As I should have mentioned in the post (and now have thrown in another reply), I mainly want to use the rig for audio recording, video editing, and gaming. Basically an all-rounder, but I don’t need a god-tier machine. It’d be nice to run everything in 4K but I super do not need it. I appreciate the recommendation of taking a pre-built and going from there, since I thought PC builders hated pre-builts. It’s a good idea and what I might go with at first. Would you happen to know any places I can get a unit other then Ebay or Amazon, though? I’ll check locally myself but as for online stores I try my best to avoid them.

Okay, thank you for the explanations and reassurance! I can tell you what I have rn is a Dell XPS 15 if I have the number right. I use it for gaming (mostly retro but plenty newER games as well) and most importantly audio recording and production. It’s pretty good with that stuff, running three monitors including it’s built in one, a giant audio interface as well as a handful of SSDs. It all works with few issues, but God does it feel like I’m stretching this poor laptop thin!

I should have mentioned what I actually use my computer for in the post, but I didn’t expect advice like this, only places to buy old parts, so thank you for your help! Would you be able to place the XPS 15 somewhere in the timeline of these generations of hardware? It was released around 2018 but laptops are always behind, so I’m not sure what era of computer it realistically IS, if that makes any sense. I know for a fact it could perform much better then it does, but the cramped nature of it’s design kneecaps it hard. I have it elevated for better airflow and I may need to clean the fans out, since it has been a while.

EDIT: I’m mostly into platformers and the like, so running new games would be great, but I hardly play any hyper-realistic games. To use two Fallout games as examples: I’ve run New Vegas smoothly for hours and hours, but 4 hardly works at all. Not that I have much interest in the latter so I only ran it for a few minutes, but even those few minutes proved it was far too slow to play at all. I fully believe this is due to the horrible cooling system and not the CPU itself being that bad.

I’ll have a look into this, thank you!

It’s simply that I’ve never taken one apart or put one together before. I’ve heard the stories of people frying things, fucking up the CPU while trying to install it, and just general small mistakes leading to big costs. It all makes me feel I need to do a test run before tackling whatever my final rig ends up being. I need it to last a long time, so that means it’ll be costly, and I don’t think top-tier parts are fit for my untrained hands lol

Read this as Wine 1.0 at first lol

But that assumes that the right and left are both searching for truth and a path to a better future. Any flavour of leftist can be wrong about something, but at least leftism attempts to help society at the end of the day. A conservative is only ever out for themself (and would likely get pissed with me for using “them” in the singular lol).

If it could be vegan cheese, then I’d go for that. I think its good on toast and pizza is great, of course. I say I hardly like it because everyone else seems to die for it in all forms. Meanwhile I rarely go out of my way to have it unless its an integral part of something, like pizza.

It’s an Ultimate 2C wired. It’s like they aren’t properly implemented wtf?

Yeah, I downloaded that tool and it’s really useful but the buttons don’t show up at all. The kernel is up to date but I think what other people are saying may be true, they might not be mappable to begin with. That doesn’t explain the two face buttons not working, though.

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I hardly like cheese AND I’m asexual so this question hardly applies to me lol

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In comparison to Trump, me too, but that does not contradict what I said.

Trump being horrendous in every way doesn’t erase Biden, Obama and the like being bad leaders who preserve the status quo.

Eww “generative” AI get that shit away from me

Democrats tell you, there are no problems.

Holy shit I actually hit my desk when I read this. I’ve been trying to put into words why “centrism” and “both sides” bullshit is just conservatism and why liberals stand for nothing. I have been trying for years now and then you come along and just: “Democrats tell you there are no problems” YES. That is what I’ve been trying to tell people for fucking years!! I’m not the problem for being concerned for the world, stop giving me that look when all I’m doing is pointing out that the problem exists and you should care about it as much as I do. Don’t tell me I live in a fake reality because the things I want done are somehow impossible when we know what many of the world’s issues are and how to solve them. It’s power structures controlled by the rich that stand between us and a better world, and it’s not my fault if you can’t realize that! Son of a bitch, I need to calm tf down.

So thank you for that.

How far do you wish to kick the nearest small animal like a football?

I’m tempted to share one of my own songs lmao

That is true, but I think they were just trying to take a shot (haha) at the US. Well deserved, for sure.