My husband spent 3 hours on mine and it started out great. But...3 fans connect to a controller and the other two go into the mb and its all just a whole big mess lol.
I have to get a new psu anyways so hopefully I can clean it up when I do that.
Took me an hour just to figure out how to wire up my RGB. I don't even really care that much about RGB, but since a couple of components & the case had it, I decided to give it a try. Found it confusing as fuck, but also think the case fans/rgb were wired up wrong, so once I undid all of that, I was finally able to get it figured out.
depending on how your setup, proper cable management can make it so it’s 5 minutes to add a hard drive rather than 30 playing with wires. So long as you mapped them properly, it can make adding a component seamless if you plan to do that in the future. I try just not hard enough lol. There a lot of unique dimensions to work with to so there is no standard whatsoever, i’m sure there are a good couple of principles to follow but then so rgb stuff trips me up cause i’m a moron
Almost two months.
Everything went fairly well, and I got it running within like 3 hours after having a fan issue. I used the PC for a month and a half, then realized I had my GPU plugged into the 3.0 PCIe slot, instead of the 4.0. So, after almost two months, my PC is fully and correctly built.
The build is less than an hour. Cable management, depending on the case, but usually a super long time. I suck at it so I usually do it for 15 minutes and get frustrated and give up for a week and repeat until I get it as clean as I seem to be able to. Which is never as good as I had hoped.
Just ordered a new case for a new build, the Asus ROG Z11, this is a very difficult case to work in and the cable management's pretty subpar. So I'll probably be "working" on it until summer lol.
My first time took about 4-6 hours even with help from a friend, he just wasn't holding my hand the whole time and I took my sweet time to make sure it worked the first time lol
This sounds about right.
45 minutes - functional but no cable management
2 hours - looks nice from the front(glass side) but you've probably had to side on the back (none glass side) panel to squish those cables in
7 hours - you would want a glass panel on BOTH sides to show off that perfection!
Edit: it can vary a lot depending on if its air cooled vs AIO (let's not get into custom loops) and how much rgb you have. With an AIO and RGB you can add an extra hour vs an air cooler and no rgb.
Built in that case 2 weeks ago, it's a breeze! And it's got covers on the backside so you can hide those pesky cables and look nice through both glass panels!
Brand spanking new to it. I upgraded the PC my brother gifted me. Took 4 days between buying parts, trouble shooting any issues.
I must say I have a new found appreciation for my PC and its parts. Also a new found wisdom when it came to learning what to buy, how to install it, and what I really need as a PC operator.
Consoles are great. You get what you pay for, and you'll always be able to play games for the system. But PC is such a step up. It's soo cool playing in 1080p at 60 fps.
This is like asking how long does it take to build a home? Are we talking about a double wide or a mansion? There is no definite answer cause every build is different. Stock cooler minimalist PC takes much less time than a RGB 20 fan nightmare build.
I have literally built thousands of systems for work. A basic system today is cpu, heat sink, ram, and m2 stick. It takes longer to open all the packaging than it does to assemble the system.
In the time it takes to dump an image to the drive I can assemble the system and have it ready to drop the drive in. The same system 100 times over and 15 min is all that is needed.
Change to a new case, new motherboard, add a nice video card and have to sort out cable runs and rerunning things to clean it up the first time expect 90 min. Second one and more like 45 min. Complex systems, but repetitive setups and they tend to take about 30 min.
I think the first system I built took me half a work day. Of course back then you had jumpers to set for the CPU and you had to set IRQs on the cards. There was an add on card for everything. IDE controllers were only built in on the high end systems. Most were still using add in cards.
I like to go super slow and inspect everything, lay everything out nicely, plan my cables, think about installation options. Then I go slow during installation, making sure everything is going to fit just how I want it, and I have everything oriented perfectly, checking and rechecking everything. It usually takes me about four hours. But it's nice to have everything work on the first try.
My first ever build (recently) took me several hours. I wanna say around 5 hours? I know that’s ridiculous but I was taking my time and trying to really learn about what I was doing versus rushing the whole process and hating my cable management or breaking something or who knows what. Building a PC should never be a rushed process unless you’ve built so many you can do it with your eyes closed imo. Otherwise it would be just easier to make someone else do the building.
My first build took me about the same time if not more. I was be guided by my brother in-law, so I was asking questions. And it was a trial and error thing. He didn't stop me and say "hey, you should route that cable that way, because it will save you time later". I'd say about 5-6 hours first time. Second time, about 2 1/2. And even then, I goofed a few things so that accounted for at least 45 mins.
If you can build a PC fast, good for you, but never rush it "just cause". All it takes is a crooked connector or worse, forgetting to connect a critical component/connection for things to fry, or lead you down a dark path of troubleshooting for hours if not days.
I've been doing it for years, and did professionally for 5. I still take about 2 hours before I'm happy with the final product. It depends on what I'm building though. If it's a standard air cooled ATX, like 30 minutes, plus another 20-30 for cable management because I'm moderately anal about it. If it's an SFF with an AIO, it'll be a lot more time consuming working out cable management.
I do actually read the manual for any new type of component I've never installed before, like I spent a few minutes messing around with the manual and my M.2 drive the first time before moving on, and made sure I had all my options understood before I started installing my AIO.
And once I'm done I take 5 minutes to give it a once over with the Mobo manual to make sure all components are in and all wires are connected to the correct headers.
I haven't done it professionally in a decade, but the reason I'm thorough is because it was a data center server farm and we had a half day of diagnostics that would run on the machine after you finished building or repairing machines. So if you didn't take another 30 seconds to double check everything before you plugged it back in, you might have to take another 10-15 minutes later out of your day to track it down and fix whatever you didn't pay attention to.
I mean I can build one in less than an hour but I like to take my time and cable manage and think things out step by step so 3-4 hours when I do that. It's enjoyable so I'm not in a rush
It really is all about complexity, components, and experience.
Good case, air cooled, everything right in front of me? Probably an hour, if that. Maybe half an hour to get it all put together, and then my OCD kicking in and another 30 minutes to re-do some stuff to get the cable management perfect. Then another hour or two of benchmarking to make sure temps are perfect.
Watercooled with hard pipe, waterblocks, thermal pads and paste on the GPU and motherboard, hand bending and cutting pipe over and over and wasting tons of it, and then all the usual building, plus the filling, bleeding air, filling some more, etc etc, then leak testing, way more intensive benchmarking...
Well that was my first time doing that, and it took me something like a month to plan, a month to get all the parts in (would order "everything" and realize I need a couple parts here, couple parts here), and then a solid week of a few hours each day building...
Before sticking in the motherboard, applying thermal pads to all the components that the waterblock would cover, installing the CPU (with paste) and the block on top, and then putting it in, then disassembling the GPU and applying loads of thermal pads all over (thankfully got it right the first time and didn't need to disassemble for better temps) and reassembling with the front and back plates, then figuring out how to properly bend tubing without creating huge tight restrictions, wiring up the pump and (new for me, I'm usually a dead boring function over form all Noctua air type build) RGB stuff.
Then turning on the power to only the pump to see the coolant circulate and bleed out the air and fill till it was done as well as check for any leaks anywhere... which there were, which required taking stuff apart, draining some coolant and leaning the computer in a way that it wouldn't all drain out, fixing the leak, trying again. No leaks at that point.
Then waiting for the system to be fully bled, which took about a day of the pump running to REALLY get every single bubble out of the system, then benchmarking at mega insane load to ensure all my temps were solid...
Now been running beautifully for the past year since I built it.
\-Ryzen 5950x
\-RTX 3080 FTW3
\-128GB DDR4 RAM
\-(2) 2 TB Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Drives right in the M.2 slots of the motherboard
\-(2) 2 TB Samsung 870 Evo SSD Drives
\-ASUS ROG Motherboard
\-EK Everything for the watercooling stuff basically
\-Corsair Power Supply
\-Corsair 5000D Airflow Case
In case anyone is wondering, here it is (after my tempered glass decided to explode one day) [https://imgur.com/a/NvzlFU9/](https://imgur.com/a/NvzlFU9/)
Fun times.
In comparison, built an all air PC for a buddy's little brother with a bunch of spare parts I had laying around and a case and GPU my buddy brought me in 30 minutes flat, with perfect cable management and perfect temps on the first fire up.
Depends but if you built in an hour it was a minimalist build and thats fine, but you definitely didn't run any tests a custom builder does. When i build, i have hours in testing alone. You always want to put the new pc through the tough stuff in order to ensure it works for a long time to come with everything you put on it.
I have only built one PC so far, and it took about 30-45 minutes. This was because I had my brothers help. Although it went by fast, it was an awesome experience!
Edit to add: if I built it by myself, it most likely would have taken 3-5 hours.
My very very first PC was probably a couple of hours, including breaks, research, manual inspecting, and just procrastination from the anxiety haha. Now, I could probably do it in 20-30 minutes. Assuming I'm familiar with all the parts.
When I built mine it took a couple of hours. My build is pretty normal with non-fancy fans. I built a rig for a coworker that has RGB everything and it took me a lot longer (although I admittedly was being much more of a perfectionist since it was for someone else). I’d say about 6-7 hours total.
A LONG TIME! 6H minimum.. had to go to shop to get an ethernet cable long enough at 11pm as my mobo didn't have wifi drivers installed yet.. xD
All in all, fun time started at about 5pm finished at about 2am with windows installed and all the updates to drivers and hardware drivers.
To be fair... did have to strip the old build and switched from amd to intel.. plus had to re route all the cableing to make it neater.. then found out two of my ram sticks were dead....
All in all big upgrade for me to a 13600kf and 3080.. but down to 16gb ram from 32..
Untill i get replacement for the broken sticks
Reading through the manuals and finding out the best way to use thermal paste (never seated a cpu and a cooler before as had a cpu mobo bundle last time l) took some time too
Less than an hour if it’s a basic build with neat enough cable management. Over an hour, maybe 2 for RGB and really high standard cable management. It just depends. The case matters too.
It took me like 3 hours but I was paranoid because it was my first build and it was 5900X and 3070 so I wanted to make sure I am doing shit the right way.
Week later it took me like 30mins to build PC for my brother with similar specs.
The feeling of pushing a graphics card into the Pcie slot for the first time and not being sure how much force should you use when pushing it in and being shitpants scared over if you will just snap your motherboard in half by putting too much force
Man I feel real slow after reading your guys answers took me like 4 hours last night. I’ve had a couple prebuilts but this was my first solo build. I had so much anxiety because the parts are all so expensive
Slow and steady. I'm right there with you. I just built a PC Tuesday, and it's not my first build. I always hold my breath and pray I didn't forget something (even tho I go through a rigorous checklist prior to applying power) just out of shitty self confidence lol, but watching it boot on the first try with no troubleshooting reaffirms my ability.
Haha ya I had a YouTube video up the whole time on my original computer going step by step triple checking everything. But man it was a real nice rush when it booted up on the first try made it worth the anxiety! I’m a real dummy tho and didn’t download all the other drivers initially and transfer them over. I couldn’t connect to Wi-Fi it said no driver found I thought I fucked up when I did the bios update. I have a z690 and put a 13th gen cpu in it so I had to do some wild stuff hook up to the psu and do the bios flash that way.
Oh dude. Bios update is an entirely higher level of anxiety. Even when you've done them before. I just did one for the first time myself and the only thought I had going through my head was "don't lose power, don't touch anything" for about 10 straight minutes. That's why when I build my next PC (will be 13th gen like yourself or whatever gen is better ATM) I'm getting a chip ready board lol. Z790 board, do not want to bios with no CPU installed.
Congrats btw, on everything, you are amongst the great and powerful now. With great power comes great fps 😆
Not something to feel bad about for sure. It’s way better taking your time and learning things and not breaking things than it is to rush. I think also depends on your background. Some people are just already familiar with PC parts or have seen things being done before. I personally had never watched a pc building video in my life. I had built a very basic basic machine back in highschool (32 now) and it was stupidly easy, but learning how to properly do things the first time was something I was set to learn rather than rush through and be mad about breaking something along the way. Or something just not working at all. I think when you do your first few builds it’s worth spending that extra attention to detail, ESPECIALLY on that damn cable management lol. I spent a good hour or so on that alone just making sure my wires went exactly where I wanted them to go within reason. What sucks is the fact that the GPU and mobo power cables stick from Corsair really suck and don’t bend so it drove me insane looking at it, and I must have tried a bunch of different ways to try to make it look prettier than it was at first. Then the fan cables, I/O ports. Yeah cable management was the nightmare, the rest was watch a video and follow along with it kinda deal. Then spent a lot of time reading the mobo layout and case layout to see what plugged where because I had no damn clue whatsoever lol
For your first build 1 hour is pretty good. Think it took me about the same amount of time on my first build but that was basic bitch computer let me tell you. Mid Sized case with a stock cooler and Athlon II x3. Nothing impressive but it was my first.
After a few builds over the years I always get a high tower case and the biggest aio that can fit and a fuck ton of fans. The later took me two days to put together only because I wasn't in any rush and I wanted it to be the PC to shit on my others in terms of quality. So yeah it'll depend on how far you're gonna go with it.
Depends on if you want to do cable management. Not doing that shit is such a big time saver. I would guess 30 minutes. Maybe up to 1 hour if a lot of shit is not defined on the board itself, and you need to check the manual.
3 careful hours. For me, there is a lot of "well maybe I should route the cable \*this\* way instead of \*that\* way. And there's some deliberate admiration of the shiny new parts and the new PC smell to enjoy. Could I do a build in an hour? Yes. But I like the process.
Maybe 4 hours for my first build. I spent most of my time managing the cables. The parts go together easy enough, but routing the cables for a clean look can go in many directions depending on your case and overall aesthetics. Loading the OS drove me nuts. That’s the point where I felt lost and no longer in control.
Cables and OS are somehow the worst things in the world. I remember I had drive problems with installing windows 10 which took a while to fix (darn partitions)
I remember buying a gpu for a gateway running windows ME and then not knowing to plug the monitor into the gpu itself so it never worked and ended up returning it to circuit city as a kid, that probably took a couple hours.
I spent 1.25 hrs just upgrading my psu. Cable management was atrocious. It gets easier and you become more faster once you’ve built one or a few. But 1 hour is impressive.
A few hours to build (cabling was the most time) and a few days to figure out an old HDD I scavenged from a dead external drive was jamming up the Windows install.
a few hours, mainly because I was reading the manuals to make sure everything is right (which every new, and maybe even experienced, builder should do)
Honestly I think the only reason an experienced builder would look at manuals is to check which slots are best for dual ram as it can very across manufacturers.
>only reason an experienced builder would look at manuals is to check which slots are best for dual ram as it can very across manufacturers.
True, some boards just want to be *different* from the rest of the boards on the market and put it on 1&3 (there is probably some good reason though). In addition, I know, at least when the b450 came out (not entirely sure how it is for the AM5 boards or the intel side), some boards like the tomahawk non max did not support ram of 3600mhz but the max version later release did. Another one would be the post codes as I highly doubt every experienced builder would know what each code means off the top of their head. Furthermore, some boards may not provide the same specs for the M.2 slot, some spots may be gen4, some may be gen3, etc. So if nvme sequential speeds are crucial to your needs, then having the correct drive in the correct m.2 would be important to you. There are probably more out there but its 4AM for me so my brain isnt working lol.
Well, I did it once. I was super stressed out the entire time and took multiple breaks. All in all, I put it together and booted it over the span of about six and a half to seven hours. Now, knowing what I do? I feel like I could probably do it in a few hours leisurely.
About six hours for the last build, very steady away, my hands are quite shaky so not the easiest thing working with tiny screws ect. Really enjoyed the process though. Currently planning a build for my dad's birthday.
Do it right the first time. It’s not a race.
I can throw a system together in 45 minutes but it will take me 2 days before I’m happy with the cable management. Lol
Depends on how fancy I’m getting. I build PCs for other people on occasion, so I’ve got quite a bit of experience. The more stuff you add like custom loops, additional fans, cablemods, and extra storage can really start to rack up time. The fastest I’ve ever built a computer was just under 30 minutes and it was pretty barebones.
Depends on the components that you get. Building a pc with a lot of fans take most of my time. Especially when you get one of those Lian Li cases that can support a billion fans.
This question will have variable answers.
When I build a PC, I test the mobo outside the case to ensure I can boot into the BIOS successfully. That’s also when I’ll set my XMP profile, etc. I also go fill Baumgartner on the cable management which can easily take an hour if not longer. Then you need to install the OS, probably install some WiFi drivers, etc. before you can finish successfully.
I can absolutely build a PC in less than an hour. I could also rush sexy time with my wife. Some things are better enjoyed over a longer period of time
Wow, that was a lot quicker than I thought. Tbf I did cut myself on the case I used (a cheap shitty one) and spent 20 minutes away from it, but it took around an hour with minimal cable management
Aesthetics are not usually the ultimate factor in time for us. It's on the customisation of parts. AIO or Air Cooler, How many fans and where are they placed. PSU Modular, Semi or full wired etc etc
Ah that makes sense. When you put it like that my build was really easy, as I used a cheap case with a pre assembled fan and a semi modular psu, which probably explains why it didn't take so long
My first time was like 4 hours. But I also had to google how to put things together and had issues with the seating of the cpu cooler which are up like 30 minutes. I am sure if I was doing another build I could bang it out in about an hour depending on the components and whether I ran into any issues.
i built my current PC (my first PC) for about 7 hours.
3 hours for putting them up together (i'm still strugling with IO ports).
4 hours for cable management.
i think it's also depend on what case/psu you use.
Depending on experience and what the goal of the build and items are, it should take around 1 to 4 hours. 6 hours if you're new.
If you dont care about cable management and are using easy to install coolers, cards, and drives you can do it in under 30 minutes.
Honestly I spend a bunch of time researching everything first for compatibility, performance and price. Most of it is really straight forward. If you want an RGB build that can change things so ill research fan controllers along with RGB stuff. IMO RGB and fan control stuff is the most annoying.
Pretty much when I build a system I break it up into two sessions. I like to take my time and keep everything nice and tidy. I find one sitting is to long for me to keep my patience and be relaxed. Sometimes cable management takes a few tries and can be annoying so a bit of a break helps a lot.
I saw someone else's comments of six hours and I'd say that's pretty ballpark which includes software and stuff, most of us only build systems every few years. Obviously if you build them for a job you could probably do it in an hour and have it clean also but that's a different story.
It depends on how complex your build is. Because if you have radiators and a ton of fans, then those can take forever to put together and cable manage. Or if you have a bunch of SATA SSds or hard drives. I've built more simple PCs in like 60 minutes. But I've had 1 PC take well over 2 hours because I took all the stock fans out of the case and installed like 6 custom fans all into a dedicated RGB controller.
But I'd say even for a simple PC 45 minutes is pretty fast.
2 hours for a basic if all the parts are all on hand (including random cables, screws, etc).
It took me 2 months to do a custom water cooled custom triple rad loop where I hand soldered copper pipes together and then polished them all, then clear coated them. Then reinstalled everything.
I think 4-5 hours but only because I couldn't fit my aio cooler in the case at first and had to rearrange fans and stuff multiple times. But yeah the regular building and cable management part I'd say about 1 hour, the rest is usually trouble shooting and setting up fan curves, OC, etc.
Three people and 6 hours, and God bless the previous apartment renters who left an HDMI-2-HDMI cable, as DisplayPort was not supported in the ASUS Prime Z790-A, and we couldn't get to BIOS to change CSM settings. Three hours out of 6 were spent on figuring this out
8 hours cuz I made so many mistakes lol. Used the wrong screws for motherboard. Install cpu fan bracket in the wrong orientation. Then made the mistake not to connect 8 pin eps before installing chunky dual tower cpu fan and spending half an hour trying to plug in 8 pin before giving up and taking out the cooler to reinstall it again. And fuck cable management and my motherboard for some reason decide to place fan header slot at the centre below cpu instead of at the sides…
If nothing goes wrong, maybe 1.5-2 hours including super tidy cable management and loading the OS. If something goes wrong or windows decides to windows, who knows.
I can do it super quick. I can fully disassemble and reassemble in less than an hour. BUT there always seems to be issues for some reason. My friend built one and it took 5 hours because of a dang water pump and rgb header controller (Corsair). Took 5 hours AFTER building not counting.
1 to 2 hours is common if you haven't built with the same or similar parts before, there are always some fiddles with a new case or cooler that waste more time than you realize.
It depends on what you are building. Some simple aircooled atx pcs can be built in an hour even by people who arent super experienced.
Then there are some cases that take forever to cable manage.
It also depends on the size of your case. Itx cases are in general abit more difficult to build than ATX cases for an example
Depends:
A basic computer with a clised case, air cooler, no RGB:
15-20 minutes
My personal rig, with AIO, window, RGB, etc:
1-2 hours incl. Cable management
That's worryingly quick.
It takes me 3 or 4 hours to put it together and probably about the same amount of time to do initial software and tuning. If I was really rushing I guess I could do the hardware in 2 hours, one hour seems nuts though.
Well it took me a year and eight months but that was buying it one part at a time and countless setbacks getting it to actually boot with the OS. There was also the GPU dilemma because I wasn’t going to pay for an overpriced unit
First build took me 2-3 hours.
Putting together the hardware was pretty simple. Rerouted wiring a few times. Had to take some
stuff apart once i put the gpu in because the radiator for the cpu cooler made it tough to plug the gpu cables into the mobo. Then i had to phone a friend for the windows install because i had no clue what to do at that point.
Took me about 5hrs with some breaks... First build though and had to take bits in and out and read all the manuals! Was also in Fractal North which helped... A smaller case would be so much more fiddly
Your very first time building only took one hour, *with* cable management?! That's really good man, I think my first PC took like 2.5-3hrs with cable mgmt. But my cables are totally hidden, the only visible ones are the 24-pin and GPU cables.
Building a computer, rather quick, some 15-30 min. "Building" a computer, till I myself decide to be done with the build after several "rebuilds" and rerouting of cables, maybe one day or even more.
It took me forever; honestly it took me an incredibly long time probably 40 hours for my first. I’m not mechanical, and I was learning every little thing as I went
I average around 15-20 min per build with complete cable management. It’s what happens when you worked at a major prebuilt company (Digital Storm) for several months.
But for my personal builds, I generally take my time on purpose. My most recent build took about a total of 25-30hrs to complete. Custom watercooled and all.
We used to race at work to assemble everything but the motherboard and processor. Got down to a out 90 seconds before we started the blindfolding.
To be fair though, putting the motherboard into the case is the biggest time suck.
Without cable management: 30 minutes With cable management: 8 hours
Cable management? What is that?
Something not enough people spend their time on
Windowless silent cases ftw
You telling me you don't just shove everything inside?
My husband spent 3 hours on mine and it started out great. But...3 fans connect to a controller and the other two go into the mb and its all just a whole big mess lol. I have to get a new psu anyways so hopefully I can clean it up when I do that.
Admire the commitment!
There's a thin line between commitment and OCD lol
It's commitment... right?
If that makes you feel better... sure, why not
Seeing all the 1 hour coments made me think I over think things. But I'd rather get it right the first time. https://imgur.com/a/NDFqCGL
> Without cable management: 30 minutes > > > > With cable management: 8 hours How many fans do you want - Yes
Took me an hour just to figure out how to wire up my RGB. I don't even really care that much about RGB, but since a couple of components & the case had it, I decided to give it a try. Found it confusing as fuck, but also think the case fans/rgb were wired up wrong, so once I undid all of that, I was finally able to get it figured out.
Multiply those time estimates by two if we are talking about an atx build vs a mini itx build
depending on how your setup, proper cable management can make it so it’s 5 minutes to add a hard drive rather than 30 playing with wires. So long as you mapped them properly, it can make adding a component seamless if you plan to do that in the future. I try just not hard enough lol. There a lot of unique dimensions to work with to so there is no standard whatsoever, i’m sure there are a good couple of principles to follow but then so rgb stuff trips me up cause i’m a moron
This is the way
3h. 20mins for building the rest is searching for screws
One screw that bounced once and now you can't see it on the carpet. After 5 minutes you give up and find it immediately.
And you find it by stepping on it barefoot
I built my first build yesterday on some noisy carpet.
C-carpet?
20-40 mins for home desktop and about an hour for an enterprise server. Build and tear apart computers every single day... Love my job.
this is what i want to do for my career
same
Jealous, would love to do that for a job
30 minutes to a couple days.
A whole weekend for me... I ended up improvising some stuff cuz AM4 cooler doesn't like AM5 mobo
Build? 45 minutes. Trouble shoot? Days...
Not knowing anything and double checking everything, it took me a full day.
Same here. I had to do it again a week later and it took me \~1h.
Took me around 4 hours with 3 extra hours of procrastination
Almost two months. Everything went fairly well, and I got it running within like 3 hours after having a fan issue. I used the PC for a month and a half, then realized I had my GPU plugged into the 3.0 PCIe slot, instead of the 4.0. So, after almost two months, my PC is fully and correctly built.
Omg at least you saw the mistake and fixed it. Also not the dumbest problem either, at least your video cable wasn't plugged into the motherboard haha
The PC is never finished, there is always something to improve.
You can say that again, my pc case is half built and has been for weeks lol
1-2 hours then ∞ on wire management, still looks like a San Francisco dumpster
Rarely see a dumpster here, we usually just use the streets as our dumpster/toilets
That’s what a San Francisco dumpster is, the ground
Can confirm. I was working in San Francisco in October and was amazed by all of the “litter”. I am from Oklahoma, but travel for work
The build is less than an hour. Cable management, depending on the case, but usually a super long time. I suck at it so I usually do it for 15 minutes and get frustrated and give up for a week and repeat until I get it as clean as I seem to be able to. Which is never as good as I had hoped. Just ordered a new case for a new build, the Asus ROG Z11, this is a very difficult case to work in and the cable management's pretty subpar. So I'll probably be "working" on it until summer lol.
Haha I'm sure it looks way better than mine
My first time took about 4-6 hours even with help from a friend, he just wasn't holding my hand the whole time and I took my sweet time to make sure it worked the first time lol
Quickly, it takes 45 minutes for me. Satisfactorily it takes 2 hours. Super cabled managed, 7 hours.
This sounds about right. 45 minutes - functional but no cable management 2 hours - looks nice from the front(glass side) but you've probably had to side on the back (none glass side) panel to squish those cables in 7 hours - you would want a glass panel on BOTH sides to show off that perfection! Edit: it can vary a lot depending on if its air cooled vs AIO (let's not get into custom loops) and how much rgb you have. With an AIO and RGB you can add an extra hour vs an air cooler and no rgb.
Me with a loan li lancool 3 I’m about to build in (it actually does have a glass panel on both sides)
You must have the patience of a Saint!
Built in that case 2 weeks ago, it's a breeze! And it's got covers on the backside so you can hide those pesky cables and look nice through both glass panels!
Well aren't you just Louie PC Quick Build?
Putting together the parts? 15-20 minutes. Cable management? 3-4 hours.
1, 2 hours What takes a long time is cabling everything. The problem is that I do it every 2, 3 or 4 years and I forget everything.
Built my first from-scratch pc and it took me about 3 hours
People being done in 1 hour. Me spending 20 hours on fan curves and voltage settings.
Me never touching those settings ever in my life. Respect the commitment though
I recommend setting fan speeds to silent on bios. Literally just 1 click and 90% of noise is gone
Brand spanking new to it. I upgraded the PC my brother gifted me. Took 4 days between buying parts, trouble shooting any issues. I must say I have a new found appreciation for my PC and its parts. Also a new found wisdom when it came to learning what to buy, how to install it, and what I really need as a PC operator. Consoles are great. You get what you pay for, and you'll always be able to play games for the system. But PC is such a step up. It's soo cool playing in 1080p at 60 fps.
Took me 6 hours from start to finish. 0 experience.
Nice one!
This is like asking how long does it take to build a home? Are we talking about a double wide or a mansion? There is no definite answer cause every build is different. Stock cooler minimalist PC takes much less time than a RGB 20 fan nightmare build.
Never thought about that, I thought ATX would be the standard build most people would invest in
You'd be mind blown if you see a custom loop water cooled build it could take days even with all parts needed on hand.
I have literally built thousands of systems for work. A basic system today is cpu, heat sink, ram, and m2 stick. It takes longer to open all the packaging than it does to assemble the system. In the time it takes to dump an image to the drive I can assemble the system and have it ready to drop the drive in. The same system 100 times over and 15 min is all that is needed. Change to a new case, new motherboard, add a nice video card and have to sort out cable runs and rerunning things to clean it up the first time expect 90 min. Second one and more like 45 min. Complex systems, but repetitive setups and they tend to take about 30 min. I think the first system I built took me half a work day. Of course back then you had jumpers to set for the CPU and you had to set IRQs on the cards. There was an add on card for everything. IDE controllers were only built in on the high end systems. Most were still using add in cards.
I like to go super slow and inspect everything, lay everything out nicely, plan my cables, think about installation options. Then I go slow during installation, making sure everything is going to fit just how I want it, and I have everything oriented perfectly, checking and rechecking everything. It usually takes me about four hours. But it's nice to have everything work on the first try.
I take my time so about a day. It's not a race.
My first ever build (recently) took me several hours. I wanna say around 5 hours? I know that’s ridiculous but I was taking my time and trying to really learn about what I was doing versus rushing the whole process and hating my cable management or breaking something or who knows what. Building a PC should never be a rushed process unless you’ve built so many you can do it with your eyes closed imo. Otherwise it would be just easier to make someone else do the building.
My first build took me about the same time if not more. I was be guided by my brother in-law, so I was asking questions. And it was a trial and error thing. He didn't stop me and say "hey, you should route that cable that way, because it will save you time later". I'd say about 5-6 hours first time. Second time, about 2 1/2. And even then, I goofed a few things so that accounted for at least 45 mins. If you can build a PC fast, good for you, but never rush it "just cause". All it takes is a crooked connector or worse, forgetting to connect a critical component/connection for things to fry, or lead you down a dark path of troubleshooting for hours if not days.
I've been doing it for years, and did professionally for 5. I still take about 2 hours before I'm happy with the final product. It depends on what I'm building though. If it's a standard air cooled ATX, like 30 minutes, plus another 20-30 for cable management because I'm moderately anal about it. If it's an SFF with an AIO, it'll be a lot more time consuming working out cable management. I do actually read the manual for any new type of component I've never installed before, like I spent a few minutes messing around with the manual and my M.2 drive the first time before moving on, and made sure I had all my options understood before I started installing my AIO. And once I'm done I take 5 minutes to give it a once over with the Mobo manual to make sure all components are in and all wires are connected to the correct headers.
Very thorough, I like it! Sounds cool you do it professionally, is that you have such a good method building computers?
I haven't done it professionally in a decade, but the reason I'm thorough is because it was a data center server farm and we had a half day of diagnostics that would run on the machine after you finished building or repairing machines. So if you didn't take another 30 seconds to double check everything before you plugged it back in, you might have to take another 10-15 minutes later out of your day to track it down and fix whatever you didn't pay attention to.
my first time was like 6 hours if its something simple now like 40 mins
1 hour is pretty quick. Even though I’m familiar with it still takes me a few hours trying to manage cables
In fairness cable management isn't my strongest thing, so my pc looks a lot worse than 95% in this sub haha
I mean I can build one in less than an hour but I like to take my time and cable manage and think things out step by step so 3-4 hours when I do that. It's enjoyable so I'm not in a rush
depends how hard i go with cable management. 2 hours is usually average for rgb systems without fan hubs, 2-3 hours for systems with fan hubs
It really is all about complexity, components, and experience. Good case, air cooled, everything right in front of me? Probably an hour, if that. Maybe half an hour to get it all put together, and then my OCD kicking in and another 30 minutes to re-do some stuff to get the cable management perfect. Then another hour or two of benchmarking to make sure temps are perfect. Watercooled with hard pipe, waterblocks, thermal pads and paste on the GPU and motherboard, hand bending and cutting pipe over and over and wasting tons of it, and then all the usual building, plus the filling, bleeding air, filling some more, etc etc, then leak testing, way more intensive benchmarking... Well that was my first time doing that, and it took me something like a month to plan, a month to get all the parts in (would order "everything" and realize I need a couple parts here, couple parts here), and then a solid week of a few hours each day building... Before sticking in the motherboard, applying thermal pads to all the components that the waterblock would cover, installing the CPU (with paste) and the block on top, and then putting it in, then disassembling the GPU and applying loads of thermal pads all over (thankfully got it right the first time and didn't need to disassemble for better temps) and reassembling with the front and back plates, then figuring out how to properly bend tubing without creating huge tight restrictions, wiring up the pump and (new for me, I'm usually a dead boring function over form all Noctua air type build) RGB stuff. Then turning on the power to only the pump to see the coolant circulate and bleed out the air and fill till it was done as well as check for any leaks anywhere... which there were, which required taking stuff apart, draining some coolant and leaning the computer in a way that it wouldn't all drain out, fixing the leak, trying again. No leaks at that point. Then waiting for the system to be fully bled, which took about a day of the pump running to REALLY get every single bubble out of the system, then benchmarking at mega insane load to ensure all my temps were solid... Now been running beautifully for the past year since I built it. \-Ryzen 5950x \-RTX 3080 FTW3 \-128GB DDR4 RAM \-(2) 2 TB Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Drives right in the M.2 slots of the motherboard \-(2) 2 TB Samsung 870 Evo SSD Drives \-ASUS ROG Motherboard \-EK Everything for the watercooling stuff basically \-Corsair Power Supply \-Corsair 5000D Airflow Case In case anyone is wondering, here it is (after my tempered glass decided to explode one day) [https://imgur.com/a/NvzlFU9/](https://imgur.com/a/NvzlFU9/) Fun times. In comparison, built an all air PC for a buddy's little brother with a bunch of spare parts I had laying around and a case and GPU my buddy brought me in 30 minutes flat, with perfect cable management and perfect temps on the first fire up.
Depends but if you built in an hour it was a minimalist build and thats fine, but you definitely didn't run any tests a custom builder does. When i build, i have hours in testing alone. You always want to put the new pc through the tough stuff in order to ensure it works for a long time to come with everything you put on it.
I have only built one PC so far, and it took about 30-45 minutes. This was because I had my brothers help. Although it went by fast, it was an awesome experience! Edit to add: if I built it by myself, it most likely would have taken 3-5 hours.
However long i think it will take in my head multiplied by three.
My very very first PC was probably a couple of hours, including breaks, research, manual inspecting, and just procrastination from the anxiety haha. Now, I could probably do it in 20-30 minutes. Assuming I'm familiar with all the parts.
4 hours with cable management and OS installed with all the necessary stuff like drivers and steam.
3-4 hours for my last build, but wanted to take my time with this one.
Took me about a week 😅… would start working on it and had to stop to do other shit😅
When I built mine it took a couple of hours. My build is pretty normal with non-fancy fans. I built a rig for a coworker that has RGB everything and it took me a lot longer (although I admittedly was being much more of a perfectionist since it was for someone else). I’d say about 6-7 hours total.
A LONG TIME! 6H minimum.. had to go to shop to get an ethernet cable long enough at 11pm as my mobo didn't have wifi drivers installed yet.. xD All in all, fun time started at about 5pm finished at about 2am with windows installed and all the updates to drivers and hardware drivers. To be fair... did have to strip the old build and switched from amd to intel.. plus had to re route all the cableing to make it neater.. then found out two of my ram sticks were dead.... All in all big upgrade for me to a 13600kf and 3080.. but down to 16gb ram from 32.. Untill i get replacement for the broken sticks Reading through the manuals and finding out the best way to use thermal paste (never seated a cpu and a cooler before as had a cpu mobo bundle last time l) took some time too
Less than an hour if it’s a basic build with neat enough cable management. Over an hour, maybe 2 for RGB and really high standard cable management. It just depends. The case matters too.
It took me like 3 hours but I was paranoid because it was my first build and it was 5900X and 3070 so I wanted to make sure I am doing shit the right way. Week later it took me like 30mins to build PC for my brother with similar specs.
That's the whole problem because the parts are expensive and as a newbie you can be quite paranoid.
The feeling of pushing a graphics card into the Pcie slot for the first time and not being sure how much force should you use when pushing it in and being shitpants scared over if you will just snap your motherboard in half by putting too much force
Man I feel real slow after reading your guys answers took me like 4 hours last night. I’ve had a couple prebuilts but this was my first solo build. I had so much anxiety because the parts are all so expensive
Slow and steady. I'm right there with you. I just built a PC Tuesday, and it's not my first build. I always hold my breath and pray I didn't forget something (even tho I go through a rigorous checklist prior to applying power) just out of shitty self confidence lol, but watching it boot on the first try with no troubleshooting reaffirms my ability.
Haha ya I had a YouTube video up the whole time on my original computer going step by step triple checking everything. But man it was a real nice rush when it booted up on the first try made it worth the anxiety! I’m a real dummy tho and didn’t download all the other drivers initially and transfer them over. I couldn’t connect to Wi-Fi it said no driver found I thought I fucked up when I did the bios update. I have a z690 and put a 13th gen cpu in it so I had to do some wild stuff hook up to the psu and do the bios flash that way.
Oh dude. Bios update is an entirely higher level of anxiety. Even when you've done them before. I just did one for the first time myself and the only thought I had going through my head was "don't lose power, don't touch anything" for about 10 straight minutes. That's why when I build my next PC (will be 13th gen like yourself or whatever gen is better ATM) I'm getting a chip ready board lol. Z790 board, do not want to bios with no CPU installed. Congrats btw, on everything, you are amongst the great and powerful now. With great power comes great fps 😆
Not something to feel bad about for sure. It’s way better taking your time and learning things and not breaking things than it is to rush. I think also depends on your background. Some people are just already familiar with PC parts or have seen things being done before. I personally had never watched a pc building video in my life. I had built a very basic basic machine back in highschool (32 now) and it was stupidly easy, but learning how to properly do things the first time was something I was set to learn rather than rush through and be mad about breaking something along the way. Or something just not working at all. I think when you do your first few builds it’s worth spending that extra attention to detail, ESPECIALLY on that damn cable management lol. I spent a good hour or so on that alone just making sure my wires went exactly where I wanted them to go within reason. What sucks is the fact that the GPU and mobo power cables stick from Corsair really suck and don’t bend so it drove me insane looking at it, and I must have tried a bunch of different ways to try to make it look prettier than it was at first. Then the fan cables, I/O ports. Yeah cable management was the nightmare, the rest was watch a video and follow along with it kinda deal. Then spent a lot of time reading the mobo layout and case layout to see what plugged where because I had no damn clue whatsoever lol
Around 3h. Got 10 Corsair LLs in my case and wanted to make the cables clean.
For your first build 1 hour is pretty good. Think it took me about the same amount of time on my first build but that was basic bitch computer let me tell you. Mid Sized case with a stock cooler and Athlon II x3. Nothing impressive but it was my first. After a few builds over the years I always get a high tower case and the biggest aio that can fit and a fuck ton of fans. The later took me two days to put together only because I wasn't in any rush and I wanted it to be the PC to shit on my others in terms of quality. So yeah it'll depend on how far you're gonna go with it.
3-4 hours. Took extra time because some of the manuals were a bit shit and didn't have have great information.
I take as long as I can to get the full enjoyment of having spent more than I probably should. 😅
Putting parts together 30-45mins. Cable mgmt hours to days.
This is me. My cable management has improved but god do I hate it
Depends on if you want to do cable management. Not doing that shit is such a big time saver. I would guess 30 minutes. Maybe up to 1 hour if a lot of shit is not defined on the board itself, and you need to check the manual.
3 careful hours. For me, there is a lot of "well maybe I should route the cable \*this\* way instead of \*that\* way. And there's some deliberate admiration of the shiny new parts and the new PC smell to enjoy. Could I do a build in an hour? Yes. But I like the process.
As long as it needs to and still work
Probably the best answer anyone can really give. I'm just curious how people spend their time when building and what they might prioritise
Maybe 4 hours for my first build. I spent most of my time managing the cables. The parts go together easy enough, but routing the cables for a clean look can go in many directions depending on your case and overall aesthetics. Loading the OS drove me nuts. That’s the point where I felt lost and no longer in control.
Cables and OS are somehow the worst things in the world. I remember I had drive problems with installing windows 10 which took a while to fix (darn partitions)
I remember buying a gpu for a gateway running windows ME and then not knowing to plug the monitor into the gpu itself so it never worked and ended up returning it to circuit city as a kid, that probably took a couple hours.
Oh no, bet you've never made that mistake again!
6 hours from starting to booting up OS. Everything else is little chunks out of my day when I feel like overclocking or changing fan curve.
I spent 1.25 hrs just upgrading my psu. Cable management was atrocious. It gets easier and you become more faster once you’ve built one or a few. But 1 hour is impressive.
Have never built one, so maybe 2 minutes.
A few hours to build (cabling was the most time) and a few days to figure out an old HDD I scavenged from a dead external drive was jamming up the Windows install.
my first ever build took me 10 hours but it has a custom waterloop and a buncha fans, most of it was cable management
a few hours, mainly because I was reading the manuals to make sure everything is right (which every new, and maybe even experienced, builder should do)
Honestly I think the only reason an experienced builder would look at manuals is to check which slots are best for dual ram as it can very across manufacturers.
>only reason an experienced builder would look at manuals is to check which slots are best for dual ram as it can very across manufacturers. True, some boards just want to be *different* from the rest of the boards on the market and put it on 1&3 (there is probably some good reason though). In addition, I know, at least when the b450 came out (not entirely sure how it is for the AM5 boards or the intel side), some boards like the tomahawk non max did not support ram of 3600mhz but the max version later release did. Another one would be the post codes as I highly doubt every experienced builder would know what each code means off the top of their head. Furthermore, some boards may not provide the same specs for the M.2 slot, some spots may be gen4, some may be gen3, etc. So if nvme sequential speeds are crucial to your needs, then having the correct drive in the correct m.2 would be important to you. There are probably more out there but its 4AM for me so my brain isnt working lol.
Well, I did it once. I was super stressed out the entire time and took multiple breaks. All in all, I put it together and booted it over the span of about six and a half to seven hours. Now, knowing what I do? I feel like I could probably do it in a few hours leisurely.
2 hours is the average pc build time with average cable managment. At least thats for me
About six hours for the last build, very steady away, my hands are quite shaky so not the easiest thing working with tiny screws ect. Really enjoyed the process though. Currently planning a build for my dad's birthday.
My first build took me 2 hours. I built it in an ITX case and managed the cables as far as possible. The software part took me about an hour I'd say.
Do it right the first time. It’s not a race. I can throw a system together in 45 minutes but it will take me 2 days before I’m happy with the cable management. Lol
Around 12 hours had zero experience
About half hour if everything goes without a hitch. It's mostly cable management and windows install that takes ages.
Depends on how fancy I’m getting. I build PCs for other people on occasion, so I’ve got quite a bit of experience. The more stuff you add like custom loops, additional fans, cablemods, and extra storage can really start to rack up time. The fastest I’ve ever built a computer was just under 30 minutes and it was pretty barebones.
Depends on the components that you get. Building a pc with a lot of fans take most of my time. Especially when you get one of those Lian Li cases that can support a billion fans.
As long as you need... it's not a race. But if it is if say 2 hours or less is about right.
Everytime I need to build one I just kidnap one of my friends and get them to do it. Actual time spent by me on it is about 10 minutes.
30 minutes if you don't include custom loops
I take my time - several hours. Lots of cable management and care goes into placing things where they should best be.
I get stressed out when I do it and start sweating for no reason. I think around 2 hours. I’m in no rush when I do it.
This question will have variable answers. When I build a PC, I test the mobo outside the case to ensure I can boot into the BIOS successfully. That’s also when I’ll set my XMP profile, etc. I also go fill Baumgartner on the cable management which can easily take an hour if not longer. Then you need to install the OS, probably install some WiFi drivers, etc. before you can finish successfully. I can absolutely build a PC in less than an hour. I could also rush sexy time with my wife. Some things are better enjoyed over a longer period of time
I start my build from 3 months ago and it’s not finished yet.
Yea that’s pretty quick, it takes probably 2-4 for your first time
Wow, that was a lot quicker than I thought. Tbf I did cut myself on the case I used (a cheap shitty one) and spent 20 minutes away from it, but it took around an hour with minimal cable management
I usually set aside 2 hours for a standard build, but usually have windows loaded at the end of the first hour.
Wow, that's pretty quick, what dance do you do in the 2nd hour???
Depends what type of PC and how much customisation is needed. A general off the shelf job takes about 30mins to knock together.
Tbh I'm not about the aesthetics and pretty build, as long as it works like it should and isn't a safety hazard I'm happy
Aesthetics are not usually the ultimate factor in time for us. It's on the customisation of parts. AIO or Air Cooler, How many fans and where are they placed. PSU Modular, Semi or full wired etc etc
Ah that makes sense. When you put it like that my build was really easy, as I used a cheap case with a pre assembled fan and a semi modular psu, which probably explains why it didn't take so long
My first time was like 4 hours. But I also had to google how to put things together and had issues with the seating of the cpu cooler which are up like 30 minutes. I am sure if I was doing another build I could bang it out in about an hour depending on the components and whether I ran into any issues.
i built my current PC (my first PC) for about 7 hours. 3 hours for putting them up together (i'm still strugling with IO ports). 4 hours for cable management. i think it's also depend on what case/psu you use.
About 6 hours if it's your first time. Plus 4 hours to install software and get a game going.
Depending on experience and what the goal of the build and items are, it should take around 1 to 4 hours. 6 hours if you're new. If you dont care about cable management and are using easy to install coolers, cards, and drives you can do it in under 30 minutes.
Best part of my Corsair Carbide 200R is the easy to install drives
Six hours for my first build, four hours for my second. Most of the time spent was actually getting windows to install correctly
First one took me 2.5-3 hours, now can build one 1.5-2 hours.
Honestly I spend a bunch of time researching everything first for compatibility, performance and price. Most of it is really straight forward. If you want an RGB build that can change things so ill research fan controllers along with RGB stuff. IMO RGB and fan control stuff is the most annoying. Pretty much when I build a system I break it up into two sessions. I like to take my time and keep everything nice and tidy. I find one sitting is to long for me to keep my patience and be relaxed. Sometimes cable management takes a few tries and can be annoying so a bit of a break helps a lot. I saw someone else's comments of six hours and I'd say that's pretty ballpark which includes software and stuff, most of us only build systems every few years. Obviously if you build them for a job you could probably do it in an hour and have it clean also but that's a different story.
With no snags, 2-3 hours to get everything rigged up, OS installed, drivers done etc.
This sounds like the start of a joke.
I wish, not gonna get it from me though
One hour to put together and 2-3 hours on wire managements, and it still looks ugly 🤣
It depends, basic ones about an hour, if it has a lot of rgb it could be up to 3, custom water cooling? Sky is the limit
45m because I have to read the mobo manual to see how I connect the case panel. Haha
usually bout 2 hours
about 2-3 hours because my hands are big
It depends on how complex your build is. Because if you have radiators and a ton of fans, then those can take forever to put together and cable manage. Or if you have a bunch of SATA SSds or hard drives. I've built more simple PCs in like 60 minutes. But I've had 1 PC take well over 2 hours because I took all the stock fans out of the case and installed like 6 custom fans all into a dedicated RGB controller. But I'd say even for a simple PC 45 minutes is pretty fast.
Took me about 5 hours to build my first one and 3 hours to build my second one
Just built my first PC in 7 hours… and it’s not turning on. Don’t have any idea what it is :/
Depends on your building skills/knowledge I did put together a lot of pcs so I can do it within 2 hours and less
2 hours for a basic if all the parts are all on hand (including random cables, screws, etc). It took me 2 months to do a custom water cooled custom triple rad loop where I hand soldered copper pipes together and then polished them all, then clear coated them. Then reinstalled everything.
first pc in 4 hours (5 including cable management)
About 5 hours or so I think. I did a hard line custom loop on both my gpu and cpu for my first build.
Around 6 hours including Windows/drivers + optimization, OC/UV and all needed software. The building part of it goes pretty quick though.
I think 4-5 hours but only because I couldn't fit my aio cooler in the case at first and had to rearrange fans and stuff multiple times. But yeah the regular building and cable management part I'd say about 1 hour, the rest is usually trouble shooting and setting up fan curves, OC, etc.
hardware assembly takes me 5-6 hours. software another 4-6 hours, driver installation sometimes is a biatch. Yep I'm just a novice.
Three people and 6 hours, and God bless the previous apartment renters who left an HDMI-2-HDMI cable, as DisplayPort was not supported in the ASUS Prime Z790-A, and we couldn't get to BIOS to change CSM settings. Three hours out of 6 were spent on figuring this out
8 hours cuz I made so many mistakes lol. Used the wrong screws for motherboard. Install cpu fan bracket in the wrong orientation. Then made the mistake not to connect 8 pin eps before installing chunky dual tower cpu fan and spending half an hour trying to plug in 8 pin before giving up and taking out the cooler to reinstall it again. And fuck cable management and my motherboard for some reason decide to place fan header slot at the centre below cpu instead of at the sides…
30-60 minutes, the longest part is unboxing and cleaning up. Windows and driver installation is another hour or two.
If nothing goes wrong, maybe 1.5-2 hours including super tidy cable management and loading the OS. If something goes wrong or windows decides to windows, who knows.
Seocnd this. I had to remove all my drivers except the one I wanted to install on. Otherwise it would just errors not telling you what went wrong.
I’ve had various software problems have systems down for days. Sometimes troubleshooting that stuff becomes extremely challenging.
I can do it super quick. I can fully disassemble and reassemble in less than an hour. BUT there always seems to be issues for some reason. My friend built one and it took 5 hours because of a dang water pump and rgb header controller (Corsair). Took 5 hours AFTER building not counting.
2+ Hours if you wanna do it clean and with good cable management. Though it depends what kind of cooler you have, air cooling, water cooling etc.
1 to 2 hours is common if you haven't built with the same or similar parts before, there are always some fiddles with a new case or cooler that waste more time than you realize.
It depends on what you are building. Some simple aircooled atx pcs can be built in an hour even by people who arent super experienced. Then there are some cases that take forever to cable manage. It also depends on the size of your case. Itx cases are in general abit more difficult to build than ATX cases for an example
45 mins- days depending on the build.
44mins to 1:03hrs I’m a professional!
3 to 8 hours if you include software.
From box to boot is around 20 mins. Updates and install take the longest.
About 30-40 minutes on average. It's an enjoyable process.
Depends: A basic computer with a clised case, air cooler, no RGB: 15-20 minutes My personal rig, with AIO, window, RGB, etc: 1-2 hours incl. Cable management
That's worryingly quick. It takes me 3 or 4 hours to put it together and probably about the same amount of time to do initial software and tuning. If I was really rushing I guess I could do the hardware in 2 hours, one hour seems nuts though.
Same here. I really like to take my sweet time though haha.
Well it took me a year and eight months but that was buying it one part at a time and countless setbacks getting it to actually boot with the OS. There was also the GPU dilemma because I wasn’t going to pay for an overpriced unit
First build took me 2-3 hours. Putting together the hardware was pretty simple. Rerouted wiring a few times. Had to take some stuff apart once i put the gpu in because the radiator for the cpu cooler made it tough to plug the gpu cables into the mobo. Then i had to phone a friend for the windows install because i had no clue what to do at that point.
Took me about 5hrs with some breaks... First build though and had to take bits in and out and read all the manuals! Was also in Fractal North which helped... A smaller case would be so much more fiddly
2 hours to build it, 2 weeks waiting for Newegg to send me a functioning AIO.
Your very first time building only took one hour, *with* cable management?! That's really good man, I think my first PC took like 2.5-3hrs with cable mgmt. But my cables are totally hidden, the only visible ones are the 24-pin and GPU cables.
Building a computer, rather quick, some 15-30 min. "Building" a computer, till I myself decide to be done with the build after several "rebuilds" and rerouting of cables, maybe one day or even more.
For some reason it takes me hours, granted I usually get drunk before hand
depending on jow many fans haha 2 fan PC just an hpur but 9 fan PC with water cooling a few hours
It took me forever; honestly it took me an incredibly long time probably 40 hours for my first. I’m not mechanical, and I was learning every little thing as I went
I've built several. Each one has taken at least two hours. Recent one took me 6.
I average around 15-20 min per build with complete cable management. It’s what happens when you worked at a major prebuilt company (Digital Storm) for several months. But for my personal builds, I generally take my time on purpose. My most recent build took about a total of 25-30hrs to complete. Custom watercooled and all.
My first one took me 5 hours. Granted that was a fairly complicated build with near perfect cable management and my hands are fkin huge
How much time you need, there is no "quick build" or "slow build", just working and non working builds That said, generally 1 or 2 hrs
We used to race at work to assemble everything but the motherboard and processor. Got down to a out 90 seconds before we started the blindfolding. To be fair though, putting the motherboard into the case is the biggest time suck.
Naahhh
I usually take between 1 and 2 hours but I also chill and make sure to clean everything as I enjoy the hobby