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.
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.
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.
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.
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Once you get a feel for building and owning, then you can start making more informed choices about what you really need.
What I did for my first build was:
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saves you all that work messing with those stupid outdated tower computers
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.
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.
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.
I was considering just building a pc for my ex. Lot of money I don't need to spend anymore I guess
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.
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.