I will always be a PC gamer but people who say hurrrr durrrrrr its just adult legos xDDD are either larping and bought...

Same here. About 50kUSD spent at the egg alone. People are fucking dumb idiots with no sense of how easy it is to see through their made up lies.

It used to take a mild amount of thought 20 years ago... these days it is literally plug and play. I'm a complete mouthbreathing retard and I've built 3 with no real issues. The only thing I ever had go wrong was one didn't turn on and after looking at it for 30 minutes, my friend and I finally noticed the mobo was slightly off center on one of the pegs on the case and so it was probably conducting through the metal on the case or some retarded shit. Just go on logical increments if it's your first time and follow a guide for your price range

Building a PC is one of the easiest things someone with a functional brain can do.

It's legos for adults. easier than putting together anything from IKEA

You have to try pretty hard to break something

>installing the CPU is less stressgul than connecting the cables to the motherboard

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>makes the same thread 10 times a day for a week
>ironically thinks PC building isn't just metal legos

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Fixing and maintaining a car is harder, cmon man

Don't rush things, make sure you have enough space to lay everything, only start unboxing shit if you have 3 free hours ahead and don't take calls until you finish.
I built mine in less than a couple hours having literally 0 experience and watching multiple tutorials while building it but you can always ask for it to be built in the store for a small fee.

I just get my hand held through any build via youtube videos and shit. I'm a little smarter for it, and maybe that makes me retarded, but I've never broken or lost a piece or struggled with anything in my build. Hit the power button, it works. So easy, a moron could do it - like me.

>Hit power button
>Nothing happens
>Panic, tear everything apart and rebuild
>Notice the PSU has an on/off switch on the back, currently off.
Mother fucker

>PC arrived to my new place
>set up cables, turn on
>nothing
>sweating bullets
>turn out it was just a cable to the motherboard got loose during transport

>building a PC is impossible durrr I'm retarded
>installing Linux is impossible durrr I'm retarded
>oil processing in Factorio is impossible durrr I'm retarded
I really want to give Zig Forums an IQ test and see the results. It seems to have really dumbed down over the past 10 years. At least is still good.

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Whats it like having a learning disability?

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This. Everything is standardized anyway.
More like assembling a pc.

This. I've built at least 10 and never had any issues

>suddent static discharge

boom everything is broken

it's okay, friend, consoles are here for you
you don't need to fret anymore, all the hard thinking is done

>oops I sneezed at the wrong time and now 900$+ of parts are broken and need to be replaced

have you considered not breakdancing on the carpet before touching your motherboard with your pinky

I've built 7 pcs n my life and the worst that's ever happened was forgetting to plig in the power button once.

its not the challenge but the threat

Maybe don't live in a third world country.

>Build most recent PC
>This is the 8th PC I've built
>Never had an issue
>Put it all together
>Press power
>Doesn't fucking boot
>Turns itself off 2 second after booting constantly
>Troubleshoot for 2 hours
>It was the fucking RGB cable, which for some reason was incompatible with my specific case

I will never understand how a fucking RGB lighting controller caused all that. RBG is meme shit anyway. Glad it didn't fucking work.

Nigger a grounding bracelet is cheap as shit and all you'd need to avoid it.
Plus you almost have to be TRYING to manage to build up enough static to damage your components.

No OP is just a fucking brainlet
Go to your local pc store and order parts there with a guarantee if you can not to get fucked by chinks
Be sure that motherboard, cpu and ram are compatible
And that's it, next part is literally adult legos

You don't even need a bracelet, just touch a metal section on a plugged in lamp.

It's because it's so easy that the margins on building a PC are so slim, which ensures that buying and building your own saves you no money. The amount I would save by building literally isn't worth the time I would spend doing it.
There is also a very good chance of 1 component being faulty and needing to be returned, which adds extra ballache when a company can test before shipping and replace immediately from their own stock.

Building from scratch is now something you do for fun, not because you're poor.

Assembling a PC isn't hard, but it always takes way longer than I think it should.
I usually think that it should take around 30-45 minutes, but it always ends up taking 2-3 hours for some odd unexplainable reason.
Just wear an antistatic wrist strap.

I always tend to break something when I change parts in my PC, despite gaming on PCs for 20+ years.
I think it's some hand-eye coordination issue.

Built PCs all my life and never received a broken part.
Maybe you should stop ordering from shit companies and shipping companies

I was fairly lucky my first build was fine aside from a dead hard drive but I had an SSD

Man I must be cursed with parts then.

Have you considered the possibility that you're just a brainlet?

It's really not difficult.
There's a tiny bit of thought involved in making sure your CPU and motherboard are compatible, that you've got enough capacityu in your PSU for everything and that your case is the right size, but otherwise shit is pretty simple plug and play.
The CPU is made pretty obvious as to how it slots in. While the locking lever might feel a little stiff it's just the locking mechanism you're feeling.
Thermal pase doens't need ot be excessive. About a pea-sized blob is enough which you can then spread out. Doin't worry too much about getting it totally even, the act of screwing the heat sink in place will do the reast by sandwiching the paste.

RAM, GPU and cables all tend to be pretty obvious with how you're supposed to connect them up. Case I/O Cables are labelled clearly.

What got me the most nervous was making sure the thermal paste was applied evenly when putting the CPU in.

It is known as Hamhands by those of us from /toy/

Building a PC once you have the parts is easy, the hard part is making sure you have all the parts compatible

I know that that's also possible, but a grounding bracelet essentially makes the risk of ESD zero as long as you're not a collosal retard with it.

Buy the most tried and true components then. Find out what everyone keeps buying and what's the most popular, least chances of anything going wrong.

It's not really risky but it's definitely a bit stressful. Like I've built my computers since I was 14 and I still get a bit stressed when something looks unfamiliar. But at worst you have to send some stuff back because things don't really break from light mishandling anymore. Just buy some brand stuff and post your build on reddit or something so they can look over that everything fits and you'll be perfectly okay.

>its just adult legos ... are either larping
Yeah, you're right. Lego is more time consuming and harder to assemble than PC hardware. To compare the two is disingenuous.

Nah, I'm very slim.
Last time I changed gpu I broke some plastic off of it because the pin connector got stuck.

>not building with CompUSA and CircuitCity

Are you an adult?
If yes, then you failed as a man.

I'm a total klutz and always end up with cut and sometimes bleeding hands after fumbling around in there but I don't think I've broken anything. It's all so sturdy I don't know how I would.