Damn. I’ve never heard of that happening either. Maybe a blockage caused a pressure build up, I think you’re supposed to change the fluid every now and again.
Water cooling seems to mainly be for CPUs, but I don’t quite get that. My i5 4690k has never been hot with a basic Hyper 212 fan or whatever it’s called, it’s more than okay. It’s GPUs that need the cooling, that’s where the heat and noise comes from in my experience.
PC building is like a puzzle except that all of the pieces are colour coded for you so that you can’t get it wrong and there are no repeating shapes so there’s very little danger of sticking the wrong thing into the wrong connector. The only remotely risky thing when I built my PC was that the CPU pins are very delicate, so you just have to be careful when putting that in, but even that’s simple: no pressure at all, just line it up and let it drop in. The only possibly messy part was putting thermal paste on
Sites like
http://pcpartpicker.com help you pick matching parts and get good prices, and there are 1000 videos on installing everything. Honestly, it looks worse than it is. It took me the best part of a day because I was quite honestly too careful and double checked every step, but it worked without problem the first time I turned it on.
The first time you install Windows on a PC and realise how much shit a pre made computer/laptop comes with that you’re now free of is great.
You mentioning Command Prompt reminds me of one time in college when I told someone about the netsend command that I had just found out about, which let you send a message to another device on a network. He did netsend * “Why are you so gay”. The * was a wildcard instead of an actual recipient, so he thought it would go to everyone in our class. Instead, a little prompt popped up on every single computer in the entire college - every student and every teacher, no matter what subject they were doing suddenly got a message on their screen. We were doing IT, and the network admin’s office was directly behind where we were sitting. He was out of his office like a shot looking for the computer that sent it. That was a funny day.