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Old 05-28-2021, 04:17 PM  
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What kind of computer does the average CP'er use?
I'm curious. Did you build it yourself or did you buy it off the shelf?

If you built it yourself... why did you chose the components you did?

If you bought it off the shelf... why did you chose the unit you did? Was it a budget buy for a tool you need or did you shell out for a boutique build?

Do you know the specs of your computer (what CPU or video card (if any) you are using?

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I built mine in 2013. It is an Intel Core i7 4770k on a Z97 motherboard. Running a Power Color Vega 56 (Power Color Red Dragon) and 32GB of memory. 500GB M.2 for my boot drive and just a 1TB drive for personal storage (which really has nothing but photos of my foster pups.

When I built it... I had a cutting edge machine and I built it to be future proof. I originally had a 7790 video card in there but have upgraded a handful of times over the years to the Vega 56 I run now.

I still use it more for gaming than anything else and it still handles its own. I can play games like Apex Legends at an average of 97 FPS on "medium". That said... its nearing the end of it's run as the heavy game machine in the house.
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Old 05-28-2021, 07:42 PM   #31
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I use to build PC’s. But since I work in tech, I don’t want to **** with making tech work in my leisure time.

Ive used nothing but laptops for 20 years or so.always go for the big screen ones. 17 inch or so. More gaming builds although I don’t do gaming. Just want more Piwer and speed to keep up with my bandwidth.
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Old 05-28-2021, 07:46 PM   #32
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I have an octo-core amd system. Something like that. It's fast when not updating every little piece of software.

I use my Android phone for CP stuff. Much easier.
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Old 05-28-2021, 07:57 PM   #33
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I'm not a techy but I did once stay at a Holiday Inn. I'll be 71 in July but I've been on the internet since '93 and owned a online business form '93 to 2004 when I retired, BuccaneerRecords.com. We sold import CDs and videos, classic, metal and hard rock. I believe it was Macromedia Dreamweaver I bought and used to built my website and I did magazine advertising, mostly Goldmine, which was a record collector publication.

I'm now on my 5th computer. On Black Friday 2018 I bought this all-in-one at Best Buy for $499, I thought I did good. It still runs great and it was $829 at that time, now it's $699.



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Old 05-28-2021, 08:27 PM   #34
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Old 05-28-2021, 08:33 PM   #35
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I'm not a techy but I did once stay at a Holiday Inn. I'll be 71 in July but I've been on the internet since '93 and owned a online business form '93 to 2004 when I retired, BuccaneerRecords.com. We sold import CDs and videos, classic, metal and hard rock. I believe it was Macromedia Dreamweaver I bought and used to built my website and I did magazine advertising, mostly Goldmine, which was a record collector publication.

I'm now on my 5th computer. On Black Friday 2018 I bought this all-in-one at Best Buy for $499, I thought I did good. It still runs great and it was $829 at that time, now it's $699.



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I hear you. I am 74 and closing in on 75.

All I need is something simple and reliable.

But I do love the internet.

Who’d have thunk it when we were youngsters??!
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Old 05-28-2021, 08:37 PM   #36
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What kind of computer does the average CP'er use?
Our laptop basically only has to function as an in between device to get things from phones and cameras to the external storage hard drive we keep for all of our videos and photos. Other than that it’s really only used for specialized things not easily done on the phone, but also not things that any off the shelf laptop can’t accomplish.
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Old 05-28-2021, 09:06 PM   #37
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Stereo, Phone, TV and all peripherals [KB, Mouse, headphones, speakers, printers, etc] are wireless, either Bluetooth or WiFi.
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Old 05-28-2021, 10:10 PM   #38
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I was thinking that I was going to have to retire my TRS-80 color computer because it wasn't keeping up. But then I upgraded the memory from 16k to 64k and now it really rocks.

I can load an entire 30 page document into memory all at once instead of only doing 3 or 4 pages at a time and having to swap them in and out, off the hard drive.

Look out world here I come.
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Old 05-28-2021, 10:28 PM   #39
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I was thinking that I was going to have to retire my TRS-80 color computer because it wasn't keeping up. But then I upgraded the memory from 16k to 64k and now it really rocks.

I can load an entire 30 page document into memory all at once instead of only doing 3 or 4 pages at a time and having to swap them in and out, off the hard drive.

Look out world here I come.
It kind of went right over my head how much my public school was 'investing' in me [which went to waste somewhat, overall] back in grade school. But in grades 4-6, I was practically married to the school's TRS-80. I can't remember how many they had, but I can't have been a lot. And I would be on that during recess and rest period, any free time, after hours, learning the language and writing programs.

It was all pretty BASIC [punny] because the teachers really didn't know any more about computer architecture or programming than I did, really. But they let me futz around on it to my heart's content. Fairly rare for the late 70s, I'm sure. Probably had something to do with me being ADHD and a distraction in class as well.
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Old 05-28-2021, 10:48 PM   #40
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Old 05-28-2021, 11:12 PM   #41
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AMD Phenom II 720B
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It still works and is fine for the few games that I play.

Want to upgrade to a Ryzen however not much need for it since I burned myself out on FPS a long time ago.
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Old 05-28-2021, 11:33 PM   #42
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My system is about six years old now. Did most of the build myself, under the close supervision of my IT buddy, whose instructions I followed to the letter.

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Still runs great and I haven't had any issues with it. Which is good, because I understand PC components are currently in short supply and ungodly expensive.
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Old 05-28-2021, 11:42 PM   #43
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I'm not a techy but I did once stay at a Holiday Inn. I'll be 71 in July but I've been on the internet since '93 and owned a online business form '93 to 2004 when I retired, BuccaneerRecords.com. We sold import CDs and videos, classic, metal and hard rock. I believe it was Macromedia Dreamweaver I bought and used to built my website and I did magazine advertising, mostly Goldmine, which was a record collector publication.

I'm now on my 5th computer. On Black Friday 2018 I bought this all-in-one at Best Buy for $499, I thought I did good. It still runs great and it was $829 at that time, now it's $699.



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sure, bud. you wanna trade that 'puter for a stick of gum?
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