12 Components that Reshaped the PC - CPUs, Boards & Components by ExtremeTech: "Over the past twenty years, I've built more PCs than I can possibly remember. It all began when I swapped in a Micron motherboard capable of holding an Intel 387 floating point coprocessor so I could play Falcon 3.0. But even before that first step in actual system building, I owned several PCs, including an early Compaq portable."