[quote=John McClane]I helped a friend build a computer once (i.e. I just watched and told him what to do), and there were several times he was afraid he was gonna break something. When he put the RAM in I looked and saw it wasn’t snapped in and I was like “yeah, you gonna need to bear down harder” (that sounds awful just typing :facepalm:).[/quote]

[quote=CringeFest]Computer faith...[/quote]

[quote=Allaby]I’m off to the mall![/quote]

[quote=Sedai]Most motherboards have at least a row of lights that help determine that, if one was to run into problems. Some have a digital readout.[/quote]

[quote=CringeFest][quote=Sedai][quote=CringeFest][quote=John McClane]Well, the problem is there is a void of mid-range graphics cards. It used to be that there was the latest and greatest, and then a middle of the road budget option. A best of both worlds (i.e. performance and cost).

Now GPU manufactures have prioritized the high end models to the determent of mid-range, and the second hand market costs for older high end GPUs is almost the same as new ones. That is not OK.[/quote]

Unfortunately building computers is kinda rough and risky, I think with technology its always best to go with low-end but tried and true...as in, find other people whove tried it before spending money.[/quote]

These days, it's pretty much snap it all together and turn it on. There is very little risk aside from receiving a bricked component, at which point you just RMA the thing and get it replaced. Oh, and don't eat the thermal paste.[/quote]

You're forgetting the part about buying the components and testing to see which ones cause your machine not to function.[/quote]

[quote=Sedai][quote=CringeFest][quote=John McClane]Well, the problem is there is a void of mid-range graphics cards. It used to be that there was the latest and greatest, and then a middle of the road budget option. A best of both worlds (i.e. performance and cost).

Now GPU manufactures have prioritized the high end models to the determent of mid-range, and the second hand market costs for older high end GPUs is almost the same as new ones. That is not OK.[/quote]

Unfortunately building computers is kinda rough and risky, I think with technology its always best to go with low-end but tried and true...as in, find other people whove tried it before spending money.[/quote]

These days, it's pretty much snap it all together and turn it on. There is very little risk aside from receiving a bricked component, at which point you just RMA the thing and get it replaced. Oh, and don't eat the thermal paste.[/quote]

[quote=Allaby]So far this week I have watched 20 films from 6 different decades.  I watched 3 films from the teens, 2 from the 20s, 3 from the 30s, 5 from the 40s, 3 from the 50s and 4 from the 60s.  Today I will watch at least a few films from the 1970s.[/quote]

[quote=Allaby]It's fun travelling through time![/quote]

[quote=CringeFest][quote=John McClane]Well, the problem is there is a void of mid-range graphics cards. It used to be that there was the latest and greatest, and then a middle of the road budget option. A best of both worlds (i.e. performance and cost).

Now GPU manufactures have prioritized the high end models to the determent of mid-range, and the second hand market costs for older high end GPUs is almost the same as new ones. That is not OK.[/quote]

Unfortunately building computers is kinda rough and risky, I think with technology its always best to go with low-end but tried and true...as in, find other people whove tried it before spending money.[/quote]

[quote=Sedai]As you know, I just put a new rig together, with the obvious caveat that I just transferred my current 1060 6GB into the new rig, so I did not replace the graphics framework. That card still runs most games really well, especially now that my CPU bottleneck is gone. 

Check in with me in a couple years, though. We will see how that card is faring then![/quote]

[quote=John McClane]Well, the problem is there is a void of mid-range graphics cards. It used to be that there was the latest and greatest, and then a middle of the road budget option. A best of both worlds (i.e. performance and cost).

Now GPU manufactures have prioritized the high end models to the determent of mid-range, and the second hand market costs for older high end GPUs is almost the same as new ones. That is not OK.[/quote]