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Upon finally taking the dive and purchasing all the components for my first computer build, there were several moments which came as a shock to me, and made me question my knowledge and step back to say, 'hey am I doing this right'?

 

RAM, it always looked like it went in so easy, actually took a lot of force.

HeatSink (using stock till fans arrive then my CH100i) went in SO easily, like a gentle tap.

Screws, so many screws, made me go wonkers.

Flashing a bios makes your heart skip a beat.

 

Afterwards when you stand back, wipe the beads of sweat and blood from your face, and see that windows loading screen pop up, there's nothing more satisfying, even sex. Couldn't have picked a better hobby.

 

So share with me, and the rest of the forum, about your personal experiences, what made you panic and question yourself the first time you built your pc?

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thermal paste isnt hard to put on

Thats that. If you need to get in touch chances are you can find someone that knows me that can get in touch.

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Nothing really bugged me. The RAM bent the board a bit. But that's it. 

I used to be like "Oh better get the antistatic strap and use 99% H2O2"

Now I just take it apart whereever. And then use 72% H2O2

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thermal paste isnt hard to put on

 

What were you expecting?

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What were you expecting?

well from my dads experience it's supposed to be the absolute hardest thing to do so yea

Thats that. If you need to get in touch chances are you can find someone that knows me that can get in touch.

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not first build per say, but my last one recently. completely forgot stand offs come with the case. whelp, bought new parts for a case from 2003. needless to say i didnt have stand offs.

 

 

the computer repair store in town just gave me a baggy of them for free though so:D

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Didn't expect my parts to fail.

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Didn't expect my parts to fail.

 

So far none have been using mine for about 2 days now. (Crosses fingers knocks on wood)

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The fact that my Pentium still stays nice and cool even though I took the heatsink off and put it back on without reapplying thermal paste.

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So far none have been using mine for about 2 days now. (Crosses fingers knocks on wood)

Pcie slots weren't working for mine sadly

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My power switch was broken and it wouldn't power up even though I had built it perfectly.

 

Some tense moments.

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I changed my cooler and when i booted i heard this PRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTT i freaked out and turned it off again, my heart felt like i had been running for 2 hours, then i saw a cable touching the fans, moved it, turned it on and no weird sound came out. I felt so good.

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My first build I mostly was just a helper to my brother, so I'm not going to count that.

 

My second build my cousin and I both built identical computers at the same time at my place (it was his first build as well). We had EVGA 680i motherboards and plugged in the 24pin power but it wasn't booting up. We then noticed there was also an 8pin power connector, but our PSU didn't have anything that would connect into it. We had some kind of adapter that looked like it would plug into an 8pin, but the shapes didn't match up. Ended up calling a friend over. He looked at us like we were idiots and plugged 2 4pin power cords into that area. mfw...

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I changed my cooler and when i booted i heard this PRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTT i freaked out and turned it off again, my heart felt like i had been running for 2 hours, then i saw a cable touching the fans, moved it, turned it on and no weird sound came out. I felt so good.

OMG dude that happened to me too! Mine made a nasty loud sound. Sounded like my rig was gonna explode!

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Yeah it was horrible, also was the 1st time i changed the cooler, i was very nervous about it.

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My first (And only) build went very well, except for bad cable management that I later fixed and the mishap I'm going to go into more detail about now.  I had already gotten all my hardware tested and in the case, and I was plugging in all of the cables for the front I/O. Everything went well, but soon after I noticed the USB 3.0 connector was sticking out of the motherboard. I took the cable out and proceeded to do the worst thing I could have done, jammed the cable back in as hard as possible. Once again it didn't fit. I continued to jam the cable in as hard as I could until one of my few brain cells fired up and I decided to check the port. One of the pins was bent completely flat against the bottom of the port, but It was still connected. I tried to straighten it up, and maybe it would work. It didn't. The pin snapped off, and now one of the USB ports on my $1000+ computer doesn't work.  

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The creaking from the cpu retention arm freaked me out so bad that i had to step away for a while

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I tried to build a pentium 4 system with a PGA processor. and I trashed the processor by jamming it in there and hitting it in ther with a hammer.

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I changed my cooler and when i booted i heard this PRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTT i freaked out and turned it off again, my heart felt like i had been running for 2 hours, then i saw a cable touching the fans, moved it, turned it on and no weird sound came out. I felt so good.

same thing pretty much exactly 2 hours also lol
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When installing my GT610, i didn't expect it to be loud. It was. It was a total sound WHORE. It might as well have set off the loudest graphics card record ever.

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I was building my pc and everything went off without a hitch when I first powered on, but there was a huge drawback, the psu connected fan manager didn't turn off the fans like the ones connected to my mobo. I eventually got a splitter and now I'm happy with a silent pc.

 

That first time though I had no idea I would be needing a fan splitter to get quiet.

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I unfortunately experienced one of the worst feelings in the hobby: figuring out that your part is not comaptible/will not work in the system. In this case, it was my Video Card, which was just a little too large for the case. I would not accept incompatibility, so I ended up bending the metal of the case just to get it to fit.

 

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wipe the beads of sweat and blood from your face

 

Did you build a PC or kill somebody O.o:D

 

Headers had to read the MOBO manual :/ I was building a PC for a friend and the headers on the MOBO wasn't really marked.

 

Also 24-pin sucker didn't want to go to the MOBO, it hurts to see the MOBO bent even if it's only a little bit. :D

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how easy the cpu was to put in and how confusing the headers were

^ Same, the headers weren't that bad, but with very tight spaces, they're quite annoying.

 

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