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Tetris effect. Building a PC is pretty easy, but things can go sideways if you literally do zero research or don’t understand that those little machine screws don’t need to be torqued to 80 ft-lbs. The trickiest parts of building a PC are: 1. Matching numbers (what type of motherboard does your AMD AM4 processor need? Hint: it’s AM4) 2. Not using the entire tube of thermal paste when mounting the CPU cooler 3. Hooking up your case electronics to the motherboard header 4. Driver/first boot computer janitoring I think right now you can build an absolute screamer that will do 70-100fps at 1080p for maybe $1200 (including monitor) for everything outside of mouse, keyboard, speakers, etc.
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Gonna have to build a beast machine when Elden Ring finally gets released. Did he spend 5k on a prebuilt? You could build an absolute god machine on your own with that kind of money. poo poo you could build two top of the line machines for that. He really is a beautiful dummy.
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It's a lot easier than it used to be since there are now sites that will check your build and make sure you aren't loving yourself by buying the wrong kind of RAM for your motherboard and everything will fit in the case. Even with that, I still posted my parts in the SH/SC parts picking thread the last time I built something because I don't hang out in hardware forums all day and it was nice to have someone tell me that unless I planned on overclocking, I was spending $200 more than I needed to on a chip.
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Yes there is at least one site for parts picking now that will tell you if it’s compatible
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Nov 25, 2019 16:20
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yes there is at least one site for parts picking now that will tell you if it’s compatible I want to say it's pcpartpicker.com?
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prefect posted:I want to say it's pcpartpicker.com? yeah it's pcpartpicker dot com
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loling at the notion of spending five thousand dollars on a computer. If you gave me that much to build a PC, I'd struggle to spend it without purposely wasting money on goofy poo poo
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Pharmaskittle posted:loling at the notion of spending five thousand dollars on a computer. If you gave me that much to build a PC, I'd struggle to spend it without purposely wasting money on goofy poo poo I spent ~1200 building mine four or five years ago and it still runs everything I want and well. I think the only thing I've updated it the SSD for more space. I cannot imagine the specs on a 5,000 dollar computer.
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Pharmaskittle posted:loling at the notion of spending five thousand dollars on a computer. If you gave me that much to build a PC, I'd struggle to spend it without purposely wasting money on goofy poo poo Yeah, without going on a custom water loop or something I can't even figure out how you spend that much on a PC. If I was a streamer I'd probably rather spend $3,000 on a gaming rig and then spend the rest on a streaming rig so you can keep those systems separate.
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Nov 25, 2019 17:32
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he's a dum dum who makes a 6 figure salary, of course he is going to buy whatever comes up first in a google search for "gaming computer" when you filter for the highest price range
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Nov 25, 2019 17:37
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Extremely cursed thread https://twitter.com/thestagmania/status/1198229865918615554
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Nov 25, 2019 17:39
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It's not that hard if you know what hardware is out there. There are 8TB SSDs. AMD's 3970X is $2000 by itself. 64GB of RAM, some obscene nvidia 2080 . . . but none of this could be truly necessary for a home user
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TheBigAristotle posted:Extremely cursed thread hahaha I love when someone makes a lovely thread like that and ends it with MUTING AND ENJOYING MY DAY.
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I've spent 5k or more total upgrading my PC over the last 15 years or so, but it's a ship of Theseus situation at this point. This most recent upgrade was the most dramatic, since I only kept the old SSDs, video card, and peripherals. First time I've ever actually changed cases, so truly no original parts remain. Seconding that building your own is extremely easy these days. The only part more complicated than plugging things into other things is not going overboard with the thermal paste. If you feel like you need a new computer, you can almost certainly just identify the weakest part or two in your current setup and replace it to see a dramatic improvement for a fraction of what it'd cost to buy prebuilt.
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my first hard drive was ~500 MB and it was the expensive option, it still blows my mind that 8gb RAM is the minimum for some games nowadays. Also a literal toddler can understand how computer go together, see as I was a toddler when I first upgraded my computer. (I hated the PC speaker, so disconnect it!)
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Nov 25, 2019 17:46
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I bought a PS4 for $350 and its pretty good, I play games on it on my television
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T-man posted:my first hard drive was ~500 MB and it was the expensive option, it still blows my mind that 8gb RAM is the minimum for some games nowadays. Haha, nice. My first computer that I really had a hand in was a 486DX2/33 that had to get a bump up to 8 MEGABYTES of RAM from 4 just to play SC2K and Doom well enough. 500 meg hard drive, too. PC speaker was so loving atrocious, though. I got a 14.4 external modem, SB Pro, and Doom 2 for Christmas one year. That was a hell of a loving upgrade. (I wanna say that was when I was 9 or 10, I forget the exact age without going to Wikipedia to find out when Doom 2 came out, haha)
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emdash posted:It's not that hard if you know what hardware is out there. There are 8TB SSDs. AMD's 3970X is $2000 by itself. 64GB of RAM, some obscene nvidia 2080 . . . Buying enterprise grade stuff to play CS 1.6 is kind of a joke. Like I went semi all out and couldn’t justify the idiot tax on a few things (like a 2TB Samsung NVMe drive) and didn’t want to get a 2080 and an AIO to actually make it fit in the case... but I still wound up with i9 9900k, 32GB of RAM, a 2070, and a 34” Alienware monitor for $2500 all said and done.
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Halloween Jack posted:Charlotte Clymer helped me to understand that trans people are just people, and some people are repulsive careerist neoliberal shills. Did she ever offer up any response to Mothers comments about trans rights being a problem for women
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Nov 25, 2019 18:45
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Consoles are for children, hth
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Juul-Whip posted:Did she ever offer up any response to Mothers comments about trans rights being a problem for women
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Nothus posted:Consoles are for children, hth The more money you spend on gaming the more adult the hobby becomes This is why guys playing Warhammer look like they're enjoying it as much as doing taxes or calling an insurance company
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Nothus posted:Consoles are for children, hth I'd agree but Bloodborne is the GOAT.
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Nov 25, 2019 21:00
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Friendship ended with Chapo Trap House, now Chairman Daou House is my friend
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Will has had some bad takes on the TL. We cannot have these purity tests!
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Groovelord Neato posted:Will has had some bad takes on the TL. We cannot have these purity tests! will has very bad taste in most stuff except maybe movies
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Will likes The Fall so he’s alright with me
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Will’s right, Daou sucks, it’s cool that he’s voting for Bernie now but given his history of being a massive dumbass I dunno why anyone thinks he’s an asset and not a liability
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Nov 25, 2019 22:37
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i don't think anyone's plan for revolution relies on support from peter daou
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Wolfsheim posted:The more money you spend on gaming the more adult the hobby becomes I mean, you're right. Most recent games I've dabbled with end up being essentially second jobs that demand massive pay to win or hardcore poopsocking
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the daou faceturn stuff was kind of funny at the beginning but yeah the joke's getting a little old Well he's not wrong at least, bernie is the best one of the bunch by a wide margin
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Nov 25, 2019 22:46
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being from the american south, i will relate more to the foreign born child soldier rather than the upper-class child of manhattan
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i think Daou is a crazy, and absolutely don't bring him on the pod
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You, a moron, foolishly: daou go on Chapo Me, a genius, sagely: daou go on street fight
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Dauo on street fight but only to talk about his music career
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:You, a moron, foolishly: daou go on Chapo Would the galaxy brain of this be 'daou go on cumtown'?
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dreffen posted:Would the galaxy brain of this be 'daou go on red scare'?
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yes there is at least one site for parts picking now that will tell you if it’s compatible You can also post your build there and have all the nerds argue about what parts are the best. Atleast that is what I did when I first built my computer. 
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