Help about hardware incompatibility problem.

[AkasakaKona]

So basically I’m trying to build my own pc for both video editing and gaming, and I don’t have enough budget right now, but I need one for my recent video project (my last laptop is dead because of water damage), so I turned to my mom and wonder if she could lend me some money. She refused. However, after a while of discussion, it turns out that she believes there is some mysrerious “hardware incompatibility” problem out there that could make the computer unable to boot at all, while some prebuilt desktops could somehow “overcome” this mysterious “hardware incompatibility”, which I never heard of, and never believed in. Since if that was the case, why were people building pc themselves? Why didn’t anyone mention it in Scrapyard War when they’re planning for their pc? So.... I’m hoping you guys can give me an answer about whether this mysterious “hardware incompatibility” really exists, if it does, how can I avoid it, and hopefully these answer can somewhat convince my mom... Thank you.

[LienusLateTips]

Hardware incompatibility? Tf?

 

My local PC shop uses store bought motherboards and components, and it works. I use store bought components. It works.

[monjessenstein]

2 minutes ago, Tom L. said:

So basically I’m trying to build my own pc for both video editing and gaming, and I don’t have enough budget right now, but I need one for my recent video project (my last laptop is dead because of water damage), so I turned to my mom and wonder if she could lend me some money. She refused. However, after a while of discussion, it turns out that she believes there is some mysrerious “hardware incompatibility” problem out there that could make the computer unable to boot at all, while some prebuilt desktops could somehow “overcome” this mysterious “hardware incompatibility”, which I never heard of, and never believed in. Since if that was the case, why were people building pc themselves? Why didn’t anyone mention it in Scrapyard War when they’re planning for their pc? So.... I’m hoping you guys can give me an answer and hopefully these answer can somewhat convince my mom... Thank you.

If two pc's are made out of the same components, it means they can be built by anyone whether it's an end-user or something like a store. Your mom is either thinking up lies, or probably did something like read a random article from facebook.

[AkasakaKona]

5 minutes ago, monjessenstein said:

If two pc's are made out of the same components, it means they can be built by anyone whether it's an end-user or something like a store. Your mom is either thinking up lies, or probably did something like read a random article from facebook.

DIrect quote from my mom: “Back in my days when I was trying to build my first computer, I encountered this incompatibility problem.” So... could it be a problem back in the days and had been solved now? 

[TheSLSAMG]

7 minutes ago, Tom L. said:

So basically I’m trying to build my own pc for both video editing and gaming, and I don’t have enough budget right now, but I need one for my recent video project (my last laptop is dead because of water damage), so I turned to my mom and wonder if she could lend me some money. She refused. However, after a while of discussion, it turns out that she believes there is some mysrerious “hardware incompatibility” problem out there that could make the computer unable to boot at all, while some prebuilt desktops could somehow “overcome” this mysterious “hardware incompatibility”, which I never heard of, and never believed in. Since if that was the case, why were people building pc themselves? Why didn’t anyone mention it in Scrapyard War when they’re planning for their pc? So.... I’m hoping you guys can give me an answer about whether this mysterious “hardware incompatibility” really exists, if it does, how can I avoid it, and hopefully these answer can somewhat convince my mom... Thank you.

Either she's making up a reason not to lend you the money, she's reading off some weird websites, or she had a bad experience years ago when building PCs was more complicated.

 

Either way, there's no mysterious "hardware incompatibility". Hardware incompatibilities are pretty clear cut and easy to navigate, such as how you can't use AM4 CPUs in 1151 motherboards, how 8th generation Intel CPUs don't work in 100 series and 200 series boards, DDR4 and DDR3 aren't cross compatible, etc. Honestly, building a PC now is easy as Lego. Stuff is clearly marked as far as compatibility goes, and it's hard to screw it up.

[LienusLateTips]

3 minutes ago, Tom L. said:

DIrect quote from my mom: “Back in my days when I was trying to build my first computer, I encountered this incompatibility problem.” So... could it be a problem back in the days and had been solved now? 

She probably bought a Intel socket motherboard and AMD CPU 

[aezakmi]

4 minutes ago, Tom L. said:

DIrect quote from my mom: “Back in my days when I was trying to build my first computer, I encountered this incompatibility problem.” So... could it be a problem back in the days and had been solved now? 

Well back in my day (I was 14) my very own 8 yr old sister built a rig literally from junk we found, she put together a 370 board with a Cyrix 3 and a 1MB EGA card and managed to install windows 98 on it with all of the drivers and she is no genius so it's not that hard

[Christophe Corazza]

23 minutes ago, TheSLSAMG said:

it's hard to screw it up

 

Then you don't really know people on the internet...