What do you wish you knew before delving into the PC world, that may have even made you feel stupid for not knowing?

[Vacras]

1 hour ago, Napascj said:

Don’t follow the advice that certain hardware will perform at a consistent level across all games. A common phrase I always read online “A GTX 1070 and above is overkill for 1080p” “Waste of money”

 

Wrong. Not all categories of games are equal. I use a lot of flight simulators at 1080p ultra settings and, albeit with the expensive high quality aircraft, don’t pull in 60fps with my overclocked 1070 Ti. So basically, don’t listen to people who presume one GPU meets the needs for all games. 

I don’t get the „GPU XYZ is overkill for 1080p” at all. 

Games will move on and improve graphics constantly. It may be “too much now”, but what about two years in the future?

Just a stupid argument imo.

 

Also I used to think that frequency of a cpu is the determining factor for performance. 

So I thought that a single core with 2 GHz was better than a dual core with 1.8Ghz for example.

Thinking about it I don’t even think i knew about multiple cores on one cpu.

[Nosfy]

19 hours ago, ChetwoodJ96 said:

I wanna get a bunch of stupid RGB fans for my Be Quiet! Pure Base 600 but I'm worried that it'll get loud

I have all my fans slots full but have the two exhaust ones at the top running low so they cant be heard. That why still looks cool but no extra noise. 

[JuztBe]

20 hours ago, NinJake said:

Don't flick the switch on PSU's to 230v if you're in the US.

Opposite is true. Don't switch PSU to 110V if you're in EU.

 

[partymarty]

Don't buy a fancy PC case with a window without matching the colours. 

 

My first build was a  ASUS M5A97 EVO R2.0 with Kingston HyperX Savage DDR3...

So when I looked through my window I saw a light blue motherboard with vibrant red RAM.

 

It looked aweful -.-'

 

 

[SidharthAGupta]

one thing i wish i had known;

i always thought that cpu-gpu bottleneck ratio was linear meaning that for every double gpu performance u needed a cpu of also double its original performance.Then when the ps4 pro came out i saw that it was using basically the same cpu(15 percent faster) as the ps4 but it had 4 times the gpu processing power of the ps4 gpu,then i really felt that i had known it before....

 

On 2/23/2018 at 4:23 AM, Napascj said:

Don’t follow the advice that certain hardware will perform at a consistent level across all games. A common phrase I always read online “A GTX 1070 and above is overkill for 1080p” “Waste of money”

 

Wrong. Not all categories of games are equal. I use a lot of flight simulators at 1080p ultra settings and, albeit with the expensive high quality aircraft, don’t pull in 60fps with my overclocked 1070 Ti. So basically, don’t listen to people who presume one GPU meets the needs for all games. 

U might have enabled supersampling and  set all those taxing visual effect to the max..maybe that is why you are not getting a good fps.. the gtx 1070ti is a really powerfull card.It provides 8-9 teraflops of processing power and is equivalent to a gtx1080...so in a technical perspective the 1070ti is an overkill

[whoisit1118]

Getting good case fans drops the temps of components by 5+ degrees

[mremannn]

not knowing about thermal paste

 

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

On 22/02/2018 at 3:45 PM, NinJake said:

Don't flick the switch on PSU's to 230v if you're in the US.

Thiiiiissss, I found this out when I was repairing a PC in work. *flick* *pop* Fuck...

[Napascj]

3 hours ago, SidharthAGupta said:

U might have enabled supersampling and  set all those taxing visual effect to the max..maybe that is why you are not getting a good fps.. the gtx 1070ti is a really powerfull card.It provides 8-9 teraflops of processing power and is equivalent to a gtx1080...so in a technical perspective the 1070ti is an overkill

No supersampling, but yeah most of the graphics are set high because it’s unrealistic without doing so. The GTX 1070 Ti is a very powerful card but flight simulators such as XP11 are very demanding since they can be used to train real world pilots, they are ultra realistic. I can get 100fps in a small Cessna in the countryside, but an Airbus at Heathrow and you’re looking at 30fps with 7.7GB of VRAM being used. It’s just how powerful these applications are, even at 1080p. 

[JoeCoke]

Thinking my 3.2ghz Pentium 4 was SOOOOO much better than my 1.8ghz Athlon 64....

[ChetwoodJ96]

9 hours ago, Vacras said:

I don’t get the „GPU XYZ is overkill for 1080p” at all. 

Games will move on and improve graphics constantly. It may be “too much now”, but what about two years in the future?

Just a stupid argument imo.

And THIS is why I got a 1080ti.

[This kid builds pc]

On 2/22/2018 at 4:48 PM, RotoCoreOne said:

My joy for gaming petered out around the time that I bought the 1080 ti. What do I do with it now minus mining lol

You could give it to a boy like me from the goodness of you heart

 

On 2/23/2018 at 6:24 AM, partymarty said:

Don't buy a fancy PC case with a window without matching the colours. 

 

My first build was a  ASUS M5A97 EVO R2.0 with Kingston HyperX Savage DDR3...

So when I looked through my window I saw a light blue motherboard with vibrant red RAM.

 

It looked aweful -.-'

Now that's just shallowness lol

[Guest]

...kept buying Dell Inspiron XYZ over, and over again... and tacking in extended warranties on each rig.

[omgmike]

screwing drives and cable management are for rubes. (Except floppy drives, which were important to screw in because of the mechanical eject.)

 

I used to screw everything down, cable tie, etc.  Now I don't even bother reattaching the side of the case, let alone mount drives. everything is just dangling. And it's fine. Everything is fine. Drive swaps are fast.

 

 

[Murasaki]

Knowing what native resolution is. 1280x1024 resolution on a 1680x1050 monitor for 2 years

[RyanEsau]

On 2/22/2018 at 12:12 PM, This kid builds pc said:

Why would you just "yank" on a wire that you don't know what it does? Also, you did all that research and didn't figure out the switch thing on PSUs?

Because I thought it was a fan splitter connector or whatever, looked similar on the opposing end so I pulled it out on the front end before I realized my fault.

 

And yes... I never really saw (video builds for example) anyone mention the switch/show it before I did my build. Just would skip to powered on system, no switch flipping. Forgetting about the power switch is a common thing though, I thought, so... not just me either.

[mr moose]

That there is no such thing as the company that invented...