That first one is crazy. Seating the processor is the most delicate part of a build, and the most expensive to get wrong. Why on Earth would someone choose that as the rookie’s job? Let him plug in some SATA cables or even shove in some RAM at the most.

After all these years I didn’t know that the motherboard risers were to keep it from frying. I thought they were there so that air could get behind the board to cool it off. Heh..

“I spent the next hour bending the pins straight again”