Finally Building a PC

[Porn Shop Clerk]

Too bad someone didn't come in and suggest not building your own PC.

Oh wait, that guy is me and I wasn't about to crank up that shitstorm again.  Make some of these dicklicks around here put their money where their mouths are and help you get that poo fixed dude.

I'm really sorry you're having this trouble though. poo sucks.

[Inimicus]

Been in IT professionally since 97.

Built my first PC when a 386 DX with a 16 MHz clock was the hot poo and a 14.4 modem would outrun the UART buffers on a serial card.

My first PC was an 8086 processor on an Olivetti & Olivetti MoBo with a 10MB hard drive.

Wrote my first code on a Commodore Pet that used cassette tapes instead of an actual hard drive.

In short Ive been doing this for a while...

 

Built my last gaming rig in 2014 and wont ever do it again.  PSC is right, just buy a rig with the specs you want and you'll be a much happier person.

 

[Arroz con Panther]

As a developer I felt that I needed to get at least one build under by belt.  The next time I'll definitely be ordering pre-built.  I had two to three guys from my development team helping me out.  We tried everything (as much as you can without some spare parts lying around) before I sent parts back.  I know it sucks right now, but I'm sure it will be worth it in the end.  It's nice to have a place to vent.. I'm sure my co workers are tied of listening to me.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

omg when people agree with me I feel like I'm wrong

But yeah, when tech vets have these kind of issues with builds, it helps to illustrate that it's not so easy that just anyone can do it.

[Inimicus]

7 hours ago, Arroz con Panther said:

As a developer I felt that I needed to get at least one build under by belt.  The next time I'll definitely be ordering pre-built.  I had two to three guys from my development team helping me out.  We tried everything (as much as you can without some spare parts lying around) before I sent parts back.  I know it sucks right now, but I'm sure it will be worth it in the end.  It's nice to have a place to vent.. I'm sure my co workers are tied of listening to me.

I get the whole "merit badge" aspect of it and whether or not someone has done it is actually one of my interview questions even for developers. 

But it sounds like you're going through all of the BS that seems to be the hallmark of modern day builds.

 

[twylyght]

With respect to development, is there any push with respect to future PC builds doing away with RAM altogether and incorporating something akin to L4 CPU cache?  There seemed to be a lot of headway made in the 3D XPoint tech prior to the half year delay.  I am expecting that there would be a lag much like what we had with moving from 16-bit to 32-bit to 64-bit with respect to software being able to properly leverage the new architecture.

[Zaximus]

I recently did a build and had to RMA a MB back to newegg (it was actually the Gigabyte board mentioned above).   Went to Amazon and bought a bit pricier MSI board, very happy with it.   The Gigabyte board was unable to run ram in duel channel, but would find both sticks in single.  Annoying.   Apparently, common issue with this board. 

I can see reasons to get a prebuilt for sure but you'll usually save money doing it yourself and have your own warranties.  The Cyberpower companies are a pain to deal with when a part is bad and you have to send the rig back.  I've heard horror stories about it.     You can't put a price on convenience though so I get it.   I was about to pull a trigger on a Cyberpower machine a few weeks back, it was a killer price with a 1080 in it but they wouldn't list the brand of RAM, PSU, etc. so I think that's how they were able to offer it.

Anyway, that board that failed on me was the first RMA of my life, and I've been doing builds for myself every 2-3 years for about 16 years, and also builds for others here and there.    I think I've just been lucky lol.    It's way easier to RMA now than 5-10 years ago though at least.  

[Porn Shop Clerk]

If you buy Cyberpowerpc or Ibuypower or anything similar, you have to replace the PSU as soon as possible.  Those things are made out of aluminum foil and chewing gum. The ram is usually standard, better than what you get in a dell or something like that, but all of those components can be bumped up piece by piece if you really want to.

I go for open box with poo like that, but I feel pretty confident in being able to fix anything but a fuged up mobo, which really isn't worth the hassle if you can just send it back for another unit.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

Besides, if you have a site assemble and suggest your parts for you, you're really not building your own pc. You're just putting together a snaptite model.

[frash.exe]

try downloading adobe reader

that should fix the issue you're having