I sort of made a friend at work. (Woooh, first one!)
Anyhoo, we got talking about building PCs, when another guy butted in to show is his PC, and started shouting about how awesome it was (it wasn't...lol)...
I was trying to offer the best advice I could, and I explained I don't know much about the latest AMD hardware, but you can't go wrong with an new i5 anyway.
Other guy butts in saying he has a 4th gen i5. Yay for him. And starts spewing out the most utter garbage I've ever heard. Apparently his GPU has 16gb of RAM, and his motherboard can take both DDR 3&4, possibly 5 too, and all kinds of processors......? He couldn't answer many of my questions about his rig...
Smells like dog poop to me. Lol
I warned my friend that this guy doesn't seem to know what he's on about, but he's known the other guy longer than he's known me.
Anyway, I didn't see my new friend for a few days due to work, and when I went in today, he said he'd ordered a new motherboard, because it was the same as the other guys.
He'd ordered an Asrock 970 AM3+ motherboard.... lol
I recommended he cancel the order, but it had already arrived and he doesn't want to return it.
So my new friend will essentially have the same PC as me.
A 970 motherboard, with an AMD FX 8320 processor. Lol
Atleast it was cheap.
I said he should use the money he saved to go straight for 16gb of RAM to future proof it as much as possible.
Can't fault my CPU though. Has plenty of power.
And his old PC is a core 2 duo and 1GB of ram. Lol.
so it's a big step up.
Still. No one ever listens to me though.
CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
Anyhoo, we got talking about building PCs, when another guy butted in to show is his PC, and started shouting about how awesome it was (it wasn't...lol)...
I was trying to offer the best advice I could, and I explained I don't know much about the latest AMD hardware, but you can't go wrong with an new i5 anyway.
Other guy butts in saying he has a 4th gen i5. Yay for him. And starts spewing out the most utter garbage I've ever heard. Apparently his GPU has 16gb of RAM, and his motherboard can take both DDR 3&4, possibly 5 too, and all kinds of processors......? He couldn't answer many of my questions about his rig...
Smells like dog poop to me. Lol
I warned my friend that this guy doesn't seem to know what he's on about, but he's known the other guy longer than he's known me.
Anyway, I didn't see my new friend for a few days due to work, and when I went in today, he said he'd ordered a new motherboard, because it was the same as the other guys.
He'd ordered an Asrock 970 AM3+ motherboard.... lol
I recommended he cancel the order, but it had already arrived and he doesn't want to return it.
So my new friend will essentially have the same PC as me.
A 970 motherboard, with an AMD FX 8320 processor. Lol
Atleast it was cheap.
I said he should use the money he saved to go straight for 16gb of RAM to future proof it as much as possible.
Can't fault my CPU though. Has plenty of power.
And his old PC is a core 2 duo and 1GB of ram. Lol.
so it's a big step up.
Still. No one ever listens to me though.
CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
