Experiences with non-techies

[themctipers]

6 minutes ago, checkitimawesome said:

That pic just scared the living daylights out of me.

YOU CAUGHT VIEWING PORNOGRAPHY. YOU FINED. 

[RahulR]

2 hours ago, themctipers said:

my grandma used to use a c2d and it was laggy as fuck on windows 7 and chrome with facebook games and youtube

she then got upgraded to a c2q and it was still laggy

 

so she got a i5 6500 now.

ehh, idk. It shouldn't be that bad, I have a Pentium E5200 @2.5GHz in my other system and it runs games and YouTube perfectly fine...

[AlTech]

2 hours ago, themctipers said:

specs boss by @AluminiumTech

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(32gb of ram is installed)

 

 

I'm getting there!

 

It's improving.

[Space Reptile]

5 hours ago, RahulR said:

I saw an E8400 for $8, not bad if you ask me

Xeon E5520 is 3€ and E5620 is 5~7€ , there basically 4c/8t i7 9xx chips at a lower clockspeed  

unbeatable for Price performance if you ask me

[luegnicl]

On 15.2.2017 at 11:19 PM, lilbman said:

 Saw a guy selling this PC on my local Craigslist-https://www.walmart.com/ip/CybertronPC-Black-Blue-Rhodium-240-Gaming-PC-with-AMD-FX-4300-Quad-Core-Processor-8GB-Memory-1TB-Hard-Drive-and-Windows-10-Home-Monitor-Not-Include/50660119?action=product_interest&action_type=title&beacon_version=1.0.2&bucket_id=irsbucketdefault&client_guid=86cbc30c-8d3e-4072-844b-a7ab0fa6922d&config_id=106&customer_id_enc&findingMethod=p13n&guid=86cbc30c-8d3e-4072-844b-a7ab0fa6922d&item_id=50660119&parent_anchor_item_id=52593204&parent_item_id=52593204&placement_id=irs-106-m2&reporter=recommendations&source=new_site&strategy=TIC&visitor_id=a8x4GhU1tEcgdg_KYY0rBM#about-item

 

Listed as 'high end gaming PC' and the asking price was $450.  Description-'Can run all games at the highest settings 60+FPS.'

 

The sad part is that I know someone will buy this piece of shit.

 

 

i just looked up this pc and thought what other PCs wallmart sells.

then a found this:

find the mistake.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, luegnicl said:

i just looked up this pc and thought what other PCs wallmart sells.

then a found this:

find the mistake.

'fx 6300'   .... 'quad core'

[Bananasplit_00]

10 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

You laughing at Core 2 Duos?! I just so happen to love them and they are in everything from my server (which I'm using to write this) to my gaming rig to my laptop! I can testify that a Core 2 Duo is no slouch with stuff. 

my q6600 was a pain to use, its a bit sad i sold it of because it made for a great test system but how can you say that a dual core with no HT is still good?... sure they arent un usable but they arent going to be chewing through video edeting and rendering.

[luegnicl]

2 hours ago, bear-in-the-air said:

'fx 6300'   .... 'quad core'

yeah

[GirlFromYonder]

 

 

[Bananasplit_00]

56 minutes ago, DeezNoNos said:

 

 

that. was. horrible. my god, why did i watch more then 5 seconds

[DnFx91]

On 1/16/2013 at 7:12 AM, nillas12 said:

Thought it would be fun to make a topic about, all of our experiences with all the people, who doesn't really understand all the tech.

Note: Don't make this too harsh on them. You need to help them, not yell at them.

I'll go first:

So my mom has a daycare. And one day I am sitting on the floor with my laptop. And one of the kids, with real dirty hands come and put his hand on the screen. Guess he thought it was a touch screen. Still haven't gotten it off, and it was 3 months ago.

My grandmother is scared of getting rid of the computer, because she thinks it will cut the power to her house.

Ugh, being a computer sys engineer, this is every day for me. I've had people ask me to do some amazing things before;

 

"install the internet, download RAM, can you put sky channels on a USB stick ?"

 

Best one is when you get into a conversation with someone about computers, and you haven't told them that you work with computer systems and know quite a lot about them. I had a guy telling me about his gaming rig once, can't remember the convo word for word because he was just so wrong but essentially he told me he had an i7 motherboard, with dual i3 CPU's, when i asked him politely how he is running dual CPU's on a socket that does not support it, he replied, that one of the i3's is in the board, and the other is "sitting on top under a weird fan" at this point i think the guy is just insane, so i ask for a pic of his motherboard to try and gleam any kind of understanding on what the fuck his computer is. Sends me a pic, first thing i see is the name of the MOBO which had FM2+ in the name........ Face Palm. He also said he has 16MB (yes megabytes) of RAM and a GPU that can handle 4k Gaming, turned out to be a 9800GT

 

These people kill me

[Guest lilbman]

15 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

You laughing at Core 2 Duos?! I just so happen to love them and they are in everything from my server (which I'm using to write this) to my gaming rig to my laptop! I can testify that a Core 2 Duo is no slouch with stuff. 

Compared to the worlds first processor it's no slouch.

 

Compare to my 6850K, it's nothing.

[DnFx91]

16 minutes ago, lilbman said:

Compared to the worlds first processor it's no slouch.

 

Compare to my 6850K, it's nothing.

got a few 2011 model macbook pro 17"'s here with the C2D's in them

we only use them as VT playback machines and they are craaaaaaaaap

[kaiju_wars]

5 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

got a few 2011 model macbook pro 17"'s here with the C2D's in them

we only use them as VT playback machines and they are craaaaaaaaap

I hate to be that guy, but no you don't.  No 2011 MacBook Pro models came with Core 2 Duos.

 

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html

[kaiju_wars]

47 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

Ugh, being a computer sys engineer, this is every day for me. I've had people ask me to do some amazing things before;

 

"install the internet, download RAM, can you put sky channels on a USB stick ?"

 

Best one is when you get into a conversation with someone about computers, and you haven't told them that you work with computer systems and know quite a lot about them. I had a guy telling me about his gaming rig once, can't remember the convo word for word because he was just so wrong but essentially he told me he had an i7 motherboard, with dual i3 CPU's, when i asked him politely how he is running dual CPU's on a socket that does not support it, he replied, that one of the i3's is in the board, and the other is "sitting on top under a weird fan" at this point i think the guy is just insane, so i ask for a pic of his motherboard to try and gleam any kind of understanding on what the fuck his computer is. Sends me a pic, first thing i see is the name of the MOBO which had FM2+ in the name........ Face Palm. He also said he has 16MB (yes megabytes) of RAM and a GPU that can handle 4k Gaming, turned out to be a 9800GT

 

These people kill me

Reminds me of my coworker saying that the computer didn't have a GPU, even though it was an iGPU and displaying things on screen.

[DnFx91]

27 minutes ago, kaiju_wars said:

I hate to be that guy, but no you don't.  No 2011 MacBook Pro models came with Core 2 Duos.

 

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html

damn, was a quick guess, what year was the last 17" MBP ? i think it's that year

[kaiju_wars]

10 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

damn, was a quick guess, what year was the last 17" MBP ? i think it's that year

Yeah, unfortunately the 2011 models were the last 17" MBP.

But the last C2D 17" MBP were from 2009.

 

I'm still wishing Apple would make another 17" MBP.

[Space Reptile]

 

10/10 leak , as seen on wccftech 

[DnFx91]

57 minutes ago, kaiju_wars said:

Yeah, unfortunately the 2011 models were the last 17" MBP.

But the last C2D 17" MBP were from 2009.

 

I'm still wishing Apple would make another 17" MBP.

oh shit, man i never realised how old they were, i've been hiring them for like 2 years haha, i tend to let my colleague deal with the kackbooks, he's a hipster haha

[PCGuy_5960]

Give them the dislikes that they are begging for!

[DnFx91]

1 hour ago, kaiju_wars said:

Reminds me of my coworker saying that the computer didn't have a GPU, even though it was an iGPU and displaying things on screen.

haha yup, people literally forgetting what GPU stands for.

 

Does it process your graphics ?

yes ?

then it's a GPU you flid

[kaiju_wars]

7 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

haha yup, people literally forgetting what GPU stands for.

 

Does it process your graphics ?

yes ?

then it's a GPU you flid

Oh yeah.  But this is the same kid who runs his parents' credit card and doesn't buy his own parts.  He doesn't think used hardware has a place, and once the newest hardware comes out, he must get it.

Like he had a 980ti and upgraded to a 1080 the day it came out.

 

12 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

oh shit, man i never realised how old they were, i've been hiring them for like 2 years haha, i tend to let my colleague deal with the kackbooks, he's a hipster haha

I like MacBooks.  They're objectively nice laptops.  

Just wish Apple would still let us upgrade the RAM and storage as we see fit, and not buy this soldered on shit.

[DnFx91]

2 minutes ago, kaiju_wars said:

Oh yeah.  But this is the same kid who runs his parents' credit card and doesn't buy his own parts.  He doesn't think used hardware has a place, and once the newest hardware comes out, he must get it.

Like he had a 980ti and upgraded to a 1080 the day it came out.

 

I like MacBooks.  They're objectively nice laptops.  

Just wish Apple would still let us upgrade the RAM and storage as we see fit, and not buy this soldered on shit.

haha i know the type, always poor

 

and yeah man i'll give anyone that, the physical machines are beautiful things and i don't know many people that would say otherwise.

 

But then you turn it on, and the horror begins

[kaiju_wars]

1 minute ago, DnFx91 said:

haha i know the type, always poor

 

and yeah man i'll give anyone that, the physical machines are beautiful things and i don't know many people that would say otherwise.

 

But then you turn it on, and the horror begins

Hey, I like OS X.  Haven't gotten a chance to use Sierra, but I do like OS X.  

 

Also, I'm not jealous he can get new hardware, it's his whole attitude about it.  He has this whole, "better than thou art" attitude about PC hardware.

[DnFx91]

if you never have to deal with anything other than a Mac and OSX, it's fine. But in a world where multiple OS's and various hardware exist, and especially in my line of work, they make everything incredibly difficult.