hey everyone, i know this is a bit of a weird thing to ask for help with, but i am not really sure where else to ask this lol. i understand that this is something that is mostly up to me to deal with but i just need a lil reassurance. (please bear with me)
for some context, i am not new to pcs - i've been a pc gamer for almost a decade at this point, i've built three for myself over that time, and a few for my friends as well. i consider myself pretty competent in terms of troubleshooting and the like.
however, my last build was a complete nightmare. i built it at the peak of the gpu apocalypse and a month after the release of zen 3 when prices were inflated like nuts, so it was really expensive (5k cad). i made some mistakes along the way (buying a 750w psu for a 6900xt & 5800xt..i had a sff case, getting 4 sticks of ram instead of two) and had a hitch while building it, but i got it up and running and it ran flawlessly for a couple months until 2022 came!
for over 3 months i had a literal avalanche of problems, non stop. one after the other. i would have like 3 days of no problems before something else came up, at the very most. first, dead ssd. then a bad windows reinstall. even more random crashes, except they happened every 5 minutes even while on my desktop. ANOTHER dead ssd. dpc latency spikes, causing stuttering and audio dropouts. my audio setup starting causing bsods and crashes. and finally a third dead ssd.
(i will just mention rq that i'm dealing w ocd, it's the reason i reacted to this so horribly. i promise i am not deranged) at that point, i decided enough is enough, the pc is haunted, it's gotta go. way too much stress. i parted out my gpu and sold it. the thought of coming home from work and dealing with that pc made me actually get sick at work a few times. it made me really anxious to even touch my pc, because i was just sitting there waiting for the next issue on the edge of my seat like a jumpscare in a movie lol. the entire ordeal made me terrified to try again with pcs, and it's still that way 6 months later.
i know that was a lot to read, but i just want to confirm - this wasn't a normal experience, right? did i just get really unlucky? i had two pcs previously that worked near flawlessly, then this lol. i really would like to build again in a couple months, but i am hesitent because of just how stressful my last build was. i am telling myself that the chance of having a normal pc is so much bigger than the chance of anything going wrong is, but hearing opinions from other people will do me much better. just need some moral support from the pc community lol
i know this is a pretty silly thing to ask for help for - thank you for reading
for some context, i am not new to pcs - i've been a pc gamer for almost a decade at this point, i've built three for myself over that time, and a few for my friends as well. i consider myself pretty competent in terms of troubleshooting and the like.
however, my last build was a complete nightmare. i built it at the peak of the gpu apocalypse and a month after the release of zen 3 when prices were inflated like nuts, so it was really expensive (5k cad). i made some mistakes along the way (buying a 750w psu for a 6900xt & 5800xt..i had a sff case, getting 4 sticks of ram instead of two) and had a hitch while building it, but i got it up and running and it ran flawlessly for a couple months until 2022 came!
for over 3 months i had a literal avalanche of problems, non stop. one after the other. i would have like 3 days of no problems before something else came up, at the very most. first, dead ssd. then a bad windows reinstall. even more random crashes, except they happened every 5 minutes even while on my desktop. ANOTHER dead ssd. dpc latency spikes, causing stuttering and audio dropouts. my audio setup starting causing bsods and crashes. and finally a third dead ssd.
(i will just mention rq that i'm dealing w ocd, it's the reason i reacted to this so horribly. i promise i am not deranged) at that point, i decided enough is enough, the pc is haunted, it's gotta go. way too much stress. i parted out my gpu and sold it. the thought of coming home from work and dealing with that pc made me actually get sick at work a few times. it made me really anxious to even touch my pc, because i was just sitting there waiting for the next issue on the edge of my seat like a jumpscare in a movie lol. the entire ordeal made me terrified to try again with pcs, and it's still that way 6 months later.
i know that was a lot to read, but i just want to confirm - this wasn't a normal experience, right? did i just get really unlucky? i had two pcs previously that worked near flawlessly, then this lol. i really would like to build again in a couple months, but i am hesitent because of just how stressful my last build was. i am telling myself that the chance of having a normal pc is so much bigger than the chance of anything going wrong is, but hearing opinions from other people will do me much better. just need some moral support from the pc community lol
i know this is a pretty silly thing to ask for help for - thank you for reading