Anyone ever switch to prebuilts after building a couple pcs?

Uttamattamakin · December 18, 2019

In the late 1990's and early 2000's I built all my PC's. Starting by taking a pre built I had and switching out the motherboard... all the way to buying a barebones PC, installing a processor ram and storage... putting linux or windows on it. Then I decided I didn't want to lug a CRT monitor around when I moved and useful laptops became actually affordable. It has been a LONG time since I had a desktop. I've had "desktop replacement" laptops. 15" or more laptops that aren't really actually truly portable by (current year) standards.

After a certain point all I wanted in hardware was a system that I could put Linux on and all the components would work. These days any not super cheap computer will dot that.

Mark Kaine · December 18, 2019

1 hour ago, mamamia88 said:

I installed some large ram sticks in the system with a stealth cooler. There is a tiny piece of plastic by the amd logo of the wraith that interferes with the ram. I wanted the amd logo right side up but I thought I was going to have to get another ram kit if I wanted 2 sticks. Yep that piece of plastic with and logo blocked the ram

Yeah I know what you did.

I'm just saying with a little bit of planning you would have been able to mount the cooler so it doesn't block the RAM.

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Mira Yurizaki · December 18, 2019

Only if I ever want a system that "just works."

For example, I bought a "pre-built" NAS because I didn't want to bother with setting one up. I wanted something that I could just put a couple of hard drives into it, turn it on, and be on my merry way.

Sinar · December 18, 2019

On 12/15/2019 at 1:51 AM, mamamia88 said:

You should see how the box for my motherboard from Amazon looked. Didn't even put it in a box. Just slapped a label directly on box and shipped it

The same happened to me, it was my first build and I was really worried it might have been damaged, I finished building my PC yesterday and it works fine, luckily.