What is the most disappointing thing you have ever heard from young PC builders?

[Coaxialgamer]

On 3/29/2016 at 10:06 PM, Lolucoca said:

"Wait, they didn't have multi-core-CPU's back in the 90's?"

Technically speaking,  the first multicore chip dates back to the 80's,  and SMP configs existed back then too... 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor

[Yoinkerman]

3 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

What about : the pentium 4 was a great processor! 

 

it was when it came out.  I had a 4ghz p4 630(i think it was a 630), it had hyperthreading, was a space heater, and completely wrecked WoW compared to my old 1.2ghz thunderbird.

 

One of the most disappointing things I hear today is that AMD is complete trash and literally doesn't work at all.  Literally.

[Coaxialgamer]

Just now, Yoinkerman said:

it was when it came out.  I had a 4ghz p4 630(i think it was a 630), it had hyperthreading, was a space heater, and completely wrecked WoW compared to my old 1.2ghz thunderbird.

 

One of the most disappointing things I hear today is that AMD is complete trash and literally doesn't work at all.  Literally.

Netburst wasn't a very "elegant"  solution,  to say the least. 

[Yoinkerman]

Just now, Coaxialgamer said:

Netburst wasn't a very "elegant"  solution,  to say the least. 

No not at all, but what it lacked in elegance it made up for in heart.  The early ones anyway.  Once they moved to the 2/4 core p4 chips they were terrible.

[snagals]

Back in 2005 in the first repair shop I worked. We were building about 10-20 pc`s a day. I asked the boss why dont we start putting 1 gb of ram instead of 512 mb.

 

Answer:

 

"There is no point. Nobody will need 1 gb of ram in the next 5-6 years"

[Coaxialgamer]

14 minutes ago, Yoinkerman said:

No not at all, but what it lacked in elegance it made up for in heart.  The early ones anyway.  Once they moved to the 2/4 core p4 chips they were terrible.

There is a reason netbrust is so infamous... 

[imperialplanet]

some kid in my school said he could run Arma 3 in ultra at 200 fps with an amd fx cpu (i think) and a single 770.  

[CtrlAltELITE]

1 hour ago, Coaxialgamer said:

What about : the pentium 4 was a great processor! 

 

I have a special spot in my heart for the old P4 prescott, it was the first CPU that I got into seriously overclocking. And my 2nd ever PC (My first was a P3 800mhz).

 

Myself and my neighbours kid (who was a couple of years older than me at the time, him being ~15 me being ~12, and was the one who originally taught me how to overclock) had a bit of a competition as too who could get the most Ghz out of our CPUs. This being back in the days where there was a very real risk of burning your motherboard OCing xD. God I remember my old CM Hyper 6 which I bought because the aluminium cowling looked awesome.

 

Anywho I never won. He was running ghetto water (Oh god whatever happened to ghetto water systems!?!?) and a proper case (Mine was an "Viglen" ex-office computer). Also had a better CPU than me mine being a 2.4GHz model (I had it @ 3.4GHz, I remember it turning my bedroom into an oven) he had a 3Ghz. He was breaking 4GHz with his which was bonkers at the time. Man computer tuning really has lost its "magic" nowadays. Ive gone on to tuning bigger toys that make a better noise!

[2FA]

4 hours ago, JoePro87 said:

Yeah, without it being part of a server farm, and with the proper OS, there really is no way to get computers to share resources. At least, none that I have ever seen.

 

Is it possible? Yes. Is it probable that someone could do it at home? Not so much. (Not the average consumer, anyway.)

Depends on what you consider sharing resources. If we are talking just general computing, then no it doesn't work that way unless you want to make Pi cluster. Otherwise, distributed computing such Folding@Home could be considered sharing resources although it's for a very specific task. 

[courtiousdoge]

he was like i spent 4000 usd on a laptop i and i asked y he got for dat much m,oney he was like 32 gbs of ram br 32 gbs of ram and he was like i can run everything at 4k at ultra setting and run a server at the same time from dat laptop

[Xusu]

"there is smoke coming out of here"

[RollinLower]

"controllers are much more accurate then mice anyway" 

i mean, in the end it all boils down to personal preference, but really? mice are much, much more accurate!

[Godlygamer23]

On 3/29/2016 at 4:03 PM, Lord-Anubis said:

"I'm waiting for Zen, it'll be an intel killer."

While I am waiting for Zen to see what AMD brings to the table, I doubt it'll be an Intel killer.

[Godlygamer23]

2 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

"controllers are much more accurate then mice anyway" 

i mean, in the end it all boils down to personal preference, but really? mice are much, much more accurate!

I actually talked about gaming on a mouse/keyboard to someone at work, and all they had in response was pretty much stating that using mouse/keyboard makes you look like a "retard." So basically, no argument.

[don_svetlio]

10 hours ago, CodenameScorpion said:

AMD technically was the ruler of the processor game before more-than-one-core processors became a thing.

Even after - Until the Core 2 Duo released, AMD were light years ahead of the Pentiums

[don_svetlio]

"I smell burning from my PSU, is that bad?"

call on skype - that PSU survived for 2 more years before being upgraded. DID NOT KILL ANYTHING

"Is a pre-built with 2 cores and 4GB of RAM going to be good for gaming?"

[Canio22]

My mum thought this would work and got angry with me when I said it wouldn't "YES IT WILL, JUST LET ME TRY IT!" 

 

Video: 

 

[JoePro87]

3 hours ago, Canio22 said:

My mum thought this would work and got angry with me when I said it wouldn't "YES IT WILL, JUST LET ME TRY IT!" 

 

Video: 

 

I personally hate that guy. He's a fucking troll, and people keep feeding him. Every single video I've ever seen of his was some stupid shit that makes no sense, let alone wouldn't actually work. 

[Godlygamer23]

1 hour ago, JoePro87 said:

I personally hate that guy. He's a fucking troll, and people keep feeding him. Every single video I've ever seen of his was some stupid shit that makes no sense, let alone wouldn't actually work. 

That's his joke channel. He has a legit channel - that particular one in this thread is from his joke channel which is specifically stated and listed as Comedy. 

[RollinLower]

2 hours ago, JoePro87 said:

I personally hate that guy. He's a fucking troll, and people keep feeding him. Every single video I've ever seen of his was some stupid shit that makes no sense, let alone wouldn't actually work. 

you just listed all the reasons why i love that channel. he does stuff that just don't make any sense, and people still believe him! personally i think that is pretty hilarious

[JoePro87]

1 minute ago, RollinLower said:

you just listed all the reasons why i love that channel. he does stuff that just don't make any sense, and people still believe him! personally i think that is pretty hilarious

Yeah, until my friends watch it, and message me asking why it didn't work, or believe it is real, then argue with me about it when I say that guy is full of shit.

[Techfornow]

"you need a core i7 with a titan x to get a enjoyable gaming experience"

[1shanghai]

On 3/30/2016 at 6:16 AM, fireclaw316 said:

Well, NVIDIA is clearly better than AMD because green means go while red means stop.

 

Idiot.

But it has been scientifically proven that painting somethong red makes it 30% faster!?

[Atmos]

"Ram is the most important part to take into consideration when building a gaming computer."

"Macs are good for gaming too you know..."

[PSUGPUCPU]

I was talking about my computer to my cousin and he asked get this ''is your computer going to have A ram.'' part of me died when i heard this.