Posted October 28, 2015 I've only ever seen two IDE cables , but damn they are big! You are to young. Most of the computers in my house have IDE cables. (I got 10 computer that were about 10 years all in old one day, it was great) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 You are to young. Most of the computers in my house have IDE cables. (I got 10 computer that were about 10 years all in old one day, it was great) Well, I'm glad I never had to live with such slow storage! I can barely tolerate the speed of a sata3 mechanical drive! Gigabyte X570 UD Ryzen 5 5600x 16GB 3200mhz ram Asus TUF Rx5700XT 600w PSU 256GB NVME boot drive 1tb sata ssd game drive 2tb mechanical storage drive Logitech G815 Tactile Logitech G502 AudioTechnica ATH-G1WL LG B9 OLED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 Well, I'm glad I never had to live with such slow storage! I can barely tolerate the speed of a sata3 mechanical drive! I hate my 5400RPM green. She is a bitch to do anything with. Opens "My Computer" waits 5 seconds for the HDD to power up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 I hate my 5400RPM green. She is a bitch to do anything with. Opens "My Computer" waits 5 seconds for the HDD to power up! Oh man, there's no way I'd be able to use my computer if it took that long Gigabyte X570 UD Ryzen 5 5600x 16GB 3200mhz ram Asus TUF Rx5700XT 600w PSU 256GB NVME boot drive 1tb sata ssd game drive 2tb mechanical storage drive Logitech G815 Tactile Logitech G502 AudioTechnica ATH-G1WL LG B9 OLED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 Well, I'm glad I never had to live with such slow storage! I can barely tolerate the speed of a sata3 mechanical drive!Keep in mind IDE was fast enough for its time. The very first sata connector was back then like m.2 is looked at now. Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger, forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. -Jim Hensen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 Keep in mind IDE was fast enough for its time. The very first sata connector was back then like m.2 is looked at now. Very true.. I guess that kind of speed would have been fine for the OS's that were out then. Gigabyte X570 UD Ryzen 5 5600x 16GB 3200mhz ram Asus TUF Rx5700XT 600w PSU 256GB NVME boot drive 1tb sata ssd game drive 2tb mechanical storage drive Logitech G815 Tactile Logitech G502 AudioTechnica ATH-G1WL LG B9 OLED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 Very true.. I guess that kind of speed would have been fine for the OS's that were out then.and all them 500meg games. Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger, forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. -Jim Hensen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 and all them 500meg games. I'm going to have to try and get my hands on an older system, so I can compare them Gigabyte X570 UD Ryzen 5 5600x 16GB 3200mhz ram Asus TUF Rx5700XT 600w PSU 256GB NVME boot drive 1tb sata ssd game drive 2tb mechanical storage drive Logitech G815 Tactile Logitech G502 AudioTechnica ATH-G1WL LG B9 OLED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 So earlier my BF @Jack.EXE was helping me with setting up the chat client he's writing. "you're worse than grandma.... " I think I super derped out perhaps. I remember asking how to get to C:\ Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger, forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. -Jim Hensen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 Don't start this again... She had no trouble with the hard drive, that was one of the few components she understood. The difficulty was in explaining what RAM does that storage doesn't. I usually explain it like this (you can include cache but that mostly confuses the shit out of people) Cache is whatever you have in your hand right now RAM is what's lying on your desk in fron of you and you can easily grab HDD space is the filing cabinet you have to get up and walk over to for And if you get an SSD you basically shove all your files in your desk drawers and don't have to get up and walk anymore. EDIT: I'm aware that this isn't super technically correct, but the people I explain this to don't usually care very much about that. Especially the cache part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 I usually explain it like this (you can include cache but that mostly confuses the shit out of people) Cache is whatever you have in your hand right now RAM is what's lying on your desk in fron of you and you can easily grab HDD space is the filing cabinet you have to get up and walk over to for And if you get an SSD you basically shove all your files in your desk drawers and don't have to get up and walk anymore. EDIT: I'm aware that this isn't super technically correct, but the people I explain this to don't usually care very much about that. Especially the cache part. close enough... Mutsuki: CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU: Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 Some of my friends got mad at me because I couldn't help them, want to know their problems? Files corruption, they said to me that I had to fix it. I was like... Where I hang out: The Garage - Car Enthusiast Club My cars: 2006 Mazda RX-8 (MT) | 2014 Mazda 6 (AT) | 2009 Honda Jazz (AT) PC Specs Indonesia CPU: i5-4690 | Motherboard: MSI B85-G43 | Memory: Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB | Power Supply: Corsair CX500 | Video Card: MSI GTX 970 Storage: Kingston V300 120GB & WD Blue 1TB | Network Card: ASUS PCE-AC56 | Peripherals: Microsoft Wired 600 & Logitech G29 + Shifter Australia CPU: Ryzen 3 2200G | Motherboard: MSI - B450 Tomahawk | Memory: Mushkin - 8GB (1 x 8GB) | Storage: Mushkin 250GB & Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB Video Card: GIGABYTE - RX 580 8GB | Case: Corsair - 100R ATX Mid Tower | Power Supply: Avolv 550W 80+ Gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 i miss IDE... the hearty thick cable, and big connector always felt like i was putting together some legos. My DVD drive is still IDE, connected through USB internally! If you need help with your forum account, please use the Forum Support form ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 i miss IDE... the hearty thick cable, and big connector always felt like i was putting together some legos. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) [spoiler=My PC] Spoiler CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K | COOLER: Corsair H105 | MOBO: ASUS Z170i Gaming Pro AC | RAM: Corsair LPX DDR4 16GB 2400MHz | GPU: EVGA GTX 980 Classified | CASE: BitFenix Prodigy | SSD: Samsung 950 Pro 512GB | PSU: XFX XTR 650W [spoiler= Le Other Stuff] Monitor: BenQ XL2411Z | Keyboard: Ozone Strike Pro | Mouse: A4 Tech X7 F4 | MousePad: Ozone Spoiler Spoiler PlayStation 2 | PSP 2000 | Game Boy Color | Nintendo DS Lite | Nintendo 3DS | Wii Spoiler Sony Xperia J (Why u so bad D:) | iPod 4th gen | iPhone 4 | Yarvik Xenta 13c (3muchchrome5her) Spoiler Spoiler Pentium B980 | 500GB WD Blue | Intel HD Graphixxx | 4Gegabeytes of REHAM Current OS: MSX 10.0 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)Ilikethelennyfaceyouknow( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Windows Password Reset Guide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 close enough... Yeah, gets the point accross. RAM is quicker to get stuff from, so you want lots of it Large desks are expensive tho, and you also only have so much stuff to put on it as well. Anyone who wants to be more precise usually is smart enough to just google it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 Yeah, gets the point accross. RAM is quicker to get stuff from, so you want lots of it Large desks are expensive tho, and you also only have so much stuff to put on it as well. Anyone who wants to be more precise usually is smart enough to just google it. I would describe it like this, no being afraid to relate it to your own mind rather than objects around you OK, so you know how when you are working on a specific task, such as writing an essay or solving an equation, everything about that task is front and foremost in your mind; it's "in your head"? And if you go do something else for a fee minutes, hours, or even days and come back, you don't really know where you left off and have to re-read/work through it to "catch up" to the state of mind you were in before you left before you can continue? Well, when it's in your head like that, that is what the computer needs RAM for; the more you have, the more programs and things it can have going on at once ant keep track of it all quickly and actively. If you run out of RAM, it is like walking away and it has to do this "loading" again every time you switch to a new thing, and just like you, that is much slower, thus why it is important to have enough RAM for what you are doing. Your memories are like files stored on the Hard drive, or other storage device. You could also think of these like physical files on your desk or in a cabinet. Files stored in a cabinet are very much like files on a hard drive, and the cache of the hard drive is like your desk. You keep often or recently used files there for a short time before putting them away or after pulling them out for a bit faster access, but unless you read them, it's not like having it in your head, or in RAM. An SSD is like a hard drive in the same way it stores files, but it is many many times faster because instead of using a head and platters like an old record player, it uses non-moving electronic parts. Solve your own audio issues | First Steps with RPi 3 | Humidity & Condensation | Sleep & Hibernation | Overclocking RAM | Making Backups | Displays | 4K / 8K / 16K / etc. | Do I need 80+ Platinum? If you can read this you're using the wrong theme. You can change it at the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 So I was asked if I could help a fellow engineering student download the Revit on his computer. Now for those unfamiliar, Revit is an architectural CAD program made by Autodesk, and it's a pretty intensive program. As such I recommend AT LEAST a fairly recent dual core CPU and 6GB of RAM. I ask to look at his laptop and he shows me this dinky little Acer netbook running an Atom processor and 1GB RAM. The worst part was not that he thought he could run a heavy CAD program on a netbook though. The worst thing was that he had 2 antivirus programs running at once: McAfee and Norton, which were together eating up 60% of his CPU at the desktop. I've built 3 PC's, but none for myself... In fact, I'm using an iMac that my dad bought for me as my desktop. Awkward... Please don't say "SSD drive." By doing so, you are literally saying "Solid State Drive Drive" and causing my brain cells to commit suicide. The same applies to HDD (Hard Disk Drive) and PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2015 So I was asked if I could help a fellow engineering student download the Revit on his computer. Now for those unfamiliar, Revit is an architectural CAD program made by Autodesk, and it's a pretty intensive program. As such I recommend AT LEAST a fairly recent dual core CPU and 6GB of RAM. I ask to look at his laptop and he shows me this dinky little Acer netbook running an Atom processor and 1GB RAM. The worst part was not that he thought he could run a heavy CAD program on a netbook though. The worst thing was that he had 2 antivirus programs running at once: McAfee and Norton, which were together eating up 60% of his CPU at the desktop. As someone in engineering as well, I can attest to the existence of these kind of people, baffling though it may be. I think the first year programming course tends to weed them out though because now that I think of it, most I've interacted with recently are at least competent to a facepalm-avoiding level Solve your own audio issues | First Steps with RPi 3 | Humidity & Condensation | Sleep & Hibernation | Overclocking RAM | Making Backups | Displays | 4K / 8K / 16K / etc. | Do I need 80+ Platinum? If you can read this you're using the wrong theme. You can change it at the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 29, 2015 As someone in engineering as well, I can attest to the existence of these kind of people, baffling though it may be. I think the first year programming course tends to weed them out though because now that I think of it, most I've interacted with recently are at least competent to a facepalm-avoiding level Yeah, I can feel you a little bit. I'm the more hardware-knowledgeable one of my friends, so sometime they don't get all the hardware things. Pentium G3258, R9 280X, Corsair CS600M, Gigabyte GA-H81M-H, 2 Random monitors, a no-name keyboard, a cheap $15 Logitech mouse. LG G3 Vigor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 29, 2015 Dec. 2014: Cousin: Hey I got a new PC Me: Specs pls. How much did you pay for it? C: 500€! IT'S A BEAST! i7 860 gtx 660 8gb of ram I go over there, and see a very old ThermalTake Soprano DX case with a PSU I still didn't figure out what make and what name all running at 70c idle. Everytime I speak about my pc being more powerful (specs in sig) he says "They're on the same level, you don't need to brag"... He says that not only 'cause he's not tech savy (he thinks he is) but also because he plays at 720p while I play at 1080p and framerates are similar then. When I told him about it he said: "it's only the monitor... it doesn't change performance. Beside, this is the max the monitor can go". Help me please. HELP! I AM IN THE CLASS AS HE IS. WE CHOSE AN IT HIGH SCHOOL (Don't know the exact translation). Spoiler || Asrock Z68 Extreme 3 Gen 3 || i5 3570 @3.5GHz || Zalman CNPS10X Optima || 8GB RAM HyperX Fury Blue @ 1600MHz || Thermaltake Berlin 630W || Zalman Z11 || Gainward Phantom GTX 970 || 120GB Kingston V300 (Gift) + 1TB WD Green Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Tablet: iPad Mini 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 30, 2015 So my dad's a pretty techy person, can build pcs and all (He actually hasn't built one since like '08), but for some reason, he could not find the windows key on my keyboard. I understand that microsoft changed the windows logo with windows 8, but it's still in the same spot and is the only key that look s like a window! This is a signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Posted October 31, 2015 snip Where I hang out: The Garage - Car Enthusiast Club My cars: 2006 Mazda RX-8 (MT) | 2014 Mazda 6 (AT) | 2009 Honda Jazz (AT) PC Specs Indonesia CPU: i5-4690 | Motherboard: MSI B85-G43 | Memory: Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB | Power Supply: Corsair CX500 | Video Card: MSI GTX 970 Storage: Kingston V300 120GB & WD Blue 1TB | Network Card: ASUS PCE-AC56 | Peripherals: Microsoft Wired 600 & Logitech G29 + Shifter Australia CPU: Ryzen 3 2200G | Motherboard: MSI - B450 Tomahawk | Memory: Mushkin - 8GB (1 x 8GB) | Storage: Mushkin 250GB & Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB Video Card: GIGABYTE - RX 580 8GB | Case: Corsair - 100R ATX Mid Tower | Power Supply: Avolv 550W 80+ Gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 31, 2015 sorry if repost: I saw something just like this but with ASUS Solve your own audio issues | First Steps with RPi 3 | Humidity & Condensation | Sleep & Hibernation | Overclocking RAM | Making Backups | Displays | 4K / 8K / 16K / etc. | Do I need 80+ Platinum? If you can read this you're using the wrong theme. You can change it at the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 31, 2015 Worked it a IT Repair and Consult shop My Favorite experience are Got a call from Client "I turned my modem off and now my internet doesn't work" Me "Why did you turn your modem off" Client "I was told too" went to a gun shop to look at a (old as) security PC (it wouldnt turn on after a power outage) I walk into the office and we was flicking the PSU switch at the back instead of the BIG power button on the front CPU : i7 5820k l MB : ASRock Fatal1ty X99M KILLER/3.1 l RAM : 64GB l GPUs : GTX 970 l Case : Corsair 350D l SSD 2x250gb HDD 2x3tb Raid0 l CS750M PSU CPU : i7 920 l MB : Gigabyte GA-Ex58-UD5 l RAM : 24 GB l Case : CoolerMaster Silencio l 3x3TB Raid 5 l Corsair VS650 | ESXI 5.5 Asus G551VW | i7 6700HQ | 32 GB | GTX 960M | 500 GB Samsung mSata | 1TB WD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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