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ikki5 on 31 August 2014
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torok said:
ikki5 said:
 

It is simple though, you simply look at the slots, look at the card and see "Oh, this fits here... hey, this is just like that shapes game I played in pre-school where I had to fit the square in the square hole and the triangle in the triangular hole".

 

yeah, that is pretty much 80% if not more, the rest is the fine screws and then installing everything, making sure you don't drag your stuff on the carpet and plugging it all in but plugging it all in is the same task as above.


The average Joe actually can't assemble a PC. I see a lot of people struggling with the most simple computer tasks like taking a screenshot or something stupid like that. 99% of the people can't build a PC and would just probably break one or two parts.

Of course, if you know how to do it or has a friend to build it for you, it's the way to go. Only my first PC was bought in a store and it was a basic machine. After that, I always had more powerful PCs with the parts I want and I built them by myself. But it isn't a simple task, it's a lot of hours of work and dealing with cables and the best way to position everything. It's not like playing Lego. You have to know what you are doing. What's the correct PSU for your GPU and CPU? You have to know it. You have to put thermal paste (unless your CPU has a decent on on it). You have to know how to do it. And a lot of other details.

If my 12 yr old cousin can figure it out with limited help, and when I say limited, I mean me yelling to him in the other room when he asks a questiong like "Where does these sticks go" when he is talking about RAM, then someone  else who doesn't know much should be able to do it. Yeah, I did this last year with my cousin when I gave him a bunch of my old computer parts.

For someone who really knows nothing about computers like, what is the CPU, then maybe they will have trouble but if you are a gamer, which I am sure 90-100% of us are on here, then you probably know the basics for a computer to be built. Then it just becomes reading of the part to make sure it will fit or there is the right type of slot on it because the description of each part will say what type it is and the other parts will say what it will work with.

And if you are REALLY stupid, then usually companies where you order the parts from will even put your computer together for a small to medium fee to test it all out and if something isn't working, they'll recommend stuff to you.