hardest pick?

[Oswin]

hi, i just want to know what is your hardest decision in your build? keep in mind this is just for sharing 

[saladcrack]

For me it was case, so many options and I can only pick one! So unfair...

[NinJake]

Whether or not to actually drop the money on a new build from scratch or to upgrade one component.

[tarfeef101]

What colour to make my fluid.

[W-L]

It was spending extra money just for a certain color scheme or design more than the other. 

[Guest]

Which shade of blue is the best. Too hard.

[malon]

Storage solution, go all ssd or go ssd hdd combo, maybe m.2 or pcie ssd, maybe a bigger sshd with a smaller hdd or vice versa, how much do i need and how many drives do i want. Will i use raid o or raid 1 or no raid. But realy i never am good with storage solutions since it always varies with my current situation, and ofcaurce pricing is all over atleast once a month where i live

[Waqas409]

Was my first try modding xeon ( lga 771 ), so i was worried if its gonna work or not, blew up 1 motherboard, bought another one, this time i was more carefull during doing it aaaand it worked after that yay!

[lettuce head]

for me it was actually the mobo (specifically how much money am I willing to spend on rear I/o and an m.2 slot)

a close runner up was a case. it took me soooooo long to figure out that I wanted at least 1 5.25" and either a 3.5 or an additional 5.25 bay, and finding something that wasn't going to be hell to build in was really quite a chore.

[Velvet Revolver]

17 hours ago, Oswin said:

hi, i just want to know what is your hardest decision in your build? keep in mind this is just for sharing 

big block or small block chevrolet engine

[LogicalDrm]

Any component is hard for me With last bigger upgrade it was whether to pay more for SSD speed, or save that money for shipping fees. I'm quite happy to have taken latter option.

[it_dont_work]

Whether or not to buy everything from over seas and save 30%~, only to have to need to deal with shipping and warranty issues if they came up.

[TheRandomness]

19 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Which shade of blue is the best. Too hard.

YInMn blue?

[Sauron]

Get a second r9 290 and risk being bottlenecked by the gimped 4x second slot or stick with one at 4k. Went for the second option.

[Bouzoo]

4 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Get a second r9 290 and risk being bottlenecked by the gimped 4x second slot or stick with one at 4k. Went for the second option.

Gimped?

[Sauron]

18 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

Gimped?

my second full size pcie slot is limited to 4x electircally. gimped, nerfed, castrated, it just means it's made to be worse than it could be.

[Bouzoo]

31 minutes ago, Sauron said:

my second full size pcie slot is limited to 4x electircally. gimped, nerfed, castrated, it just means it's made to be worse than it could be.

I just thought it was something worse than it being an x4 slot. Well you shouldn't experience any bottlenecks with 290 on x4 iirc.

[Sauron]

5 hours ago, Bouzoo said:

I just thought it was something worse than it being an x4 slot. Well you shouldn't experience any bottlenecks with 290 on x4 iirc.

4x 2.0.

 

Also, crossfire inherently requires more bandwidth since they ditched the bridge.

[Jalong]

For me it is probably the GPU. I didn't know if I wanted to sacrifice money for better performance. I ended up going with a EVGA 1060 which was a good mid ground for me.

[GigabitXe]

For me it was deciding to either go for the WOW factor or go for the best performance for the price (I had $500USD at the time). I settled for a little bit in between. Look at my signature for my build.

[Ja Krispie]

For me it was probably the CPU, I really wanted to get something I wouldn't need to upgrade for a few years