'Two months of planning in the trash': Internet user was building a gaming PC and didn't take one of the most important things into consideration

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A mistake that is too common for this player who wanted to build his gaming PC

Assembling your own PC piece by piece in the age of YouTube tutorials is no longer as difficult a thing as it used to be. However, there are always these classic errors that we can't get rid of… One of them is significant since players sometimes buy components that are too large for their case. A huge graphics card for example, since the more the years go by the more massive they become. After spending a large sum on pure components, many people look to save money on their case… and that's a big mistake.

This is how we often see stories of people who cannot fit a component into their PC and who try, let's say, quite stupid maneuvers like improvising with cardboard boxes for example – please, never do that… – or even break their case. Most of the time, these kinds of problems happen to people who are novices and/or not very meticulous. It is rarer to come across a user who, after claiming to be ultra-cautious, finds himself confronted with the harsh reality.

This is what a European Reddit user experienced, hidden behind the nicknameEmperorPalpatine651. As he indicates in his message, the Star Wars fan has dedicated two months of his life to meticulously planning to purchase the perfect parts for his first gaming PC. With all the enthusiasm in the world, he decided to build his first computer with an NVIDIA RTX 4000 GPU as its centerpiece. However, when he bought all the necessary equipment and decided to assemble it, he was confronted with a sad reality: you understood it from the thumbnail of this paper and following these first two paragraphs, yes, its graphics card did not fit into the case.

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Having spent two months selecting the ideal components for his first PC, the user was eager to see his project come to life. However, a sizing error, concerning the size of the graphics card, made assembly impossible, thus putting an end to its initial enthusiasm. After the “mess”, he took a photo of the result and shared it with members of the Reddit community. Many took advantage of the situation to make all kinds of comments.

The most critical point out that the user should have checked the dimensions of their graphics card before purchasing in “specific positions”.It's a safe bet that many of us have already encountered this problem, since most graphics cards install vertically. Anyway, next time the poor inattentive player will read the manufacturer's instructions and recommendations in more detail. Overall, the community has been very supportive. Despite some funny remarks, it is comforting to see so much support on the Internet.

Note that'there is a simple method to know the dimensions of a component, and make sure it actually fits into our case. We invite you to visit the site PCPartPickerwhich takes care of listing most PC components, in addition to comparators and simulations so as not to reproduce EmperorPalpatine651's error.

Source : Reddit