I bought these throughout the year, when they were on sale or had a great deal. Been on the hunt for about two years now, after graduating from University decided to go all in:

• CPU: AMD 9800x3D

• GPU: Nvidia 5090FE

• Motherboard: Asus Rog Strix x870e Gaming

• Ram: DDR5 64GB CL30 RGB Corsair Vengeance

• Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow

• Power Supply: Corsair HX1200 Platinum

• CPU Cooler: Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360

• Fans: Corsair RX120 and LX120

• Thermal Right AM5 CPU Contact Frame

• Storage: WD Black SN850x 4TB Gen 4

Also, I hand-built the desk (tabletop) with my dad; I'm super proud of this build. Looking forward to playing Cyberpunk 2077 soon and investing in a 4k monitor :)

Question for you all. I’m very interested in building a PC and at least from the Corsair website, using the PC-builder tool and instructions seems fairly straightforward. Purpose: the experience as well as just future-proofing the opportunity to upgrade down the line (just like my car)

Having said that, I feel like much of what I notice on this forum are challenges folks are having, which makes me wonder whether this is as straightforward as I’m led to believe.

So the question is: is designing and building a PC from the builder fairly uncomplicated provided you follow instructions? Is it common to run into problems—and if so what’s typical and can be easily avoided?

What I’m trying to decide is how predictable this process should be.

Thanks in advance!