Experiences with non-techies

[Fetzie]

23 hours ago, DocSwag said:

People's thought process:

"Hmmm..... There's no power button on the front so it must turn on magically, but it's not magically turning on when I walk in front of it.... Here, let me say,' TV turn on!' It's still not working.... I know! The person who sold it must have sold me a bad tv!!! They cheated me!!! I'm gonna get them to refund me!!!"

 

You reminded me of this

[RahulR]

1 hour ago, Fetzie said:

 

You reminded me of this

That reminded me of this: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialPCMasterRace/videos/1738705856371020/

 

[Bhav]

Microsoft support is the worst imaginable:

 

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/games_windows_10/sli-not-working-with-new-gpus-and-mobo-due-to/e84e0e54-9e35-4793-848f-6521d159dd8e?msgId=cb1945c2-b75c-44ee-96b9-e4eb4c9f5b74

 

Pretty much 'Uninstall and install it again, if it still doesnt work go bother someone else' reply.

[DocSwag]

14 minutes ago, Bhav said:

Microsoft support is the worst imaginable:

 

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/games_windows_10/sli-not-working-with-new-gpus-and-mobo-due-to/e84e0e54-9e35-4793-848f-6521d159dd8e?msgId=cb1945c2-b75c-44ee-96b9-e4eb4c9f5b74

 

Pretty much 'Uninstall and install it again, if it still doesnt work go bother someone else' reply.

You can also tell it's a copy and pasted answer... It even says "if the device is an external drive, such as a USB flash drive or external hard drive." Seriously, it's a GPU, not a flash drive!!!

[Bhav]

7 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

You can also tell it's a copy and pasted answer... It even says "if the device is an external drive, such as a USB flash drive or external hard drive." Seriously, it's a GPU, not a flash drive!!!

I've also contacted Zotac, Nvidia and OCUK who I bought the hardware from, but as its the weekend I have to wait for more replies.

[don_svetlio]

On 8/6/2016 at 4:11 PM, wkdpaul said:

It was an 8350 if I remember correctly ... But yeah, even a i3 with a 750ti is perfectly fine for CSGO!

 

Don't understand why people throw money out the window like this.

Cause people are either

A) Not knowledgeable and just repeat what they hear
or
B) Fanboying

A is more common. A lot of newcomers (mainly young users) are lead to believe that any AMD CPU bottlenecks any GPU and thus point fingers without even thinking about it. For instance,  in the situation described above, if the 8350 was bottlenecking then the 1070 would be getting the same frame rate as the 780, not lower. But then again, reaching that conclusion requires basic knowledge and most people lack that.

[DocSwag]

2 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Cause people are either

A) Not knowledgeable and just repeat what they hear
or
B) Fanboying

A is more common. A lot of newcomers (mainly young users) are lead to believe that any AMD CPU bottlenecks any GPU and thus point fingers without even thinking about it. For instance,  in the situation described above, if the 8350 was bottlenecking then the 1070 would be getting the same frame rate as the 780, not lower. But then again, reaching that conclusion requires basic knowledge and most people lack that.

Exactly what I'm thinking... A CPU bottleneck wouldn't result in lower framerates.

[don_svetlio]

Just now, DocSwag said:

Exactly what I'm thinking... A CPU bottleneck wouldn't result in lower framerates.

It's not possible. When I swapped out my 5670 with a 6850 (cause I got a new monitor) I didn't see lower performance despite my bottlenecking CPU ._.

[SLAYR]

46 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

You can also tell it's a copy and pasted answer... It even says "if the device is an external drive, such as a USB flash drive or external hard drive." Seriously, it's a GPU, not a flash drive!!!

Copy and pasted answers are extremely common for custom support to do because they assume people haven't researched the issue.

 

I have had valve support do this also when trying to diagnose an issue with my steam link, when I clearly stated that I read and followed their page about how to fix the issue. 

[Bhav]

2 hours ago, Bhav said:

I've also contacted Zotac, Nvidia and OCUK who I bought the hardware from, but as its the weekend I have to wait for more replies.

 

2 hours ago, DocSwag said:

You can also tell it's a copy and pasted answer... It even says "if the device is an external drive, such as a USB flash drive or external hard drive." Seriously, it's a GPU, not a flash drive!!!

Well nvm, I believe I discovered why my SLI wasnt working ....

 

 

 

I accidentally plugged the PCI-E extensions into the opposite cards after having an inside inspection, and got an error message to connect the PCI-E connectors on boot.

 

Naturally, I began raging at my extension cables, but upon further inspection identified the problem as a clear case of herp user derp.

 

Now I can start benching and gaming again, yay!

[Clanscorpia]

2 minutes ago, Bhav said:

 

Well nvm, I believe I discovered why my SLI wasnt working ....

 

 

 

I accidentally plugged the PCI-E extensions into the opposite cards after having an inside inspection, and got an error message to connect the PCI-E connectors on boot.

 

Naturally, I began raging at my extension cables, but upon further inspection identified the problem as a clear case of herp user derp.

I haven't read this topic for 2 weeks and I saw this and died  RIP

[Clanscorpia]

2 hours ago, don_svetlio said:

Cause people are either

A) Not knowledgeable and just repeat what they hear
or
B) Fanboying

A is more common. A lot of newcomers (mainly young users) are lead to believe that any AMD CPU bottlenecks any GPU and thus point fingers without even thinking about it. For instance,  in the situation described above, if the 8350 was bottlenecking then the 1070 would be getting the same frame rate as the 780, not lower. But then again, reaching that conclusion requires basic knowledge and most people lack that.

Thread plz. I love seeing people do this  

[don_svetlio]

1 hour ago, Clanscorpia said:

Thread plz. I love seeing people do this  

That post applies to 50% of threads sadly. i5 fanboys are particularly vicious when I say it bottlenecks a 1080...

[Clanscorpia]

2 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

That post applies to 50% of threads sadly. i5 fanboys are particularly vicious when I say it bottlenecks a 1080...

Yep  I dont plan on getting anything better than the next Fury with mine so Im good

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Clanscorpia said:

Yep  I dont plan on getting anything better than the next Fury with mine so Im good

Depends on the performance. Anything similar to a 1070/1080/980 Ti would get bottlenecked by your i5 at 1080p

[Clanscorpia]

2 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Depends on the performance. Anything similar to a 1070/1080/980 Ti would get bottlenecked by your i5 at 1080p

How much though? Enough to get similar performance to the current fury? 

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, Clanscorpia said:

How much though? Enough to get similar performance to the current fury? 

The max for an i5 are the Fury/980/1060/480. A 4.5GHz 5675C/6600K can handle a 980 Ti/Fury X/1070 in SOME games.

[Clanscorpia]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

The max for an i5 are the Fury/980/1060/480. A 4.5GHz 5675C/6600K can handle a 980 Ti/Fury X/1070 in MOST games.

Im only planning on having this rig until 2 year of high school so I'll be good. Ill need more power after that

[daniellearmouth]

10 hours ago, Bhav said:

Can you say me English? Can you say me?

Me English.

 

Me.

 

Beep boop.

[samiscool51]

my grandma is so non-tech, she tried pluging a usb mouse into a PS/2 port and calls me telling me that the new mouse is not going into the computer, when i get there she shows me,

the definition of dumb or dumber

 

my friend is so non-tech he asked me if a xeon would get him better FPS in games, i said it depends, two weeks later my friend calls me to have a look at his computer because it would not post, looked at it seemed to be a CPU problem, take the CPU out and see the xeon E5-2699 v4!, the second i saw this i said: you shit head! you bought a $5000 CPU for your desktop!?

i took it from him and replaced it with the i5 4690k and surprise it works..

to this day still have that CPU but no use for it, going to keep it for later

[daniellearmouth]

31 minutes ago, samiscool51 said:

my friend is so non-tech he asked me if a xeon would get him better FPS in games, i said it depends, two weeks later my friend calls me to have a look at his computer because it would not post, looked at it seemed to be a CPU problem, take the CPU out and see the xeon E5-2699 v4!, the second i saw this i said: you shit head! you bought a $5000 CPU for your desktop!?

i took it from him and replaced it with the i5 4690k and surprise it works..

to this day still have that CPU but no use for it, going to keep it for later

HOLD. THE. PHONE.

 

Did you just say that...he bought a near-$5000 processor he can't even use?! How much cash does he have to burn? Holy shit!

[BingoFishy]

47 minutes ago, samiscool51 said:

my grandma is so non-tech, she tried pluging a usb mouse into a PS/2 port and calls me telling me that the new mouse is not going into the computer, when i get there she shows me,

the definition of dumb or dumber

 

my friend is so non-tech he asked me if a xeon would get him better FPS in games, i said it depends, two weeks later my friend calls me to have a look at his computer because it would not post, looked at it seemed to be a CPU problem, take the CPU out and see the xeon E5-2699 v4!, the second i saw this i said: you shit head! you bought a $5000 CPU for your desktop!?

i took it from him and replaced it with the i5 4690k and surprise it works..

to this day still have that CPU but no use for it, going to keep it for later

sell the cpu on ebay for monies

[samiscool51]

41 minutes ago, daniellearmouth said:

HOLD. THE. PHONE.

 

Did you just say that...he bought a near-$5000 processor he can't even use?! How much cash does he have to burn? Holy shit!

he's an f*cking idiot!
half the time i can't comprehend how he thought that his computer would work with it!

[Lewiscpullan]

 

 

Found this on my local buy and sell page on Facebook and I couldn't help but cringe. If they don't even know what there called then maybe they shouldn't even buy it!

[Belgarathian]

On 8/5/2016 at 10:34 PM, Comic_Sans_MS said:

To be fair. Most laptop manufactures use 5400RPM 8MB Cache HDDs.

If you're using a laptop, this has to do with power consumption as well - but most run SSDs these days, particularly Apple laptops.