Brehs who built their own PCs, how often do you have to troubleshoot problems?

[Dorian Breh]

Driver issues, lagging, error codes etc?

 

[TripleAgent]

Rarely. I did forget to plug in the secondary ATX power though . Doing things right in the beginning, especially if you aren't an expert, goes a long way. I also practice good internet habits, so I don't have any real problems with malware/spyware.

 

[VladTheImpaler]

Driver issues, lagging, error codes etc?

ask that one dude here who built quite possibly the most horrific computer build in the history of the Coli.

 

[Liquid]

Almost never once you get your build up and running.

I am saying this as someone who just put togther a brand new RYZEN build.

 

[Responsible Allen Iverson]

Very rarely

 

[Leasy]

Rarely and if it sometimes be issues it's because the game itself and all it takes is waiting for the next firmware update etc...

 

[Princ3]

Rarely. In general, I haven't had problems with my build. When I do, it's the game. Usually others have had the same issue, so a fix is easy to find.

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

@Ciggavelli

 

[daze23]

very rarely. the only drivers you really have to keep up to date are the gpu's driver. and programs like Geforce Experience can do that automatically

 

[Knowledge]

Never

 

[GreenGrass]

Almost never once you get your build up and running.

I am saying this as someone who just put togther a brand new RYZEN build.

i am waiting for the end of the year to build a ryzen computer. i want to see the new video card that is coming out from AMD - hopefully the prices for the 1080 models go down because of it

 

[Fatboi1]

Rarely. My PC runs like a dream. Hardly ever got some alarming issue.

 

[Ruck]

depends. i use intel, and when i built a pc on the x99/enthusiast platform, i had multiple issues with my asus motherboard.

audio issues, usb port issues and stability issues with cpu voltage spiking erratically. everything was fine until i did a firmware bios update couple months later to enable nvme m.2 driver support and my motherboard went to shyt.

i trouble shooted for almost 2 weeks while talking with asus support. did a rma and got a brand new motherboard replacement.

i moved back to the mainstream like z170 and have had absolutely no problems. i dont like to upgrade to any new windows operating systems but ive been enjoying windows 10 - especially since i blocked all the spyware shyt.

 

[Saint1]

not often. I rarely have problems

 

[Barnett114]

Rarely.

Last time was 2014 when power outages bricked my motherboard (still works, has bios issues)