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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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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.