Just buy a pre built, take all the parts out and put em back in for the full experience. It really feels like a new build if you leave it apart for a few weeks so you forget where everything was!
I got a nice prebuilt relativly cheap in 21, but the case had 1 fan in front. I immediately swapped everything to a case with many fans.
No. First you always say “it’s so easy to build a PC, you’re dumb to get a console for gaming”. Pay attention to always say this, even in unrelated circumstances
Then, after years of saying that “it’s so easy”, when your friend finally says “I finally want to build a PC, can you help me?”, you drop this bomb
- Decide your budget
- Go to logicalincrements.com
- Find the tier that matches your budget
- Buy that
- Enjoy your PC
Once you get a feel for building and owning, then you can start making more informed choices about what you really need.
Yeah, even with years of experience, LI has been my go-to for speccing out a build. They update pretty regularly and they offer tiers even without dGPUs that’ll still hold up for last-gen gaming. Good way to introduce people to the basics of computing hardware.
Obvs this is a meme community, but a great site for PC builds is logical increments.com. They spec out different build suggestions for various budget and have some localizations too. Great starting point, especially for beginners.
I think the “Destitute” level should drop the case and replace it with a paperclip (to bridge the power button)
Or … instead of sending them down a rabbit hole, just point them to a web shop with a PC builder and tell them you will do it together to get an optimised build.
Who screenshotted my email from a decade ago?
What I did for my first build was:
- Buy a 4070 Super
- Look up a parts list / build guide for that card
- Buy the case from the list
- Absolutely wing it for everything else
- Helldivers 2 baybeeeee
Exactly what Super Earth requires. Nice work, Helldiver
FOR SUPER EARTH!
I was considering just building a pc for my ex. Lot of money I don’t need to spend anymore I guess
You OK? Just reaching out
As alright as you can be yeah (was 3 or so years). Got supportive people around me
How to subconsciously gatekeep PC ownership from women. I would say this probably meets the tenuous definition of “mansplaining”. Your girl wants to engage in your hobby with you. Why make it seem daunting when it should be fun? Sure, there’s things to learn and lots to read. Did you have somebody overwhelming you with the minutiae of research and “things you have to understand” when you got into PC building? Nurture the newbies, don’t lord your knowledge over them.
Lmao what a take
Did you have somebody overwhelming you with the minutiae of research and “things you have to understand” when you got into PC building?
I just kinda started plugging shit in where it fit. This was in the days of the ISA bus and mobo DIP switches. All my technical knowledge was learned through breaking something and trying to fix it.
This is how I fried my parents mobo when I was young, took it apart and put it back together… With the ram in backwards.
It’s easy
Or you could do what one person I knew did, just used Newegg pc building, didn’t short anything and just added the first thing on the list. Then had them build it. It was just when am5 came out. Some crazy Eatx mobo and cpu with a 3060, would always blue screen.
just get a macbook, they are the best computers.
if you really want ludicrous power get a macbook pro, i hear all the best professionals use them so you should have no trouble with video games.
saves you all that work messing with those stupid outdated tower computers
I think some people didn’t quite catch your joke.
Is his comment a copypasta I’ve never seen?
It’s a simple joke about how your average layman thinks plus a little tongue-in-cheek mention of macs having pretty much no games.
Judging by the amount of downvotes, I think the /s would’ve helped at the end.
I’ve been planning my next build on PCPartsPicker for the past 3 days. Not sure if I’ve slept. No time. Too much reconfiguring to do. A friend is also working on a new build. We both spent the day on PCPartsPicker optimising. We haven’t touched meth since we started all this.
PSA: PCPartsPicker will prevent meth addiction.
Hey I don’t shit on your life–dont shit on mine!
She thanked me, btw
“Just buy a prebuilt” - me who can’t be bothered
