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How long did your first PC build take to build?

trapizi
By trapizi
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1 hour for the hardware build

 

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About 2-3 hours, but that was a few years ago and since then upgrades were made every few months. 

 

It never seems to end xD

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A few nights (15-20hrs) as I did the cable sleeving myself and then running a full custom CPU and GPU water loop in a very small mITX case took a bit of planning. 

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Funny Story:

 

I was building my very first PC months ago. I thought that the Deepcool Steam Castle is the coolest looking case, I still do. Big Mistake! 

 

- The case has this really weird cube layout where the motherboard sits horizontally above the PSU. 

- Wires have to be connected through the side panel. So you have to hold the side panel while connecting the wires because the wires aren't long enough! My strategy was to hold the side panel with a bunch of books while I was building. It's kind of ridiculous. 

- The wire holes are so tiny that its a pain to pass everything through. 

- The EVGA 500b PSU I am using comes with a bajillion Molex pins that take up all the room in this cramped-up case! To make matters worse, the wires are super thick! WHY!? Evga, WHY!? How many molex pins do you really need!? The answer is obviously 0, right!? 

- Thank heavens the MSI motherboard I bought has the most logical layout and the most perfect manual. Good on you MSI, I would have been screwed. 

 

I managed to squeeze everything in the case with questionable cable management. The weird cube layout doesn't make cable management easy. Now everything works, and I don't ever want to open this case up. I am too afraid. 

 

Oh yeah, it took me 5 hours. And I can't thank MSI enough for labeling their boards. 

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It took me about 3 to 4 hours.  Mostly cause at the time, we weren't on the speeds we are now, and so it was taking forever to download drivers and such.

Currently focusing on my video game collection.

It doesn't matter what you play games on, just play good games you enjoy.

 

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Took an afternoon, but to be honest it's never ended and never will. xD

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6 hours

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ooh probably, 4 hours, i forgot to put the I/O Shield in so i had to take the Mobo out and unplug all the wires xDxD 

 

 

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