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Millennial version of a toaster?

I use my microwave for pains au chocolat, my kettle for tea, and a traditional toaster to sort my half-cocked bread preference.

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Naysaspace posted...

wait aren't you the guy who flosses his luxury cars on the cars'n'trux board?

Wouldn't quite say they were luxury cars, but yes my interests lie with cars over and above IT.

In the same way someone who has a PS5 and a 75" TV to play it on has no idea what a tyre warning means on his/her Vauxhall Corsa, I'm a bloke who can quite happily swap coil packs on my Impreza but need some advice when looking at PCs.

Have I paid too much? Well, maybe. Is it a ridiculously overpriced machine? I don't really think so. It's like filling up with petrol at a service station as opposed to a normal filling station. Yes, it'll cost an extra 5% and you'll grumble about it. But, in the grand scheme of things, you bought it at the time because it made sense, and realistically it doesn't make too much of a difference.

The case is susprisingly top-spec, it's got a load of filters and in-build LEDs that fire up when the side door opens. I can count at least six fans internally and it's got full cable management so, if nothing else, that's pretty good going.

Once again, worth saying, go on ebay.co.uk and find me something for less than 300 that's got the same kit on it. I live in Surrey so it's not quite like I can do a 40 mile trip somewhere as it'll cost me about 15% of the damn PC itself for the round trip.

If you're still at odds, then look at it this way. I bought a 265bhp Prodrive Impreza for less than $4000. So, if you think I got ripped off for the computer, then I got a fucking steal on my Subaru.

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PepsiWithCoke posted...

You absolutely did get hosed, here's a full working PC including new RAM and GPU with a modern CPU for $585 with UK avalible parts.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/4DnBht

Yeah, so I'm guessing you and most of the other americans on here don't understand that dollars and aren't the same thing. I paid 290, which is about half of what you suggested. Maybe learn to currency next time.

Again, just to confirm to those who think I run a potato (seriously that joke died after Portal 2 dropped off the charts), I run a more normal spec PC daily.


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CommunismFTW posted...

I don't want to join the chorus but yeah that is a rip, TC. Those specs are simply too old.

But there can be hope. I'd start with getting, at least, an RX 580 or 1060s if you want to do High/1080p. Going from there will most likely require a new motherboard.

Make sure the case is fully dusted out and familiarize yourself with checking temperatures, as well as familiarizing yourself with the BIOs. CoreTemp is a good program to throw in the dash for CPU, and you can check GPU temp in the driver suite itself for AMD or MSI Afterburner for Nvidia.

Again, thanks for being honest. $400 here for such a PC is a bit of a steal, given that the same money would probably buy you something with half the specs.

The intention for this machine is just to be a backup. I don't really game that much these days, and the ones I do play are relatively benign in terms of performance requirements. I think the most intensive game I regularly play is Age of Empires 3.

I've made a note of the programmes you've mentioned, I think that'll do me quite well. Appreciate your input - I'm not looking to change the world here, but perhaps if my comp decides to pack up, I can at least park a backup in the loft just to tide me over.


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PepsiWithCoke posted...

Honestly TC, you got hosed.

That CPU is $100 on a good day.

But if you're serious, a GTX 1070 can be had for sub-$200.

That's what I needed to hear. Many thanks.

I'm in the UK so everything's way more expensive than in the USA. I appreciate there are a lot of 12 year olds on here that think daddy's cash buys everybody an uber PC but that doesn't quite work in the real world.

Would rather spend the money on my cars but I can pick up a bargain when necessary. Went out with a few hundred quid and came back with a new PC and an extra 28bhp pulley for my s/c V8, pushing it to about 575bhp.

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MarthGoomba posted...

A nearly decade old CPU that is beat by even a $100 10100f

Why did you buy this

Read the rest of the post the SSD plus the RAM is pretty good going even with an old CPU that can still run most games these days.

FL81 posted...

you need an RTX 3090

Lol stop projecting I don't need anything fancy, this PC is replacing my backup computer. That is defo in need of replacement as it's a 16 year old machine with a Pentium 4 processor and similarly rubbish specs.

Always thought GFAQs was decent for helping with PC gaming but perhaps I'm too old now.

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If I ever hear the HAHAAAAAA from DK64 I'll crawl into a corner.

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Was looking around on facebook marketplace and as usual it's full of trash. However something caught my eye, a Dell XPS that was being sold for about $400 but had a hell of a lot of decent gear on it. I'm talking an i7-3930K overclocked, 12GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB SSD, and an ATI Radeon HD 8950 GDDR5. All in all, not a bad buy for $400.

When I picked the system up I was met with a woman who said she didn't care about the computer and she wanted to buy an iPad instead. She was going through a divorce and her husband had said "don't sell the computer, it's worth a lot of money and it's part of your divorce settlement" - but she sold it anyway. Her loss.

The system tag says it's from 2013 and apparently the divorce proceedings have been going on since 2018. The computer's been sat in a corner for about a year, running 24/7, and was full of dust. Literally you could make a sculpture of the internals because of the amount of crud inside. To make matters worse the woman had let the computer run in a corner that was a bit leaky, so the graphics card and RAM is completely shot. Ran a voltmetre across it and it looks like the mobo somehow survived without issue.

Anyway, TLDR and all that, I need a new graphics card for this machine. It's replacing an ATI Radeon HD 8950 3GB GDDR5. What specs should I look to replace it with? In fairness, I have a decent-spec Omen that I can use to run Cyberpunk and I'd only use this Dell to play older games, so I don't really need top-spec gfx. I've never quite got my head around graphics cards and PCI-E and all that shite so any advice would be appreciated.

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Master_Bass posted...

I understand the appeal of cars, but I honestly just don't really care. I barely even use the one I have, and I'd never spend an outrageous amount on one. I have nothing against people that are really into them, though.

I like and respect this viewpoint, wish more people would do the same.

I love my cars and have probably got north of $100k of vehicles parked outside. They're great fun and a hobby for me, but in the same way I have no care about football, my interests lie with cars.

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I go to sleep on my back - I like a room @ 17 degs, arms out of the duvet, and I normally wake up somehow cocooned in my duvet whilst sleeping on my side.

When I have a girl in bed too I sleep on my side and usually wake up in roughly the same position I went to sleep in.

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girls like it, whats wrong with that. its like how ppl shout on their microphones to people they dont know

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Not quite a lockdown. Can still live life except we can't fall over each other without masks.

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Don't KNOW but random CAPS makes my POINT more VALID than YOURS.

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Games themselves- probably about 200 at most.

Accessories - I'm a magpie. I love shiny things. I spend fucking shitloads on LED keyboards and mice and posh screens and speakers. I also run an Alienware.

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Thinking of replacing my fucking awful Microsoft Comfort 5000 with some proper gear. Don't want to spend shitloads as I normally use a Razer Wildcat for gaming, but it'd be nice to have something that's actually comfortable to use. Any thoughts?

Looking at a Steelseries Apex Pro and Rival 650.

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Doom_Art posted...

Tails is at it again

Not me. I used to be a mod and saw nothing below the belt. One of the mods was visiting the UK so I actually put him up for a couple of nights, and we had a nice time.

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Depends on the sandwich, which seems to have gone over a lot of people's heads.

IMO Tuna mayo is perfectly acceptable. Ham and mayo is the sign of a psychopath.

I like ham and mustard, but one of my favourite hangover foods is ham on lightly toasted white bread, drowning in ketchup/

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