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How was your pc building experience?

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I thought it would be fun to list common mistakes during your first build.

So here it goes:

- Forgetting to plug in the 4 pin at the top of your motherboard.

- Not pushing RAM in correctly on one side so it doesn't work.

- Not sorting out your boot device priority in your first boot.

- Applying thermal paste wrong.

Well post your own / common issues during a first build.

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I did one once where I didn't have the 4/8pin power put in correctly and it took me about 10 minutes to figure out why it wouldn't start..

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Forgetting to flip the power switch on the PSU.

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  • Case: NZXT Switch 810
  • Operating System: Windows 10 Professional
  • Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth Z77
  • Central Processing Unit: Intel Ivy Bridge i7-3770K
  • Random-Access Memory: Corsair Vengeance 4x8 GB DDR3 1866 MHz
  • Graphics Processing Unit: Aorus GeForce 1080 Ti
  • Power Supply Unit: Corsair Professional Series AX750
  • Cooling: NZXT Kraken X52
  • Storage: AData S599 60GB + AData SU650 500GB + WDC Blue 1TB +AData SU800 1TB
  • Keyboard: CoolerMaster Masterkeys Pro S
  • Mouse: Corsair Scimitar Pro RGB + CoolerMaster Master RGB Hard Gaming Mousepad
  • Audio: Logitech 2.5 Speakers + Feenix Aria + Bose In-Ears
  • Monitors: 2x Acer Predator XB271HU
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  • Operating System: Android 10
  • Read-Only Memory: One UI  2.1
  • Kernel: Stock

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Forgot to plug the Graphics Card Power in. Luckily my Radeon had Red LED's.

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-i dont apply thermal paste wrong.. i forgot to put it

-forgot to place protection plate at the back of case before putting motherboard

-i dont have any idea where to plug the power button of the case, so i just plug wherever there is a pin on the motherboard

-not plug the power to motherboard correctly

-make a mess with the cables

-i even broke the processor lock bar by pulling it with force

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Put the back plate for my H100 on the wrong way :/

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forgot to plug in the CPU fan cable... lucky me I was looking inside the case when I started the machine for the first time. Since then I double check everything.

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I didn't have the manual for the motherboard so I just kept trying different pins for the power button until it worked ...

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Didn't push my gfx card all the way down in my pci-e 3.0 slot so I had to test boot into my 2.0 slot thinking I had a broken slot. Tired getting my liquid cooler to fit for an hour when I realized I had skipped a step on the manual. Actually wore a silly anti static strap. Part of a heat sink built into my board half came off.

[9:01:47 PM] Slick: And the award for life time acheivement in the field of "maker of the least amount of sense" goes to Kilmer.

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-almost left the plastic sticker under heatsink... thankfully caught it before screwing it in.

-didn't push in 24-pin all the way in.

Why do you quote yourself?
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Forgetting to flip the power switch on the PSU.
I have done this so many times...... I feel so dumb when i cant get it to boot and its just the power switch on the PSU
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Cuting my finger when installing the I/O shield like , every freaking time lol
I brought a cheap chinese case once and i can't count the amount of times i have cut my hand on it.

                 

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Nothing huge. Just forgetting to put in the Wi-Fi module on my ASUS board that I was going to use and am currently using, so I had to pull the MoBo out to put it in. I'd already connected the power cables, so it was a bit of a pain pulling them out and then putting them back in.

Have you guys noticed that while I'm not someone with a lot of posts, all my posts have pretty much perfect grammar and I always ramble on for too long. It's kind of annoying for me and for some people reading my posts I suppose. I do it in exams too and I always get limited with time because I write too much. I kind of a perfectionist when it comes to writing and typing things and sometimes it's pretty irritating. Well, no one probably read this rambling, but hey I wrote it anyway because why not, right?

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I've absolutely ignored all safety warnings when I built my budget PC (Which I have now - Athlon II X2 250, ASRock mobo, 4GB Kingston RAM, GTX 550 Ti). I was quite excited since previous computer passed away 3 months before (mobo suddenly died). Luckily though my PC worked, and still works. I did go crazy with tutorials on YouTube before building it.

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Forgot to plug something in on the motherboard.

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Got the GPU stuck between the case and the MoBo. Almost broke it :D

CPU: i5 2500K (@ stock for now) GPU: Gigabyte GTX650Ti OC MOBO: Intel P67 RAM: 2x4GB Kingston (@1333MHz) PSU: 550w Xilence CASE: Generic :D MONITOR: Dell U2412M (24', 1200p 16:10) MOUSE: Acme something KB: Logitech K260

 

 

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Nothing huge. Just forgetting to put in the Wi-Fi module on my ASUS board that I was going to use and am currently using, so I had to pull the MoBo out to put it in. I'd already connected the power cables, so it was a bit of a pain pulling them out and then putting them back in.

Have you guys noticed that while I'm not someone with a lot of posts, all my posts have pretty much perfect grammar and I always ramble on for too long. It's kind of annoying for me and for some people reading my posts I suppose. I do it in exams too and I always get limited with time because I write too much. I kind of a perfectionist when it comes to writing and typing things and sometimes it's pretty irritating. Well, no one probably read this rambling, but hey I wrote it anyway because why not, right?

Hah, I sometimes do something similar!

CPU: i5 2500K (@ stock for now) GPU: Gigabyte GTX650Ti OC MOBO: Intel P67 RAM: 2x4GB Kingston (@1333MHz) PSU: 550w Xilence CASE: Generic :D MONITOR: Dell U2412M (24', 1200p 16:10) MOUSE: Acme something KB: Logitech K260

 

 

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Forget to put in standoffs.

Didn't do it myself (I did everything good in one go, ha!) but I see it happening a lot.

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Mount the mobo in the case, then to realize the cpu fan/heatsink needs a mounting bracket on the back of the mobo.

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Bought a new GPU (7800GTX) and discovered my motherboard didn't have a PCI-E slot.

So I bought a new motherboard and discovered my CPU didn't fit inside it (socket 754 CPU, socket 939 mobo).

A GPU upgrade ended up costing a hell of a lot more than I'd planned.

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