Experiences with non-techies

[WkdPaul]

1 hour ago, Hyper_X said:

This is the stupidest post I have ever seen here. What I see is a 16 yo bitch can't accept other opinions so just bitching around.

*snip*

Sadly enough, that's 90% of the population right there. I always thought that one main thing school should teach is some sort of "objective reasoning" or "rational thinking". That's WAY more important to realize what's logical/true in your life than any "ethics" or music classes ... not saying music or ethics should be completely removed, but seeing how people are in general, some sort of class to help with reasoning would help the whole fucking human race!

[NumLock21]

 

[BingoFishy]

20 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

 

Considering the fact that it's 16:9, I'd say the screen's going to look very squished.

 

Yay rectangular (as in not square) pixels

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, BingoFishy said:

Considering the fact that it's 16:9, I'd say the screen's going to look very squished.

 

Yay rectangular (as in not square) pixels

They can just keep the body of the laptop and change their screens to this, minus the stand.

[BingoFishy]

32 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

They can just keep the body of the laptop and change their screens to this, minus the stand.

But that's 9:16!

 

/s

[WkdPaul]

46 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

Considering the fact that it's 16:9, I'd say the screen's going to look very squished.

 

Yay rectangular (as in not square) pixels

check the resolution again ... carefully!

 

it's actually 16:90 ratio!

 

[NumLock21]

27 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

But that's 9:16!

 

/s

It's still 16 by something

 

[BingoFishy]

41 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

check the resolution again ... carefully!

 

it's actually 16:90 ratio!

 

Are you saying the picture is fake? gasp

[NumLock21]

4 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

Are you saying the picture is fake? gasp

The pic is real.

[GirlFromYonder]

2 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

 

a U processor on a gaming laptop *facepalm*

lol 10800

[themctipers]

2 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

The pic is real.

1 hour ago, DeezNoNos said:

a U processor on a gaming laptop *facepalm*

lol 10800

 

 

U for ultra-shit

[Lilithty]

The "VR" section of newegg is starting to become the new alienware. its really bad +600 / +700 on build price of almost any computer. 

 

Story about annoying friends that won't listen to the "PC person" after they ask for help resonate deeply with me. I've been in that situation many times. It's the worst. 

[Principis]

3 hours ago, Lilithty said:

The "VR" section of newegg is starting to become the new alienware. its really bad +600 / +700 on build price of almost any computer. 

 

Story about annoying friends that won't listen to the "PC person" after they ask for help resonate deeply with me. I've been in that situation many times. It's the worst. 

A rx480 costs €300 that's half of the budget and you have nothing.

So it's reasonable

[GirlFromYonder]

On 24/08/2016 at 6:13 AM, DocSwag said:

My first took around 3 hours for the building part (note that I spent around 45 minutes on trying to figure out my 212 evo ), but in total it probably took 7-8 because I spent around 5 hours trying to figure out why Windows couldn't install (it turned out to be because I had legacy enabled but I needed to put it on uefi only).

for me it still takes 4-5 hours. this is my 4th or 5th build of the same computer

[Lilithty]

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9 hours ago, Lilithty said:

The "VR" section of newegg is starting to become the new alienware. its really bad +600 / +700 on build price of almost any computer. 

 

Story about annoying friends that won't listen to the "PC person" after they ask for help resonate deeply with me. I've been in that situation many times. It's the worst. 

A rx480 costs €300 that's half of the budget and you have nothing.

So it's reasonable

I  mean that there are computers going for 1800 or so that only cost 1100-1200 to build.... Insane premiums 

[GirlFromYonder]

LIKE WHAT THE HELL

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Sapphire-11242-12-20G-Radeon-R9-380-Nitro-2048MB-GDDR5-Grapchics-Card-NEW-/272229812289?hash=item3f62294841:g:s48AAOSwYmZXJkKo

 

[NunoLava1998]

30 minutes ago, DeezNoNos said:

LIKE WHAT THE HELL

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Sapphire-11242-12-20G-Radeon-R9-380-Nitro-2048MB-GDDR5-Grapchics-Card-NEW-/272229812289?hash=item3f62294841:g:s48AAOSwYmZXJkKo

 

I made a PC in PCPartpicker for 330$ with a card equivalent to the R9 380X (it was 20$ cheaper), yet this R9 380 is 170$ more.

LOVELY

[NunoLava1998]

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Apple-iMac-27-A1312-graphic-card-VGA-video-card-Radeon-HD6970-HD6970M-2GB-AMD

 

what about selling something worse than a 750 Ti used for 400$... yeah okay.

 

 

EBAY PLS

[WkdPaul]

6 hours ago, NunoLava1998 said:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Apple-iMac-27-A1312-graphic-card-VGA-video-card-Radeon-HD6970-HD6970M-2GB-AMD

 

what about selling something worse than a 750 Ti used for 400$... yeah okay.

 

 

EBAY PLS

That's a Mac graphics card, somehow old mac part are expensive, luckily for me (sold some part of an old Powermac G4 and made more money then if I sold it assembled! )

 

Edited August 29, 2016 by wkdpaul
can't seem to be able to write ...

[WkdPaul]

Last week I got my hands on an old Athlon 3400+, booted lunbuntu 14.04 and all was fine.

 

Got home, installed a HDD and a GPU, added some RAM and applied new thermal paste. Then all went to hell ... In Windows, it was lagging so much it was unusable, but going back to lubuntu I would get stutters that I didn't get before. Tried Chromium, it would boot the live version perfectly fine but wouldn't boot after it was installed on the HDD.

 

It's only after a whole day of trying different OS that I thought it might be one of the components that I added that was the problem, I swear, it took me a whole day to figure that out!

 

I now have a slow 3400+ with 2.5GB of DDR working in Windows 10 Home 32bits ... and a GPU with a label that says "dead"

 

 

TLDR; installed a dead GPU in an old PC and it took me a whole to figure out the dead GPU was the reason for all the instability.

[SLAYR]

8 hours ago, NunoLava1998 said:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Apple-iMac-27-A1312-graphic-card-VGA-video-card-Radeon-HD6970-HD6970M-2GB-AMD

 

what about selling something worse than a 750 Ti used for 400$... yeah okay.

 

 

EBAY PLS

With Mac parts they can only accept certain gpus so specific gpus are much more valuable then others for this reason. 

 

Plus that is a mobile card, mobile cards are almost always going to cost more then the desktop counterparts because there are less made, and are custom. Mxm 980s go for $900USD.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00X4F24ZC/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472487407&sr=8-1&pi=SX200_QL40&keywords=mxm+980&dpPl=1&dpID=51NT5s8Ww-L&ref=plSrch

[BingoFishy]

So my french teacher was talking about how her speaker was too quiet and she'd bought more speakers but they all ended up being too quiet. I raised my hand and suggested she buy an amp.

[JMSOG]

So, a few years ago, when I was younger and significantly less experienced with tech, I cleaned up my stepmother's computer since my stepbrother is absolutely miserable at not clicking on obvious virus links. Now, somehow during the cleanup, I messed up (though I don't know how), and Internet Explorer stopped working permanently.

 

Admittedly, that is some next-level stupid on my part, and pretty undefendable. If I knew more at the time, I would have likely been able to fix it, or have it never happen in the first place.

 

But here's the thing: My stepbrother doesn't use IE. He uses Chrome, which was installed and still worked fine.

 

But see, my stepmother uses IE. And refuses to use anything else. So a few months later, she bought a new computer so that she could use internet explorer.

[BingoFishy]

49 minutes ago, JMSOG said:

So, a few years ago, when I was younger and significantly less experienced with tech, I cleaned up my stepmother's computer since my stepbrother is absolutely miserable at not clicking on obvious virus links. Now, somehow during the cleanup, I messed up (though I don't know how), and Internet Explorer stopped working permanently.

 

Admittedly, that is some next-level stupid on my part, and pretty undefendable. If I knew more at the time, I would have likely been able to fix it, or have it never happen in the first place.

 

But here's the thing: My stepbrother doesn't use IE. He uses Chrome, which was installed and still worked fine.

 

But see, my stepmother uses IE. And refuses to use anything else. So a few months later, she bought a new computer so that she could use internet explorer.

why

[ATouchOfKiwi]

49 minutes ago, JMSOG said:

But see, my stepmother uses IE. And refuses to use anything else. So a few months later, she bought a new computer so that she could use internet explorer.

I have a headache now from hitting my head on a table.