Re: World of Warcraft used to be under 50 GB install

On 23/06/2025 18:25, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Twenty years ago, I was all on the side of 'build your own' but these
days? You get almost the same cost/value benefit from OEMs, and a lot
more ease of use. I still like tinkering and building my own rigs, but
I get value from_that_ and don't really see it in the end-product
itself while playing games.

Personally I still build (well I like to say assemble as build sounds far to grand for what you actually do) my own and it probable does save me money as I can reuse parts and do minor refreshes when required. It also means I don't end up with LED's everywhere!
Generally though I say go with an OEM/pre-built mainly because most people don't have the expertise (or confidence) to either select the parts or put them together. The latter part isn't hard if you have some knowledge but lots of people (I'd imagine the norm by far) don't even have that minimum.
I remember going around a friend of my better half's house to help him with his PC. I don't know what he had done but a best guess was he tried to remove the DVI cable from PC not realising that you have to undo the screws first, it wasn't pretty.