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I built my first PC (an i5-2500 system) back in 2011 and the only resources I had were blurry newegg tutorials. Some grognard on some gaming forum walked me through how to make sure my parts were all compatible. There was no Pcpartpicker or wiki or any of that shit and even then it was STILL easier than doing it on some piece of shit pentium 4 with a south bridge or north bridge or whatever the fuck.
>no built in drivers Ethernet on the w7 disc, fucking NEEDED the mobo driver disc or you were SOL
>old school bios that unless you had experience with was nowhere near approachable
>SSDs expensive as fuck so nobody had them
>even a moderately modern cooler master case still needed manual installation of standoffs, had sharp ass cheapo sheet metal all over the place, garbage cable management
>what the fuck is a modular PSU???
fuck I don't miss it one bit. Now it's so, so much easier. Just go watch one of the ten million youtube channels, post somewhere for a cookie cutter build, and go to town.