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Is this a good setup for the price?
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Is this a good setup for the price? This is somewhere in Europe. A tech shop that allows you to choose your hardware and they assemble it for you.
I mainly want to play older and indie games on it. Some video editing as well, possibly. Current rig is a crappy pre-built which overheats like crazy, practically impossible to do any gaming on it. TIA for any answers.
Building a desktop in a normal sized case is not some sort of effort in dexterity. Its slow as you want it to be, as careful as you want.
It looks complicated but its basically you get the case on its side, lay the motherboard in there and screw in the like dozen screws all around, get the Power supply in its little spot turned the right way and screw that in. Everything else plugs into the motherboard, and if it needs power you plug a cable into it from the PSU (recommend modular, removable cables).
Usually ram and nvme drives get power from the board directly, stuff like CPU fans and regular fans usually plug into different pins on the motherboard.
You really should be fine with buying parts and just going off of the motherboard manual, it has a diagram showing all the pins and plugs and what goes where.
Just run your build by someone here to make sure you didnt pair something wrong but a lot of it is picking a motherboard and CPU that work together, and then picking GPU, ram, and storage. Cases have size categories so anything in the mid tower size is usually standard, mini is smaller and full is bigger. That mostly depends on how many fans and lights and such you want.
I'll think about but I'll probably go with having it built for me. They charge 100 € for it which is not a lot when you calculate the cost of the parts. Thanks for the input, though.
Thats fair, I based the number on someone else's calculation so you might be right!
I had one other thought, theres a pc building simulator game, where you run a pc repair shop. It does a really good job of being real to life, might be a risk free way to see what the building stuff is about.