I built a PC for Cyberpunk 2077 (Pics of Build + Witcher 3 Screenshots included!)

[Ganoncrotch]

Cerebralbore101 said:

Ganoncrotch said:

wait wait wait wait wait, that last line of your post, about buying an anti static wristband, have you ever put a PC together or taken one apart? is this your first rodeo?

Technically 2nd time. But the first time was 90% my friend helping me do it. I'll be following a Linus Tech Tips how to video. Perhaps anti-static wasn't the right choice of words. It was whatever the heck LTT said to get. I'll check it when I get home. 

I know exactly what you meant by what you wrote down (you didn't write anti static but that is what you bought), the only thing is I think once you've built a few PC's and you are more than comfortable with doing it you will likely never use one of those things, so it rings alarm bells anytime I see someone mention it on their shopping lists.

Could I make a suggestion to you before you go at a solo build of a 2000dollar PC? That first PC you have, take it apart, down to the CPU out of the board, take the board out of the case, clean the CPU of thermal past and get it all down to absolutely empty case and desk load of parts.... and then rebuild that first PC making use of some of the thermal paste you bought, use it as a guinea pig/test run and see how you get on with it, if it's the PC you are replacing anyway you'll be a lot less stressed out when something doesn't go perfectly and you'll get a feel for how the parts go together and how tiny a piece of thermal paste you need to apply (People say Pea sized, honestly I've seen some big peas and I've never used as much thermal paste on any CPU as a Pea size lump.

One thing which almost always catches people out is inserting the jumper cables into the board so that the front USB ports will work, Power button, reset button, HDD light, all of those are ... varying levels of important to the build but you'll want to get a feel of how they slot in and where they slot in (if you are being super lazy the only one you neeeeed is the pwsw or power switch/button ribbon, and it doesn't matter if you put that in upsidedown because either way the switch will complete the circuit to start the PC, but front USB ports are nice on your new build.