If you can do it after a 15 minute youtube video, it's not that hard. Its easy in the context of most reasonable DIY projects. You can't go to a nerd site and have them give you an amazon list with everything you need to build your deck. Its basically Ikea furniture.
There are at minimum 6 parts you must install in an easily described order. All you need to do is pay attention to how things line up and not jam things in.
I feel like a dick typing this but its the most basic mechanical aptitude. You have every resource possible on your phone to answer questions, you basically read or describe what you're unsure about and ask google a vague question, and narrow down the search till you have your answer. This isn't something you have to practice and read books to understand. Theory is hard, music is hard, rebuilding an engine or renovating a house is hard. Building a computer is only hard if you go in not wanting to learn.
Now picking parts for a computer? fuck that there's a reason my desktop is 6 years old. Everything else is only designed to fit in one place, besides the case button pins, those are annoying without rtfm.
thing i hate is if you want to upgrade a part of your pc, say cpu for example, all the other technologies have moved on so much you also need a whole new motherboard and then maybe psu and ram etc as well
I only ever buy mid-range stuff, but the only things I've ever really upgraded were graphics card and adding more hard drives over the life of a PC. Previously I would build one, replace the graphics card after 3-4 years if necessary, then replace the whole PC in another 3-4 years. My gaming tastes have swung hard towards less demanding indie games in the last few years, so my next build may never get a GPU upgrade.
Also AFAIK the newer graphics cards tend to be more energy efficient.
Thats why I don't upgrade unless i find slightly shinier trash that fits. For about 4-5 years, my windows install was on a shitty old laptop HDD, I ran windows 8.1 embedded that I got for free. Finally bought a cheap SSD and used a windows 10 education license I also got for free.
Unless you're doing actual work on the machine, ie 3d rendering, photo work, building kernels, etc, you're set for 7-8 years with a CPU thats 1-2 below whats considered high-end.
Bought a middle of the road i5 and I can honestly say it ran every game perfect up until cyberpunk. Glad I pirated it just to play it once and delete it.
I haven't even bothered to look. I built it initially with 8GB ram and when my roommate from 3 years ago built a new machine, I did him a favor in exchange for his old 8gb of ram. So I have two sets of mismatched 8GB that occasionally cause a bluescreen. Basically a mechanics special at this point.
If you can do it after a 15 minute youtube video, it's not that hard. Its easy in the context of most reasonable DIY projects. You can't go to a nerd site and have them give you an amazon list with everything you need to build your deck. Its basically Ikea furniture.
There are at minimum 6 parts you must install in an easily described order. All you need to do is pay attention to how things line up and not jam things in.
I feel like a dick typing this but its the most basic mechanical aptitude. You have every resource possible on your phone to answer questions, you basically read or describe what you're unsure about and ask google a vague question, and narrow down the search till you have your answer. This isn't something you have to practice and read books to understand. Theory is hard, music is hard, rebuilding an engine or renovating a house is hard. Building a computer is only hard if you go in not wanting to learn.
Now picking parts for a computer? fuck that there's a reason my desktop is 6 years old. Everything else is only designed to fit in one place, besides the case button pins, those are annoying without rtfm.
thing i hate is if you want to upgrade a part of your pc, say cpu for example, all the other technologies have moved on so much you also need a whole new motherboard and then maybe psu and ram etc as well
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I only ever buy mid-range stuff, but the only things I've ever really upgraded were graphics card and adding more hard drives over the life of a PC. Previously I would build one, replace the graphics card after 3-4 years if necessary, then replace the whole PC in another 3-4 years. My gaming tastes have swung hard towards less demanding indie games in the last few years, so my next build may never get a GPU upgrade.
Also AFAIK the newer graphics cards tend to be more energy efficient.
Stop buying Intel and you won’t have this problem.
Thats why I don't upgrade unless i find slightly shinier trash that fits. For about 4-5 years, my windows install was on a shitty old laptop HDD, I ran windows 8.1 embedded that I got for free. Finally bought a cheap SSD and used a windows 10 education license I also got for free.
Unless you're doing actual work on the machine, ie 3d rendering, photo work, building kernels, etc, you're set for 7-8 years with a CPU thats 1-2 below whats considered high-end.
PC part picker basically made this a breeze as well.
Logical increments is very helpful too
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Bought a middle of the road i5 and I can honestly say it ran every game perfect up until cyberpunk. Glad I pirated it just to play it once and delete it.
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The 4770k/4790k are sought after by overclockers. It's wild how much they still go for.
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I haven't even bothered to look. I built it initially with 8GB ram and when my roommate from 3 years ago built a new machine, I did him a favor in exchange for his old 8gb of ram. So I have two sets of mismatched 8GB that occasionally cause a bluescreen. Basically a mechanics special at this point.