106/85 "2023-01-29T15:01:05Z")
All of the above, plus all those frickin’ drivers for video, mice, _printers_! And you had to _build_ drivers for Novell Netware for each model of network card, which involved about two hours of swapping in one of 30 diskettes about 3 dozen times. Kids these days have no idea what a revolution “plug-n-play” was in Windows. files=50 ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critique-this-pc-build/978106/86 "2023-02-01T22:11:16Z")
Alright, got everything today, busy installing stuff. Curious what antivirus you all recommend. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critique-this-pc-build/978106/87 "2023-02-02T00:08:59Z")
Most people I know stick with standard Windows Defender that comes with Windows. Unlike the old days, it’s actually very capable in Win10/11 ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critique-this-pc-build/978106/88 "2023-02-02T00:19:40Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > I have looked at air cooling. My question was is it a good idea for a 13th Gen i7. I’ll reconsider it considering how good the airflow is in this case. 13TH!!??! My new 12th Gen i7 is WORTHLESS!!! ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critique-this-pc-build/978106/89 "2023-02-02T01:21:34Z")
Seconding Jophiel’s recommendation of just sticking with Windows Defender. That’s what most everyone does nowadays. I was both surprised and relieved at that fact when I built mine two years ago. Makes life easier. (My old computer was still running AVGFree. It was terrible.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critique-this-pc-build/978106.md?page=4)