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

[Norseman4]

2 hours ago, 1shanghai said:

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

That has actually been codified (ok codex'ified) for a certain Warhammer 40K race's vehicles, so it must be true.

[Gregrs]

"dude, csgo looks so amazing. I would play it, but it looks really hard to run."

 

[waxbytes]

My pet peeve is that people, young and old can't seem to grasp the difference between memory and storage.

Memory is the RAM, storage is the HDD  or the SSD .

Home PCs do not have 1000 GB of memory. They often have a terabyte of hard drive space though.

[JoePro87]

2 hours ago, waxbytes said:

My pet peeve is that people, young and old can't seem to grasp the difference between memory and storage.

Memory is the RAM, storage is the HDD  or the SSD .

Home PCs do not have 1000 GB of memory. They often have a terabyte of hard drive space though.

Please refer to my experience with the woman selling a PS3 with 500GB of RAM. People like that are just headache inducing.

[CrazyCanuck]

What's young?

I cry a little inside when I'm having a conversation, somehow 3dfx or VooDoo come up, and nobody has heard of them.

 

Makes me feel old, I won'e lie, and I'm not even that old.

[Hydraxiler32]

"i3s can't play Steam games."

and

"GTX 970 straight out performs the R9 390 because more RAM. How do I know? My dad works for nVidia."

[JoePro87]

4 hours ago, Hydraxiler32 said:

"i3s can't play Steam games."

and

"GTX 970 straight out performs the R9 390 because more RAM. How do I know? My dad works for nVidia."

That DEFINITELY gave me a headache, especially since the 390 has more RAM. But, I believe those words have been spoken.

[NumLock21]

My cpu is a Dell.

My monitor says Windows Vista

 

[alicskysareblue]

Why are quadros expensive you could get a gtx x80 to for less 

 

Or quadro being put in gaming rigs same with xeons....

[SteveGrabowski0]

That RAM speed doesn't matter followed by that retarded video from Linus.

[manikyath]

On 30-3-2016 at 7:23 AM, MagnesiumPC said:

Linux is for hipsters. (I screamed inside).

 

Old people can't learn computers. 

 

Windows is the best operating system... (WHICH WINDOWS! I can think of 12 Windows Versions right now!)

 

Linux is assholes who want to be different.

kind of necro-replying here but i fee like you're gonna like what i'm about to say:

- my grandpa is doing better at learning how to use computers than my dad that still prefers pen&paper at work...

- my grandpa's laptop (seeing a pattern here?) was still running windows XP, and stuff was starting to go downhill so i gave it an overhaul, and for a whopping €1 i swapped out the bios battery and upgraded to a brand new operating system simple enough to fit his age, modern enough to support IPv6 (can we please scream at the US army for this?) low resource enough to have his 10 year old laptop perform as if new, and most of all: he can install updates by himself because i have the option of simplifying things where needed, and i can remote in when he's completely lost.

 

this operating system is... arch linux.

EDIT: forgot to add, my grandpa is past 80, and senility is hitting hard.

[NoobsWeStand]

"my i7 in my laptop could crush your desktop i5 in gaming"   (i5 at 4.5ghz)

okay then .-.

[Clanscorpia]

From my friend who thinks hes a genius at PC's but doesnt know shit hardware wise:

"The RAM is like the Nucleus, it controls everything" And the whole class believed him because they think he knows more than me. I cried when he said that. He doesn't understand anything about PC's except like at all except how to do random stuff you don't need. He doesn't even know how a CPU works *Cries in corner* He also thinks getting a mechanical keyboard is just for gaming and that getting a 6600K and 1080 is a waste of my money. This is the guy that introduced me to computers and still thinks I'm going to start a PC buisness with him. Nope, Intel for moi

[BurstSMG]

"All GPUs are the same, just some look better and make you pay more for it"

 

-Best Buy, 2016

[SteveGrabowski0]

1 hour ago, CUDA_Cores said:

I think what linus was arguing was getting faster RAM isn't necessarily the best use of your money ie if you are choosing faster RAM over an SSD. Yes, I KNOW faster RAM makes a difference in CPU bound games by increasing minimum framerates, but it won't automatically make your games framerates go through the roof across the board in every game. faster RAM CAN make a difference in games, but it has to be the CORRECT game, faster RAM won't make a difference in every game.

That's not what he was arguing at all. He was arguing that it makes no difference whatsoever.

[JoePro87]

14 hours ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

That's not what he was arguing at all. He was arguing that it makes no difference whatsoever.

Actually he didn't say that. He said it would make a difference, but it is so small that, in most cases, it wouldn't be noticeable, and that your money would be better spent on other things, first.

[Mark77]

I'm very annoyed at the people (young and not so young) who immediately start talking overclocking no matter what the CPU being discussed, or the context/use of the computer. 

 

For 99% of the population, overclocking is not only not required for any legitimate purpose, but introduces an unnecessary source of potential instability. 

 

If you want to do it on your personal rig, fine, do that.  Or tell a fellow enthusiast how they can do it on their hardware.  But don't overclock the machines of others who are not enthusiasts.  Seriously, just don't.  I've fixed a few machines owned by "non-enthusiasts" over the years which were overclocked.  Even if the overclocking isn't the problem, its a potential source of instability that anyone doing repairs must un-do before they can rule it out as a problem.   

[icey]

*New techie in our office* Hey guys can someone help me put this ram holder back on. I look over and see he has broken off the ram slot trying to pull down a fixed end. He still works here.... on innocent peoples computers.

[MLGTurnip]

My brother once wanted to buy a raspberry pie to program it but when he tried to explain it to my mom my mom said "So it is a tiny computer with a small screen and monitor?". I almost started to cry.

[Kobathor]

This isn't anything a young person has said, but my friend has an i7-4770k and a GTX 960 2GB and plays mostly Rust and Minecraft. The most intensive game he owns is Battlefield 4.

[brune67]

I recently built my first rig, so a friend of mine wanted to build his own. Him and his dad called me to ask me for my opinion on parts 2-3 times. few week later, I asked him if he got his PC built yet. He hired someone else to build it and do exactly opposite of what I said for a larger sum of money than it should have been.

[ItsTurbo]

On 3/29/2016 at 2:58 PM, Midnitewarrior4 said:

"this thing is going to have 16gb of ram so i will be able to play any game at ultra"  the ultimate stereo type that ive actually heard from a bunch of kids thinking they knew about computers....

The sad thing is that they most likely will not include a graphics card for budget reasons.

[ItsTurbo]

On 3/29/2016 at 3:01 PM, Senzelian said:

u stupid?
8350 has 4ghz boost clock. 
4ghz x 8cores = 48jigahetz

u know nothing omg....

4 X 8 = 32

 

You're stupid.

[ItsTurbo]

On 3/29/2016 at 3:17 PM, Doodlegame said:

Wins $100k. goes to Amazon. Sort by highest price. Ends up with a server motherboard

Server motherboard

22 core 44 thread xeon with wrong socket for motherboard

1TB of ram (DDR4) with the server board only compatible with DDR3

8 Quadro M6000s ($5,000 USD each)

2000W Super flower power supply

12 PCI-e 4TB SSDs with no space for them.

 

and some random case

 

"GAMING RIG WOOOOOOO"

[Senzelian]

23 minutes ago, CodenameScorpion said:

4 X 8 = 32

 

You're stupid.

You're the only guy out of at least 11 people who didn't get it...