Learning Process

[ぶらい]

Hello, I was wondering how deep is the learning curve with this simulator game? I know it just building pc but is there more to that? like maybe understanding how each components work with one another or how to decide which parts is good with what, etc, just curious about how much you can learn from this game.

[Caliell]

So.... after being inspired by this game (stupidity, or feeling of being useless meatbag needing to stick his hands somewhere? You be the judge) I gutted my PC and rebuilt it with ASUS x370 i7-8750K, 32 RAM with the rest of my parts being transplants from the old horsie I killed (still functional if anyone wants to buy old mobo with DDR3 memory slots, 64 RAM, and 3 PCI E slots plus Wireless adapter).

This was my first ever build. No help. Just this videogame as some kind of idiotic learning tool.

Was it like this videogame? Yes to a degree. Attaching two 1080s in SLI was easy, especially the fact that E Sports mobo came with HB SLI bridge (didn't know that and ordered SLI bridge from NVIDIA before mobo arrived. Not even going to bother returning it for 39 bucks.)

Here is two HUGE things I learnt from this build though as complete Newbie. - SLI is worthless for gaming, at least for the vast majority of the games. One game in particular did really good with SLI (Kingdom Come: Deliverance almost doubled my FPS on full Ultra settings) but the rest that I have blew me out of my mind to find out that SLI actually made their performance WORSE. If I knew that when I bought my computer as factory stock configuration several years ago from Best Buy, I would of never gotten SLI PC.

Also found out having 64 RAM was also throwing money on fire when it comes to gaming. There is not a single game that exists that need 64 RAM. Even with my 32 gb RAM "Upgrade" at 3000MHz (the only reason I "downgraded" is due to ASUS x370 coming with only 4 RAM slots) there wasn't a single issue with any of videogames.

So in the irony this game actually taught me a few (expensive lessons) that several years ago, I threw money on my old pc unknowingly like a spoiled rich frat boy throws 1 dollar bills at the ♥♥♥♥♥ bars, without knowing that the stripper without make up and lingerie is actually pretty ugly broad.

How the game got it right?

1) Attachment of PCI E devices i.e. GPUs (graphics cards).
2) SLI (still need to go to settings on iOS like NVIDIA settings and activate it).
3) RAM sticks. That simple.
4) Hard drives (should also ad CD ROM/BLUE RAY even though PC Building Simulator does not have one) relatively simple but depends on a motherboard.
5) plugging in and attaching fans.
6) Not yet in game but simple as well water cooling closed loop rigs. These days you don't need to build your own. Go to your nearest electronics store or Amazon and order one (See Below).
7) Applaying thermal paste. However Corsair 55H I bought already came with the thermal paste attached to the heat plate.
8) PSU. Mine was 1200 Watt non modular older version with limited set of cables it came with (♥♥♥♥ing cheapskate factory stock PSU sold to Best Buy).

How the game got it wrong?

1) BiOS set up. Oh boy the headache of getting things right and formated. I am still struggling with unfinished RAID set up and my old hardrives are not booting up correctly since I know ZILCH about setting up RAiD configurations. They still work haphazardly, but I bypassed this nightmare with buying external hard drive (which I could use to download stuff and transfer to another computer anyway which is kind of silver lining).
2) Wiring front panel for the chasis case. I used my old chasis case since it is full tower (CybertronPC Cosmos case).

3) Wiring the motherboard with items like Sound Card, peripheral fans that are directly wired to the panel therefore have to be rerouted from the panel to the mobo. The worst offender on this list I found to be front panel wiring to mobo. The game have it in the infity bundled pin attachment to the motherboard. Power, Reset, HDD + - HPL + -.

4) Wiring supply from PSU to GPUs. Mine came with non modular cables (permanently attached to PSU) two PCI E cables with no instruction of how to attach them to GPU. My old rig had 6 pin GPU attachment wiring for 1080s in SLI but the new Mobo would not be having it. Oh boy the pain in the ♥♥♥ it caused me. First it demanded to "Power Down and connect power to my GPU(s)). Then it wasn't recognizing one or both of GPU(s).

Then it (mobo) IOVERHEATED GPUs everytime I tried to play any videogames. My GPUs was seizing and spewing heat like ore smelting plant and they would only go into full RPM mode of cooling the cards AFTER they would shut themselves down on the failsafes before melting threshold. What did my (non)sensible mind decided to do? Oh I downloaded this fancy free EVGA Overclocking program from Steam (another crazy ♥♥♥ program to fry your GPU(s) if you dont know what you are doing) and overclocked my GPUs' fans to the MAX.

Now my computer sounds like it is about to begin the countdown and fly into the space. I think my insomniac ♥♥♥ keeps neighbors awake at night with the sound of rocket engine coming out of my desktop.
The worst offender on this list I found to be front panel wiring to mobo. The game have it in the infity bundled pin attachment to the motherboard. Power, Reset, HDD + - HPL + -.

WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥ IS THIS ♥♥♥♥? nope, I had to painstaikingly play with each individual capble and cut the zipties Cybertron used to tighten up the wires.

5) Wiring Hygiene. In this game wires magically happen to be the length you need them to be. Not too short, not too long. In real life you could tie your pc to your neck and arms with all the wiring going on inside and wiring is confusing as hell.

6) Mobo is extremely hard to attach if you dont know how. I did not put all of the screws in. I attached the most as I could, leaving many out.

Since my writing of this reply (I dont know why I bothered to write such long answer of personal experience), it been 1 days since built this new rig.

- It looks like ♥♥♥♥, but it is way better, more efficient.

- it looks like the party on ACID going on with all disco balls and laser beams, with all that fruity RGB lighting going on inside of it.

- Outside it looks like it belong in a scrapyard with all the wires sticking out and panels off, with the guts hanging ons keleton frame and frames removed. I don't know about all that shpiel about the dust getting into it, but I run home fan as "Hillbilly cooling fan" one side of it and it keeps most of the dust away.


So there you go. In short:

In short, it is 60 - 70% ish realistic coming from someone who never build one before but tried because of this game (and sunk about 900 dollars into it).

However those 30-40% of "NOT" realistic parts, are critical and can be success or failure if you know or dont know how.