Can you not cancel the order?

I could cancel some of it

but my case and GPU are already shipped

what would i cancel

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Quote from: MarKhan on July 19, 2017, 06:20:18 PM

Only one more week online left for you? Why?

No, 7 more days of activity and I'll reach Marty status.

Oh. This status is probably something important, huh?

You see where it says "Mythic Inconceivable!"?

I get to replace that with whatever custom title I want.

7 days.

Quote from: Prehistoric on July 19, 2017, 05:25:33 PM

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Quote from: Prehistoric on July 19, 2017, 04:36:59 PM

well i bit the bullet and finally bought all the parts i'll need. probably putting it together in the next week or so.

i'm less than happy about the price but it's been a long time coming. at the very least, i'll be able to use this thread as evidence that console is ultimately better than PC, and the fact that i'll have a half decent PC will lend me some credibility and objectivity.

thanks to everyone involved

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/gWL2cc

Oh dude.

Why why you build that.
You just flushed $600 down the toilet.

You could have built something twice as powerful for the same price.

i think someone would have spoken up if that was the case

You built a dual core PC in this, the current year.

I have a PC with pretty much that same loadout, and it can't even run all the features on a two year old distribution of photoshop.

If you were budget shopping you should've bought AMD. Now you've got a PC with massive bottlenecking issues because nobody spoke up to say that you shouldn't buy that Pentium.

Your performance cap is around 4GB RAM and 2GB VRAM. After that it's just dick flexing room.
You skimped where you should have spent, and spent where you should have saved.
Reading through this thread, it looks like everybody recommended parts that they thought were good and affordable instead of parts that work well together.

I'm not trying to disparage you, and I'm not just AMD fanboi-ing either, just saying that you could seriously have gotten much more bang for your buck if you had bought a Quad or 8-core cpu from them. Higher performance in the lower price range is their niche.

Then there's you motherboard choice, which has limited you severely.
At your price point, you wouldn't have lost any performance going for DDR3, and could have gotten more memory and more PCIe slots if you had opted that way, in the same fiscal ballpark.

If you were looking to build at twice the price, a Core i5 would have been a great choice, but Intel processors are usually trash below $300, and using anything other than Core or Xeon is seldom a good idea.

oh well, too late now

it'll run the games i want

I'm open to PC games now, too.

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/LPVBD3/cryorig-cpu-cooler-m9i

another one to consider imo

it's okay, i already ordered everything

thanks everyone for you help

Quote from: Prehistoric on July 19, 2017, 03:51:05 PM

because it's illegal not to and you get more features when you have a real copy

It's 100% legal and literally the only feature you miss out on is the ability to change your computer's theme and background. And even then, I still managed to change those things on mine.

yeah, and you also have to worry about that stupid little "activate windows" thing in the bottom right

i'm just picky about that, and for 25 bucks, it's worth it

anyways, am i all set for this purchase? no last minute warnings or advice?

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Operating under the pretense that my friend will give me the money he owes me this Friday, I can increase my budget to 750CAD (600USD). If it's a little more expensive than that, I'll be okay. Here's what I have so far:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/Tsk6tJ

how's this look - https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/PQjwf8

you can bump the cpu up to a G4600 or i3 7100 if you want to but this one works just fine

you can get by with the 1050 Ti here, but if you've got the money for a 1060 or a 570 then go for it

i don't think that can run PUBG, though

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6m40zDPUyBI

damn okay. so it works.

so there aren't any issues with this? you guys think i should spend my money on this? i'll buy it right now if that's the case/

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/J7n73F

Quote from: Prehistoric on July 19, 2017, 02:15:22 PM

Operating under the pretense that my friend will give me the money he owes me this Friday, I can increase my budget to 750CAD (600USD). If it's a little more expensive than that, I'll be okay. Here's what I have so far:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/Tsk6tJ

how's this look - https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/PQjwf8

you can bump the cpu up to a G4600 or i3 7100 if you want to but this one works just fine

you can get by with the 1050 Ti here, but if you've got the money for a 1060 or a 570 then go for it

i don't think that can run PUBG, though

1. Check your current processor.

My processor, according to LC, is too old and incompatible with anything new.

2. Optical drive isn't necessary, might want to reconsider.

Yeah, and I just remembered I have an external disc drive somewhere around here from when I used to make mix CDs.

3. Check dimensions of case against dimensions of components.

PC Part Picker does all that for me, no?

4. Consider AMD instead of Intel if you're really on a budget.

What would the equivalent be to the Intel Core i3-4340?

5. OS is free if you don't register it.

Yeah but that's illegal, no?

6. Google all individual components to see if they're cheaper elsewhere.

I'll do that in my final stages.


All I need is a motherboard, I can't seem to find ones that the website says has no compatibility issues with.

#garning

you shut your mouth when you talk in my threads

I'm going to add Super Metroid to the list. I'll finish that right after I beat Klonoa 2.

I hate it that buying video games has become a moral dillema for me. I shouldn't have to do that. I should just be allowed to buy whatever I want and not have to worry about what scumfuck I'm giving my money to.

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That being said though, a PC is a pretty big purchase. It's something you'll use a lot and presumably not just for playing a handful of games. The difference in quality of parts (noise levels, power consumption, built quality, durability), performance (loading times, FPS, lag, speed of games and everyday tasks) and lifespan (how long you'll continue to be able to run "recent" software) is pretty huge between a $250 PC you salvaged together and a $500 one. It is of course your choice, but because a PC is never just a small purchase and you'll probably want something that'll last you quite a bit, you might want to consider saving up a bit more and go for a better computer altogether.

If you are going PC - you might as well go for the absolute MAX'd out specs. Why would you build one that is just on par with a console? You will be forced to upgrade if you want to play more recent games.

You will struggle to even get a "PC master race"-tier PC for 500. For 200 you can maybe some 32-bit motherboard with an integrate GfX card and the power supply is a phone charger with a 12 Amp fuse. Build a case from a cereal box (endless customisation options there) and you probably don't have enough money left for a keyboard mouse and monitor so you have to steal them from your school. Pirate Windows XP, and use your smartphone as a HDD.

After all that, you get home, plug in your beast, wait for the 512k RAM to boot up your BIOS, GRUB your pirated WinXP, load up YT and tell everyone in the comments that you are a member of an elite club.

Is this pasta

No, feel free to spread it though.

Some points are exaggerated obv, but they are not far from the truth.

I liked the welding bit more than the cereal edit you made.

Operating under the pretense that my friend will give me the money he owes me this Friday, I can increase my budget to 750CAD (600USD). If it's a little more expensive than that, I'll be okay. Here's what I have so far:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/Tsk6tJ