My $3,000 PC build died on me last week and my PS5 kept me gaming all night

I spent three years saving for a custom rig with a 3080 and all the bells and whistles (you know the drill). Last Tuesday I booted it up and got nothing but a black screen and a spinning fan. After six hours of swapping parts and Googling error codes I gave up around midnight. I grabbed my dusty PS5 off the shelf and was playing God of War Ragnarok within minutes. No driver updates, no BIOS troubleshooting, no panic attacks. It made me wonder if all that PC tinkering is really worth it when a console just works. Has anyone else had a major PC failure that pushed them back to console gaming for a while?

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parkerk561d ago

Man that's rough. I'd start by reseating the RAM and GPU first, that black screen with a spinning fan is usually a connection issue in my experience. @ivanlewis is right that even the big names get hardware failures, it happens to all of us eventually. But yeah, sometimes you just need to game and a console gets it done without the headache.

ivanlewis1d ago

Man I read somewhere that even Linus Torvalds had a GPU die on him once so don't feel bad.