QOTW: How many individual components are in your PC?

[HEXUS]

Has your build gotten simpler, or is there still plenty going on?

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[nar53]

Much simpler these days. MB + CPU + Cooler + GPU + 2 x M.2 SSD's + 4 x 16gb RAM and a USB 2 Header, oh & a couple of case fans. thats it.

[PC-LAD]

All the usual components but with a bit of tidying up to do that i've been meening to do for the last few month. Only non standard computing component would be the cathodes that I've added.

[Ferral]

Usual components for me but I have 1 SSD for Windows and then 2 SATA for media and games etc and a few extra fans in the case

[Ttaskmaster]

Are we counting each watercooling fitting separately, each screw separately, and so on?

[Parm]

Are we counting each watercooling fitting separately, each screw separately, and so on?

Gets interesting with water cooling added to the mix. I'm counting each component as a separate purchase. So a lot more components for custom loops, as opposed to an AIO.

[LeSWiS]

I don't know...Enough for it to be working?!

[ByteMyAscii]

Additional drive, additional ram.
Many other parts just replaced from original pre-build.

[spacein_vader]

Case
Mobo
CPU
CPU cooler
RAM DIMMS x4
GPU
2.5" SSDs X3

Drives aside (and the multiple is due to the rapidly dropping price the last few years,) separate components have dropped off over the years. Long gone are the days of sound cards and NICs in expansion slots for me.

[Hoonigan]

Motherboard, CPU, RAM, GPU, PSU and a couple of SSDs. Now that we have M.2 NVMe drives, it certainly makes things much easier.

[Friesiansam]

All of them.

[Euphonium]

In general I find my modern builds have more drives & fewer expansion cards

Current main PC:
1x Case
1x Mobo
1x CPU
1x Cooler
4x RAM
1x Graphics card
1x BD-ROM
2x SSD
5x HDD
2x extra case fans

Total = 19

Oldest functioning legacy build (original Pentium)
1x Case
1x Mobo
1x CPU
1x Cooler
4x RAM
3x Graphics cards (Matrox Millenium, 3dfx, PowerVR)
1x Sound card
1x Network card
1x DVD-ROM
1x CD-RW
2x HDD
1x extra case fans

Total = 18

[philehidiot]

Take this how you want as I dunno what is a component these days but....

PSU x1
SSD x4
HDD x1 (would have been two but yesterday one of them met with a "data destruction" session. Which involved my axe.)
CPU x1
Water cooling AIO x1
PCI-e SUPER RGB EXTREEEEEEEEM e-peen penis enlarging pump x1
GPU x1
RAM x4 sticks
Sound card x1
Fancy USB hubs x2
WiFi adaptors x3
Optical drive x1
Fans x lots and lots and lots and lots
Motherboard x1
Case x1
Speakers x2
Monitor x1
Printer x1
Hammer x1
2.4GHz antennae with up to 4 miles range x1
Mouse x2
RCD breaker x1
Keyboard x1
Whisky bottle x1
Soldering iron x1
Abandoned Dominos BBQ sauce x1.325

Sorry I'm now just looking at everything on my desk.

[Percy1983]

1x Case
1x PSU (not separating modular cables)
1x Motherboard
1x Processor
1x AIO cooler
4x RAM modules
2x NVME Drives
4x Hard Drives
2x BDRE drives
2x USB3 Internal card readers
1x Graphics Card
1x PCIE USB3 expansion card
1x PCIE Firewire card (yes really)
5x Fans
1x Ram cooler
6x SATA cables

34 in total

My first PC.
1x Case
1x PSU
1x Motherboard
1x Processor
1x RAM module
1x Hard Drives
1x TV Card
1x DVD-ROM
1x Floppy Drive
1x Floppy cable
2x IDE cables
1x Fan
Added a little later to even things out
1x Graphics Card
1x Modem
1x Sound Card
1x CD-Writer
1x RAM stick
1x Hard drive

13 upgraded to 19

Certainly less to it back then, it was easier to pick up/carry too.

[Saracen999]

Regulars won't be surprised to find that my answer is it's a hard question to answer, mainly because I don't have "a" PC, but a collection of them. What's in them varies hugely.

At the simplest end is a machine with chassis (inc fans, psu, etc), simple mobo with onboard video, CPU (and cooler it came with), RAM and a DVD drive. By design, it has no HDD, SSD etc storage. No permanent net connection either. Why? It boots from one of several DVD images, can go anywhere, do anything (slowly) and is immune to any viruses, malware, etc that might infect any storage subsystem.

At the other end is a dual-processor server, with 6-disc RAID 5 storage. I have two of these designed to give a kind-of manually-switched server duplexing. These are used far from all the time, but when I need them, I need to be as sure as I can be that they're available. So, multiple drives, multiple spares. All the extra hardware for hot-swap, hit-spare etc, duplicated, and spares for all thise subsystems in the parts cupbboard, including SCSI controllers, the RAID drive cages, etc.

Neither the simple machine nor the servers are exactly state of the art. More like prehistoric. But they do the job and cost nowt when not in use. They owe me nothing and accounting-wise, were depreciated to zero years ago.

Oh, and how do we component-count laptops, bought ready-configured and ready-built? One component, or about 10?

[Spreadie]

CPU, HSF, Mobo, GPU, 3 SSDs, PSU, couple of RAM sticks, 5 fans...

...are we counting screws and zip ties as components?