• Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml
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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

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    7 months ago

    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!

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      7 months ago

      I got a nice prebuilt relativly cheap in 21, but the case had 1 fan in front. I immediately swapped everything to a case with many fans.

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    7 months ago
    1. Decide your budget
    2. Go to logicalincrements.com
    3. Find the tier that matches your budget
    4. Buy that
    5. 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.

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      Yeah, even with years of experience, LI has been my go-to for speccing out a build. They update pretty regularly and they offer tiers even without dGPUs that’ll still hold up for last-gen gaming. Good way to introduce people to the basics of computing hardware.

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    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.

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      7 months ago

      I think the “Destitute” level should drop the case and replace it with a paperclip (to bridge the power button)

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    7 months ago

    Or … instead of sending them down a rabbit hole, just point them to a web shop with a PC builder and tell them you will do it together to get an optimised build.

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    7 months ago

    I was considering just building a pc for my ex. Lot of money I don’t need to spend anymore I guess

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    What I did for my first build was:

    1. Buy a 4070 Super
    2. Look up a parts list / build guide for that card
    3. Buy the case from the list
    4. Absolutely wing it for everything else
    5. Helldivers 2 baybeeeee
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    How to subconsciously gatekeep PC ownership from women. I would say this probably meets the tenuous definition of “mansplaining”. Your girl wants to engage in your hobby with you. Why make it seem daunting when it should be fun? Sure, there’s things to learn and lots to read. Did you have somebody overwhelming you with the minutiae of research and “things you have to understand” when you got into PC building? Nurture the newbies, don’t lord your knowledge over them.

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      Did you have somebody overwhelming you with the minutiae of research and “things you have to understand” when you got into PC building?

      I just kinda started plugging shit in where it fit. This was in the days of the ISA bus and mobo DIP switches. All my technical knowledge was learned through breaking something and trying to fix it.

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        This is how I fried my parents mobo when I was young, took it apart and put it back together… With the ram in backwards.

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    Dead accurate meme.

    My protip if you really can’t bother with all that and just want to do expensive Legos is to go to an active forum for PCs where you can simply ask for a recommendation for a build.

    What you need to supply is a budget example and what it needs to cover. I.e. if screen needs to be part of it or if you have one. If you do the resolution and refresh rate is good input (or just make and model which is printed on it). Finally you need an idea of what games you’ll play. With that a mini war will erupt between AMD and Intel and AMD and Nvidia around what would be the best build for the budget.

    Keep in mind to pick a forum based in the same country as you, else the recommendations might not at all fit your budget due to local price variance.

    Hell you could probably make do without a budget if you say you’re unsure how much is reasonable to spend to play the games you wish to play and you’ll get recommendations to that effect as well.

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    just get a macbook, they are the best computers.

    if you really want ludicrous power get a macbook pro, i hear all the best professionals use them so you should have no trouble with video games.

    saves you all that work messing with those stupid outdated tower computers