These 4 PC building mistakes actually make your rig worse

Having worked on a few custom PCs of my own, I know that while the process doesn’t have to be intimidating, you do have to stay alert. Things that don’t seem like they might be an issue at first can occasionally slow the process down, or force you to re-do a step when you try to boot and nothing happens. Things were arguably worse before PCIe and M.2 slots were standard — I remember struggling to hook hard drives up to long, snaking SATA cables.