I have never built a computer before, but am seriously considering building a new one with higher end components, with the primary reason of running FSX. I also plan on overclocking the system; once again, I have never done this before.

 

I have reviewed the newegg videos on you tube and this looks like something I could do? Does it make sense for someone who has never build a system to jump right in a do a high end system? The videos make it look somewhat easy. Although the videos appear to be a perfect case scenario. How many potential problems could I expect that aren’t on the videos?

I built my present system last year, and it was my very first time building one. It was really easy and everything went perfectly the first boot.

 

I highly recommend buding it yourself. Fun project and very rewarding considering what you get for your $.

Its so easy even a Cave Man can do it. Hardest part, setting up the bios for correct boot then loading all the software and drivers and thats not difficult.

Ahh the first PC build.. I remember mine some 10 years or longer ago.

 

It's very simple. For me the hardest part was figuring out how/where to plug in the case power button, reset switch, Power LED, and HDD LED wires.. Even to this day with all modern advancements in PC's this part of the build process hasn't changed since I started building PC's. Some motherboards have handy little adapters that are labeled, plug the wires onto the adapter pins, then you plug the adapter onto the mobo pins and the adapter can only fit on one way so you know you can't accidently plug it in somewhere wrong. Others have no adapter and you're plugging wires directly onto the JFP1 or JFP2 pins. It's really easy once you do it once but it can be overwhelming at first.