Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ...
by jotux on Thursday March 29, 2018 @08:01PM
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I suspect most newbies to building a PC wouldn't just go to the individual part list and start picking a processor. They'd go to the build guides(https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/) and look at builds in their price range. A bunch of the build guides on that site have start-to-finish youtube videos of the entire build as well.
Maybe that particular filter on that particular part isn't that easy to use but I think sites like this make building a PC extremely approachable, even for someone who has never built a PC before.
Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ...
by LeoPanthera on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:43PM
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You're not supposed to pick a CPU from the full list. Use the filters on the left to narrow it down.
Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ...
by bsder on Thursday March 29, 2018 @07:28PM
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Did you actually read my comment? I was talking about the choices IN THE FILTERS.
The problem, as a noob, is that you don't even have enough knowledge to use the filters correctly.
Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ...
by pcarmichael on Thursday March 29, 2018 @08:56PM
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Aye. We've got some things in the works to improve that.
https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/
Which CPU family and which series? Once you finish THAT, everything gets a lot more straightforward.
That list is terrible. At least order the families/series chronologically.
If I'm a reasonably informed random, I know to click a handful of things with "lake" in the name and a handful of things with "zen" in the name and that's about it. Except you can't do that with the chooser as it gives you zero choices, since -zen is a series and -lake is a family and those are disjoint (I should be able to union those).
As a noob, I would miss any of the "gaming value" choices with that heuristic (Haswell/Broadwell that are quite nice).
I don't see any EPYC in that list, so I'm scratching my head (yes, I know it's a server but a random person won't) and I would miss the Threadripper choice (why doesn't it have Ryzen next to it).
The problem isn't assembling a PC. It's the fact that PC knowledge has a half-life of like 6 months, and you really can't trust review sites or web searches on this topic anymore.