thank you to everyone for your hardware recommendations! they were incredibly helpful. I just ordered the motherboard that @eclairwolf recommended in its post, and I’m probably going to end up getting an AMD 7600X to go with it

I’m pretty nervous because young kas was never able to successfully assemble a whole computer from parts (at least, not one that could turn on), but I’m hopeful that I can pull it off this time, and I’m also really really excited to hopefully be able to play modern games smoothly

@kasdeya oh awesome! glad i could help 🩵

fwiw computers are way easier to assemble now, so i'm sure you'll do just fine!

@eclairwolf you helped a lot! and that is so encouraging to hear - thank you! it looks like the motherboard that you recommended is able to boot into the BIOS without a CPU or even RAM so that’s going to help a lot too. I’ll (hopefully) be able to granularly figure out what - if anything - is plugged in wrong that way lol

all of my hardware is ordered and it’s going to arrive on Thursday! I’m so excited, and also more than a little nervous, but we’ll see if I can assemble everything and not make it explode

@kasdeya This is super exciting!!! Good luck! :)

@Shivaekul thank you! 💙