Amith

No wonder I was struggling to find a 'DisplayPort splitter'. :lol:
 
 
Are you able to recommend a decent one?
 
Also, after having a quick look, none of the MST hubs I saw explicitly mentioned refresh rates greater than 60hz (either at all or at 1440p); is this an unreasonable expectation from a single 'DisplayPort output'?  
 
 
 
 
Thanks for pointing out that my solution #2, above, will not work.
 
 
 
 
This reminds me of the classic story of an owner of a Fish and Chips shop ordering a new sign. The sign arrives but it reads, 'FishandChips'. The owner says, 'There needs to be more space between Fish and and and and and Chips.'

I try to spread the word as much as I can. People always assume more then experiencing it for themselves.

Chrome* I hate when people refer to Google Chrome as just "google" >_>

Minor update

I'd like to see some ads for ncix, intel, WD, corsair and some of the other guys you work with, maybe you can get a deal with them directly?

but the part where he said that 5500 will perform as well as a 680... frustrated me a bit

This is actually horrible.

I also made the mistake to start doing computer stuff for my friends and family. Everyone i've ever helped now thinks that i'm their personal support guy for everything. My top 5:
5)
Friend bought a SSD and installed it (he's not that of a noob). Still asked me why it wasn't reading with 450MB/s as promised, so i asked him if he used the fast sata-port on his board (labeled blue). He told me that he used the blue one, so i drove over to him, just to see that be had his HDD in the fast port and his SSD in the slow one.
4)
My mother told me that she wants a new computer, so i asked her if i should build her one. She said no and went to "Saturn" (like best-buy but in germany) and got a complete system there. She payed about 800$ for a system with an i3, a gtx 540, 4 gigs of ram and 500 gigs of harddrive space....
3)
A friend of mine made a steam account with a fake e-mail-adress. After buying 3 games with his pay-pal-account for ~120$ he restarted his computer, just to realize that he couldn't play the games because his mail was fake and he couldn't get into his steam-account anymore.
2)
After i built a computer for a friend of mine, he started complaining about the system bluescreening all the time. While checking his rig, i realized that he had removed the cpu-cooler (out of curiousity) and cleaned off the thermal paste because he thought it was dirty. So obviously his cpu got too hot and made his pc crash every time he booted up. Because he tried to boot up his system uncountable times, his 300$ i7 was broken too. Good job on that.
1)
My ex-girlfriend got a macbook pro. She turned it on for the first time and played around a while, after about 10 minutes she asked me where the Internet Explorer is because she wanted to surf the interwebz. I lol'd.

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'

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