OH.. MY.. GOD!!!

MrCoffee · 01-14-2006, 12:08 AM

eer...i dno bout all you guys, but all that computer really gets you is bragging rights....and it can power your car...

Professor S · 01-14-2006, 02:25 AM

I get the feeling that a lot of people downplaying this PC think that more that 1% of the population know enough to actually build their own gaming PC from scratch...

They would be wrong if they thought that.

Null · 01-14-2006, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Professor S

I get the feeling that a lot of people downplaying this PC think that more that 1% of the population know enough to actually build their own gaming PC from scratch...

They would be wrong if they thought that.

1% is kinda exagerating it.

But "Can they", and "do they THINK they can" are totally different. i have no doubt that that most people believe that it is some very hard and difficult thing to do.
However in reality, its buy the parts plug em into the only slot they fit into. building your own computer is actually quite simple. Most people dont attempt it because they dont believe they could.

my cousin needed a new computer not too long ago, so i helped him make his own, while putting it together i asked him, where do you think that goes? he guessed, and i said plug it in. he was amazed at how easy it was, now he's helped his friends make thier own.

Now i dont see anyone downplaying this PC, it is an insanely powerful pc, there is no doubt about that. Its the price and the company that are at question. Ihave no doubt one could build this computer and easily save $500 to $1000 on it. maybe more, i dont know its price.

Its not companies building these computers that makes it possible for people to build thier own. its the other way around. Its the ability to buy different combinations of parts, and put em together that gives these companies the ability to be computer companies selling prebuilt computers.

Professor S · 01-14-2006, 05:10 PM

I have to disagree on your "chicken or egg" theory, but I'll leave it at that. As for it being easy to build computers, I have no doubt that it is. I've been upgrading and messing with my PC's for a long time ( and I have no clue what the Hell an "SLI" or whatever is or what it does. I'll bet only about 1% of the population actually does.)

But it also takes knowledge to do so. The difference between someone being able to build their own PC and not being able to is as simple as knowing what you are doing. Thats the same with any skill.

I'm a chef. I know how to cook and honesly, 95% of all recipes are easy as hell. Yet not that many people are really good at cooking and if they open a recipe and buy the food for it, their end product will still end up an unappetizing mess. Knowledge leads to experience which leads to mastery.

I also think the "technology intimidation" factor adds a lot into it as well.

Null · 01-14-2006, 07:06 PM

well i dont know about PC's when they were originally around, maybe certain companies like IBM made the entire computer themselves.
nowadays tho, companies just buy the parts from others and put em together same as anyone would. Dell bought these parts from nvidia to build it. and maybe it has a sony DVD drive in it. or a seagate or WD hd in it. but thier all parts that are for anyone to buy.

and i totally agree with you that most people dont know how, or are intimadated, i feel they think its way too hard for them so they just dont try at all.

you see more and more companies apearing on the web that sell prebuilt computers, because at the moment, its an easy business to get into, buy parts, put together, sell at a profit. thats how companies like dell and gateway got started.

and no, maybe most people dont know what things like SLI mean, but thats not needed to know to make your own computer. im not saying everyone will know how to make a super computer like this one from dell. because the better a computer is the more knowledge you have to know of what does what to make it more powerful. But to build a basic computer you dont have to know that much, and you simply learn from there.
But your right, most people are intimadated by such thoughts.

BTW, SLI is simply a little bracket to connect 2 video cards together, so they run as one, but with more power then just 1 can do. connets them like a bridge from board to board.