PC confessions

[Archer20]

30 minutes ago, Mitko_DSV said:

I have almost the exact same kayboard. The only difference I can see is that mine has a big enter button. Mine also works, no problems, but I don't use it at the moment, but might start using it again.

Wait, this keyboard is expensive? Didn't know that, but either way I'm not selling mine.

Frame it to honor it as the 17 year old warrior that deserves to be enshrined.

[Marbo]

Please forgive me for I have sinned, it has been 3 days since my last confession. 

 

I just bought an Intel atom notebook out of pure curiosity. Hadn't got a clue what I was going to do with it when I made the purchase. 

 

Can I book a regular slot in the confessional? 

[mcbaes72]

On 2/14/2020 at 7:29 AM, Tomthehitman said:

I spend more time tinkering with the damn thing that I do using it for what it was intended for (gaming)

 

I never needed to update my hardware but just did to be able to build a new pc......

Yeah, this describes me exactly! At least I know I'm not alone. 

[Archer20]

Forgive me, I have a 120 dollar Blu-Ray burner that is still sitting on my shelf from 8 months ago that I have not installed.

[FakeCIA]

17 hours ago, Ukyo82 said:

Happen to be really durable just still keep going even buttons are not loose in this thing , don't no exact weight of it but is pretty heavy, probably double weight of today's

 

I will replace it probably in some time but I want gaming keyboard with all those flashy features - non ghosting buttons, mechanical and RGB but not change it for some regular for sure

Seeing this picture made me throw up in my mouth a little, that, or it was the gas station sushi.

[Radium_Angel]

I think overclocking in this day and age, and RGB are stupid.

not sorry either.

[Zando_]

4 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

I think overclocking... stupid.

[HumdrumPenguin]

I have a top of the line computer and a very solid sound system on it, but I spend more time reading books than anything else.

Edited February 18, 2020 by HumdrumPenguin

[Bitter]

4 hours ago, Marbo said:

Please forgive me for I have sinned, it has been 3 days since my last confession. 

 

I just bought an Intel atom notebook out of pure curiosity. Hadn't got a clue what I was going to do with it when I made the purchase. 

 

Can I book a regular slot in the confessional? 

I've got a pair of them. one has a 1.6Ghz dual core and the other one a single core. They were a bundle deal, 2 for $45 shipped. Tossed a spare cheap SSD in the good one, maxed the ram at 2GB (or was it 4?) and keep it as a spare in case I need something disposable to travel with that's small. If that gets stolen or confiscated somewhere I just really don't care.

[mcbaes72]

21 hours ago, Ravendarat said:

Wanna hear a horrible cycle, here we go.

-I wanted to get back into PC gaming after taking break for like 8 years

-I bought a r5 Alienware Laptop October of 2018.

-Bought an APU because I had credits I needed to use and figured I might use it sometime.

-Impulse bought a 2080ti in December of that year because I was in my local computer store when they were unpacking a new shipment.

-Bought a new power supply for the apu because the included one wasnt rated for enough wattage for the 2080ti.

-Didnt do my research and realized I couldnt use my APU without an external monitor.

-Sold my laptop in January because I decided to build a tower

-Bought a Define R6 case, 2700x, Gigabyte x470 gaming WIFI, 16 gb ram, Acer Predator x35 monitor and corsair h150i cooler.

-Starting in April I decided I wanted to do open loop and bought a thermaltake P5 case, started ordering a ton of water cooling parts and started planning for Ryzen 3.

-Sold the Acer monitor because I was getting motion sick and thought it was due to size, bought a pair of 24 inch monitors.

-Realized motion sickness was due to curved screen, not big screen

-Sold 24 inch monitors and bought 34 inch ultrawide flat panel samsung.

-Ryzen 3 launches, couldnt find a 3900 at launch obviously so I got a 3600 because I had already sold the 2700x and wanted something to get by.

-Also bought a x570 Meg Ace because I sold the gaming 7 board and im not smart with component selection lol.

-Bought a 4x8 corsair RGB kit because I wanted all 4 slots populated knowing full well this was stupid

-Still running the 3600 because of the announced next ryzen launch hopefully this summer.

-Also I should add that I had a logitec 910 keyboard and 502 mouse, sold those and bought corsair k95 and VOID mouse because Im a corsair whore, no other reason really. 

 

And why was this all clearly a big waste and stupid use of money. Because I spend maybe 2-3 hours a week playing games and otherwise I web surf and watch friggin youtube videos. Worst part is I definitely will do this again and again.

Wow, that's a long list! But I hear you and can relate. 

 

I went several years straight upgrading CPU from 3770K to 4790K to 6700K just because. Finally showed some restraint for few years until I bought 3950X. GPUs like GTX 770s in SLi, then 980s in SLi, then "calmed down" and only bought one 1080 Ti for Gaming Rig/Work PC and one 1080 for HTPC.  No 2000-series, but can see myself upgrading 1080 Ti to a 3000-series just to have a new GPU to go along with the new CPU and O11 Dynamic case. 

[mao91]

On 2/15/2020 at 10:57 AM, Marbo said:

I use CCleaner because I'm far too lazy to do things the correct way.  

Wait, there’s a correct way? 

[mao91]

4 hours ago, Marbo said:

Please forgive me for I have sinned, it has been 3 days since my last confession. 

 

I just bought an Intel atom notebook out of pure curiosity. Hadn't got a clue what I was going to do with it when I made the purchase. 

 

Can I book a regular slot in the confessional? 

$100 an hour.

[davidthemurrican]

i take apart any thing i can just for the fun of it i took apart two bad power supplies just for the fans and i have about a hundred random screws from when i took apart my alien ware area 51 7400 r4 "to improve thermals" when i just did it because im bored

and most of the time i dont put it back together 

[greenmax]

57 minutes ago, davidthemurrican said:

when i just did it because im bored

That is addorable, atleast you are doing something productive as apposed to "gaming"

[Anomnomnomaly]

6 hours ago, davidthemurrican said:

i take apart any thing i can just for the fun of it i took apart two bad power supplies just for the fans and i have about a hundred random screws from when i took apart my alien ware area 51 7400 r4 "to improve thermals" when i just did it because im bored

and most of the time i dont put it back together 

I've been doing this since I was a little kid and pulled apart my scalextrix cars to see how they worked... At some point I probably pulled apart most of my toys when they broke to try and fix them... and often succeeded unless it was broken beyond repair.

 

To this day in my early 40's... I still pull crap apart... I've got 2 old tablets that were broken due to a faulty charging cable awaiting dismantling and then destruction... because they're old and have personal data on and can't be wiped due to said faults from faulty charger.

 

I modified those scalextrix cars to add lights... before they were even a thing... made them a little slower due to current and no LED's back then... But it was fun and my first messy experience with soldering.

 

I had to create and manually wire up a special sized plug for the rear of the satnav dvd drive on my car to allow for a reversing camera to be installed.... bloody thing works too. 

[Gegger]

i punch computers too much

 

'percussive maintenance' eh?

[Bitter]

6 hours ago, Gegger said:

i punch computers too much

 

'percussive maintenance' eh?

I once screamed at a CRT monitor so loudly it made the image wobbly.

[Marbo]

16 hours ago, B.Toast said:

Wait, there’s a correct way? 

Apparently you should do it through Windows. 

 

And you can just leave your registry alone unless it's causing problems. But I can't cope knowing that there could be unused entries. 

[Marbo]

16 hours ago, Bitter said:

I've got a pair of them. one has a 1.6Ghz dual core and the other one a single core. They were a bundle deal, 2 for $45 shipped. Tossed a spare cheap SSD in the good one, maxed the ram at 2GB (or was it 4?) and keep it as a spare in case I need something disposable to travel with that's small. If that gets stolen or confiscated somewhere I just really don't care.

Sounds about right on the price then. I paid £15 Inc shipping. 1.6ghz single core. 

 

Like you I have a spare ssd, and I'll see if I can pick up some very cheap extra ram (if not I'll download some) 

 

Going to see if I can run some old 80s arcade games on it. 

[Letgomyleghoe]

On 2/15/2020 at 5:28 AM, Bombastinator said:

I also find lighting at all let alone rgb to be an active detriment.  There is some argument for a lighted keyboard, and possibly a mouse for playing in the dark, but not an RGB one.  I find RGB actively annoying and don’t like it.

Sometimes I’ll set a slow rainfall pattern, but it’s usually when I’m just tryna chill out in my room, and I have my lights set to purple. Kinda sets a mood. Otherwise, I’ll just have accent lights on so I can see my hardware through the smoked panel.

[Letgomyleghoe]

21 hours ago, Marbo said:

Please forgive me for I have sinned, it has been 3 days since my last confession. 

 

I just bought an Intel atom notebook out of pure curiosity. Hadn't got a clue what I was going to do with it when I made the purchase. 

 

Can I book a regular slot in the confessional? 

Our registers at my work run on Intel atoms, slowest mf things in the universe.

[Marbo]

48 minutes ago, scuff gang said:

Our registers at my work run on Intel atoms, slowest mf things in the universe.

If I can get it to run galaxian and stuff like that I'll be happy. Going for a sub £30 arcade cab. 

 

Going to be tough though. £15 for the notebook and around £12 for buttons and joystick leaves me with £3 to build the cabinet. 

[Reytime]

My monitor has a dead pixel and I refuse to put up with Asus RMA.. So I just deal with it.

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, Reytime said:

My monitor has a dead pixel and I refuse to put up with Asus RMA.. So I just deal with it.

Win for asus.

[FakeCIA]

My RGB addiction is so bad. I put it in my Dell, I already have it on my ROG, and my Surface has a luminescent paint job. My monitor has strip lights on the back and the mouse lights up too. I've considered getting therapy or starting a support group. I need to get help before the anti-RGB police come knocking.