My 2024 Panic PC Build – Amazing For CAD & Design.

PCs can fail for a variety of reasons. Most of them can be recovered from but now and again you’re just completely screwed. Through a failed update and an unfortunate breaker trip, my PC wound up in this exact position.

After a lengthy troubleshooting session of removing components and peripherals, making secondary and tertiary boot devices containing Windows and other OS’s (each freezing in the first few seconds of OS boot up). I decided it was time to rebuild.

Since I had built this one there had been both a RAM and CPU socket change and so rather than replacing part by part and troubleshooting it I decided to scoop out the heart of it with a spoon or something and replace almost all the core components with bleeding edge type stuff.

The new Build

As you can guess we kept the GPU and the PSU from the previous build. They still work but are slightly ancient. Should be more than enough to continue doing cad and playing a few games. Those are certainly next on the block to be replaced.

As you can probably guess this build will struggle with most triple-a games on higher-than-low settings, but it is servicable and can play both Starfield and Palworld. As long as gaming isn’t the priority task on this machine it should serve well doing more work-oriented things, such as video editing, graphic design, and CAD.

Are you building a new PC this year? Tell me what you are using in the comments.