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I personally have experienced a few terrible desktops, but I also want to know you guys' experience.
The worst desktop I have seen is one I have seen literally EVERYWHERE.
GPU: GT 710 (says it all)
CPU: Q6600 (does anyone even use these anymore? even the gt 710 could be bottlenecked by this)
RAM: 2x 1GB ddr sticks (no number????)

Cooler: mans didnt put a cooler on his build. surprised it worked for the short 15 minutes it did.

I think that says it all.

my terrible laptop: CPU: i5-2450M at 2.60 ghz base (however goes up to 3.30 ghz on any steam game i run. odd.) GPU: integrated Quadro NVS 4200m (garbage. the reason that this is terrible.) 6GB of ram, 300GB HDD. refurbished Dell Latitude Esomething. got it for like 140 bucks on amazon.

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Just now, OlympicAssEater said:

The Verge

 

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The Walmart Gaming PC

I'm assuming by walmart gaming pc you mean that "overpowered" BS? That's literal junk. If I could just buy the case only I would.

my terrible laptop: CPU: i5-2450M at 2.60 ghz base (however goes up to 3.30 ghz on any steam game i run. odd.) GPU: integrated Quadro NVS 4200m (garbage. the reason that this is terrible.) 6GB of ram, 300GB HDD. refurbished Dell Latitude Esomething. got it for like 140 bucks on amazon.

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Just now, Mr. Budget said:

I'm assuming by walmart gaming pc you mean that "overpowered" BS? That's literal junk. If I could just buy the case only I would.

Yes. The "OverPowered" PC.

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Just now, OlympicAssEater said:

Yes. The "OverPowered" PC.

Ah yes. It's "Overpowered" because it's Walmart. A PC for a bit more than 1000 dollars with 100 dollar Optiplex quality.

my terrible laptop: CPU: i5-2450M at 2.60 ghz base (however goes up to 3.30 ghz on any steam game i run. odd.) GPU: integrated Quadro NVS 4200m (garbage. the reason that this is terrible.) 6GB of ram, 300GB HDD. refurbished Dell Latitude Esomething. got it for like 140 bucks on amazon.

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29 minutes ago, Mr. Budget said:

CPU: Q6600 (does anyone even use these anymore? even the gt 710 could be bottlenecked by this)

Oh definitely not that bad, Q6600 + 1050Ti is pretty common before the previous crypto mining craze and bottleneck is minimal.

 

25 minutes ago, Mr. Budget said:

If  could just buy the case only I would.

I also hate that suffocating PC

 

33 minutes ago, Mr. Budget said:

100 dollar Optiplex quality.

now that's not fair to the much cheaper Optiplexes that survived till this day

 

41 minutes ago, Mr. Budget said:

terrible desktops,

x3440 overclocked to 4GHz at 1.4V with a crappy h55 motherboard, 8GB DDR2, HD 7850.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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1 hour ago, Mr. Budget said:

CPU: Q6600 (does anyone even use these anymore? even the gt 710 could be bottlenecked by this)

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6 hours ago, Mr. Budget said:

Q6600 (does anyone even use these anymore? even the gt 710 could be bottlenecked by this)

Those things overclock like crazy.  Go beyond 4GHz and they have no problem keeping up with a GTX770.

 

Anyway, The Verge will hold the title of "worst build" for quite some time.  Jay and Kyle both built a PC completely wrong on purpose and the end result still was better.  

 

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Obviously the Verge's.

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x  | GPU: GTX 1070 FE | RAM: TridentZ 16GB 3200MHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 Aorus M | PSU: EVGA 650 B3 | STORAGE: Boot drive: Crucial MX500 1TB, Secondary drive: WD Blue 1TB hdd | CASE: Phanteks P350x | OS: Windows 10 | Monitor: Main: ASUS VP249QGR 144Hz, Secondary: Dell E2014h 1600x900

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10 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Dual Athlon MP 2000+

2GB DDR-400 ECC memory
GeForce4 MX420 AGP
 

Oh yeah, and this is in 2019.

That is terrible... It makes a GTX 275 with Phenom II N950 look like a goated gaming build.

my terrible laptop: CPU: i5-2450M at 2.60 ghz base (however goes up to 3.30 ghz on any steam game i run. odd.) GPU: integrated Quadro NVS 4200m (garbage. the reason that this is terrible.) 6GB of ram, 300GB HDD. refurbished Dell Latitude Esomething. got it for like 140 bucks on amazon.

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Probably the computer they used for the ink department at this screen printing place i worked at. it was a prebuilt, but they never ever cleaned it and put it under the counter and pretty much forgot about it. this bad boy was still running windows vista in 2018. anyway we would do a lot of work with metallic inks and we'd have to mix aluminum into the inks to make them look metallic. needless to say the bottom side of that counter had dust and powder aluminum everywhere. Considering aluminum is a conductor i don't give that pc very long to live.

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1 minute ago, Withenex said:

Probably the computer they used for the ink department at this screen printing place i worked at. it was a prebuilt, but they never ever cleaned it and put it under the counter and pretty much forgot about it. this bad boy was still running windows vista in 2018. anyway we would do a lot of work with metallic inks and we'd have to mix aluminum into the inks to make them look metallic. needless to say the bottom side of that counter had dust and powder aluminum everywhere. Considering aluminum is a conductor i don't give that pc very long to live.

Oh my mother of my mother's mother. Vista in 2018? Vista was terrible.

my terrible laptop: CPU: i5-2450M at 2.60 ghz base (however goes up to 3.30 ghz on any steam game i run. odd.) GPU: integrated Quadro NVS 4200m (garbage. the reason that this is terrible.) 6GB of ram, 300GB HDD. refurbished Dell Latitude Esomething. got it for like 140 bucks on amazon.

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7 minutes ago, Mr. Budget said:

Oh my mother of my mother's mother. Vista in 2018? Vista was terrible.

Don't you dare talk bad about vista, I grew up on that shit.

jkjk but i do have fond memories of that mess of an OS

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3 minutes ago, Withenex said:

Don't you dare talk bad about vista, I grew up on that shit.

jkjk but i do have fond memories of that mess of an OS

Everyone has their memories, my memories of it were my specs being at high utilization without opening anything.

my terrible laptop: CPU: i5-2450M at 2.60 ghz base (however goes up to 3.30 ghz on any steam game i run. odd.) GPU: integrated Quadro NVS 4200m (garbage. the reason that this is terrible.) 6GB of ram, 300GB HDD. refurbished Dell Latitude Esomething. got it for like 140 bucks on amazon.

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19 minutes ago, Mr. Budget said:

That is terrible... It makes a GTX 275 with Phenom II N950 look like a goated gaming build.

Pinnacle back in the 90s, though.

 

Each Athlon MP is a single core/single thread CPU.

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Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Pinnacle back in the 90s, though.

 

Each Athlon MP is a single core/single thread CPU.

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my terrible laptop: CPU: i5-2450M at 2.60 ghz base (however goes up to 3.30 ghz on any steam game i run. odd.) GPU: integrated Quadro NVS 4200m (garbage. the reason that this is terrible.) 6GB of ram, 300GB HDD. refurbished Dell Latitude Esomething. got it for like 140 bucks on amazon.

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The one sitting on my desk.

 

It also happens to be the worst I have seen in a while. I don’t see a lot other than business machines and work laptops...

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The pathetic file server at my office, a Dell Vostro from 2010:

 

-C2D E7400

-2gb DDR3

-1tb platter drive

-The factory power supply, that the fan wore out in and I took apart and re-soldered another into

 

It's crap, and I want to put other guts in there so I can maybe run a VPN for offsite file access. I've got an Athlon 870k + Asrock A88X board + 16gb 2133mhz DDR3 sitting around waiting for another use.

My Current Setup:

AMD Ryzen 5900X

Kingston HyperX Fury 3200mhz 2x16GB

MSI B450 Gaming Plus

Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo

EVGA RTX 3060 Ti XC

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB

WD 5400RPM 2TB

EVGA G3 750W

Corsair Carbide 300R

Arctic Fans 140mm x4 120mm x 1

 

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4 minutes ago, atxcyclist said:

The pathetic file server at my office, a Dell Vostro from 2010:

 

-C2D E7400

-2gb DDR3

-1tb platter drive

-The factory power supply, that the fan wore out in and I took apart and re-soldered another into

 

It's crap, and I want to put other guts in there so I can maybe run a VPN for offsite file access. I've got an Athlon 870k + Asrock A88X board + 16gb 2133mhz DDR3 sitting around waiting for another use.

Oh gosh

my terrible laptop: CPU: i5-2450M at 2.60 ghz base (however goes up to 3.30 ghz on any steam game i run. odd.) GPU: integrated Quadro NVS 4200m (garbage. the reason that this is terrible.) 6GB of ram, 300GB HDD. refurbished Dell Latitude Esomething. got it for like 140 bucks on amazon.

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3 minutes ago, Mr. Budget said:

Oh gosh

The only saving grace of it is that at most there are three workstations using it at any point in time, and none of the software we use is particularly file-transfer-heavy (CAD and building modelling). Still, it was basic web-surfing-grade tech almost a decade ago.

My Current Setup:

AMD Ryzen 5900X

Kingston HyperX Fury 3200mhz 2x16GB

MSI B450 Gaming Plus

Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo

EVGA RTX 3060 Ti XC

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB

WD 5400RPM 2TB

EVGA G3 750W

Corsair Carbide 300R

Arctic Fans 140mm x4 120mm x 1

 

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2 minutes ago, atxcyclist said:

The only saving grace of it is that at most there are three workstations using it at any point in time, and none of the software we use is particularly file-transfer-heavy (CAD and building modelling). Still, it was basic web-surfing-grade tech almost a decade ago.

I'd rather overclock a laptop CPU till it reaches 100 degrees than use that in 2010. Even for 2010 standards that is garbage.

my terrible laptop: CPU: i5-2450M at 2.60 ghz base (however goes up to 3.30 ghz on any steam game i run. odd.) GPU: integrated Quadro NVS 4200m (garbage. the reason that this is terrible.) 6GB of ram, 300GB HDD. refurbished Dell Latitude Esomething. got it for like 140 bucks on amazon.

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2 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

Probably something I've built, not gonna lie.

Ah, Haven't we all messed up a build? Haven't we all...

my terrible laptop: CPU: i5-2450M at 2.60 ghz base (however goes up to 3.30 ghz on any steam game i run. odd.) GPU: integrated Quadro NVS 4200m (garbage. the reason that this is terrible.) 6GB of ram, 300GB HDD. refurbished Dell Latitude Esomething. got it for like 140 bucks on amazon.

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2 hours ago, Mr. Budget said:

Ah, Haven't we all messed up a build? Haven't we all...

Most of the time I build something super bad it went exactly as intended, but what was intended was a really shitty PC

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