Ruins your PC building experience

Part of the specification.

I haven't dealt with these little shits in years, don't most modern cases just unify all that into a single plug? I know mine did

Because for some reason case manufacturers and motherboard manufacturers can't communicate and develop a unified standard despite doing this for 50 years.

Or someone with the mental capacity to figure out that you dont need to hold it on the plastic part. You can, in fact, hold the part where the wire meets the shell. Idiot.

i did it correctly my first time, after the pc didn't turn on.

I even plugged in the superfluous hard drive activity shit.

Looks at mobo manual

Shows you what goes where

Wow that was easy

Anon Babble poster

can't follow simple instructions from their motherboard manual.

Many such cases

Sometimes they are. I just built a PC where it was all one plug

2025 and Grug still hasn't figured out tweezers lmao

These really aren't that bad anon.

because then you get shit like Dell cases where it's one plug specifically designed for the motherboard that comes with that specific case and then you have to cut it up and patch it if you want to switch mobo

blocks your path

Always feel like a hacker when you start the machine like this

there is a retard filter in building a pc

good
I managed to figure this out when I was 13 almost 25 years ago, how is this so hard?
They even make adapters, that come with MBs now that you can connect the individual parts too and just plug in to the MB. I got an adapter with a MB 20 years ago and it still works. You would have to a literal retard to not be able to figure this out if you are already able to install a CPU and fans.
You could just look all this up on youtube if you're too stupid to figure it out.
I voted for this

I recently built a PC and the cables were all joined together
It was easy

There is only one of those you need to plug in, the rest just waste power and light up your room unnecessarily

Because PC's all very. You don't have the fag lights (RGB) on some, and others do, so this cable has on plugs for those that do and the ability to not plug it in if not.

They're for your case. Power button and LEDs don't work without them, genius. It's been forever since I've seen a hard drive LED though, so you could probably forget about that one.

implying

PCs are all very what, anon?

I paid for the leds and buttons so I'm going to use those leds and buttons.
Also powerled is hardly an unneccessary feature.

rebuild PC using same case

do this part again

find out the power button has a LED in it

one time the power plug came loose somehow and my pc wouldnt start. couldnt breathe for about a minute.

Assembling your PC is eas-

add new motherboard and cpu because my old pc wont start lights flicker

pc still doesnt start

its over

He's Autistic. He got a large number of replies once using that image and post, and that's all it took. He's going to keep using this image and post over and over until it until it gets zero replies repeatedly, and then probably spam Anon Babble with porn or something because he feels slighted by lack of engagement before finding a new thing to post.

bots and waifu fags operate similarly, with slightly different, but still autistic, motivations.

gonna have to get yourself a new psu (and check your old shit on the new psu as well, they might still be fine)

SAAR Thread

This is why buying your PC is better than building your PC

I bet your parents also build lego sets for you...

For me figuring out where they go isn't hard, the annoying thing is that they're very tiny and it was a pain connecting them to the header because of how small they were

thats ok, you dont even need to put them in

dude it's just like Lego lmao

lose some wight

Can (you) believe that companies would put training wheels on PC building like this? People should just get gud and learn how to deal with split front panel connectors like us PC master race chads. Doing things the hard way is so cool.
Don't read this! I don't want anyone to think I have common sense and appreciate changes to PC building that make it easier. I don't want anyone to know that my contrarianism is just a façade. Got to fit in with retard Anon Babble "culture".

How? Just plug them into your motherboard

lose some wight

I've been trying but I don't have Valyrian steel and I don't want to torch the house down

you don't assemble an msx you fucking retard

These things are the worst part about building a PC but it's not like they're all that difficult. They're labeled so you just put them in the correct slot.

You can

you can assemble a console if you take it apart as well...

The actual worst part of building a PC is building it, turning it on, realizing it isn't booting, trying to find out why it isn't booting and failing, then disassembling everything in your PC and rebuilding it all over again, only to figure out the problem was that one of the connectors or cables was a little bit too loose.

Most modern cases don't even have these connectors anymore, grandpa

they have been for years

In the case of the Omega MSX, you buy it disassembled, with the PCB manufactured by PCBWay (tm).

my case doesn't even have a reset switch

How do you reset your machine, then? Even modern Windows still hangs up sometimes, and I need to reset with a button.

Read the manual of the motherboard. How is that so hard to comprehend?
Honestly PC building has been made extraordinarily trivial since the late 2000's.

Long press power

get into trying to minmax my ram

hook the reset button to the clear cmos header

real hacker hours

Then that IS your reset switch. An actual power button has two states: on or off. You flick it up or down.

Everything but the HDD LED is on every case.

This. It's the Anon Babble equivalent of that kid in high school who made a funny joke once, so now he says it every 30 seconds even though no one has laughed at it since.

I hate attention starved people.

Modern technology (my phone) helped me troubleshoot this issue faster than looking at the manual. In all other cases, I used the manual.

build a new PC THIS WEEK

these are now entirely in one connector, premade, pre-hooked up

even beforehand, it was relatively easy to figure out

not having lemur fingers

ngmi

I built my first ever PC last year, and did not have this connector.

Post model of case and motherboard.
How are you turning on your PC if there's no power button connector?

I my motherboard I would also have to turn off the PSU and hold clear cmos for over 30 seconds.
This is why I stopped with since the board didn't post above 3733.
Soon I will move to DDR5 but RAM OC is even more pointless there.

Just open your motherboards manual dummy

GDM enabled

You didn't beat the game.

why don't they just make the cables wireless

You would still have to plug a receiver into the header.

Meh, shit was unstable anyway once RAM gets over 50°C because it's B-die. So I could run all the memory tests just fine but while gaming I could get GPU driver crashes.
GPU dumping 300W of heat straight on DIMMs doesn't help.
So I had to drop tRFC by a lot or run case and CPU fans at 100%.

It's functionally possible. You could have a magnetic or nfc header with buttons to pair it it on both ends (since the mobo will have power even without it booting up). It'd be an interesting change, but it'd require a new form like wATX so old ones still were guaranteed compatibility with motherboards and cases.

There's always the option of sticking a fan directly on the ram but yeah that sucks.

For me, the worst part was using a too-big thumb drive to flash the BIOS.

connect POWER SW to the POWER SW pins

connect RESET SW to the RESET SW pins

it's THAT easy.

I have a 16GB with the latest Windows 11 image on it at all times, and I just dump my bios image on the same partition (just flashed yesterday, ackshually).

Anon, I purposely have my power LED unplugged because I don't really care for the front button to omit light. I prefer it not to be one plug. And not every BIOS has that option to do so.
99% of Anon Babble would've been filtered in building a PC circa 94-2006. If the mobo panel connectors are obstacles, god knows how they'd handle PATA cables, partitioning harddrives or driver installations for everything including pre-USB mice when PnP was still primitive.

of many of you have not built a pc before?

I had to update my motherboard for a new CPU I bought, and it wasn't working with an 8GB flash drive I tried. I needed to use a shitty 2GB one.

Sure, but for gaming those settings don't make a big difference past 3600 14-14-14-28 with slight tweaking of the rest of timings.
I was just disappointed I could not boot 3800 no matter what, not even POST.
But that's just autism.

Anon Babble is made out of retards, turdworlders, and bots.

now push down on the CPU lock until it goes into place

dont worry if it takes a bit of force :)

I had a friend build a new PC just recently but he just kept asking me questions over and over every step of the way over discord since he knew I've built two pc's of my own. Once he got to the case wires it's he just broke down without knowing what to do. Last I remember he said one of the case fans didn't spin on startup and I know he didn't even update the bios or get windows install ready, he just wanted to turn it on. In short it's not that hard to build a pc but unhandy retards can still mess it up.

pins on the CPU

What was the last socket that had this? Also, it's a lot easier to get a CPU in now, as well as mount a HSF.

turdworlders

?
We assemble our pc ourself.
Prebuilts are for retards because they are overpriced as fuck.
Connecting those cables is extremely easy.

Do you guys bother with an antistatic wristband?

literally just read either the plugs themselves and the motherboard OR the manual

plug everything correctly in 30 seconds

never have to do it again unless you swap the MOBO or case

Then again, half of muttmerica is illiterate.

if anything theres more dead cpus now

My 5900x spews WHEAs the moment I try pushing fclk past 1833 no matter what I do with voltages. But I can boot with memory at 4000 desynced just fine. Very sad.
DDR5 scares me with them now pushing into 5 digit frequencies...

All you need is a glance at the manual and a pair of tweezers.

That said, there's no reason not to have an industry standard connector for them that makes it easier.

No. Just touch a piece of metal like a screwdriver if you're paranoid about static discharge.

Yeah but that's intel's fault

build new PC

cpu light is red

already tried updating the BIOS

It's over.

Plug PSU into a grounded outlet. Touch it periodically if you're worried. It's that easy.

Try a different flash drive.

the little plugs arent that bad, the real problem is their location, always walled off by gpu, case or psu

modern GPU's are so fat that there's barely any room to plug these fuckers in. the worst cable is the power supply going into the motherboard, too hard of a press and you might fuck the entire build up.

You really have to try hard to break a CPU on install.

don't slip

CAMM have much easier time hitting high frequencies but there are no AM5 motherboards. So I'm not sure if I'm going to wait for it.
I would rather spend more $ on faster CPU.

How small is your motherboard? My GPU is a good 6 inches+ higher than the motherboard header (which is all the way at the bottom).

The worst cable for me has always been the one leading to the front headphone jack. It's always on the complete opposite corner.

My last build took me 13 hours, I’ve built 1 pc a decade so far

the thing that always gave me problems was the IO shield. fuck that thing. so this time I bought a mobo with a pre installed IO shield. everything went absolute smoothly EXCEPT for the preinstalled IO shield. MSI faggots didnt install it flush so now theres a gap between it and the case. and I couldnt bend it because itz part of the VRM heatsink.

here's my mobo with accurate gpu size

Some motherboards are very picky about the USB they will accept. Try FAT32 and less than 32GB in size

*the USB they will accept to flash the BIOS

You have 2 whole slots between your GPU and header, down below the battery.

Excuse me /pcbg/ is in Anon Babble

Is nV schizzo shill still hanging around there?

Phanteks XT Pro Ultra with an X870 MAG Tomahawk. The front panel connector was only one plug, not like in OP.

Yeah these cables are annoying af to plug in. The only thing I dislike about about building computers.

When was the last time anybody in here ever built a PC? How have you never seen one of these?

not only do most modern boards and cases have f_panel connectors now, anyboard over $120 usually has everything clearly labelled in the manual to make it easy. stop buying $40 parts from 2012.

same thing, just joined

almost like thats the entire problem you fucking retard
plugging the tiny pins one by one is whats frustrating

Get better manual dexterity, pussy. Sorry your fingers are fat. I eat my legally mandatory 10 burgers a day and my fingers can do it.

The only moment when I have to actually read the bloody MB manual.
I fear it.

Ryzen 5000 was PGA I believe.

confirming you're a manlet

I have manly hands, just not pudgy ones. I am a Duke-lover.

Get a case that has a cable section behind the main section where the motherboard is screwed in.
Wire the cables through.
Never think about them again.
Easy.

fromsoft idle animation

why don't case manufacturers and board makers decide on a fucking standard already. I get that they would exist on older cases but that crap should have been turned into a single connector if your case was made in the last 5 years. nobody is putting old ass motherboards on newer cases.

*bends your motherboard header*

the worst part of building pcs is the small ass screws especially in the back of the psu, if you have huge hands it's like handling crumbs

How do you guys prefer to push the releaser latch on your gpu slot when you have a big gpu? Do you get in there with your fingers or do you use a screwdriver?

ratcheting magnetic screwdriver

Problem solved.

I dunno I had no problems when I built my PC and believe me I was a retarded 19 yr old.

Fuck these things, all that just for front USB

lttstore screwdriver

Filtered by five clearly marked cables

Jesus Christ you fucks can't be this retarded.
Are you a tendie perchance?

I remember a few times my comp randomly died ,wouldn't power back on and gave a shit ton of error beeps, I did everything under the sun for a few days to save it and in the end it just took jiggling that little fucker and bam, good for another few years.

tfw i used to have to do this because the power button on my old case fucked out

i weirdly miss those times

It's annoying for people like me who have essential tremor.
But i still managed it, even with a crippling neurological movement disorder.

can't communicate and develop a unified standard

If you want that, you can buy a console.

That shit is easy. Securing the CPU cooler is usually the pain the dick. I also hate fucking with the PSU.

it’s just a switch for a circuit. the led is polar because diodes only send current in one direction. idk where the HD led gets its signal from maybe the arm reading the platter

there are these cheap plastic holders where you can "plug" the tiny connectors into (they don't actually plug into it, just holds them together from the sides via friction) and then plug that entire thing into the motherboard connectors.
my motherboard came with one.

whining about a non-issue

it's 5 cables. Just plug them into 5 connectors.

Those suck to do and so do 19 pin usb 3.0 that my front case usb ports plug in to. Whoever designed that port should be shot. And some mobo manufacturers make the pins super bendable on top of it.

the era of having to flash your drivers in order to have working USB in the mobo from a bootable CD

I'm glad we have moved on.

you put to words something I've been noticing for years. Get a hobby people, Jesus Christ

helping friend move the guts of his PC into a new case with a few upgrades

get everything in place

little to no space under GPU

the power one came unplugged

because I'll drive by your house with my microwave blaster ray, unless that damnable Mighty Man comes to foil my plans again

Yes, I built my first pc at 14yo in 2002 only reading the manual, piece of cake

anything below mATX is a meme. ATX is easiest to build with but with todays GPUs if you use a small case without a horizontal mount you are asking to have an awful build

Buy a new motherboard for a server

Pay $80 for it

Cool

Takes like 2 - 3 weeks for it to arrive

The day comes

fucking_finally.png

Get everything assembled, including the new rams sticks with gay colors on it

Boot into the BIOS

USB over current status detected. Shutting down in 15 seconds.

What the fuck

Disassemble everything to see if there's a loose screw underneath

Nope

Try assembling it back with just the CPU, one ram stick and the PSU itself as a sanity check

It might be one of my peripherals, getting them off

Still the same error

Don't tell me I've got one of the bad batches

Contact my seller and see if they can replace it since its just "brand new"

Anon, send over your whole setup to see if its indeed the motherboard

Whatever

Wait for tomorrow for a report from it

Bad news anon, they found a screw loose under the motherboard.

youhavetobeshittingme.exe

I was sure everything was fine during assembly, every remaining screw was in place

They surely planted it there in order to void my RMA

Get into arguing for 10 minutes

Alright fine, just pay $20 and get the fuck out of my sight

The replacement is a better version from my original purchase

Remember anons, don't be a fucktard like me and get all your screws in place.

M.2 drive dies

Turns out I bought a cheap one

Get a nice one

The fucking port dies

Nigger....READ the fucking motherboard manual holy shit retard

I bet you'd freak out replacing a light switch