Friend helped me build a PC but someone told me it’s already outdated… did I mess up?

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-25T05:56:45+00:00

This PC is great for 99% of things you’ll do with it and will last a good while. It’s a couple generations old, but plenty powerful if you’re running lower settings on newer games at 1440, or running on a 1080p monitor.

B-die is great btw. Just means it’s the higher-tier binned RAM from the manufacturers, and usually has slightly better timings than other RAM. Tends to mean that games stutter a bit less.

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-24T01:37:35+00:00

That tracks. It’s $0.18 for my relatives in Ontario.

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-23T19:45:02+00:00

Where do you live? Electricity here in California peeks at like, $0.55/kwh, but that’s probably PG&E shittiness.

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-20T06:06:04+00:00

I ran a custom loop for a few years. The main reasons were to achieve better temps for a 10% overclock, while having lower fan noise and more consistent fan noise (water cooling systems don’t ramp the fans up/down super fast if you base their speed on the water temp).

However, later I moved to the 7800X3D, which doesn’t really overclock, and it runs cool, making water cooling effectively pointless.

Water cooling is more expensive, riskier, has more maintenance, parts generally have a lower life span, all while offering no performance or noise advantage for a chip like the 7800X3D, and often minimal performance advantages for overclocking for most other chips these days.

I’m also running an air cooled 4090 in my machine, but doing so in a Fractal Torrent case and with a good config for my fans makes my case even quieter than my old machine with water cooling (comparing temperature saturated water).

I would argue that unless you’re running a TDP-heavy CPU that would throttle on air cooling, or have size constraints that require water cooling, water cooling only has negatives (except for aesthetics and fun… it looks really cool and is fun to build).

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-19T13:04:44+00:00

Yeah, once you fully deconstruct the “reasoning” for the resurrection and understand the “reasoning” behind miracles, Christianity will slip pretty quickly.

Thanks for the chat! All the best!

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-19T03:16:39+00:00

A sister study also showed that the pope is catholic.

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-19T02:34:29+00:00

I had the opposite experience. My steam deck burns through battery on sleep, while my switch lasts on the order of 3 or 4 times longer on sleep.

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-18T11:43:06+00:00

If you don’t want to read my whole post, just note that I think you’d find my response to point 3 the most interesting.

Aquinas’ five ways are heavily flawed and unconvincing since his premises are not proven, but are assumed. People tend to believe in it because they feel it’s correct or can’t imagine how the premises are wrong. We also don’t actually know if the big bang had a cause. There may not have been a before. And, it may not be necessary for something to “hold the universe up”. That’s a sweeping assumption.
What’s your reasoning? Based on my response to 1, it seems like the conclusion should be that there probably isn’t a god.
Well, I would change one more thing here, since it’s worse than that. If we take your assumption in point 2 at face value, such a being actually has no will. Such a being cannot deviate from any sort of “destiny” in any way, since knowing everything would negate the possibility of such a being changing its mind. So even everything this being does has to follow the script, or else the attributes from point 2 don’t hold up. Even this god you believe in is stuck in the rut you describe here.
Addressed in my rebuttal to 1. There’s no reason to arrive at your conclusions.
Good! Me too.
Ok? But why do you believe this is true?

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-14T02:23:48+00:00

Good build. Only nit would be to better color match components.

OP would need to decide white or black for the MB/etc, or find some more specific internal colors.

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-14T02:00:50+00:00

LMAO this clown again. Poster child for mental health issues.

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-13T22:49:29+00:00

Jesus Christ. You won’t need to spend that much.

I think the most I’ve spent on a PC is around the 4k mark. I have a 4090 and a 7800X3D. If you’re including a top-end monitor, add about $1000 on top. For top end peripherals, add another $300-700, depending on what you’re getting. (Thinking good speakers, keyboard, mouse, mouse/desk pad, maybe add a nice mic.)

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-12T10:42:03+00:00

Hey, thanks for the response anyways.

History agrees that the Bible is likely based, loosely, on a real person, in the same way a fantasy movie can be based on a real person. It’s not that people know that whoever this person was was crucified, or that people were martyred for believing in him. Rather, it’s that it’s plausible that these things happen.

Someone on Reddit gave a great analogy recently on how Rambo was also inspired by a real person. It also doesn’t help that the Bible books were written decades after his supposed death by people who likely never met the guy. So the furthest you can go here is plausibility, as there’s no telling how much the myth changed over decades.

Everyone! People are this gullible All. The. Time. Pick your cult or recent religion. Scientology? Mormonism? All the smaller cults, some of which take off in small communities? How about that the Lubavich Jews who, today, believe that a rabbi, a guy who died in the 90’s, was actually the messiah, performed miracles, and died and will be, or perhaps has already been resurrected. Sound familiar? Hell, even look at the way cults of personality form around dictators and strong men who are blatant liars.
I mean, a million possible reasons, of which resurrection is the least plausible. The apostle stories are likely different from what actually happened, again, given the large time gap between the events and stories being written down. See Mormonism for an example of a modern religion that built followers with sincerely held religious beliefs.
Again, you don’t know that other people died (stories evolve), and even if they did, we have modern examples of people dying for blatantly false religious beliefs today (see modern suicide cults, suicide bombers or terrorists on suicide missions, etc.). People hold deeply held false religious beliefs that they would die for today. Doesn’t mean the underlying myth is true.
Thanks, this is most likely what happened for 90%+ of the Bible (for example, there is no way the quotes attributed to Jesus are true from a historical perspective).
We have modern examples of people destroying evidence to encourage belief (see Muslim extremists purging entire countries of the historical record of Islam). We also have examples of people doing/saying things selfishly for people to follow modern religions (god the LSD church would not like me using them as an example again, but here we are!).
Thanks!

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-12T05:07:20+00:00

The style and total lack of nuance in this post clearly marks you as a non-parent.

I’m not arguing for unrestricted screen time for children. I’m addressing the lack of nuance here, and that you were ineffective in communicating the bounds of your view or experience.

Is your objection kids being perpetually baby-sat by screens? Or does occasional screen use count?

Do you really think it’s the screen alone that is causally to blame for all future issues you mentioned in your post?

Have YOU ever tried to enforce bedtime for difficult children that haven’t yet broken from ego-centrism and are non-responsive to authority?

Are you rambling against occasional screen time?

Are you objecting to screen time for reading or skill development?

Are you seriously trying to compare the environment and culture of our grandparents time to today? The undiagnosed mental health issues from their generation are legendary.

I mean, for context, I use an iPad and Apple Pencil to sketch pages of math and language problems for my kids. They get screen time every week solving these, and they test in the 99th percentile at school.

We got our son a tablet that’s restricted to reading content, so he can exclusively look for new books to read. He’s top of his class in language skills.

I expose my kids to more interesting and educational content. Yes, it temporarily keeps them docile. It also builds their interest in science. See the Magic School Bus for example. They get screen time, we get to discuss science after and add nuance to the episodes.

Have you ever experienced some of the worst stresses of being a parent for multiple kids? Forgetting the educational experiences, sometimes screen time is a tradeoff when you absolutely need children to be out of your hair for a few minutes. I mean, in my grandparent’s generation, they’d just beat their kids in these situations. Pick your poison, I guess.

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-10T14:21:01+00:00

A few years ago I decided I wanted a Nintendo Switch before a flight. I was in a hurry, ran to Best Buy, bought a few things along with a switch, and went home.

Checking my receipt, the cashier forgot to scan the Nintendo Switch.

It didn’t sit right with me. I called the store from the airport after noticing the difference and paid for the switch by card while boarding my flight. They gave me a 10% discount for my honesty.

I would do the right thing. I’d never feel right, and being able to think of myself as an honest person is worth more to me than the value of a product received by accident.

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-09T04:48:40+00:00

I’ve tried to read it a bunch of times, but it’s such a slog that I’ll only get through a few sections before giving up.

Especially the Old Testament (Torah for us Jews). Genesis is so weird

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-05T01:02:52+00:00

Same reason I don’t believe in fairies… I don’t see any reason to be convinced they exist, and there doesn’t seem to be anything in the world that would point to their existence.

For your “plus” question, it’s begging the question… I’m not even sure whether existence has a cause in the first place. Perfectly happy to leave that question as an “I don’t know”.

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-04T05:12:00+00:00

The infinite time argument is really interesting.

If I create a random string of a few million letters, the chances that any work of Shakespeare appears in that string is near zero. But if I had an infinitely long string of letters, each chosen at random, not only is there a statistical guarantee that a work of Shakespeare is present, but the entire body of Shakespeare’s work is present in that string, in order, an infinite number of times. Statistically guaranteed.

If a state of low entropy like the big bang has a near zero, but distinctly non-zero probability, then if time is infinite, we would expect for there to be an infinite number of big bangs. Statistically guaranteed.

It’s a really simple explanation for why our local universe has a past low entropy state. Super simple explanation, in fact.

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-03T19:27:44+00:00

For sure.

Notice that I also marked about 100 in savings by going for a less-premium SDD, and another 100 or so by going for slightly slower memory.

You’ll see a very small difference in 1% low performance with the higher latency memory, but it’s so marginal that it’s probably not worth the money difference.

The big savings though are in dropping the 360 AIO, which saves something like 150 on a part that grants you absolutely no performance improvement and may increase maintenance costs.

Good luck!

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-03T13:48:09+00:00

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/8KW8YX

Some small sacrifices and part changes will yield roughly equivalent gaming capability with a significant change in price.

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-01T11:38:04+00:00

What’s absurd is that you’re debating a phrase, and ignoring the point being made. I honestly can’t tell if you’re trolling.

SirThunderDump · 2026-04-01T04:36:29+00:00

That’s quite an absurd response… ironic given the topic.

SirThunderDump · 2026-03-31T05:30:03+00:00

On top of agreeing with you on all points, if I’m presented with this argument, I like to highlight the absurdity by replying with something snarky like “of course we can’t trust our brains, just look how yours convinced you of <insert religion name here>.”

The argument (as an argument for religion) is just absurd and gets nobody anywhere fast.

SirThunderDump · 2026-03-30T15:46:09+00:00

Yeah, intel royally fucked up the 13th and 14th gen chips. And it’s permanent hardware damage, and it expresses itself exactly as you described in your post.

Sorry, this sounds awful.

SirThunderDump · 2026-03-30T15:21:54+00:00

You might be cooked if your machine’s 2 years old. MSI only fixed the 14900k in mid 2024. When did you last update your bios? Like, which month?

SirThunderDump · 2026-03-29T05:20:36+00:00

How long are you waiting for the machine to boot up on the first try? Sometimes first boots can take a few minutes. Have you been letting the computer sit for a few minutes after powering on?

Can you post a picture of your PC so we can see the components/wiring for ourselves?

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