I recently just bought a custom computer via umart. They didn't have the graphics card in stock to waited a week. I got an email last friday saying:
"Your order has been processed,we are now assembling and testing your system.A ready confirmation email will be sent to you as soon as your machine are ready to be pickup"
Waited until today to give them a call and they've just informed me that the parts are ready but they haven't built it. Despite going through the "system build" form and emailing them about getting it "built", they haven't taken it into account for some reason.

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TL;DR - umart aren't building my computer despite jumping through the right hoops and saying so in emails and claiming there's a 5 day turn around for it to be built.


So considering picking up the parts now and doing it by myself out of spite. I've replaced graphics cards and ram but never build from scratch. Looked up a few tutorials and seems pretty simple. Zip lines, screw drivers and avoid touching certain parts of the components.

As long as I follow instructions and check on tutorials, is it difficult to put together your own computer from scratch with little previous experience? Anything I should be wary of?


Here's the build.
Intel Core i5 2500K Processor LGA1155 3.3GHz CPU
ASRock Z68 Extreme4-Gen3 Z68 4xDDR3 3*PCIex16 GBL RAID DVI HDMI DS
Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
OCZ 120G Vertex III Series SSD
Western Digital CaviarGreen 2TB 64MB SATA 3
Gainward GTX570 1280M DDR5 2DVI HDMI Goes Like Hell
Samsung 22X DVDRW Black SATA (SH-S223C-BL)
CoolerMaster RC-912A-KWN1 HAF912 Advance Ver w Window
SilverStone ST85F-P 850W Strider Plus Power Supply

So, are you asking a question?

tbh putting together a pc is easy, and hard to fuck up

putting it together and making it looks nice and tidy is the bitch

building a pc is simple (but fiddly), but its madness to do it yourself.

if you have ANY issue with any of the parts, getting them fixed under warranty is going to be a nitemare.

sounds like you just did a bad job of ordering your pc.

i deal with umart and msy all the time, no issues with getting any of my pcs built

I've built heaps of machines over the last 15yrs. If you live near umart VIC and get really stuck, let me know.

So, are you asking a question?

haha, just realised that. added.


and not trying to bash on umart. ordered parts from them before and they've been nothing but awesome. just surprised this time that the invoice was for "system build", emails saying it's being built and tested but really was just getting the parts.

lol
when i was a pc systems builder, i saw a lot of failed attempts. most common one was screwing the motherboard directly to the case without the supports. second was getting stuff wrong - ie miswiring the front usb ports and shorting out the mobo. third was when people liked to 'customise', like too much paste on the cpu etc. there were other errors that weren't showstoppers, but otherwise bad, like having 6 drive bays available and mounting two hard drives together, and just general sloppy build practices.

oh and OP i used to build PCs like yours all day long, if it took 40 mins from boxes on the table to booting to BIOS, then i was taking too long. srsly.

i would class the front usb ports as making stuff look pretty, in fact in the old case it would often take me many months (if not a year or two) to plug them in (they had a plug per wire, not the nice new all together jobbies now)

as for the screwing part (pun intended) that comes from not reading the basics i would think (or have a basic understading that metal on metal for something that uses elec is bad)

Be careful with the CPU, don't go bending any pins and shit... that seems to happen quite a lot.

make sure you apply the thermal paste on the cpu correctly.

If he's using the stock cooler, it'll have a thermal strip already on it and he won't have to bother with paste.

Be careful with the CPU, don't go bending any pins and shit... that seems to happen quite a lot.

pins.....on the cpu?, that shit is so 2005

Cheers for the advice.

Don't have any mates that can help me out this weekend so might just get umart to do it. Would have liked to do it myself for curiosity sake but for warranty and irreparable first timer mistakes, probably not worth it. if it was a lower end basic home PC, i'd be all for it.

It's harder to fuck it up than it is to get it right. Most things in a PC only fit where they are meant to go and only the way they are meant to go.

Honestly, if I was building a cheap(ish) system, I'd build myself.
If you're going to drop a good deal of cash on a high end system you may as well get it built.
for the potential chance of destroying a ~$800 video card for example you may as well spend ~$50-80 getting it built.

^ static electricity?

I built my first PC at 13 and i've never let anyone else build my computer since. Mostly because all that extra effort (about an hour of deboxing, clicking shit in running cables, cutting cable ties and booting up) makes me appreciate the up to a couple of grand worth of machinery. Also I know I can make it right.

To be it's confusing how people can sit on their computer for hours per day, perhaps at work for 30+ hours a week and not even have a basic grasp of how the components even connect to peripherals.

To be it's confusing how people can sit on their computer for hours per day, perhaps at work for 30+ hours a week and not even have a basic grasp of how the components even connect to peripherals.

I disagree. Just because you're the driver doesn't mean you need to be the mechanic too.

type in how to build a computer into youtube

theres some dude who does it all from scratch in like 3 vids.

gets it running on the mobo box first then installs into a case

Once when I was 13 in England, it was raining and I was wearing hiking boots, coming back from a 50 mile walk in Dartmoor, I got off the bus and stepped on a metal drain cover and slipped. I didn't slip over though, I found grip with my other foot and shifted my weight and carried on like a boss.