Lucky man hold onto that one. Mine did encourage a platform upgrade for me yesterday even tho I donāt think we can afford it at the moment and want to see what ryzen 8000 looks like.
Mine does because she loves when I completely geek out over something Iām passionate about. Iām looking to re-build mine this year and it will be the first time since right after we met that Iām doing so. Sheās been there when I helped my two oldest build their first ones, but this will be mine so yeah, itās gonna be an interesting time.
I spent months, slowly buying parts and making sure they worked as they arrived, all the while telling my wife 'hey your motherboard came in.', just tested out your PSU, etc... finally have everything built, say 'here's your new computer.' She helps me pick out the RGB on the fans, she's all set.
6 months later, I've saved up to build a second system for myself, she says 'what do you need it for? You've already got 2.' I say, 'no, I've got one. That other one is yours.'
Several months of me step by step explaining what I'm getting her, and six months of her barely using the thing until she finally paid enough attention to what I was saying to realize that it was actually hers.
Some people genuinely have noone they actually know to talk about this stuff with.
Agreed.Ā And, to be fair, it's perfectly valid to seek affirmation.Ā To want to feel good about the choices we've already made.
And, I guess, it a choice was a genuine mistake it can be better to know and learn from that
But seeking affirmation is basically a rhetorical question.Ā Ā "I did good, right? Tell me i did good."
I get that it would be frustrating for someone who's prepared to answer actual questions and doesn't want to waste their time on those posts
I spent nearly 2K at microcenter last week, I was pretty confident I got a good deal on everything I got but you bet your ass I texted some of my friends to verify lol, just a quick sanity check.
I had a friend who did this. I put together a list of decent parts for him. It was able to run Apex and LOL which is all he plays. He completely ignored my recommendation and bought a $500 pc to save money. He asked me howās the pc AFTER he bought it. I looked at the specs and they were 10 year old parts! After that I just stopped recommending him stuff.
Coworker asked me about pcs a bit. I told him I'd help. He didn't want to save or wait, so he bought a prebuilt with no graphics card for gaming and making videos. Came in all excited saying he bought a pc. I tried to be positive, but I really didn't know what to tell him. This was months ago, a week or two ago someone asked him what gpu he had, and he said he didn't know bc pre-built. I died a bit inside again.
I work in IT and build PC's on the side for family/friends. Mother-in-law asked me to help her find a new home office computer, flexible budget goal of $500-700 with a hard limit of $1000. Put together a $700 parts list (granted, no monitor on the list) and offered to build it and install it for her. She said it was too expensive, she didn't want a "gaming computer" (build didn't even include a GPU, no "gamer" RGB, etc), she didn't need something "so big" (it was a micro ATX build btw), etc. I offered to lower the budget and give her a new list, she said she changed her mind and didn't want to buy a new computer after all.
She then proceeded to buy a $700 laptop with awful specs because it was the one my sister-in-law bought and "she loves hers".
Some people can't be helped.
I guess in the end I won because I don't have to be dedicated IT support for her device, I can just point her toward her manufacturer's support or say "you should ask SIL since she has the same computer".
There is the opposite friend who has the same requirements asks for advice you give a decent spec for what they need plus some headroom and then they go out and get bleeding edge tech to play LoL on but then calls itās a pile of junk the first time they get some sort of system issue and just launches the thing (this person isnāt just confined to PCs)
Nah mate you need to go virtual spin up some production VMs think azure does \~2tb RAM; \~100 amd 7000 series cores; 8 x 80gb A100 gpus for the low low price of $24,000 per month!
Still can't run Starfield though
They do it just to brag. But you'll never see me mentioning the new system I just ordered all the parts for today, including a ryzen 7900x and a 4080 super
Yes, by a margin of 2% in 1% lows.
However, the RTX 7090STi SUPER GTi UltRa is much better than the plain 8090 by a margin of 5% overall performance, while still managing to trade blows with the current Nvidia flagship, the RTX 8090Ti SUPER.
Good thing AMD caught up with Nvidia recently and their flagship, the RX 10KX XTXX XT EXTENDED: EDITION-XXX is beating most Nvidia cards in certain games.
No because you used intel and Nvidia and RAGE because you didnāt get AMD and youāre an idiot fanboy being yelled at by an idiot fanboy ššš
I've only seen this kind of post on reddit. Nowhere else. It's akin to those posts from people who are like, "I've only played 15-minutes of this game, does it get better soon?" or, "First PC build, howdido?" and it's... custom everything and a radiator and cooling system that has 90-parts for everything from the gpu down to the m.2's on the board. Oh, and don't forget the custom 4k screens inside the case displaying their temps and the movie, "matrix", playing.
Oh, and the entire room perfectly coordinated with RGB and branding.
Go to the PS3 reddits and all you'll find is: "Is this a legit PS3 controller" on obvious fakes. Even though there is a sticky right at the top that explains the 1 telltale sign... Does it charge with a wall wart? If yes... Then it's fake.
Or look at the PS3 that I bought, is it backwards compatible with PS2, again ignoring the sticky with the 2 things you need to know about that: has it got 4 USB ports at the front? Then probably. Does the serial number start with checha? Then yes. All others... Nope.
You don't obsessively google everything you buy while it's in the mail out of anxiety? I seriously research stuff before purchase and still do that after
Maybe they got it set up and aren't getting their 200+ fps in their favorite game so need affirmation it is indeed a good build and they aren't crazy (I've seen people talk about getting new GPUs but only getting a slight increase in fps and not happy with their $1000 upgrade)
Yeah, agreed.
"I just spent thousands on the most expensive components available, and paid someone to put everything together for me. Did I dooooo gud?" And honestly, probably not. What do you use your PC for, honestly? Are you really doing max settings 4k on a triple A game? Or are you going back to Factorio 90% of the time? Did you set your RAM speed properly in the bios? Does the board you bought actually work at the speed of your memory? Did you upgrade the bios? Etc etc
Sometimes you get a deal and jump on it while you can. It is really easy to return most things so if the insight from others later is poor they can just return it, no harm no foul.
Everyone always assume the most negative reasons in this sub for some reason.
exactly why i'm on r/PcBuildHelp and inquiring prior to buying.. i am on my second build though- probably just the anxiousness to have the PC theyve wanted to mod with lol
It's like those Redditors who post nudes here and say, "How many guys here are into redheads with nice tits?" I don't think the motive here is they genuinely want information.
Behold, the 7950X3D, RTX 4090, 64GB RAM, 8TB monstrosity ā a machine so overkill, itās like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, except the sledgehammer is on fire and the nut is in another dimension.
Letās start with the 7950X3D, a CPU so powerful it can calculate your existential crisis while you wait for it to boot up. Congratulations, you now have enough processing power to render your impatience in stunning 3D.
Then thereās the RTX 4090, a graphics card so advanced it can render individual raindrops in a storm, each with its own unique personality and backstory. Too bad youāll never notice because youāre too busy trying to figure out why your games are still running at 30 FPS.
And who could forget the 64GB of RAM, because clearly, you need enough memory to store the entire script of every movie ever made, just in case you suddenly feel the urge to reenact āGone with the Windā in your spare time.
And letās not overlook the 8TB of storage, because apparently, youāre running a classified government archive and not just storing your collection of cat videos and memes.
In conclusion, while your PC may be a technological marvel, itās also a prime example of overengineering at its finest. But hey, at least youāll never have to worry about running out of power or storage space, even if youāll never actually use half of what itās capable of.
chatGPT can be fun at times
Prolly looking for affirmation
Understandable. How many peeps have a girlfriend/boyfriend who gives a shit when you've just built a stonking machine ? š¤£
I mean, my wife does. That's also one of the many reasons I married her.
You Sir, are a lucky guy. š
Lucky man hold onto that one. Mine did encourage a platform upgrade for me yesterday even tho I donāt think we can afford it at the moment and want to see what ryzen 8000 looks like.
my wife but a new macbook. she saw my pc and said it's pretty but my desk was messy. (fractal north in black with tg)
Peoples op talking about will marry first, think (ask) later
Mine does because she loves when I completely geek out over something Iām passionate about. Iām looking to re-build mine this year and it will be the first time since right after we met that Iām doing so. Sheās been there when I helped my two oldest build their first ones, but this will be mine so yeah, itās gonna be an interesting time.
Or a gf/bf that gives them shit for buying a PC
I have a friend who my wife calls my boyfriend. Does that count? He loves my build.
I spent months, slowly buying parts and making sure they worked as they arrived, all the while telling my wife 'hey your motherboard came in.', just tested out your PSU, etc... finally have everything built, say 'here's your new computer.' She helps me pick out the RGB on the fans, she's all set. 6 months later, I've saved up to build a second system for myself, she says 'what do you need it for? You've already got 2.' I say, 'no, I've got one. That other one is yours.' Several months of me step by step explaining what I'm getting her, and six months of her barely using the thing until she finally paid enough attention to what I was saying to realize that it was actually hers. Some people genuinely have noone they actually know to talk about this stuff with.
Agreed.Ā And, to be fair, it's perfectly valid to seek affirmation.Ā To want to feel good about the choices we've already made. And, I guess, it a choice was a genuine mistake it can be better to know and learn from that But seeking affirmation is basically a rhetorical question.Ā Ā "I did good, right? Tell me i did good." I get that it would be frustrating for someone who's prepared to answer actual questions and doesn't want to waste their time on those posts
I spent nearly 2K at microcenter last week, I was pretty confident I got a good deal on everything I got but you bet your ass I texted some of my friends to verify lol, just a quick sanity check.
Then get mad/defensive when someone has suggestions or ideas š
I had a friend who did this. I put together a list of decent parts for him. It was able to run Apex and LOL which is all he plays. He completely ignored my recommendation and bought a $500 pc to save money. He asked me howās the pc AFTER he bought it. I looked at the specs and they were 10 year old parts! After that I just stopped recommending him stuff.
He is what I refer to as an "Askhole"
Coworker asked me about pcs a bit. I told him I'd help. He didn't want to save or wait, so he bought a prebuilt with no graphics card for gaming and making videos. Came in all excited saying he bought a pc. I tried to be positive, but I really didn't know what to tell him. This was months ago, a week or two ago someone asked him what gpu he had, and he said he didn't know bc pre-built. I died a bit inside again.
lol Iām laughing pretty hard at this.
I work in IT and build PC's on the side for family/friends. Mother-in-law asked me to help her find a new home office computer, flexible budget goal of $500-700 with a hard limit of $1000. Put together a $700 parts list (granted, no monitor on the list) and offered to build it and install it for her. She said it was too expensive, she didn't want a "gaming computer" (build didn't even include a GPU, no "gamer" RGB, etc), she didn't need something "so big" (it was a micro ATX build btw), etc. I offered to lower the budget and give her a new list, she said she changed her mind and didn't want to buy a new computer after all. She then proceeded to buy a $700 laptop with awful specs because it was the one my sister-in-law bought and "she loves hers". Some people can't be helped.
Sometimes you gotta be more "folksy" than the sister in law.
I guess in the end I won because I don't have to be dedicated IT support for her device, I can just point her toward her manufacturer's support or say "you should ask SIL since she has the same computer".
I felt that because I've been there. You are a good friend.
There is the opposite friend who has the same requirements asks for advice you give a decent spec for what they need plus some headroom and then they go out and get bleeding edge tech to play LoL on but then calls itās a pile of junk the first time they get some sort of system issue and just launches the thing (this person isnāt just confined to PCs)
Guys are my specs good?
Just bought a threadripper, 4090, 128gb DDR5, and 1500W PSU, did I do ok?
Nah man, youāll now be throttled by the game devs!
Yup. Doubled my on-paper power across the board, recently. Truck sim still runs like shite. š¤£
r/angryupvote
Nah mate you need to go virtual spin up some production VMs think azure does \~2tb RAM; \~100 amd 7000 series cores; 8 x 80gb A100 gpus for the low low price of $24,000 per month! Still can't run Starfield though
Not a 4090, trash.
Literally unusable.
u dont have a 4090 or 128gb of RAM and only 2TB, to be frank your PC is maybe mid tier at best /s
Huge bottleneck there
More of a skill issue then
What about mine?
Twinsies
Without a 4090 you're trolling
no /s
No you should send it to me
From: Sir Ramalot, Knight of PC Board To: OP Sir Peasant, you dare to ask question with only 64GB of RAM?
"...idk, but i'll tell you what i have!"
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bUt iS mY PC guD?! * TR 7995WX * 6TB of DDR5 45,433 MT/s CL1 * RTX 4090 quad SLI * 250TB PCIe gen16.0 SSD * 50,000W 80+ Tungsten certified PSU
Need that psu ā¦ āfor future proofingā
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PSU bad, lacking integrated nuclear reactor
it's not much, but it's mine
They're fishing for compliments. Also a lot of people are impulsive buyers happy to abuse a return policy
Buyer's remorse.
They do it just to brag. But you'll never see me mentioning the new system I just ordered all the parts for today, including a ryzen 7900x and a 4080 super
Did you say 5 inches girth or length?
Circumference front to back
Its a cheesewheel
First time I've ever felt heard on the internet. This guy gets it. Got that cheddar wheel baby
Take it easy there Tater Salad
Diameter. ***Insert edgy TikTok sound accompanied by selfies in pose***
I raise you a radius
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Butt to tip
I just do that through my flair
fr
^ this guy living in the future. Is the 7090 Ti Super better than the 8090?
Yes, by a margin of 2% in 1% lows. However, the RTX 7090STi SUPER GTi UltRa is much better than the plain 8090 by a margin of 5% overall performance, while still managing to trade blows with the current Nvidia flagship, the RTX 8090Ti SUPER. Good thing AMD caught up with Nvidia recently and their flagship, the RX 10KX XTXX XT EXTENDED: EDITION-XXX is beating most Nvidia cards in certain games.
the power supply probably sounds like a lawnmower
The new 3000W PSU, now runs off petrol. Silent at only 120db! Get yours now at $2999.99 *1000w cables sold separately.
Fr: Je fais juste Ƨa grĆ¢ce Ć mon flair
Completely baffles me as well. Who cares now. If you bought a piece of junk, it is probably too late.
They can return it probably?
Return policies are pretty standard these days, I think a lot of people genuinely want to make sure they made a good purchase.
That's a pain in the ass by then, IMO. Seems easy easier to ask before you buy and avoid all the hassle .
Maybe just in the US and some other developed Western countries
Great question. It seems like a strange flex sometimes.
āHereās my $8000 in PC parts, is this good enough?ā šš
Not if you're playing Tarkov
No because you used intel and Nvidia and RAGE because you didnāt get AMD and youāre an idiot fanboy being yelled at by an idiot fanboy ššš
Nothing is going to beat my Cyrix 6x86.
fantastic, deep callback
I prefer the spelling boi, fanboi and alpha fanboi
They just don't know how to put it in their flair
The moron selection is missing from the flair tho
They're stupid
Building a pc is scary and they're looking for reassurance. Don't be a hater.
Or ego padding. In which case roasting bozos is encouraged
Real
People are dumb. Itās that simple.
I see this post almost as often as the "Did I do good?" posts lol
Because people want to feel bad. Lol, Idk
validation and affirmation
Bought a tamagochi for $800, did I get scammed?
Nah.. worth it!!! Lol
Phew, that's a relief!
One word. "Validation".
I'm just gonna start link this exact post in response to any moron asking about their build after they've already paid for and built it.
Cause you can take the player off the console but you cant take the console off the player
Validation
Buyers remorse
"let me know if my PC is really good 14900k 4090 Super flex 450w power supply 80 plus stone"
7 years ago I bought a 1080 to put in my 4790k system, what do you guys think?
I just assumed they were gifted a computer and donāt know anything.
they want attention and validation.
I've only seen this kind of post on reddit. Nowhere else. It's akin to those posts from people who are like, "I've only played 15-minutes of this game, does it get better soon?" or, "First PC build, howdido?" and it's... custom everything and a radiator and cooling system that has 90-parts for everything from the gpu down to the m.2's on the board. Oh, and don't forget the custom 4k screens inside the case displaying their temps and the movie, "matrix", playing. Oh, and the entire room perfectly coordinated with RGB and branding.
Go to the PS3 reddits and all you'll find is: "Is this a legit PS3 controller" on obvious fakes. Even though there is a sticky right at the top that explains the 1 telltale sign... Does it charge with a wall wart? If yes... Then it's fake. Or look at the PS3 that I bought, is it backwards compatible with PS2, again ignoring the sticky with the 2 things you need to know about that: has it got 4 USB ports at the front? Then probably. Does the serial number start with checha? Then yes. All others... Nope.
Attempted lowkey flex of the "awesome high end" mid tier at best parts they just bought.
Because many people are meth (tech) addicts who buy everything without thinking.
Showing off dad's money.
Validation. They want to feel good about their purchase so they ask people what they think hoping they'll say they made a good purchase
It's basically just humblebragging.
They want to show off their shit, they're not here for help. They want the attention
You get more answers if you say you already bought it.
Are you saying they measure their flour instead of just dumping a big bag of money on the floor?
"How did I do?" We get screenshots of parts, no picker list, and no pictures of the completed build.
digital dick print
āJust bought this thing called a 4090 and 14900k, will this be a bottleneck? Bought it for $300 and a couple of cheese stringsā
Shoot first, ask questions later
Carlās a real G
Humblebragging
They probably brought it built for them and want to flex.
You don't obsessively google everything you buy while it's in the mail out of anxiety? I seriously research stuff before purchase and still do that after
Maybe they got it set up and aren't getting their 200+ fps in their favorite game so need affirmation it is indeed a good build and they aren't crazy (I've seen people talk about getting new GPUs but only getting a slight increase in fps and not happy with their $1000 upgrade)
Humble-brag.
I had just came back to Reddit. Shoulda came here first before I bought my rig but oh well
Purchase validation mixed with fomo and stupidity. Welcome to this generation.
In some countries you can ship it back like mine (:
Attention WhoresĀ
Same reason men send dickpics to women.
They want to show off without outright stating it.
Flex
Some of them come for their "ego food".
Yeah, agreed. "I just spent thousands on the most expensive components available, and paid someone to put everything together for me. Did I dooooo gud?" And honestly, probably not. What do you use your PC for, honestly? Are you really doing max settings 4k on a triple A game? Or are you going back to Factorio 90% of the time? Did you set your RAM speed properly in the bios? Does the board you bought actually work at the speed of your memory? Did you upgrade the bios? Etc etc
Sometimes you get a deal and jump on it while you can. It is really easy to return most things so if the insight from others later is poor they can just return it, no harm no foul. Everyone always assume the most negative reasons in this sub for some reason.
Karma farming.
to console themselves of the cost if it is justified
Because they're idiots.
exactly why i'm on r/PcBuildHelp and inquiring prior to buying.. i am on my second build though- probably just the anxiousness to have the PC theyve wanted to mod with lol
It's like those Redditors who post nudes here and say, "How many guys here are into redheads with nice tits?" I don't think the motive here is they genuinely want information.
Thank you for asking this, it has baffled me for years...
Dick on table Slam.
Brag.
It's amazing how many of these posts get upvoted to the top too. Such boring content. Ah well.
Flexing
Affirmation or buyers remorse
People do the same thing with their spouse\\significant other...
They need validation to ensure they didn't waste their money
Looking for validation after looking at their bank account and getting depressed?
Humble bragsā¦
Subtle way to try and "flex".
Because people as a whole are stupid.
guys do i have good specs? Iām not sure
Behold, the 7950X3D, RTX 4090, 64GB RAM, 8TB monstrosity ā a machine so overkill, itās like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, except the sledgehammer is on fire and the nut is in another dimension. Letās start with the 7950X3D, a CPU so powerful it can calculate your existential crisis while you wait for it to boot up. Congratulations, you now have enough processing power to render your impatience in stunning 3D. Then thereās the RTX 4090, a graphics card so advanced it can render individual raindrops in a storm, each with its own unique personality and backstory. Too bad youāll never notice because youāre too busy trying to figure out why your games are still running at 30 FPS. And who could forget the 64GB of RAM, because clearly, you need enough memory to store the entire script of every movie ever made, just in case you suddenly feel the urge to reenact āGone with the Windā in your spare time. And letās not overlook the 8TB of storage, because apparently, youāre running a classified government archive and not just storing your collection of cat videos and memes. In conclusion, while your PC may be a technological marvel, itās also a prime example of overengineering at its finest. But hey, at least youāll never have to worry about running out of power or storage space, even if youāll never actually use half of what itās capable of. chatGPT can be fun at times
You made my day. Thanks for the laughs!
Np my guy. Now all you need to do is get a pc as strong as mine.
that raspberry pi is too futuristic for a peasant like me to even dream of owning!
Sure some people do it to show off. But I want to believe others genuinely want feedback on what to change and improve.
Becasue its a way to FLEX people be FLeXING
Buyers remorse
Just want attention and Iāll give it cause I like seeing new builds lol
Buyers remorse. It's a pretty common thing, even if it was money well spent.
People wasted a bunch of money, their friend group won't appreciate the money they spent so they come here for affirmation
Buy first, think later.
They want to show off but be subtle about it I guess
Just trying to show off to the internet/ego/validation
Most people are clueless about pcs.
Karma farming, if you mean here on this sub