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.
I am old. I remember when pricewatch.com and tigerdirect.com existed. You wanted to build a PC, you were picking parts manually uphill both ways while wearing an onion on your belt.
They used to print PC part catalogs… you know, on paper…
Darn kids these days with their PC Part Pickers putting their builds in a tidy list.
Back in my day, you went to Babagge’s, CompUSA, Fry’s, or the local small PC builder shop, and hope they had some decent parts in stock.
Microcenter. They were always very well stocked. Well at least most of the time.
I love Micro Center. I wish they’d expand or offer online ordering and shipping.
That’s the first step to adding a bunch of third party sellers to their store and making it a pain to figure out what they have on hand locally. Looking at you pretty much every other big retailer.
Sigh. I’d disagree with you, but you’re absolutely correct.
Yeah, it sucks. It would be a cool idea but I have no confidence it wouldn’t be enshitified almost immediately.
I planned a build 2-3 times but never pulled the trigger. What I had for school was always “good enough” but I enjoyed the planning process.
Wait, what does the onion do in this scenario? That seems oddly specific.
It was the style at the time.
It’s a reference to The Simpsons.Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=a6Dc7W6jXCo
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
- 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.
Thanks for that link. I’ve never heard of that site and it’s really informative.
Half these comments are just people explaining how to build PCs. Art imitates life.
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!
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.
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
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)
When I was truly destitute, I ran a computer without a case. It was literally in a cardboard box on the floor.
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?
I believe the preferred past tense form is screenshat. (By me, it’s preferred by me.)
Who screenshat my email from a decade ago?
Beautiful
Lol
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
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.
But his head covers the parts i need .
It’s easy
Hey I don’t shit on your life–dont shit on mine!
She thanked me, btw
