Thursday, May 4th 2023

Can You Build an Operable PC in 37 Minutes? The Neo Forza & Newegg PC Building Event Winner Just Did

The Newegg PC Building Contest finals were held in Taipei, on April 22nd. This isn't a typical e-sports event, or even an overclocking/benchmarking contest, but one with a very simple premise—build an operable PC using the parts of your choice, within a time-limit. The finals saw the top-5 contestants from a pool of 50 make their way to Taipei, and for the final event, the time set was just 1 hour. That seems like an eternity for someone used to building PCs, but this isn't a mom-and-pop Dell you're building—a fully fledged high-end gaming desktop with certain mandatory components to have (although the choice of make of the components is up to you). You're supposed to assemble the desktop and bring it up to an operable state.

Neo Forza became the DDR5 memory and SSD manufacturer of choice for most of the finalists. Three out of five finalists chose Neo Forza Trinity DDR5-7200 memory, and all five of them chose Neo Forza NFP455 NVMe Gen 4 SSD. While the winner put together the build in 37 minutes, the slowest of the five made it in just under the hour. They stated that the build was "stressful" and they never thought it could get so nerve-racking to put together a simple PC. Meanwhile, Neo Forza celebrated its unexpected claim to fame for being the memory vendor of choice among the finalists. "We were humbly overwhelmed as the event, inadvertently, showed Neo Forza as a preferred choice by experienced pro-users for DRAM and SSD in PC builds suitable for gaming, content-creation, streaming and 3D rendering," the company commented.
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32 Comments on Can You Build an Operable PC in 37 Minutes? The Neo Forza & Newegg PC Building Event Winner Just Did

#26
Minus Infinity
I'll bet some custom PC builders can do it in 15 minutes without raising a sweat. QC is not an option though.
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#27
Unregistered
I was feeling pretty confident in myself about this until I saw the custom loops :laugh:
#28
bobbybluz
Before retiring I could easily knock out two builds during a one hour staff meeting plus keep track of and contribute to the meeting. I did it several times to alleviate boredom.
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#29
sLowEnd
Half an hour? Sure, if that's not including OS install, and I don't need to do any cable management.

If it's including OS install, it can depend on the drive and OS.
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#30
Hawkster222
Did you test to see if the screws are tight ?
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#31
Redwoodz
The PC's in the pics are the awards. No way hardlines are run that fast. Plus you are trying for the fastest time you are not building a loop.
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