hardest part of building a pc

[Midnitewarrior4]

hardest ? part selection, most tedious and boring ? cable management by far

[Totalimus]

The hardest thing for me was to install the Hyper 212 Evo cooler, everything else was as easy as 1 2 3, although, I had some problems with cable management.

[RollinLower]

hardest part for me was selecting a nice balanced range of components. in the end i ended up with a way to powerful CPU for my GPU, tough with my current build i think it's pretty much alright

[shifts]

Nothing is ever really that difficult but i would say the hardest part would be the front panel connectors.  

[DebatED Nothing]

Either that, or spending 4 hours cable managing everything down to a fine art so that the back panel slides on like butter.

Back panel sliding on like butter? Surely you must be joking? Mine is basically sprung loaded, you remove the thumb screws and it just pops itself back on. I need help from someone else to slide it back on afterwards...

 

The hardest thing for me was to install the Hyper 212 Evo cooler, everything else was as easy as 1 2 3, although, I had some problems with cable management.

My hyper 212 EVO took about 40 minutes to install even with help So damn fiddly.

[kajar9]

Not the hardest, but most frustrating.

Forgetting I/O Shield until the very end.
Forgetting motherboard standoff(s). - DANGEROUS!
Planning for fans and radiators... even if you think you got it right... it's a good chance you didn't.

Not done this before myself, but I imagine hard tube liquid cooling.
 

[kajar9]

add in eating every day (mostly fast food because of my 6p to 4a shifts) gas, $15 for vape liquid, I think my phone bill was due that week too ($45) as well as netflix and my adobe creative cloud subscription. 

Phone bill is US or whatever place you live in is fucking huge.

My phone bill is 8€ (9$) flat for 5GB data (technically unlimited, but throttled to 120kb/s after data is used), 1000 minutes call time (excess is 0.03€/minute), 100 SMS (excess 0.01€/message)

I even have a 24 month phone payment plan (400€) and don't even come close to yours when including that.

[mbryant]

Phone bill is US or whatever place you live in is fucking huge.

My phone bill is 8€ (9$) flat for 5GB data (technically unlimited, but throttled to 120kb/s after data is used), 1000 minutes call time (excess is 0.03€/minute), 100 SMS (excess 0.01€/message)

I even have a 24 month phone payment plan (400€) and don't even come close to yours when including that.

well I'm sorry that my phone bill is higher than yours? I've got a pretty cheap deal here LTE for $45 no contract is pretty respectable here 

[Xmrp18]

I would say either forgetting about the 8pin CPU plug after you put your cooler on, or cable management, it beats me how people do it so well.

My god my legit first build I did that. I had a huge quad cooler for my FX it must have covered the pins and I couldn't get it to post. I though I killed the system, ran down to my local tech shop with my wife. They all laughed when they found it, personally I was so relieved i didn't fry my first build ever... Feel free to laugh, I know I do

[deWaardt]

I think the hardest part about PC's in general, is getting the 24 pin PSU cable out of the motherboard.

[steezemageeze]

I think the hardest part about PC's in general, is getting the 24 pin PSU cable out of the motherboard.

 

I thought I was going to break something the first time I had to do that. Or that I had already broken it and gotten it stuck  

[lol1290]

Defenitely cable managment.

 

Wasted so much time for it, but my pc still looks like a mess of wires

[Vivilacqua1]

Using a kraken g10 with a 280mm rad on my 290. That thing took so long to do because of the tiny area it had to fit into and still look nice.

[Spartan195]

When you already finished your ultimate rig and then you realize that you forgot to connect the chassis fans and the connectors are between the cooler and the top of the box, then, you start crying because have to undo all you work for a one or two connectors. THANKS ASROCK

[Fun.]

I was working in a sff (I think the case was Silverstone Sg13-b iirc). Anyways jamming the tubing for the AIO Liquid Cooler was a pain in the butt. Good thing the PSU was there to help push the tubes down  

[ThomasD]

Paying for it.

Viewed on a per hour basis - where you divide the hours of employment required divided by the hour(s) spent putting it together - this becomes obvious.

Thankfully that figure is dwarfed by dividing hours used by hours of work (total)

[ImRyan]

Just interested in what people think is the hardest part of building a pc

Personally I think the the front panel connectors for the power led and power and reset buttons are the hardest because I have large fat hands

i agree front panel connectors

[Coaxialgamer]

Just interested in what people think is the hardest part of building a pc

Personally I think the the front panel connectors for the power led and power and reset buttons are the hardest because I have large fat hands

most time consuming part is fitting the radiator when using an aio.

[Brennan Price]

Hardest part for me is upgrading my Brains memory capacity. I am really forgetful so I'm gonna upgrade myself to having a 1TB

[Fatelinha]

Cleaning the thermal paste... Spilled a motherboard with paint thinner doing it on my first build! The motherbaord is still fine though

[dcb-z]

Cable management if you're like me and don't do it the first time around.

 

Also, lining up the screws on my cooler. The first time I tried to screw it down, I didn't even have the screws in the holes and had to start over.

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cable management 

[Tilaron]

The hardest part for me was my dick definitely the funding of it ... which hasn't happened yet. Yay finance!

[Bhav]

Remembering to pluug in the CPU power connectors. I can't believe the number of times I've done that and though I had bricked my PC.

[N_Bot]

I would say cable management. Having large hands can make it painful to plug in those few small cables.