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this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
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I work with some guys much younger than me. They’re great at programming and stuff like that but none of them have ever built a computer. They seem to think it’ll be really hard.
The sad part about that is building a PC is easier than ever. I hadn't built one in over a decade and was shocked to find out that everything is toolless and just snaps right into place! The only part that's maybe intimidating for newbies is putting the thermal paste down without making a mess but even then, you just go slow and take your time and you'll be fine.
Depends on what you're starting with. If you mean assembling a case, power supply, motherboard, processor, RAM, storage, video adapters, etc., the only difficult part of that is deciding you can do it.
If you're talking about assembling components on a breadboard, that's going to be more challenging.
I've done both. The breadboard computer was for an electronics class in college. It was both more fun and more pain.
The part I find challenging about building a PC is shopping for components. Making sure the RAM is compatible with the motherboard and all that shit. Assembling the thing is like really expensive legos that take a disconcerting amount of force to click together.
This is the fix for that:
https://pcpartpicker.com/
Edit:
I had about 13 years between my current PC built in December of 2024 and my previous machine. Back when I built the previous PCs, I would rely on books to research what to get. It's gotten a lot easier with pcpartpicker.com.
It is really hard, with al the soldering and print etching and what more.
I'm more of a wire wrap traditionalist.
When I did my technician course, it was still using the old program and we had a wirewrap course (I did my course from 2007 to 2009)
We had this big bread board that we could connect to an ISA slot in an old PC. A guy connected a capacitor wrong by mistake. When he plugged the ISA card in, the capacitor caught fire like it would in a cartoon.
He was dumbfounded and it was funny as hell.
Never let the magic smoke escape!