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I don't understand people who buy the fastest computer parts

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NeoPTLD

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They're putting extreme amount of effort to sharpen a pencil razor sharp for no good reason when slightly less sharper will do the job and takes a lot less effort. Even if he gets it sharpened like no other, it will wear down so fast his head will spin. CPU depreciates just like that. You pay exponentially high price for marginal performance gain and the premium price will depreciate in weeks...

If you just have sooo much money you don't know what to do with, great idea. Buy a nice house, a nice car, a few properties to rent out, then perhaps three times the money on computer parts that are 5% faster.

That is not a fair representation of the people here though. What is the logic behind paying some two times the money on multihundred dollar parts when your budget is tight to gain 5% for no good reason?
 
For the same reason people buy fast sports cars that depreciate by 50% in the first year or two.
 
Some people don't understand why some people run on a slow end machines that don't get the uber FPS in Doom3, rip a DVD in ludricous speed or load Windows in nano second. They just don't get you.
 
Hey but cars are a status symbol.
Having an identical shaped processor that is seemingly the same but with a higher number, twice the price and a marginal electrical performance isn't.
 
Originally posted by: NeoPTLD
Hey but cars are a status symbol.
Having an identical shaped processor that is seemingly the same but with a higher number, twice the price and a marginal electrical performance isn't.
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Well we play games... therefore we need faster computers to squeeze out more fps for bragging rights. besides i hate slow computers... they're slow...
 
I don't understand the point of this thread. No one's making you do it, and the early adopters drive the market. Be thankful for them.
 
who cares what they spend there money on? Its a hobby and every hobby i have seen waste a LOT of money.
 
Originally posted by: neutralizer
Originally posted by: NeoPTLD
Hey but cars are a status symbol.
Having an identical shaped processor that is seemingly the same but with a higher number, twice the price and a marginal electrical performance isn't.
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Well we play games... therefore we need faster computers to squeeze out more fps for bragging rights. besides i hate slow computers... they're slow...
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Haha 😀

Cheers neutralizer :beer:
 
Originally posted by: Amused
It's a hobby. Look at just about ANY other hobby and you see tons of wasted money.
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Exactly, some activities are purely for entertainment value and you can't analyze them in a monetary sense. Why do people eat anything other than paste containing all the essential vitamins, protein, fiber, sugars, etc necessary to live? Why do people watch non-informational television? Why don't people attempt to earn money 24/7 surviving on minimal sleep?
 
Originally posted by: Amused
For the same reason people buy fast sports cars that depreciate by 50% in the first year or two.
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ooo oooo and not to mention they have a car that can do thw 1/4 in 5 seconds and top out at 220 but can only go 35 on the roads. 😀
 
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