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

Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by baddox on Thursday March 29, 2018 @05:58PM (#16711444)

Oh, great memories. Those were absolutely terrifying, but luckily I never broke one and only had one instance of a friend breaking one. The absolute worst was when I (being a more experienced PC builder) was helping a friend with his first build, and the friend insists that I install the cooler.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by qplex on Friday March 30, 2018 @05:53AM (#16714896)

I destroyed my 600MHz Pentium III while fiddling with the cooler. A corner of the chip broke off.

I used the same motherboard and bought an adapter which allowed an upgrade to a 1,3GHz PIII Tualatin. It had a proper headspreader so the installation was a breeze in comparison.

The horror ensued on my next upgrade to an AMD Athlon XP 2800+ which again had the die exposed, but thankfully I never managed to destroy it.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by Scoundreller on Thursday March 29, 2018 @09:21PM (#16712844)

My spouse does the same thing. "Why don't you choose" == I get blamed if it's not the better choice.

[ Parent | on HN ]