Lots to talk about here. First off, is the feeling that by the time I’ll have enough for the hardware, would possibly be by March of next year. $100 here (and that’s just bills), $100 there (for a replacement secondary monitor), $45 for a new pair of shoes that’ll probably last me less than two years (because they don’t make them like they used to).
Honestly I feel I’m never going to save. Having what’s left and trying not to touch it, isn’t working. Yet it’s also a pita to go up to the bank and grab $100 at the end of the month. And thinking I can call the bank and ask them to set up a temp account (without having to go up there in person and tell them what I want it for…even though it would only be a temp account) isn’t going to work.
If only you could turn your computer into an ATM, and have it spit out your cash through the CD drive. That would be awesome.
There’s another thing… I’m not even sure if it’s worth saving up now. Tech news just depresses me. The competition between Intel and AMD is ridiculous for someone who gives no fucks for taking the time to learn this shit. There’s just so much to learn, and it’s quite ridiculous.
All I give a fuck about, is getting a decent framerate on most games (on a low resolution). This makes my options very tiny (an example is, I feel I don’t need a 1080Ti). My 750Ti has been working fine for years. Though I do remember when I had gotten it back in 2011, the installer said “you could get a 960Ti if you had more money”, or something like that. Plus that was before this recent crypto bullshit that’s jacking up the prices of video cards (due to overwhelming demand).
It just gives me a headache when I hear Intel has found a way to be better than the Ryzen. Plus one said about how this competition is “great for gamers”..not to me. Not when I’m fucking trying to save on a set CPU. I don’t wanna hear that it’s not worth saving.
I’m not rich, nor am I being paid by people to talk about PC parts (and am surrounded by PC parts that I can build a system anytime I wanna). I get a monthly check, and I can only save so much. I don’t want to feel that this is a waste of time, struggling to save when everything’s going up in cost.
And before you suggest that I go to Craigslist or Ebay and try to get a discount, first off..Craigslist has nothing related to a computer in my city (or any cities around me). And second, I would rather buy the parts brand new from a legitimate site (like Newegg) than from a 3rd party, have it come to my house, install it, and it stops working a month or two later. And then I can’t get my money back.
Of course, that second thing is also true for brand new hardware. Such as this PSU I bought years ago and asked the installer to take care of it. It was DOA. That is, unfortunately, a real risk for pretty much anything electronic.
But what’s recently been bugging me about the Ryzen, is JayzTwoCents’ latest video. His two testbenches, with a Ryzen and an Intel system. The Ryzen system stopped working, saying it’s the video card’s fault. Yet the same identical cards are in these two testbenches (a 1080Ti). He swapped cards, and the Ryzen system is now working. Yet the same “faulty” card, now in the Intel system…is working.
He checked the BIOS version of both cards, and they’re matching. Then he says “the Ryzen isn’t perfect”, and also mentioning being lucky of having all of this hardware around him to bugtest, then mentioning not everyone has all of this.
Then finally, he did the most disturbing (yet true) thing I heard; “Some of us actually enjoy hardware malfunctions. I know I do.”
To say I enjoy things like that, is to say I enjoy someone smacking me with a long stick. Infact, I think there might be something wrong with my 750Ti (that or the secondary monitor). When watching a Youtube video (and having it paused and I’m in my primary doing a few things), there’s a chance the window the video is in, turns a solid green and Firefox crashes.
Maybe it’s “a Windows 10 thing”. I dunno. All I know is I never seen that before. Thankfully it only does it once a day, and hasn’t done anything else.. (yet).