Built my first PC at 50 easier than I expected

So after years of saying “one day I’ll do it” I finally built my own PC at 50 years old and it was way easier than I thought it would be. My little cousin who’s 17 and basically a tech nerd sent me a bunch of youtube clips to follow and that made a huge difference. I spent a full weekend watching build guides, labeling cables and psyching myself up. The scariest part was installing the CPU I swear I was sweating like I was doing heart surgery but once that was done everything else just started clicking into place. Booted it up, everything lit up and I felt like I had just launched a spaceship.

Now I’ve been playing cyberpunk 2077 and baldur’s gate 3 nonstop and I can’t believe I used to game on a prebuilt office PC. This whole process made me realize I should’ve done this years ago.

Anyone else build their first PC later in life? What did you wish you knew before starting?