Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

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femboy fart huffer said:
I don't get who the fuck is so lazy that they would rather overpay by thousands instead of doing it yourself. Is your time really worth like £100/hour?
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I've paid someone to install upgrades once. Needed new motherboard and CPU for Windows 11 update. Got parts based on PCpartpicker results. Get everything swapped out and connected. PC won't start. Spend hours fiddling with things, thinking I must be doing something wrong. Eventually get fed up and take it to MicroCenter. Turns out my new CPU malfunctioned and is unable to work with more than 1 stick of RAM. Just want to get this shit over and done with, so I pay for a new CPU and installation.
 
I miss the days of buying a computer at a physical store, opening it out of a big-ass box, and it just worked. I'm too retarded to build a PC, bought some refurbished thing on Amazon back in 2020 and all my nerd friends call it a toaster. Fml
 
One of the main reasons I would not go for a prebuilt is because shipping a computer thats not designed to be shipped is very risky. It takes one random wagie to have a bad day and chuck your parcel too hard and your GPU breaks out with the PCI slot. And sure you can get a refund but they wont refund you for the time watsed waiting for another parcel.
This, and the fact that prebuilts are overpriced anyway.
 
Chromeo said:
I miss the days of buying a computer at a physical store
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I had to help family buy a laptop a few years ago from a physical shop. They literally would not just fucking sell it to me. They were asking if I wanted it on a 6 month or a 12 month or a 24 month payment plan and if I wanted norton and powerpoint and how long I wanted to take out insurance for it. They looked at me incredibly confused when I just said no I just want to buy a fucking laptop that's it.
Chromeo said:
I'm too retarded to build a PC
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You really are not. It's a dozen screws and slotting a couple things in to very clearly labelled slots. You are not too retarded to do it, just inexperienced and anxious.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
You really are not. It's a dozen screws and slotting a couple things in to very clearly labelled slots. You are not too retarded to do it, just inexperienced and anxious.
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This.

I feel like a lot of people get wary of building or working on their own PC because in their heads they liken it to working on a car or something, which is understandably a lot more complicated and in-depth. But mercifully, MOST PC parts have been heavily standardized. For example, it does not matter what make or model hard drive you buy, even HDD or SSD, it's going to have a SATA connector on it and your motherboard is also going to have that same plug socket. The only real snag is that motherboards either have AMD or Intel sockets for processors, but that's something you can look up in advance; PC Part Picker, for example, will not let you virtually build out a computer with parts that do not fit with each other.

Everything from adding a new hard drive, upgrading your RAM, and even installing a CD/DVD drive is very simple. I would strongly encourage anyone curious about upgrading or getting a new PC to watch someone build one, either in person or a YouTube tutorial. Not only is it a fun thing to do, it's also a great skill to have as we inch ever closer to a world where all tech is locked down, encrypted, asks for your ID etc. Knowing how to "pop the hood" on your PC tower and upgrade (or, downgrade) will be a very good skill to have.
 
Barry Williams said:
I would strongly encourage anyone curious about upgrading or getting a new PC to watch someone build one, either in person or a YouTube tutorial.
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I had literally no idea how to build a computer when I first built mine other than that it was something you could do. It took me a couple hardware review videos and comparison websites and a single unedited video of someone building a pc from start to finish. The only difficult part was the front io but that just took looking through the book that came with the motherboard which had literally every single piece of information you could ever need.
 
Barry Williams said:
I feel like a lot of people get wary of building or working on their own PC because in their heads they liken it to working on a car or something, which is understandably a lot more complicated and in-depth.
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Nah people are wary of working on ANYTHING. A lot of people seem to think that because there are people that do these jobs professionally that they have some huge skill requirement. I've known intelligent people with technical qualifications pay people to come to their home and turn a couple of screws to fix something for them.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
If it was pre 2010 then I could understand buying a prebuilt computer. But there is no excuse for buying one in the current day other than a bog standard office computer. Pcpartpicker will flag any problems and will literally tell you the options you have. There's countless tutorials for literally every single step in any form you want too. I don't get who the fuck is so lazy that they would rather overpay by thousands instead of doing it yourself. Is your time really worth like £100/hour?
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Where I am at labor cost is negligible so why not have a professional handle it. If something expensive breaks they are liable, not me. I had my PC case shatter on me. Took it to the closest computer shop, bought a new case and payed the guy $20 to swap the guts between the two. Got it done in an hour and was running better than before.
 
I built my first PC when I was 20. I was going to have the shop build it but they were backed up a couple weeks. I did have to call them to ask how the power cables went.

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Yes, the black ones went next to each other.
 
FILTH Tourist said:
Took it to the closest computer shop, bought a new case and payed the guy $20 to swap the guts between the two.
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That's not a prebuilt though? Paying someone to repair something is understandable. Paying a 25+% markup for literally no reason other than your own retardation isn't. Prebuilts only exist to skim money off of grandmas trying to buy their kid a gaming pc.
 
The Real Slim Shady said:
One of the main reasons I would not go for a prebuilt is because shipping a computer thats not designed to be shipped is very risky. It takes one random wagie to have a bad day and chuck your parcel too hard and your GPU breaks out with the PCI slot. And sure you can get a refund but they wont refund you for the time watsed waiting for another parcel.
This, and the fact that prebuilts are overpriced anyway.
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I'll sometimes get a barebones just so I know it'll actually turn on and show video.

Last time I did a full build, when I turned it on, it would turn on, show video for a second, then either turn off or go into a reboot cycle. I reseated the CPU, GPU, memory, and anything I could think of. By the time I figured out it was a grounding problem, and therefore probably I'd mixed in the wrong kind of screw, I was so furious I decided to take it to an actual shop, who confirmed that yes, I had a single screw that was causing a grounding issue. Being honest, he only charged $50.

What made me feel especially dumb when I was finishing it off and installing drives, I found a little baggy of the right kind of screws in a hidden compartment.

I have a general policy if I'm starting to rage doing something, stop immediately and don't make it worse.
 
Barry Williams said:
I feel like a lot of people get wary of building or working on their own PC because in their heads they liken it to working on a car or something,
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Kalsarikännit said:
No, you’re not. You’re too lazy. Big difference
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I'm definitely lazy, but see Barry's comment ^
I'm so sure that it'd be easy enough until I specifically got to it, then it'd be like solving a Chinese Rubix cube. I'm just grateful my current PC still works, but I guess I'm gonna have to learn once it starts chugging.
 
Chromeo said:
I'm definitely lazy, but see Barry's comment ^
I'm so sure that it'd be easy enough until I specifically got to it, then it'd be like solving a Chinese Rubix cube. I'm just grateful my current PC still works, but I guess I'm gonna have to learn once it starts chugging.
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It’s Lego that you run a usb installer on after you finish building.
 
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