Do You Need To Wear Gloves While Building Your PC?

Some people believe that you must wear rubber gloves when you go to put your PC build together. It’s not entirely necessary and I’ll tell you why!

With my first couple of builds I made sure that I wore rubber gloves because I figured that since static electricity can’t get through rubber that I’d be entirely safe.

Although this is true, rubber gloves really aren’t needed as there are some super simple solutions to making sure that you don’t have any static electricity in your hands when you go to build.

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Xidax Review 2023, Should You Just Build Your Own PC Rig?

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I’d like to review over Xidax for their “ultimate” custom gaming PCs. Most pre-built sites like this don’t provide good value, but we’ll see if Xidax does!

I’ll be looking into different budget points for custom PCs that they have, if the parts are of quality measure and if it’s actually worth getting for the price.

With that, let’s get to the review.

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PC Hardware Is Extremely Overpriced Right Now

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Many of you in the comments area are asking about alternative parts mainly when it comes to graphics cards or RAM. The thing is, no matter where you check, it’s all very overpriced.

I’ve looked into why hardware has sky rocketed in the past year and I have a bit of speculation as to when/if we’ll ever see hardware go back down to a decent enough price for us gamers.

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Pre-Built or Custom Gaming PC, What’s The Better Route?

A pre-built PC is ready to go right away whereas a custom gaming PC takes time to get to an optimal state. Should you go with a pre-built or a custom gaming PC?

It really comes down to what you’re looking for. A pre-built might let you get right into the action with the overall PC experience but you usually miss out on power per dollar spent. A custom gaming build lets you optimize how much you’re spending but you’ll have to learn how to put it all together.

Luckily it doesn’t take a computer scientist to put a PC together and there is plenty of material out there to help you out! Let’s go over both choices and decide which is the better route.

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What Do You Need To Build A Gaming PC?

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Question is, what do you need before you start building your gaming PC? What are all of the different parts involved? Let’s go over everything you’ll need!

There are several parts that are needed to build a gaming PC and it’s pretty easy to get lost and confused when you’re in the market to do a build of your own.

It’s best to know what you’re getting into fully before even trying otherwise you risk messing up having the wrong motherboard socket or you accidentally got a video card that isn’t going to fit within your desired case.

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What’s Going On With AMD’s RX Series Video Cards?

In any market that you look into there is always an up and down slope of pricing and stock due to supply and demand, having enough product and other means.

Right now all of the RX series graphics cards from AMD are either priced at over $400 or they’re completely out of stock on other websites.

How Come?

The answer is BitCoin mining. It’s unfortunate that the market had to move so drastically because of it but that’s definitely why we’re not seeing any RX 480’s/RX 580’s on the market for an acceptable price point right now.

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