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[QUOTE="Ravensmash"]devote hours in to researching the best parts/combinations. Then comes the physical aspect of building the PC....I don't particularly want to construct it myself - not just through laziness either.AncientDozer
This is basically a myth. A friend once asked for help with building a PC, he told me the price range and what he wanted it for, and in like 10 minutes I found him all the parts for cheap prices. Say you want to spend $800, RAM and Motherboards are all pretty standard, GPU and CPU are the only parts that take a bit of research. You find out within your price range, and check a hardware site or two to see how it performs on games you may want to get.
Putting the parts themselves together is essentially lego, back in highschool I've seen 14 year old girls being walked through it, everything just clips together.
I hightlighed something key here.
A lot of PC gamers will talk about how easy it is. For them. It's all hindsight, you know? And from experience. You have all the experience, he did not.
And, really, it's not easy for the average person if they shove all the responsibility on someone else. Which, by the way, still adds hassle and extra steps compared to the "go to game stop and pick up console" thing.
I can talk my Nephew into taking apart and then putting back together an assault rifle but that doesn't mean he'd know how to do it on his own or without supervision.
The PC gamers who make these arguments need to stop forgetting that they are talking from their own experience and abilities rather than the point of view of someone foreign to building a cost effective computer. Not everyone is going to be fortunate to havea friend to do all the work or walk them through.
Brilliant post couldnt have said it better myself! To an average person even terms like "ghz" are confusing and they would not be aware of for example what ram works with what motherboard, very basic things that pc gamers know nearly instinctively. To build a computer without any prior knowledge it undoubtably requires quite abit of time googling various things and then having the confidence to actually put the thing together, knowing that you could potentially destroy quite an expensive piece of equipment. As Wasdie very rightfully said the average person does not want to do this and probably thinks building a computer is much harder than it actually is hence will never look up how to do it. 
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