Kshipper
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You hear the term "House Poor" which means someone buys a house they can barely afford and than they have no extra $$ to furnish their house, do repairs or any upgrades. They can barely afford the mortgage.
I am seeing that with gaming computers. My little computer shop is always full of do-it-yourself gaming computer builds that don't work, boot or POST. Last night I had one in here where the young man screwed the M.2 drive in by putting the stand off on top of the M.2 (instead of underneath). This meant the M.2 was at a very odd angle to the slot. On the phone the young man said he could not remove the screw it was too tight. I said it should come out no problem ..."Righty tighty, lefty loosey" ...but he didn't want to risk it, so he came over and I helped him out quickly.
The young man before that had quite the disaster ....a non-posting gaming build with tons of premium parts literally thrown together. Where ever I looked I saw mistakes. The 2.5" SATA SSD and the HDD not screwed in, just floating in the bottom of the case where the PSU wiring was. CPU cooler arm not tensioned (the CPU would have run hot with a cooler just lightly sitting on the CPU without pressure on it). All the case cooling fans were disconnected and 3 of the fans were just loose in a bag of spare parts. Main 24 pin power connector not down all the way and of course, not clipped. PSU upside down in the case (it should be mounted to pull fresh air from the bottom). All in One water cooler pump attached to the wrong header (why don't people read the manual?). I felt bad for the guy since my labour was much higher finding the mistakes then it would have been just assembling for him from new parts. I guess that is what this post is about. A general appeal to the learning crowd. I know you have to start somewhere, but do yourself a favor and start with less premium parts and of course do your research and for love or Pete start your builds outside the case where it is easy to get at and test. I do that .....still ! =)
I am seeing that with gaming computers. My little computer shop is always full of do-it-yourself gaming computer builds that don't work, boot or POST. Last night I had one in here where the young man screwed the M.2 drive in by putting the stand off on top of the M.2 (instead of underneath). This meant the M.2 was at a very odd angle to the slot. On the phone the young man said he could not remove the screw it was too tight. I said it should come out no problem ..."Righty tighty, lefty loosey" ...but he didn't want to risk it, so he came over and I helped him out quickly.
The young man before that had quite the disaster ....a non-posting gaming build with tons of premium parts literally thrown together. Where ever I looked I saw mistakes. The 2.5" SATA SSD and the HDD not screwed in, just floating in the bottom of the case where the PSU wiring was. CPU cooler arm not tensioned (the CPU would have run hot with a cooler just lightly sitting on the CPU without pressure on it). All the case cooling fans were disconnected and 3 of the fans were just loose in a bag of spare parts. Main 24 pin power connector not down all the way and of course, not clipped. PSU upside down in the case (it should be mounted to pull fresh air from the bottom). All in One water cooler pump attached to the wrong header (why don't people read the manual?). I felt bad for the guy since my labour was much higher finding the mistakes then it would have been just assembling for him from new parts. I guess that is what this post is about. A general appeal to the learning crowd. I know you have to start somewhere, but do yourself a favor and start with less premium parts and of course do your research and for love or Pete start your builds outside the case where it is easy to get at and test. I do that .....still ! =)
