Do computer parts always look better in person?

[Juanse]

Maybe it's because when you already own it, you know it's yours, and that makes yo happy 

[GigaSnow]

No, but I generally buy in person when I'm able too, so that's probably why.

[Kyuubixchidori]

Pft. People talking about gpus being huge. I went from a single slot hD 6670 to a triple slot 7950. Now that thing is MASSIVE

[carguy86]

watercooling hardware, ram, cases and motherboards look MUCH nicer in person.

[flibberdipper]

I always feel like cases and graphics cards are bigger than I thought, and CPUs and SSDs are always smaller than I thought...

I agree with the CPU thing especially.

 

But I thought the Latitude E4300 was good looking in picture... In person it is sexy AF.

[79 Potatoes]

Pretty much every piece of hardware I see in retailer's website looks like some crappy matte thing and the when it arrives it looks different. For example a motherboard that looks like meh and then it shines

[niofalpha]

Well this Titan X Picture vs One in person 

It honestly depends on the product and the picture.

[Nexxus]

Not a photo but my buddy was unimpressed with the k70 rgb when he seen linuses video but thought it was gorgeous when he seen mine.

[hamzahimself]

YEAAAAAAH ! For a good moment I have always been watching pc components on youtube and the first part I got for my first build was an ROG MOBO and it was the first time I see a gaming grade component and it was the same feeling as seeing a Ferrari in person !

[EllieThePurpleFuzzy]

I forgot which cooler master case it was (I think it was a HAF 922) and i thoughtr it looked okay in picture but i saw one in person at a PC repair store and HOLY FFFFFFF it looked So damn gorgeous.

 

i spent a long time searching for that case as well .

 

also i remember looking at a bitfenix prodigy in picutre and it looked so small but when is saw one in person at a hardware store, it was so much bigger in person O_o

[atsf]

i wholly agree, two eyes does wonder on percepting 3D objects as you got an actual sense of scale and depth compared to flat images.. and you get to touch it!

you'll appreciate it more if you could interact with it (in a good way ofc)

[Statecat]

Have you ever thought something looked meh and when it arrived it looked amazing or have something look amazing in pictures and shit in real life?

Yes. Some even feel better than you think. ;-;

[CrusaderNINE]

My golden editions look okay online but in person they're beautiful. I suppose it depends on how much you like the look of raw copper though.

[-iSynthesis]

are you sure? I've never seen one in person but they look ugly to me, I wouldn't change them though it's like a signature look.

They are ugly in person aswell. Also i usually think GPUs look SICK wie leukämie IRL. That 280x Double Dissapation, shiat man

[Ahokas99]

every gpu I ever owned looks bigger in person then what I ever see in videos or pictures. Then again I just have a bad sense of scale in general

After watching the 450d video and seeing in person i thought it would be bigger  

and so was the motherboard, linus is too small compared to pc hardware

[Guest]

My headset looked awesome on all the photos

Then when I got it and played around with it

It went from awesome to

what the hell is this?

[0ld_Chicken]

I went from a low profile r7 240 as my first ever dedicated graphics card i had ever seen in real life (besides finding old naked outdated cards) in a m-atx dell case, i thought 92mm fans were big. A few months later i got a gigabyte g1 gaming gpu, a mid atx case and 240mm aio for my full build and was shocked at how huge everything was! I don't know what i was expecting for size but im totally used to it now. Gpu's still surprise me thou as i got my first reference card recently and again was pretty surprised by the size and beauty. The thing feels like a beast too

[SteveGrabowski0]

Have you ever thought something looked meh and when it arrived it looked amazing or have something look amazing in pictures and shit in real life?

 

The NZXT S340 looks so awesome in videos, but when I went to a local computer shop to look at one it was kind of meh. The internals looked awesome with the amount of space it seemed to have (especially that shroud and crossbar for hiding cables), but on the outside I didn't think it looked as nice as it looks in reviews.

[Gale]

My opinion is that hardware looks generally bad in pictures, good in reality, and gorgeous in close-up videos.

[getrekt]

Sodimm memory looks huge but in person is damn tiny

[Trik'Stari]

In my experience, yes.

[GoldSrc]

In person you get an awesome 3D view of the hardware, so yeah, they look better in person.

[DildorTheDecent]

My reaction to the EVGA Classified cards:

"wow this thing is fucking huge"

They are pretty tall.

[Sam Z Man]

Normal CPU's always look smaller in person.

Extreme edition CPU's always look bigger in person.