Question Which CPU was your very first one?

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AlexTheFern said:
I got into computers more recently

recently being December

December being the worst time to pick up this hobby
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I started out in early 2020,watching linus,bitwit,jayztwocents and many more.
This forum is 90% of the reason i know so 'little' about pc's,compared to these guys above me.
But for a 16 year old i would say i know plenty of stuff.
Many more years to learn though.
The best thing i learned is that not everything that is more expensive or has more/higher letters/numbers is better,and you should always make sure you have a good powersupply with you.
 
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USAFRet said:
We get them here as well.

June: "Is this DDR3 RAM compatible with a DDR4 motherboard?"
September: "Well, your problem is blah de blah. You need a FooBar..."
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Very true.
I dont mind that,everybody has to start somewhere,but i hate to see kids convincing people to buy something that is bizzare.Just make sure u do you research before publically speaking and you might learn something.
 
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Djoza said:
I started out in early 2020,watching linus,bitwit,jayztwocents and many more.
This forum is 90% of the reason i know so 'little' about pc's,compared to these guys above me.
But for a 16 year old i would say i know plenty of stuff.
Many more years to learn though.
The best thing i learned is that not everything that is more expensive or has more/higher letters/numbers is better,and you should always make sure you have a good powersupply with you.
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The best thing I learned is that your dad will buy you a laptop no matter what. He still claims my friends pc (2 3090s, 128 gb ram, ryzen threadripper 3990x) is not as good as mine bc it is big
 
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AlexTheFern said:
The best thing I learned is that your dad will buy you a laptop no matter what. He still claims my friends pc (2 3090s, 128 gb ram, ryzen threadripper 3990x) is not as good as mine bc it is big
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Why do you spend 40$ on a mouse?
What is wrong with this 4 dollar one?
Why do you want a mechanical keybaord,the old one works just fine!
Classical parent qoutes,but i dont mind them,since they dont understand the differences,but when i was young i didnt know the difference between a sock and a spoon and they taught me that,so i cant blame them for something they dont understand.
I simply get away with it by either "its my money" <- which always is,they stopped buying things for at idk 11-12,or by having good grades at the end of the year and they award me.
You just gotta be patient.
 
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Colif said:
oldest piece of computer hardware - November 1965
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Yesss. Had a ton of similar boards from written off ЕС mainframe parts (USSR and East Germany made IBM System 360/370 clones - Chinese wasn't the first global copycats 😛). Used them for spare parts - soldered out components for my pet DIY projects. Was happy as pig about a possibility to get them too.

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Krotow said:
That is not old. In school internship I worked on computer with 4 KB (yes, kilobytes) of RAM.
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1980s right?
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1989-1991, in VEF factory.

Djoza said:
You do not know how much cringe you can find on tiktok (or techtok as they want to say).
There are little kids who probably watched 1 Linus's video and thought about telling people what to build.
Im talking about pairing a 5600X with H110M chipset..Buying cpu's with integrated graphics for a budget of 2000$,and then buying a 1650 super,and oh lord the raidmax psu's,especially the Raidmax Cobra 800W.
It really makes you cringe,a lot.
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Any nation have their share of opportunistic weirdos who are willing to help (or "help", depending from their intentions) without a speck of knowledge about topic. Before Internet they usually was known only by people nearby. Public Internet without limits gave them huge playground. Top end CPU with iGPU may be legit case for someone who want upgrade to better GPU later, but didn't had CPU without iGPU in stores available for him. Can't judge without knowing the context. Raidmax Cobra PSU is understandable choice for people in Asia, Africa and some ex-USSR countries where median monthly income for a person is 150-200$. Still is not a wise choice to purchase blatant crap, but I can understand them. In begin of nineties my neto salary was 60$, I know how that is.
 
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Krotow said:
Yesss. Had a ton of similar boards from written off ЕС mainframe parts (USSR and East Germany made IBM System 360/370 clones - Chinese wasn't the first global copycats 😛). Used them for spare parts - soldered out components for my pet DIY projects. Was happy as pig about a possibility to get them too.



1989-1991, in VEF factory.



Any nation have their share of opportunistic weirdos who are willing to help (or "help", depending from their intentions) without a speck of knowledge about topic. Before Internet they usually was known only by people nearby. Public Internet without limits gave them huge playground. Top end CPU with iGPU may be legit case for someone who want upgrade to better GPU later, but didn't had CPU without iGPU in stores available for him. Can't judge without knowing the context. Raidmax Cobra PSU is understandable choice for people in Asia, Africa and some ex-USSR countries where median monthly income for a person is 150-200$. Still is not a wise choice to purchase blatant crap, but I can understand them. In begin of nineties my monthly neto salary was 60$, I know how that is.
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The problem is that they put it in a 2000$ build..
Like why,there are many other options,or just search on google "best psu for 2000$ pc" and see whats on there.
 
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Djoza said:
This forum is 90% of the reason i know so 'little' about pc's,compared to these guys above me.
But for a 16 year old i would say i know plenty of stuff.
Many more years to learn though.
The best thing i learned is that not everything that is more expensive or has more/higher letters/numbers is better,and you should always make sure you have a good powersupply with you.
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Forums good place to learn what not to do from other people.
Older you get, the more you will find you don't know. the more you find out about windows, for instance, the deeper it seems to get.

Bigger numbers.. entire industry based on bigger numbers being better. Its why Intel never restarted at 10k with CPU naming, like they had before. Lets have an I9 99999999k cause big is better. Yawn.
Only spot bigger numbers mean less and less as they grow is NVME tfr speed as faster they get the less you can tell the difference from previous one. Can only go so fast.

PSU valuable lesson to learn early. took me a few PC to work out why my parts kept dying
 
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Colif said:
Forums good place to learn what not to do from other people.
Older you get, the more you will find you don't know. the more you find out about windows, for instance, the deeper it seems to get.

Bigger numbers.. entire industry based on bigger numbers being better. Its why Intel never restarted at 10k with CPU naming, like they had before. Lets have an I9 99999999k cause big is better. Yawn.
Only spot bigger numbers mean less and less as they grow is NVME tfr speed as faster they get the less you can tell the difference from previous one. Can only go so fast.

PSU valuable lesson to learn early. took me a few PC to work out why my parts kept dying
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I agree, I have learned a lot since I joined the forums a few weeks ago :)
 
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