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When cables are too short. 

Especially the PSU ones....

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Heatsink installation and cable management...

 

The FM2 mounting is a pain in the backside to work with... I even bent the top fin on my S40 because of installation...

 

Cable management is also a chore... What do I do with these 64 molexes and 32 SATA  power connectors?

 

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Attaching front panel headers are the worst.

I second this.

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Just cable management....it can never get it perfect, which for me is not good enough

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Plugging in the front panel connectors, its so annoing, and you never know which way they go in :lol:

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Putting an after market CPU cooler on. Especially one with a back plate. Took me 30 minutes to get my Dark Rock 3 onto my CPU with it's first installation. 

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IO shield and then positioning the motherboard , and hoping you don't scratch the rear of the motherboard 

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Finishing the build and realizing that your cable management is a mess then you have to go and clean it up.

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Cable management issues. For example, the case has poor cable management options, there's no space on the rear and so on...

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Cable management and as someone said the Front panel headers. I also really hate having to install the OS and update the bloody thing.

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Getting a DOA component for a full build and having to wait for the RMA before you can finish.

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Pffff, I think it's awesome, at least for me. It simply calms me down and I forget about some problems, as I focus on what's in front of me. I just love it!

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Applying the heatsink for the CPU.  Either I use not enough or more than I should for thermal paste.  

 

I slowly apply pressure to the thermal paste....nothing... a little more ... nothing.... okay a lot more as nothing worked... a whole blob comes out  :huh:

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Cable management. It may not really be a part of building the PC, but I have found it to be the most annoying every time I have built a computer.

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Dropping a screw by accident, onto or under the motherboard.

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the most annoying part of my PC is that i half to use the "push down and slide" method for the side panel behind the mobo

 

it flexes like an inch,

 

NOT BENDING! flexing.

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i absolutely love building computers, just the feeling you get when it POSTs for the first time :wub:

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I enjoy the research phase immensely. However the implementation phase is full of grief and stress due to limited time and having the keep children off of and away from things.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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Differences in screw threads..

 

 

Dropping a screw by accident, onto or under the motherboard.

 

^ ^ ^ ^  These, screws are such a pain yet so useful

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