Experiences with non-techies

[Clanscorpia]

3 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

had to convince some guy on here that his HD 530 graphics werent going to run games maxed out and be nice when streaming... he though just an I7 would be a good way to spend his cash *facepalm*

rip 

[kaiju_wars]

I swear I've heard every way to call WLAN other than properly calling it WLAN.

[BingoFishy]

5 minutes ago, kaiju_wars said:

I swear I've heard every way to call WLAN other than properly calling it WLAN.

I say it in my head Wuh-lan, and double-yew-lan out loud... am I doing it wrong?

 

Seriously I have no idea how to say it.

 

 

[kaiju_wars]

4 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

I say it in my head Wuh-lan, and double-yew-lan out loud... am I doing it wrong?

 

Seriously I have no idea how to say it.

 

 

W-LAN or W-L-A-N.

 

I've heard Wylan, Waylan, Wyyyyyyyylan, wlawn

And more.  

[themctipers]

8 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

I say it in my head Wuh-lan, and double-yew-lan out loud... am I doing it wrong?

 

Seriously I have no idea how to say it.

 

 

how i say it is W-LAN

 

[Space Reptile]

3 hours ago, RahulR said:

I just overheard someone at school say that C++ is the lowest level of code  

my god ,

 

• my EDV teach claims that a single core is better than a dual core because the single core is faster (3ghz vs 2.6) 
• he says that AMD never invented a thing and always just copied intel
  • (yea even the instruction sets and cpus* wich are under Licence , and AMD x64 was non of amds work , it was ibm he says) 
• Pentium 4 was always better and much faster than Athlon , it was too futuristic for XP ( yea he did not want to believe me that the architecture was a trainwreck)
• he does not believe in dedicated graphics or rather "would never spend 100 or more bucks on a graphics card"
• he has a 6700k in his pc wich he does not overclock , "the motherboard oc´d it automatically to 4.2 , i dont even want an overclock) 
• he uses the intel HD 510 that cpu has (granted not terrible , but still , 400$ cpu and no gpu :T) 

*8088 and so on 

and hes the one who teaches 

 

[themctipers]

32 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

my god ,

 

• my EDV teach claims that a single core is better than a dual core because the single core is faster (3ghz vs 2.6) 
• he says that AMD never invented a thing and always just copied intel
  • (yea even the instruction sets and cpus* wich are under Licence , and AMD x64 was non of amds work , it was ibm he says) 
• Pentium 4 was always better and much faster than Athlon , it was too futuristic for XP ( yea he did not want to believe me that the architecture was a trainwreck)
• he does not believe in dedicated graphics or rather "would never spend 100 or more bucks on a graphics card"
• he has a 6700k in his pc wich he does not overclock , "the motherboard oc´d it automatically to 4.2 , i dont even want an overclock) 
• he uses the intel HD 510 that cpu has (granted not terrible , but still , 400$ cpu and no gpu :T) 

*8088 and so on 

and hes the one who teaches 

 

i dunno anymore...

[The Doctor 1]

Had a friend that was bugging me because his computer wouldn't turn on. Took him 30 minutes to figure out that the power cable wasn't plugged in.

[BingoFishy]

1 hour ago, kaiju_wars said:

W-LAN or W-L-A-N.

 

I've heard Wylan, Waylan, Wyyyyyyyylan, wlawn

And more.  

There is no eye sound. Where did people get that from?

[Guest]

On 7/14/2016 at 2:19 AM, DeezNoNos said:

Ok once again a story about me. 

 

This happened in march. I had just bough my first pc with a i5-6500 and I really wanted to overclock it (BCLK) (if some remembers my how to bclk overclock thread. I had a purple unicorn as dp then). I had not bought a after market cooler yet and some posted saying that it would be fine on a stock cooler just a bit hot (85). I oced it to 4 ghz on 1.325V .

 

Dumbass me did not consider that package temps is not equal to core temps. One day i booted up the pc with the side panel on, windows hung and crashed. LOL

 

I got the processor back from RMA a week ago. YAYAYYA a new processor for free. (and a hyper 212 evo)

they RMAed a chip that you fried? fuck dude.

[kaiju_wars]

1 minute ago, BingoFishy said:

There is no eye sound. Where did people get that from?

I have no idea.  It's so freaking weird.  First time I heard wlawn, I had to ask if they were trying to mow their lawn.

[vanished]

10 minutes ago, The Doctor 1 said:

Had a friend that was bugging me because his computer wouldn't turn on. Took him 30 minutes to figure out that the power cable wasn't plugged in.

How does this keep happening! ( ಥـْـِـِـِـْಥ)

 

[2FA]

53 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

There is no eye sound. Where did people get that from?

Technically there is since it is a long i in wireless. I don't really understand the issue since there is no official way of pronouncing the abbreviation and as long as you understand what they mean.

[The Flying Sloth]

Was given a Velodyne 10" sub from a non-techie. He paid 4 digits for it when new. Said it had stopped working.

Opened it up, one of the speaker cables had fallen off

Now I've got myself a free studio sub

[NunoLava1998]

The IT professor at our school IT in my school is literally studying on computers and then playing games, what said this when i said i was gonna write a OS making book:

"so you're gonna write the OS in Word?"

and one of my classmates months before:

"you're gonna write a OS? oh, i know you need Windows for that."

[cummerou1]

On 16/10/2016 at 10:02 PM, themctipers said:

I'm going to start something.. 

Ill start posting all the stupidity from the Apple discord,, have fun..

we'll start with the shit that I remember since last month.. 

• Dual cores are Better than quad cores
• More cores are for show 
• A trackpad is better than a mouse for everything. Blame 'Windows drivers'
• Someone is going to be 'upgrading' to a Razer Blade.. Previous desktop was i7 6700k and GTX 1070.. 
• Gaming market is 'small' and worse than Mac share. 
• iGPU > dGPU

There's lots of more stupid shit that happens there.. Stay tuned for more stupidity. 

 

Sooooooo........... do you know if i can buy the i7 6700k, gtx 1070 rig from that dude?

[Hogger]

 The most awkward things for me isn't with non-techies exactly. It's going into tech stores (Best Buy mainly) and 3 different people asking if you need help with anything. Of course they are doing their job and being nice, I just feel awkward saying no to them. Sometimes I ask them stupid questions to see what they say ?. the common question I ask is about GPUs. I ask "so, the r9 290 is better than the 1080, right? Because this is the 9th version of 290... Then why is it cheaper???" They always look dumbfounded, I love messing with people

[Space Reptile]

1 hour ago, cummerou1 said:

Sooooooo........... do you know if i can buy the i7 6700k, gtx 1070 rig from that dude?

im shure he traded it at gamestop for 40$ and a copy of fifa 12 

[WkdPaul]

Another one from my "special" friend!

 

He listen to a guy on YouTube (but he didn't remember the name so I didn't see the vid) and apparently, the main heat source in a PC are;

 

CPU (yes, ok ...)

Motherboard (didn't specify, but ok, I could see that)

RAM (wait what???)

... and that's it, didn't mentioned anything else, GPU, PSU, etc...

 

Despite my diploma and experience, the guy on YouTube apparently knows more than I do ... lol whatever!

[Space Reptile]

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

CPU (yes, ok ...)

Motherboard (didn't specify, but ok, I could see that)

RAM (wait what???)

 

in my personal open testbench expirience , the ram was always something that got pretty warm ,

unless its the cheap low freq stuff , heatsinks are not a bad idea on some rams, my ballistix tracer gets pretty toasty ,

and having 4 of em acts like a radiator infront of the cpu intake fan 

 

and the entire motherboard tempts to get warm ,

onboard chips and cpu / ram heat it up and it spreads through the entire board thanks to the many many layers of silver and copper happily conducting it 

[WkdPaul]

13 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

*snip* 

Like I said, I didn't get to see the video, so the information given might have been accurate and my friend might have wrongly interpreted a lot of it. The video was about case cooling, positive and negative case pressure etc..  and in general, RAM isn't something you need active cooling for unless you're going for some crazy OC.

 

Also, the motherboard itself isn't what's getting warm but rather the components (chipsets, VRMs, etc..), but yes, if the cooling of those components isn't optimal then the heat is going to spread (and I did mention I could see why someone would say the motherboard itself is getting hot).

 

The whole problem here is that he now thinks those are the main sources of heat in a PC ...

[Space Reptile]

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

The whole problem here is that he thinks those are the main sources of heat in a PC ...

i know  

 

the fact that the GPU didnt get a mention is quite silly indeed 

[WkdPaul]

1 minute ago, Space Reptile said:

i know  

 

the fact that the GPU didnt get a mention is quite silly indeed 

It might have been mentioned in the video though ... He has what I call "unlogical" reasoning. We're Canadians but we follow the US presidential race and his viewed on the whole thing are quite illogical (I'll stop there since this isn't a political thread, I'll just specify this: double standards).

[KickAHobo]

I had a brain fart when I first built my PC. I had it connected to my living room TV for Netflix and couch gaming and whatnot. I shut it down from the tv one day and the next day with the tv on cable input I was trying to turn on my PC. Surprise surprise blank screen. I tried things for a couple of hours eventually doing a fresh install of Windows. Only to realize right after that I was outputting to the tv which was not on the pc input.

[themctipers]

1 hour ago, Space Reptile said:

 

in my personal open testbench expirience , the ram was always something that got pretty warm ,

unless its the cheap low freq stuff , heatsinks are not a bad idea on some rams, my ballistix tracer gets pretty toasty ,

and having 4 of em acts like a radiator infront of the cpu intake fan 

 

and the entire motherboard tempts to get warm ,

onboard chips and cpu / ram heat it up and it spreads through the entire board thanks to the many many layers of silver and copper happily conducting it 

1333mhz ram

cas11

heatsink

corsair ftw