Would Your Family members notice any difference in their PC if You had replaced one of their PC components with a lower performance component?

[Tech_Dreamer]

[Bittenfleax]

Why, you're not going to do it are you?! 

[kuzimins]

I stole half the ram (2gb) from my sisters pc, never noticed. 

[Tech_Dreamer]

1 minute ago, Bittenfleax said:

Why, you're not going to do it are you?! 

[flibberdipper]

Not anyone in my house. Dad, maybe. Since he still uses a freaking Athlon XP.

 

Now my grandma... She would notice. That poor A6-3650 gets a pummeling.

[Moonzy]

seeing how they dont even know how many gb ram they have

probably not

[byalexandr]

You didn't hear this from me!

 

I swapped out my i3 4170 for my school's i5 4570 in one off the newer PCs. IT didn't care enough to notice nor should they I think lol

Before that I took 8GB of DDR3 RAM (although that was long before the i5, and it was the only other thing I took)

I put the 8GB in my dad's system and took his 2x8GB kit, he wouldn't even notice if I swapped it with a 2GB kit tbh

I took his 120GB SSD that he didn't even have Windows installed on, nor did he have any files on it

And I swapped out the liquid coolers (since his fit my old R9 290 better), and the GTX 760s that I had. Although I sort of gave him a better 760, as he needed an open air card that I had and I needed the clower card that he had

 

I'm a criminal 

I feel bad just typing this

[frogonastring]

2 minutes ago, byalexandr said:

You didn't hear this from me!

 

 

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I swapped out my i3 4170 for my school's i5 4570 in one off the newer PCs. IT didn't care enough to notice nor should they I think lol

Before that I took 8GB of DDR3 RAM (although that was long before the i5, and it was the only other thing I took)

I put the 8GB in my dad's system and took his 2x8GB kit, he wouldn't even notice if I swapped it with a 2GB kit tbh

I took his 120GB SSD that he didn't even have Windows installed on, nor did he have any files on it

And I swapped out the liquid coolers (since his fit my old R9 290 better), and the GTX 760s that I had. Although I sort of gave him a better 760, as he needed an open air card that I had and I needed the clower card that he had

 

 

I'm a criminal 

I feel bad just typing this

 

You're a bad man!

[Guuhan]

Ofcourse they would, cuz my i5 doesn't fit into a laptop socket huehuehue !!!

 

im bored ok

[paddy-stone]

Most of my family wouldn't notice if I replaced the whole PC

[Sauron]

If I replaced the ssd in their core 2 duo machine, hell yes they'd notice. That's why we put an ssd in there in the first place.

 

Besides my father is a software engineer, so he would probably notice other changes too eventually (even though what he does on that particular computer isn't very intensive).

[Huntsman]

I could replace the monitor, keyboard and mouse and they wouldn't notice.

[ShadowCaptain]

Nobody else in my house has a computer so.....

[SaladFingers]

27 minutes ago, byalexandr said:

You didn't hear this from me!

 

 

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I swapped out my i3 4170 for my school's i5 4570 in one off the newer PCs. IT didn't care enough to notice nor should they I think lol

Before that I took 8GB of DDR3 RAM (although that was long before the i5, and it was the only other thing I took)

I put the 8GB in my dad's system and took his 2x8GB kit, he wouldn't even notice if I swapped it with a 2GB kit tbh

I took his 120GB SSD that he didn't even have Windows installed on, nor did he have any files on it

And I swapped out the liquid coolers (since his fit my old R9 290 better), and the GTX 760s that I had. Although I sort of gave him a better 760, as he needed an open air card that I had and I needed the clower card that he had

 

 

I'm a criminal 

I feel bad just typing this

 

You criminal!

 

When I was about 14 in school, we had a lab with a dozen computers. Well..... Two of them were missing one of their ram sticks 

 

Well, you should have seen how my Win XP machine ran with 2 gigs of ram!!!

 

I'm a criminal too.

[GreezyJeezy]

I'm the only one in the house with a computer  

[spellmanuk]

i could probably swap my moms whole laptop and she wouldnt notice i mean she didnt notice i swapped my phone from a iphone 5c to a 6 for like 6 months 

[KSores]

No but... I am too scared to do it because my dad knows the specs

[flowalex]

With my family my mom would notice the performance decrease due to the fact that we are both tab hoarders, plus I am the only one with a desktop.  My sister has the identical laptop model as me except her HDD died and my parents put a SSD in it, so she would notice the performance drop.  But I get to go through any old hardware and take what I can that still works before we send to to an ewaste recycle facility 

[Coaxialgamer]

No , they have an i7 + 8gb ram + dedicated gpu . For all they are doing , as long as they had an ssd , they wouldn't notice if they had a pentium , 4gb's of ram and the igpu.

 

But it's a laptop , so i can't take stuff out.

 

And i mean heck , my mom couldn't even tell the difference between the 5400rpm drive and an ssd ( which i installed without telling her ; we were speciffically wanting to see if she would notice it ) until we told her

[Albatross]

Good question!

 

A while ago they would not have noticed, but recently, they would. I tested it out once. I removed one stick of ram and waited to see if they noticed...they definitely did!

[Unhelpful]

My parent's PC? No. My sister's PC? Hell yes. She plays games... So she'd probably notice right away.

[mikat]

just upgraded my moms pc to the i5-6500 so she wouldn't notice but my dad would, he's on a core2duo laptop

[TetraSky]

I can't. My mother's PC is literally my old laptop, it's already slow enough as it is, and there's nothing in there I could possibly want. (Not to mention the screen failed so it's hooked to the TV via HDMI to get a display..)
 

My brother's PC is also some old garbage PC and it also has some of my old/spare components in it because his stuff died and he essentially "requisitioned" my old stuff using his "older brother privilege". Let's just say I throttle his network speed to 1/10 of what it should be because of that. He didn't notice AFAIK and it's been months.

As for the rest of my family(cousins, aunts, uncles, etc...), I don't know much about their computers, but as far as I know, none of them are PC gamers and quite a few of them just have low end laptops/old pentium 4 computers.

 

So all in all, I wouldn't replace their components with crappier stuff, it's already crappy enough so there's no advantage for me here.

[Jolyon]

16 hours ago, byalexandr said:

You didn't hear this from me!

 

 

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I swapped out my i3 4170 for my school's i5 4570 in one off the newer PCs. IT didn't care enough to notice nor should they I think lol

Before that I took 8GB of DDR3 RAM (although that was long before the i5, and it was the only other thing I took)

I put the 8GB in my dad's system and took his 2x8GB kit, he wouldn't even notice if I swapped it with a 2GB kit tbh

I took his 120GB SSD that he didn't even have Windows installed on, nor did he have any files on it

And I swapped out the liquid coolers (since his fit my old R9 290 better), and the GTX 760s that I had. Although I sort of gave him a better 760, as he needed an open air card that I had and I needed the clower card that he had

 

 

I'm a criminal 

I feel bad just typing this

 

M8 you're not alone! I dissected my school's Dell PC to swap my i5-2310 for a way faster i5-2500! Except I had to hide behind the common room fridge from the security camera lol

[Dabombinable]

Nope, and doing so is a dick move. You always upgrade their outdated PC (which is what I've been doing since I got my 4790K+GTX 970, and discovered that the next newest computer owned by a family member had a first gen i3 ULV 1.33GHz).