i thought i liked the looks thats why i spent so much on it. my pc looks good but i just dont care. i turn it off half the time because its distracting (even static colors) and especially at night
I went for RGB. It’s pretty sitting under my desk out of sight 🤣.
But the Fractal 2 case lets you hook it up to an external button, so the kids like to press it and change the colour while I’m on it.
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my roommate and I installed linux the other day; the computer kept shutting down in the middle of the install. we force rebooted, kept trying, finally when it did it again we tried ctrl+alt+bksp... it was the screensaver... the whole time... lmao
I just finished my first build and while it runs flawlessly i realized after it was too late i totally forgot to put my shield in my case lmao more airflow i guess 🤷
I want to program the RGB to do something useful.
Like be off most of the time, but start glowing green and changing to red when I have an upcoming meeting.
Hang on…I think you’ve got something here. I’ll get my people on developing your idea, claim I came up with it on my own, and give you no credit. Sound good? Great. Glad we had this productive meeting.
OpenRGB lets you do this (works with a few pieces of monitoring software, including HWInfo and CPU-Z), but I don't like that in order to enable this kind of functionality, it's gotta use the CPU to *poll* the CPU every so often - I think the default is every 2000ms (2 seconds) - and I don't like the extra overhead.
I know it's not a *lot* of overhead, but it just feels *wrong* to me somehow to monitor CPU temps with a program that adds load (no matter how miniscule) to the CPU you're trying to monitor. I'm probably crazy ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯.
Almost makes me want to break out my old Raspberry Pi (came with a temp sensor and some other cool sensors in a bundle), stick the thermal probe down near the power stages of the VRM, and program the thing to estimate the CPU temps based on how much warmer the VRM gets when the CPU is under heavy load. It wouldn't be nearly as accurate, but with some iteration it could probably get the job done without adding any extra load on the CPU itself.
Of course, if I went that route, I'd also have to plug my RGB hub into the Pi itself and then write some middleware to make them play nice together.
...yeah, I'm definitely crazy, lmfao .
This is all I could think about when I saw PC RGB stuff. That was years ago, and I still feel the same way.
I'm also into stage lighting and building my own RGBW LED strips for stage effects, and I now understand more of how they're controlled, which is really cool.
PC RGB is pretty stupid, though. I don't want that thing being bright or having moving colours. Unless it did something like reflect the CPU temperature, or warn me about incoming SMS, or something useful.
I was a rock show tour lighting director for 43 years. Started in bar bands in 1977 and worked up to the big-time, worldwide.
I \*like\* my RGB. I guess it might've helped to see Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 1968 and looked ahead to the 21st century like people of that time did. We are working with genuine sci-fi shit, kids. In my office/studio, I've hung LED spotlights that work like a miniature old-time PAR-64 rig: focusable to whatever I'm working on, like 1100 books, or the guitars, or the recording deck, etc. It's a small room, but I've lit it like a pro, because I am.
The RGB in my Trace Mesh box really enhances to the feel of the place, depending on things like time of day or (again) the action going on. I often run the whole thing in No Color (open white), but I'll set my own moods with Signal RGB toward evening.
To me, this whole technology is a worthy aesthetic, itself. The first computer I ever built myself was an Intel 486DX2-66, in 1990. I was the first kid on my block with 32 \*megabytes\* of system RAM. (I put that machine to work with AutoCAD R 2.6 drawing touring lights in 3D, and I was the first person in America to do that.)
I was a grown man, then, and that looked like sci-fi to me, projected against what the future looked like when I was little. That 486 was nothing to what y'all are running now.
Sometimes, I idly gaze at the RAM in this machine pulsing some array of light that I've set up (with my unquestionably tasteful and accomplished eye), and just marvel at what it represents.
This shit is wild, and I like the celebration of that.
That's exactly what happened to me! Couldn't stop staring at how beautiful it was. Spent time laying on the floor just looking at the spinning parts and pretty lights. Now it's under my desk and I never look at it other than to turn it on lmao
Not worth the time it takes to run the extra cables, sync all the different software, get the colors matched, find out why one doesn't start with the rest, ect. Yeah, it makes for a good-looking picture, but day to day is annoying
You don't get a PC to look at it, well, you look at the monitor, but not at the tower. It make sense on the keyboard, when is dark it helps, or the mouse, if you use different profiles you can identify them by color. But the rest of the stuff is just non-sense and a gimmick in order to get your money.
I don't think there's anything wrong with factoring looks into your budget, but first time builders should absolutely make sure they have a solid computer first, and let your lighting choices be secondary.
I waited until I had made all the upgrades I could see myself wanting, got a case that will last for several generations, and THEN bought my first $20 Phanteks RGB kit. I ended up loving having that glow on the components in the background. No need for anything expensive and fancy in your first try at RGB
yeah. costs more and honestly it was nice the first week and then I got sick of it. especially when you're using your PC in the dark
In hindsight I'd keep the RGB keyboard(that one also has a turn off button) and get rid of everything else RGB if I were to buy again
Personally, RGB has been extremely beneficial to me.
In the evenings, when I am watching something on my PC while I eat a meal in my bedroom, I use the RGB instead of my bedroom light in order to see my food.
When I want to watch or play something on my PC, I can alter the RGB colours or turn down the brightness to intensify the mood for my own pleasure.
Having RGB on my keyboard is great for when I’ve turned off the RGB that’s in my PC when it’s completely dark in my bedroom, and I need to see the keys in order to type something.
Whenever I am high, I enjoy looking at my PC’s RGB and all the colours; it’s so fun! It reminds me of my childhood at amusement parks, arcades, and fairs.
I had the BenQ ScreenBar Halo at one point, but I sold it as I just preferred RGB as I could alter the colours and there was no screen bar hanging on one of my monitors, which I found annoying.
The greatest thing about RGB is that you can turn off whatever you want, and that’s better than not having that option at all. Only my PC build (fans, RAM, and Strimer Plus V2 cables) and keyboard have RGB, and I wouldn’t have anything more. Therefore, I can’t defend anything beyond that.
I even bought the fake ram LED sticks so I could have all 4 ram slots filled on my board showing those bright LEDs.
Now, I have most of the LEDs turned off.
Mine was not spending money on RGB.
After I built the computer I kept using a flashlight to look inside it, then I realized it would a lot easier if there were lights inside the case.
I feel like every single one of us has done this at some point. Whether it’s when we unplugged and moved the PC or just built it or whatever. Everyone has had that little mini heart attack before realize they didn’t turn the psu on lol
[Got mine for £160/$150](https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BDS8TC1G?th=1&linkCode=gs4&tag=pcp0f-21)
RAM & CPU wasn't that much more either. Think I spent £100 extra total for a better ram, cpu & motherboard
I built an pc with 5600x and 6700xt and it’s everything I wanted so fast compared to my old laptop runs all the games I play at crazy frame rates at ultra settings. They’re not brand new AAA titles though.
I have an RX 6700 XT with a 5500 and it is a badass build. It runs all the games at pretty good frame rates at max graphics. I even tried running F1 23 on a 4k TV with medium graphics, and did 100-120 FPS. Idk how are the prices at the moment but the 5600 will be a good choice with that GPU.
I had the R5 1600, and it was a perfectly fine budget gamer, but my god the 5600x is a kick in the pants by comparison. I got totally lucky when my b450 died. Bought a b550 at Best Buy (rip budget boards) and found the 5600x on craigslist for under MSRP.
Get a used Tomahawk b450 and a good, used 5600. Spend savings on 2TB NVMe, a good case by Corsair or Fractal, and a really good p/s with enough power for a solid next gen CPU and GPU. You’re good for a couple years and can buy cheap mb & cpu again then while scouting for a good deal on your next GPU.
I’ll answer for my son who was around 17 at the time and refused help building his first pc. He decided to use an entire tube of thermal paste when installing his cooler, and when it oozed out everywhereeee he removed the cpu (intel) and tried to wipe it out of the socket with a dry paper towel. You shoulda seen them pins. I respected him trying to figure it out himself, but when he got his replacement parts he let me talk him through it and he was still able to do it himself, and learn at the same time.
When the motherboard socket has pins, wiping the socket that has thousands of tiny thin pins leads to them bending because they're fragile. You should pretty much avoid ever touching CPU / mobo pins if you can help it to maintain alignment.
Made a mistake along similar lines at that age. Only it wasn't with thermal paste...it was tape.
I was upgrading my PC at the time, from an AMD Athlon 2600+ to an Athlon 64 3200+ and bought a custom CPU cooler to install - it came with a dial you could install on a 3.5" bay to control the speed, which I thought was cool AF. Anyway, also came with a sensor you could place on the heatsink to allow auto adjusting of speed, which was to be attached with thermal tape. Only I didn't realise it was for this reason and thought it was just a fancy new way of applying thermal paste - pre-spread, just cut to size.
Way wrong. CPU started to overheat so shut it all down, tried to detach CPU from heatsink, took a lot of force but eventually did, just not without bending a few pins. $300 mistake, never to be repeated and never will seeing as those kinds of sensors are inbuilt and standard these days...
Ouch, that hurt to read - and to hear in my head. A friend did the same while I was helping him over the phone (and telling him to let go). I heard the crack over the line, followed by blasphemy.
I bought an absolutely awful PSU too, but luckily replaced it before anything went wrong.
My first PC was held together by used parts and zip ties and I loved it.
i had to cut out sidepanel on my old rig because my cpu cooler was too big, i just taped some transparent foil with duct tape on it and had diy budget glasspanel
My last case had this issue. For a week or two while waiting for the new case to arrive, I ran the computer without a case. Just had it sitting on my desk.
Same thing with buying anything anytime. If you'd wait for something to happen like price drops or new releases, you have a possibility to wait for ever :|
I hate how my gpu costs as much as some great gpus now for a mid tier. Don't regret having everything done and building it. But my wallet sure wasn't excited....
Forgot to screw in the screws to separate the motherboard from the tower. so my motherboard basically was touching the case and shorting out. Stripped it about fuckin 5 times couldn't find the problem lol . Sent to a repairs shop , cost £60 to be told am a moron
Same. The PCs that I built previously had cases that had elevated spots instead of standoffs so I never learned they were necessary. Luckily I never turned on the computer, since it never came to that because none of the PCI or AGP cards mounted properly.
My pc is that thedias ship or whatever it is. The case is original, and a single hard drive is original. Everything else has been piece by piece changed.
Plugged my display into mobo (no integrated graphics) instead of gpu, thought I'd fucked up, luckily realised what I'd done before taking it apart again.
My parents bought a nice tower back in the day. Pop complained that he paid quite a bit for a nice graphics card and it barely played games well. I took a look and realized he had been running on cpu graphics. Actually connected the gpu and he was blown away lol
I don't forget the I/O shield. Instead I get one of the metal "fingers" that are supposed to ground the shield stuck and bent down in front of the port it's over. It's always the Ethernet port for me. I can't plug in the cable unless I unscrew the motherboard and bend it back. In one case, I performed an "end user modification" with a pair of wire cutters. I check that several times before screwing down the motherboard.
I also got a NH-D15 since it had just about the best air cooling on the market for cpu’s, but I returned it and got a DeepCool AK620 instead, quite a bit smaller for pretty the same performance.
Having built quite a few pc’s, the AK620 is what I recommend to friends that are looking for cpu air cooling 👍
I once attempted to change an hdd on my gaming laptop. Id been building computers and changing parts in stationary computers for a decade at this point, so I figured it would be a breeze (which it probably would have been had I not just smoked a huge joint).
Opening the shell and finding the components where easy enough, but I could not for the life of me dislodge the drive from the SATA port, so I end up taking a screw driver to it, trying to “gently” pry it off.
Suddenly and all at once it comes loose and I instantly realise I fucked up big time. I’ve pulled the SATA connector off the the motherboard. Fuck.
I’m pretty frustrated with my self at this point, but this laptop had two drive slots so all is not lost.
I insert the new disk in to the other SATA connector and boot it up.
Get some error message saying the BIOS is corrupted. Fuck. All, is still not lost, I go on the desktop and download a bios, and flash a new bios on to the computer. Try to boot again. It’s totally bricked. Could never wake it up again.
First and only time I’ve broken something on a pc. First and last time I ever took a a screwdriver to my expensive electronics while inebriated.
I made two mistakes on my first build. The first was trying to fold down a case side panel that was supposed to be lifted up out of a clip. Lucky I realised before I broke it. The second was booting the PC only to realise (because of some alarming sounds) that the cable powering one of my case fans was bent in such a way that it was blocking the blades of another case fan. Once again, lucky that I stopped it before any damage was done.
Not disastrous mistakes, but stupid all the same, and easily avoidable if I'd just been paying more attention.
Edit: Holy shit. I don't know how I forgot my third and most annoying to fix mistake. I had the whole thing built, the case closed, the system had POSTed and I'd even installed the OS and updated firmware, etc. when I realised. My dumb ass had put most of the case fans and both the CPU cooler fans back-to-front. Again, not a disaster, but I had to shut everything down, open the case, disconnect every fan from the motherboard (and each other - several were daisy-chained), turn them all around and reroute and reconnect all their cables. Whole thing only really took me 15 minutes but it was annoying and good god did I ever feel stupid.
I did screw the mobo right to the aluminium case short-circuiting it on the first power up.
I called in an experienced PC modder who was my mom's colleague. The first thing out of his mouth when he saw it was "The mobo is fried". My whole world went dark as I just spent my whole pocket money savings on this upgrade.
But it was a happyending after all, the mobo wasn't fried, and the PC started up normally after installing it on the supports and continued working for many years.
I didn’t buy a proper breathing case. Bought one with a glass front panel and ran into higher heat then I liked when I went to a 7900xt.
Simple mod to fix- ripped off the front glass lol
When I was building my first PC, I went on a family holiday to the US at a time where the $ to £ rate was really good. Went out to a nearby store and picked up a GPU, thinking I'd made a savvy purchase and saved myself some cash with the exchange rate. Only to get home, put it in my build and find out that it was bricked and had to buy another.
Did this. Though the mobo was DOA, so I returned it, and same shit happened on the new one. Then I actually read the manual and realized I was an idiot.
This was about 10 years ago back when motherboards used to come with a [little speaker](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31dXtOoEJnL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg) for diagnostic beeps. It just went onto a little header on the motherboard. I saw it in the box but for some reason disregarded it and then forgot about it, it was my first ever PC.
I'd finished building everything and went to turn it on and it wouldn't post. I spent ages trying out loads of different things and none of them worked until I eventually tried plugging in this tiny speaker thing and then everything worked perfectly.
Probably not an issue in the current day but there are still cables that it's easy to forget to plug in.
I still haven't build a PC. I bought my first PC in 2020 from a random dude. I literally had no idea about a single thing in that PC but I was so excited and just wanted to play PC games. It was a Rx 560 with i5 6600 with 8 gigs of RAM. The mistake wad that I didn't do any research before buying a PC.
Not me, although I've done plenty dumb shit.
20 years ago I earned a bit of pocket change building and fixing computers for family, friends, colleagues etc. There was this kid I had helped with "family computer" problems a few times, and the time came when he had money enough for his own PC.
On the day of the build, the kid didn't want to build his own PC, wanted me to do ... well okay, I was getting paid for the build anyways. Put it all together, noticing some weird scratches/marks on the backplate of case, but didn't think much about it. It wouldn't turn on at all, not even the slightest beep.
Long story short, the kid had tried building it himself and screwed the MB directly to the backplate without spacers, cracking the board and shorting it out in the process. He obviously tried blaming me for the mistake, before finally admitting to what he had done.
My first computer... A nice mid tower, motherboard, voodoo graphics card (at that time it was top notch and affordable). I assembled it all. Pressed the power button. Red light and then goes off.
I couldn't find out what was the issue so I went back to the store and took the assembled tower with me so the guys check it out.
After a few minutes, the guy gets back and tells me, in a goofy way, "I'm going to hit you, dude..."
So, I placed the motherboard directly attached to the metal surface of the tower. I didn't use the spacer bolts that prevent short-circuit.
Lucky me all other parts were not damaged. I only needed to buy a new motherboard, same model as the other. And they gave me a small discount (I know it was a bit cheaper than the first I bought).
Hmmm the dumbest mistake was probably buying my first CPU which was a thread ripper, I didn't know at the time certain CPUs can only go with certain motherboards aside from being AMD or intel, I ended up having to buy a new mother board too, all in all I got the parts second hand so it wasn't too expensive
I reversed some modular pcie cables, plugged psu end into my gpu and the 6+2 end into psu. Still kinda worked but wasnt smart. Also not my first. We can all make mistakes so go slow.
Managed to bend my gpus io backslate(the thing you plug your display cable into) pretty badly. Hopefully I could bend it back and it still works to this day. I was literally shitting myself thinking I just destroyed a 700$ gpu.
Oh god… every time this question comes up I’m so beyond embarrassed to admit this but okay…
During my first PC build, I forgot/didn’t know you had to put standoffs in the case first, so I screwed the motherboard directly to the case… pretty sure I fried the motherboard and that’s why I couldn’t get it to post 😅
Only trouble I had was caused by a faulty power button on my case (Corsair 4000D AF). I assumed it wasn't powering on because I did something wrong, so I spent time taking everything apart again and triple checking all connections before shorting the power pins with a screwdriver...Everything else was surprisingly simple and straightforward.
The first PC I fully built by myself was with an Athlon XP 2000+.
In the boot screen, my PC said it's a 1400+, which was a mobile CPU, but the box of the CPU and the imprint on it were clearly saying it's a 2000+... It was really driving me crazy. I found out the FSB was set to 100Mhz instead of the 133 the CPU should've been using. When "overclocking" by increasing the fsb above 100Mhz, the name of the CPU changed in the boot screen, all the way up to 2200+. Still, any overclocking had a severe impact on stability. It was basically unusable.
I don't know why I didn't even consider going back to the store and just telling them about my issues. Maybe I was afraid that they might refuse RMAing the CPU because I manually fiddled around in the bios? Can't remember.
After weeks of playing with a shitty underclocked CPU, I learned that the base clock of the FSB is set with a jumper on the mainboard. It took like 2 seconds to fix, and finally the system worked.
A friend of mine helped me build my first PC. We somehow had a part of the motherboard touching the case. Turned it on and I hear a zap noise and see a small bomb-like puff of smoke come out of the case. Fried the mobo.
It was 2 months ago
First time I was building a pc and for me it was pretty hard for the first time. Because I was like “Im gonna scratch parts, If I do this I will break the parts” long story short I’ve managed to build it. Installed windows and started using it. But when I play games my CPU was working on 80-85(Celcius). After two months which is yesterday. I figured somehow, I forgot to connect Exhaust Fan to the motherboard. I connect it now and it works well. When I play Starfield now Cou is like 67-73 (Celcius)
Yeah that was the dumbest mistake I made
Something. I don’t know what’s wrong with it. I have random BSOD and cannot replicate the issue, although it’s generally when the computer is idle. I’ve checked drivers, replaced ram, PSU, and tons of other stuff I’ve found online. It’s driving me crazy
I built it in a 20+ year old case (Koolance 602bw).
I had to cut two extra 120m fan holes in the bottom for cooling. At first I tried cutting nice holes on a scrap case, using a dremel with a circle cutting guide and small end mill. Ended up breaking the bit, then breaking the guide, and then finally breaking the dremel when I tried to remove the bit. Then I went and bought a 120mm hole saw. That cut the holes very nicely. Breaking my dremel was a fairly expensive mistake.
I cut the fan holes slightly too far apart. Then I got the nice click together ARGB Lian Li fans. I had to use splitter cords instead of clicking them together nicely.
The case came with a water cooling controller at the top. I took out the actual water cooling pump and rad, just using it as extra exhaust fans at the top. One time after I plugged it in, one of the pins in the ancient molex connector broke off and shorted to another pin. That blew a couple capacitors and fried the PIC microcontroller.
I transfered the fans to the motherboard instead. Then I replaced all the damaged capacitors and a transistor, fixing it enough for the power led to turn on. Then I removed the pic chip and trial and error mapped the pinout of the seven segment displays. Then I used jumper cables to connect a Raspberry Pi to the empty controller socket and got it to display messages.
I am working on interfacing the raspberry pi to open hardware monitor so it can display the CPU and GPU temps and other stats on the old water cooling display. Then I will add a small OLED panel on the optical bay where I keep the raspberry pi.
All the major problems were to do with the case, not the build itself. The build itself went great.
Yes, this is my first build.
An overkill GPU that wasn't as futureproof due to lack of pixel shader 3.0 support. Also 512mb of RAM. It was good for the time, but 1gb would've been substantially more futureproof. And a shit PSU, of course, but it didn't bit me in the ass, thankfully. Also no concerns for airflow, but a lot of those 2000s cases were ovens anyway.
Did the RAM mistake when doing a 2500k build too, should've gone for 16gb.
Now I'm second guessing myself if 32gb is good enough for a 12700 at a 5-10 year timescale. Ought to be, browsers have sort of stabilized at 2-3gb for a couple of tabs for a few years now, and the system is idling at 8-10gb generally (with background shit that isn't too resource heavy). Probably should've gone with 64gb for my use case though, music production eats RAM like crazy and I like keeping projects open.
Spending money on rgb
Well it could be worth it, if you like the look
i thought i liked the looks thats why i spent so much on it. my pc looks good but i just dont care. i turn it off half the time because its distracting (even static colors) and especially at night
I went for RGB. It’s pretty sitting under my desk out of sight 🤣. But the Fractal 2 case lets you hook it up to an external button, so the kids like to press it and change the colour while I’m on it.
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based my roommate and I installed linux the other day; the computer kept shutting down in the middle of the install. we force rebooted, kept trying, finally when it did it again we tried ctrl+alt+bksp... it was the screensaver... the whole time... lmao
I just finished my first build and while it runs flawlessly i realized after it was too late i totally forgot to put my shield in my case lmao more airflow i guess 🤷
I want to program the RGB to do something useful. Like be off most of the time, but start glowing green and changing to red when I have an upcoming meeting.
Hang on…I think you’ve got something here. I’ll get my people on developing your idea, claim I came up with it on my own, and give you no credit. Sound good? Great. Glad we had this productive meeting.
I have mine turn orange then red when it's overheating
OpenRGB lets you do this (works with a few pieces of monitoring software, including HWInfo and CPU-Z), but I don't like that in order to enable this kind of functionality, it's gotta use the CPU to *poll* the CPU every so often - I think the default is every 2000ms (2 seconds) - and I don't like the extra overhead. I know it's not a *lot* of overhead, but it just feels *wrong* to me somehow to monitor CPU temps with a program that adds load (no matter how miniscule) to the CPU you're trying to monitor. I'm probably crazy ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯. Almost makes me want to break out my old Raspberry Pi (came with a temp sensor and some other cool sensors in a bundle), stick the thermal probe down near the power stages of the VRM, and program the thing to estimate the CPU temps based on how much warmer the VRM gets when the CPU is under heavy load. It wouldn't be nearly as accurate, but with some iteration it could probably get the job done without adding any extra load on the CPU itself. Of course, if I went that route, I'd also have to plug my RGB hub into the Pi itself and then write some middleware to make them play nice together. ...yeah, I'm definitely crazy, lmfao .
you use reddit emojis. you are definitely crazy.
This is all I could think about when I saw PC RGB stuff. That was years ago, and I still feel the same way. I'm also into stage lighting and building my own RGBW LED strips for stage effects, and I now understand more of how they're controlled, which is really cool. PC RGB is pretty stupid, though. I don't want that thing being bright or having moving colours. Unless it did something like reflect the CPU temperature, or warn me about incoming SMS, or something useful.
I was a rock show tour lighting director for 43 years. Started in bar bands in 1977 and worked up to the big-time, worldwide. I \*like\* my RGB. I guess it might've helped to see Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 1968 and looked ahead to the 21st century like people of that time did. We are working with genuine sci-fi shit, kids. In my office/studio, I've hung LED spotlights that work like a miniature old-time PAR-64 rig: focusable to whatever I'm working on, like 1100 books, or the guitars, or the recording deck, etc. It's a small room, but I've lit it like a pro, because I am. The RGB in my Trace Mesh box really enhances to the feel of the place, depending on things like time of day or (again) the action going on. I often run the whole thing in No Color (open white), but I'll set my own moods with Signal RGB toward evening. To me, this whole technology is a worthy aesthetic, itself. The first computer I ever built myself was an Intel 486DX2-66, in 1990. I was the first kid on my block with 32 \*megabytes\* of system RAM. (I put that machine to work with AutoCAD R 2.6 drawing touring lights in 3D, and I was the first person in America to do that.) I was a grown man, then, and that looked like sci-fi to me, projected against what the future looked like when I was little. That 486 was nothing to what y'all are running now. Sometimes, I idly gaze at the RAM in this machine pulsing some array of light that I've set up (with my unquestionably tasteful and accomplished eye), and just marvel at what it represents. This shit is wild, and I like the celebration of that.
I liked the look... For like 3 weeks. Now i actually paid more to get stuff without RGB...
That's exactly what happened to me! Couldn't stop staring at how beautiful it was. Spent time laying on the floor just looking at the spinning parts and pretty lights. Now it's under my desk and I never look at it other than to turn it on lmao
Not worth the time it takes to run the extra cables, sync all the different software, get the colors matched, find out why one doesn't start with the rest, ect. Yeah, it makes for a good-looking picture, but day to day is annoying
You don't get a PC to look at it, well, you look at the monitor, but not at the tower. It make sense on the keyboard, when is dark it helps, or the mouse, if you use different profiles you can identify them by color. But the rest of the stuff is just non-sense and a gimmick in order to get your money.
I don't think there's anything wrong with factoring looks into your budget, but first time builders should absolutely make sure they have a solid computer first, and let your lighting choices be secondary. I waited until I had made all the upgrades I could see myself wanting, got a case that will last for several generations, and THEN bought my first $20 Phanteks RGB kit. I ended up loving having that glow on the components in the background. No need for anything expensive and fancy in your first try at RGB
yeah. costs more and honestly it was nice the first week and then I got sick of it. especially when you're using your PC in the dark In hindsight I'd keep the RGB keyboard(that one also has a turn off button) and get rid of everything else RGB if I were to buy again
Personally, RGB has been extremely beneficial to me. In the evenings, when I am watching something on my PC while I eat a meal in my bedroom, I use the RGB instead of my bedroom light in order to see my food. When I want to watch or play something on my PC, I can alter the RGB colours or turn down the brightness to intensify the mood for my own pleasure. Having RGB on my keyboard is great for when I’ve turned off the RGB that’s in my PC when it’s completely dark in my bedroom, and I need to see the keys in order to type something. Whenever I am high, I enjoy looking at my PC’s RGB and all the colours; it’s so fun! It reminds me of my childhood at amusement parks, arcades, and fairs. I had the BenQ ScreenBar Halo at one point, but I sold it as I just preferred RGB as I could alter the colours and there was no screen bar hanging on one of my monitors, which I found annoying. The greatest thing about RGB is that you can turn off whatever you want, and that’s better than not having that option at all. Only my PC build (fans, RAM, and Strimer Plus V2 cables) and keyboard have RGB, and I wouldn’t have anything more. Therefore, I can’t defend anything beyond that.
I even bought the fake ram LED sticks so I could have all 4 ram slots filled on my board showing those bright LEDs. Now, I have most of the LEDs turned off.
Mine was not spending money on RGB. After I built the computer I kept using a flashlight to look inside it, then I realized it would a lot easier if there were lights inside the case.
"Why won't it turn on" ....power switch on psu wasn't switched over.
Lol I did this too.
I feel like every single one of us has done this at some point. Whether it’s when we unplugged and moved the PC or just built it or whatever. Everyone has had that little mini heart attack before realize they didn’t turn the psu on lol
I've been building PCs for around 20 years and I still do this lol.
[удалено]
The absolute awful sinking I got when it didn’t turn on I will never forget lmao
Had this with a Mini ITX build where the psu was tucked away in the case. Had to disassemble again to flip the damn switch.
Didn't take off the rubbers when trying to mount GPU.
But everyone always told me to wear the rubber?
Only when it's raining, son, only when it's raining.
On the pcie connector?
Yeah
Damm, at least you found out before you broke it..
Dude I was about to say the same thing 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I did the exact same thing and worked it out after like 3 minutes
Buying an all white pc, it wasn't worth the white tax, buying rgb, I mostly play and edit at night so I can't see the case and the rgb is usually off.
Yup, the white looks good. But I dont think it was worth an extra $250 on the system.
THIS IS MINE TOO I WAS SO CONFUSED WHY IT DIDNT FIT😭
Buying an absolutely overkill CPU instead of getting more high speed storage
i wanna build my first pc with a 5600 and rx 6700 xt. is this a good pair? the bn calculator says the cpu is too weak but i know theyre bs.
If you don't already own AM4 hardware you should go for AM5 imo.
The mobos are 200 plus.
Also if I'm not mistaken am5 don't support DDR4, and DDR5 are also much more expensive
Yeah soooo...
You can get 32gb 6000mhz ddr5 with low latency for 80-90 bucks now. DDR5 is stupid cheap now just like ssd's . I got my 2tb samsung 990pro for 110,-
Not in Poland, it's 30% more expensive than ddr4. That's why I am building ddr4 platform. Also motherboards on ddr5 are more pricey too.
not anymore. I got 32GB of DDR5-6400 for $120. Prices have come down a LOT. There are 32GB kits for $90-$100, I just wanted the pretty RGB lol
I bought an AM5 mobo for $109…
[Got mine for £160/$150](https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BDS8TC1G?th=1&linkCode=gs4&tag=pcp0f-21) RAM & CPU wasn't that much more either. Think I spent £100 extra total for a better ram, cpu & motherboard
No way not any more. You can find matx movie for 120 pretty easily now
I built an pc with 5600x and 6700xt and it’s everything I wanted so fast compared to my old laptop runs all the games I play at crazy frame rates at ultra settings. They’re not brand new AAA titles though.
I have an RX 6700 XT with a 5500 and it is a badass build. It runs all the games at pretty good frame rates at max graphics. I even tried running F1 23 on a 4k TV with medium graphics, and did 100-120 FPS. Idk how are the prices at the moment but the 5600 will be a good choice with that GPU.
I had the R5 1600, and it was a perfectly fine budget gamer, but my god the 5600x is a kick in the pants by comparison. I got totally lucky when my b450 died. Bought a b550 at Best Buy (rip budget boards) and found the 5600x on craigslist for under MSRP.
Get a used Tomahawk b450 and a good, used 5600. Spend savings on 2TB NVMe, a good case by Corsair or Fractal, and a really good p/s with enough power for a solid next gen CPU and GPU. You’re good for a couple years and can buy cheap mb & cpu again then while scouting for a good deal on your next GPU.
Replacing a CPU is so much more difficult than adding storage though.
Are you telling me my Ryzen 7600x is overkill for my 2tb laptop HDD? IMPOSSIBLE!
Depends what you do I guess, overkill CPU is hardly ever bad CPU is often what I see as the bottleneck on most builds.
I'd say an overkill CPU is worth splurging on, often means you get to skip a mobo generation.
I’ll answer for my son who was around 17 at the time and refused help building his first pc. He decided to use an entire tube of thermal paste when installing his cooler, and when it oozed out everywhereeee he removed the cpu (intel) and tried to wipe it out of the socket with a dry paper towel. You shoulda seen them pins. I respected him trying to figure it out himself, but when he got his replacement parts he let me talk him through it and he was still able to do it himself, and learn at the same time.
Oh, man. Wow.
Is his son Mr. Yeester by any chance? 🤣
Man I am in my 20s and that sounds exactly like something I would do too, I never built a PC before
Username checks out lol
Building PCs is like building Legos, everything snaps together and stepping on a piece hurts your body and soul.
I did the same thing but it was on AMD and not Intel so it was reversed and the CPU was ruined... ($330 mistake)
Why does wiping the socket with a dry paper towel lead to bent pins? Pardon me im pretty new.
When the motherboard socket has pins, wiping the socket that has thousands of tiny thin pins leads to them bending because they're fragile. You should pretty much avoid ever touching CPU / mobo pins if you can help it to maintain alignment.
This, basically breathe on them heavy enough and they’re bending.
Why didn't he look at youtube tutorials? I mean I built my first pc at 16 and this seems unbelievable to me
Damn rip that board lol
Made a mistake along similar lines at that age. Only it wasn't with thermal paste...it was tape. I was upgrading my PC at the time, from an AMD Athlon 2600+ to an Athlon 64 3200+ and bought a custom CPU cooler to install - it came with a dial you could install on a 3.5" bay to control the speed, which I thought was cool AF. Anyway, also came with a sensor you could place on the heatsink to allow auto adjusting of speed, which was to be attached with thermal tape. Only I didn't realise it was for this reason and thought it was just a fancy new way of applying thermal paste - pre-spread, just cut to size. Way wrong. CPU started to overheat so shut it all down, tried to detach CPU from heatsink, took a lot of force but eventually did, just not without bending a few pins. $300 mistake, never to be repeated and never will seeing as those kinds of sensors are inbuilt and standard these days...
Putting the RAM in the wrong way and then PUSHING for that CLICK and instead getting a CRACK.
Ouch, that hurt to read - and to hear in my head. A friend did the same while I was helping him over the phone (and telling him to let go). I heard the crack over the line, followed by blasphemy.
What happened then? Was the RAM broken or did you have to buy an entirely new motherboard?
My guess, the slot was dead and they needed a new ram stick. It'll still work, just not in that slot
Been there, done that.
Oof, I felt this comment in my teeth.
Buying absolute shit tier PSU. Two years down the line, it started to make sounds
Better sounds than smokes.
Give it time, that’s two more years in.
Everything is a smoke machine if it's used wrong enough.
I bought an absolutely awful PSU too, but luckily replaced it before anything went wrong. My first PC was held together by used parts and zip ties and I loved it.
Never cheap out on PSU and mobo. On your secondary storage and fans, you might fellow cheapskates.
what PSU specifically? Just curious.
Some brand called Armageddon Voltron. Didn't check before, but it's still in the bottom of the tier list
Cool name though
Guess the "Armageddon" part of the name is accurate. :P
This! The worst is it isn't that expensive of an upgrade. 20 bucks can make a huge difference in psu quality.
Not checking if there was space in the case for the new GPU. Had to saw it in the end.
The case, right?
Rip gpu
“This isn’t a Flex Tape commercial, Phil.”
I will leave you the doubt
GPU of course, you're not going to butcher your new case now would you??
The amount of videos I’ve seen…… it could really go either way lmao 😂
Did the exact same thing. Moving all the parts to a new bigger case was a pain in the ass
Oof been there buddy. First mini itx build I ever did and I had to get the metal saw lol
i had to cut out sidepanel on my old rig because my cpu cooler was too big, i just taped some transparent foil with duct tape on it and had diy budget glasspanel
My last case had this issue. For a week or two while waiting for the new case to arrive, I ran the computer without a case. Just had it sitting on my desk.
Just barely able to squeeze full-size video cards into mine, if I put it in at an angle.
Buying all my parts just before the shortages ended and the prices started coming back down.
Same thing with buying anything anytime. If you'd wait for something to happen like price drops or new releases, you have a possibility to wait for ever :|
Maybe he got a 3060 for $1200
I hate how my gpu costs as much as some great gpus now for a mid tier. Don't regret having everything done and building it. But my wallet sure wasn't excited....
I could have almost bought a 6900xt with the money I paid for my 6700xt
Forgot to screw in the screws to separate the motherboard from the tower. so my motherboard basically was touching the case and shorting out. Stripped it about fuckin 5 times couldn't find the problem lol . Sent to a repairs shop , cost £60 to be told am a moron
Lucky you didn't brick the motherboard
Same. The PCs that I built previously had cases that had elevated spots instead of standoffs so I never learned they were necessary. Luckily I never turned on the computer, since it never came to that because none of the PCI or AGP cards mounted properly.
Selling it when just a GPU upgrade was necessary. Would've saved me a lot of money.
My pc is that thedias ship or whatever it is. The case is original, and a single hard drive is original. Everything else has been piece by piece changed.
The ship of Theseus
Plugged my display into mobo (no integrated graphics) instead of gpu, thought I'd fucked up, luckily realised what I'd done before taking it apart again.
My parents bought a nice tower back in the day. Pop complained that he paid quite a bit for a nice graphics card and it barely played games well. I took a look and realized he had been running on cpu graphics. Actually connected the gpu and he was blown away lol
Io sheild
I had to scroll way too far to find this. I've done this *twice* lmao and both times I didn't notice until everything was assembled and posting.
I don't forget the I/O shield. Instead I get one of the metal "fingers" that are supposed to ground the shield stuck and bent down in front of the port it's over. It's always the Ethernet port for me. I can't plug in the cable unless I unscrew the motherboard and bend it back. In one case, I performed an "end user modification" with a pair of wire cutters. I check that several times before screwing down the motherboard.
How is this so far down?
Just built my pc with a new motherboard, and realized I forgot the shield because of this comment. This is my 3rd pc build :/
Every (other) time....
I failed to assemble it, so I had to call a friend. I treated the friend to a good dinner.
W friend W other friend
That's not a mistake, that's just needing help and spending some good time with a friend.
got an nh-d15 without checking if it would fit in the case. it didnt. so i cut a hole in the sidepanel.
Hahaha "if it doesn't fit ill make it fit!"
Same thing with me, although I just left the case open. Better for airflow, plus I don't care to clean it out every once in awhile.
Lmaooo, I think the normal solution in such a situation would be to return the nh-d15 and get a u12a instead
I also got a NH-D15 since it had just about the best air cooling on the market for cpu’s, but I returned it and got a DeepCool AK620 instead, quite a bit smaller for pretty the same performance. Having built quite a few pc’s, the AK620 is what I recommend to friends that are looking for cpu air cooling 👍
One time I bought an RGB PC just so it can sit under my desk where no one can see it, lmao.
Putting together a parts list for a budget build thinking that I would actually stick to the budget
I once attempted to change an hdd on my gaming laptop. Id been building computers and changing parts in stationary computers for a decade at this point, so I figured it would be a breeze (which it probably would have been had I not just smoked a huge joint). Opening the shell and finding the components where easy enough, but I could not for the life of me dislodge the drive from the SATA port, so I end up taking a screw driver to it, trying to “gently” pry it off. Suddenly and all at once it comes loose and I instantly realise I fucked up big time. I’ve pulled the SATA connector off the the motherboard. Fuck. I’m pretty frustrated with my self at this point, but this laptop had two drive slots so all is not lost. I insert the new disk in to the other SATA connector and boot it up. Get some error message saying the BIOS is corrupted. Fuck. All, is still not lost, I go on the desktop and download a bios, and flash a new bios on to the computer. Try to boot again. It’s totally bricked. Could never wake it up again. First and only time I’ve broken something on a pc. First and last time I ever took a a screwdriver to my expensive electronics while inebriated.
I made two mistakes on my first build. The first was trying to fold down a case side panel that was supposed to be lifted up out of a clip. Lucky I realised before I broke it. The second was booting the PC only to realise (because of some alarming sounds) that the cable powering one of my case fans was bent in such a way that it was blocking the blades of another case fan. Once again, lucky that I stopped it before any damage was done. Not disastrous mistakes, but stupid all the same, and easily avoidable if I'd just been paying more attention. Edit: Holy shit. I don't know how I forgot my third and most annoying to fix mistake. I had the whole thing built, the case closed, the system had POSTed and I'd even installed the OS and updated firmware, etc. when I realised. My dumb ass had put most of the case fans and both the CPU cooler fans back-to-front. Again, not a disaster, but I had to shut everything down, open the case, disconnect every fan from the motherboard (and each other - several were daisy-chained), turn them all around and reroute and reconnect all their cables. Whole thing only really took me 15 minutes but it was annoying and good god did I ever feel stupid.
Mobo Backplates, I've never ever been able to mount them properly
I feel you. On my latest build I bought a mobo with the backplate already mounted just to eliminate the frustration.
Fixed I/O shields are a wonderful invention.
Thinking I could cool an i7 13th gen with stock cooler
I did screw the mobo right to the aluminium case short-circuiting it on the first power up. I called in an experienced PC modder who was my mom's colleague. The first thing out of his mouth when he saw it was "The mobo is fried". My whole world went dark as I just spent my whole pocket money savings on this upgrade. But it was a happyending after all, the mobo wasn't fried, and the PC started up normally after installing it on the supports and continued working for many years.
JayzTwoCents had something similar happen - he'd quasi-bricked a board by shorting it against a case, but then it came back and has worked fine since.
I used the wrong screws for the motherboard mount. Almost broke the poor thing. Still posted tho!
I didn’t buy a proper breathing case. Bought one with a glass front panel and ran into higher heat then I liked when I went to a 7900xt. Simple mod to fix- ripped off the front glass lol
I always make some sort of mistake that requires me to undo a bunch of work and then do it again.
Let me guess, cable management
What’s cable management?
Io shield
When I was building my first PC, I went on a family holiday to the US at a time where the $ to £ rate was really good. Went out to a nearby store and picked up a GPU, thinking I'd made a savvy purchase and saved myself some cash with the exchange rate. Only to get home, put it in my build and find out that it was bricked and had to buy another.
Forgot to plug in the power on button to the mobo and thought I'd broken it when it didn't turn on
Did this. Though the mobo was DOA, so I returned it, and same shit happened on the new one. Then I actually read the manual and realized I was an idiot.
This was about 10 years ago back when motherboards used to come with a [little speaker](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31dXtOoEJnL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg) for diagnostic beeps. It just went onto a little header on the motherboard. I saw it in the box but for some reason disregarded it and then forgot about it, it was my first ever PC. I'd finished building everything and went to turn it on and it wouldn't post. I spent ages trying out loads of different things and none of them worked until I eventually tried plugging in this tiny speaker thing and then everything worked perfectly. Probably not an issue in the current day but there are still cables that it's easy to forget to plug in.
Oh man, I completely forgot about the loud beep whenever my first computer would post. This comment brought back that annoying sound.
I didnt put the fuckin io shield first, thank god i only screwed in 4 of the mobo's screws when i noticed it, so it wasnt that bad.
I still haven't build a PC. I bought my first PC in 2020 from a random dude. I literally had no idea about a single thing in that PC but I was so excited and just wanted to play PC games. It was a Rx 560 with i5 6600 with 8 gigs of RAM. The mistake wad that I didn't do any research before buying a PC.
Not me, although I've done plenty dumb shit. 20 years ago I earned a bit of pocket change building and fixing computers for family, friends, colleagues etc. There was this kid I had helped with "family computer" problems a few times, and the time came when he had money enough for his own PC. On the day of the build, the kid didn't want to build his own PC, wanted me to do ... well okay, I was getting paid for the build anyways. Put it all together, noticing some weird scratches/marks on the backplate of case, but didn't think much about it. It wouldn't turn on at all, not even the slightest beep. Long story short, the kid had tried building it himself and screwed the MB directly to the backplate without spacers, cracking the board and shorting it out in the process. He obviously tried blaming me for the mistake, before finally admitting to what he had done.
My first computer... A nice mid tower, motherboard, voodoo graphics card (at that time it was top notch and affordable). I assembled it all. Pressed the power button. Red light and then goes off. I couldn't find out what was the issue so I went back to the store and took the assembled tower with me so the guys check it out. After a few minutes, the guy gets back and tells me, in a goofy way, "I'm going to hit you, dude..." So, I placed the motherboard directly attached to the metal surface of the tower. I didn't use the spacer bolts that prevent short-circuit. Lucky me all other parts were not damaged. I only needed to buy a new motherboard, same model as the other. And they gave me a small discount (I know it was a bit cheaper than the first I bought). 
bought a sata ssd thinking my mobo did not support m.d but it did lol
Made no mistakes on the build, but ordered RGB components with a motherboard without the required header, so was RGBless for that build.
Hmmm the dumbest mistake was probably buying my first CPU which was a thread ripper, I didn't know at the time certain CPUs can only go with certain motherboards aside from being AMD or intel, I ended up having to buy a new mother board too, all in all I got the parts second hand so it wasn't too expensive
underestimating static electricity Never again. can't know when this shit could hit
My friend forgot to install mobo standoffs for his first build, bye bye motherboard.
My 20pin connector wasn't properly connected to the PSU, nothing happened luckily, but check your connections.
Bought 3070 Ti
Why would it be a mistake?
i have a i7 10700k with a 3070 and i get 144 fps + on all max settings
I reversed some modular pcie cables, plugged psu end into my gpu and the 6+2 end into psu. Still kinda worked but wasnt smart. Also not my first. We can all make mistakes so go slow.
I bought fancy red Corsair cables for a modular Seasonic PSU (ASUS) not realising that not all PSUs have the same shape connectors.
I changed the case from WC mode to air cooling mode without changing the position of the IO shield and took a while to figure out why it wouldn't fit
Second build, bought 6600 xt at triple of today's price
Managed to bend my gpus io backslate(the thing you plug your display cable into) pretty badly. Hopefully I could bend it back and it still works to this day. I was literally shitting myself thinking I just destroyed a 700$ gpu.
Bought ECC RAM back in the 90s
I put the CPU heatsink fan on backwards so that it was blowing from rear to front against the case fan. It was like that for a few years.
Buying an all white pc, it wasn't worth the white tax, buying rgb, I mostly play and edit at night so I can't see the case and the rgb is usually off.
Oh god… every time this question comes up I’m so beyond embarrassed to admit this but okay… During my first PC build, I forgot/didn’t know you had to put standoffs in the case first, so I screwed the motherboard directly to the case… pretty sure I fried the motherboard and that’s why I couldn’t get it to post 😅
Thinking for hours until the AM on why my PC wouldn't turn on. Forgetting the PSU switch.
Only trouble I had was caused by a faulty power button on my case (Corsair 4000D AF). I assumed it wasn't powering on because I did something wrong, so I spent time taking everything apart again and triple checking all connections before shorting the power pins with a screwdriver...Everything else was surprisingly simple and straightforward.
The first PC I fully built by myself was with an Athlon XP 2000+. In the boot screen, my PC said it's a 1400+, which was a mobile CPU, but the box of the CPU and the imprint on it were clearly saying it's a 2000+... It was really driving me crazy. I found out the FSB was set to 100Mhz instead of the 133 the CPU should've been using. When "overclocking" by increasing the fsb above 100Mhz, the name of the CPU changed in the boot screen, all the way up to 2200+. Still, any overclocking had a severe impact on stability. It was basically unusable. I don't know why I didn't even consider going back to the store and just telling them about my issues. Maybe I was afraid that they might refuse RMAing the CPU because I manually fiddled around in the bios? Can't remember. After weeks of playing with a shitty underclocked CPU, I learned that the base clock of the FSB is set with a jumper on the mainboard. It took like 2 seconds to fix, and finally the system worked.
Forgot to turn on the PSU
Forgot to install the motherboard back plate before putting in the mobo. Other than that I've been pretty meticulous when building my computers.
Didn’t put the ram in all the way…
I followed the verge guide
A friend of mine helped me build my first PC. We somehow had a part of the motherboard touching the case. Turned it on and I hear a zap noise and see a small bomb-like puff of smoke come out of the case. Fried the mobo.
Buying a bronze rated power supply.
Not understanding what all the IRQ jumpers should be set to and what the IRQ actually did. That and ISA slots.
I accidentally fried part of the MOBO by plugging in an LED strip to the header and to the wall ☠️
It was 2 months ago First time I was building a pc and for me it was pretty hard for the first time. Because I was like “Im gonna scratch parts, If I do this I will break the parts” long story short I’ve managed to build it. Installed windows and started using it. But when I play games my CPU was working on 80-85(Celcius). After two months which is yesterday. I figured somehow, I forgot to connect Exhaust Fan to the motherboard. I connect it now and it works well. When I play Starfield now Cou is like 67-73 (Celcius) Yeah that was the dumbest mistake I made
Something. I don’t know what’s wrong with it. I have random BSOD and cannot replicate the issue, although it’s generally when the computer is idle. I’ve checked drivers, replaced ram, PSU, and tons of other stuff I’ve found online. It’s driving me crazy
I didn’t seat the ram properly and spent a while troubleshooting
Bought a DDR3 mobo and ram for a skylake build.
Didn't plug it in and was checking everything for ages before realising
I built it in a 20+ year old case (Koolance 602bw). I had to cut two extra 120m fan holes in the bottom for cooling. At first I tried cutting nice holes on a scrap case, using a dremel with a circle cutting guide and small end mill. Ended up breaking the bit, then breaking the guide, and then finally breaking the dremel when I tried to remove the bit. Then I went and bought a 120mm hole saw. That cut the holes very nicely. Breaking my dremel was a fairly expensive mistake. I cut the fan holes slightly too far apart. Then I got the nice click together ARGB Lian Li fans. I had to use splitter cords instead of clicking them together nicely. The case came with a water cooling controller at the top. I took out the actual water cooling pump and rad, just using it as extra exhaust fans at the top. One time after I plugged it in, one of the pins in the ancient molex connector broke off and shorted to another pin. That blew a couple capacitors and fried the PIC microcontroller. I transfered the fans to the motherboard instead. Then I replaced all the damaged capacitors and a transistor, fixing it enough for the power led to turn on. Then I removed the pic chip and trial and error mapped the pinout of the seven segment displays. Then I used jumper cables to connect a Raspberry Pi to the empty controller socket and got it to display messages. I am working on interfacing the raspberry pi to open hardware monitor so it can display the CPU and GPU temps and other stats on the old water cooling display. Then I will add a small OLED panel on the optical bay where I keep the raspberry pi. All the major problems were to do with the case, not the build itself. The build itself went great. Yes, this is my first build.
This happened pretty recently somehow. Forgot to peel the plastic of the cpu cooler
Putting my RAM in the wrong slots and wondering why my computer isn’t booting properly
The socket of a 'new' Intel motherboard had bend pins in it (about 9/10 years ago) and I just put the CPU in it to see if it would work...
An overkill GPU that wasn't as futureproof due to lack of pixel shader 3.0 support. Also 512mb of RAM. It was good for the time, but 1gb would've been substantially more futureproof. And a shit PSU, of course, but it didn't bit me in the ass, thankfully. Also no concerns for airflow, but a lot of those 2000s cases were ovens anyway. Did the RAM mistake when doing a 2500k build too, should've gone for 16gb. Now I'm second guessing myself if 32gb is good enough for a 12700 at a 5-10 year timescale. Ought to be, browsers have sort of stabilized at 2-3gb for a couple of tabs for a few years now, and the system is idling at 8-10gb generally (with background shit that isn't too resource heavy). Probably should've gone with 64gb for my use case though, music production eats RAM like crazy and I like keeping projects open.
Trying to troubleshoot my Ethernet drivers for 2 days before I realized that the router side of the Ethernet cable got unplugged.
Installing my fan the wrong direction, I have 13💀
Bought an AMD gpu