Honestly, I don't think it's any easier than in the late 90s. If you research well enough and get components that work together (or are just lucky), then it wi

Honestly, I don't think it's any easier than in the late 90s. If you research well enough and get components that work together (or are just lucky), then it will work, if you put it together correctly, otherwise it won't. I mean, there are Youtube videos that probably help if you've never done it, and then you still sometimes make these small errors that you make if you don't do it all the time. I certainly had to reassemble everything twice due to some cabling mistakes (new case) and not having done it in like 7 years because the hardware just won't be obsolete so fast. But I can totally understand why people would not find it easy. Mainboard manuals are still mostly a joke of a few sketches, you can be lucky if your case has a single sheet of instructions, there are now even more different sorts of screws, etc.pp.