1. How old are you and 2. Does computer specs mean a lot to you?

[guyver01]

36.. and computer specs don't mean alot to me... as long as it does what i want it to, i'm fine with it.

 

[Babbles]

32 and I no longer care.

When I was in college I liked to build my systems and I agonized over every component, but about 3 or so years past college (~age 25) I stopped caring. I just want stuff to work.

 

[gaidensensei]

Noticed as I got older, I cared less for specs to run modern games. Gaming is kinda (ok pretty much really did) dying out on me.

Nowadays I find myself only upgrading just so I can render in revit / 3dsmax quicker.
I actually think many of the older ATOT are based of people who are not too anal with keeping their specs within current status quo.

I still have yet to try out a SSD :\

 

[secretanchitman]

21 and yes, specs mean a lot to me.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

20yo and although I like my computer to be able to play some recent games, it's not nearly the most important thing in the world to me. I used to respect people with nice computers. I've met some very...contemptible people with such an obsession, though.

 

[Sumguy]

20, not really that important anymore since I don't run any demanding applications. I haven't even bothered to set up my desktop this year since I have a laptop.

That and computers are expensive.

 

[1sikbITCH]

42, and I don't care about the specs. Never did. I never understood those people spending hundreds and thousands of dollars extra just to make sure their machine had the highest benchmarks. Pointless.

I buy hardware that will make my machine do the job I need it to do. Outside of that, the specs are meaningless.

 

[Phoenix86]

I'm 34 and to me computer specs are meaningless now. No offense towards anyone who are in their 30's and into computers. Everyone has their hobbies. Just trying to gauge an age when perhaps the flair of Tri-Sli, 20 gigs of RAM, SSD, wears off.

BS, you care about the specs, just not like you used to.

Don't believe me? Let me put you on a 1GHz machine with 256 ram. :twisted:

 

[Bill Brasky]

I'm 26, and I never cared about specs as long as it can perform the tasks I want (which happen to be demanding ).

edit: A ssd will probably be my last upgrade in a *long* time. Now that I think about it, I've really only done two computer overhauls in my life. The first time I was 21, and then again three months ago.

 

[mav451]

I used to care as recently as 2 months ago. I had a serious shoulder injury and now I spend ALOT less time on the computer b/c of it. Priorities changed naturally. Now I just want a functioning body/good health, keeping up with family friends, and oh - there's that thing called getting a steady pay check. With those three things on the mind, my interest and time spent yapping on forums has been dramatically reduced. It's a big change, but there's not really much choice given the circumstances.

 

[tatteredpotato]

I'm 21, I like my PC to be aptly fast enough, but I don't have the urge to have an uber high-end machine... a $1200-$1500 is the sweet spot IMO.

 

[vi edit]

BS, you care about the specs, just not like you used to.

Don't believe me? Let me put you on a 1GHz machine with 256 ram. :twisted:

I just want the computer to work comfortably. I don't need blistering performance or tweaks to get the most out of it. My 3 year old Dell XPS with a dual core something or other that I paid $415 works perfectly well for me still.

It's sort of like buying a car. I buy the 6 cylinder version because I want it to comfortably do what I want it to do. But I don't around trying to put a CAI, upgraded exhaust or supercharger on my pedestrian Malibu. I also don't try doing things that I shouldn't with it. I don't pull a 25' camping trailer or try to auto-x it. It's just not what it was designed for.

I could get away with basic web browsing just fine on a tuned up 1ghz machine running Win2k and only 256 meg of Ram. I just have to know it's limits.

 

[gaidensensei]

I could get away with basic web browsing just fine on a tuned up 1ghz machine running Win2k and only 256 meg of Ram. I just have to know it's limits.

That sounds like nearly impossible to do for general web browsing for me. I wouldn't be able to cope with youtube loads, having ebay/gmail open and some other tabs.

 

[Locut0s]

Depends on what you mean. I take some pride in having built a nice beefy system. In that sense system specs mean a fair amount to me. I like to keep my system up to date as well and build a new system every so many years. But I don't brag about the raw numbers or show the thing off like a hot Ferrari or anything. You're poll options don't fit me.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

BS, you care about the specs, just not like you used to.

Don't believe me? Let me put you on a 1GHz machine with 256 ram. :twisted:

TBH my work computer I think is running a P4 1.6 with 1GB or RAM compared to my home computer with has x2 6000+ and 4gigs of RAM. Sure, my home computer is faster but I don't really pay too much attention to the difference in speed very much. The only time I would really care about the specs of my home computer is the day it can't run CS Source. So basically I'll have it forever

 

[Zenmervolt]

28 and my computer specs are important to a degree. It's nice to be able to run photo editing software smoothly, but beyond that I'm not invested in having the latest and greatest.

ZV

 

[Aikouka]

I enjoy having a PC that can handle what I need it to handle. I spent probably just as much on monitors this time as I did on the PC itself though. I also sometimes pony up for higher quality products, which sometimes also come at a decent price premium.

 

[Kirby]

22 and I'm in front of a computer all day at work, so the last thing I want to think about when I come home is computer stuff.

 

[guyver01]

the problem with the "keeping up with the joneses" mentality on computer specs is EVERYTHING and i mean EVERYTHING you have in your computer is no longer the top of the line. even if you were to go out and buy top of the line, by the time you came back here to post about it... it would be obsolete again.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

I'm 34 and to me computer specs are meaningless now. No offense towards anyone who are in their 30's and into computers. Everyone has their hobbies. Just trying to gauge an age when perhaps the flair of Tri-Sli, 20 gigs of RAM, SSD, wears off.

I think it works both ways.

Young kids don't care much about specs because computers "just work" for them.

When I was 14, the difference between a 25mhz computer and a 33mhz computer was pretty big! The diff between 3.3ghz and 3.0ghz isnt as big.

Old people don't care about computers because they also want something that "just works"

 

[gaidensensei]

Young kids don't care much about specs because computers "just work" for them.

It is subjective because today's age is kind of different..

When I was young, like in grade school, that 286 with 4 or 8mb ram wasn't cutting it for Doom because of dos4gw.exe errors. I could only run wolf3d and commander keen and older 286 games.

I thought, I need a 386 at least. Fast forward, I got a 486 and it worked great. Then a few years later Quake came out and my 486 couldn't run it. Couldn't play OMF or Raptor either. I had to wait until I could get a P2 in order to play quake.

Then 3dfx series came out. Voodoo, Voodoo2 and OpenGL was the rage of '95-96. Everyone wanted to jump from that crappy software 320x200 to opengl'ed 640x480.

That was really a different time back then.

 

[eLiu]

I'm 23. I care a lot, but I don't really play games much anymore. I care b/c I do research in CFD, and the faster my system is, the less time I spend waiting, haha

 

[Locut0s]

the problem with the "keeping up with the joneses" mentality on computer specs is EVERYTHING and i mean EVERYTHING you have in your computer is no longer the top of the line. even if you were to go out and buy top of the line, by the time you came back here to post about it... it would be obsolete again.

Such is the problem with hardware upgrade syndrome.

 

[Locut0s]

I'm 23. I care a lot, but I don't really play games much anymore. I care b/c I do research in CFD, and the faster my system is, the less time I spend waiting, haha

CFD? Computation Fluid Dynamics? Just a guess.

 

[ajikan]

16-30 group and I just need a minimum level of specs and I'm happy.