what are the biggest mistakes you have made when building a PC /g/

Amd CPU.

when i build my very first rig i accidently bought an hard drive with IDE instead of SATA

have to return to frys very sad

buying novidia GPU

buying low quality case fans

buying low quality thermal paste

those are mine.

my first ever attempt was when I was 14 and got a bunch of parts for christmas
forgot to install standoffs and the thing pretty much smoked out a few months later
never built again because I started buying old thrift store poverty shitboxes to mess around with instead of playing games and developed a high-end OEM systems fetish, can't stand whitebox stuff anymore

building a pc

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>>59932329
Can...can that be cleaned off?

https://youtu.be/CB9KiKrC-C4
Part 4, Linus?

fell for the amd cpu

Going with a cheap case.

my screwdriver slipped when putting on an amd athlon fan, scrapped across the motherboard pretty hard

Not backing up data

>>59932377
What's wrong with a cheapo case?

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OP again, mine was buying a non k Intel CPU for my first PC along with a nice z series mobo and I didn't know you need the k to OC.

AMD GPU

Nividia has gamestream going for them; Radeon Relive does not autorecord as well.

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>>59932329
chose one of the worst cases in existence, pic related

Bent CPU pins.

>>59932410
I'm in the opposite situation. Bought a "k" model for overclocking, but found that 99% of the time I don't have anything to gain from it, while the non-k model would've given me PCI-E passthrough which I have been interested in for the longest time.

>>59932433
I did this when trying to change the paste on my old athlon
Ripped the CPU cooler out with the CPU still stuck to it gg

>>59932364
Yes, isopropyl-alcohol will deal with that fairly easily.

>I'll just do cable management later, I gotta see this thing boot as soon as possible!
>I know, I'll do cable management when I first clean it!

>2 years later

>case door has not come off once

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Nothing major thank god...

My biggest fuckups are:

>Move A spinning case fan and accidently stick my finger into it (server grade fan), bleed a bit like a stupid jackass, fan dies 4 months later.

>Bent USB 3.0 MOBO connector pins, fucking em up. (was building PC for a friend, he doesnt even have anything usb 3.0 lel)

>Bought cheap under powered chink PSU (650W), MOBO with core i7 & and HD6970 GPU, played a bit with the graphics at highest, PSU dieded, replaced with a real PSU, works good till this day.

Pic related is MFW i remember all this jackassery.

>>59932488
Just do it

>>59932488
At least dust it

bought a 4TB HD. plugged it in when I got it to test if it works. then put it away until later when I was ready to set it up. when trying to plug it in, somehow ended up doing something like applying voltage to wrong pins or shorting it out and after that it would no longer spin up anymore

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>>59932663

feels bad mang

>>59932663
Return it mang

Never had any

I let other people build it for me

1. When I installed windows I installed it to the USB drive, so my system booted from a USB stick

2. Got slack when installing my CPU and the system refused to initialize. After a whole day of sifting through 'RMA it RMA it RMA it' posts, I took it apart and put it back together and it fired right up.

3. Not buying a new PSU for my new system. Using a 650w Corsair Bronze PSU for my 6700k/gtx1080 gaming PC and it's showing its age. Definitely should have spent the extra $100 for a new PSU when I got all the other parts.

>>59932329
I changed my mobo and tried to put the cpu pins protection cup on the wrong way.. with a little bit of force.. luckily I had a microscope and fixed all the bent pins

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>>59933102

>>59932329
Never made any.
It's not fucking rocket science.
It is lowest IT tier actually.
How can you fuck up.

>>59932329
>dropped a screw driver laptop motherboard while testing
>sparks everywhere.
>it was running super hot because turion.

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>>59933131
>so my system booted from a USB stick
kek

>>59932663
how?

>>59932423

>worst cases
fuck off
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>>59933235
the drive cages aren't even overlapping your motherboard, you can fit a lot of drives and 5.25" stuff, it's not my fault you did shit cable management on purpose

>>59932404
Airflow.

>>59932423
That honestly doesn't look that bad. It's very basic and traditional with a top-mounted PSU, but it has a front intake at least. Provided that you're using a decent PSU that's rated for 500W continuous @ 50C, that's as valid a cooling strategy as any for a small enclosure. Two 3.5'' bays is adequate, and a typical modern video card looks like it could be accommodated in the space left between the 5.25'' and 3.5'' bays. Is it a great case? No. Are there too many 5.25'' bays? Absolutely. Is it a terrible case for a budget build? No. Do you need to learn about old school cable management? Yes.

>>59933265
>shit cable management
don't care bout that..

>overlapping
it's a small mobo..
why do you need more than 2 drives?
you've got space for 2

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>>59932329
This whole shitshow I built when I was 19.

>>59933235
Great place to water plants!
>inb4 they collect harmful pc radiation newager bs

>>59932329
AMD cpu and gpu

>>59933310
when they need watering I move them away from the PC
+ the one to the right gets watered once every 4 monts

>>59932329
I got a downward blower HSF that was too big for my case which I had to jerryrig and when installing my motherboard I didn't make sure all the tabs on the IO panel went nicely around the IO ports so I had to bend half of them out.

>>59933318
gud

>>59933310
I run my wc loop through my pot plants to dispell excess heat and keep the soil moist

>>59933318
water straight in psu fan for better cooling

>>59932329
I made a silent build
>got a Fractal Design R4
>got a big Thermalright Silver Arrow to keep fans' speed at minimum
>got a SSD and a quiet HDD
>got a high airflow low noise additional case fan
And then I fucked up and bought a MSI graphic card that has a pair of fans that sound like a jet engine when under load.

>>59932329
accidentally leaned on laptop screen while cleaning dust

>>59932440
Wait, K series processors can't use PCIe passthrough?

>>59933338
ofc
only that way I can 5ghz

The first time I ever put a PC together, the biggest mistake was not knowing I had to put risers in to lift the motherboard from the case. It wouldn't turn on, it was awful not knowing why my first custom built PC wasn't working.

Subsequently, I was an idiot who would put the CPU in after installing the motherboard. Such a pain in the ass.

Oh well, live and learn.

>>59933348
Same here. Powercolor PCS+ R9 390, which was already supposed to be one of the most silent cards. Thinking of getting one of those Morpheus or Mk-26 coolers with huge fans, but I am not sure whether theadditional 80-100 bucks are worth it.

>>59933366
The standoffs? Doesn't that short out and kill a motherboard?

>>59933374
it's fine. the computer would power on for two seconds and then automatically shut off. That computer is about 10 years old now and still functions just fine.

>>59933356
Only some

>>59932329
When i was a kid my parents didnt let me build it myself. so some shitty store smashed the parts i picked together and when it arived the heatsink was snapped of the motherboard.
at least they fixed THAT for free.

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>>59933387

reminds me of pic related

>>59933402
THIS HURTS MY AUTISM WHY NOT COMPLETE TRIANGLE

>>59933356
Here you go, for example my 4690k is fine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardware

>>59933367
Personally at this point I'd rather buy a new graphics card, checking more carefully the noise section of the reviews: my GTX670 is already old enough, although I fear that pairing my i5-4670k would bottleneck too much any new GPU.

I think replacing the thermal paste on my current card would improve the jet-engine problem, but I don't really want to risk fucking something up in the process.

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Forgot to plug in the power supply for the CPU on my last build (CAD PC for a small machine shop) and spent about 15 minutes wondering why it wouldn't start up and resorted to meticulous testing before noticing my mistake. In my defense, I was very hungover (and still kinda drunk) and glad no one else who has any computer skills was around.

Did mix audio headers with some otherheaders on my motherboard, when I connected my headphones, my motherboard died. Had to RMA

>>59932329
>carefully applied thermal paste to my a8 APU
>gently seating cpu cooler in place
>suddenly, ex-gf who cheated on me calls, says she'll take me back if I sign adoption papers for her 5 previous kids and co-sign for a houseboat loan
> say yes

never going with AMD again

buying a locked cpu, a non overclockable mobo and a 1 kg radiator fan

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>>59933466

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Used this but with a Phenom I 9600, 2 GB DDR2, a HD2400 Pro and Vista 32 until 2013.

>>59933466
Houseboat battlestation tour bls

>>59933426
>>59933388
Thanks, m8s. Been trying to justify returning my motherboard and processor for the X99 platform. Just convinced me here. Didn't even know I didn't have virtualization.

>>59933402
I can't imagine those spokeless bikes are all they are made out to be.
Every video I have seen of them in motion is clearly done with CGI and every model is badly 3D printed.

I had a vga only monitor and the gpu i bought didnt support vga fml

>>59932329
bought the haswell refresh i3 lga1150 with limited i/o passthrough with a z97e motherboard thinking the xeons would come down in value and I would stick a used in later. Been two years and xeons are still expensive used and the latest pentium overclockable has all the i/o passthrough and hyperthreading I wanted for like 80 bucks. Still I'll wait for my cheap xeon and profit with my encient machine in the future with 4 cores and hyperthreading etc. etc. I'm still happy with my machine though.

>>59933535
Except for the Sada Bike, that one is real (I don't know if it's in production or still a prototype tho)

https://youtu.be/WIVeemZ0_e4

>>59933131
Why? Thise Corsair budget PSUs are perfect. I'm currently running a 5820K / 1070 build on a 30 € CX500M, no problems.

>>59933519
You don't even have VT-d?

>>59932480
good luck getting it out of the socket without bending pins

>>59932329
>Buy cheap power supply
>goes pop a few weeks later
>buy another one
>same thing happens
>salvage one from a case neighbor threw out
>ran for years until upgrading

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as a kid I shorted my voodoo 3D accelerator and wondered why nothing worked.

>>59933519
No I have a 7700k.

>>59932353
you must be 18+ to post here

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installed a fan on a then new athlon cpu
pc didnt turn on
check if cpu is ok
cpu had one side chipped off by the pressure of the cooler

and that is why im kind of ok with heatspreaders protecting my cpu

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>>59933962
are we tech gore now?

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>>59933962

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>>59933994

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>>59932329
>2012
Buying an i7.
Buying a high-end mobo.
Buying a case over $140.

looking back, an i5 was more than enough to get me through my gaming and video editing needs. FUCK, I don't even game as much anymore.
Buying a high-end mobo was retarded, most of the features are a gimmick and the other half I've never used.
My biggest regret is wasting so much money on a case. Sure, I want it to look nice, but at the same time it's tucked away and I don't spend the majority of my time staring at it. I also envy all the beautiful cases coming to the market with prices set far below what I payed for my piece of shit.
I was trying to "future-proof" my build but wasted far too much money.

I'm looking at an R5 and a mid-range GPU for my next build. True buttery-smooth 4k gaming is still a dream, 1080p is good enough for me.

building a pc? theres like no mistakes to do. however i overhead a convo when a guy was buying a new cpu. he bent his i5 6500 by closing the clamp with that blacl square still in place. instead of fixing it he just purchased an i7

>>59933801
what? It evaporates.

>>59934142
thats not what he means at all. try aand figure it out

Not installing Motherboard Standoffs.

>>59933801
I imaging dabbing it with a sponge would work.

>>59934186
but how?

>>59934192
the pours would destroy the pins, your crazy. the best way is with a hobby knife and a rounded end paperclip using almost no isopropyl (even then only the pure stuff is worth it

Helping a friend buy a new motherboard and CPU from one of those computer fairs only to find they changed the memory type to some shitty expensive RAMBUS or something. Tried to take the stuff back and ended up in a fight with the owner of the stall because they wanted a percentage fee on return. Police were called. We fled. He did not get his money back.

>>59932329
Bought a motherboard w/o PCI-E 16x for my mini-itx build last year. I really had no idea that such thing even possible. Who the fuck need PCI in 2016 on a itx motherboard?

>>59934264
>I really had no idea that such thing even possible. Who the fuck need PCI in 2016 on a itx motherboard?
People using them for low power servers and small workstations?

buying eVGA

>>59934242
why did you flee if they sold you a misleading product?

>>59933801
As long as the paste is non-conductive and not intefering with contact, it doesn't fucking matter.

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>>59932329

>>59933309
doesn't seem bad if this was back in 2009-2010. might've been better off with a phenom 2 though.

>>59934339
He's saying it had a PCI slot instead of a PCI-e, which is deranged as fuck.

>>59932329
Buying cheap case.

One fan

Tried repurposing half of an old HDD with a really crummy partitioning tool. Ended up nuking my music library. (Before PMPs so I couldn't restore from there.)

Fuck partitions. Get money, acquire drives.

>>59932329
not building my own PC but assembling stuff while commissioning some gear in india
working in an area that had both 110 and 220V mains power
working with machines that did not have auto switching power supplies. they had a physical switch to switch between voltages
"hey apu what voltage is this power socket"
"that's 110V"
"OK"
switches PSU to 110V
plugs in
small but impressive explosion

>>59933402
How the fuck are you suposed to propell yourself when the gear making the weel turn is that tiny ? Even with demultiplication system or whatever thats called, the whole asembly would probably wear off and break super fast, and I can't even imagine how much of a shitshow if would be to disasemble.

>>59932329
amd gpu

>>59935324
it's like maglev dude
you just need to start it going then it's 200mph

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>3rd world
>220v power outlets
>at that time most peripherals were 110v only, so all my set was connected to this big transformer with peak protection
>cpu power supply dual, also set to 110v
>plugged cpu to outlet

>>59935322
mr you dare insult india? we are 7th large gdp and prime minister had to take money away to find out who was actually poor!

>first pc build. Buy cheapest memory. Replace everything but the memory because I was mishear in the error code. Only realized after buying mobo with digital error display.

>years later, updating wc loop and cleaning it. Replace soft easy to work with pipes with reinforced pipes. Old clamps aren't enough. Don't want to buy good clamps. Use zip ties... works, if the stiff pipes aren't torquing the clamp. Sound card rusted a little because of leak. It still works though.

ayyPU

>>59932353
Unironically this. It's a decent CPU and everything but it makes Hackingtosh a massive pain, so now I am stuck with Winshit even though I don't even care about games anymore.

Bought DDR4 ram that wasn't officially compatible with my z170 motherboard. Figured it wouldn't change a thing as it was 2666mhz and my motherboard supported up to 3500mhz

Couldn't install Windows, system would crash after two minutes in the install. Couldn't fuck around in the bios either as that would also crash the system. Tried everything, still wouldn't work.
Took me days to figure out what was wrong, then tried overvolting the ram. Everything went smoothly for a while.

Just recently had a bios update, fixed everything.

>>59935803
Should've thought about that beforehand retard.

>>59934013
>>59934002
>>59933994
>>59933962
Was I the only one that was lucky to have a chipped Duron 950 still work? I still have it.

>>59932404
Agreed, the audio ports and usb 2 ports dont work :(, shitty ass Raidmax case that came with a 380watt psu, I tossed the psu.

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>>59935803
see
>>59938027

Mostly just aesthetic mistakes: the cable management is a mess and the main SSD is basically just floating around in the case.

>>59934264
link to mobo?

Bought a silver stone sg11b
Never again
It had 9 fans shoved in a tiny box, if you found the 3 on the gpu, the psu and the cpu cooler

I installed an extra motherboard standoff and it shorted the board

I also helped my friend build his computer in 1998 or something like that and he ended up sucking my dick afterwards. Totally ruined our friendship.

Forgot to unplug the HDMI cable before taking the graphics card out.

mITX

Buying a i5

It's fast in games but dogshit slow for everything else and only meant to be temporary until i7 and and ryzen came out sadly they are still not ready enough for me yet so I'll have to put up with it for 4+ years.

Oh and ddr3 RAM so slow

>>59932329
bougt a i7-7700k system last week
Although there will be a new intel release in 2 months

Dumb question here, it isn't a problem if I haven't installed future GPU drivers on my current HDD for a new build, right?

Already emptied my case for when the new parts come in the mail.

>>59938988
Fuck this gay earth

>>59940327
>until i7 and and ryzen came out sadly they are still not ready enough for me yet

Forgot to install motherboard standoffs and IO shield. Luckily nothing died.

Almost put my motherboard into the case without using those raised brackets once.

PC building is such a circle jerk

>>59933387
Same here. I had mine for 3 years, sold it recently. Never had any issues with it.

removing stock chipset heatsinks and replacing with aftermarket

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>>59940580
It's the /v/edditor equivalent of putting the square peg into the square hole.

For manchildren every little achievement matters

>>59935040
I do this to all my builds. Seems to let me OC the CPU to 0.5V more than what the spec says is safe.

Getting anxious that I'll make some, building a new rig next week. First time I built a pc from the ground up in almost 10 years.
The only things I'm a bit nervous about are:
cooler backplate/cpu/cooler shenanigans
fucking up when putting the mainboard into the case
that and maybe static mishaps, although I have never, ever experienced any

>>59934206
The motherboard literally didn't come with any and I was too lazy to bother getting some.

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>>59932329
>not paying a bit more for easier-to-remove dust filters and noise reduction.
And now I know.

>>59940698
>>59934028
STOP POSTING ANIME

buying a Gigabyte brand mobo

buying a mid range graphics card

buying a gtx 970 (3.5 bomb dropped about a week after installation)

besides that I have been happy with my builds

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>>59933466
>cheated on me

>take me back

>>59933535
>I can't imagine those spokeless bikes are all they are made out to be.
Because that's a thing that's unlikely to happen.

tradtional spoked wheel is extremely strong for it's weight because of the tension in the spokes.
Without them all you have is extremely flimsy rim, that you later have to reinforce, which introduces mass to the wheel and makes the ride slower and shittier.

>>59938048
my laptop die is chipped and works fine

>>59940528
I have never installed an IO shield and everything has been fine for me. But damn if I don't hate how it looks.

somehow a screw got left in a case and when I moved it to a friends it shorted the mobo :(

>>59940757
stop posting.

>>59933519
>X99
Don't do it. It's a garbage platform, half of the motherboards are either housefires and/or have shitty BIOSes. Wait for Skylake-X or go Ryzen.

Source: I have an X99 motherboard and I've read user reviews online.

cheaping out on motherboard
buying intel locked cpus
buying meme ram
binned gpus

>>59940910
I used to have. 5820k build. Loved it.

That being said, already decided to wait for Skylake-X.

At which price do you think the processors and motherboards will launch? Might I have a 6 core for 430 or less? What about a motherboard for 330 or less? What about an 8 core for 900 or less?

When I built my PC I didn't even know what cable management was. I don't think i have any wires going around the back of the motherboard. The bottom of the case is just filled with a pile of dusty wires.

When I built my uncle a new computer recently I did a much better job and it looked really good. Wish I had taken a picture of it. I hope he never takes the side panel off though, because there are so many wires that it is hard to get back on.

i bought a 1700$ gaming laptop.

>>59932329
>mobo dies
>replace it by gigameme board
>After mounting all the shit I'm missing 1 screw
>fuck it,boot that bitch up
>missing screw was behind the board and shorted out on some pcb traces
>dead board

>>59941072
I'm not too sure, there are some rumors floating around about the pricing, but nothing solid.

I'm personally not going to go for Intel again, I'm supporting Team Red from here on out. Likely getting one of those 16 cores for my server once they're out.

>>59935436
I remember that thread

>>59941072
Fairly unlikely, Intel knows they still have the upper hand even with fewer threads so they'll likely continue focusing on improving individual core performance as opposed to lowering the cost of hexcores

>>59932329
I put the boot disc in upside down, then checked every single connection to see where the problem was