Buying Advice
What to buy, what to skip, and why.
ugh. i genuinely laughed, then i wanted to cry. my new creator laptop with an OLED screen blue screened right after the first restart, not even an hour into owning it. everything else seems fine: fans quiet, screen perfect, no weird noises. is a single crash…
help!! my aging mid range GPU has served me well, but modded city builders is turning into a slideshow on medium settings. I have up to 700 dollars set aside. Every time I am about to click buy, someone says new cards are coming and prices will drop. That…
guys pls help im a nervous beginner and i need a new desktop for programming and some games. Budget is around 1000 dollars. Everyone online says building is easy and cheaper. Then i read horror stories about bent CPU pins and RAM not seated properly. A…
Confession: I chose the open box 2TB NVMe to save money for a better GPU. After ten days I ran a SMART check because a friend told me to. The Media and Data Integrity Errors line is yellow. The seller says refurbished drives are fully tested. I am now…
I bought the last gen flagship card after testing it at a local sellers apartment. it passed a looping demo. at home, the first evening of gaming, I got this. The seller has stopped answering. i'm angry, mostly at myself. Is there any chance this is my setup…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts confession: I chose the used 2TB SATA SSD to save money for a better GPU. After a month I ran a SMART check because a friend told me to. the Percentage Used line is yellow. the seller says refurbished drives are fully…
ugh. hot take that i want challenged: for a home office worker, a prebuilt is teh smarter choice.. 🤷 you get one warranty, no compatibility guesswork and a working system on day one, i have around 1000 dollars for programming and some games... prove me…
so annoyed rn so, computer science. I'm excited and terrified. I have roughly 1200 euros saved from a summer job and I want a laptop that lasts the whole degree. the salesperson tried to push a gaming laptop with RGB on me. my older cousin says buy a cheap…
help!! hot take that i want challenged: for a returning gamer after ten years, a prebuilt is the smarter choice lmao you get one warranty, no compatibility guesswork and a working system on day one. i have a firm 800 dollars for photo editing. prove me…
im literally losing my mind here hot take that I want challenged: for a returning gamer after ten years, a prbeuilt is teh smarter choice 🙏 u get one warranty, no compatibility guesswork and a working system on day one. I have a firm 800 dollars for video…
guys pls help my old screen started flickering and I have to replace it soon. I do mostly watching movies and gaming... the two options I keep coming back to are a 27 inch 1440p high refresh and a bigger TV used as a monitor. friends are split down the…
My old screen staretd flickering and i have to replace it soon. i do mostly photo editing. The two options i keep coming back to are a 4K 60Hz and a 27 inch IPS for color work. Friends are split down the middle. Help me break teh tie 👍 Bonus points if you…
guys pls help my dad always said buy cheap, buy twice 👍 I did not listen. Just three weeks after buying a marketplace 1TB SATA SSD, my health tool shows a warning. I have backups of teh important stuff, mostly 🤦 what I need to know is how fast this kind of…
i'm torn. With up to 700 dollars i could buy a decent GPU now, or i could just keep my hand me down graphics card and wait. The games i play, mostly story games at 1440p, are not getting lighter :D Is there a smart way to time this, or is it always a gamble?…
so annoyed rn i genuinely laughed, then i wanted to cry. My new gaming laptop blue screened on teh very first game launch, not even an hour into owning it. Everything else seems fine: fans quiet, screen perfect, no weird noises. Is a single crash on day one…
i got clever and bouhgt a marketplace 1TB SATA SSD insetad of a new one xD felt great for a month... then i installed a health tool out of curiosity and it greeted me with this. the Media and Data Integrity Errors value is flagged and the status says Caution…
im planning to buy an old PC turned file server for my late grandmothers scanned albums. before I spend money, I want to sanity check the plan with peolpe whove done this... what do you do, and what disasters have you seen happen to ppl who thought they were…
ok so i bought the second hand mid range GPU after testing it at a parking lot meetup 😭 It passed a looping demo. At home, the first evening of gaming, i got this. The seller has stopped answering. i'm angry, mostly at myself. Is there any chance this is my…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts i bought the last gen flagship card after testing it at a parking lot meetup. It passed a benchmark loop. At home, the first evening of gaming, I got this. the seller has stopped answering, i'm angry, mostly at myself...…
so annoyed rn went to a small rpeair shop to check out a used high end GPU. price was great. the seller set it up in their PC and strated a stress test 😤 about five minutes in, this showed up. The seller said it was a driver thing and that it never happens…
Question for people who already went through graphic design: what did your laptop actually need to do? Course software, battery life in lecture halls, weight in a backpack, all of it. I have a tight 600 dollars and I lean toward a good keyboard. I'd love to…
ok weird one honest question.. 😤 i have been 'waiting for the next generation' for two years with a aging mid range GPU... i mostly play a big open world RPG. i finally have about 400 dollars ready. part of me wants to buy today, part of me is scared of…
