wow...

[Fayd]

my brother was yelling at me about how the computer i specced out for him a year ago was absolute shit and ran like it...

x2 4800+
HD3850
separate sound card (think turtle beach santa cruz...)
2 gb mem
500 gig hdd

and i go over... check everything i can think of as to why it runs so piss poor. then i realize the HDD has never stopped chugging since i got there. i right click it, and it's at 98% capacity.

wtf.

how does someone let their HDD get to that capacity and still expect their comp to have full performance?

 

[DaveSimmons]

The lesson is to never build a PC for anyone but yourself, ever.

 

[compuwiz1]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
The lesson is to never build a PC for anyone but yourself, ever.

Amen to that!

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
The lesson is to never build a PC for anyone but yourself, ever.

Amen to that!

preach on, brotha!

 

[Proprioceptive]

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
The lesson is to never build a PC for anyone but yourself, ever.

Amen to that!

preach on, brotha!

word

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: Proprioceptive

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
The lesson is to never build a PC for anyone but yourself, ever.

Amen to that!

preach on, brotha!

word

hallelujah sweet baby jesus!

 

[SlitheryDee]

I just don't know how they do it. I haven't had a real computer problem in so long I can barely remember it. Even then I knew exactly what happened and how to fix it. I learned the lesson about building computers for people a long time ago though. You build a person a computer and you are chained to someone who doesn't have the slightest interest in properly maintaining it for the life of that computer. Since you're so "handy" they'll probably call you about their next one when they screw it up even if you refused to build it.

 

[nakedfrog]

Did he disable the little pop-up that tells you you're low on HDD space?

 

[TwiceOver]

Originally posted by: James Bond

Originally posted by: Proprioceptive

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
The lesson is to never build a PC for anyone but yourself, ever.

Amen to that!

preach on, brotha!

word

hallelujah sweet baby jesus!

Yup. My cousin called after 5 years bitching that his computer was running poorly... Like I have some warranty policy or something.

 

[Barfo]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Did he disable the little pop-up that tells you you're low on HDD space?

In my experience, most "normal users" close all warning and message boxes without reading them.

 

[imported_Imp]

Not one comment on how much porn he has? Wow...

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: James Bond

Originally posted by: Proprioceptive

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
The lesson is to never build a PC for anyone but yourself, ever.

Amen to that!

preach on, brotha!

word

hallelujah sweet baby jesus!

I got nothin

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: James Bond

Originally posted by: Proprioceptive

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
The lesson is to never build a PC for anyone but yourself, ever.

Amen to that!

preach on, brotha!

word

hallelujah sweet baby jesus!

I got nothin

TWSS

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow that's insane.

And yeah, I've only built a few computers for others, and regret it. I just get people to go buy a dell now lol. I don't even offer to go pick one out. I try to stay out of it.

People wonder why IT can be so ignorant sometimes, but it's because we try to avoid being stuck in life time free support contracts, when our job pays well and takes most of our time.

 

[SSSnail]

I think Windows should just reserve 10% more of disc space besides the space it reserved for the MFT, and yell incessantly at the user if they try to put more shits on the OS drive.

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Wow that's insane.

And yeah, I've only built a few computers for others, and regret it. I just get people to go buy a dell now lol. I don't even offer to go pick one out. I try to stay out of it.

People wonder why IT can be so ignorant sometimes, but it's because we try to avoid being stuck in life time free support contracts, when our job pays well and takes most of our time.

Dell's have gotten ridiculously cheap, for the amount of computing power we only actually need. XP is freakin 8 years old! And can still process word docs and emails...

 

[Brovane]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Wow that's insane.

And yeah, I've only built a few computers for others, and regret it. I just get people to go buy a dell now lol. I don't even offer to go pick one out. I try to stay out of it.

People wonder why IT can be so ignorant sometimes, but it's because we try to avoid being stuck in life time free support contracts, when our job pays well and takes most of our time.

I work in IT and when I have neighbors ask me questions and stuff I just say I don't work on desktop PC's so I am not up to speed on that. I then tell them if they want to discuss different features on Servers and network equipment I am there man. I throw out a few buzzwords and there eyes roll back in there heads and they make a hasty retreat. If people press the issue I tell them that I have had good luck with Dell computers and leave it at that.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver

Originally posted by: James Bond

Originally posted by: Proprioceptive

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
The lesson is to never build a PC for anyone but yourself, ever.

Amen to that!

preach on, brotha!

word

hallelujah sweet baby jesus!

Yup. My cousin called after 5 years bitching that his computer was running poorly... Like I have some warranty policy or something.

Just be happy that you didn't toss in one questionable piece of hardware and had to fix his networking or some other crap every 3rd day of each month.

Never build for someone, always point them to Dell or Best Buy! Oh, it's 2009, so obligatory ... "or the Apple Store"

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: Imp
Not one comment on how much porn he has? Wow...

it's 300 gigs of anime. i dont think much of that was porn.

if it was, he certainly wasn't sharing

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
The lesson is to never build a PC for anyone but yourself, ever.

Doesnt take a pc person very long to figure this lesson out.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Wow that's insane.

And yeah, I've only built a few computers for others, and regret it. I just get people to go buy a dell now lol. I don't even offer to go pick one out. I try to stay out of it.

People wonder why IT can be so ignorant sometimes, but it's because we try to avoid being stuck in life time free support contracts, when our job pays well and takes most of our time.

Dell's have gotten ridiculously cheap, for the amount of computing power we only actually need. XP is freakin 8 years old! And can still process word docs and emails...

as someone who's had to troubleshoot dells *anyways*, i'd rather troubleshoot my own builds than some proprietary hardware shit. good thing this didnt require troubleshooting, just a thorough beating.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Imp
Not one comment on how much porn he has? Wow...

my 1st thought ... it's taken too long.

 

[SuperSix]

Shoot me.... now

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: SuperSix
Shoot me.... now

uh... okay...

*bang*

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
The lesson is to never build a PC for anyone but yourself, ever.

Amen to that!

preach on, brah!

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