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I WANT ONE OF THESE SO BADLY!!!!!

Hey everyone!
 
I love electric things. Particularly cars. But also motorcycles and buses. And I'm a TESLA fanboy.
 
My dream car is the Tesla Model S P100D. ( 0-60 in 2.8 seconds BEOCH)
 
I'm such a big fan of electric cars because they are clean and cost less to operate. And also they look so damn good.
 
I don't know if I really fit in in a car club, with my preference of cars, but I think electric cars are the future of sustainable transportation.
 
 

You could probably save some money on the CPU by picking an i5 instead, since you probably won't benefit much from hyper threading. Also, for video recording and streaming , you'll probably want a Nvidia GPU, as Nvidia GPU's can capture the frame buffer without affecting the FPS noticeably.

Here's a few good examples to see what 30 FPS and 60 FPS (and up to 120) look like side by side.
 
www.testufo.com/framerates
https://frames-per-second.appspot.com/

See for yourself: https://epb.com/home-store/internet

Recently, my dad and me built a computer for my mom because her old one would not start up. We put the hard drive from her old PC into the new one as a secondary drive and installed Windows 10 on the SSD. When mom first started the computer, it booted off of the corrupt install of Windows 7 on the HDD. She freaked out and started spewing nonsense about how "a virus had stolen her personal info" and stuff. When we explained that the boot order had gotten changed and that it was just booting off a corrupt install, she didn't understand. So we had to waste an hour explaining it to her.
 
I'll post another story about my Grandpa having a virus later.

My Grandpa isn't a techie, but for his age he's not terrible with tech. Since he lives in Gig city, he get's 7GB download and 2GB upload. One day he complained that the internet was slow. When I walked into his office he said that the internet on his PC was not working and that he was going to call the fiber optic company and complain. When I looked on the back of his pc I saw the ethernet cable was unplugged I said "Grandpa? Does this pc use a wireless connection?" He said, "No, it uses an internet connection." I held up the blue ethernet cable and asked if he'd unplugged it. He said yes. I plugged it in and he said "Wait! Don't plug that in! The computer says I should use an ethernet cable. That one says EPB Fiber Optics on it!" I explained that it was the company name and that the cable was an ethernet cable. We plugged it in and his Internet was fine.
 
There was another time when he had just gotten a new phone and he thought the play store was a porn app...

My Grandpa isn't a techie, but for his age he's not terrible with tech. Since he lives in Gig city, he get's 7GB download and 2GB upload. One day he complained that the internet was slow. When I walked into his office he said that the internet on his PC was not working and that he was going to call the fiber optic company and complain. When I looked on the back of his pc I saw the ethernet cable was unplugged I said "Grandpa? Does this pc use a wireless connection?" He said, "No, it uses an internet connection." I held up the blue ethernet cable and asked if he'd unplugged it. He said yes. I plugged it in and he said "Wait! Don't plug that in! The computer says I should use an ethernet cable. That one says EPB Fiber Optics on it!" I explained that it was the company name and that the cable was an ethernet cable. We plugged it in and his Internet was fine.
 
There was another time when he had just gotten a new phone and he thought the play store was a porn app...

Recently, my dad and me built a computer for my mom because her old one would not start up. We put the hard drive from her old PC into the new one as a secondary drive and installed Windows 10 on the SSD. When mom first started the computer, it booted off of the corrupt install of Windows 7 on the HDD. She freaked out and started spewing nonsense about how "a virus had stolen her personal info" and stuff. When we explained that the boot order had gotten changed and that it was just booting off a corrupt install, she didn't understand. So we had to waste an hour explaining it to her.
 
I'll post another story about my Grandpa having a virus later.

Recently, my dad and me built a computer for my mom because her old one would not start up. We put the hard drive from her old PC into the new one as a secondary drive and installed Windows 10 on the SSD. When mom first started the computer, it booted off of the corrupt install of Windows 7 on the HDD. She freaked out and started spewing nonsense about how "a virus had stolen her personal info" and stuff. When we explained that the boot order had gotten changed and that it was just booting off a corrupt install, she didn't understand. So we had to waste an hour explaining it to her.
 
I'll post another story about my Grandpa having a virus later.

Recently, my dad and me built a computer for my mom because her old one would not start up. We put the hard drive from her old PC into the new one as a secondary drive and installed Windows 10 on the SSD. When mom first started the computer, it booted off of the corrupt install of Windows 7 on the HDD. She freaked out and started spewing nonsense about how "a virus had stolen her personal info" and stuff. When we explained that the boot order had gotten changed and that it was just booting off a corrupt install, she didn't understand. So we had to waste an hour explaining it to her.
 
I'll post another story about my Grandpa having a virus later.

Since the system fails to boot even when it is not displaying anything, as you can not hear the windows login sound, its most certainly the PSU. Samiscool51 summed it up pretty well of whats happening.

A 650W Gold PSU provides in reality somewhere between 87% to 90% of the 650W, so thats around 570W~.
Alone your CPU is 220W and the GPU is 170W, so thats almost 400W. Add an average of 1x SSD, 2x HDD, 3x system fans, some peripherals and you have around 550W that your system is drawing under full load or a short time during booting.
That 550w is basically just 20W less than what your PSU is able to provide, so very close allready.
Powersupplys will degrade over time, depending on how much you use them and if you use them to what extend, they can suffer performance losses after 1 or 2 years already - which means they provide even less wattage. Especially when you run them always "maxed", which you did.
Powersupplys also usualy perform at theyr best somewhere around 60%-80% of load, its called a efficency curve - example of an 1200W PSU:
So with your current PSU the required system wattage, efficience wise, should idealy be a maximum of 450W~.
Which is btw. why proper builders will always suggest you "overkill" PSU's.
 
 
If you do indeed pick up a new PSU, I'd recommend you to get a 750W silver rated PSU. With that rating it will provide around 635W, with your system drawing around 550W, you would still almost always be in a very efficient curve for the PSU.
Obviously you could also get a 750w gold rated PSU, but that wont do any considerable difference and platinum rated would be just a waste of money for your machine.
Futureproof wise you'd be good with any of these, heck you'd even could use your current one as any reasonable consumer Intel CPU will barely even get close to 100W TPD and thats what you would be getting if you do upgrade.
 
Ofc you could juggle the numbers for the PSU's, here is a list of the efficiency ratings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_Plus
its basicaly "listed wattage" times "rating %", and then you calculate if you would stay within the 50 - 80% area of the powersupplys provided wattage you intend to buy.
 
also:
http://www.coolermaster.com/power-supply-calculator/
this is a calculator where you can enter your system and it will tell you your approximate load wattage. Ignore the PSU suggestions though.

I don't really have an example except that when I go to the apple store with my gf, because her phone broke again, I would look around for the noobie and mess with him/her. I would also like to add that I do not think some of the employees should be called geniuses lol. Anyone else enjoy doing this?

How just how..........

so this one time I was hanging out with my friend who is the manager at a tech shop by where I live and a girl comes in and buys a 2tb hard drive. we let her know that we install hard drives for $1 (the cost of the sata cable we use) and she says "just because I am a woman does not mean I cant work on computers" and leaves in a huff. two days later she comes back in saying that the HDD is not working so we take the computer in to look at it, we open it and the HDD is nowhere to be seen, so we ask her where it is. and it turns out that she scanned it and put the scanned image on her desktop to install the drive. and to top that off she threw away the drive she paid almost $200 for and she wanted us to give her a new one.
 
 
 
EDIT: feel free to quote this comment, I like seeing peoples reactions even though the comment is 2+ years old.
EDIT EDIT: still funny in 2021 keep em comin'

One time a guy asked me "If you know so much about computers - what is the electrical resistance to a intel processor? I you don't know the answer you don't know anything." I laughed so hard. :DDD
Then someone asked me: "Put android on my nokia 5320 xpressmusic please."
My teacher uses Windows Media Player - she shows us a video of bees then to close it she presses go to library and then only closes the window.
My grandma didn't shut her monitor off before the pc had turned off - she thought if she powered off the monitor the pc wouldn't work again next time. :D At least i explained how things work to her.

Here's a good one: if the cursor is an arrow, double click If the cursor is a hand, single click
Maybe try and teach her that :p

Windows 7 remains the best OS to this date. Even though it lost mainstream support in 2015, it still remains very well supported, and my absolute favorite OS of all time (aside from MS-DOS that is :-)

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