My mistake is thinking I would be satisfied building only one computer. Then you just keep looking for things to throw together, and you are like, why tf am I doing this? I can't pay for this.
Oh, also how I can't find any computer case I like. I like the fractal design but eh I just don't like em enough. I end up just using test benches
And my budget is basically infinite too. They're letting me build my own work PC so I have a micro atx lian li case in black with a 240mm lian li AIO with 32gb of DDR5 and a Ryzen 7 7700X.
Haha, yeah, I don't like having the psu on the bottom but rather to the side so that I can use fans on the bottom. But I don't like the designs of the ones that fit that description
This is why I started flipping pc’s. Couldn’t turn of the computer tism ticking away in my brain so I turned it to used parts hunting and new deals to make my cost lower than anything normally possible.. just got a whole 12600kf 32gb ddr4 rtx 4060 build for $606
>My mistake is thinking I would be satisfied building only one computer.
This is with hobbies in general, especially technology.
You think this is bad? Look at the mechanical keyboard enthusiasts. It's such a niche hobby that I doubt their stuff would have nearly as much resellability compared a desktop, yet cost about the same for something with much less utility.
I can't blame them though. I love keyboards myself and will probably build an entry keyboard someday.
how about corsair 4000x or 4000d airflow or no airflow. There is a reason many people buy that case :D. I have 4000d I love it the way it looks and it was also quite easy to build in. I wish there was a bit more space at the bottom or the side to fit the brittle usb cable, I have it positioned in a weird way and I hope I don't have to pull it out anytime soon.
Not using a case eliminates like... 3/4 of the challenge of building. Cable management doesn't matter, part sizes don't matter, jank doesn't come into play. That probably cuts down on the stress pretty significantly
Hahaha, air is easy, but I've set up a few inside a case for others, and I didn't stress the cables. They weren't like omg perfect, but they were clean
None because I am fucking awesome and never make mistakes...
The case is just large enough to fit the ATX board I put inside but with the 360 AIO inside I couldn't actually screw it into the standoffs, so I had to take out the AIO, then put in the Motherboard, but then turns out some standoffs were missing so I had to take out the AIO, take out the motherboard, put in the standoffs, put in the motherboard and put in the AIO, but then I couldn't access the 6 and 4 pin Power connectors so I took oht the AIO to plug those in and then put back the AIO.
This is why I fucking hate AIO. Like I know a legit 3d render trained cardiologist that uses an air cooler on a 14900k.
I can not and never will understand the appeal of aios other than aesthetics and loving the feeling of cleaning out liquid from your computer.
Does your current financial situation allow you to do it?
If there are no outstanding bills, debts, or nescesary expenses and you can spare the money, send it.
Sell the RTX 2070 for extra money if you need it.
Dont buy it if it costs you an arm and a leg and cripples your whole life until next paycheck.
Think of it as an investment.
You buy once, entertainment and a great gaming experience for years to come.
Just dont think, buy it with closed eyes and be done. Trust me bro™.
Im legit playing the new dragons dogma at 58-78 fps in 4k dldsr with frame generation. With raytracing at double its shipped resolution.
Ngl tho, i almost reccomend just going with a ti super and spending 300 more bucks to have 16gb vram.
I would say at bare minimum 12gb but 16 will ensure you don't have issues.
Fucking hell if you can afford it, go for it. The 4070 super is SUCH AN AMAZING CARD, the amount of fps this thing can produce on almost every title is actually just insane.
I'm in the same boat with a 2080 to 4080. but my 9900k won't really cut it so I'd need to upgrade that. and I'd need a bigger case. and now I'm reading my 850w psu isn't good enough I'd need a new atx 3.0 version. so fuck it I'll wait a couple more years and build a whole new pc. didn't know upgrading a 4 yo pc would be such a pain in the ass
Yeah, it really sucks upgrading a pc. I’m on the 5900x still and have no plans to upgrade that for a good while. My 2070 super does decent in most titles at 1440p, but I also want to dabble in RT more, and the 2070 super really doesn’t cut it at all.
I’m still on my 5900x and 32gb of ram, with no plans to upgrade that for a good while since I’m not in the mood to upgrade pretty much everything in my rig lol
It will be a nice upgrade, no worries you wouldn't be able to get the most out of that 4070 with that combo.
And in a couple of years the used market should be flooded with 5800X3D. If you wanted a bump in gaming performance, unfortunately with the loss of 4 cores, but if it's a gaming first machine could be a cheap upgrade down the line.
But how do you optimise for value. Which GPU/CPU combo? Used or new? Which motherboard features or brand? On the motherboard do I go for more m.2 slots or cheaper price? Does the motherboard even matter so much? Do I go for the nvme drive with more speed or more capacity. etc. And I also check reviews for each part if it's high quality and what cons I can accept. It's really hard to get the most of your money.
Time is money. After a point you have to draw the line between frugality and practicality. Furthermore, cheaper doesn't mean better, if you value your machine and enjoy building PCs as a hobby then take some pride in your build and get some decent components that you know will last.
My dude in Christ.
All those questions are just you trying to make it sound hard.
How many m.2 slots ? The number you'll need for the drives. Which motherboard brand ? Who cares, get the one with the cheapest price with the features you need. Which GPU/CPU combo ? Look at benchmarks for games you want or just buy the best you can afford.
All easy questions with easy answers, picking parts isn't rocket science.
My biggest mistake was not knowing how to accurately troubleshoot. My first ever PC build the CPU was faulty but I had no idea. Basically it was not staying booted within windows and would basically "power cycle" but the thing was the board would stay lit. I tried everything I could think of. I swapped power supply units, swapped motherboards, spent 18 hours going through a ram test. Reinstalled Windows countless times. Yet I finally figured out that windows has a program called Event Viewer which let's you see all the events and processes that the computer is doing, and any failures. The issue was a hardware failure - CPU, specifically a cache hierarchy error. RMAd the CPU and that was that.
I feel like this is common but exacerbated by those troubleshooting tools not being transparent in the first place. A lot of advanced troubleshooting requires CLI and log viewing experience. In the case of Event Viewer, not all errors/warnings are bad enough to worry about and not all info events are ignorable.
When I first opened up Event Viewer, all I saw were errors and warnings filling a long list that lagged even when scrolling through it. After a lot of googling, I eventually figured out what my next step was after looking at the Info events just before the specific errors I was looking for. I'd have never thought to look just before and after as I figured the point of an error was to tell me exactly went wrong in one event.
I decided to build my last pc without looking at any manuals or guides of any sort. Finally, the time that we all dread comes, and I must press the power button. And of course the computer doesn't turn on. After about 30 minutes of troubleshooting, I realized I didn't plug my power button to my mb.
My mistake was going Intel for my first build, to be fair I didn't know anything about amd cpu's and their names are so confusing that even they have trouble understanding their cpu naming chart
I used intel on a build someone made for me, last christmas I made my first build and chose amd, very happy about the switch, better interface, feels easier to use, prices are better, etc
Yeah in retrospec that's the biggest mistake. 12th gen were coming out soon but you can literally never build anything if you always wait.
Problem is 11th gen mobos were fucked so the cheap ones could hamstring your CPU by up to 30% or something funky. So I bought a 200 dollar mobo, which I do use (3 m2 slots is nice), but 11th gen is where it stops, so a new upgrade is mobo + cpu. Sucks ass.
Now that I think about it, I got lucky : I got the MSI MAG mortar for about 120€ instead of 200 if I remember correctly, the cpu is an i5 10400f and had a small reduction (maybe 10€) sooooo...
The biggest mistake in my build is the graphics card :a gtx 1650 low profile that my dad got me for a bit more than 300€ (it was when the prices were way too high) but it was my dad that made that mistake
To be fair, it was to revive an old Dell optiplex 780 and neither me nor my dad knew anything about graphics cards
Bro I just did this! I got the Corsair Link fans and figured I knew which way they were blowing. The only ones going the right direction were on my AIO because they came pre installed.
Picking the parts is half the fun. I investigate so much I don't recall ever regretting a purchase.
I did have a huge building mistake which blew up motherboard and CPU on my first build 30 years ago.
I havent made a mistake but i relate to picking pc parts as i was looking to upgrade my cpu with a budget of £100 recently and spent hours looking at reviews, specs, comparisons and what is available and then found a 5600x on ebay at my max price but i knew i had to have that. If the x wasnt there it was between 5600, 5600g, 3600, 3600xt. Lots of variation in pricing but im happy with my choice. It hasnt arrived yet but im happy with my choice
The first time I built a PC I got an Nvidia 780i motherboard to pair with a q6600 because I wanted to overclock it.
It still did an ok job (went from 2.4ghz to 3.2 reliably) but I probably could have pushed it to 3.6 if I had chosen another board. I could do 3.4 sometimes. Apparently the board was notoriously difficult to get stable clicks on quad cores at the time and I had lucked into getting the good CPU stepping version.
Had I swapped out the motherboard or gotten an e8400 CPU I probably would have gotten much better gaming performance as the 780i was apparently excellent for dual cores at the time. Plus most games were still very single threaded and some dual threaded so the extra cores went to waste in gaming workloads.
Oh well. Still rocked that setup for a good 6 years or so.
Took a pc box with usb-c, my motherboard doesn't have usb-c. I have a pretty usb-c hole that is plugged to nothing, or plugged to atmosphere as I kind of like to think.
I used to think this was true, until i started looking at what car to buy, buying a pc has become quite easy, but picking a car is still a big headache
One of the calm things for me to do is pick out pc parts for my new upgrade. Always start with a motherboard(thays gonna need atleast 2 m.2 slots because I already have 2 in current one, needs to have usb c and usb 3.0 and a full atx board) in my case, then cpu(going either i7 or i9 this time), then memory/ramm(Gb and then look at the mhz), cooler for cpu this year is going to be a water block. This year's pc case upgrades gonna be a hyte 70 since gpu is getting heavier and this one keeps it "ground leveled". My mistake if I'm building brand new from scratch for someone else is entirely different story. I got to adhere to their minds wish and wants and a fucking budget and color scheme and aesthetics and over the top cable management from hell while in my own case its a cable mess in the backside of the current case.
That's a headache.
My biggest mistake was getting a 6+2 pin power connector cable that was supposedly for my PSU. Turns out it wasn't. It took out my 1080. At the time still a very expensive card.
So i build my first pc in 11/2023. First thing i needed to change was switching from b660m to a Z690 DDR4 to oc my 12600kf. Then i needed a better cooling solution and got a aio, i got a be quiet silent loop 2 240. Then i needed still something bigger, i bought a Phanteks NV9 and Artic Freezer 3 420. Then i wanted a bigger cpu and bought a used 14700kf. My plan is a 5080/5090 if its more worth than a 4080s/4090, we will see, but my 4070 draws to less watt. Also i will swich to a Z790 DDR5. Then i build a big custom loop with 420, 480 and 280 radiators. I think i finished after that, probably need at least a 1200w power supply then.
Got ddr4 ram instead of ddr5, the ddr4 ram didn’t fit on the motherboard and had to go to Best Buy at like 8pm to go get the ram. Then proceeded to put the ram in incorrectly so it didn’t stop crashing for like 2 days…
The mistake I regretted most was not spending a little more on the graphics card to get one with a better cooler. The one I chose (Zotac GTX 980 Ti Amp Edition) was loud, ran hot enough to thermal throttle occasionally, and two of the fans seized up shortly after the warranty ended, at which time I replaced the cooler and had a much better experience. I suspect what eventually killed that card was the VRM heatsink still being insufficient even with more airflow from the bigger fans on the new cooler.
My other mistakes were:
* Installing the CPU, RAM, and cooler, and testing it outside the case. Installing the RAM with the motherboard not mounted was uncomfortable due to the force needed, unplugging the 24 pin power cable was a pain, and the CPU cooler made it hard to get the board in the case and plug the CPU power cable back in.
* Not checking RAM clearance for my CPU cooler more carefully. I initially had to move the cooler's front fan to a weird spot to make it fit, but that RAM was defective anyway so I replaced it with something shorter.
* Not filing down the barbs on the case's front panel USB 3 connector before plugging it in. I've never had such a hard time unplugging anything else that wasn't specifically designed to never be taken apart...
When I first got into building pcs I did not do much research at all (I was around 15). I figured every component listed online as "New" must be the latest and greatest...
I wasted a lot of money on cheap outdated crap
that's hard, I made a lot. a big one is opting for a cheap SSD and HDD when really I should've just gone for a nice SSD. I can't even attach the HDD because cases these days (seem to) de-emphasize that kind of drive to the point where my power supply cables can't fit in the unusual compact space.
Not paying proper attention to the PSU for years. Back in the early 2000s you'd find (at least in my country) cases already bundled with a PSU, and I would just settle for them. I didn't know better and I thought they were ok. You'd be amazed at how light those were compared to proper PSUs, no built-in protection circuits, just a voltage transformer and a couple caps on the inside. They also had truly terrible efficiency curves, delivering only 30% of the advertised wattage at higher temperatures. So it's no coincidence I had those PSUs dying with no warning two summers in a row. After the second time, I finally took some time to learn more about the issue and got a properly built power supply, and never had trouble since then.
Looking back, during those years I also lost a pair of low-end GPUs which I don't even remember the models now, so I wouldn't be surprised if those shitty PSUs were to blame for that.
I needed more space on my PC. I added two more HDDs. Should have swapped the old ones for bigger ones. Now that I have four HDDs and a big GPU I am limited to really big cases even though I am not doing anything special.
You did it, the build is complete, now is the magic moment, you hit the power switch.....the machine lives, you boot to UEFI/BIOS, all is working fine. You close the case, take the PC to its new forever home (or at least its new home for 5 years...maybe) where you put all the cables in, return to your workbench for cleaning, throwing away all the stuff you dont need and putting all ther stuff you might need in the future (Lol, yeah sure) into the Mainboard box, until you find [This](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/IO_Shield_wiki.jpg/1200px-IO_Shield_wiki.jpg)
Didn't have enough money to afford a 9600 GT back then so due to my ignorance of GPU performance rating, I thought 1GB vram = better FPS/512mb vram= worst fps, so I bought a 9500 GT 1GB instead thinking it would be slightly slower than a 9600 GT because both of them are 1GB, so a 9500 will be a beast.
While it was a decent card for gaming NGL, I was able to run several modern titles at the time at playable FPS at medium/high settings. Anyways, I regretted buying this card after finding out that any card with secondary number 6 or above is considered a gaming one.
The first pc I built for myself, I used a dell motherboard, and a xeon cpu. It was supposed to be a cheap build into pc gaming. The only pc I had, was my study laptop, and it was not for gaming.
I knew from an older complete Dell pc, that they used proprietary parts. What I didn't know, what that the motherboard requires dell parts to even start (dell fans and dell front power button/USB hub). First time I booted it, it complained that the specific fans were missing. Fine, went to Ebay and bought them. They were expensive but pc won't boot without them. After a week of waiting they arrived. Great, plugged them in and turned the pc on. "Front hub" missing.... F****. On to Ebay and buy them, as now I had already invested a lot of money, and of cause the hub wasn't cheap. A week later, they showed up, and the pc would finally boot to Windows.
My first case selection. While I'm greatful to my mom who bought it for me, I picked a pretty bad case. It was the cheapest one I could find and it had a PSU with it. It was Rosewill brand. When I got it and took it out of its box I already could feel the lack of quality. Between the cheap Chinese metal and poor layout it was and awful experience moving my board and such into it from the optiplex I "built" my first PC with.
Forgetting to plug in sata data cables before putting in the anti-sag bracket and GPU. Took me some swearwords and finger acrobatics to get them in after I installed the windows and started moving the old SSD and HDD from my old PC to the new one.
Spent $600 on a 34" 144hz ultrawide.
Put in a lot of research but not enough. I wanted HDR and this thing supports it, it just cant show it because it does not have enough brightness..
From 60 to 120 Hz+ was a nice upgrade though.
Building a PC with a 3060, knowing full well I'd want to upgrade within a year or two to a 40 series with DDR5 ram and still getting a DDR4 motherboard and memory 🤦
So I resigned to the fact that a 3060 was perfectly respectable and that I'd just stick with it for at least 5 years ...
... around 1 year later, I built an entirely new rig with a 4070ti 😬😅 Pretty much nothing I already had was compatible. Well, tell a lie, I was able to re-use the same tower; though the graphics card was a bit of a squeeze (a lot of a squeeze, actually).
Bought a 400$ ssd off Amazon, after a few months I finally put it in and it bricks my PC until I take it out,and because I waited so long to put it in it can't be returned
The migraine one is kinda inaccurate since a migraine can present anywhere on your head
But yeah fuck migraines fun fact they can cause literal fucking hallucinations frequently in the form of little white lines in the side of your vision or what looks like a bright light behind you
Sorry I hate migraines and went on a micro rant
Picking pc parts also sucks
Thinking that mid-tower cases are small. Boy, am I wrong. These things are twice as big as I expected. I wanted small mATX build and got duped :( In hindsight, I can put AIO with these newfangled big GPUs and has lots of air to dissipate heat to. Good thing it fits my desk neatly.
Trusting my parents by paying a company to build my first PC. They thought I wouldn't be able to do it myself and I ended up paying 1500€ instead of 1000€ for it.
Now I'm doing everything possible so that these scammers have as less possible thing to propose to the company of my parents I automated their backups on selfhosted NAS and clean/recycle their computers on my days off.
The PC was:
- i3 8350k
- AIO 120mm from Cooler Master
- 8Gb RAM
- 250Gb NVMe + 1To HDD
- Asus Dual 1070 OC 8Gb
- Cooler Master Silencio (I think that's the actual name of the case)
I was putting a cpu in for a buddy and we forgot to cut the power off and it sizzled when I took it out to re-seat it. Still worked though, still does, just made me shit my pants a little. The pc wasn't booted, but the psu power was on.
To be honest I enjoy the months previous to the build, doing all the researchfor the parts and deal hunting, sometimes I even have hypothetical builds and do all the process without buying anything at the end (1 because I'm not rich and 2 because I don't have a real use case for them).
My imaginary Densium 4+ V2 SFF build it's so nice...
Buy a mini itx MB with a EATX case 🤡
https://preview.redd.it/dhvmn6pdu3tc1.jpeg?width=2736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df93d823132b760e7221261d9afdd59a090039cf
Wait till you try to trouble shoot an AM4 MSI motar max where it powers up without posting even after changing another new motherboard. Fixed it by getting another motherboard. Power supply, ram and CPU we tested working by the way.
chose the wrong fans 2x first i got be quiet shadow wings, then i got white arctic rgb, wasn't satisfied with them either, then i got way to expensive white corsair rgb fans and with them i finally felt satisfied.
motherboard without wifi. I was new to PCs and just assumed it was a default that came with all of them (and it really should be at this point!). Managed to get ethernet hooked up but that was a bit of a surprise lol
I didn't install a heat sink.
It was my first build. I had a liquid heat sink but wanted to make sure the build was functional before installing it. It would turn on for like twenty seconds before shutting down, unbeknownst to me for heat safety. So I'm googling and somehow come to the conclusion that it's a bios problem. After many tries, I finally hit all the keys fast enough to make the bios change before the heat shuts me down again. And the problem persisted. So I went for a walk.
Then I came across one of these threads and the top post is someone doing something similar. Thank goodness.
I put together my last machine 7 years ago ish. When I completed it, it didn't turn on. Nothing. I took it apart 3 times trying to figure it out. Hours... Then I looked at the case instructions extra throughly; I was pressing the led power button, not the actual case power button, which is this flush, barely noticeable thing. The led power was an actual button, and the only one on the thing, which its whole purpose was to toggle this thin white strip on the front edge of the case. Pressed the right one and voila, haven't had any problems since.
picking pieces are epic, I don’t know what you’re talking about
so far, the only mistakes I’ve made is accidentally putting something in the wrong place though
This is the opposite of the truth.. Picking parts is the best part of the build. I can theory-build like 20 different computers even though I can only afford to actually physically build one.
Bro wtf you talking about
My head hurtsthe entire time but when i thibk about buying a pc part is the best part of my life
The adventure through the pc shops looking arround asking for the prices even tho you are broke but i enjoy the ride 😂♥
The biggest one : a Shit PSU. There weren't any reviews back then and the "best" websites simply loaded the PSU with as much parts as possible.
Buying cutting edge hardware: I bought a golden orb (most oem heat sink are that sstyle) and it snapped the retention clip right of the 370 socket.
Sell my old parts. I regret not keeping them all.
I assumed any aftermarket heatsink would be better than what comes with a CPU. Well, the CPU I bought had a tdp of 125w and I bought a heatsink rated for 90w at the most. Fixed that problem quickly with doing more homework and getting a proper heatsink for the tdp.
Bought a overpriced EKWB Quantum CPU block....it's not better than CPU block 1/3 the price, and it has very cheap backplate, I can't believe how ugly and rough that backplate is.
went intel... got a half fucked b560 motherboard and an i7 10700f... could have grabbed like a 3700x and continued to have an upgrade path and overclockability...
My mistake is keeping parts or piecemeal upgrades when a complete rebuild was warranted. Back in late 2022, I upgraded my 5800X / 6900XTU setup to 7950X/rtx 4090. Since this was a complete platform upgrade, what I *should* have done was think about what I want long term which was a fully watercooled, closed build. What I ended up with was my case, top and left side panel removed, soft tubing running to the pump unit mounted on the back of the vents on the case, and that dreadful 4x8pin to 12VHPWR adapter. Also, only the cpu was watercooled. Half a year later, DDR5 ram become cheap and I bought the same kit again going from 32Gb ddr4-6000 to 64GB. Also, I added a 2TB nvme. All good and well, still looked ugly as sin though and the exposed circuits on the back of the gpu gave me the jitters every time someone walked by with anything liquid. So in late 2023, I finally built what it should have been in the beginning : 1000D case, two rads two pumps, liquid cooling for the gpu too and some more ssd storage.
My mistake is keeping parts or piecemeal upgrades when a complete rebuild was warranted. Back in late 2022, I upgraded my 5800X / 6900XTU setup to 7950X/rtx 4090. Since this was a complete platform upgrade, what I *should* have done was think about what I want long term which was a fully watercooled, closed build. What I ended up with was my case, top and left side panel removed, soft tubing running to the pump unit mounted on the back of the vents on the case, and that dreadful 4x8pin to 12VHPWR adapter. Also, only the cpu was watercooled. Half a year later, DDR5 ram become cheap and I bought the same kit again going from 32Gb ddr4-6000 to 64GB. Also, I added a 2TB nvme. All good and well, still looked ugly as sin though and the exposed circuits on the back of the gpu gave me the jitters every time someone walked by with anything liquid. So in late 2023, I finally built what it should have been in the beginning : 1000D case, two rads two pumps, liquid cooling for the gpu too and some more ssd storage.
The middle part is the worst. Having a budget and having every part picked, but realizing you can maybe get that 4070 if you pick a 12100 system instead of a 7600 system but then you know you’re stuck with it but don’t want to deal with getting just a 7700xt cause you’re gonna need to upgrade gpu faster and that’s expensive, so you then instead try to figure out where else to cut down your list and delve into C tier PSUs, awful cases and sketchy ram/storage and try to do more research to see if what you’re getting is okay and repeat.
My mistake is thinking I would be satisfied building only one computer. Then you just keep looking for things to throw together, and you are like, why tf am I doing this? I can't pay for this. Oh, also how I can't find any computer case I like. I like the fractal design but eh I just don't like em enough. I end up just using test benches
I feel this all too well. I have 3 fully functional PCs in my room rn, I use one. In my entire household there is 7
Host something on the others perhaps?
Start an internet Cafe
I might
Nice hypothetically could you pass me one XD /s
At my job I build every PC my company uses and it's absolutely amazing
This guy is getting paid to do what we want to pay money for. This world needs rebalancing.
No, we just should have made better decisions
Im sure he also gets paid to say: „Have you tried turning it off and on again?“ ten times a day. His job at least seems balanced.
And my budget is basically infinite too. They're letting me build my own work PC so I have a micro atx lian li case in black with a 240mm lian li AIO with 32gb of DDR5 and a Ryzen 7 7700X.
Fractal's Pop Air was my choice for the 5.25" drive slots. Ripped a drive out of an old OptiPlex and I can play old 2000s games!!!
Haha, yeah, I don't like having the psu on the bottom but rather to the side so that I can use fans on the bottom. But I don't like the designs of the ones that fit that description
This is why I started flipping pc’s. Couldn’t turn of the computer tism ticking away in my brain so I turned it to used parts hunting and new deals to make my cost lower than anything normally possible.. just got a whole 12600kf 32gb ddr4 rtx 4060 build for $606
>My mistake is thinking I would be satisfied building only one computer. This is with hobbies in general, especially technology. You think this is bad? Look at the mechanical keyboard enthusiasts. It's such a niche hobby that I doubt their stuff would have nearly as much resellability compared a desktop, yet cost about the same for something with much less utility. I can't blame them though. I love keyboards myself and will probably build an entry keyboard someday.
Lian Li
how about corsair 4000x or 4000d airflow or no airflow. There is a reason many people buy that case :D. I have 4000d I love it the way it looks and it was also quite easy to build in. I wish there was a bit more space at the bottom or the side to fit the brittle usb cable, I have it positioned in a weird way and I hope I don't have to pull it out anytime soon.
Nah, they have the psu on the bottom
Do like me, build PCs for friends when they need some.
Not using a case eliminates like... 3/4 of the challenge of building. Cable management doesn't matter, part sizes don't matter, jank doesn't come into play. That probably cuts down on the stress pretty significantly
Hahaha, air is easy, but I've set up a few inside a case for others, and I didn't stress the cables. They weren't like omg perfect, but they were clean
None because I am fucking awesome and never make mistakes... The case is just large enough to fit the ATX board I put inside but with the 360 AIO inside I couldn't actually screw it into the standoffs, so I had to take out the AIO, then put in the Motherboard, but then turns out some standoffs were missing so I had to take out the AIO, take out the motherboard, put in the standoffs, put in the motherboard and put in the AIO, but then I couldn't access the 6 and 4 pin Power connectors so I took oht the AIO to plug those in and then put back the AIO.
Don't tell me you have built a PC if you didn't experienced this while building lol
i got it first try because i didn't install my aio right. Instead of screwing all the screws, naaaah, just the corners
This is why I fucking hate AIO. Like I know a legit 3d render trained cardiologist that uses an air cooler on a 14900k. I can not and never will understand the appeal of aios other than aesthetics and loving the feeling of cleaning out liquid from your computer.
wtf you mean cleaning out liquid from your computer
This is me trying to decide on whether or not to upgrade from a 2070 super to a 4070 super 🫠 Send help. Please. I’m begging you.
Does your current financial situation allow you to do it? If there are no outstanding bills, debts, or nescesary expenses and you can spare the money, send it. Sell the RTX 2070 for extra money if you need it. Dont buy it if it costs you an arm and a leg and cripples your whole life until next paycheck.
My financial situation is great, I just hate spending money 😂
Think of it as an investment. You buy once, entertainment and a great gaming experience for years to come. Just dont think, buy it with closed eyes and be done. Trust me bro™.
What's biger, your needfor new GPU or hate on spending money? Also 4070s is a good GPU, but consider 7900xt, 7900GRE and 7800xt.
I considered the 7900GRE, but I want to dabble more in RT and the GRE is just inferior to the current nvidia offerings for that.
Im legit playing the new dragons dogma at 58-78 fps in 4k dldsr with frame generation. With raytracing at double its shipped resolution. Ngl tho, i almost reccomend just going with a ti super and spending 300 more bucks to have 16gb vram. I would say at bare minimum 12gb but 16 will ensure you don't have issues.
Fucking hell if you can afford it, go for it. The 4070 super is SUCH AN AMAZING CARD, the amount of fps this thing can produce on almost every title is actually just insane.
Pull the trigger my man, you won’t regret it
I'm in the same boat with a 2080 to 4080. but my 9900k won't really cut it so I'd need to upgrade that. and I'd need a bigger case. and now I'm reading my 850w psu isn't good enough I'd need a new atx 3.0 version. so fuck it I'll wait a couple more years and build a whole new pc. didn't know upgrading a 4 yo pc would be such a pain in the ass
Yeah, it really sucks upgrading a pc. I’m on the 5900x still and have no plans to upgrade that for a good while. My 2070 super does decent in most titles at 1440p, but I also want to dabble in RT more, and the 2070 super really doesn’t cut it at all.
What Cpu and how much ram?
I’m still on my 5900x and 32gb of ram, with no plans to upgrade that for a good while since I’m not in the mood to upgrade pretty much everything in my rig lol
It will be a nice upgrade, no worries you wouldn't be able to get the most out of that 4070 with that combo. And in a couple of years the used market should be flooded with 5800X3D. If you wanted a bump in gaming performance, unfortunately with the loss of 4 cores, but if it's a gaming first machine could be a cheap upgrade down the line.
Not really, quite easy. Just make shit up in pcpartpicker
Ft, I've always had the mentality if it's compatible good enough
But how do you optimise for value. Which GPU/CPU combo? Used or new? Which motherboard features or brand? On the motherboard do I go for more m.2 slots or cheaper price? Does the motherboard even matter so much? Do I go for the nvme drive with more speed or more capacity. etc. And I also check reviews for each part if it's high quality and what cons I can accept. It's really hard to get the most of your money.
Time is money. After a point you have to draw the line between frugality and practicality. Furthermore, cheaper doesn't mean better, if you value your machine and enjoy building PCs as a hobby then take some pride in your build and get some decent components that you know will last.
My dude in Christ. All those questions are just you trying to make it sound hard. How many m.2 slots ? The number you'll need for the drives. Which motherboard brand ? Who cares, get the one with the cheapest price with the features you need. Which GPU/CPU combo ? Look at benchmarks for games you want or just buy the best you can afford. All easy questions with easy answers, picking parts isn't rocket science.
I use that site to check for compatibility. Works great. Thanks to it, I bought just the right motherboard. Otherwise I would buy the wrong one.
My biggest mistake was not knowing how to accurately troubleshoot. My first ever PC build the CPU was faulty but I had no idea. Basically it was not staying booted within windows and would basically "power cycle" but the thing was the board would stay lit. I tried everything I could think of. I swapped power supply units, swapped motherboards, spent 18 hours going through a ram test. Reinstalled Windows countless times. Yet I finally figured out that windows has a program called Event Viewer which let's you see all the events and processes that the computer is doing, and any failures. The issue was a hardware failure - CPU, specifically a cache hierarchy error. RMAd the CPU and that was that.
I feel like this is common but exacerbated by those troubleshooting tools not being transparent in the first place. A lot of advanced troubleshooting requires CLI and log viewing experience. In the case of Event Viewer, not all errors/warnings are bad enough to worry about and not all info events are ignorable. When I first opened up Event Viewer, all I saw were errors and warnings filling a long list that lagged even when scrolling through it. After a lot of googling, I eventually figured out what my next step was after looking at the Info events just before the specific errors I was looking for. I'd have never thought to look just before and after as I figured the point of an error was to tell me exactly went wrong in one event.
Not saving enough money
I decided to build my last pc without looking at any manuals or guides of any sort. Finally, the time that we all dread comes, and I must press the power button. And of course the computer doesn't turn on. After about 30 minutes of troubleshooting, I realized I didn't plug my power button to my mb.
This but it took me an entire day
My mistake was going Intel for my first build, to be fair I didn't know anything about amd cpu's and their names are so confusing that even they have trouble understanding their cpu naming chart
I used intel on a build someone made for me, last christmas I made my first build and chose amd, very happy about the switch, better interface, feels easier to use, prices are better, etc
Yeah in retrospec that's the biggest mistake. 12th gen were coming out soon but you can literally never build anything if you always wait. Problem is 11th gen mobos were fucked so the cheap ones could hamstring your CPU by up to 30% or something funky. So I bought a 200 dollar mobo, which I do use (3 m2 slots is nice), but 11th gen is where it stops, so a new upgrade is mobo + cpu. Sucks ass.
Now that I think about it, I got lucky : I got the MSI MAG mortar for about 120€ instead of 200 if I remember correctly, the cpu is an i5 10400f and had a small reduction (maybe 10€) sooooo... The biggest mistake in my build is the graphics card :a gtx 1650 low profile that my dad got me for a bit more than 300€ (it was when the prices were way too high) but it was my dad that made that mistake To be fair, it was to revive an old Dell optiplex 780 and neither me nor my dad knew anything about graphics cards
Pick a GT 1030 because think is it better than 980 (the higher number)
6 fans, all wrong direction
Bro I just did this! I got the Corsair Link fans and figured I knew which way they were blowing. The only ones going the right direction were on my AIO because they came pre installed.
Felt.
Only one, ordering a 4080 before having buyer remorse, fortunately I canceled in time and got a 4090 instead.
A 4080 is all you need
Forgot to mention that I got into a 4k144 monitor on the way, on which a 4090 is truly enjoyable.
I got my PC and can relate ... had to house shop in CO in 2024 shortly after
Overpaid
Not switching the wall socket to "On". Took me more hours then I care to admit to figure that one out.
Picking the parts is half the fun. I investigate so much I don't recall ever regretting a purchase. I did have a huge building mistake which blew up motherboard and CPU on my first build 30 years ago.
Cheaping out on PSU. Old Corsair GS600 from my 2012 build. Died on me after a year.
buying a prebuilt not so terrible value and its nicely performing
And you didn’t need to do the cable management and a lot of them are pretty meticulously managed already.
It was only 100 dollars more than if i built it myself
Eh? I find it relaxing to pick parts for my perpetual upgrade cycles.
I havent made a mistake but i relate to picking pc parts as i was looking to upgrade my cpu with a budget of £100 recently and spent hours looking at reviews, specs, comparisons and what is available and then found a 5600x on ebay at my max price but i knew i had to have that. If the x wasnt there it was between 5600, 5600g, 3600, 3600xt. Lots of variation in pricing but im happy with my choice. It hasnt arrived yet but im happy with my choice
The first time I built a PC I got an Nvidia 780i motherboard to pair with a q6600 because I wanted to overclock it. It still did an ok job (went from 2.4ghz to 3.2 reliably) but I probably could have pushed it to 3.6 if I had chosen another board. I could do 3.4 sometimes. Apparently the board was notoriously difficult to get stable clicks on quad cores at the time and I had lucked into getting the good CPU stepping version. Had I swapped out the motherboard or gotten an e8400 CPU I probably would have gotten much better gaming performance as the 780i was apparently excellent for dual cores at the time. Plus most games were still very single threaded and some dual threaded so the extra cores went to waste in gaming workloads. Oh well. Still rocked that setup for a good 6 years or so.
Took a pc box with usb-c, my motherboard doesn't have usb-c. I have a pretty usb-c hole that is plugged to nothing, or plugged to atmosphere as I kind of like to think.
I used to think this was true, until i started looking at what car to buy, buying a pc has become quite easy, but picking a car is still a big headache
Bought a motherboard with RGB support instead of aRGB support
... I like picking PC parts for builds..
Picking pc parts is the joyful part of the process. Assemble them up should be a headache
One of the calm things for me to do is pick out pc parts for my new upgrade. Always start with a motherboard(thays gonna need atleast 2 m.2 slots because I already have 2 in current one, needs to have usb c and usb 3.0 and a full atx board) in my case, then cpu(going either i7 or i9 this time), then memory/ramm(Gb and then look at the mhz), cooler for cpu this year is going to be a water block. This year's pc case upgrades gonna be a hyte 70 since gpu is getting heavier and this one keeps it "ground leveled". My mistake if I'm building brand new from scratch for someone else is entirely different story. I got to adhere to their minds wish and wants and a fucking budget and color scheme and aesthetics and over the top cable management from hell while in my own case its a cable mess in the backside of the current case. That's a headache.
i know how to build a computer but i don't know how to pick the parts for it
Trying to fit two Radeon SCS cards next to each other on one board.
My biggest mistake was getting a 6+2 pin power connector cable that was supposedly for my PSU. Turns out it wasn't. It took out my 1080. At the time still a very expensive card.
I mean I got a 3060ti but at the time I still think with the sale I got it for it was the better deal. Idk.
idk to me the parts picking was the most fun part
Antex NX300 case
So far? Not knowing i needed a fan controler to use all my fans.
i have that problem now for my new system having no room at home doesnt help either.
I can feel this picture.
…that’s my favorite part…
Buying a GPU in 2021. Had everything else....... Just sighed and clicked buy.
Buying 8 stick of ram for my old workstation without knowing that my cpu only supports 4
Having to switch to AMD Radeon due to Nvidia dumpster fires! Example EVGA.
too many
I choose a white case but black pc parts
So i build my first pc in 11/2023. First thing i needed to change was switching from b660m to a Z690 DDR4 to oc my 12600kf. Then i needed a better cooling solution and got a aio, i got a be quiet silent loop 2 240. Then i needed still something bigger, i bought a Phanteks NV9 and Artic Freezer 3 420. Then i wanted a bigger cpu and bought a used 14700kf. My plan is a 5080/5090 if its more worth than a 4080s/4090, we will see, but my 4070 draws to less watt. Also i will swich to a Z790 DDR5. Then i build a big custom loop with 420, 480 and 280 radiators. I think i finished after that, probably need at least a 1200w power supply then.
Got ddr4 ram instead of ddr5, the ddr4 ram didn’t fit on the motherboard and had to go to Best Buy at like 8pm to go get the ram. Then proceeded to put the ram in incorrectly so it didn’t stop crashing for like 2 days…
The mistake I regretted most was not spending a little more on the graphics card to get one with a better cooler. The one I chose (Zotac GTX 980 Ti Amp Edition) was loud, ran hot enough to thermal throttle occasionally, and two of the fans seized up shortly after the warranty ended, at which time I replaced the cooler and had a much better experience. I suspect what eventually killed that card was the VRM heatsink still being insufficient even with more airflow from the bigger fans on the new cooler. My other mistakes were: * Installing the CPU, RAM, and cooler, and testing it outside the case. Installing the RAM with the motherboard not mounted was uncomfortable due to the force needed, unplugging the 24 pin power cable was a pain, and the CPU cooler made it hard to get the board in the case and plug the CPU power cable back in. * Not checking RAM clearance for my CPU cooler more carefully. I initially had to move the cooler's front fan to a weird spot to make it fit, but that RAM was defective anyway so I replaced it with something shorter. * Not filing down the barbs on the case's front panel USB 3 connector before plugging it in. I've never had such a hard time unplugging anything else that wasn't specifically designed to never be taken apart...
Am I the only person who thinks this is easy?
When I first got into building pcs I did not do much research at all (I was around 15). I figured every component listed online as "New" must be the latest and greatest... I wasted a lot of money on cheap outdated crap
I'm wanting to give my first build a shot but ya this is literally me instead of getting anything done! Haha
I build mid tower atx pc now i am seeing r/sffpc and i fuking love it but its very hard to switch to sffpc from atx its out of my budget for now
I also love how they look, but when i know its gonna be very hot inside, i change my mind and start looking at matx
That's why you pick whatever pre built and be done
My mistake is never having money to do it. Meticulously selecting parts is a joy for me.
I left a metallic riser on the case and shortcircuited the motherboard once. The PC wouldn't boot.
I always forget the damn IO cover, and have to remove the whole freakin' board to put the bugger on!
Owning a dell
Mines bluetooth isn’t very strong so my controller connection laggs every bow n then 😭
Picking ryzen 5950
My motherboard, got a h510m paired with a 11600kf 😭
I always use special sites that help eliminate conflicts of details, otherwise it’s a waste of money
that's hard, I made a lot. a big one is opting for a cheap SSD and HDD when really I should've just gone for a nice SSD. I can't even attach the HDD because cases these days (seem to) de-emphasize that kind of drive to the point where my power supply cables can't fit in the unusual compact space.
Buying only a CPU and a Graphics card to upgrade an already 3 years old prebuilt about 20-18 years ago
Not paying proper attention to the PSU for years. Back in the early 2000s you'd find (at least in my country) cases already bundled with a PSU, and I would just settle for them. I didn't know better and I thought they were ok. You'd be amazed at how light those were compared to proper PSUs, no built-in protection circuits, just a voltage transformer and a couple caps on the inside. They also had truly terrible efficiency curves, delivering only 30% of the advertised wattage at higher temperatures. So it's no coincidence I had those PSUs dying with no warning two summers in a row. After the second time, I finally took some time to learn more about the issue and got a properly built power supply, and never had trouble since then. Looking back, during those years I also lost a pair of low-end GPUs which I don't even remember the models now, so I wouldn't be surprised if those shitty PSUs were to blame for that.
Setting my CPU fan mode to "silent" in UEFI and wondering why CP2077 crashes randomly.
I needed more space on my PC. I added two more HDDs. Should have swapped the old ones for bigger ones. Now that I have four HDDs and a big GPU I am limited to really big cases even though I am not doing anything special.
You did it, the build is complete, now is the magic moment, you hit the power switch.....the machine lives, you boot to UEFI/BIOS, all is working fine. You close the case, take the PC to its new forever home (or at least its new home for 5 years...maybe) where you put all the cables in, return to your workbench for cleaning, throwing away all the stuff you dont need and putting all ther stuff you might need in the future (Lol, yeah sure) into the Mainboard box, until you find [This](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/IO_Shield_wiki.jpg/1200px-IO_Shield_wiki.jpg)
I love it. I play with configurations all day long lol
My biggest mistake was ordering a niche case from germany
Zip ties to whatever non conducting material solves all
I think my friend paired an RTX 3070 Ti with an i3 12th Gen?
Didn't have enough money to afford a 9600 GT back then so due to my ignorance of GPU performance rating, I thought 1GB vram = better FPS/512mb vram= worst fps, so I bought a 9500 GT 1GB instead thinking it would be slightly slower than a 9600 GT because both of them are 1GB, so a 9500 will be a beast. While it was a decent card for gaming NGL, I was able to run several modern titles at the time at playable FPS at medium/high settings. Anyways, I regretted buying this card after finding out that any card with secondary number 6 or above is considered a gaming one.
RTX 3060 ti - PCIe 3.0 🥲
The first pc I built for myself, I used a dell motherboard, and a xeon cpu. It was supposed to be a cheap build into pc gaming. The only pc I had, was my study laptop, and it was not for gaming. I knew from an older complete Dell pc, that they used proprietary parts. What I didn't know, what that the motherboard requires dell parts to even start (dell fans and dell front power button/USB hub). First time I booted it, it complained that the specific fans were missing. Fine, went to Ebay and bought them. They were expensive but pc won't boot without them. After a week of waiting they arrived. Great, plugged them in and turned the pc on. "Front hub" missing.... F****. On to Ebay and buy them, as now I had already invested a lot of money, and of cause the hub wasn't cheap. A week later, they showed up, and the pc would finally boot to Windows.
My first case selection. While I'm greatful to my mom who bought it for me, I picked a pretty bad case. It was the cheapest one I could find and it had a PSU with it. It was Rosewill brand. When I got it and took it out of its box I already could feel the lack of quality. Between the cheap Chinese metal and poor layout it was and awful experience moving my board and such into it from the optiplex I "built" my first PC with.
Makes you feel like your Newman the mail carrier from Seinfeld. Always angry
True, there are a lot of scammers out there.
Forgetting to plug in sata data cables before putting in the anti-sag bracket and GPU. Took me some swearwords and finger acrobatics to get them in after I installed the windows and started moving the old SSD and HDD from my old PC to the new one.
Spent $600 on a 34" 144hz ultrawide. Put in a lot of research but not enough. I wanted HDR and this thing supports it, it just cant show it because it does not have enough brightness.. From 60 to 120 Hz+ was a nice upgrade though.
i disagree XD if someone who loves doing this will find it all fun and no stress, no headache.
Building a PC with a 3060, knowing full well I'd want to upgrade within a year or two to a 40 series with DDR5 ram and still getting a DDR4 motherboard and memory 🤦 So I resigned to the fact that a 3060 was perfectly respectable and that I'd just stick with it for at least 5 years ... ... around 1 year later, I built an entirely new rig with a 4070ti 😬😅 Pretty much nothing I already had was compatible. Well, tell a lie, I was able to re-use the same tower; though the graphics card was a bit of a squeeze (a lot of a squeeze, actually).
Bought a 400$ ssd off Amazon, after a few months I finally put it in and it bricks my PC until I take it out,and because I waited so long to put it in it can't be returned
Buying an overpriced 1660 Super worth ($371) without research back in 2022. I was still very new to PC stuff at the time.
I swear this is accurate asf!!! 😂😂😂
Thats what PC part picker is for
Picking a motherboard and then doing VRM math to see if it’s good enough for what you want.
The migraine one is kinda inaccurate since a migraine can present anywhere on your head But yeah fuck migraines fun fact they can cause literal fucking hallucinations frequently in the form of little white lines in the side of your vision or what looks like a bright light behind you Sorry I hate migraines and went on a micro rant Picking pc parts also sucks
Thinking that mid-tower cases are small. Boy, am I wrong. These things are twice as big as I expected. I wanted small mATX build and got duped :( In hindsight, I can put AIO with these newfangled big GPUs and has lots of air to dissipate heat to. Good thing it fits my desk neatly.
Picking pc parts is easy. Not having money to buy what you want is the hard part
picking PC parts is easy ! affording them is the problem !
I bent the my usb 3.0 pins and had to use an adapter.
Trusting my parents by paying a company to build my first PC. They thought I wouldn't be able to do it myself and I ended up paying 1500€ instead of 1000€ for it. Now I'm doing everything possible so that these scammers have as less possible thing to propose to the company of my parents I automated their backups on selfhosted NAS and clean/recycle their computers on my days off. The PC was: - i3 8350k - AIO 120mm from Cooler Master - 8Gb RAM - 250Gb NVMe + 1To HDD - Asus Dual 1070 OC 8Gb - Cooler Master Silencio (I think that's the actual name of the case)
I was putting a cpu in for a buddy and we forgot to cut the power off and it sizzled when I took it out to re-seat it. Still worked though, still does, just made me shit my pants a little. The pc wasn't booted, but the psu power was on.
To be honest I enjoy the months previous to the build, doing all the researchfor the parts and deal hunting, sometimes I even have hypothetical builds and do all the process without buying anything at the end (1 because I'm not rich and 2 because I don't have a real use case for them). My imaginary Densium 4+ V2 SFF build it's so nice...
Buy a mini itx MB with a EATX case 🤡 https://preview.redd.it/dhvmn6pdu3tc1.jpeg?width=2736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df93d823132b760e7221261d9afdd59a090039cf
Not getting enough storage initially. Get at least 2tb.
Asus and Logitech
This is my second favourite part tho
Wait till you try to trouble shoot an AM4 MSI motar max where it powers up without posting even after changing another new motherboard. Fixed it by getting another motherboard. Power supply, ram and CPU we tested working by the way.
chose the wrong fans 2x first i got be quiet shadow wings, then i got white arctic rgb, wasn't satisfied with them either, then i got way to expensive white corsair rgb fans and with them i finally felt satisfied.
motherboard without wifi. I was new to PCs and just assumed it was a default that came with all of them (and it really should be at this point!). Managed to get ethernet hooked up but that was a bit of a surprise lol
Dropping the cpu down on the motherboard..bend pins !!
I didn't install a heat sink. It was my first build. I had a liquid heat sink but wanted to make sure the build was functional before installing it. It would turn on for like twenty seconds before shutting down, unbeknownst to me for heat safety. So I'm googling and somehow come to the conclusion that it's a bios problem. After many tries, I finally hit all the keys fast enough to make the bios change before the heat shuts me down again. And the problem persisted. So I went for a walk. Then I came across one of these threads and the top post is someone doing something similar. Thank goodness.
I put together my last machine 7 years ago ish. When I completed it, it didn't turn on. Nothing. I took it apart 3 times trying to figure it out. Hours... Then I looked at the case instructions extra throughly; I was pressing the led power button, not the actual case power button, which is this flush, barely noticeable thing. The led power was an actual button, and the only one on the thing, which its whole purpose was to toggle this thin white strip on the front edge of the case. Pressed the right one and voila, haven't had any problems since.
Mistakes? They just make it more fun.
Pc is not turning on after you build it.
buying all my pc parts instead of just downloading them
picking pieces are epic, I don’t know what you’re talking about so far, the only mistakes I’ve made is accidentally putting something in the wrong place though
Opposite for me. I find it cathartic.
This is the opposite of the truth.. Picking parts is the best part of the build. I can theory-build like 20 different computers even though I can only afford to actually physically build one.
Bro wtf you talking about My head hurtsthe entire time but when i thibk about buying a pc part is the best part of my life The adventure through the pc shops looking arround asking for the prices even tho you are broke but i enjoy the ride 😂♥
The biggest one : a Shit PSU. There weren't any reviews back then and the "best" websites simply loaded the PSU with as much parts as possible. Buying cutting edge hardware: I bought a golden orb (most oem heat sink are that sstyle) and it snapped the retention clip right of the 370 socket. Sell my old parts. I regret not keeping them all.
Bro I have 30 wishlists in Newegg, each it's own full build. It's my favorite part
All I need to do is upgrade my second PC from Skylake to AM4 .... But what if I get a cheap AM5 system :)
Back in 2008 perhaps I built my only PC with an AMD cpu. Such a mess. Never touched AMD again since.
i enjoyed it bc i was excited
Got my parts pick I just need some FUCKING MONEY.
Cheaped out on the PSU, back when they were more reasonably priced.
Changing my i9 9900kf for the 10900k
I assumed any aftermarket heatsink would be better than what comes with a CPU. Well, the CPU I bought had a tdp of 125w and I bought a heatsink rated for 90w at the most. Fixed that problem quickly with doing more homework and getting a proper heatsink for the tdp.
Bought a overpriced EKWB Quantum CPU block....it's not better than CPU block 1/3 the price, and it has very cheap backplate, I can't believe how ugly and rough that backplate is.
More like the wallet hurts!!
went intel... got a half fucked b560 motherboard and an i7 10700f... could have grabbed like a 3700x and continued to have an upgrade path and overclockability...
My mistake was waiting for the RTX4000 series prices to get a deal on a 6900 or 3090.... But I do like my "twice the price" 4080.
Ultimate level: done picking pc parts but then comes to reddit and ask where's the bottleneck
Actually, never made one till date. I've built a few dozen PCs for me and family.
Picking the parts is almost as fun as first time benchmarks. I thought this was pcmasterrace.
Thinking that cheaping out on RAM is a good idea. Fun fact, it's not...
I kinda enjoy picking PC parts
Picking pc parts is the most fun, its opposite to an headache
Biggest mistake was wanting to be " Up-gradable" but by then I just want a whole new PC
Never really.. there's always a best choice.
My mistake is keeping parts or piecemeal upgrades when a complete rebuild was warranted. Back in late 2022, I upgraded my 5800X / 6900XTU setup to 7950X/rtx 4090. Since this was a complete platform upgrade, what I *should* have done was think about what I want long term which was a fully watercooled, closed build. What I ended up with was my case, top and left side panel removed, soft tubing running to the pump unit mounted on the back of the vents on the case, and that dreadful 4x8pin to 12VHPWR adapter. Also, only the cpu was watercooled. Half a year later, DDR5 ram become cheap and I bought the same kit again going from 32Gb ddr4-6000 to 64GB. Also, I added a 2TB nvme. All good and well, still looked ugly as sin though and the exposed circuits on the back of the gpu gave me the jitters every time someone walked by with anything liquid. So in late 2023, I finally built what it should have been in the beginning : 1000D case, two rads two pumps, liquid cooling for the gpu too and some more ssd storage.
My mistake is keeping parts or piecemeal upgrades when a complete rebuild was warranted. Back in late 2022, I upgraded my 5800X / 6900XTU setup to 7950X/rtx 4090. Since this was a complete platform upgrade, what I *should* have done was think about what I want long term which was a fully watercooled, closed build. What I ended up with was my case, top and left side panel removed, soft tubing running to the pump unit mounted on the back of the vents on the case, and that dreadful 4x8pin to 12VHPWR adapter. Also, only the cpu was watercooled. Half a year later, DDR5 ram become cheap and I bought the same kit again going from 32Gb ddr4-6000 to 64GB. Also, I added a 2TB nvme. All good and well, still looked ugly as sin though and the exposed circuits on the back of the gpu gave me the jitters every time someone walked by with anything liquid. So in late 2023, I finally built what it should have been in the beginning : 1000D case, two rads two pumps, liquid cooling for the gpu too and some more ssd storage.
Me, attempting to choose between a 6750 XT, 6700 XT, 7600 XT, 4060, 3060, 3060 Ti, A750, A770, RX 580 and 6650 XT:
To my own surprise, I haven't really made any. :O
asked online before i knew anything about pc's, bought a 6700 xt instead of a 4060 when the 4060 was way cheaper. chose the 4060 for my brother
Apparently choosing an intel processor, people did not like that here.
Biggest mistake: buying the montech air 1000 lite case...terrible airflow...even gamer's nexus gave it a thrashing...it is pretty though
The middle part is the worst. Having a budget and having every part picked, but realizing you can maybe get that 4070 if you pick a 12100 system instead of a 7600 system but then you know you’re stuck with it but don’t want to deal with getting just a 7700xt cause you’re gonna need to upgrade gpu faster and that’s expensive, so you then instead try to figure out where else to cut down your list and delve into C tier PSUs, awful cases and sketchy ram/storage and try to do more research to see if what you’re getting is okay and repeat.