Don't Underestimate the Challenge of Building a PC

A noise like a freshly lit sparkler in no hurry of going out told me Bad Things were happening. “It’s not that hard.” Then his computer caught on fire, because PC building isn’t just like Legos. CEO Johnny Hou told me that there are still those enthusiasts and hobbyists like myself who like to tweak the hardware and enjoy the act of building, but they’re joined by “this new wave of PC gamers that are just really interested in getting to the PC games quicker.” Companies like NZXT are trying to make PC building easier for newcomers, but some parts of PC building are still more reliant on experience than picking the objectively “best parts.” “I hear people call it adult Legos. PCPartpicker, and other services like NZXT’s BLD, are designed to make building easier. But both services still feed into this “adult Legos” mindset for PC building, and the problem with building a PC is there are a lot of potential points of failure.