[Bones]

1) Started for me out of sheer frustration with my old system not acting right. Got tired of calling up the ISP guy to fix issues and running down to the PC shop for repairs when needed. After paying through the nose a time or two, got into figuring out how everything works for myself. Eventually dared to build my own PC and was successful - The components I use are still good to this day except for the CPU which finally died not long ago.

2) Turning point was in 06 after wanting to see how well I could get the system I had built earlier to run and had asked about using a XP-M chip with my board ( Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus!). After seeing how snappy it was with the chip, it just went from there.

Fuel on the fire afterwards was the challenge of getting a "Lesser" board to run with the big guys and managed to do it ( Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0).
I've been going ever since I got the Asus to stand toe-to-toe scorewise with MB's such as Abit NF7's and some DFI LanParty's.