That case has enough space on the back to fit an entire PS4, how do you fuckup cable management in that case?
Don't listen to the elitist gamers, keep it next to each other.
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[The Verge] How we built a $2000 custom gaming PC (Horribly)
- Thread starter RadioactiveLobster
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I don't know if I should watch this...all this sounds so so horrible.
Iv only ever built 3 PC's but some of this shit that people are talking about makes me feel like they grabbed a kid to do it for the video
Iv only ever built 3 PC's but some of this shit that people are talking about makes me feel like they grabbed a kid to do it for the video
I don't think it is, A1 goes with B1 and A2 with B2. They shouldn't be next to each other if you only have 2 sticks.
To confirm run hwinfo64 https://www.hwinfo.com/download.php from here
and in the Memory mode section check it its dual channel or single channel
if its dual you're good to go
Cool. Will do. Says single channel so illI change it now.
Bitwit's video is...interesting.
The actual Verge video is quite something too, but for completely different reasons. How confident the guy is while talking about the build process makes it all the better, too.
Makes me feel way better about my last couple of builds and - especially - my cable management.
The actual Verge video is quite something too, but for completely different reasons. How confident the guy is while talking about the build process makes it all the better, too.
Makes me feel way better about my last couple of builds and - especially - my cable management.
Do it like the second one
this is from your motherboard manual
FFS, stop that crap. Mobos require memory to be in specific slots in order to take advantage of dual channel memory. It's not "elitist" talk at all. Look it up for yourself.
If you have 4 slots, it would be A1, A2, B1 and B2. A1 and B1 or A2 and B2 must be paired to use dual channel bus.
Looked in the manual and mine doesn't show that. Just shows them putting one card in.
Do it like the second one
this is from your motherboard manual
Genuinely want to know where the guy got some of his info. He seems to know enough about what goes where. Not always the right way or right position or the neatest. But he's not clueless. The PC worked in the end.
Then he busts out a fun fact about needing rubber insulators to stop the power supply from zapping the PC. Is that an assumption or just not double checking something read years ago.
Then he busts out a fun fact about needing rubber insulators to stop the power supply from zapping the PC. Is that an assumption or just not double checking something read years ago.
What's wrong with the wrist strap? Did they do anything weird? I got one of those before doing my motherboard because it was recommended.
Jesus Christ. Almost everything was done incorrectly with incorrect information. If you are a first time PC builder and you use this as a guide you will:
a. Not have an optimal running PC (Single Channel RAM config)
b. Break something (What the hell was he doing with the CPU and the little plastic thing? Looked like he poked at it???)
c. Use incorrect technique in 90% of the build making things harder for yourself.
The reason why it irks me so much is there is tons of guides online - written and visual - that they could have straight up copied and the result would have been better. It just comes off as lazy to put out a video like this.
a. Not have an optimal running PC (Single Channel RAM config)
b. Break something (What the hell was he doing with the CPU and the little plastic thing? Looked like he poked at it???)
c. Use incorrect technique in 90% of the build making things harder for yourself.
The reason why it irks me so much is there is tons of guides online - written and visual - that they could have straight up copied and the result would have been better. It just comes off as lazy to put out a video like this.
Just poking fun at people who think correcting an obvious misinformation is being elitist PC gamer.
Where the fuck is the power supply? 4 fans lol? Holy cow I am not too critical of installs for random PCs but that looks horrible.
Verge need to contact the experts at Giant Bomb NYC
(This gif is like watching teeth being pulled to me)
Oh god. I just got to the thermal paste part. Oh god. Oh god the cable management.
As someone who knows nothing about computers, what's wrong with that gif?
On the other side, it's a chambered PC case like the Corsair Air 240
The wrist strap does nothing unless you connect the alligator clip to a metal part of the case to ground it.
Looks like he's gliding the CPU over the contact pins on the motherboard. It takes only one from either the board or the CPU breaking/getting bent to fuck over the board
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When you get a new motherboard, before you can install the CPU you have to flip up the locking tab and remove a piece of dummy plastic that the manufacturer put in there to protect the pin connectors.
The person in the GIF flipped up the locking tab and then put the CPU down on top of the plastic piece. It (obviously) doesn't fit. So they lifted the CPU out and tried putting the CPU back in upside down (with the pins facing up). Nope, it doesn't fit that way either.
Verge need to contact the experts at Giant Bomb NYC
(This gif is like watching teeth being pulled to me)
Oh god. I just got to the thermal paste part. Oh god. Oh god the cable management.
Oh jesus christ...oh my god it is like a horror but in real life.
Not that this excuses the misinformation but I wonder if this is just being used to show Verge youtube viewers who may be thinking about building a PC but think it's too difficult that it isn't? Like they will watch this and think "oh that's not so bad" and then maybe buy parts + look up actual proper build videos to help them.
I can't imagine anyone is going to see this video and use it as their only guide to buying and putting together a PC.
I can't imagine anyone is going to see this video and use it as their only guide to buying and putting together a PC.
They actually bought the wrong CPU for the board so it would not fit and they returned it.
Giant bomb pc builds are always super fun. They know just enough to be dangerous
There are many amazing channels you can check out if you plan on building your first PC, Bitwit, Jay2Cents, GamersNexus (the one I personally used), youtube is basically filled with PC enthusiasts.
But stuff like this needs to be called out, new PC builders are going to end up damaging their PCs if they follow this video.
But stuff like this needs to be called out, new PC builders are going to end up damaging their PCs if they follow this video.
"racist"? Maybe I missed something but you should really back an accusation like that up. I don't see anything like that in the video or any comments here pointing out any of the guy's racist behavior.
Thanks to this thread, I realized I was running on a single channel and not a dual channel. I fixed that really fast.
I'm no PC building expert but I'm 3 for 3 on builds and they all lasted many years thanks to the help of people at work and on these forums. Yeah PC building is way easier than it use to be thanks to YT and companies trying to make stuff as dummy proof as possible.
Ok, I admit it. When I built my PC in 2016 I put the CPU fan (Evo 212) on backwards. So pretty much it was shooting all the heat inside the case. About a month later I looked into it more because I thought my build was getting hotter than it was supposed to, and realized the fan blows through the CPU cooler, not whatever I was thinking. To my defense though, I remember the instructions not telling you which way you're suppose to put it at all.
I did not do anything in the OP vid tho lol.
I did not do anything in the OP vid tho lol.
Yeah i agree.
Some in here might cringe but i have never used a wrist strap during any of my builds.
Edit: I will say though that I never appear to hold much static electricity. My girlfriend however is a complete different story and i wouldn't let her build a PC without a wrist strap because she seems to be a walking power generator at times.
For true comedy gold they should be locked in a room with mid-1990s PC parts and have to assemble that.
No internet and no cell phones.
Make them read the manuals.
No internet and no cell phones.
Make them read the manuals.
lmao what? this has nothing to do with the op at all. the op is about misinformation and people having no idea about what the fuck they're doing, not about any elitism you're talking about
Ha, yeah, I built my first PC in 1997 and it was harrowing. Mainly because I was young and it felt intimidating but it worked out in the end.
I remember back in the 90's how terrible those cases where, my dad cut his hand open many many times because it was all a sudden death trap if you wanted to remove something.
These days it is all easy access, no power struggle required and being more innovative on that front. Building PC's in the 90's costed lots of labour and lots of bandages.
Even the whole wire work was just, awful and a lot of things just went with a few centimeters without a cable popping out of your cd-rom drive or hdd at that time.
Remember these power connectors?
I built and repaired a lot of PCs like that, these days it is so easy.
This thread taught me that it's """""elitist""""" to be informative and warn against stupidity. :thonk:
It's unfortunate they disabled comments on the video. That's the real Elitism. Instead of engaging the community to acknowledge where they went wrong and maybe try fixing it they just batten down the hatches and double down.
It's unfortunate they disabled comments on the video. That's the real Elitism. Instead of engaging the community to acknowledge where they went wrong and maybe try fixing it they just batten down the hatches and double down.