[Redux] Experiences with "techies"

[patriotbarrow]

Mentlegen, please remain on topic.

[NeatSquidYT]

People that think that faster ram is better for gaming just because it's faster. '2400Mhz ddr3 must perform a lot better than 1600Mhz ddr3 because it's clocked 50% faster!' Just no...

In some cases it outperforms it quite a bit

E.g. Pre rendering or rendering

[NeatSquidYT]

Mentlegen, please remain on topic.

u wot m9

[Daegun]

In some cases it outperforms it quite a bit

E.g. Pre rendering or rendering

That's why I said for gaming

In gaming there's a 2% framerate difference going from ddr2 800 to ddr3 2133. So the difference from ddr3 1600 to ddr3 2400 is margin of error stuff.

[Gofspar]

I remember this kid from my school who lived in the ghetto and claimed his iMac could play GTA5 when I asked him about the specs he was like "Im not sure its my dads". And this was before GTA 5 was even released on ANY platform.

 

[Mojo-Jojo]

One of my friends is pretty tech-aware. And then he was bragging he "wrote software"

When I asked him in what language he programmed it, he replied with "English"

[NeatSquidYT]

That's why I said for gaming

In gaming there's a 2% framerate difference going from ddr2 800 to ddr3 2133. So the difference from ddr3 1600 to ddr3 2400 is margin of error stuff.

I didn't see the "for gaming", sorry

[Jack.EXE]

a kid in my class insisted that a razer laptop was the fastest because it had an intel proc and 8 gigs of ram...

 

And here I am drooling over the lenovo Z60... (those benches...)

[christianled59]

One my friends is about to build a PC and he asked me for help on his cpu. I told him to get an i5 4690k and he said he'd rather get an i7. There's nothing I could do to convince him it was better to get an i5. Even though it's a gaming build and he wouldn't be using mulitithreading. He doesn't even know what type of i7 he's getting. Just "i7".

[MLG Doge]

My friend bought a "Ultimate Gaming Laptop" Hue Hue from John Lewis for £400 with an A10-5750m (not a big deal) and then spent £170 on a Logitech G27 Set to play 

Trucking sim on Low, With a steering wheel, Gear Stick, Pedals.

 

he also couldnt get it to work on his Win 8.1

 

Then he wanted to try Ubuntu but as he set primary boot option from the Pen drive, he couldn't understand why it installed and formatted his data.

 

Then (ik this is long-er) he tried to persuade me to not use linux in my upcoming PC build because "It's full of xXxHaxxersxXx"

[mindmatter]

This one is about my gf...who happens to be a computer science graduate. Her knowledge about computers is awfully low to the point I question how she even go to computer since. Has no idea what RAM is...calls the computer as a whole the "CPU" and not case etc. Doesn't know to run an antivirus or malwarescan. I mean....she then claims to think she is a great programmer. Smh

[halfbreed]

Why does my Mac hard drive keep failing?

Becuase you don't have a scratch disk for your rendering....

Come on, you're a video editor....