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How long did your first PC build take to build?

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If it's a simple build or you don't care about cables, 20 minutes. If it was like my main rig, an hour. If it was my weekend rig, an hour and a half.

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is it not in use? xD or would you have to build her a new one? xD 

it's still in use. I have my old P4 sitting in a box ready to replace that old piece of junk. Just need to get round the 3 hour trip down there and the awkward conversations with my dad about my ex...

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I have everything installed in the case (H440) besides the video card. Reflecting on yesterday, it was a pain in the ass to build. I constantly lost cables and tutorials weren't helpful at all. I had to figure everything out without any real assistance. Overall it took me around 5-6 hours! How long did your first build take? Did you have the same issues? Is this normal?

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To actually put the parts in, around 20-30 minutes. To get the cabling routed nicely, around an hour. 

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Including Windows install or just the hardware? Hardware was like 45 minutes to an hour and Windows was like 20 minutes.

 

Cable management, which I did later (although it wasn't horrible initially), took much longer. I basically sat down with a beer for about an hour and a half and figured out optimal routes fixed everything in position. The parts that took the most time were the SATA power connectors and directly behind the PSU on the back panel (lots of wires in a tight space).

 

I had done a lot of research prior to buying the parts and starting the build.

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Including Windows install or just the hardware? Hardware was like 45 minutes to an hour and Windows was like 20 minutes.

Installing everything in the case, including cable management.
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4 hours, and another hour to get the software side of it sort of right.

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So far there's always one small thing that I get hung up on. Usually it's the cpu cooler. Especially my dark rock 3. I almost gave up on it.

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40 min

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About an hour to put everything together. This was back when cases hardly supported cable management so you just slapped everything in and fired it up. Took another few hours to diagnose a no post issue. I never figured out why it didn't post. I took everything apart and reassembled it, then it worked. Then another few hours installing XP on a HDD on the same IDE lane as my CD drive. 

 

Pretty much a shit show, but that beast ran for a good 5 years without issues. 

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11 hours cause i was very careful with everything and test booted at every step

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Around 45 minutes to an hour with cable routing.

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So far there's always one small thing that I get hung up on. Usually it's the cpu cooler. Especially my dark rock 3. I almost gave up on it.

I would say get an AIO cooler, but in my case that was even worse :D I had to mod my case to get that damn thing in it! D:

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I would say get an AIO cooler, but in my case that was even worse :D I had to mod my case to get that damn thing in it! D:

I had to remove the side fan to insert the H60.
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Perfectionism to the max!

the cable management took 4 hours alone, but damn, does it look fantastic.

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The Striker i5 4590 @ 3.7 ||  MSI GTX 980 Armor X2 || Corsair RMX 750 || Team Elite Plus 8 GB || Define S || MSI Z97S SLI Krait

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The Friend PC G3258 @ 4.3 || Sapphire R9 280X Tri-X || EVGA 600B || 8 GB Dell Ram || Cooler Master N200 || ASRock H97M- iTX/ac

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So far there's always one small thing that I get hung up on. Usually it's the cpu cooler. Especially my dark rock 3. I almost gave up on it.

The CPU Cooler took me almost no time to install. But it did take me quite a while to figure out how to install it on LGA1150. :D
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1 hour parts, 1 hours installation of drivers/software, and about 5-6 hours cable management.

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the cable management took 4 hours alone, but damn, does it look fantastic.

If I braided the cables then it would look amazing! But right now it looks okay. I might go back and braid all the cables later. :)
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1 hour parts, 1 hours installation of drivers/software, and about 5-6 hours cable management.

Me: 2 hours installation, 4 hours cable management.
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 A few hours turned into a couple days.I had DOA power supply. :lol: Had to wait for a new one to ship.

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Me: 2 hours installation, 4 hours cable management.

In total, I've probably spent like 10 plus hours on cable management through the 3 year life of my desktop, and I don't even have a windowed side panel, lol.

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A few hours turned into a couple days.I had DOA power supply. [emoji38] Had to wait for a new one to ship.

That sucks!
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