I’ve been planning my next build on PCPartsPicker for the past 3 days. Not sure if I’ve slept. No time. Too much reconfiguring to do. A friend is also working on a new build. We both spent the day on PCPartsPicker optimising. We haven’t touched meth since we started all this.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Or you could do what one person I knew did, just used Newegg pc building, didn’t short anything and just added the first thing on the list. Then had them build it. It was just when am5 came out. Some crazy Eatx mobo and cpu with a 3060, would always blue screen.
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