Pet peeves when it comes to people building PCs

[dom1310df]

1. because it's a waste

2. Because that a lie and you can

2. What?

[nekomata]

People who ask for a build but doesn't do any work like trying to build one themselves first saying that they're still new to this. Fuck em, i built my PC without prior knowledge and I still tried to do as much research as I can before asking anyone to mess my buiild up

Also, people who uses PSUs that closely match their predicted usage. I'm not a psu expert, but I think it's better to not run your PSU close to 100% for various reasons

[Phillip_Sam]

People who constantly question why I need 3 monitors.

1) I don't need 3 monitors. I want 3 monitors and can afford 3 monitors, so I have 3 monitors!

2) It's useful! Let's see you watch a TV show on netflix, play a full screen game, monitor a skype chat, and keep an eye on component temps at the same time on your laptop!

3) Have you ever seen a game played in Surround? Like, in person? It has to be experienced to be fully appreciated. Same could be said about my Rift tho...

Same with my 4 monitors. 3 for playing in eyefinity and one for watching movies when I'm waiting the round to finish

[erainf]

When people install 32 bit windows.

 

When they put together a $1000 computer without an SSD

[linuxfan66]

When people install 32 bit windows.

When they put together a $1000 computer without an SSD

You do realise running dual drives with some apps in a second disk makes restoring your is by disk imaging to a previous state a pain the neck right. Also not everyone will think to change install disk...

[samcool55]

Well i've seen builds where the top pci-e slot could not be used because of the gpu being too long for the crappy case!

Or builds where the case was so horrible the gpu wouldn't fit at all, so they actually need to swap the case before the build can be finished...

 

It happens more than you think.

[old reece frost]

When all the ram slots aren't filled

[Nosfy]

People who feel the need to criticize other people for having "overkill" pc's. Ive heard it so many time and find it really annoying. It someone has the money and wants to get 4 Titan X's and 64 gb or ram but they only play Minecraft then let them. Its their money.

 

I am not against giving people advise but some of the comments are really stupid.

[MEC-777]

When all the ram slots aren't filled

 

You wouldn't like my build then. Asus Z97-E with only two 4GB sticks.  

[EllieThePurpleFuzzy]

Well i mentioned something similar in a post a while back but eh i may as well throw an example out there.

 

 

Fancy water cooled build....awful PSU choice.

though i could see what they were maybe trying to do with the colour choice.

[GigaScratch]

External dacs are overrated. You avoid the noise in your PC by moving it somewhere that get lots of interference from your mobile phone every few minutes; as well as whenever you receive a call.

Was this sarcasm? (Honestly couldn't tell)

But as someone who has extensively used the ODAC from Mayflower Electronics, I can personally say that I notice a massive difference in quality. It's not really about avoiding noise, it's about replacing the; often sub-par, onboard DAC with something of higher quality and with that, lack of PC noise. If I use the onboard sound I will often pick up interference as I live close to a FM radio tower. On the DAC, no interference at all.

[tim.vanhees.927]

Lke it

[Beefjus]

I'm sure that this is a pet peeve for some people, but I have the compulsion to always get the same brand of Motherboard and GPU (MSI with MSI, Gigabyte with Gigabyte, Asus with Asus, etc...) when building my initial rig, even if I'm 100% willing to change brands for an upgrade. Even I don't know why I have the compulsion, but I do.

[DigitalHermit]

 

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So that's why buying a more expensive case would be a better idea because of future upgrades, normal 60 dollar cases hold like 4-6 drives max, some people buy a lot of HDDs and pretty soon they need to upgrade their case because their "cheap, budget" case can't hold that much drives yet even 2 way card setup or like cooler support in the future. "Strict budgets" I went from 600 to 800 in my original build simply because the parts i originally had wasn't worth it and the parts now i have are. Paying for something premium vs standard. 

 

I'm about to fall into this spiral... I'm planning a purchase of several more internal HDDs...

The case can support up to 8... without wires... but once the wires are in... airflow suffers...

[Clyne]

I'm about to fall into this spiral... I'm planning a purchase of several more internal HDDs...

The case can support up to 8... without wires... but once the wires are in... airflow suffers...

I really need a new case.

My current case:

Vs:

The case i'm gonna buy

Will fit whatever i need.......

[Phillip_Sam]

I really need a new case.

My current case:

Vs:

The case i'm gonna buy

Will fit whatever i need.......

Corsair 750D? Nice Case.

How about a 3x5.25 up to 5x3.5 converter. You get them for like 30-40$ (depending if you take on with or without fan) on amazon etc.

[arnavvr]

@Bubblewhale Get a ThermalTake Core X9. Soooo much better for the price.

[AMICLG]

my biggest pet peeve is when people put together potential builds for people at their maximum budget without including an OS

I'm not/don't condone it; but let's be real, there's only a small percentage of custom builders that actually pay for Windows.

[Clyne]

@Bubblewhale Get a ThermalTake Core X9. Soooo much better for the price.

Can't fit on desk and that's not what i like anyway.......

[MattTheMayor]

when people choose flashy and light up cases.

 

also people might argue with me, but when people spread the thermal paste then installing the cooler. i know there's some people that can do it just fine, but there's a much more popularity of people that don't.

[Darkman]

People installing fans backwards.

One of my friends doesn't understand airflow in computers and how hot air rises in computers still and the back of his computer is where his window is... So he has all intakes saying, "It gets fresh air this way." Uhhhh.... If they were fixed your 7870 wouldn't be hitting 86C and your 3770 on the stock cooler wouldn't be peaking at 95C... Plus your room wouldn't be nearly as hot.

[QueenDemetria]

When people install 32 bit windows.

I just bought a refurb Latitude, with 8GB of RAM and 32 bit Win7 Pro... I facepalmed so hard when I saw that lol(but I'm not worried about it since I need to install a SSD anyways). 

[DigitalHermit]

I really need a new case.

My current case:

-snip-

Vs:

The case i'm gonna buy

-snip-

Will fit whatever i need.......

 

If ever I'm way short of cash, I'll be making one out of scrap plywood and leftover GI studs from that room build that I posted... There should still be enough to make a PC case out of it...

[Daniel0898]

My gpu is in the second slot. *Grabs popcorn and waits*

[Emanuel_M]

We all have them, those things that drive you crazy when other people do them. I have two things that people who are building PCs do, that drive me insane. 

 

1. People who build a $500-$600 PC and spend $100+ on a case. At that price range you should try to squeeze every bit of performance you can out of your PC, if you spend that much of your budget on a case that is just stupid. You loose so much performance for the outside of you PC to look good. I wouldn't recommend spending that much on case unless you are spending $1000+.

 

2. People who have VERY strict budgets. The people who say, for example, give me a $800 build and you give them something that costs $820, and they say, "That's to expensive I can't go over $800." That's ridicules you can spend $20 more to get something better. And don't say you don't have the money for it, you can get $20. The same thing goes for components, people will say, "I need a GPU that costs $330." You give them a 970 for $350, and they say they can't go that high, yes you can.  

 

Those are my two biggest pet peeves. What are some of your guys? 

 

Edit: Just thought of another one. People who don't put their GPU in the top slot.

 

Edit 2: Guys who get a locked CPU and, (A) (this one is the least bad) Put them in a Z series board, ( B ) put expensive cooling on them like H100is and NH-D15s, ( C ) Put them in a really expensive motherboard. I saw this guy the other day who had a i5 4590 on a sabertooth Z97 with a Dark Rock 3.

what if they really don't have the money, and the build is locked. Not everyone is like you, Remember that.