What made you want to build and or buy a PC?

[TheNewbiestONewbs]

I want to Know about your guys or gals experience on why you got a PC. For me it was the game and the fact that my toaster with an upgraded heating element of a laptop could never even hope to open the programs I need to be an engineer without crashing.

[TheNewbiestONewbs]

1 minute ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Got a fucking Surface Pro 3.

Congrats they are great for content creation.

[Shura]

Never buy, always build; Working on PCs (any electrical DIY project for that matter) helps me relax and calms my mind so whenever I do a new build, it's probably because I want a change in life. I also work on client builds and family/friends build for fun. It's a very expensive hobby otherwise.

[RezChi]

Starcraft Brood war! Also i find joy in building something and it actually works

[Guest]

5 hours ago, bbis21 said:

 

Because you can't do this on console.

You win

[ProjectBox153]

The ability to have something better than a Core 2 Duo. Although, it's still just a Core i3 2370m that I got. 

[Guest]

This

[vong]

Watercooling. I never saw a gaming PC in my life and when I saw a watercooled PC I just wanted one so I built an air cooled system then steadily started watercooling.

[Saint7Death]

I just love computers and wanted to know a little more on how they were put together. So I built one, and in the process I learned what everything did. I guess the gaming was a motivation to...?

[cms86]

had to sell my MacPro because of money issues and needed to make a just as powerful PC for less, much easier and much cooler. Parts come one Tuesday, lousy holidays lol.

[carguy86]

Well, my precious ps3 died and instead of spending 400$ on a ps4 + whatever it would cost for plsystation plus i spent 2000$ on custom watercooled pc (peripherals included)

[TheNewbiestONewbs]

7 hours ago, carguy86 said:

Well, my precious ps3 died and instead of spending 400$ on a ps4 + whatever it would cost for plsystation plus i spent 2000$ on custom watercooled pc (peripherals included)

nice, I spent about 1300 including a keyboard. I love mine. What made you go for amd instead of intel?

[carguy86]

5 minutes ago, TheNewbiestONewbs said:

nice, I spent about 1300 including a keyboard. I love mine. What made you go for amd instead of intel?

At the time it was that my dad bought this motherboard and it was cheaper to just buy the cpu and not a new mobo + cpu

[kaiju_wars]

It was halfway through the 8th gen.  (So 2015).  I felt console gaming in particular had gone down hill.  What happened to the greatness of Gears of War, Halo, Call of Duty, etc, and these all-nighters and small little tournaments at the local Blockbusters and Gamestops I went to?

Nothing (minus Titanfall at the time) was capturing me.  

I also had a couple of friends encouraging me to get into PC gaming.

I hadn't built a PC in a couple years.  I hadn't ever built a gaming PC up to that point, but I did build a PC for a friend just so he could watch YouTube, check Facebook, and watch porn.

 

So I jumped in.  Had a budget of $500.  

 

I almost left gaming.  I was bored, tired, and done with it.  PC gaming got me back in full swing.  I'm at the point now (if it wasn't for Halo 5), I'd sell all my current gen consoles, buy all new games on PC, then buy the classics from the 7th gen for really cheap as they are slowly phased out of stock.

[ThinkWithPortals]

The fact that my then five year old MacBook Pro couldn't even keep 60fps on Minecraft, let alone anything else.

[RagingTyphoon]

I kept buying laptops and naturally thought games were suppose to shutter and look yellow, until my friend came over to play RIFT and laughed at my setup. After that embarrassing moment I decided to never be behind the power curve again, I'm on my third build now.

[TheNewbiestONewbs]

My first build is my current build. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/x8pG2R I love how well it runs compared to my old laptop which was a 2009 sony vaio. going from 20 fps to capped at 60 fps (did this so my screen wont tear but I know I can push so much more) is so beautiful.

[ANCIENTSTIGG]

My first pc build was with a 8080 cpu a long long time ago.... things have changed a LOT since then, it has been fascinating to observe and learn in that time.

[imPixelTV]

well, if i had 3 monitors i'd be able to play games, watch porn and write an essay all at the same time. 

[Modus]

I wanted to play crysis

[DutchTexan]

23 hours ago, TheNewbiestONewbs said:

I want to Know about your guys or gals experience on why you got a PC. For me it was the game and the fact that my toaster with an upgraded heating element of a laptop could never even hope to open the programs I need to be an engineer without crashing.

It was more cost effective. Then, I started to learn. Now, I feel that my relationships with computers has changed my life completely and permanently. 

[darealsoulless]

The want for a gaming PC and the extremely tight budget I was on my first time.

[Kaita]

No special reason , really. I'm just a fan of computers in general and wanted to build my own.

[2Slow4mebro]

I got kinda tired using a potato for gaming. When I built the pc, I could play games that I liked without having to worry about framerate. 

[sazrocks]

Power and compatibility (came from a mac).