PC hardware forum: Will these components be compatible?

Thanks for that!

Do you know anything about what i could do if the PC broke while all of the parts are in warranty?

Thanks in advance

Let's say you build a machine from a pile of parts. The warranty is not on the machine but the parts. So you are the point person and sole contact for figuring out which part or parts are in need of swapping out.

What's interesting is that decades have passed in the PC world yet no standard emerged for diagnosis. That is, unless you consider the old swap parts routine a standard.
Bob

Ok... so with these parts, what would you say are the chances of something going belly - up?

There will always be a part failure someday. And I find those building their first PC often unaware of issues the second time builder learned. Many get the first one running over half the time but today I have to wonder about Microsoft Windows. That is, I rarely see a good self install today.
Bob

Do you think that it would be feasible, if the PC broke within warranty period, to take it to my local PC shop where they could find out what part is broken and i could then return that part to the source?

Only the parts. Sorry if that's rough to accept but this is an area that self builder often get upset about. They buy all those parts and no one will warrant the machine. Just the parts. And to figure out which part failed around here is 120 and up USD. Any savings are usually gone.

It's a nice list of parts and it should be fine but then again I've found new builders put an extra mounting stud and short out a board. They are very upset but wiser from the experience.

Any reason why you are building a PC?
Bob

I mean. if the part goes wrong, do you think it would be possible to get someone to determine which part is broken (eg. a friend, colleague, worker in a PC shop). Then send back that particular part.

I am building a PC so that i have the experience, and also it is a lot cheaper than buying a ready made pc

But that is exactly how PCs are fixed today. Someone gets to go in and troubleshoot the PC.

The home builder is sometimes at a disadvantage since they don't do this a lot and may not have spares to test with.

Here I might debate if it's cheaper since one trip to a repair counter is 120 bucks plus parts. Not one service desk I know will troubleshoot and say it's the video card. Why? Because if you replaced that and it still didn't work, would you be upset?

This is why the usual repair centers don't take in such a request.
Bob

Many years ago I ran a few repair shops. We had service manuals, meters, oscilloscopes and solder irons. Not only that but the spare parts room was full of the stuff needed for swaps and more.

Today I moved on to other endeavors but keep in touch with various shops that I help at when they have a tough case. This means I have access to spares if my spares don't suffice.

Yes I've built my own in the past but with refurbs and laptops today I see no reason to build from scratch.
Bob

the extra cost of having them assembling the machine is 60 euro (80 dollars) - compared with buying the components with them and assembling myself. And that includes warranty on the whole, not only on the parts.
Personally I never took the risk.

In your price comparison, did you include the cost of Windows?

Kees