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<blockquote data-quote="Neostarwcc" data-source="post: 75686135" data-attributes="member: 383061"><p>I was born in 1986 and I think we got my first computer when I was six or seven right around when the internet came out (Ah the 8 kbit modems they were so darned slow). So odds are I'll mostly know what you're talking about if you talked about computers from the year I was born. How was Windows 1.0 and 3.0? I remember 3.1 was a real hassle to navigate compared to Windows XP, 7, & 10 today or even Windows 98 which was known for BSOD'ing all over the place. My parents won't upgrade from Windows 7 despite all of the great features I keep telling them about W10 and even after Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7 they still refuse to learn a new OS. </p><p></p><p>I also tried Linux as a teenager (Don't remember what version but it was in the early 2000's somewhere around there), I didn't care for it very much. I could have my Yahoo Messenger like I wanted at the time because my friend from right across the street would rather talk to me on Yahoo messenger than on the phone or just walk across the street to talk to me. Lol! But anyway, Linux didn't have support for some program I forget what it was and I didn't want to use it anymore. I haven't tried a different OS since.</p><p></p><p>I have a i9 10850k now, which is a 10 core, 20 thread processor. I'm assuming you're using a good 9th gen or lower 10th gen or an AMD processor? Intel really made their 10th gen processors really affordable last year so I decided to pick one up and give my wife my old one when I finally built her a computer that wasn't from the mid 2000's, plus it was on sale to boot. I paid a little over $500 for my 9th gen i7 9700k (which is now my wife's processor.) and my 10850k was a lot less than that. I think I paid under $400 for it? I can't remember. Super cheap for a processor today though. Their 10th gen 8 core 8 thread processors were very cheap too, under $300. I haven't really seen processors so cheap in a really, really long time. 2000's or so?</p><p></p><p>Did you know that Intel is releasing their 11th gen just as cheap sometime this year? I'm considering getting one assuming COVID doesn't make getting one impossible like everything else these days. Their 11th gen is going to finally support PCI-E 4.0 among several other nice technological advances and I have a 4.0 video card (3060TI), so I'm really excited for the release.</p><p></p><p>What's your take on ASUS as a company? I've been a fanboy since the mid 90's. They really make fantastic motherboards. I really didn't start buying any product that wasn't ASUS or Corsair until I started trying to come up with the funds to build my wife a computer she desperately needed. I ended up building myself something and giving her my old one.</p><p></p><p>I learned in the early 2010's not to buy a motherboard that wasn't ASUS. I bought at least 10 motherboards (I think it was an acer motherboard? I forget) before I finally got a working one and even then it only lasted me a few weeks. I never bought another motherboard again. But I discovered that TP-Link makes decent routers over ASUS and they're hundreds less and I bought a Silversonic PSU for my wife that's been doing pretty decently so far. I dislike that it only has a 5 year warranty over Corsair PSU's having 10 years but thanks to COVID Corsair PSU's are far, far too expensive now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neostarwcc, post: 75686135, member: 383061"] I was born in 1986 and I think we got my first computer when I was six or seven right around when the internet came out (Ah the 8 kbit modems they were so darned slow). So odds are I'll mostly know what you're talking about if you talked about computers from the year I was born. How was Windows 1.0 and 3.0? I remember 3.1 was a real hassle to navigate compared to Windows XP, 7, & 10 today or even Windows 98 which was known for BSOD'ing all over the place. My parents won't upgrade from Windows 7 despite all of the great features I keep telling them about W10 and even after Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7 they still refuse to learn a new OS. I also tried Linux as a teenager (Don't remember what version but it was in the early 2000's somewhere around there), I didn't care for it very much. I could have my Yahoo Messenger like I wanted at the time because my friend from right across the street would rather talk to me on Yahoo messenger than on the phone or just walk across the street to talk to me. Lol! But anyway, Linux didn't have support for some program I forget what it was and I didn't want to use it anymore. I haven't tried a different OS since. I have a i9 10850k now, which is a 10 core, 20 thread processor. I'm assuming you're using a good 9th gen or lower 10th gen or an AMD processor? Intel really made their 10th gen processors really affordable last year so I decided to pick one up and give my wife my old one when I finally built her a computer that wasn't from the mid 2000's, plus it was on sale to boot. I paid a little over $500 for my 9th gen i7 9700k (which is now my wife's processor.) and my 10850k was a lot less than that. I think I paid under $400 for it? I can't remember. Super cheap for a processor today though. Their 10th gen 8 core 8 thread processors were very cheap too, under $300. I haven't really seen processors so cheap in a really, really long time. 2000's or so? Did you know that Intel is releasing their 11th gen just as cheap sometime this year? I'm considering getting one assuming COVID doesn't make getting one impossible like everything else these days. Their 11th gen is going to finally support PCI-E 4.0 among several other nice technological advances and I have a 4.0 video card (3060TI), so I'm really excited for the release. What's your take on ASUS as a company? I've been a fanboy since the mid 90's. They really make fantastic motherboards. I really didn't start buying any product that wasn't ASUS or Corsair until I started trying to come up with the funds to build my wife a computer she desperately needed. I ended up building myself something and giving her my old one. I learned in the early 2010's not to buy a motherboard that wasn't ASUS. I bought at least 10 motherboards (I think it was an acer motherboard? I forget) before I finally got a working one and even then it only lasted me a few weeks. I never bought another motherboard again. But I discovered that TP-Link makes decent routers over ASUS and they're hundreds less and I bought a Silversonic PSU for my wife that's been doing pretty decently so far. I dislike that it only has a 5 year warranty over Corsair PSU's having 10 years but thanks to COVID Corsair PSU's are far, far too expensive now. [/QUOTE]
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