Fitwip

I use a 10700, I bought the aio in preparation for a 10900k that i wish to overclock

Cooler master 240L & 240R

Thank you. I was unaware of this thread.

I am not a recent PC enthusiast, but a recent builder. I've been researching the "ins and outs" of PC building for over 6 years. I've always been extremely obsessed, starting in early middle school, I would watch videos, read forums and do extensive research every day. This was to a point in which I almost failed school. Now that I have graduated, have a job, and for the first time ... money. I scraped together every penny I could find to build my first PC, one I've been designing and redesigning for over a year now, in preparation for the influx in money. About 2 months ago my goal was met. I used my new creation every day, being so obsessive and grateful I dusted it daily. So absolutely thrilled with my PC, I would randomly run r15 and superposition just to flex on my younger self. Then the inevitable happened, my AIO leaked and killed my motherboard (but not my CPU surprisingly, I thought it would, but i'm grateful it didn't). I was a little caught off guard, I knew it would happen eventually, but not 2 weeks after I installed it. I verified for the second time that I didn't puncture the AIO myself; by making sure I didn't over tighten the fan screws. Sure enough all of the fan screws were at least a centimetre away from the fins, and none of the fins had any blemishes. I accepted the situation, concluded I just got really unlucky, RMA'ed my motherboard and returned my AIO for cash. I borrowed my friends motherboard and managed with a stock cooler despite how uncomfortable it made me. A week later and now I have the money again for a new AIO (I wanted one that just happened to be more expensive). I install it, but shortly after installation I noticed the back plate came bent, causing the block to wobble on top of the CPU socket (I noticed before turning on the PC thankfully). Additionally, some fins were severely bent out of the box. Defeated once again by an AIO, I returned it for cash. I have owned my PC for only 3 weeks now and I have had 2 AIO's and a motherboard break on me. I started to believed I was just hot garbage at building PC's despite my extensive preparation, or I was doing some fatal flaw that I had failed to learn to avoid. Just to add to my anger, I built 2 PC's for my friends near identical in parts, smooth and problem free. Both friends have used their PC's 8+ hours a day for the past month and a half, completely problem free. Now I've built 2 near identical PC's completely problem free and i'm still using someone else's motherboard and a stock cooler only a month after I built my own. The combination of my obsessiveness with my PC's functionally and these frequent failures have given me a very mild case of PTSD, a condition in which I cant look at a PC without thinking of the 20 things that could break. A condition that I almost makes me want to say f**k it, sell everything and buy a pre-built just so something will finally just work. To conclude my post, I am kindly asking the members of the community and PC master race to 1) Please confirm that these things just happen and I shouldn't go insane, or help me understand what critical error i'm doing wrong to have these frequent and expensive problems. 2) Please share you stories of failure. I think hearing someone else's bad experiences and failures will help me accept my current situation and help me feel less alone with this experience. I appreciate your time.