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#27 Mar 23 2015 at 12:23 PM Rating: Default
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I'm concerned of banking information and personal information. For example, every form in the military has your complete social and other unnecessary personal identifiable information. My solution is to put stuff in the cloud


Soooo... your solution to the problem of people seeing your personal information is to upload it to the internet?
So is your personal information when you make an online purchase or email. That's quite different than handing someone your PC with access to everything with no encryption. The easiest way to hack into a box/account is with the proper credentials.
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[b]I do hate it when my buttery dies. [/b

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#31 Mar 23 2015 at 1:40 PM Rating: Good
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Kinda silly to spend money saving your EQ setting files.
I'll spend the money on a flash drive for that. I fuggin' hate resetting the UI on a new machine.Smiley: mad


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I think that fixing your own PC is somewhat generational and I fear it's not so much an "old people don't know this" thing but rather a sweet spot of users from the 80s and 90s who grew into it during a much less user friendly time. I show my own kid stuff about the computer and I can tell he's less than excited to see how it goes together and works -- he just wants it to work. And with the increased use of mobile devices, there's less space for knowing how to fix stuff. I can physically replace any part of my desktop PC and handle software/driver issues but if my phone or tablet started having trouble I'm much more limited ("well, factory reset I guess..."). Of course, I still know how to connect my Android device as a USB drive and get my info off of it at least so there's that.

This is, of course, generalizing. I'm sure that a number of kids do take an interested in building/maintaining PCs just as there's still kids who learn how to change the oil in their car. I just don't think those activities are on an upward trend.
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I think that fixing your own PC is somewhat generational and I fear it's not so much an "old people don't know this" thing but rather a sweet spot of users from the 80s and 90s who grew into it during a much less user friendly time. I show my own kid stuff about the computer and I can tell he's less than excited to see how it goes together and works -- he just wants it to work. And with the increased use of mobile devices, there's less space for knowing how to fix stuff. I can physically replace any part of my desktop PC and handle software/driver issues but if my phone or tablet started having trouble I'm much more limited ("well, factory reset I guess..."). Of course, I still know how to connect my Android device as a USB drive and get my info off of it at least so there's that.

This is, of course, generalizing. I'm sure that a number of kids do take an interested in building/maintaining PCs just as there's still kids who learn how to change the oil in their car. I just don't think those activities are on an upward trend.


I think that is a fair assessment. People are moving closer to cell phones as primary sources for internet.
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Electronics are "cheap" now.

It used to be worth spending incalculable amounts of time hotswapping the jumpers on that modem because the PC was $3000.00 20 years ago. Now I can buy a good PC for a weeks pay.
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Or I can spend 1/10ths of a week's pay fixing it and spend the other 9/10ths on somethin' else Smiley: wink2
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#36 Mar 24 2015 at 12:36 AM Rating: Decent
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I do my own maintenance and repairs on my computers. It's faster, cheaper, and I don't have to worry about losing a 800GB(and growing) music collection that I've been filling and moving from system to system for the last 11 years.
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#37 Mar 24 2015 at 7:27 AM Rating: Good
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I don't think I'd put too much faith in an $800 computer.
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Really? You could build a perfectly competent computer for $800. Especially if you're not building it for gaming. Heck, if it's not for gaming you could probably build a decent system for $400 (i3, onboard video) assuming you're not doing video editing or something with it.
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If it isn't for gaming, sure. I don't think anyone here really consider that as an option, though.
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#40 Mar 24 2015 at 8:44 AM Rating: Good
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This is what I use as a rule of thumb for pc builds. http://www.logicalincrements.com/

If you got a piece or two on sale, you could probably get an i5 in a $800-900 rig without too many sacrifices.
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R9 280 for $200, i5 of some flavor for $200, $150 worth of MB and memory, $50 case, $100 hard drive, $100 OS?

Powered by... acorns? Ok, you'll have to drop the GPU down a bit to afford a PSU I guess. Or get one of those dodgy Windows keys from Reddit or something. Or like TLW says, make use of combo deals and sales. I bet I could do it if I had to.

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You could build a perfectly competent computer for $800. Especially if you're not building it for gaming.

You can build a high end 1080 gaming PC for $800 that will about everything at 60fps+. I guess you could go from "more than I reasonably need" to infinity and spend as much more money as you wanted. Doesn't seem like good ROI though.
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It's that damn OS that always get me. Let's just put SteamOS on there and enjoy a solid 11% of PC gaming.

Edited, Mar 24th 2015 9:59am by Jophiel
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You could build a perfectly competent computer for $800. Especially if you're not building it for gaming.

You can build a high end 1080 gaming PC for $800 that will about everything at 60fps+. I guess you could go from "more than I reasonably need" to infinity and spend as much more money as you wanted. Doesn't seem like good ROI though.


You say this, but most people plan to build a new computer in a few years, but that turns into several. Buying a computer that's less archaic then will lead to better lifecycle performance. It's neither cheaper or more efficient to do it this way, but it's typical consumer behavior.
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It feels like we're in a tricky point where PC hardware is re-equalizing with the next-gen consoles. I mean, you could always buy hardware to blow the consoles away but a year or 18 months ago, the pat answer was an i5 and 2GB video card and you were golden. Now that they're not just porting PS3/360 games, there's more games coming out that can actually make use of an i7 and which state 2GB video memory as a minimum so it's harder to have a stock answer that you know is reasonably future-proof.

I'm still using an old ass i7-860 oc'd to 3.6GHz and a 7950 3GB card and doing okay but my monitor caps out at 1680x1050 so "high settings" for me isn't "high settings" for the next guy.

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Of course you can fix it cheaper. Point I was making (or attempting to rather) is a lot of people will just go buy a new device/computer when their current one becomes a hassle because the hassle vs replacement cost ratio is so much better than it was in the past. That means people who grew up in more recent generations than us old fogies are more inclined to just replace than repair. Electronics have become more disposable, the old barriers of getting your information transferred etc are also less of an issue now that most of what people do is online.

For a lot of people these days it's just not worth more than a few minutes of "wtf?" and a couple of hard resets before they just buy a new one.
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I'd expect them to be more inclined to get it repaired if they can't do it themselves. I mean, I could afford a new washing machine or refrigerator on a week's salary as well but if my current one started rattling, I'd call a repair guy (or attempt to self-diagnose) before rolling it down to the curb and heading to Sears.

But maybe people treat their electronics differently. Or maybe I'm just odd. I wouldn't waste too much time trying to fix a DVD player or something like that but I wouldn't casually bin something that'll cost hundreds of dollars to replace.
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It feels like we're in a tricky point where PC hardware is re-equalizing with the next-gen consoles.
What with the next-gen consoles focusing more on becoming multimedia PCs themselves.
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more games coming out that can actually make use of an i7

I'm not sure what this means. Am I supposed to take this to mean there are games that are CPU limited by an i5? Because these either need to be games with amazing AI that Hannibal Lecter me to suicide if I make the wrong choice, or that are so poorly optimized they likely aren't worth playing.
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You say this, but most people plan to build a new computer in a few years, but that turns into several. Buying a computer that's less archaic then will lead to better lifecycle performance. It's neither cheaper or more efficient to do it this way, but it's typical consumer behavior.

I guess? If someone treats a PC as an appliance rather than a set of components that is probably a solid argument. That said, people using that philosophy would be the same people who bought discrete physics cards and 3d monitors in an attempt to get more lifecycle out of a gaming pc. Higher end systems frequently come with a lot of soon obsolete and useless tech.
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The Evil Within "broke the barrier" by having an i7 minimum spec requirement. More games are listing it as a recommended spec and, if you're building a shiny new gaming system, I assume you'd like to do better than minimum spec the first time you turn it on.

Saying that they're poorly optimized might be a legitimate point but as more people move up in the processor world, there's less incentive to optimize the games well. System requirements only broadly move in one direction. We were pretty settled when games were being developed against the last generation consoles but I don't think we're there yet for this generation.
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