How was your pc building experience?

[Octagoncow]

Definitely the front panel headers. It's not difficult, just really annoying (and they normally look pretty ugly which doesn't help).

[KevinGleeson95]

waiting for parts to be delivered to me 

[DanTheMuffinMan]

Damn after-market coolers, always a pain and fiddly to do

[BaSkA]

Installing the OS/partitioning.

[Trik'Stari]

Attaching the cpu cooler to the motherboard. Never in my life have I experienced something so irritatingly difficult. You're supposed to apply even pressure to all four screws, but good fucking luck getting them all started with even pressure, whilst not smearing the thermal paste a bit.

 

Seriously, someone needs to come up with a better way because the ones I've used (noctua, hyper 212, corsair h110) have all been absolute shit.

[Juurus]

Cleaning up the old thermal paste is pain in the ass

 

[Horrorfull]

Cleaning up the peanut butter at the end.

[BossMann]

When the only way I can plug in a cable is with tweezers.

[Potalien]

Trying to attatch front panel headers to an m-atx board with a hyper 212 evo installed, while its in a bitfenix colossus m. I swear never again!

[-ism]

Telling anyone online what it is you're buying because there will always be some irritating person there to tell you how you should spend your money, and that you are ignorant for going Nvidia/AMD/Intel/etc. for this/that and the other.

[STRMfrmXMN]

Fee fi-fiddly IO... 

Specifically -

These assholes.

[Stefanopolis]

Cleaning off the old thermal paste is pain in the ass

 

THIS.

BTW...

Uh, hey, um, I think you've got enough thermal paste there bro... 

How big of rice kernels do you buy? XXXL? Geez 

I only use a tiny amoiunt, and it still covers all of the CPU, doesn't ever touch the socket...

[CoronaBlue]

attaching a cpu heatsink

This.

[Mr.Sommer-Hansen]

Cloning SSD's..it can be f'ing annoying  :blink: and it's just a simple thing.. :angry:

[jaggysnake57]

i love cable management its like a little puzzle

 

i hate the os installation having to DL the drivers and software steam etc such a pain in the ass 

[ElDiabeto]

getting the mobo to fit right on the standoffs and go into the I/O shield.

[sulairris]

at the end when im installing windows. that is one of the reasons i moved to linux.

[JoaoPRSousa]

Front I/O connectors ;_;

[j.dirona]

When I loose that one screw -.-

[Dreigo42]

If anything, it's that it goes too quickly. This is my ME time so I often find myself really taking my time. I'll first build it outside of the case on top of the MB box and I mean build it completely, OS, Drivers, Updates, everything. Then I take it all back apart and take my leasurly time putting it in the case. I may paint somethings, decide I want to resleeve some cables, or get different fans. Once it's all done, I'll probably tinker with it often afterwards.  If I really tried, I could have a decent looking system up and running from boxes to desk in an afternoon and play games that evening.

[Guest]

Forgetting the mobo standoffs >

 

EVERY
FREAKING
TIME

 

I've built five PCs already, and I always forget it! I freak out when it doesn't start, and it takes like ten minutes before I facepalm extremely hard.

[CreeT6]

when drivers, software works as well as bull crap

[UNFKNBLVBL]

Doing all of the cable work

^^cable management

[farhanorakzai]

cable management

[Sev456]

Installing the heatsink unless its a noctua. Which is why i got a noctua when building my pc after installing an evo 212 for my friend the month before.