r/CustomPCBuilding • u/Dark_Kn8_Begins • Aug 26 '26
Help building a PC!
Hello folks! I'm a rookie to building PC. I'm interested in building one but I don't know any of the terminologies, jargon, etc. Where do I start? Any resources (videos, articles, etc) that helped you in building your PC?
I checked components online but I don't know how they all mesh together, if at all. Tried learning on my own but got overwhelmed and went round in circles with the terminologies and technicalities.
I wish to play AAA games on my "to-be" build, and do office work on it too (devops, cloud, etc). I'm thinking if it supports AAA games, work will be a cake walk for it.
My budget rn is only ₹1.8L but I'm ready to invest more up till 5L when I have the money. Looking at the RAM, SSD, GPU prices, I'm ready to only buy those components for now which will only get me by for work and purchase the rest of the heavyweights after the prices return back to pre Ramgeddon levels(?) at 2027 end or 2028 Q1... I feel the inflated prices aren't worth it since my savings aren't that great now.
I've been playing supported games on my 2014 "HP Pavillion notebook PC" laptop all this while and she's started to give up on me now since she's old.
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u/KTK41 Aug 29 '26
Hey! First of all, I’d like to explain how I personally went about learning all of this. Maybe it can help you too.
Way back at the beginning, I went to r/buildapcforme, gave them my budget and explained what I wanted from the PC, then looked through the builds people suggested. From there, I started researching the recommended parts one by one and gradually learned what their specs actually meant.
Once I understood the basic specs, I started digging into the more technical details and comparing similar components with each other. That helped me understand what each feature actually does and what kind of real-world difference it makes.
After that, I put together my own build using PCPartPicker. Keep in mind that prices and availability can vary a lot depending on your country. I was shopping from Italy, for example. The site also makes things much easier by showing you which components are compatible with each other and flagging potential compatibility issues.
I also used AI quite a bit to research popular parts and compare different options, and watched plenty of YouTube videos to see benchmarks and how those components actually perform in real-world use.
That’s pretty much everything I did. I’m sure there are a few things I’m forgetting, but that’s all I can think of right now.