A good starting place to learn

Lee Monk · 1 Jun 2020 at 22:23

Evening all,

I'm posting a bit about upgrades or a new system build.

In an atempt to seem not completely amateurish about it all I'm trying to learn as I go.

I landed on a Youtuber called Pauls Hardware.

Is that a safe place and is his advice pretty much accurate.

I like his style of presenting but don't want to spend a ton of time listening if his advice is dubious.

Thoughts?

Lee

random_matt · 2 Jun 2020 at 00:45

Cannot say I listen to any youtubers. You learn from experience, learn your own way and seek advice when you really need it.

Lee Monk · 2 Jun 2020 at 11:48

random_matt said:
Cannot say I listen to any youtubers. You learn from experience, learn your own way and seek advice when you really need it.

Not sure I can afford that way of learning

merlin6r · 2 Jun 2020 at 11:56

Lee Monk said:
Evening all,

I'm posting a bit about upgrades or a new system build.

In an atempt to seem not completely amateurish about it all I'm trying to learn as I go.

I landed on a Youtuber called Pauls Hardware.

Is that a safe place and is his advice pretty much accurate.

I like his style of presenting but don't want to spend a ton of time listening if his advice is dubious.

Thoughts?

Lee

Personally I'd say watch several different builds to get a rounded perspective.
Bitwit does lots of builds, and is a personal friend of Paul's Hardware.
GamersNexus did an 18min build in response to an article that said how hard it is to build a PC. GamersNexus is a more technical channel generally.
Linus Sebastian does some builds.

They're all quite reliable information wise as they all have thousands of followers and would get challenged if they misrepresented anything.

Do you have an outline of what you want to build?

Lee Monk · 2 Jun 2020 at 12:54

merlin6r said:
Do you have an outline of what you want to build?

I do.... I have a few posts here currently as I was initially trying to establish if my current system could be upgraded which was, unsurprisingly, a "no".

However this question was a little more generic. I just wanted to be a little more aware of what is going on in the market without pestering everyone here all the time with tons of questions.

I guess I want to know a little more than "Does this build work".

Lee

merlin6r · 2 Jun 2020 at 13:34

Lee Monk said:
I do.... I have a few posts here currently as I was initially trying to establish if my current system could be upgraded which was, unsurprisingly, a "no".

However this question was a little more generic. I just wanted to be a little more aware of what is going on in the market without pestering everyone here all the time with tons of questions.

I guess I want to know a little more than "Does this build work".

Lee

No problem, I'd certainly have a look at several of those channels then.

And don't put too much thermal paste on the cpu!

IntMD · 4 Jun 2020 at 10:56

Pauls hardware is fine to watch. I watch them some of the time, despite not really needing too. He also does a monthly Q&A thing, in which he answers some questions that viewers have so they might be worth watching the playlist of. He also has a fairly comprehensive build guide for modern systems that he did at some point fairly recently (in the last year, maybe?) which he probably has a playlist of.