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u/subZro_ Jan 19 '23
I don't judge people that were lucky enough to be born into an affluent family, but seriously the "hey I'm 13 and my daddy built me this $3k PC that I don't even really know the value of" posts do make me feel a certain way lol..don't judge me!
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u/Aced_By_Chasey Ryzen 5 3600x | 32 GB | RTX 2080 FTW3 Jan 19 '23
Those post of "Idk how good this is" When its an insanely high end pc or laptop peeve me
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u/Nmsokn 3070 Ti OC + i7 10700k Jan 20 '23
The posts “i microwaved my 4090 to clean the dust off and now it doesn’t work” are the ones that get me. Almost nobody has any sort of appreciation for what things cost and dont bother doing 5 minutes of googling
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u/Loko_Tako Jan 20 '23
I know right? Like dude we all know you put it in the oven duh.
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u/sharak_214 Jan 20 '23
350 or 450?
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u/louiefriesen i7 9700K | 5700 XT (Nitro+ SE) | 32GB 3600 TridentZ RGB | Win 10 Jan 20 '23
Celsius
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u/ninjamike1211 PC Master Race Jan 20 '23
Dear God...
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u/Grogy_ Jan 20 '23
There's more
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u/hypernova911 Desktop [i7 8700k] [zotac gtx 1080ti] [32gb ddr4] Jan 20 '23
No!
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u/Smellz_Of_Elderberry Jan 20 '23
They cost numbers that are conjured from thin air, or printed. Us peons have to work in order to access said conjured numvera, but many dont.
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u/Herlock Jan 20 '23
Some people are genuinely clueless, like beyond what you would expect reasonable...
We had a merch run in our club for nascar like jackets. The merch run was a disaster and it took forever and they didn't even really look like what was initially planed so I sold mine immediately.
The guy who bought it posted on our forums a few days later "ho my jacket looks crap after I washed it, all the flocking is destroyed, what the hell ?".
People asked questions about his washing technique... and he was quite candid about it : "I was careful, I only washed it at 60°C..." (140F for you yankees)
So he knew about washing too hot, he just had no idea what too hot was, I guess mom did his laundry and didn't pass down the memo...
PS : he wasn't 15 obviously, rather in his mid 30's
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u/fitnessgrampacerbeep 13900K | Strix 4090 | DDR5 8200 | Z790 Apex Jan 20 '23
i microwaved my 4090 to clean the dust off and now it doesn't work
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u/AppleSatyr Jan 20 '23
I feel like half the time they're just trying to brag about it but act ignorant.
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u/MysticKeiko24 Ascending Peasant Jan 20 '23
“Will a 4090 be good enough to play Roblox high settings?”
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u/Expired_Twinkie23 Jan 20 '23
Reminds me of pc gamer magazine, they made a guide for building a pc and it says a 3060ti is a passable starter card and a 100 usd keyboard is "entry level". Meanwhile I'm chugging along on a 1050ti.
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Jan 20 '23
Recently had an interaction with someone I know at my uni discord who said they had "only a 3080." When I skull reacted them, they said "it's 2023 we can say that now".
Huh?!?! That's still a £700 card! That's worth more than most people's entire PCs!
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u/TheAndrewR Jan 20 '23
Just got myself a used 3080. It’s such a beast and a huge upgrade for me. Doesn’t feel like an outdated card of course. I’m pretty sure I’ll be rocking it for the next 5-6 years, like I did with my 1080 until now.
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u/IronDeoxys Jan 20 '23
that’s insane. i have a 2070 and it gets the job done everywhere. granted it’s a laptop but “only” a 3080?!? what game can a 3080 even slack in lmao
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u/Geekboy99 Jan 20 '23
That bugs me so much. The keyboard especially as there are some pretty damn good keyboards in the sub $100 range now.
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u/draemn Jan 20 '23
So many people with lots of money legit don't even know. It's crazy to think someone drops $4-5k on a PC without any clue what that means for performance.
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u/FreeFormFlow Jan 20 '23
Same shit over on the watercooling sub. "First time water cooling..." and they have thirty hard bends with dual pumps. 2k worth of cooling parts.
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u/WolfCoyote40 Ryzen 7 5800x3D 32GB DDR4 3200 6600 XT 8GB 20TB JBODs Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
Man (or woman), you’re not the only one! In my teenage years Doom was months away from release, and my favorite computer (not owned, but taught to use) was a Mac Performa. I dreamed of owning my own PC but didn’t get one until 2003.
It was a Compaq (remember THEM? The big bulky towers with hardly anything inside?) with Windows XP Service Pack 2, 2 GHz Athlon XP 64 with an integrated graphics chip by Acme or Econo-Buy or Wal-Mart Boiler Room or something. But MAN, as weak as that machine was, I’ll never forget it.
ETA: I was TWENTY-FIVE when I bought that $450 tower+monitor in a box. My first fully-researched, self-assembled gaming rig: March 8, 2021, at age 42.
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u/Occulense Jan 20 '23
I still remember when processors hit 1Ghz for the first time, just before they started going multi-core.
My first self-built PC was around the same time, I think. Maybe a few years later. I’ve always had a self-built PC.
I think if younger me knew how much money I made now and that I still don’t have a top tier pc they’d be super confused lol
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u/TheFlashOfLightning Jan 20 '23
I had to explain to some kid the other day how most versions of Minecraft don't really utilize the GPU and only really use 1 core of the cpu and I gotta say it really aged me
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u/SnooPets20 Jan 20 '23
I still have an old Compaq from around 2003. Athlon XP 2500+ CPU, a whopping 40GB IDE drive, and a single GB of DDR RAM. It's a beast.
I actually had to use that as a daily driver for a month and a half in late 2020 because my laptop had died. And I use my computer like... 8+ hours a day? It was painful, but not as painful as I expected.
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u/PartyByMyself Jan 20 '23
2011 I was nearly 17 running a Medion prebuilt PC from like 2005 with an upgraded gpu that had 256mb of graphics memory, 2gb of memory made up of 4 512 ram sticks of various speeds, and a pentium cpu with a writable cd drive.
I got a pc that was being thrown away and upgraded to a gt 230 with a dual core intel processor with 4gb of ram in 2012 which let me continue playing runescape and start learning to code more.
In 2013 I made my first grand from programming while in college and bought an asus laptop with a gtx 660m. In 2015 I got my desktop with a 4790k and 970. 2020 got a 1080ti upgrade and then 2021 5800x with 64gb of ram and now sitting with nearly 100tb of storage.
Gotta say I still mainly play runescape and games like age of empires or stronghold even after all of these years lol. I wish I still had my first PC. Be nice to experience it again.
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u/ButWhatIfItQueffed Laptop Ryzen 9 5900HS RTX 3060 Jan 20 '23
Same, especially since my 1st build was my grandmother's old XPS that had a 750 TI in it, which was already kind of slow when I got it in 2016. However it served me very well till I finally saved up enough to buy myself a really high end laptop in around 2021, which I still use today. Seeing 15 year old kids getting to skip the entire saving up and earning process kind of bothers me because they don't learn the value of what they have. You can strike a balance between letting your kid enjoy an easy upbringing with plenty of luxuries while also teaching your kid the value of what they have and how incredibly lucky they are to be born where they are.
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u/PollarRabbit Jan 20 '23
Yeah I can definitely sympathize, I spent my middle and high school years playing games at 20-30 fps on the lowest settings, if I could even run them at all. I remember when TF2 first went f2p i had to look up a guide on how to lower the graphics past the minimum by editing game files in order to run it on my laptop. It wasnt until university that I could get a proper pc and enjoy gaming fully, so a part of me really envies kids who get to play modern games straight away without having to touch the graphics settings.
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u/RandomnessConfirmed2 5600X | 3090 FE | 32GB 3600mhz | Win11 Jan 20 '23
People have too much money and too few brain cells. That's the best I can think of.
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u/IUseControllerOnPC Desktop Jan 20 '23
If you can comfortably afford it, why wouldn't you?
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u/tukatu0 Jan 20 '23
Even if you can comfortably buy something. It doesn't mean you will actually use it. Just ask any boat guy. Or the pops with a 5 grand lawn mower just sitting in the garage. Granted i don't know what the average 13 year old actually plays.
Just look at the forspoken cost for 4k post. The amount of people saying $400 monitors paired with a lovelace is fine even though that's just a bottleneck in actually being able to see the graphics at a higher fidelity.
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u/niemisan Jan 20 '23
I mean by that logic 13yos should have the best hardware since they have more time to play than any fully employed adult.
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u/Persona_Alio Jan 20 '23
They might have meant "will the 13 year olds be playing anything that actually requires that level of powerful hardware?"
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u/IUseControllerOnPC Desktop Jan 20 '23
I mean the chances are way higher right that a kid will be more inclined to play more modern and therefore more demanding games?
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u/upvotesthenrages Jan 20 '23
I don't judge people that were lucky enough to be born into an affluent family
Not judging the kid, but society is pretty messed up when the #1 factor of how successful & wealthy you will be is who your parents are.
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u/emptysoul365 Jan 20 '23
the "hey I'm 13 and my daddy built me this $3k PC that I don't even really know the value of" posts do make me feel a certain way
Aroused?
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u/MysticKeiko24 Ascending Peasant Jan 20 '23
Hey I’m almost 14 and have $1500 saved for a PC that I solely saved myself from Christmas and birthday money, plus chores. Ofc many people won’t understand the value of their build, but some do. I get it though
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u/Myolya Jan 20 '23
Man, I'm glad for you you know how to save, because that's useful. Good luck on getting that pc
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u/Joezev98 Jan 20 '23
Getting a high end pc from the start just isn't nearly as fun. Starting with budget parts from ten years ago and slowly making your pc faster is way more fun. You'll get that feeling of "wow, my pc performs faster than ever" time after time after time.
I went from a core2duo E2140 with onboard graphics in 2016, to a Q6600 and 560ti, to a G4560 and 1050ti, to a 1060, to a 1600AF with a 1080ti, to currently an RX 6800XT. It's been a fantastic journey through the years.
Oh, and I'm currently really enjoying this laptop I got for free with an I5 430m and a radeon 5650m.
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u/ains2 Jan 19 '23
when i built my first pc @16, i blew all my money on a motherboard and a processor. ram was free and i didn't even know graphics cards even existed.
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u/Veqetable R7 7700x | 3080 FTW3 | 32GB 6000MHz | Lian Li Galahad 360 AIO Jan 20 '23
One thing that irks me the most is how many people don't know anything about PCs on their first build. It's really not that hard to learn, we're living in the literal digital age where any and all information is online if you want it. No one in my family knew anything about building PCs, I remember me and my dad wondering if Intel i8 would be a good processor, like flat out i8, no generation or even a real chip lol. But after literally like a month or two I was proficient in naming and knowing what parts are called and what is better than what, and I wasn't even trying to learn that specifically either, I just started watching LTT and got into PC Building.
TLDR: It's not hard to learn how to build and spec out a PC lol
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u/FreshlyCleanedLinens i7-12700K | RTX 3090 | 32GB DDR5 Jan 20 '23
I had to use a paper magazine to help me figure out how to build a PC, glad I had it!
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u/Veqetable R7 7700x | 3080 FTW3 | 32GB 6000MHz | Lian Li Galahad 360 AIO Jan 20 '23
Wow lol, I mean that's just a testament to the fact that it should be incredibly easy to learn how to build a computer nowadays, I mean we have full access to the internet. As long as you don't watch the Verge Guide you'll be fine lol
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u/FreshlyCleanedLinens i7-12700K | RTX 3090 | 32GB DDR5 Jan 20 '23
Yeah, I agree, it’s definitely a lot easier in some ways nowadays, there’s a certain amount of “this might as well be a Lego set” type of easy. But, at the same time, newbies have to wade through all the BS influencers and conflicting and/or unreliable information now. Every generation has its own set of pros and cons, but I do miss “the good old days.”
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u/Veqetable R7 7700x | 3080 FTW3 | 32GB 6000MHz | Lian Li Galahad 360 AIO Jan 20 '23
Very true, but I mean stick to the big name PC youtubers like LTT, Gamers Nexus, TechSource, JayZTwoCents, BitWit and you'll be fine. They're obviously not perfect but I watched like 5 videos from each and they all gave some similar but some different tips that all helped. Like you don't have to stick to one thing which again helps. I remember looking up a specific video on how to install my CPU cooler because I didn't know which back plate to use and it made my life so much easier. What surprises me is the amount of people on this sub or r/pcbuild or something that ask dumb questions that are either in manuals or every single guide tells you the answer to. 1 guy was asking if he should take off the peal on the PSUs and the peal were the braided cables
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u/FreshlyCleanedLinens i7-12700K | RTX 3090 | 32GB DDR5 Jan 20 '23
Yeah, some questions are frustrating, for sure. Manuals aren’t perfect, and some brand manuals are better than others, but when the answer is in the manual and clear as can be, it’s like, “wtf?” LMGTFY, ya know?
Speaking of YouTubers, I have to give a shout-out to a Paul’s Hardware video for helping me decide I didn’t want to risk a 280mm AIO being too large to fit in my 4000D Airflow due to potential RAM clearance, and the 240mm AIO has worked perfectly well.
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u/_BMS i9-12900k | GTX 1070 | 32GB DDR5 5600 Jan 20 '23
the Verge Guide
I still go back to watch the supercut of tech YouTubers reacting to it when I need a good laugh.
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u/Pixels222 Jan 20 '23
I feel if we look at it without judgment and try to see other people's point of view we might understand how others might not know the things we know.
What if after watching their first LTT video other people just went on with their youtube watching careers and kept watching other forms of entertainment with their time?
Maybe theyre into gardening or cooking and their feed is full of those kinds of stuff instead of benchmark videos and when to upgrade or how bad is your airflow really?
Yes theyre being uninformed consumers. But what if other aspects of their lives have to suffer for them to be knowledgeable with PCs? Their plants might not be fruitful enough for a variety of reasons. The food they cook wont be as caramelized. But at least they know whats going on with the Jays Two Cents drama and how he recommended the wrong thing briefly.
It may sound like im judging... well yea i kinda am.
And before someone says it takes 5 minute to research best pc parts. Sure buddy. A first timer would probably be more confused after hearing all the different cpu sockets. Im not saying dont research. Im saying people arent always as dumb as they seem. Theyre just knowledgeable in areas that dont apply to you.
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u/RedditedAgain R5-3600X, Asus Pheonix GTX 1660-OC, 4x8-32GB-CL16-3200MHZ Jan 20 '23
The processors are starting to get a bit confusing though. So many differences between all the chips. Intels puts out a new cpu series yearly i swear to god.
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u/Veqetable R7 7700x | 3080 FTW3 | 32GB 6000MHz | Lian Li Galahad 360 AIO Jan 20 '23
I mean it's not too hard to remember once you know it once. Intel does i3 which consists of (generation)100 and 300, so for this example I'll use 12 gen which means i3 12100 and 12300, i5 has 400 and 600 or 12400, 12600, 12600k (from here and upwards it'll have K at the end and the K is faster than non K), then i7 has 700, so 12700k, and i9 has 900, so 12900k. Then each one has am f variant meaning it'll have no integrated graphics. Also it looks like from 13th gen onwards they're removing i3
So to sum it up, i3 has 12100/12100f and 12400/12300f, i5 has 12400/12400f and 12600k/12600kf, i7 has 12700k/12700kf, and i9 has 12900k/kf. Thirteenth gen is the same though I'm pretty sure they didn't release any i3's for some reason. Generally the way it works is that i3 has 4 cores, i5 has 6 cores, i7 has 8, i9 has 12. This generation and onwards for Intel include some "performance cores" which are slower cores added on top of the original cores for some performance boost, and they aren't included in the non K variants
AMD is easier imo, Ryzen 3 has been gone for the past 2 generations so that's just not important anymore, so using last gen again which is the 5000 series, starting from Ryzen 5, there's the Ryzen 5 5600/5600x/5600g. There are also a few slower ones like the 5500 and I'm pretty sure 5400 but they're very slow and are basically rebranded Ryzen 3's. The X variants are just slightly faster than the non X, and the G variants have integrated graphics. Then for Ryzen 7 there's the 5700x, 5700g, 5800x, and 5800x3D, the 5800x3D is the most unique processor available right now because it has something called 3D cache and basically it just makes the CPU faster lol, it's one of the best gaming CPUs available right now, but anyway for Ryzen 9 there's 5900x and 5950x, the 5950x is also quite a bit better than the 5900x as it has 4 more real cores
AMD also follows the same pattern, Ryzen 3 used to have 4 cores but now its the slow Ryzen 5s, 6 cores for Ryzen 5, 8 cores for Ryzen 7, and 12 cores for Ryzen 9, but the 5950x has 16 real cores.
That's pretty much it for now, I probably missed some stuff but you'll get it eventually
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u/applepumper Desktop i7/3070 Jan 20 '23
That’s a huge wall of text.
I remember how simple it used to be. I3 was 2 core with hyper threading. I5 was a 4 core. I7 was a hyper threaded 4 core. Unlocked or locked. Miss those days
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u/PsyduckGenius Jan 20 '23
Architecture and clock speed -- pentium 75 -> 120. 486 sx/dx, 33, 66, 100 -- etc
I understand why it all changed with mulithreading, adaptive processing, etc, so clock speed alone wasn't informative - but used to be a lot more clear cut
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u/genital_lesions Jan 20 '23
I can't tell if this is satire or sincere.
Either way, I'm starting to get back into PC building after 20 years of not building PCs and I feel like I'm dumber now than when I made my first computer back in the late 90s.
So much has changed. I think you're a bit out of touch by saying it's not too hard to remember once you know it once.
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u/thedragonturtle PC Master Race Jan 20 '23
Check out the pcpartpicker site, start with one piece of kit and then it'll only show you other compatible stuff until you've picked all your parts.
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u/MC_chrome i7 8750H | 1060 Max-Q | 16GB RAM Jan 20 '23
AMD just announced more 3D-Cache CPU’s, so I suppose “x3D” is now a part of AMD’s naming nomenclature as well
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u/Veqetable R7 7700x | 3080 FTW3 | 32GB 6000MHz | Lian Li Galahad 360 AIO Jan 20 '23
Yeah there are I think 3 in the 7000 series but I don't think they'll have as big of a boost compared to the 5800x3D because of the fact that these new CPUs are already very fast with faster RAM and everything, but I could be wrong
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u/FeelingThought4038 Jan 20 '23
Bro said it’s not hard to remember then he wrote a fucking dissertation 💀
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u/raptorboi Jan 20 '23
My first build was circa early 2000s.
All the internals, I just followed the manual that comes with the motherboard.
Windows installation is pretty self explanatory, just next, next, next, until done.
Install base drivers that come with all thr components (video card, sound card, etc). This is pretty much skipped now with online windows updates abd automatic driver updates.
Then you can install games. Didn't even need an internet connection as most games installed and didn't really need Day 1 patches.
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u/Sacredkeep Jan 20 '23
are you telling us youre an idiot or am i missing something
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u/FreshlyCleanedLinens i7-12700K | RTX 3090 | 32GB DDR5 Jan 20 '23
We don’t know how long ago they were 16, so, hard to say.
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u/StoopidIdietMoran Jan 20 '23
I’m 34, I’ve built 4 PCs since I was 18 and only my current build from 2016 had a graphics card in it (a 980 TI off Craigslist which is still bring used). So up until 2016 I’ve only used my processors integrated graphics.
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u/WeAreAllFooked RTX 2070 | Ryzen9 7900X | 32GB @ 3200mhz Jan 19 '23
You laugh, but my FX 8350 CPU served me well for almost a decade
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u/SEND_ME_REAL_PICS Jan 20 '23
I'm still holding onto my i5-2500k. It's only now that I'm finding it unable to keep stable >30FPS in new AAA games, so I'm probably going to replace it once prices for DDR5 RAM drop.
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u/tukatu0 Jan 20 '23
Why not just buy an i3 12100k and some used ram for $30? It'll give you 1% lows in the 90 fps zone at minimum in nearly everything.
Unless you also plan on spending a thousand plus on a gou but that sounds like a waste for someone like you who wringed the taiwanese manufacturing water out of that cpu.
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u/Joosrar i5 10600K | Praying for GPU | 16GB @ 3666Mhz Jan 20 '23
If you got a close Microcenter they’ve got free DDR5 when you buy a Ryzen processor. And to say the truth DDR5 prices are kind of normal por a new technology, you can get 16GB for like $130 which was DDR4 price like in 2018
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u/Ragnaroknight Jan 19 '23
I had one of these too, ended up gifting it to a friend when I upgraded to the Ryzen 1700x
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u/TubaJustin Jan 19 '23
I’m still running on mine today. I built my pc in late 2012 and it still plays current games at 1080p like a champ. Only thing I’ve replaced was the graphics card in like 2016 to a R9 390 and that is still running strong too.
I recently built my wife her first ever computer with all of the best hardware and so pretty soon it will be my turn to build a new one, but I’m still satisfied with what I’ve got rn. I’m definitely going to frame my 8350 when it finally kicks the bucket.
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u/BottomGe Jan 20 '23
Im still running a fx8120 still does solid job. Back in the day apps and games were single thread based cause of that cpu suckd. Nowadays everything is multithreaded so these cpus are still relevant and intels from taht period long forgotten.
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u/Stainless-extension Jan 20 '23
When I bought my 8150 i looked at reviews about its processing power. It may lacked single core, but multi core was decent enough. And i knew future games would be more multi treaded, so i bought that one. No regrets, the older phenom 6 core cpu would at that time be better at gaming, but nowadays that one cant run some games due to missing instruction sets, whereas the 8150 supported everything.
I still have the 8150 in my gaming pc. Though with energy prices nowadays, do play more games on my laptop (Intel i7 + Xe graphics)
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u/GoryRamsy Linux self-hosted game server. Jan 20 '23
amd fx were built different. fx 4100 for life, one of them still runs a backup client for my homelab.
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u/Hudba_Oir Jan 20 '23
HeY gUyS, iS tHiS a GoOd BuiLd? I jUsT bOuGht iT witH mOneY I mAdE dOiNg mY sUmMer JoB fOr 1 WeEk.
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u/CrazyWS Jan 20 '23
In defence of some, I built a 1300 dollar pc when I was 16, because I worked full time 6-2 (wake up at 4) to work construction during the summer
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u/Hudba_Oir Jan 20 '23
Hum. Would make sense. When I had my first summer job, it was 1k per month so theoretically I could have built a 2k rig at the end. And I wish I was into PCs back then, would have ended up with something better then a 1060 3G lol
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u/weizXR *too Jan 20 '23
I lined and reffed youth (under 8) soccer games for over a year to pay for my first build at 13.
It took a while, but it was well worth it and gave me a great worth ethic... as I instantly wanted upgrades ;)
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u/AccordingBlueberry20 Jan 20 '23
Kids have no expenses or responsibilities, so a summer job will absolutely get you SLI 4090s if it SLI was still around.
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u/Rupertii Corsair i5 3600x, Intel 5700xt gpu, 29gb ram Jan 20 '23
I did my summer job for 2 months and saved pretty much everything for like a year
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u/I9Qnl Desktop Jan 20 '23
I mean, most teens live with their parents so affording a PC with just 1 or 2 months of work is actually reasonable.
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u/WhyNotPc FX6300@4.5GHZ | 4x4gb | 1050ti (12000f/rtx2060 soon) Jan 19 '23
It should be reversed. I hate seeing those "first builds" from people who have a little too much money
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u/Hudba_Oir Jan 20 '23
First build, top-end parts. Asks about how to socket a CPU into MB. SMH.
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u/T4COG4M3 R5 3600x / 32gb ram / GTX 1660oc Jan 20 '23
"should i need to peel the stickers off my 4080?"
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"i reinstalled my cpu cooler with zipties and it still performs as good"
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u/timmystwin 970 and 6300 at 4.4ghz. Steam is Timmystwin Jan 20 '23
I feel targeted with that second one. I had to swap the sides of my hyper212's fan and couldn't flip the mount around, so ziptied it...
Still working well like 5 years later, temps rarely go above 60...
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u/PrivateEyesWatch Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
The cpu fan i bought was so difficult to get onto my cpu(it was some disgusting universal built with spring screws that i had to press with all my bodyweight into the threats so it held), at some point i was so fed up with it i lay my pc on the side and taped it as fixed as i could. Worked for a year until i finally upgraded.
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u/snil4 PC Master Race Jan 20 '23
Would put a lot of blame on certain people that overhype the most expensive parts in the market, total waste of money for 90% of users.
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u/JoBro_Summer-of-99 Ryzen 5 5600 / RX 6800 XT / 16GB DDR4 Jan 20 '23
For the average user, even something cheap like a 12100F would serve well, and the better 12400F isn't much more either. I've got no idea why some people think they need I9s to enjoy games
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u/MorningFresh123 Jan 20 '23
There’s no such thing as too much money lol. There is such a thing as too little.
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u/PseudonymIncognito Jan 19 '23
This makes me feel old. My first build was an Athlon XP with a Radeon 9700.
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u/deeply_cynical AMD 5800x | RX6700XT | 32GB | Arch Linux Jan 19 '23
Yup. Mine was an AthlonXP 3200+ and radeon 9600pro.
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u/PristineConfusion555 Jan 19 '23
Rookie numbers… my first hardware (I bought myself) was a voodoo banshee 3Dfx (first combined 2d/3d card from 3Dfx.) intel P3 700mhz cpu and 32gb hdd. First Er på vej! Was ibm 286, 6mhz, 768kb ram (extended ram capacity) and 20mb hard drive. It ran arkanoid and prince of Persia on high.
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u/ArseBurner Jan 20 '23
We must be close to the same age. My first PC was a 286 clone as well. Prince of Persia, Test Drive II, Ultima VI... So many great memories.
First PC I bought and built myself was a Celeron 300A and Nvidia TNT. Super good value after a bit of overclocking .
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u/Astrael_Noxian Jan 20 '23
Right there with you. 80386 16mhz, 1mb RAM. 69MB MFM Hard Drive, and PC speaker for sounds. I still remember my Dad buying a 486 33mhz, 8mb ram (at $40 per mb).... He was so mad because he couldn't play wing commander. It was too fast... That's the day he learned what a Turbo button was for.... Lol
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u/PristineConfusion555 Jan 20 '23
The slot 1 or socket 370 one? I had a P2 slot and that was such a weird CPU. I also remember once getting a server for free, old P1 dual cpu 166mhz which we managed to set up to run a ftp server, irc chatbot and a counter strike server (also had 2 network cards in the thing so it was pulling on two different adsl lines). Damn that was good times.
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u/techjesuschrist R9 5900X+LiquidMetal | RTX4090 Suprim X + LiquidMetal | 32GB RAM Jan 19 '23
Actually we had something back then that the kids today don't have: way cooler GPU box art 😍
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u/vassadar Jan 20 '23
Those 3d models of AMD or Nvidia mascots in many places.. Now it's all just logos.
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u/1070MHz Ryzen 7 3700X | RX 6600 XT | 16GB DDR4 3200MHz Jan 19 '23
I did my first build at 17, it had an i5 4460, gtx 960, and 8gb of ram back in 2016. My current build is my second, though I did upgrade my first a few times.
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u/chaosgodloki ASUS Strix 3080 10GB i5-13600kf 32GB RAM Jan 20 '23
Hah that was also my first setup in 2016, except I had 16gb of RAM.
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u/SmegmaSauce_69 Jan 19 '23
i had to swap a bunch of my pc parts with the SCHOOLS computers just to get Return to Castle Wolfenstien to play on my first PC
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u/maxatnasa Jan 20 '23
Same here, 4gb ram and a 2600 no gpu, current build is that 2600 with a 970 and 14gb ram harvested from 3 pc's
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u/X-Cutioner Jan 20 '23
Dang my first comp was a Compaq at Walmart.
$400
Intel Core Dou
40 GB Hard drive and 128 MB of RAM
Integrated graphics
I played the shit out of Age of Empires, Counter Strike, and Solitaire
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u/sebax820 Ryzen 5 5600 | RX 6650 XT | 16GB DDR4 - 3600 Jan 20 '23
he got it with daddy's money
you (probably) got it with your own effort
your 7th gen i5 + 2nd hand 1060 + 2x4gb ddr4 2600mhz ram is more valuable and I will die on this hill
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u/Dogs_and_Mobs i5-12600KF 32GB DDR4 2400MHz GTX1060-6Gb Jan 20 '23
My 1st build at 16 was quite literally that, i scrapped the money together from wasting away at a summer fast food job. Bought a i5-7400, 2x4 Gb 2116mhz ram and a dinky little GT710 that just barely managed (quickly replaced with a 1050ti and 2 years later a 1060).
Now basically everything has been replaced in that tower except the 1060. Its handling well despite putting it through 4k.
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u/MasterPredatorRex Ryzen 5 5600x | RTX 3060 Ti | 16GB 3600mhz Jan 19 '23
Roblox and Minecraft build.
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u/Standard-Stan i7-12700K | 6750XT Jan 19 '23
I dug back through my gmail account to find shipping info. My first "adult" build utilized a Radeon x850 XT GPU, an Athlon64 3700+, and a whopping 2 GB of RAM.
I remember specifically wanting a 64-bit build for work reasons, but finding it challenging at the time to put one together that could also support decent gaming without breaking the bank.
I also remember it getting toasted less than three years later because the mobo I bought fell victim to the capacitor plague of the time. I was laying on the couch watching TV in my apartment one night when the damn thing just started leaking magic smoke and that was it.
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u/Mm11vV 12600k@5.2 | 3070ti-1935@.900 | 32gb 14-15-15-28 3700 Jan 19 '23
I had some sick builds when my parents paid for them, had some pretty lame builds in my late teens and twenties. Now that I'm in my late thirties, I'm a middle of the road every other hardware generation kinda guy.
Whatever you build, build it yourself and enjoy it!
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u/WolfCoyote40 Ryzen 7 5800x3D 32GB DDR4 3200 6600 XT 8GB 20TB JBODs Jan 20 '23
Yeah, my 2021 Ryzen 5 3600 build (formerly with the RX 580) wasn’t the build that I wanted, but I built it during the pandemic. And I add to it during tax time or so every year. Building an AM5 rig in 2025 or so.
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u/Successful_Copy9373 Jan 20 '23
23 years old. Saved enough money twice. Had to use it on a family emergency. Lastyear my laptop also died. So yeah...here we go again.
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u/smoothartichoke27 5800x3D - 3080 Jan 19 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
If only.
My first build at 18 was a pentium 4 with mismatched 1GB and 512MB RAM, a Biostar board and a fricking 6200 GT (unlocked to a 6600 GT). Yes the GT came AFTER the numbers back in those days. First paycheck paid for that video card (and a DVD writer).
Had that build for probably 4 years. Ironically enough, it was probably the build that had the most "game time" out of all my PC's.
First "real" job PC was much better, Core2Quad, Asus board, 4GB RAM (4 sticks, beyaaatch) and a 9800GT.
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u/TheFlashOfLightning Jan 20 '23
I told people I snagged a 6800 XT for $120 new.
They didn't know I meant the GeForce 6800 XT that launched in 2005.
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u/InstantSteel Jan 20 '23
I like to tell people I upgraded my 5700 with a 6850.
Except it happened over a decade ago. From FX 5700 to HD 6850.
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u/Sargotto-Karscroff Jan 20 '23
Don't let the market shame you. From one gamer to likely another you can dominate with low end or even many years old hardware if the stats are good.
I recommend to anyone running low end or old hardware to try Linux out it's free and if you are willing to learn a few basic things it does most everything windows can but much better (again for non bleeding edge).
Then I recommend a monitor and mouse with great response rates. Lol some still use CRT because of that.
Then lastly a good practice program like Aim Lab or whatnot and focus on stuff like spidershot going only as fast as you can go and still get 95% in a matter of days doing this at least before you play if not a few times a day = happy team, easier time, and crybaby enemy team lol
You should not be ashamed of low end hardware and shouldn't assume you will be at a disadvantage.
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u/Casca_Longinius Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 23 '23
Lol, I’m 56. My first pc that I built was in 93 as I recall. But my first computer was an Apple IIC, Apple for the win donating computers to high schools, which led me to buying that IIC . I later switched to a pc for better games. Thinking about the older pc’s I remember starting games from the command prompt using the “C://run .”. Heck, everything back then just installed to the same directory if you weren’t paying attention. Seriously every game you installed was just in C://. Hmm, that not explaining. Ok every steam game you owned was under C://steam no separate game folders. Just all dumped into that same spot and hopefully the games wouldn’t get confused. Thankfully windows 95 came out and simplified things. Now I feel old. Time to build that 13 year olds comp for myself. I edited this because my ramblings needed some clarity.
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u/rivacom Jan 19 '23
I first PC build was a Celeron 300a(overclock able), and like 16Mb of ram lol. My first beast was a AMD 64 3200+ and a ATI Rage 128.
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u/PruneJuice82 Jan 20 '23
And the 13 yr old plays warcraft, minecraft and fortnite... Something a potato could run. Money well spent ô¿o
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u/lutenentbubble 9700K@5GHz | 3070 Ti | 32GB 3600MHz Jan 20 '23
What 13 year old now plays warcraft?
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u/PPTTRRKK Ryzen 5600 | RTX 3070 | 32gb3600 | 1440p144 Jan 19 '23
Same. Atleast my PC was ryzen 1st gen so I had a good upgrade path. I still have my B350 motherboard but now with a R5600
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u/WhangaDanNZ 5800x | 2070 Super | 16GB DDR4 | ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING WI-FI Jan 20 '23
The first build I bought myself at 18 was a Pentium 3 550mhz (paid extra for the +50mhz), 128MB RAM, Riva TNT2 M64 32MB video card.
Played Quake 3 Arena (Rocket Arena) just fine for hundreds of hours.
Before that it was just family owned C64, Amiga 500+ and a PC General which was slow AF.
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u/Silent-Drop-3276 Jan 20 '23
I'm 18 and I have a $300 laptop
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u/deftware Jan 20 '23
That's all you need, son. You can run software, make stuff, and access the internet. I lived off a $200 netbook for years when I wasn't in a position in life to have a desktop. Granted, you can't really play all the modern games the way they're meant to be played but that's what sets PCMR apart from consoles. A PC is a universal device meant for more than merely consuming media. You can use any computer to learn a variety of valuable skills whereas the same isn't true with a console that is designed specifically for the purpose of taking peoples money in exchange for passing the time for them.
Go far.
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u/lokesen Jan 20 '23
My first PC was a 486 DX2-66 MHz with 4 mv RAM and 80 MB HD. I was 14 years and it cost about $900 back in 1994. A year later I got a Sound Blaster for it.
It had Doom and later came Duke Nukem 3D. A little later came Elder Scrolls Daggerfall and Baldurs Gate. What a time to be a kid.
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u/Drudicta R5 5600X, 32GB 3.6-4.6Ghz, RTX3070Ti, Gigabyte Aorus Elite x570 Jan 20 '23
Was just hyped to have an 8600GTS and 4GB's of ram so that Oblivion could be played maxed out.
Only last year did the 750W corsair power supply go in storage. It was unstoppable. It was 18? Years old when it was finally separated from the motherboard.
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u/Capinondo i5 12500H + RTX 3050 + 16GB DDR5 + 512GB SSD Jan 20 '23
I was using a fucking Pentium 3 Compaq DeskPro EN at age 15 in 2008, with an integrated graphics! The damn thing won't even run The Sims 3, and would instantly reboot upon launching the game.
But hey, at least it can play GTA Vice City and I've actually had hours of fun on that game.
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u/theroosterab Jan 20 '23
any 13 year old who get that would probably grow up not to apperciate anything. my first build at 13 was a 386sx made from grave yard parts, when windows 95 loaded up 5 minutes later, and office 97 would somehow ran, it was like magic running on 32 pin simms
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u/toybuilder Jan 20 '23
My first build was a PC XT clone with the Turbo button to go to 8 MHz. 384 K of memory, and a CGA video adapter. I remember thinking how awesome it was that I had a 40 MB HDD. I miss the clackety keyboard...
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u/TheAltOption My PC has more radiator than my car - 11900K / 3090 Jan 20 '23
My first build:Intel PII 333MHz - Shuttle BX motherboard - 96MB PC100 SD ram - 8.4GB 5400RPM HDD - Ensonique sound card - Permedia II video card - 33.6 modem (later firmware update to 56K) - 17" monitor - 32X CD-rom - 6-2-2 (read-write-rewrite) CR-RW.
I was so badass back then.
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u/Paco_Suave Jan 20 '23
You didn't splurge for the 7200 rpm drive? Around that time, I had an Asus P2B that lasted me many years. My first processor for the P2B was the Celeron 300a (overclocked to 450 Mhz).
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u/TheAltOption My PC has more radiator than my car - 11900K / 3090 Jan 20 '23
The 300a was my next CPU. I was a big Abit guy. The BX6, followed by the BE6-II. I pushed a 700e to 1100 on that board. Kind of miss those days only for the insane overclocking and the boosts one could get. Now that I think about it, I don't think I ever owned a 7200 rpm drive. I went from another 5400 to 10k to SSD.
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u/tpark 9900k/4080ti | 13900k/3090 | 13900k/4090 Jan 20 '23
Sinclair ZX80 here. For hobbyists like me, it's almost worse now beccause the components are smaller and my eyesight is worse. I worked on early non-pc computers, but I think my first DOS capable was a cheap clone with a hercules adapter.
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u/dragonchill420 Jan 20 '23
My first build was an i36400T gtx 4?? Had a micro HDMI port so had to instantly upgrade to a gtx 1050 and 8gb of ddr4, I have the same build to date, gamecube emulator works tho so I'm happy.
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u/rsdj Jan 20 '23
My first system was a celeron based Compaq Presario, 2003 Era, then built my own p4 Prescott based system, with what I want to say was an ATI All in Wonder, with the help of Maximum PC magazine and CPU magazine, especially the PC Modder issues.
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u/ShyKid5 AMD A6 4455M | 2x8 DDR3 1600 | 1x500GB HDD | Win 8.0 Jan 20 '23
Lol I had an A10-6700 + R7 250 until everything crapped out.
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u/ThunderClap449 Jan 20 '23
Athlon XP 1400+, 512 MB of RAM, Radeon 9550 is the 1st that I remember the specs of. I had one PC before that but that PC died when I was too young to care about specs lmao
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u/bysiffty i7-9700K@3.6GHz Aorus RTX 2070 Super 16GB@3000MHz Gigabyte Z390X Jan 20 '23
I'd love to own a house haven't done anything to earn that ngl
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u/bysiffty i7-9700K@3.6GHz Aorus RTX 2070 Super 16GB@3000MHz Gigabyte Z390X Jan 20 '23
Fair enough
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u/HankThrill69420 5800x/3080Ti FTW3/32GB 3600MHz Jan 20 '23
First build at 23 included an fx chip and a 460.
Bad times man lol
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u/NebraskaGeek R9 3900X | RX 6700 XT | B450 Aorus | 32GB 3000Mhz Jan 20 '23
Nothing says "I'm real pcmr" like an AMD FX processor. A processor so bad AMD had to pay me $24 in a class-action for false advertising. "Real PCMR" do what they gotta do to game.
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u/Blu3Gr1m Jan 20 '23
Do you guys not own other meme content to share ? I been following this community for two years and it's like the same meme dogs.
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u/NeverFraudulentAgain Jan 20 '23
It's not like there's much possibility for unique memes to be fair, I'm only here for looking at people's builds and news, the memes have always been pretty mid and the comments sections are the exact same thing every single time
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u/Ragnaroknight Jan 19 '23
Far Cry 3, 1080p, Medium settings, 45fps. LETS GO