How do you deal with FanBoy friends while building your PC

[WereCat]

Hi, I am curious about how do you deal with your friends that think they know more than you and are trying to convice you from which brand you should buy components while building your PC.

 

Here is my story (if anyone give a damn also sorry for my english):

 

Im with PC's for over a dekade now. I always though I know a lot about PC's but that was just me fooling myself. I knew basic stuff but as I was only gamming I lost track about technology. A while ago I was upgrading from my old AMD Athlon PC with ATI 3000 series GPU to my new system because games even on 1024x768 resolution started to stutter a lot. I had some money at the time so I went for online shopping and asking my friends. I was really happy with my old AMD setup so I decided to go for AMD again, I told it to one of my friend over skype ... after he heard that I am considering AMD CPU.. I swear.. if he was right next to me then he would kill me. I never heard him yell like that. I had to pass the call (because of arguments like.. my friend got AMD and it broke in 2 weeks..blabla). I let it be for a week and then I had conversation with my other friend ... almost same reaction. I started to wonder why its like that. So I decided to make some reasearch. And not just any research, because after while I started to be hungry after hardware knowledge. I discovered lots of great youtube channels this way with very informative content and great communities (LTT included). I had several builds in my plans and was filtering the bad ones out in the process until I got to the point where I am now. This research took me over half a year. I wanted to be completely sure that I will get exactly what I need because I dont earn that much money and I did not wanted to waste them (Gaming machine that can handle lots of video editing).

Now to the point:

As I was researching and making plans what to buy for my PC I was talking with my friends a lot about it and whenever they tried to convice me into buying A instead of B then I looked all informations about both and tired to explain them why are they wrong/right. I learned a lot this way and I hope I learned them something too.

Now Im trying to keep track of technology because I enjoy it and also to hep others with their builds.

 

What is your story?

 

[flibberdipper]

I just tell them to screw off. I do that to all fanboys that try to communicate with me.

[Loe]

Ask them for advice then just not use it.

[defunkt]

sod them.

[AlwaysFSX]

Just ignore them, if it works then it works.

[ericlee30]

I have always kept an open mind about all products and do my own research and decide that way. You can usually tell who is for one company or another and them people I just pass right by, but if they seem open minded I'm willing to listen, but in the end I always make the choices I want not what someone else tells me. I feel like the 13 years i have been doing this, I have made very few bad choices in my purchases.

[CAKEwasTRUE]

laugh and talk in a old fashion English voice saying: PC be FAR more superior

[WereCat]

Interesting, so lots of you rather avoid argument than to try teach them better. I can understand that. I just dont have that much friends so thats maybe why I care more about them.

[needmorewood]

i feel bad for them tbh. to be so closed minded about things is just a bad trait to have. AMD is great for mid tier stuff at an exceptional price compared to intel. if they can realize that then LOL.

there was a time (really long time ago) where intel was pretty much the only option but things have definitly changed.

[Mixzzz]

Say them that you arent a rich snob who can afford Intels high end products... Between you can always ask for help on this forum

[Hans Christian | Teri]

I don't give a damn what they think about my components.

[jamese669]

slap that bitch up the head and tell him/her to shut up and be a bit more open minded and less one sided!!

[LapX]

Most of my friends just tell me to buy a console. I slap them when that happens.

[dusty594]

Ignore them and disregard their opinion.

[TEDWARDS]

Ask them if they want crazy sales and a platform that can do 20 billion times more things

[JupiteL]

I listen to advice, but when it come to fanboyism, just ignore them. Seriously, you can't teach them to be better, they have to find their own way, it's just like religion.

[Maskot]

Same as yours, the other day I was in an argument with a friend who I built a pc for. He was convinced that a steambox was innovative, i told him it's no better than a $900 alienware (the smallest one). The cooling will be terrible and the performance will be terrible. In his mind, he thought the steam would replace consoles. After some explanation and more arguing he understood, steambox meant nothing. On the other hand, Steam OS was the true innovation and nothing else mattered. I'd go into more detail on why, but I am currently without a computer and this touchscreen keyboard is killing me.

[That Norwegian Guy]

Same as yours, the other day I was in an argument with a friend who I built a pc for. He was convinced that a steambox was innovative, i told him it's no better than a $900 alienware (the smallest one). The cooling will be terrible and the performance will be terrible. In his mind, he thought the steam would replace consoles. After some explanation and more arguing he understood, steambox meant nothing. On the other hand, Steam OS was the true innovation and nothing else mattered. I'd go into more detail on why, but I am currently without a computer and this touchscreen keyboard is killing me.

 

You need to try to shop for a sub-$150 m-ITX case to fit on the shelf of a hard-backed TV stand before you truly understand how innovative a Steambox really is. Every single m-ITX box has some kind of dealbreaker in its design. I just spent hundreds of hours fashioning out a gaming HTPC christmas present and the only case that both fit the dimensions (barely!) and that had full-size PSU as well as proper cooling, a full-size 5.25" and support for dual slot graphic cards was the Cooler master elite 130. And that is one ugly piece of shit case. But it will have to do, because there is no other option. It even exceeded my depth/ length specification by 5cm, but because of the legs it will just about fit but the front will stick out.

 

The Sugo SG07 would have been perfect, but it's overpriced as all F#)/(Y%& and it includes an unnecessary power supply when I already have one.

 

I think variations of Steamboxes will sell well enough, if nothing else then because m-ITX cases on the market are mostly shit.

 

Hopefully the Steambox will bankrupt a few companies, especially Lian Li, who couldn't be more clueless as to what people want if their engineers and analysts all were lobotomized.

[zxcvbnmmssdh]

My friend @Worth says that AMD is ghetto. I beg to differ. In certain situations, Intel or NVidia is better, but AMD has the price to performance market locked down. If I can go for a $200 AMD Processor that performs the same as a $300 Intel processor, I will go with the AMD unless there is a certain software that only works with Intel.

[LOST TALE]

I don't argue with people who try to convince you instead of having a mature conversation.

[mc141]

Ignore them if they insist they are smarter let them think it. ive learned that no matter how mutch you are right people will always treat you like an idiot. I know this from experiance at work. 90%of the time i tell my bosses something and they refuse to accept my answer. And when im right the refuse to acknowlege it or b.s. around it cuz they feel they are better and know no wrong.

in your case you could convince them u downloaded more ram and overclocked your monitor conector and and gotna 50% increase anf 30 more fps. Then laugh your ass off when you find out they spent half the night trying t do it.

[meatshield]

Here's my 2 cents worth.....I've recently begun a new build, it's been a while since my last one, so I've been out of the loop as far as hardware goes. I am looking for information, not opinions....especially from people that don't even use the components I'm inquiring about! As soon as they start talking trash about said component, this is were I shut them down. Always politely if on the internet, or if in person, I usually just poke them in the eye with a fork! That really makes them change the subject!!!!...Ok, I've never done that...but that's what I FEEL like doing LOL. Anyway, my point is, just glean as much information you can from these people and keep doing your research, eventually you WILL come to a conclusion as to what you need for your build. Please understand, I have 0 tolerance for such people as they don't bring much to the table as far as useful information. No sense arguing with them, you'll never get anywhere! Good luck!

[meatshield]

Me again...just reread you post....If they are really your true friends, then they would respect you as much as you respect them. As an example, my son is a die hard amd fan while I'm a die hard Nvidia fan. Sure we tease each other about our different point of views, but when a decision has to be made, we work together and respect each other. That's what it's all about!

[miyabwah]

Tell them to fuck off.

[dalekphalm]

Ask them if they want crazy sales and a platform that can do 20 billion times more things

I'm getting the very distinct impression that a few of you didn't read the opening post?

 

He's not talking about console fanboys...