#warning to all the phanteks g360a is not a good choice for 360 radiators despite the name

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so. I built the guys pc today. I could have never anticipated that it would take like 5 fuckin hours (in reality about 7 but I’m not including breaks)

Basically. It all went wrong because FUCKIN NEWEGG SENT THE WRONG CASE. I was like. Oh you picked the white one? He didn’t. They sent us a case that’s $20 cheaper but still charged him full price. It’s the smaller version of the case we picked. And the wrong color.

I panic. I look up the specs. Oh the radiator and gpu still fit, we’re ok. Right? I ask if he wants to wait to send it back or just stick with it and get his $20 refunded.

He wants to do it today. Ok.

Oh. Oh the top of the case doesn’t have a mounting rack for the radiator.. I mean I guess we don’t need it right. Oh the case is supposed to support a 360 rad but it doesn’t fit this one. Which is one of the most popular 360 rads (the one from Corsair). Very cool.

So I had to front mount it and the tubs are ugly and curled up because the case is small.

Whatever. The rest of the build went smooth until we had to put in the psu. Wtf. The drive bay makes it impossible to put in a regular psu. It completely blocks the cables. Why is it even included?? We had to take it out. Thankfully he didn’t have any hdds

We get into the bios. Oh his 6400 speed ram is stuck at 4800. Oh. I don’t know anything about overclocking as I never needed to do it. I spend about 30 mins trying to figure it out to no avail. I tell him we’re updating the bios. This didn’t fix it. For whatever reason the XMP profile is stuck at 4800 and there was only one profile. I didn’t have the time to try to figure that out.

He says it’s ok. We get windows running fine n whatnot only to notice. Um. The case fans are supposed to be rgb? And the case has a light strip at the bottom? But it’s not working.

Another 30 mins. I fix the light strip (it was unplugged) the fans still do not light up. They spin though. Confused. I try to look it up and every answer is just plug in the sata cable for power. It’s already Plugged in. I think to myself “maybe it’s cause I put all the fans into the control hub for the cpu cooler”

So I unplug the case fans and plug one into the motherboard, daisy chaining the rest as they were when we first opened the case. The fans don’t even spin now. Bro. It’s 9:30! Fuck this. I plug them back into the hub so at least they’re spinning.

We’re both tired af and the pc is working it’s just the 3 case fans aren’t lighting up and the ram is slower than it should be, so we call it a day.

I probably could figure it out but I was so damn tired and I’m still sick and I have work tomorrow

On the plus side I learned how Intel cpus are installed and finally got to try turning on the pc while it’s just a motherboard sitting on a box with a screwdriver :3

I thought it would turn on instantly but there was like a 2 second delay that made be feel very stupid. But nope you just touch that thang and it turns on.

Oh and apparently no manufacturer prints their manuals anymore. Every single item had a QR code to read it online. That kind of sucks.