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I got whatever the opposite of the IKEA effect is from building my last desktop PC, which, hopefully, will be the last PC I ever build. Aside from memory and ma

I got whatever the opposite of the IKEA effect is from building my last desktop PC, which, hopefully, will be the last PC I ever build. Aside from memory and maybe drives, I'll be buying off-the-rack from now on. What I learned is that there is nothing special about a homebuilt PC, unless you want an odd case. Thanks to depreciation, there's not all that much special about OTR PC's, either.

hocuspocus 9y ago
There's indeed nothing special about a home-built PC, and while I don't particularly enjoy it (even though it's gotten much easier in the past 20 years), I still do it, since it's typically the only way to ensure: * Properly sized cooling that keeps my PC silent under any kind of load. (I have to admit, Dell et al. have made decent progress there too, but that's mostly thanks to the great improvements in power management we've seen in the past decade). * Optimal budget allocation. * Exotic features (for instance, I built my current computer 2½ years ago, and there was only one mainboard on the market providing HDMI 2.0 with the Skylake iGPU). If I weren't so cheap, I guess I would just order all the parts from a single store and pay for assembly. Now, when it comes to recommending a computer to my family, I just tell them to buy a NUC/Brix.