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Emotions you could experience when building your first PC (we've all been there)


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Remember when you decided to build yourself your first PC? Well, I do. You boot your first born up and use it extensively for a few days and suddenly a variety of new feelings hit you like a ton of bricks, BAM! I'd like to share some with you, so strap in and welcome aboard the anxiety train :)

 

The feelings are:

 

1. Sudden obsession with reading about PC parts and other people's PC building stories.I never thought I would care so much about motherboards, but somehow I've become addicted to the PC forums where people share their specs and ask all sorts of weird questions. Hmmmm, well I do want to know how that ant crawled in your monitor.

 

2. Realization that suddenly you need to care about PC ports. What do you mean FFXV was successfully ported from console to PC yet Red Dead Redemption 2 is not!? Wait, what do you mean some games aren't optimized for PC?

 

3. Anxiety over how hot your CPU is running. CPU-Z tells me it's running at 65C, is that too hot? Is my CPU going to melt?

 

4. Anxiety over whether the thermal paste is applied properly. Should I take the PC open and check the thermal paste? My cooler came with pre applied paste but I took the heatsink off at one point when I was troubleshooting, was I supposed to apply more? Should I order thermal paste and stick it on there? Are my fans working properly? AHHHH!

 

5. Anxiety that the PC would just randomly turn off. Well that would suck, wouldn't it.

 

6. Anxiety that the PSU might blow up and set your apartment building on fire. Is 600W enough? What if it isn't!? Do I need more?!!!??! *Hallucination kicks in. Starts hearing  weird sound coming from the PSU shroud*, turns out it's a bird pecking at the tree. It's fine, is it? :oki:

7.Anxiety that you’re not taking proper advantage of your machine. Turns out I bought a freesync monitor, which works with AMD, instead of a G-sync monitor, which works with Nvidia. And I have an Nvidia GTX 1080. So my games aren’t looking as good as they should. Which leads to.....

 

8. An insatiable desire to buy new things.

 

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Which leads too.......

 

9. Paranoia that you bought the wrong things. Wait! should I have spent $200 more for an IPS screen? Or is TN fine? What do all of these things even mean?

 

10. Video game choice paralysis, because suddenly I can play pretty much anything ever made. Why not dive into The Witcher 3 again? Or maybe I should finally check out XCOM 2? What if I just download an old classic like Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and play around for a while? Or I could get an emulator and revisit one of those classic Mac games I used to love? Or or or or or or or.

 

11. Triumph over that paralysis, because instead I just spent an entire week playing Divinity Original Sin 2.

 

12. Realization that Divinity Original Sin 2 is one of the best games you’ve ever played. It was worth building a PC just for this.

 

13. Anxiety that Divinity Original Sin 2 doesn’t look as good as it could, even though it still looks incredible. When is that new monitor gonna get here already?

 

14. Sudden interest in other people’s PC problems. My friend just ordered a pre built PC that arrived broken, and as the proud builder of one (1) PC, I’m sure I can diagnose the problem!

 

15. And the last thing! Pride that even when you’re doing the most mundane and simple things on it, it’s on a machine that you built from scratch and nothing can compare with that. :glasses:

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I feel same thing...

 

I build my rig piece by piece, I read forums reviews and much more.

 

The more I read the more my passion grew and all led me where no I am...an aspirant mechanical engi with passion for pc :D

 

Anyway i was poor when i built my rig and i'm still poor atm, no g-sync, no v.-sync, no huge mechanical hdd just an old wireless mouse and a old (not too old, i bought a new one) keyboard. :)

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You missed a major point - the extreme anxiety attack you get when you have completely assembled your first PC ever and it's time to turn it on. Luckily for me, I nailed it first try and haven't had a single problem for a year now! I should probably do some dust cleaning and perhaps re-apply thermal paste while I am it.  :D


It's true though, building a PC is like drugs. Once you do it once, you're addicted. Don't do drugs folks, do PC's instead. That sounded weird, ok i'm done. :p







PC is love, PC is life.

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You missed a major point - the extreme anxiety attack you get when you have completely assembled your first PC ever and it's time to turn it on. Luckily for me, I nailed it first try and haven't had a single problem for a year now! I should probably do some dust cleaning and perhaps re-apply thermal paste while I am it.  :D

 

 

It's true though, building a PC is like drugs. Once you do it once, you're addicted. Don't do drugs folks, do PC's instead. That sounded weird, ok i'm done. :p

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PC is love, PC is life.

 

That's the most stressful part in my book. WILL IT POST!? XD If you don't break a sweat at that particular moment you're not human

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