Daily Chit-Chat: What even is this?

[Tsutarja]

They're just called aerials.

 

[TY]

I love to build PC's nowadays. In the past I bought them pre-built cause I didn't felt like building something to only break one thing, now I built my own PC and soon I'm allowed to build (and quite possibly break) my sister's PC when she has all the parts needed.

All of that started cause I got a new graphics card cause my old PC was a bit outdated.

 

[Raffy98]

I love to build PC's nowadays. In the past I bought them pre-built cause I didn't felt like building something to only break one thing, now I built my own PC and soon I'm allowed to build (and quite possibly break) my sister's PC when she has all the parts needed.

All of that started cause I got a new graphics card cause my old PC was a bit outdated.

Yeah it's amazing, it really feels like it's your PC. :D

 

[TY]

Yeah it's amazing, it really feels like it's your PC. :D

I love it. Except the parts where things do not work as intended... like I had with my case's lightning being broken (and to this day it never will reach every color feelsbadman)

 

[colours]

im too dumb to build a pc

c'est la vie

 

[Sawsbuck]

My computer is a slow piece of crap with an AMD ATI Radeon 5700 that sucks

 

[TY]

My PC has a i7-7700K in it along with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, 16 GB RAM DDR4 from Corsair, an ASUS motherboard and for once in my lifetime not a stock cooler xD

and a case which lost its purple and blue lights :(

Guess my IT course helped out a lot on my confidence to build a PC :P

 

[TY]

I'm hoping to start getting parts together for a build on Cyber Monday and perhaps Boxing Week. With a job that actually pays me to be able to afford things, it's finally an option. I'm still trying to decide on some other options though, such as how much RAM I want and what kinds of storage I want, but I'm slowly making up my mind.

What kind of specs are you aiming for? :o

 

[TY]

Right now I'm focusing on games and building software, so I'm thinking on 16-24GB RAM to satisfy the needs of Unity as well as more demanding games. For storage, I'm thinking on two smaller SSDs, one to boot Windows and one for Linux, and then some larger disk drives for storage.

That's pretty sick tbh. I want to eventually have a dualboot in my PC but I can't come up with a reason to have Linux atm since all I do rn is play games. GLHF with it! :D

 

[Raffy98]

That looks promising.

I built mine back in 2014, it has an i5-4570, a Radeon R9 270X, 8GB of RAM, an MSI Z87-G41, 2 1TB HDDs and a 120Gb Samsung 840 EVO SSD.
It also featured an AIO cooler (it was a Cooler Master Seidon 120v) but its pump died so now I'm back at using the stock cooler. :( rip.

 

[TY]

I know the stock cooler struggle... I had mine for a long time untill my grand idea to rebuild my PC... I was the laughing stock at my school's LAN party cause of it (it looked ridiculous).

 

[EC]

Can I get some help? How do I troubleshoot a keyboard issue? Sometimes the letters don't appear on the screen, no matter how many times I hit the key. It takes repetitive POUNDING to get them on. It's a new wireless keyboard. Is it a keyboard issue, a wireless issue, or something else?

 

[EC]

<p></p><p>Is it only occurring when you first start typing, or in the middle of typing something? I'd suspect a few things, either driver failure, or if that's not the case, it could be a malfunctioning device. Have you tried using it on something else?</p><p>

In the middle of typing. Letters that I am sure I am hitting don't appear. I even look down at the keyboard to make sure I am hitting the letters and nothing happens. Haven't tried using it on anything else yet.

 

[Raffy98]

In the middle of typing. Letters that I am sure I am hitting don't appear. I even look down at the keyboard to make sure I am hitting the letters and nothing happens. Haven't tried using it on anything else yet.

If it works fine on another device then that's a driver issue, but if it also doesn't work properly on another device then you received a defective keyboard which you shall return if you can.

 

[EC]

The whole computer is borked now, USB ports not working, programs not loading, etc. Sending it back for a refund.

My laptop (which I am currently using) is faster than the new computer. I don't understand how that's possible.

 

[Sawsbuck]

I have an i7 CPU 8GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon 5700
My computer sucks

 

[Tsutarja]

The whole computer is borked now, USB ports not working, programs not loading, etc. Sending it back for a refund.

What kind of computer is it? Seems odd that you're experiencing those issues with a new tower.

Also, have you had any power surges recently?

 

[Sawsbuck]

What kind of i7? That graphics card doesn't seem too bad, although with only 1GB graphics memory that doesn't go too far anymore...

An 870 I think

 

[EC]

What kind of computer is it? Seems odd that you're experiencing those issues with a new tower.

Also, have you had any power surges recently?

It's not a new tower. It was an all-in-one. I sadly don't have room for a tower.

 

[Raffy98]

An 870 I think

It's the first generation i7, it's still okay for now I'd say.