Times being what they are, you may be thinking of building your own computer, but is it worth it? Is it worth the chance of your new build beginning on fire after you have put it all together & hit the power button for the first time?
Six years ago that is what happened to me. Well, it wasn't a fire, but it was close. Let me start from the outset. I was time a gamer, but a betting computer starved gamer. I needed something that could fulfill my betting needs. I needed to log on to my favorites mmorpg & hunt down some news without chopping & crashing to the desktop. So I decided that building my own computer would be a pleasant suggestion. I did the research & bought the parts. I even bought additional part, a motherboard. I had forgotten to take it out of the net shopping cart before clicking the final "submit order" button. What a lucky break, but I'll get to that later.
After submitting my order, about a week later my parts arrived. The site of my new betting PC in its shiny new boxes strewn all over the floor was truly something to behold, but alas, it was also scary. Scary because I had spent around $2500 on something I had no idea how to assemble. I thought it would be like hooking up a VCR, there is way to do it, right?
Let me give you a little more background knowledge here, my roommate had ordered the exact same computer & his parts arrived along with mine.
Anyway, they unpacked all of my parts & began to build the computer at about 9 p.m. It was winter, so it was dark, but our moods were that of life lit by a roaring fire to accomplish betting greatness. By a.m. my computer was fully assembled. They had went through the heart pounding technique of snapping the RAM in to place & figuring out exactly what stand-offs were. Even scarier was the technique of installing the CPU & then pressing with the force of 100 men to snap the CPU fan in to place. But, it was all done, or was it? You see, there was this additional cord, I think it said something about HDMI sound on it.
Every cord they had plugged in had been either clearly labeled or clearly obvious as to where it needed to go, but there was no clear spot for this. I was time going to leave it unplugged as I thought it was an additional random thing that I didn't need, but my mate found a spot where it would fit, & it actually did appear like a great place for it. I reluctantly plugged it in. Finally, they were done.
I attached the keyboard, mouse & monitor & prepared to hit the power button for the first time. The anticipation was killing me. In fact, it had me so frightened that I had hand on the power cord on the back of the computer while the other was preparing to push the power button.
I then pushed the button & within half a second my other hand had pulled the power cord out of the back of the computer. There was something about the smoke that had come rolling off the motherboard that made me pull the cord. Perhaps because smoke means fire? I'll never be positive.
After spending a combined total of $5000, they had lit our first attempt at building a computer on fire. Let's say there was a small tension in the room. Fortunately I had that spare motherboard.
What followed was the quickest build teardown & later assembly I have ever done. They were so overwhelmed with insanity that they didn't care what happened next. Within an hour they had my new computer fired up & walking. That first site of Windows popping up on the new monitor was amazing. It was of the best feelings I have ever had. It was all worth it.
Times being what they are, you might not be able to order a spare motherboard. But don't fret, keep in mind the moral of the story, well, I'll let you figure it out.
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