'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real Computer

Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by falcolas on Thursday March 29, 2018 @05:23PM (#16711160)

I just did this part a week ago. All I did was keep the motherboard specs open in one window, and narrow down choices based off that. Wasn’t really hard in any respect, just detail orientated.

Pick a processor, that determines the motherboard socket. The motherboard and CPU arch will determine the memory type. The wattage of the CPU and video card determines your PSU lower bounds.

The only odd thing was the addition of SSDs on a stick, but the motherboard determines the options there too.

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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by eat_veggies on Thursday March 29, 2018 @08:11PM (#16712450)

PCPartPicker will not let you pick parts that aren't compatible with each other, and even keeps a tally of your wattages. I think they even use the measurements of your case to tell you if your GPU or cooler might be too big.

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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by falcolas on Friday March 30, 2018 @09:29AM (#16715853)

My point was not that I'm better than tooling, but that it's a very possible task even without extra tooling. And that task isn't hard, just detail orientated.

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