How do you research before buying hardware for PCs
Posted by Juan-0_0@reddit | hardware | View on Reddit | 7 comments
I'm thinking about building a tool that helps with building pcs, and was hoping I could get some input from the right audience.
A few questions:
- When you're researching a purchase (GPU, monitor, headphones, whatever), what does your process actually look like? How many tabs do you end up with?
- What's the most annoying part? Finding reviews, comparing specs, figuring out if something fits your budget, something else?
- Do you usually want someone to just tell you what to buy, or do you prefer reading the reviews yourself and deciding?
- Is there a tool or site you already love for this? What makes it good?
- What's your preferred source of reviews? Reddit, Youtube etc?
AggravatingChest7838@reddit
Go on pc part picker.
Lower my budget
Lower it again
Reconsider if I can afford a new pc
windozeFanboi@reddit
It's all about the price and budget afterall...
Get an idea about the prices of each component first. Build up a certain upper/lower midrange mock build and the costs dictates whether i have to lower on some components to allow room for others.
I find that power supply is NOT a component you can be cheap on... It can be noisy AF, with super stiff included cables.
The lower the budget, the more research is needed to find components that will work to an acceptable degree. If your budget is high enough you can't really go wrong except you've simply spent a little extra money.
Compatibility between components is a big thingie. A power supply needs to be powerful enough and have the right cables/ports offered out of the box that the GPU needs. PC Case compatibility with fitting Oversized GPUs and what size power supply it can fit.
Perhaps you can have a a few preset builds, at some discrete budgets and then allow for tweaking each. It's best if you have current prices AND historic price data, so you know that the price this month isn't just a fluke compared to rest of the year. Whether something is popular and how well/bad is reviewed would be incredible data to have, but idk how that could be done.
To Sum Up... I find PCPartPicker already does this to a great extent. You just need to be a better PCPartPicker. Can you do that?
Good luck to you though. It's gonna be big effort for little to no reward imo.
salmonmilks@reddit
first, you look at PCs from shops, look at their cpu's, and other PC cpu's, then compare them in websites.
Most websites comparison info are unreliable, but they can still give you a gist of most cpu layout.
lol_cat01@reddit
Pc part picker and then refine ram brand speed etc
airmantharp@reddit
First, you do it.
Then you realize something that you could have done better, and you do it again.
And eventually you can get good at it and wind up with a setup that you actually enjoy.
Kelteseth@reddit
I usually use https://www.logicalincrements.com/
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