• NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    20 hours ago

    none of them have ever built a computer. They seem to think it’ll be really hard.

    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.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      18 hours ago

      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.

      • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        18 hours ago

        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.