do the cables interfere with cooling or any other stuff? No? Job done.
it is absolutely bourgeois decadence but last time i built a computer i spent extra for a mid range case (cos my computers always get ridiculously clogged with dust and i feel like thats part of why my parts burn out)
and damn, seeing how the other half lives, theres so many cute little clips and cable channels and velcro straps and drive holders and shit, it was so much easier to manage the cables as a class traitor
yeah thats what i thought too and mostly i got it for the dust filters, but i was really surprised by how helpful all the cable and drive management stuff was for keeping shit out of the way as opposed to just in a massive bundle (as well as just the more thought-out layout of the whole thing)
Every time I build a new PC I think, this will be fun and pretty simple as I've done this several times in the past. Then it's 3:00am and I'm still trying to figure out why I can't get it to boot into GRUB and I'm scared I damaged something expensive trying to wedge RAM into a finicky slot. I do enjoy it though haha.
It's unbelievable how much shit has changed. Computer parts used to depreciate faster than new cars bought from the dealership, but these days you're probably better off investing your life savings in gamer PCs.
I build computers as a side thing for friends comrades iv been having to order pre-built to salvage and sell the lower end components on eBay normally power supplies sometimes motherboards other times ram if its intel, but yeah geting parts feel almost apocalyptic like im savageing fallout. People who just have 3k to drop on this stuff still have 3 weeks lead time. The real criminal shit is there is a general shift to basicly cancel the low end of hardware get ready use to apus for low end. nivida didn't even want to make a 3050 why would they they are making hand over fist on 3080ti the vast majority will never be used for anything other then mining eth. The 6900xt is instock but no one buys it because it's bad for mining due to cost to performance. The only good news is some ryzen apus are geting pretty advanced and with some system tweaks pretty playable on a lot of games and affordable apus allow for some very unique mini itx builds that can play newer games on low with tweaks and older games on high.
Reddit /r/hardwareswap and its sisters (as long as you are in a NATO country) can have good deals sometimes.
I got this hybrid 1080ti $490 shipped.
I miss when cases were just metal instead of glass. Let me hide my shame damn it!
I bought a prebuilt for substantially less than the combined cost of its components and it rocks.
My life was made so much easier when I finally ditched my nonmodular psu and got a case with the express purpose of being easy to clean. I'm never going back to a life with cables preventing case accessibility and without multiple dust filters. I'm currently using this and it's dope: https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/define/define-mini-c/black/
I didn’t identify with this until I remembered my cable management…
I bought a new PC solely because it's impossible to find graphics cards right now. I paid more than the parts cost but the alternative, as I understand it, is to wait two years until new chip infrastructure comes on-line to meet demand.
Cables were a shitshow of birb nests on my first build, but on my current meshify mini setup things look clean enough that I wish I had gone for a case without tinted glass.
