Experiences with non-techies

[MDPS]

1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

a day or two now... 

 

And yeah I'd believe that... if we assume 10% IPC boost per gen, plus the fact new chips are clocked in the mid to high 3's instead of low 2's, I'd believe that

Edit: And benchmarks confirm, the i3 manages more total performance and destroys on single-threaded  

What? Ryan? How'd I miss this? How do you even get to be a mod?

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5 minutes ago, MDPS said:

What? Ryan? How'd I miss this? How do you even get to be a mod?

the gods decide....

[WkdPaul]

11 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

the gods decide....

All praise the almighty tech Gods!

 

*Leaves for the altar to sacrifice a GPU and some RAM*

[BingoFishy]

10 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

All praise the almighty tech Gods!

 

*Leaves for the altar to sacrifice a GPU and some RAM*

Wait what

I wanna be an almighty tech god.

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1 minute ago, BingoFishy said:

Wait what

I wanna be an almighty tech god.

You have to cut a Titan X in half with an angle grinder and run 8 refurbished SSDs in RAID 0

[BingoFishy]

44 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

You have to cut a Titan X in half with an angle grinder and run 8 refurbished SSDs in RAID 0

Does the Titan X have to be functional? How big do the SSDs need to be?

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1 minute ago, BingoFishy said:

Does the Titan X have to be functional? How big do the SSDs need to be?

it has to be functional before and after.

[BingoFishy]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

it has to be functional before and after.

That probably won't be too hard actually. All you need is solder and glue.

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Just now, BingoFishy said:

That probably won't be too hard actually. All you need is solder and glue.

nah just do what linus did.  I didn't say along which axis it must be bifurcated

[BingoFishy]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

nah just do what linus did.  I didn't say along which axis it must be bifurcated

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[cummerou1]

I work in the IT department at my school (2 teachers and 16 students, students handle the easy stuff), and we have actually made a sign and laminated it, it says "before asking us about any problems try restarting your machine" because that literally fixes 90% of the problems people have. 

[cummerou1]

On 11/5/2016 at 6:32 PM, positivePXL said:

Talking with a friend, he is buying a 4790k and a GTX 970 for his computer, this weekend.

PXL: Dude, just wait for the 1070, 

Friend: Nah man, I never noticed the difference between graphics cards anyways.

PXL: So you really want to play at Ultra on your 1080p display at 25fps instead of 120fps?

Friend: Wait, graphics cards effect fps. . .?

 

 

Im sorry but i need to leave this forum and go hang myself after seeing this, bye.

[Fetzie]

2 hours ago, cummerou1 said:

I work in the IT department at my school (2 teachers and 16 students, students handle the easy stuff), and we have actually made a sign and laminated it, it says "before asking us about any problems try restarting your machine" because that literally fixes 90% of the problems people have. 

"Hello, IT. Have you turned it off and on again?"

[BingoFishy]

Not really non-techie, just something I wanted to share. This feels like a somewhat appropriate thread. At our local mall, there are a couple booths where they will fix your phone's screen. A girl from my school went there to get her iPhone's cracked screen fixed, and they fixed it... sort of. Random taps would happen (so probably a cheap digitizer or something), and when I felt it, I could tell it wasn't glass. There are a couple of reasons why. 1) It was not as smooth as my phone or anyone else's phone. And 2) when you pressed lightly, weird colors/shapes would show up on the screen. I informed her of this (as did another kid who agreed with me) but she didn't believe me. Turns out, she asked her dad, and her dad said it was glass. Anyways, a few days later, she dropped her phone again. The screen died. Pretty much confirms my theory, I think. Unless there's something I'm missing.

[skullrebell]

I work in a call center and while trouble shooting someones cable, they told me, that their box and tv didn't need to be plugged in to work because it was wireless. And it took 30 mins to convince her that the wireless only pertained to the internet portion of it , it still needed the power cord

[Fgtfv567]

On 5/27/2016 at 5:43 AM, EthanCoow said:

The moment when you tell your mates you just bought an Asus Zenbook for $600 and then they say:

 

Friend: Why don't you buy a Macbook if you spent THAT MUCH on a laptop

Me: WUT!!!!

Friend: I mean Macbooks are great laptops.

Me: Okay. Why?

Friend: Because they are made by Apple.

Me: [Face-earthed so much that it almost caused an earthquake]

 

Okay. Mind you that this friend only idea about laptops is that if anyone spends more than $400 on a laptop, that is considered too much for a Windows laptop and that they should buy Macbooks instead.

 

Also, I do not personally hate Apple computers. They are great machines for video editing with Final Cut, and they are very well optimized for the lack of hardware performance.

Its just that Apple charges too much for the hardware itself, which makes them a very far reach for someone who needs work their heart out to buy anything for themselves.

OK first the cheapest MacBook is the 11-in Air. At 800 dollars. Second, if all you're going to do is web browse like most people, then the Zenbook is a wiser purchase, hell a Chromebook would be even better

8 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

All praise the almighty tech Gods!

 

*Leaves for the altar to sacrifice a GPU and some RAM*

A GT 710 and 2GB of DDR2 RAM isn't going to cut it I'm afraid.

On 5/27/2016 at 5:02 AM, DirtyDane said:

NO DONT YOU DARE ENCOURAGE THEM

Encouraging them would be the last thing I want to do.

2 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

Not really non-techie, just something I wanted to share. This feels like a somewhat appropriate thread. At our local mall, there are a couple booths where they will fix your phone's screen. A girl from my school went there to get her iPhone's cracked screen fixed, and they fixed it... sort of. Random taps would happen (so probably a cheap digitizer or something), and when I felt it, I could tell it wasn't glass. There are a couple of reasons why. 1) It was not as smooth as my phone or anyone else's phone. And 2) when you pressed lightly, weird colors/shapes would show up on the screen. I informed her of this (as did another kid who agreed with me) but she didn't believe me. Turns out, she asked her dad, and her dad said it was glass. Anyways, a few days later, she dropped her phone again. The screen died. Pretty much confirms my theory, I think. Unless there's something I'm missing.

Let me guess, no case, no screen protector?

[cummerou1]

7 hours ago, Fetzie said:

"Hello, IT. Have you turned it off and on again?"

I thought of using that too  Im also gonna make an uncle sam poster that says "i want YOU to restart your pc before asking for help".

[Astronautical]

16 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

Wait, WTF ... since when are you a mod?

 

Anyway congrats!

 

Back to topic;

Also he could be talking about 6th gen i3 vs 1st gen i7 ... if I remember correctly in benchmarks, the i3 6100 is as good or better than a i7 860?

 

 

i seriously doubt he even know the difference between them and he didn't specify why.I think he thought a processors performance was subjective. as if a flavour of ice cream

[matrix07012]

I hate that a lot of people call a game unoptimized just, because it can't run on their potato. I even saw people saying that GTA V has high requirements. It does not, it can run on a Q6600 and a 8800GT, it has great SLI/Crossfire scaling etc., what more do people want?

[BingoFishy]

9 hours ago, Fgtfv567 said:

Let me guess, no case, no screen protector?

Well, she had a screen protector... But it was a plastic one so it didn't do anything to protect her phone from the initial fall.

[BingoFishy]

1 hour ago, valdyrgramr said:

That Athlon 250 my dad bought came with bent pins and thermal paste on the bottom.  The seller didn't put the CPU in a clamshell with a foam pad, and when the CPU was put in it killed the video output on the mobo because the seller told them this, "Oh, silicon isn't conductive!  It's not my fault!  You can put thermal paste all over your motherboard and that will be just fine!"  Um, what?  Is this person slow?  Paypal got the money back.

If it was ceramic thermal paste it wouldn't be conductive (I think). Not sure if it would work as the paste would be all over the CPU socket, but iirc it wouldn't kill the motherboard outright.

[Godlygamer23]

19 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

Wait what

I wanna be an almighty tech god.

You must drill a hole through an 18 core Xeon CPU. 

[BingoFishy]

5 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

You must drill a hole through an 18 core Xeon CPU. 

But when I become a tech god, I get it back right?

[Godlygamer23]

1 minute ago, BingoFishy said:

But when I become a tech god, I get it back right?

When making a sacrifice, you should never believe you'll get it back. It's a sacrifice - if you know that you were going to get it back, it wouldn't be much of a sacrifice, would it?

[BingoFishy]

1 minute ago, valdyrgramr said:

Thermal paste will mess up a mobo, trust me.  Their CPU somehow managed to kill the socket and video on the mobo when the thing was put in.  I'm the one that did the paste spread on top, and I know I didn't do anything wrong.  I didn't even notice the paste on the bottom of the CPU until I pulled it out.  What's more weird is that the sockets are bread boards/plastic.  However, it somehow conducted on the bottom and somehow managed to mess up the socket and video.   So, I have to know what the hell their "technician" did to this thing.  But, motherboards don't like thermal paste.

Ceramic thermal paste is nonconductive. Silicon thermal paste is conductive. There's a difference.