I started building and selling computers, because sometime in late 2010, I found a wonderful little (at the time) game called "Minecraft", and that changed everything.
I self-taught myself how to modify Minecraft to add things such as more blocks, tools, and foods. After a while, I discovered that RAM, a crucial part of programming was lacking in my computer. That's when I asked my father about it, and he built me my first computer, which was very impressive at the time, since NVIDIA, AMD, NZXT, BitFenix, and other companies were not known to me.
For a long period of time, that computer served me well and did everything I wished it, until I found out about "FPS" or Frames Per Second, which 1, made things smoother and easier on my eyes, and 2, looked and felt more controllable. I wanted to know more and more, so I googled "how to increase FPS in minecraft" which led me to NVIDIA, which led me to wanting to get one, which led me to getting a GTX 650 Ti GPU, which led me to wanting to install it in my computer myself.
I had no idea how, and was super paranoid about breaking everything in the case, so a couple youtube videos fixed that, and I discovered that computer parts are more durable than you think.
After installing that GPU, I felt proud about the whole thing, but I didn't stop there. I wanted to build an entire computer (the youtube video I watched was part of a series on building a whole computer, I just watched the GPU part). At this point, it was June 2013, so as an early birthday gift, I got all the necessary parts to put to together a brand-spankin' new computer.
Pictures of the build are here, check em' out. (I took all the pictures with a potato, sorry about the fuzziness)
I honestly liked building and salvaging computers more than I liked talking about them, so I made a business to make and sell computers. I figured out all the pricing and parts lists myself, as well as the website, which I am using blogger for. (I had to learn HTML5 and some java for this)
About Gabriel Shin.
I am a unusual 15 year old living in Oahu Hawaii, going to a normal high school, makin' normal friends and whatnot.
I wrote a general knowledge base on computers here for anyone who wants to learn about computers. I'm constantly expanding it with the time I have and the input I get, request a topic @ gabrielshin98@gmail.com
If you're asking "Why nanotek?" why not? nanotechnology is some cool stuff yo.
If you know me in person, I can probably fix your computer/laptop as long as it's not a iMac. Those are like the playskool toys of the computer building universe.
