Tfw you finish building your first gaming PC

>tfw you finish building your first gaming PC.
I'm so happy.
I'm downloading my drivers now and I need to fix up one last thing (I need to find this fucking MOLEX connector on my motherboard so I can connect the case fans) but I can't to play on this thing.
I just can't decide what game to play first in order to christen this thing.
How did you feel when you first built a gaming PC?

Overjoyed.

Fuck consoles. I could never go back.

>How did you feel when you first built a gaming PC?
Very accomplished when it was over. More due to the amount of time involved than actual difficulty, since there's not really too much to it.

>finish building your first gaming PC
it was literally in 1995, now I prefer consoles.

Would a computer illiterate pleb like me be able to do it if I had some kind of guide?

Yes, if you can follow instructions you should be fine.

Yes, just use the Newegg video tutorial like I did.

There's a million different youtube videos showing you exactly what to do, it's retard-proof in 2017. Good cable management is something you have to learn yourself though

Google "computer build tutorial"?

I don't think you're merely computer illiterate, there is obviously a much deeper problem with the constitution of your mind.

Building is super easy, it just takes a little longer your first time. The "hardest" part is applying your heatsink and cable managing. Seriously, I can't stress enough how easy it is.

It's very simple. There are just a few scary parts.

literally every russian or brasilian kid can build the pc without a guide.

>I'm downloading my drivers
Why? Did your hardware not come with the appropriate drivers?

>there is obviously a much deeper problem with the constitution of your mind.
Yeah no shit. I wasn't sure if there would be intricate parts of the process where I could break things, even with a guide

Why wouldn't he download them? The ones that come with your components are usually months outdated and on discs in an age where nobody even bothers adding a CD drive to their builds

There isn't. It's mostly sticking things into allocated spots. It really is like putting an expensive lego set together.

Yeah it's pretty easy... that is until you run into some bs problem you have no idea on how to solve and you spend the next days googling for shit and asking questions on Sup Forums and getting called a faggot noob who should "neck" himself and get a ps4 instead

I was beyond stoked. I still love booting up my PC to this day. i5 6600k, GTX980, 16GB DRM, 750wattpsu.
I helped my buddy build one. His is insane

Drivers are outdated. They also come on cd and not every build has a disk drive these days, I didn't have one 5 years ago and I've never felt a need to get one. Windows can sometimes fuck up download for the drivers too

Never built a pc before, I was under the impression that recently shipped hardware would at least be shipped with relatively recent drivers.

molex fans?
what year is it?
get some 4-pin PWMs

It's a feels good from completing a first build. I get more excited when i buy a new piece of hardware though.

You only need 2 things: your smartphone and a mobo user guide. Get a general guide video on your smartphone and copy what they do. Every mobo is different in it's own way, but the general steps are similar, and mobo guide will help you to navigate if you are lost.

>Using molex connectors to power your fans
>Unironically having your fans at 100% speed making more noise than they need to with no effect on cooling

Drivers/BIOS updates quite often, they're not going to keep updating the hardware before shipping.

They're usually relatively recent but optical media is the main barrier

Windows (at least newish verisons of it, older versions didn't) comes with generic drivers for things to they would at least half ass work but they are inferior to actual manufacterer drivers for that specific part. Parts sometime ship with CDs or some shit with drivers on them, but who gives a shit about that, just go online and download the newest one.

2017 has these fan hubs that only need 1 pwm

apathetic unfortunately, but thats a personal problem not a technical one

My first PC I built in 2011 had a HD6970 and i5 2500k in a red case. Now I have a GTX 1080 Ti and Ryzen 5 1600 in a glass case. Feels good man.

Well, I built my first one way back in an all steel case that nearly sliced open my skin on several occasions. We're talking back in the fucking IDE ribbon cable, Slave/Master, AGP graphics card days.

It felt fucking awesome playing games on that thing after that struggle. I made another one in 2015 and this time I'm not going back to consoles. I've successfully convinced several friends on console to look at PCPartpicker's builds, get a budget, and start researching how to build a gaming PC.

Replay an older game you enjoyed but couldn't really experience because you had to play on minimal settings on your old rig.

Has anyone here had to transport their rig in a plane before? I'm tempted to just bring it as a carry-on. If I did had to ship it, what's the best way to do it. I've been advised that, at the very least, I should remove the GPU and send it separately in its original packaging.

Definitely remove shit like the GPU and other components if shipping it. Why? To reduce the risk of something being damaged or knocked out of place.

how much does it cost to make a good one? i need a new computer because my laptop is quite literally falling apart.

Did the exact same thing same times as you except I had black case first time.

The case itself, PSU and whatever should be fine as long as it is packed well. If your GPU is large you'd probably want to remove it because it could bend the motherboard, likewise if you have a big CPU cooler remove that as it could bend the motherboard.

>first gaming pc
>first

I still remember posting my build on Sup Forums and someone replied to me saying "that's master race"

I had 4gb RAM then too

I have this case. I like it except the power button sometimes gets stuck down after I press it. Hopefully pressing it multiple times to unstuck it wont fry my computer one day.

I'm going to buy parts to a build a pc tomorrow, I made my current one explode by changing the voltage, so I don't have much faith in my ability to do it myself.

I should add it was ancient and I don't care enough to repair it.

Read up on overclocking before just randomly changing your voltage. That's just dumb.