PC Noob Builds...

[Beeeyeee]

I always like to revisit this topic every once-in a while. But have you ever seen someone who wants to build their first computer, and either their used to paying $300 for an Xbox and when you say something like $500 they absolutely freak out. Either that or they're all planning the "perfect" $3000 build and they have a 6700 (not a k though because they're scared to overclock) paired with an X99 Rampage V and 64GB of Ram and a founders 1080, they don't even have an SSD, but a 4TB hard drive seems to work fine, and figure the stock heatsink will hold them over while they wait and save up for an AIO because they can't afford it, which makes no sense. All with a 1600w PSU powering the ~400 system... Yeah that just happened to me. I always get a kick out of it:P

[MVPernula]

Yeah those unbalanced builds are.. Cute. I mean to new builders a motherboard can take any CPU and "GOD, IS 1000w ENOUGH FOR THIS BUILD?". I know I researched ALOT before building mine, understanding some motherboards dont fit certain CPU's and reading requirements for wattage on each part.

 

It's hard to go from consoles in to the PC world, we went from plug and play to "ECC? Wtf."

[Meag]

This happened to me with my friend who wanted to buy a computer for gaming, He expected it to be like £300 then when I told him it wouldn't be close to that if he wanted a decent Pc. He went and brought one of those rip off pre-build Pc's off of Amazon. It was £900 and had a Gtx 960 2gb, He was so new to computers he didnt know how to plug what cables he needed in to the monitor so I had to help him . Its funny because then I put together some of the parts of Pc parts pickers and it came to around £550 - £600 and that includes windows 10, a monitor, a mouse and a headset.

[Beeeyeee]

Just now, MVPernula said:

Yeah those unbalanced builds are.. Cute. I mean to new builders a motherboard can take any CPU and "GOD, IS 1000w ENOUGH FOR THIS BUILD?". I know I researched ALOT before building mine, understanding some motherboards dont fit certain CPU's and reading requirements for wattage on each part.

 

It's hard to go from consoles in to the PC world, we went from plug and play to "ECC? Wtf."

haha we've all been there. Its kinda funny to think that even linus was a little PC noob once:p. I learned enough before I built my first PC that I saved up jsut enough to get the ultimate upgradable PC. it was pretty sweet actually. when the Pentium Anniversary G3258 released I snatched that and a z97 board, 8GB RAM, and a 1TB hard drive, and slowly upgraded everything until it had a 4790k, liquid cooler, 3 1TB hard drives, 2 SSD's, a 980ti, ect. good times.  of course now my PC is completely over the top...

[Beeeyeee]

4 minutes ago, ShadowArk said:

This happened to me with my friend who wanted to buy a computer for gaming, He expected it to be like £300 then when I told him it wouldn't be close to that if he wanted a decent Pc. He went and brought one of those rip off pre-build Pc's off of Amazon. It was £900 and had a Gtx 960 2gb, He was so new to computers he didnt know how to plug what cables he needed in to the monitor so I had to help him . Its funny because then I put together some of the parts of Pc parts pickers and it came to around £550 - £600 and that includes windows 10, a monitor, a mouse and a headset.

haha its always so difficult for them to figure out you have to plug the HDMI cable into the GRAPHICS CARD not the iGPU. haha

[MVPernula]

Just now, Beeeyeee said:

haha we've all been there. Its kinda funny to think that even linus was a little PC noob once:p. I learned enough before I built my first PC that I saved up jsut enough to get the ultimate upgradable PC. it was pretty sweet actually. when the Pentium Anniversary G3258 released I snatched that and a z97 board, 8GB RAM, and a 1TB hard drive, and slowly upgraded everything until it had a 4790k, liquid cooler, 3 1TB hard drives, 2 SSD's, a 980ti, ect. good times.  of course now my PC is completely over the top...

Yeah same!

 

I built my pc about 1.5 years ago now, it's reallt solid and I keep upgrading it part by part now! 5820K with a 1080 and 32GB RAM.. Over the top indeed.

[m0k]

ugh like everyday, the worst is:
"should i wait for the GTX 2090 or should i get a GTX 1080 now" .....

[ItsMinJunLol]

34 minutes ago, MVPernula said:

Yeah those unbalanced builds are.. Cute. I mean to new builders a motherboard can take any CPU and "GOD, IS 1000w ENOUGH FOR THIS BUILD?". I know I researched ALOT before building mine, understanding some motherboards dont fit certain CPU's and reading requirements for wattage on each part.

 

It's hard to go from consoles in to the PC world, we went from plug and play to "ECC? Wtf."

High five, I've been researching for about a month for the 'perfect' build for me : 3

[MVPernula]

44 minutes ago, ItsMinJunLol said:

High five, I've been researching for about a month for the 'perfect' build for me : 3

Always ask for help, my build was finished over a year ago. I regret not asking more

[The Danish Guy]

One of my friends bought a Custom Built PC from a firm here in Denmark. A computer that i had told him was the right one for him. But once he recieved it, he started complaining that the GPU didn't work. I asked him to send me a picture and i when i saw what was wrong, i started giggling. He had plugged the DVI cable into the port on the Mobo, and not the one in the GPU
Most entertaining

[Meag]

On 19/09/2016 at 7:39 AM, Beeeyeee said:

haha its always so difficult for them to figure out you have to plug the HDMI cable into the GRAPHICS CARD not the iGPU. haha

Lol, his PC doesn't have a IGPU and I don't think that the graphics card even has one now that I think of it, so he had to use VGA