I am old. I remember when pricewatch.com and tigerdirect.com existed. You wanted to build a PC, you were picking parts manually uphill both ways while wearing an onion on your belt.
Darn kids these days with their PC Part Pickers putting their builds in a tidy list.
Back in my day, you went to Babagge’s, CompUSA, Fry’s, or the local small PC builder shop, and hope they had some decent parts in stock.
Microcenter. They were always very well stocked. Well at least most of the time.
I love Micro Center. I wish they’d expand or offer online ordering and shipping.
Wait, what does the onion do in this scenario? That seems oddly specific.
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No. First you always say “it’s so easy to build a PC, you’re dumb to get a console for gaming”. Pay attention to always say this, even in unrelated circumstances
Then, after years of saying that “it’s so easy”, when your friend finally says “I finally want to build a PC, can you help me?”, you drop this bomb
Just buy a pre built, take all the parts out and put em back in for the full experience. It really feels like a new build if you leave it apart for a few weeks so you forget where everything was!
- Decide your budget
- Go to logicalincrements.com
- Find the tier that matches your budget
- Buy that
- Enjoy your PC
Once you get a feel for building and owning, then you can start making more informed choices about what you really need.
Obvs this is a meme community, but a great site for PC builds is logical increments.com. They spec out different build suggestions for various budget and have some localizations too. Great starting point, especially for beginners.
I think the “Destitute” level should drop the case and replace it with a paperclip (to bridge the power button)
