How hard is it to build a gaming PC? Should I just buy a prebuilt instead?

>retard knows next to nothing about PCs
imagine my shock, no wonder consoles sell in the millions

>not everyone knows about this thing I know about

if you want to see PCs gain popularity, take it upon yourself to educate people about them instead of whining they chose the simpler plug n' play alternative. PCs are very obtuse in comparison. it's either pay ridiculous amounts of money out the ass for shitty prebuilds, build one yourself which can be very intimidating to newcomers, or buy a console that'll do the same thing with much less risk involved.

Is there a problem?

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cope

(you)

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You need to be able to:
- read
- follow a simple scheme
- have hands to put cables in where they need to be put
- watch one youtube video

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Prebuilts aint worth it, they're often overpriced for their actual specs. building a PC is easier than you think it is, just watch some youtube videos on the topic (there are fuckloads of tutorials) and you'll get an idea of how it works. You order the parts online, plug them into each other and screw it into a case. a retard could do it

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>live in eu
>prebuild pc's cost 20$ - 30$ more

at the moment you would honestly have to be pretty dumb to screw up when building a PC
it has never been easier, especially with the online resources for guidance if you need it
just remember to create a bootable USB or something with your legally obtained OS' install disc on it or you may need to waste a SATA on a CD drive

I use my optical drive all the time, but I'm not a poorfag who buys 250gb SSDs.

Watercooling is trash and the best air cooling is better than average water cooling for lower price.

>he doesn't run his drives in a RAID configuration
imagine having no redundancy

Imagine setting up RAID for your Gundam anime blu ray rips. Important data is secured, RAID is generally worthless except for data hoarders who need psychological care.

go with normal cooling water cooling is meme

I run a RAID0 x2 2TB drives for my games. It's pretty comfy and fast.

Vidya can easily be downloaded if the drives fail.

nah youll be fine with air cooling
dont forget the blue LEDs to ensure your PC stays cool
avoid red ones those make it overheat

The longest bit is installing windows and all the driver software and stuff. The building process will take like an hour max including cable management.

Easy as shit unless you buy a retarded PC case that makes cable management a pain in the ass or too small to work with. You literally just read the motherboard manual and work from there.

Ask a friend to help you out

>Friend helped me building a pc that's way better than his
truly based

Its easier than lego

its not difficult at all, its only reddit fucking retards boasting about building their gay rainbow colored LED PCs like its an achievement or something

you will be fine, even if you don't know shit about building one. sockets are built in an idiot-proof way, so you can't really plug anything wrong or fuck up in any major way

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Bros how do i install linux?

delete system 32

install gentoo

this
have helped many friends build their PCs
it's always fun to handle hardware more expensive than what you own

Building can be kinda annoying especially if you want to have good cable management, but it’s really not that hard if you just look up instructions. Only thing I really hate is installing CPU coolers alone, it’s kind of a pain to put it down evenly while also screwing the cooler on mobo.

But if you feel like that you’d rather pay a bit to bypass the work, I highly recommend that you still choose the parts yourself and then separately choose for someone to put it together. Entirely prebuily computers are usually a shitty deal, at worst having weird ways to cut corners (”big brand” companies using weird irregular solutions that make upgrading a pain) or just simply have air the prices (PC packages prebuilt from regular customer-accessible parts do this even if they don’t have anything else ”wrong” in them). Only exception is that if you can get a prebuilt package for an exceptional discount.

It's easy to build, but there's a higher chance one of your parts will get fucked up in shipping. That happened to me and I was so upset that I had all these parts, but one of them was broken so the PC wouldn't work that I just sent everything back and bought prebuilt.

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Even then, you can get away with aircooling

it's a meme for rich people.

fuck off you worthless brain damaged retard

Not hard at all.
No.

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rent free

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*Ahem*

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