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bought my girlfriend a new gaming pc. it's better than mine :huh: :shakefist:
 
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moving from a garbage disposal back to the dumpster but it’s an improvement nonetheless
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1070 :alien: that's a very nice setup. the only thing i can match that on is the SSD, i have the exact same one :redneck: what kind of monitor does she have?
 
i will probably do a rebuild/upgrade in june to move up to a 1000-series GPU and a few other improvements. i financed my current rig through my work at 0%, once it's paid off i'll see if i can get another freebie loan for the next wave of hardware
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i5?
 
i got an 17 processor in my laptop back in 2011, bitch
 
although the laptop is currently waiting for a bed in a nursing home
 
but still. you suck
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She is lucky.
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i7s are a lot more expensive both in cost and power consumption, and don't provide any real performance advantage over the i5 for gaming. unless she's planning on doing video rendering/editing or some-such it's kind of a waste
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i think youll find that 7 > 5
 
and so it is obviously better
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[quote="Hitoshura"]
1070 :alien: that's a very nice setup. the only thing i can match that on is the SSD, i have the exact same one :redneck: what kind of monitor does she have?
 
i will probably do a rebuild/upgrade in june to move up to a 1000-series GPU and a few other improvements. i financed my current rig through my work at 0%, once it's paid off i'll see if i can get another freebie loan for the next wave of hardware
[/quote]
 
the monitor is actually not amazing, its an ASUS VS228H-P 21.5, but you know it looks alright and we're okay with it. it's running at 1920x1080 so this rig should pretty much slay everything. the only thing i cheap'd out on was the ram but i don't think it really matters these days.
 
i put it together last night (i only wanted to kill myself once or twice) and it booted up on the first try :gay: i woke up at 5am and saw that she was just going to bed after a long night of gaming :redneck:
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Putting together ones own PC :xx:
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[quote="Ninny"]
Putting together ones own PC :xx:
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I'll probably do a video upgrade next year. 
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How much did all this cost you moth[size=0].[/size]erfucker
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about $1300ish, pretty expensive but this pc will last for a long time. you could save a few hundred dollars by getting some cheaper parts.
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sure, if you wanted to be a sucker
 
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[quote="naah"]
sure, if you wanted to be a sucker
 
:necro:
[/quote]
 
well the hard drive could definitely go cheaper, the cpu cooler as well. you could get a cooler for like 35 bucks, don't need no fancy water coolin'
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stock cooling is fine if you don't plan to OC, i use the fan/sink that came in the box with my i5 :idea:
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stock cooling happens in the freezer if you aren't doing it fancy Alton brown-style
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She is going to be able to watch pornography at lightning fast speeds and in remarkable clarity :santa:
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My stock fan/heatsink have been working great for the last few years :fonz:
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with this computer she can finally leave you behind and marry kingslayer1986 from that mmorpg
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ANGEL OF DESEASE wrote:the path of whoring is something wicked and grim, and very philosophical.
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king's layer
 
a napoleon of kings
 
proper napoleon, they call it
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bitch is living on that computer
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And now poor zim is all alone
vega wrote:But when I am meeting she is a round circle like egg. :oldryan: . She is eating 88% of foods and I am paying 100% bill.
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but now I want to suck her soft parts.
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my plan worked :grim:
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Alone time :xx:
vega wrote:But when I am meeting she is a round circle like egg. :oldryan: . She is eating 88% of foods and I am paying 100% bill.
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but now I want to suck her soft parts.
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:idea:
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Been considering this a lot but whether I like it or not, I'm actually at the point in my life where I think a laptop with adequate specs maybe a more viable option for me at this point in mein life rather than a decked-out gaming PC. Hell I'm even considering a macbook and to think I vehemently loathed at any mac-related stuff during my younger years. :redneck:

Aside from the fact that I don't really play a lot of graphic intensive games anymore, it's also more on necessities this time as I find that bringing a trustworthy laptop to to a client presentation is much more feasible rather than bringing a USB with all your presentation files only to be thwarted by the hardware available within the presentation premises. This has really happened a lot in the past few years since I started doing the work thing. :oldryan:

I can always upgrade ein laptop and the decked-out PC option is always there once I bring in the blings. :ba:
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if by 'upgrade' you mean 'replace' i agree that you can upgrade a laptop
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don't buy a mac you salad bar
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just buy both!
vega wrote:But when I am meeting she is a round circle like egg. :oldryan: . She is eating 88% of foods and I am paying 100% bill.
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but now I want to suck her soft parts.
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I just got a computer :santa:
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Sade got a komputron

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It is tabletland
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You caaan upgrade a laptop and it is a lot easier than it used to be (my notebook has separate panels I can remove to quickly access a couple main components and is fairly easily to disassemble to get to everything else), but honestly a PC is the smart way to go to expandability. It's just so easy and straightfoward.
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i'd really like to have a high end microsoft surface but motherfuck those prices
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i mean i had no issues upgrading the RAM/HD on my last couple of laptops but it's not like you can jam a new CPU or GPU in those bitches, which is really the main thing i'd be looking for if i wanted an upgradeable machine
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You could, and you're subject to the same limitations as with a desktop PC: socket compatibility. It's just more of a process to get to it than with a desktop PC.
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nu uh
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:redneck:
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zim wrote:bought my girlfriend a new gaming pc. it's better than mine :huh: :shakefist:
 
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this is like emptying a bag of groceries onto the counter and saying "i bought my girlfriend dinner"
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well then i'll have you know i fucking cooked it

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:zim:
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This thread is sad now :eyes:
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at least zim can pwn his ex in overwatch
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Abzu wrote:This thread is sad now :eyes:
well let me up it one for you.. i also bought a vive virtual reality headset and now i can't use it because it was hooked to her pc and mine doesn't meet the requirements.
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zim i am so sorry
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i wish i had thought of my joke earlier :shakefist: i'm the real victim here
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actually i have a 1080 on loan (possibly a bonus) from work so i could totally use my vive if i wanted to, fuck y'all
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so a pc is like a laptop without the mobility
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without the flexibility and the mobility
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and the yoga pants
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