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

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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.

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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!

 I don't mind the LEDs, as long as I don't have to pay extra.
In fact my ram has bloody lights on it as do the fans I bought, simply
because it would have cost more to get em without (the fans were on
clearance at 1/3rd normal price, and they're basic red lighting not
rainbow and don't look bad with a black case.)
 

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've always said that assembling a computer is about as hard as playing
with LEGOs (and I started saying that back in the days when everything
had a jumper to set.)
Unfortunately, there exist in the world, people who would be incapable
of playing with LEGOs.
 

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.

 Oh look, you found one of the LEGO challenged.
 Now imagine him changing his brake pads.