Permission to let off some steam about off-the-shelf 'gaming' computers

[Conelton]

I know for a fact that I am not alone when I say that I can't stand people who go out and spend a small fortune on a flashy PC from Currys and then boast about how superior it is to your £700 self-built pride and joy. They drive me crazy. It's like the opening scene in 'Fast And Furious: Tokyo Drift' where the guy with the Viper that his Daddy bought him starts reeling off the specs that he read on the display card in the dealership to the poor sod in his painstakingly custom-built muscle car. The only difference is that us low-budget enthusiasts don't get the opportunity to kick the American Jock off his high horse in a straight race.

Although I will never (hopefully) buy a pre-built machine, I have no problem with most of those who do. If you don't have the time or know-how to build your own then that's fair enough. What really gets me are the people who simply can't be bothered to read up and find out what the hell they're doing so they just bottle it and spend way too much on a poorly balanced and completely soulless PC. If nothing else, my concern is for their own good. If you get your gaming rig from Argos then you're probably going to end up with a dangerous power supply, cheap-as-chips memory and generally shoddy components all round.

What frustrates just as much are the sales people. Have you ever read the websites? A "Quad core Intel CPU" could be a Core2Quad or it could be a 3770K, who's to know? "High-performance memory". What the hell is that? Are we talking 1066MHz OEM modules here or am I getting 2400MHz Dominator Platinums? And the worst of all, "Gaming motherboard", is so ambiguous it's almost not even worth mentioning in the specs. All that really tells you is that there will be some form of motherboard. Probably. Or at least a small piece of fiber-glass with a chipset stapled to it and "GAMING" written on in crayon.

You might say that I shouldn't care about these people and the fact is that I'd love to but I'd rather just shout about them on the internet.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read that. If you did read it. Which you probably didn't because it's long and boring. Never mind.

 

[SeekaX]

just don't bother with them, there is way too many stupid people around. i had a good laugh reading this, i always wondered why they never actually state what's inside the PC. especially apple is very good at giving no information. but it's the same with gpus. there is a whole lot of features on the packaging, but nowhere is written which clocks it uses.

 

[Conelton]

I hear you about the GPU specs. That's why I usually figure out what I want on a site like OcUK which has the full specs of components, then buy it wherever is cheapest. I suppose it's best that these 'stupid people' don't attempt to build their own because then forums would be full of morons complaining that their new 3570K doesn't fit in their AM3+ motherboard.

 

[Cru]

just don't bother with them, there is way too many stupid people around. i had a good laugh reading this, i always wondered why they never actually state what's inside the PC. especially apple is very good at giving no information. but it's the same with gpus. there is a whole lot of features on the packaging, but nowhere is written which clocks it uses.

basically this. not much to add

try to care as less as possible and have a good laugh - that's what we do

 

[Conelton]

try to care as less as possible and have a good laugh

I laugh at them whenever I get the chance. A friend of mine bought an over-priced off-the-shelf gaming pc and I take every opportunity to remind him that he got ripped off and his PSU will probably explode the next time he fires up Skyrim.

I'd love not to care but some of these people just won't let you. Another friend of mine bought a high-end water cooled rig pre-built and he constantly brags about how powerful it is as if he soldered the thing from scratch.

Anyway, I just fancied a little rant to ease my self I'm all good now

 

[Feronix]

Reminds me of this store I was in where they sold 'gaming PCs' for €1300,-

> i7 3770
> HD 7770

Nope.

 

[Conelton]

> i7 3770
> HD 7770

What's wrong with that? They both end in 770, That means they're like.. a bundle, right? £1300 for a 770 bundle must be a pretty good deal, I'll take it!

/sarcasm

 

[SeekaX]

i sometimes go into pc stores, take pictures of "high end pcs" and then look up what they are really worth. the best i had so far was a gtx650 for 350€. wot.
i actually don't really care about the packaging information of the card, i do my research before i buy anything. it's just inconvenient to not put the important stuff on the packaging.
i guess the 3570k on am3+ board was meant as a joke, but sadly that shit is really going on. i'm in an IT class and those morons actually wanted to put a 3960x on an am3+ board. mad knowledge.

 

[remember300]

you will always have people not willing to put the work in and love to throw around cash, to "solve" the problem, i work in maplin and one of the most common questions i get is do you sell pc's ... no we dont we sell componants for pcs ... next question if i buy it will you put it together for me?? yes cos i have the time to do your hard work, and then youd blame me if you bought a crummy system agains advise ... sorry this seems to be the rant section lol
and i now fancy watching tokyo drift

 

[Destro521]

.
I i'm in an IT class and those morons actually wanted to put a 3960x on an am3+ board. mad knowledge.

Wow they should win a Nobel prize :lol:
I had to explain to everyone in my tafe class that Quadro 600s are workstation cards and not supposed to be used to play battlefield

 

[Conelton]

I had to explain to everyone in my tafe class that Quadro 600s are workstation cards and not supposed to be used to play battlefield

Sounds like a classic case of "its more expensive so it must be more better for gaming n stuff". So annoying.

 

[dalewakelin]

I hate people/shops who do that. If you search gaming pc on ebay you find p4 computers labelled as gaming computers. Or even worse, dual xeon computers. The other people who sell amd fx 4100s and say they are better than i7s, and think that because its a quad core it is 4x 4Ghz and advertise it as 16Ghz. It makes me sad to know that stupid people are out there. I cry myself to sleep everynight because of it.

Dem stupid peoples.

 

[Conelton]

It makes you wonder how they get the job. If a moron who advertises 16GHz CPU's is allowed to do that then there must be some even bigger moron employing them. And that means we have some very big morons in powerful positions. Scary.

 

[yassarikhan786]

There are morons who fall for the "16Ghz" clocked CPU's, which is why people continue to advertise PC's in such a manner. You get some right retards spending thousands on these so called Ebay "super" computers.

 

[remember300]

There are morons who fall for the "16Ghz" clocked CPU's, which is why people continue to advertise PC's in such a manner. You get some right retards spending thousands on these so called Ebay "super" computers.

Yeah then they come to a forum like this and brag they have a pc smasher ... when all they have is something not worth its weight in muck.
And surely if your going to throw that kinda money at something you at least learn about it first right? its not like youd buy a million pound house that does not have running water or adequate foundations or something ... or am i the only one that thinks these people deserve the mush they have got.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Yeah then they come to a forum like this and brag they have a pc smasher ... when all they have is something not worth its weight in muck.
And surely if your going to throw that kinda money at something you at least learn about it first right? its not like youd buy a million pound house that does not have running water or adequate foundations or something ... or am i the only one that thinks these people deserve the mush they have got.

Well, they believe they have the best systems in the world and nobody can tell them any different

 

[SeekaX]

we make fun of these people who buy a pc advertised at 16GHz, but sadly it's a serious matter. it mirrors our society, people are getting more and more stupid with each generation so it seems. it's all a bunch of retards who think they know stuff because they play bf3 on pc. sad times

 

[remember300]

yeah but as some people get dumb others get more intelligent.

 

[Conelton]

yeah but as some people get dumb others get more intelligent.

The ratio of dumb:intelligent is alarmingly high, regardless.

 

[remember300]

The ratio of dumb:intelligent is alarmingly high, regardless.

unfortunately that is very true.

Sheldon: Why are you crying?
Penny: Because I'm stupid!
Sheldon: That's no reason to cry. One cries because one is sad. For example, I cry because others are stupid, and that makes me sad.

How true is this lol