It’s not that hard, the only thing that’s kinda annoying is cable management
Installing the cpu cooler is kinda hard because the motherboard designers are moronic and made the gpu slot too close, dont they realize all gpus are big ass bricks now
>snap in io shield >Line up motherboard >Start putting screws in but not tightening >Once all screws in tighten >Put in CPU >Put in CPU fan >Put in ram >Put in GPU >Hd audio, power switch, reset switch, led + , led - >Install PSU >CPU power, mother board power, GPU power >Install drives, sata connection, power connection
You are done, I did this from memory, that will be $100 please reply with a target gift card code
The only thing that scares me is when I'll need to update bios for new cpu and one power shortage is enough to say your goodbyes to pc.
Why there is no backup plan for something like that, most motherboards don't have dual bios option.
Do you live in a place that has near constant blackouts, and lose your power almost every day? If not, you're just having anxiety over nothing. Built my first rig over 10 years ago, never had a power outage occur during a BIOS update. It takes like 5-10 minutes, if that. If that actually happens to you got extremely, and I mean, fricking extremely unlucky.
I've never updated my BIOS. Also live in a place with somewhat frequent power outages during summer (shitty small town infrastructure) and the only part I've had did is my power supply.
Get a UPS (uninterrupted power supply) if that sort of thing concerns you.
Some mobos copy the old bios before updating to a new one so they can restore.
Some mobos don't even need the CPU to be installed in order to update bios, you can do it from a usb while the PC is turned off.
What are you struggling with? It's not hard. Are you worried your parts may be incompatible with each other? If so, just use PC Part Picker, they do everything for you as well as giving you the estimated wattage so you can know what power supply to buy
Eh. Those electronic cable straps are lifechanging and cheap. Id say Cable Management is pretty low for me, I dont like CPU install it makes me nervous lol
>I mean my brain hurts...
homie did you start building it at the pcp level? don't tell me you've fallen for Ganker's "solder your own cpu" meme did you?
Installing the cpu cooler is kinda hard because the motherboard designers are moronic and made the gpu slot too close, dont they realize all gpus are big ass bricks now
lol. You put the cpu, cooler and ram into the motherboard before you put it into the case. if you have an AIO cooler then you might put that on afterwards. *THEN* you plug the gpu in.
>snap in io shield >Line up motherboard >Start putting screws in but not tightening >Once all screws in tighten >Put in CPU >Put in CPU fan >Put in ram >Put in GPU >Hd audio, power switch, reset switch, led + , led - >Install PSU >CPU power, mother board power, GPU power >Install drives, sata connection, power connection
You are done, I did this from memory, that will be $100 please reply with a target gift card code
the only part that worried me was building my pc last year and thinking I plugged something into the motherboard wrong, trying to wiggle it out and hearing a grinding sound. PC runs fine, forgot even what it was think it was one of the cpu temp thingamajigs but I can still check my cpu temp/ramp up the fans if needed.
No, your expectations are just higher. A newly-built budget rig under $1K will still play most new games on normal or high settings, and older games fully maxed out. GPUs have actually gone down in price in recent years, but the upper end of GPU has skyrocketed.
Computers have always been like cars; you can spend as much as you want, but you can pay just a little and still get where you need to be. These days, games just cater more to the upper end of what GPUs can do.
A good recent example, Kingdom Come: Deliverance straight-up warns you if you try to play on max settings saying, "Hey, this is only for theoretical future hardware. Don't try to play this because there's no way your GPU can handle it." Lots of companies are doing this now because the rate at which GPUs improve has skyrocketed compared to past decades.
>7 sentences >Reddit spaced >GRUG NO LIKE DIS TOO LONG!!
Yeah, you have bigger fricking mental issues than trying to build a PC you troglodyte. Frick off back to your cave
I want to go 1440p, but I'm used to sitting on my cards for like 5+ years and I'm afraid that going to 1080p on a 1440p screen would look like total shit.
unironically this
I will not change to 2k until at the very least 2025 when I want to play monster hunter wilds
60 fps is still fine for anything that isn't a shooter
and regarding 4k...it's a scam for monitors unless they are TV sized kek
so that means I'm never gonna play 4k
>5k to build a PC
This moronic meme will never, never fricking die. It's insane how something so patently false and easily disproven by a quick google search is still so prevalent in the cultural zeitgeist. Really says a lot about our society you fricking moronic monkey idiot
Everything is expensive now. Blame your politicians for destroying the economy for a flu and the morons that fell for media fear mongering supporting it.
I got an okay one for 1600 at the beginning of the year...but it wasn't enough to play hogwarts with ray tracing so I got depressed and I haven't built it yet and have been playing older games and dealing with blue screens of death every once in a while instead...god what a fricking mistake
Insert cpu
Attach heatsink
Insert RAM
Screw motherboard into case
Insert GPU, screw in the back side
Take power supply, plug in 24 pin cable, cpu cable, GPU cable.
Plug in SATA cables, or insert SSD, and then usb from case to mobo.
Plug in tiny pins for your power button.
Zip tie cables.
Wow so hard
I bought an SSD and realized I didn't have any place to put it (I have an old case and it just has places to install big ass HDD's only) so I just left it at the bottom of the case on top of some unused wires.
That was like 2 years ago and I havent had any problems.
Prebuilts are moronic unless you are so lazy that the idea of learning a new skill or hobby paralyzes you in fear, and you have enough expendable income to not be bothered by the fact that you are paying almost double for a machine that, if you spent that same money on buying parts individually and assembling themselves, would give much better performance.
You're coping and I'm playing my vidya without a care in the world. I refuse to waste my time and effort on something like that when I can just pay to have the same result anyways. >m-muh money
Wow... Anyways.
Explain how I'm coping. Prebuilts are ALWAYS priced higher than buying parts individually, so by definition, you are paying more for worse performance. And you also basically admitted that you refuse to learn a new hobby, which makes my original post correct.
Also, let's say 5-6 years pass, and you want to upgrade your PC. Are you really going to spend another $1200 dollars on a prebuilt when you could've spent $500 on a graphics card and $300 on a CPU? You're spending an extra $400 for no reason, not to mention you're going to lose everything on your drive when you switch over because you're too moronic to use a screwdriver
>Proof?
They don't even tell you the brands of those things, so they're just garbage, go ahead and take a look inside your case, and tell me what brands those components are.
>They don't even tell you the brands of those things
...Except, I can clearly see each component and what brand it is, Along with the model number of each component? >tell me what brands those components are >ASRock >RTX >intel >Seagate
Explain how I'm coping. Prebuilts are ALWAYS priced higher than buying parts individually, so by definition, you are paying more for worse performance. And you also basically admitted that you refuse to learn a new hobby, which makes my original post correct.
Also, let's say 5-6 years pass, and you want to upgrade your PC. Are you really going to spend another $1200 dollars on a prebuilt when you could've spent $500 on a graphics card and $300 on a CPU? You're spending an extra $400 for no reason, not to mention you're going to lose everything on your drive when you switch over because you're too moronic to use a screwdriver
Modifying/upgrading isn't the same as building from scratch. I'll gladly learn the finer details when I actually need to, Until then, I'm completely content with my purchase. >can run modern games on high settings while still maintaining high performance
That doesn't tell me the brand of your RAM, or your PSU, but it does tell me the brand of your storage, and Seagate is alright, I guess, it could be worse.
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>That doesn't tell me the brand of your RAM
TeamGroup >PSU
I can see it but I don't want to unscrew it to see the brand.
Same, fellow moron
I'm clean the dust out and when DD2 comes out I'll consider swapping the 3070 with whatever the closest stronger equivalent is and pretend I built a PC this time
prebuiltgays are worse than consolegays. imagine wanting to invest into X hobby so instead of learning the ins and outs of said hobby you go the easy route. that's like buying a prebuilt model set. fricking disgusting cretins
building pc's wsas hard 20+ years ago.
you actually had to know shit or you would lost up to 50% performance.
now its just a fricking lego that works even if you are moronic
pcpartpicker helps to understand compatability.. foolproof
then actually building is literally legos tier
you even have manuals to help with the parts given and you can look up youtube videos of your own parts being used in a build
>Choosing parts is the bigger hassle
yeah it sure is >cheaper cpus and gpus are worse but cheaper, and the expensive ones are better >amd gpus have better price to performance value but they don't have dlss and other cool features >cheap card variants are likely to have worse cooling and be loud >use a calculator and buy an adequate psu that isn't shit >16gb ram minimum >get a case that looks fine to you and fits the mobo and gpu >don't buy a cooler because it's a waste of money in 95% of cases
that's basically it if you're building a gaming pc, if you can't get it you're a moron
don't forget the extra 12v power cable to the CPU. I do this every time and freak out for 30 seconds before I realise it's not plugged in. also it's a b***h to do once the cooler is on and it's in the case.
>dropping 5k on PC when the RoI drops HARD beyond 2.5k >spending that much and still being too cheap to drop like 100 bucks for build and warranty extension
>spending that much and still being too cheap to drop like 100 bucks for build and warranty extension
what do you mean? i have warranty on my parts
I mean SHOULD I REALLY trust a guy to build my rig?
I mean there is a pro girl i watch on youtube that builds pc for a living but im shy
>dropping 5k on PC when the RoI drops HARD beyond 2.5k >beyond 2.5k
these days thanks to unoptimized slop you're seeing diminishing returns by the time you cross over 1k
open your side panel but do nothing, test it
turn off PC and unplug fans one by one until rattling stops
plug in EVERYTHING ELSE you unplugged except the possible rattling source, test again
if no rattling then you found the source
if there is, continue unplugging one by one until you find all rattling sources
tip to make this faster: every time you boot up go into the bios instead of going into windows
Its harder than people give it credit for. Its easy to build a PC that boots, but most of you have no idea what you're doing and end up with really lopsided systems. You'll see morons here that have an RTX 4090, but their CPU is an i5-2500K from the Obama administration, and then they'll post here about how their GPU utilization is low so something something "optimization" because they watch digital foundry and built their own PC they're a big boy now they know what they're talking about.
No, you don't know what you're talking about. 99% of the b***h threads on this board come down to poverty and moronation.
>built 4 pcs in the past 3 years >all have issues, need to RTM, swap, sell, etc >built 10+ pcs between 2006 and 2014 >no issues whatsoever
I don't know what the everloving frick is going wrong with gaymen PCs nowadays but NO FRICKING PIECE OF SHIT HARDWARE IS RELIABLE ANYMORE I AM GOING INSANE
...
EITHER THE FRICKING RAM FAILS OR THE GPU OR THE PSU OR THE MOBO OR WHATEVER FRICKING SUBMENU KONAMI CODE SECRET DARPA PAL SETTING IN THE BIOS THAT NEEDS FIXING WITH A GUIDE FROM SOME OBSCURE CHINK FORUM
LITERALLY GOT A 4090 and ALL I GET FOR IT IS SOME GODDAMN COIL WHINE. FRICKING CEASELESS NOISE FOR $2000 ..... TWO THOUSAND FRICKING DOLLARS TO GET FRICKED IN THE ASS PIECE OF Black person SHITS
>he bought goyvidia slop >after the 3090s were literally melting >and the 4090 cables were catching on fire
somehow coil whine is the least bad thing that could have happened
I've had AMD CPUs and GPUs, Intel, etc. they all have problems but the biggest ones were with AMD stuff and ASUS devices
Sounds like a user error.
I have not had a single component go bad on me for the past 23+ years of fiddling with PCs.
I'm still using a 12 year old PSU with no issues.
>I'm still using a 12 year old PSU with no issues.
I mean that is my point. Build a new PC and you will catch shit eventually.
Sounds like a user error.
I have not had a single component go bad on me for the past 23+ years of fiddling with PCs.
I'm still using a 12 year old PSU with no issues.
How important are case fans? My case fans haven't been working for some time, seems like something fricked with the bearings or some shit so they won't spin.
All my hardware fans still go though, so I haven't been worrying about it too much.
if you're running AMD hardware, not much as long as the case is designed to have airflow, your cpu cooler and gpu will blow away heat and natural air convection will do the rest, unless you have a 3DX and an XTX or some shit
if you're running either modern intel or nvidia you're fricked and need the case fans
It's fun to do after the first one.
But frick the ATX 24 pin connector, never had a combination of mobo + cable that isn't extremely tight, the plastic always feels cheap as shit too. I wish they have a new standard eventually.
I've been on 1080p for the past 15 years I can't decide if I should make the jump to 1440p.
I got a 7800XT recently and it's technically a 1440p card.
I'm just worried I'll have to lower it to 1080p at some point and it will look like total shit.
>I'm just worried I'll have to lower it to 1080p at some point and it will look like total shit.
Oh if you have to downgrade I guarantee it'll look like dogshit, at least it does for me
1080p was fine till I upgraded, but going back feels horrible
it's not worth going to 1440p, especially now with goyslop being so unoptimized
spend that money on a nice high hz 1080p ultrawide instead, or straight up a good normal 1080p monitor and have your old monitor as a second screen
It's easier than you think, but all of the community adjacent autism upsets me. Not because people are passionate but because they throw out so many benchmarks and other shit about things that are hard to know about ahead of time >Be buying some DDR4 RAM >Alright I've got the right type, right speed, I'll just get 64GB because it's not that much more than 32GB and will be futureproof >After double-checking find out my system can't support more than 32GB (for some reason) >Also get recommended to check the EEC or something so I do >Also also there's 1x8 and 2x8 and 1x16 RAM chips or something and if you get 1x8 you're losing performance, but for DDR4 it's basically luck of the draw now as they're not in significant production >Also also even though 1 stick of 32GB is cheaper than 2 sticks of 16GB if you get x1 stick instead of x2 sticks it's slower
I'm glad I did some research but goddamn why the frick can't I just get "the good one" without spending hours double-checking a bunch of shit that Winblows doesn't even tell you by default.
isn't like getting a big case, a decent power supply, a motherboard and processor, a graphics card, and a hard drive. then apply thermo paste?
The only thing that scares me is when I'll need to update bios for new cpu and one power shortage is enough to say your goodbyes to pc.
Why there is no backup plan for something like that, most motherboards don't have dual bios option.
Do you live in a place that has near constant blackouts, and lose your power almost every day? If not, you're just having anxiety over nothing. Built my first rig over 10 years ago, never had a power outage occur during a BIOS update. It takes like 5-10 minutes, if that. If that actually happens to you got extremely, and I mean, fricking extremely unlucky.
If you pay me the gift card I won't short your power moron
I've never updated my BIOS. Also live in a place with somewhat frequent power outages during summer (shitty small town infrastructure) and the only part I've had did is my power supply.
Get a UPS (uninterrupted power supply) if that sort of thing concerns you.
Die*
>one power shortage is enough to say your goodbyes to pc
Complete lie
Elaborate, if something interrupts bios update then it's bricked. How can you revert that without dual bios option?
Some mobos copy the old bios before updating to a new one so they can restore.
Some mobos don't even need the CPU to be installed in order to update bios, you can do it from a usb while the PC is turned off.
Some motherboards can flash bios from usb.
You literally just plug all the shit in and flash it
It’s not that hard, the only thing that’s kinda annoying is cable management
What are you struggling with? It's not hard. Are you worried your parts may be incompatible with each other? If so, just use PC Part Picker, they do everything for you as well as giving you the estimated wattage so you can know what power supply to buy
This
This, cable management is the only thing that's really a pain everything else feels like playing with legos
it doesn't have to look nice, but this is true.
Relatable. Cable management, especially in tight cases can cut your shit up too.
buy the case last
Eh. Those electronic cable straps are lifechanging and cheap. Id say Cable Management is pretty low for me, I dont like CPU install it makes me nervous lol
tpbp
i bought a prebuilt
>I mean my brain hurts...
homie did you start building it at the pcp level? don't tell me you've fallen for Ganker's "solder your own cpu" meme did you?
Installing the cpu cooler is kinda hard because the motherboard designers are moronic and made the gpu slot too close, dont they realize all gpus are big ass bricks now
lol. You put the cpu, cooler and ram into the motherboard before you put it into the case. if you have an AIO cooler then you might put that on afterwards. *THEN* you plug the gpu in.
First PC I built didnt work at first, and i was so scared i fricked it all up somehow.
Turns out it was just the first time set up couldn't handle 2 RAM sticks.
On reflection, it was just panic over nothing. It's alot more simpler then it seems anon. I promise.
>snap in io shield
>Line up motherboard
>Start putting screws in but not tightening
>Once all screws in tighten
>Put in CPU
>Put in CPU fan
>Put in ram
>Put in GPU
>Hd audio, power switch, reset switch, led + , led -
>Install PSU
>CPU power, mother board power, GPU power
>Install drives, sata connection, power connection
You are done, I did this from memory, that will be $100 please reply with a target gift card code
the only part that worried me was building my pc last year and thinking I plugged something into the motherboard wrong, trying to wiggle it out and hearing a grinding sound. PC runs fine, forgot even what it was think it was one of the cpu temp thingamajigs but I can still check my cpu temp/ramp up the fans if needed.
it hurts more that it's 5k to build a good PC right now
No, your expectations are just higher. A newly-built budget rig under $1K will still play most new games on normal or high settings, and older games fully maxed out. GPUs have actually gone down in price in recent years, but the upper end of GPU has skyrocketed.
Computers have always been like cars; you can spend as much as you want, but you can pay just a little and still get where you need to be. These days, games just cater more to the upper end of what GPUs can do.
A good recent example, Kingdom Come: Deliverance straight-up warns you if you try to play on max settings saying, "Hey, this is only for theoretical future hardware. Don't try to play this because there's no way your GPU can handle it." Lots of companies are doing this now because the rate at which GPUs improve has skyrocketed compared to past decades.
too long, didn't read, I doubt any of what you wrote can make up for the dozen high powered builds I tried to put together
>7 sentences
>Reddit spaced
>GRUG NO LIKE DIS TOO LONG!!
Yeah, you have bigger fricking mental issues than trying to build a PC you troglodyte. Frick off back to your cave
ithurts.jpg
fricking truth
Sad.
you'd be surprised what you can find at tech dumps in well to do areas for free
Yeah if you think you need 4k NOW for some reason. 1080p 60fps is still fine.
going from 1080p to 1440p was a huge difference personally and i regret not making the upgrade sooner.
I want to go 1440p, but I'm used to sitting on my cards for like 5+ years and I'm afraid that going to 1080p on a 1440p screen would look like total shit.
It's so funny how most of you are poor brown people. 1080p was the standard here fricking 10 years ago.
I literally own a 4090 and regard my own 4k gaming as wanton consoomer moronation. 1080p 60fps is perfectly adequate to play any game.
unironically this
I will not change to 2k until at the very least 2025 when I want to play monster hunter wilds
60 fps is still fine for anything that isn't a shooter
and regarding 4k...it's a scam for monitors unless they are TV sized kek
so that means I'm never gonna play 4k
>5k to build a PC
This moronic meme will never, never fricking die. It's insane how something so patently false and easily disproven by a quick google search is still so prevalent in the cultural zeitgeist. Really says a lot about our society you fricking moronic monkey idiot
buy an ad, aliexpress dot cum
So prove it then you fat homosexual. You won't because you can't.
Everything is expensive now. Blame your politicians for destroying the economy for a flu and the morons that fell for media fear mongering supporting it.
That's true if you are counting pc, monitor, peripherals, chair and desktop.
I got an okay one for 1600 at the beginning of the year...but it wasn't enough to play hogwarts with ray tracing so I got depressed and I haven't built it yet and have been playing older games and dealing with blue screens of death every once in a while instead...god what a fricking mistake
I can get a PC, monitor, mouse, keyboard, desk and chair for less than that. What shithole country are you living in?
More like $4,000, maybe $5,000 with the monitor and keyboard and mouse and whatnot.
Insert cpu
Attach heatsink
Insert RAM
Screw motherboard into case
Insert GPU, screw in the back side
Take power supply, plug in 24 pin cable, cpu cable, GPU cable.
Plug in SATA cables, or insert SSD, and then usb from case to mobo.
Plug in tiny pins for your power button.
Zip tie cables.
Wow so hard
Just take your time, it's easier than you think.
it's just electrical Lego
i kinda just smushed my ssds in with the wires. pc's been working for a year so far.... no issues.
I bought an SSD and realized I didn't have any place to put it (I have an old case and it just has places to install big ass HDD's only) so I just left it at the bottom of the case on top of some unused wires.
That was like 2 years ago and I havent had any problems.
The hardest part is getting the front IO cables lined up and into the damn tiny pins at the bottom of the case.
are you disabled?
>bought prebuilt 6 years ago
>0 issues so far
>0 chance I will frick anything up
Prebuilts are moronic unless you are so lazy that the idea of learning a new skill or hobby paralyzes you in fear, and you have enough expendable income to not be bothered by the fact that you are paying almost double for a machine that, if you spent that same money on buying parts individually and assembling themselves, would give much better performance.
You're coping and I'm playing my vidya without a care in the world. I refuse to waste my time and effort on something like that when I can just pay to have the same result anyways.
>m-muh money
Wow... Anyways.
Explain how I'm coping. Prebuilts are ALWAYS priced higher than buying parts individually, so by definition, you are paying more for worse performance. And you also basically admitted that you refuse to learn a new hobby, which makes my original post correct.
Also, let's say 5-6 years pass, and you want to upgrade your PC. Are you really going to spend another $1200 dollars on a prebuilt when you could've spent $500 on a graphics card and $300 on a CPU? You're spending an extra $400 for no reason, not to mention you're going to lose everything on your drive when you switch over because you're too moronic to use a screwdriver
I bet your PC has insane amounts of dust, and your components are thermal throttling.
Nice try, I clean it once a month.
Proof?
>Proof?
They don't even tell you the brands of those things, so they're just garbage, go ahead and take a look inside your case, and tell me what brands those components are.
>They don't even tell you the brands of those things
...Except, I can clearly see each component and what brand it is, Along with the model number of each component?
>tell me what brands those components are
>ASRock
>RTX
>intel
>Seagate
Modifying/upgrading isn't the same as building from scratch. I'll gladly learn the finer details when I actually need to, Until then, I'm completely content with my purchase.
>can run modern games on high settings while still maintaining high performance
>>RTX
That doesn't tell me the brand of your RAM, or your PSU, but it does tell me the brand of your storage, and Seagate is alright, I guess, it could be worse.
>That doesn't tell me the brand of your RAM
TeamGroup
>PSU
I can see it but I don't want to unscrew it to see the brand.
NTA but can't they just fix that issue by cleaning the fans semi-regularly?
>Prebuilts
100% of getting scammed by getting shitty RAM, Storage, PSU, and overall, paying more for less.
Same, fellow moron
I'm clean the dust out and when DD2 comes out I'll consider swapping the 3070 with whatever the closest stronger equivalent is and pretend I built a PC this time
It's not.
>want to replay game
>get to THAT part
Just don't put them in and turn on your pc by shorting the connectors with a screwdriver or something
AAAAAHHH MY HANDS!
realistically you only need the power button and maybe the power led if you feel like it, which is piss easy
why do morons cry about this so much?
no it isn't
prebuiltgays are worse than consolegays. imagine wanting to invest into X hobby so instead of learning the ins and outs of said hobby you go the easy route. that's like buying a prebuilt model set. fricking disgusting cretins
Building a pc isn't a hobby. That's like saying setting up your TV is a hobby.
not comparable. die.
not comparable. die.
I build my own PCs and all I'm saying is you're fricking moronic.
what you're saying equals to why don't people who drive cars become mechanics
people who invest in cars as a hobby literally build their own shit moron
you're hobby is breathing air that means you must become a chemist
i accept your concession
I'm selling Reeses, and liquorice ropes.
Except anyone who is seriously into cars always fricks with their own car adding and changing parts.
For what it's worth, if you can't do basic roadside shit like fluid, tire and belt changes, you're a pussy.
building pc's wsas hard 20+ years ago.
you actually had to know shit or you would lost up to 50% performance.
now its just a fricking lego that works even if you are moronic
here you go OP :^)
>building a pc is fricking hard
It's impossible.
pcpartpicker helps to understand compatability.. foolproof
then actually building is literally legos tier
you even have manuals to help with the parts given and you can look up youtube videos of your own parts being used in a build
Building is easy as frick nowadays, even if you do some mini mobo chassis. Choosing parts is the bigger hassle.
That said, should I upgrade from rx 570 to 7600?
>Choosing parts is the bigger hassle
yeah it sure is
>cheaper cpus and gpus are worse but cheaper, and the expensive ones are better
>amd gpus have better price to performance value but they don't have dlss and other cool features
>cheap card variants are likely to have worse cooling and be loud
>use a calculator and buy an adequate psu that isn't shit
>16gb ram minimum
>get a case that looks fine to you and fits the mobo and gpu
>don't buy a cooler because it's a waste of money in 95% of cases
that's basically it if you're building a gaming pc, if you can't get it you're a moron
Literally everything but putting thermal paste on your mobo before inserting the cpu is LEGO-tier. Get your head checked.
If it's really his first time it might be a bit stressful.
bro im building a 4090 i914900k 5k$ pc im nervous as frick
OP here btw
>one slip about from a $5k paperweight
Funny, make sure you BOO
>bro im building a 4090 i914900k 5k$ pc
You seem like you've got more money than sense, so just buy a component again if you manage to break it.
im j ust nervous
why are you all so mean?
If you paid dumb money for those parts, might as well paid some neckbeard to put it together for you.
don't forget the extra 12v power cable to the CPU. I do this every time and freak out for 30 seconds before I realise it's not plugged in. also it's a b***h to do once the cooler is on and it's in the case.
>dropping 5k on PC when the RoI drops HARD beyond 2.5k
>spending that much and still being too cheap to drop like 100 bucks for build and warranty extension
>spending that much and still being too cheap to drop like 100 bucks for build and warranty extension
what do you mean? i have warranty on my parts
I mean SHOULD I REALLY trust a guy to build my rig?
I mean there is a pro girl i watch on youtube that builds pc for a living but im shy
>dropping 5k on PC when the RoI drops HARD beyond 2.5k
>beyond 2.5k
these days thanks to unoptimized slop you're seeing diminishing returns by the time you cross over 1k
>pic
god, I hate zoomers
Screw choosing pats, that shit is easy.
Now try choosing a monitor. Now that's a fricking nightmare.
I just trust monitor unboxed, they seem to give decent recommendations.
if an absolute moron like me had little issue then you'll be fine
You really cant frick it up. I am a moron with ogre hands and never had issues.
The build part is fine, a little cumbersome in some ways, but fine, the part I hate and dread is the troubleshoot and set up stage.
can i pay some experienced anon here to build me a pc? I mean gather the parts
I want to play in 4k
Just go to Ganker there's a whole general.
but g will just laugh at me and tell me to install linux
you try to pay anyone here for anything you are 100% getting scammed by a south american
>pc rattling randomly since tuesday
>not sure if it's one of the cpu fans or the case bottom filter tray
I hate this...
open your side panel but do nothing, test it
turn off PC and unplug fans one by one until rattling stops
plug in EVERYTHING ELSE you unplugged except the possible rattling source, test again
if no rattling then you found the source
if there is, continue unplugging one by one until you find all rattling sources
tip to make this faster: every time you boot up go into the bios instead of going into windows
Its harder than people give it credit for. Its easy to build a PC that boots, but most of you have no idea what you're doing and end up with really lopsided systems. You'll see morons here that have an RTX 4090, but their CPU is an i5-2500K from the Obama administration, and then they'll post here about how their GPU utilization is low so something something "optimization" because they watch digital foundry and built their own PC they're a big boy now they know what they're talking about.
No, you don't know what you're talking about. 99% of the b***h threads on this board come down to poverty and moronation.
>built 4 pcs in the past 3 years
>all have issues, need to RTM, swap, sell, etc
>built 10+ pcs between 2006 and 2014
>no issues whatsoever
I don't know what the everloving frick is going wrong with gaymen PCs nowadays but NO FRICKING PIECE OF SHIT HARDWARE IS RELIABLE ANYMORE I AM GOING INSANE
...
EITHER THE FRICKING RAM FAILS OR THE GPU OR THE PSU OR THE MOBO OR WHATEVER FRICKING SUBMENU KONAMI CODE SECRET DARPA PAL SETTING IN THE BIOS THAT NEEDS FIXING WITH A GUIDE FROM SOME OBSCURE CHINK FORUM
LITERALLY GOT A 4090 and ALL I GET FOR IT IS SOME GODDAMN COIL WHINE. FRICKING CEASELESS NOISE FOR $2000 ..... TWO THOUSAND FRICKING DOLLARS TO GET FRICKED IN THE ASS PIECE OF Black person SHITS
YOU USED TO JUST BUILD SHIT AND IT'D BE DONE.
>he bought goyvidia slop
>after the 3090s were literally melting
>and the 4090 cables were catching on fire
somehow coil whine is the least bad thing that could have happened
>4090 cables were catching on fire
user error
I've had AMD CPUs and GPUs, Intel, etc. they all have problems but the biggest ones were with AMD stuff and ASUS devices
>I'm still using a 12 year old PSU with no issues.
I mean that is my point. Build a new PC and you will catch shit eventually.
Sounds like a user error.
I have not had a single component go bad on me for the past 23+ years of fiddling with PCs.
I'm still using a 12 year old PSU with no issues.
How important are case fans? My case fans haven't been working for some time, seems like something fricked with the bearings or some shit so they won't spin.
All my hardware fans still go though, so I haven't been worrying about it too much.
if you're running AMD hardware, not much as long as the case is designed to have airflow, your cpu cooler and gpu will blow away heat and natural air convection will do the rest, unless you have a 3DX and an XTX or some shit
if you're running either modern intel or nvidia you're fricked and need the case fans
That's a fair point, just upgraded to a 4070TI a couple months ago so it might be time to finally replace those frickers.
It's fun to do after the first one.
But frick the ATX 24 pin connector, never had a combination of mobo + cable that isn't extremely tight, the plastic always feels cheap as shit too. I wish they have a new standard eventually.
I've been on 1080p for the past 15 years I can't decide if I should make the jump to 1440p.
I got a 7800XT recently and it's technically a 1440p card.
I'm just worried I'll have to lower it to 1080p at some point and it will look like total shit.
>I'm just worried I'll have to lower it to 1080p at some point and it will look like total shit.
Oh if you have to downgrade I guarantee it'll look like dogshit, at least it does for me
1080p was fine till I upgraded, but going back feels horrible
it's not worth going to 1440p, especially now with goyslop being so unoptimized
spend that money on a nice high hz 1080p ultrawide instead, or straight up a good normal 1080p monitor and have your old monitor as a second screen
It's easier than you think, but all of the community adjacent autism upsets me. Not because people are passionate but because they throw out so many benchmarks and other shit about things that are hard to know about ahead of time
>Be buying some DDR4 RAM
>Alright I've got the right type, right speed, I'll just get 64GB because it's not that much more than 32GB and will be futureproof
>After double-checking find out my system can't support more than 32GB (for some reason)
>Also get recommended to check the EEC or something so I do
>Also also there's 1x8 and 2x8 and 1x16 RAM chips or something and if you get 1x8 you're losing performance, but for DDR4 it's basically luck of the draw now as they're not in significant production
>Also also even though 1 stick of 32GB is cheaper than 2 sticks of 16GB if you get x1 stick instead of x2 sticks it's slower
I'm glad I did some research but goddamn why the frick can't I just get "the good one" without spending hours double-checking a bunch of shit that Winblows doesn't even tell you by default.
the ram shit isn't a windows problem but a hardware problem with memory controllers