Maybe Building Your Own PC is a BAD Idea

It's still better than the verge guide

"I'm just gonna be gentle with everything" vigorously shakes and whacks motherboard

Every time she wiggled that GPU, I was screaming insid- never mind I just got notified that I was screaming on the outside too

Sarah was pretty much how I felt when buying a PC but I didn't know partpicker existed.

I never knew Linus having a stroke for 25 minutes was this good

"I don't know what I need to be gentle with so I'm going to be gentle with everything" VIOLENTLY SHAKES AND DROPS AND WIGGLES EVERYTHING 😭😭😭 love her enthusiasm tho

The best part of this was witnessing her gargantuan quantity of confidence despite being inexperienced. And then agreeing to have it filmed. One day I hope to worry this little while assembling a computer.

I will not dog on sara, this is a PERFECT example of "Well I've never done this before I don't understand anything about it, let alone connection tolerances." That said, truly had me rolling at the GPU, the horror.

Petition to have Sarah come in for any video that has a product or computer to shake them as a quality test.

Sarah's husband : are the kids ok? Sarah(shakes the kids upside down): i think yes

She would probably find it way less fun if she had actually purchased all of those components herself and would therefore have to take the loss if she had damaged anything. That's the only legitimately stressful part about building a pc as a total newbie. You've spent all of this money on components and now you have to assemble them all without screwing anything up. If you do, you're on the hook for replacing it. Something tells me she might have been a bit more cautious if that were the case

It was WAY more stressful for Linus to watch than it was for her to build. My daughter built a computer with me standing there to answer questions. I did install the CPU cooler as she was not sure about that.

She exudes “she doesn’t know what’s going on but has spirit” and I love it

I think the scariest part was when Sarah wiggled the gpu up and down 😖

Props to Sarah for being vulnerable. I know quite a bit about computers and yet I'm still not confident I could build my own PC without some amount of help.

I think it is unrealistic to expect anyone to go into this on their own. Everyone I know came to me if they wanted a computer, asking if I could help them, which I could.

Huge props to Sarah for being so willing to be the “person who doesn’t know computers” on a tech channel. She does a great job and is super charismatic. A+ job, you did better than I probably would have with the info you had!

When she shook the case I thought the motherboard was coming out...

I get that the point of this is to show an extreme example, but it's pretty misleading and a bit unfair to her. I started pretty blind but I definitely didn't pick my parts in one sitting and was watching a guide/referencing the manuals the whole way. Which is just... what you should do when you're not building a computer on camera with time constraints. I have to imagine her experience would be pretty different if she was doing this on her own time and didn't have a limit on asking questions. But even then, she figured it out!

Sarah compliments Linus's drops with Sarah's shakes