What's it like to own a high-end computer?
More underwhelming than you might think.
same as owning a low-end computerI browse this dumpster website and play terraria
I played Cyberpunk for 45 minutes. I used Whispr maybe 10 times. The CPU is nice at least, my code compiles quickly.
>>108228150Same shit just louder.
>>108228285This.Same just more and faster, plus hearing damage if I don't wear my sound dampened.Ironically with the computer being more productive i have more shit i have to do and my anxiety goes up. I am the slowest buffalo in the herd now.
>>108228150I'm gonna have to upgrade as soon as the prices come down, my shit's literally over a decade old. Whenever that will be. But I'm honestly scared of analysis paralysis. Back in the day, you just bought whatever the best price-to-quality models were available on the market. There were no questions like "will I want to use it for local AI stuff?" to ponder. Maybe I'm overthinking it.
>>108228150I still doomscroll, postpone playing installed games and don't turn on my computer for weeks at a time.
they can play cyberpunk, baldur's gate 3, oblivion remastedmy shitpc cannot into such games
>>108228343>as soon as the prices come down
>>108228593They will eventually. Just not soon enough and not by as much as they should.
define high-end
>>108228150it's louder, hotter and more annoying to use than the 4th gen Intel DDR3 machine I used a year prior, the main use case is browsing the internet's and some low poly indie games, it's completely overkill for what it's for currently
>>108228150Imagine having your current computer 12 years ago.
>>108228150since most the modern CPUs are within pissing distance of each other in single thread performance and most of what you perceive, unless you are building C++ projects, is single thread performance the difference really isn't notable
>>108228150Expensive
worth is just for the seethe when you post your 5090
>>108228150>What's it like to own a high-end computer?It's like the average anon owning a massive penis. All dressed up and nowhere to go.
>>108229875ha that's literally me. I have a nice computer and a big dick!
Like owning enough underwear and socks.It becomes a subject you don't think about because it just works.
>>108228150The last high end computer I had was back in 2016. It was a beast of machine but I rarely used it since I found the convenience of a laptop to be more important than a powerful graphic card. Nowadays most of my high intensive tasks are done on a remote machine and my laptop is a random thinkpad with a fast NVMe and a decent amount of RAM.
Same as dating a 10/10 diva, hot, annoying, expensive, loud. What you want is the upper-tier mid workstation, where it’s great performance but without excess noise, and these sorts of machines can last you a long time.
Same but the electric bill is higher.
>>108228150Really high end, like a dual socket Xeon with 512GB RAM and a RAID0 stripe across multiple NVMe devices and a 6000 Blackwell? It's like piloting a juggernaut. Nothing fucking stops it, it just rolls over shit. Heats the room up like a motherfucker. Extremely visible on the power bill. Bit noisy.If you're talking about a Ryzen 9 with 64GB or something, it's not significantly different to a normal PC, just 20-50% faster sometimes.
>>108229926^This motherfucker computes
>>108228150You quickly run out of ideas of what to do without after playing games and then realizing you don't want to waste your personal computer doing automated workstation shit.Then you buy a dedicated headless workstation pc instead.
>>108228150Awesome. Grew up poor, had nothing but old used office pc's I crammed old ass gpu's into and could barely play games or do anything without lag. 'For the last ten years I've made sure to have the best possible stuff I can afford and not being limited by hardware is extremely nice.
>>108228650for me It's anything beyond core 2 duo
>>108229317this is me in 2026. i have to play (if I can) in 800x600 with lowest (modded to be even lower) settingsand i'm okay with it :)
>>108228150It gets old real fast.
>>108228218symmetrical gigabit made such a bigger difference for me
>>108228150you get the high end computer. you pirate the fancy new game. you play for 30 mins. you install the old game you actually like. the computer sits idle most of the time.
>>108228150setup a VM from a few generations back with maxxed out specs and see for yourself.
>>108230362>the computer sits idle most of the time.Yep. This is typical of home computers, powerful or not.
>>108228150Bad for my social life since I got mine. Yesterday I gamed for 13 hours straight..
>>108228150I used to own one like 7-8 years ago or so when it was still 10xx nvidia series - at a time it was high-end specced. In couple years it became mid at best. And I was doing same shit I do now on relatively low-end machine: browsing web, reading emails, and playing some indie games / emulation of old consoles. Difference between high and mid/low specs as well as upgrades themselves does not feel that huge anymore as it was during 2000-2010 period when upgrades were literally multiplying your performance and your storage was becoming tens of times larger every few years for same price. You would only feel it in some extreme examples like running some shit like cyberpunk in 4k all settings fucked-up to maximum. If you are average 1080p/1440p enjoyer and are not afraid to tune-down your settings and turn-off some resource-expensive shit - it doesn't matter anymore.Technology is stagnating.
>>108228150I still suck at Calladooty.But I can compile quickly
>>108228150Pretty shitty. You realize you wasted $3000 on something that hardly looks better than a PS5 with gaming and runs no faster than a regular PC because it's Windows and jeet code making things slow, not hardware limitations.My suggestion is to find a used PC with a 2080 or something and save your money for something else. It will play games and run software just fine.
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>>108228150feels good
Upgraded to a 16 core with 32gb DDR5 and a novydia 5060ti from having to use cheap laptops before (upgrade before the ramagedon). Games dont lag anymore when maxed out and most things run smooth even when maxing out the resources. But jokes on me I dont have time to play games and the games themselves are boring, it basically became a 2.5k EUR prop. Honestly its not worth it unless you game 12 hours a day or need a workstation (you dont, if you do, your job provides you with one).
it works until i try to improve it then its broken again
>>108228150it's at least nice to know i have the power to leverage when i need it. but yea, fuck, most of the stuff i actually do daily, i can already do on my laptops and phones without being tethered to one single room.
>>108228150you become concerned with power usageprovided you don't still live with your mother
>>108233591pretty much this. had a gaming pc at 18, shit chugged power and my mom wasnt thrilled. im 40 now and just use apus and android devices.
who is she?
>>108228150It's like sex but you orgasm all day. You're not a virgin after this. You mog chads.>t. maxxd out macbook pro haver
>>108234447Well let's see, I boughted this cpu in 2017 when it was new and i still have no need to replace it as it's still crunching everything.Goyzen 5 1600xNovideo RTX A400032GB RAMand terabytes of storageThis PC is still a monster and I have no reason to upgrade it in the next 10 years or more given the current "advances" in hardware.>>108234447OP said high end computer, not a toy anon. Also you sound like a virgin lel
>>108228150Been a long time I had a good PC but gonna share anywaysAround 2006-2008 I had a pretty good PC (at least compared to my poorfag small town) and made some great memories playing Max Payne, Far Cry and Age of Mythology.But even back then I was already having way more fun browsing random stuff on the internet, playing various Flash games on Kongregate (they had chatrooms it was fun) and playing some text-based browser games like Travian, Ikariam, Urban Dead etcAfter my PC broke around 2012 I just never fixed or got a new one, I've just been using a cheap office potato since then and emulate some SNES and PS1 games once in a while.I've always thought this might be related to depression but it's kinda funny how common this is with other people, maybe there's something more to it?People shouldn't have to quit youtube/4chan so they can learn to enjoy games again, this just feels forced.If modern games were really good, people would just naturally gravitate to them.
>>108230804this is a bit of a cope, even a mid tier pc will look better than a ps5 and will hit 60fps at the resolutions you want. ps5 games really look and play awful and they upscale from 900p if you're lucky or offer you 30fps fidelity modes. i own a ps5 and its crazy to say it comes anywhere close
>>108234695and if its optimized on a ps5 itll run pretty similar on pc, the architecture is identical. the pso2 port is legit just the pc version with no changes on xbox it still has all the graphic settings and fsr 1.0 options. pajeet code is trancedent now.
>>108228150Passion-ending due to choice fatigue.
>>108229917why do i have to share the internet with literal peasants, fuck..
>>108229317I still have and use a computer from 12 years ago.
The same feeling when realizing you could’ve been born in India but you’re white.
