http://motherboard.vice.com/read/pc-gaming-is-still-way-too-hard
Anyone else agree? This is why I stick with consoles......
Really makes you think.....
damn..........
>Vice
Immediately dropped
fuck you gave to buy things??
and plug them?
IN???
>>344931162
Even worse.
You also have to make sure the parts are compatible.
I means seriously PC master race? I want to play video games. Not use my brain.
>>344930574
>>344931919
wat
>>344930574
Peasant talking about peasant stuff
>>344930574
it's a pleb filter
>>344931716
If I took away that pizza, would he die?
Remember back in the 90s and early 2000s when you actually had to know shit about computers before attempting to build one?
CAB files, setting up IRQs, master/slave configurations, etc.
It's so damn easy today even a retard at Vice can do it.
>>344930574
What are the hardest PC exclusives?
>>344931716
>I have to spend hours trying to fix it because I know I can.
So what you're saying is you don't like being able to fix those tiny mistakes and you would rather stare at garbage on a console, where you have 0 choice in graphics options in 99% of games?
fucking idiot.
>>344932212
touhou
>>344931298
>not playing red Johnson Chronicles.
>dumber than an 11 year old nigger
>(((maiberg)))
>>344932212
My cock, want to add it to your cart?
>>344930574
If you're too much of a retard to put things together then buy your own stuff and take it to Best Buy or something where they'll put it together for $50 or something.
>>344932372
>alienware employees hate him
Console is plug and play. PC need to be that easy, if they want to complete.
>(((Maiberg)))
Why am I not surprised
Is it really that hard? God I should just start ripping people off over explaining simple problems.
What the fuck happened
like, a couple years ago Vice had some pretty decent articles, but now I can't even bear looking at them
>>344932372
>Whizz kid
>a hyperlink of "PC Master Race"
>links to fucking Reddit
I'm fucking dying over here. But honestly, the article has a point. It is why PC will never be the domineering platform in terms of market share - it's just not as easy to manage as a console, and the average consumer wants easy. PC is still very much enthusiast territory in spite of the echochamber mentality this board sometimes adheres to. That's not to say it's a bad thing but the article isn't entirely wrong in that this is actually how the average person views PC building.
>>344932661
>liberal arts college
Can't make this shit up.
>>344930574
I bet you sucked at putting lego sets together too.
>>344930574
You can literally buy a school class tier computer and have way more fun than you could ever do with a console.
Plus you dont move to the living room like a pleb every 2 hours to launch a games , plus you dont play shooters with controllers , plus you get better updates and free legal stuff
>>344932785
That's already a thing, it's called tech support.
>>344932575
>Console just works
after 2 hours of downloading and installing, right?
>I'm not noticing tiny mistakes and I accept the ones I do see
Then why are the ones on PC so much of an issue? you clearly love eating shit, why does it matter if it comes from a PC instead of a console?
>It's better than spending time trying to get all my mods running smoothly at 60fps
You're a dumbfuck for expecting to get 60 FPS with mods without twin SLI 980's
>By the time I get everything running like I want to I'm pissed at the game
FUCKING WHY
USE GEFORCE EXPERIENCE
IT LITERALLY DOES EVERYTHING FOR YOU
>So yes I'm an idiot.
You're not just stupid, you're a fooken idjit.
>>344932372
cory?
>>344933130
Mike?
>>344933130
>>344933219
Chris?
>>344933219
>>344933130
>>344933296
SHAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUN
>>344930574
>Here's Motherboard's super simple guide to building your first gaming PC:
>Step 1: Have an unreasonable amount of disposable income.
>Step 2: Have an unreasonable amount of time to research, shop around, and assemble parts for your computer.
>Step 3: Get used to the idea that this is something you're going to have to keep investing time and money in as long as you want to stay at the cutting edge or recommended specifications range for new PC games.
Or, you could pay someone like me to build it to tailor your needs.
>>344933130
Bane?
>>344930574
Lmao fucking normies
Literally a nadult lego
How dumb can someone be???
>>344933376
Mr. Feeny?
>>344932372
If literal plug and play parts are all it takes to be considered a "whizz kid", then man kind has no hope.
I just watched the LGR video on building a DOS PC. Man, PC gaming is pretty easy compared to the old days. Imagine if this author had to use the command prompt or BIOS to diagnose why a piece of hardware wasn't recognized/working.
>berg
>>344930574
>Then came the hardest, most nerve-wracking part: building the damn thing.
Stopped reading there. Putting everything together is the most satisfying fun part of the process, and also way easier than finding the best deal and picking just the right build.
>>344933420
>if I have to put work into a hobby its unreasonable
>>344932387
I actually work at Best Buy in Geek Squad and ironically we make the dumbest faggot there do all the building.
>>344932212
Probably some autist's Doom mod.
>>344930574
>Vice
What the fuck did you expect?
>>344933464
Or listening to the onboard speaker for error codes. I'm glad we have UI for almost everything these days.
>>344930574
>Vice
>"Are things too hard??"
>Buzzfeed tier bait
>(((Emanuel Maiberg)))
No jewish tricks here goy, I promise!
>Site caled Motherboard.
>Writers too stupid to build a PC.
You can't name this shit up.
>>344930574
i wish it was too hard, then i wouldnt have to deal with all these shitty console games and dotashits.
>>344930574
You need to be literally retarded to not put it together.
>>344933586
that guy sounds like a faggot
Calls themselves "Motherboard", still thinks that building literally more advanced lego is fucking hard.
I think they should re-evaluate their choice of enterprise.
pc got to many buttens
>>344933498
yeah but this fuckhead spent over $1000 on his build probably, because he heard he was supposed to, got overly complicated shit that is meant for someone who is an experienced rigger and understands this shit already, because that's when you make the decision to spend that kind of money, then fucking complained because he was too fucking oblivious to do 20 minutes of research and find some good starter builds
like seriously what the fuck
like seriously what the fuck
like seriously what the fuck
like seriously what the fuck
like seriously what the fuck
and of course comments arent allowed in your fucking safe space faux journalism happy room
>>344933830
Anyone have that image?
>>344932785
You can build gaming rigs and sell them on ebay for decent money. I have a friend who just buys tons of 970's and 390's and uses them for builds since they're the most popular cards with buyers.
>>344933586
There is no wage gap. Unless you mean a gap in which men choose higher paying jobs and strive for raises more often than women.
>>344932978
idk senpai even normies are hopping on the "lol runs beterrr on PC" train. most people i work with have a gaming capable PC and at least a current gen consol
>>344932661
>Maiberg
>California College of the Arts
>Jewish issues
Why is /pol/ always right?
>>344930574
>vice
NOPE
computers are today are fucking potato proof
fuck you vice and your shitty show. i wish i could take you back to 2001 and watch you try to install the stock heatstink on a athlon tbird, no easy mode push pin shit, you had to force the clip down with a fucking flathead screwdriver pointed TOWARDS the motherboard and apply PRESSURE. you had to use jumpers to overclock, none of today's fancy hd graphics press x to 5ghz easy mode shit. better yet i wannt to take you the 90s where you had to make custom autoexec.cfg's and himem.sys's to play games. just fuck you.
>>344933420
>Have an unreasonable amount of disposable income.
He bought tech that's way beyond any current console though. A 6600k and 1070 are enthusiast-tier, no wonder he spent a decent amount of money.
It should be too hard.
>>344934087
>jumpers on the motherboard
Fuck I forgot all about those
And yeah installing a CPU back then was nerve wracking
>>344931298
>You also have to make sure the parts are compatible.
Its pretty hard to mess up part compatibility these days, pretty much any motherboard you buy will have a PCI-E X16 slot and thats all you need for any video card on the market. Any half decent power supply will have all the connectors you would ever need. RAM you just have to match the speed with your processor which is stupid easy (It will automatically downclock in most cases if its too fast anyway).
Processor is literally
>Your motherboard has this Intel or AMD slot
>There's generally only 1 for the latest processors
>Matching these up is not hard.
Prebuilts are always an option if this is somehow too hard for you.... I literally built my first computer when I was 15.
Honestly if you can't figure these things out you deserve to have an underpowered console, PC building is way easier than it used to be and quick google searches will give you any info you would need.
>>344934087
Who cares
>>344930574
It use to be hard to find all of the compatible parts, but pc part picker does that for you. Now it's pretty easy as long as you're careful about static discharge and you don't get motherboard standoffs. A lot of people are too lazy to install that and their motherboard touch the metal case frying everything.
>>344930574
pastebin this shit you bag of fags
>>344934279
forget*
>>344933625
>>344932373
>>344932373
>>344932661
>Some discourages someone from spending money = JEW!
>Someone encourages someone to spend money = JEW!
Those Jews just can't win with you guys can they?
>>344930574
>wasting time, money, and effort into PC gaming
>so that you play nothing but console ports
PC gaming's real disadvantage is the fact that it's not a 'whole' platform despite the price. If you have to buy a PS4 for Japanese (ie: Good) games, then why buy the PC in the first place when the PS4 already has most of the same games?
>>344934190
So what do you play? RPG Maker games and Dwarf Fortress all day?
>>344930574
All these clickbait sites always hire the most unqualified people to write for them.
clickbait gaming sites hate games, can't play shooters like doom for shit, and they hate their job.
clickbait PC website can't even build a fucking PC and tells everyone to get a mac.
Journalism is fucking dead.
>>344933586
>Give us your money because!
If I balance out all the times my SO pisses me off or is unreasonable, and the dollar amount is in my favor, do I get money from her?
>>344932171
>It's so damn easy today even a retard at Vice can do it.
And he thought it was hard. Says a lot about how fucking dumb the average joe has to be.
Why doesn't direct linking lead to a ban?
>>344930574
>[...] if you examine PC hardware companies that cater to gamers, they're actually growing. There's a market here because PC is so clearly the best place to play games. It's a relatively open platform that gives players the widest selection of games to choose from and the ability to modify those games for free. The only thing you can't do on PC is play exclusives for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, which there are fewer of than ever.
Really makes you think.
>>344930574
> directly linking to clickbait article to give them clicks
You're part of the problem.
https://archive.is/5glYU
>>344934279
>A lot of people are too lazy to install that and their motherboard touch the metal case frying everything.
you'd had to have get a really shitty ghetto case to not have the standoffs already in and it doesn't fry anything it just shorts and triggers the psu's sc/oc protection.
>>344934531
if the only games you know are the ones listed in the image than you are truly ignorant of gaming.
>>344934050
It's not that /pol/ is right, it's just that Jews exceed nearly everyone else on the planet in intellect and thus have a disproportionate influence in advancing fields.
/pol/ has an inferiority complex and interprets this as a nefarious conspiracy to control everyone. Which makes them pretty much like niggers who blame everything on white people.
>>344932978
People that don't know shit about computers just buy prebuilt or buy expensive gaming laptops, after that they just learn that they need to turn down shadow settings, filters, AA, etc in newer games and then they have a gaming PC.
I just don't know how Steam OS hasn't been a thing, just make an idiot proof OS with basic OS features that Windows has that is aimed at pure gaming performance and allocation of resources to all gaming apps when running, and you'd still have an internet browser, youtube, some sort of desktop, email, a few media players, notepad type shit, etc.
>>344934746
50% of holywood is jewish despite being less than 2% of the US's population
>>344934824
>I just don't know how Steam OS hasn't been a thing
Poor hardware support.
>>344934741
Answer the question you sperg. What are your top 7 most played games on Steam?
>>344933420
>Saving up <1000$ and spending a couple hours researching on the internet or speaking to employees at a computer parts store constituents unreasonable time and money.
>hobbies don't require continued investment in time and money.
Guess people into cars buy a basic set of tools an oil filter and a set of spark plugs and that's it forever.
>>344930574
figured it out, i went on the guys linkedin page. he speaks hebrew.
>>344932978
>t's just not as easy to manage as a console,
Yeah this is definitely true, but the thing for me is when something does break on a console your basically fucked. In most cases you have to pay a ridiculous fee for sony/microsoft to fix it, void your warranty attempting anything yourself or buy a new one.
Console failure rates are also higher than they used to be my SNES,N64 work just as well as the day I bought nearly 20 years later. I doubt many PS3s, 360's, Xbones and PS4s will be functioning in 20 years.
I had to send my original 360 in for the RROD shit on two separate occasions and I've heard the failure rate on the big PS3s is pretty high.
>hipster junkies central website
honestly the only man i respect from vice is the ceo
at least he made some interesting videos when he went to north korea
>>344934746
t. Scholmo Scheklbergwitz
(((PURE COINCIDENCE)))
>>344930574
Phoneposter scum.
>tells everyone to get a mac.
This is probably the most annoying part. He complains about the price of PC gaming, but doesn't mention that macs are way more expensive than PC's and don't have very many games to boot. You may as well buy a prebuilt, prebuilt's don't seem as much of a ripoff if you're comparing them to a fucking Mac.
>>344934694
> I could have paid a site like CyberPower or Falcon Northwest for a pre-built PC, but buying parts of equal power from them would have cost me an extra $300-$500 before taxes and shipping. Also, their websites are atrocious, and offer no help in picking parts. It's just not worth it, and why PC gamers always recommend building over buying in the first place.
> That's why I recommend Apple products
This fucking retard bitches about paying people to put together his pc for him... then recommends a Mac without realizing Apple basically does the exact same shit. Macs are also basically PCs that have been put together for the buyer... overpriced too.
For shame.. how the fuck can a website call themselves "motherboard" and think it's too hard to put together a PC?
>>344934746
Lol, so true.
>>344934190
>If you've ever done anything your average PC gamer has done you're not a PC gamer.
>>344934824
>I just don't know how Steam OS hasn't been a thing,
i replies on a graphics api that isn't even done yet and furthermore valve is relying on developers to use it out of the goodness out of their hearts instead of being bribed like they are for ever other stage of development.
>>344930574
and screwing in nine (!) tiny screws to keep it in place in a cramped space, in weird angles, where dropping the screwdriver can easily break something expensive—it's just not what I'd call "consumer-friendly."
but he's right
>>344934932
severance blade of darkness
orion dino beat down
cubemen 2
darkfall unholy wars
mortal online
sacrifice
bloodbowl
>>344934463
In this case the writer of the article is actually jewish, so no they cannot win against me, I will never fall for their jewish schemes.
>>344935151
>implying youre an average pc gamer
Did you even read the image?
It's not difficult, it's just expensive.
I was building PCs when I was nine fucking years old with my father. What is wrong with people?
>>344932978
>It is why PC will never be the domineering platform in terms of market share
That's not the main reason. Most publishers don't see PC as anything more than extra money, not a standalone platform. Japanese publishers see PC exclusively as a dumping ground for ancient games while they continue building exclusive games for PS4. PC also lacks cutting edge exclusives that have the same hype or desirability as console exclusives. By all means, PC is actually the underdog platform in the console wars.
>tfw when I don't touch metal/use anti-static bracelets when installing a mobo
Is static a meme?
>vice
more bullshit left wing clickbait sites
is that the only shit that ever gets posted on /v/? this shit should be bannable.
>>344934932
CSGO
RO2
CSS
Medieval Total War 2
New Vegas
Empire at War gold
Medal of Honor multiplayer
>>344935193
if you have trouble holding onto hand tools you have bigger problems than trying to play video games.
>>344933697
at least lego can require imagination. Building a computer is putting the ball into the round hole tier.
>>344935392
It's better that you do it in a non-static environment but the majority of the time it doesn't mean shit. Put on latex gloves and you're good.
>mfw people don't realize vice is easy to bribe and will write any article for $1000
>>344935462
>you're not allowed to drop anything
>>344934932
Bloodborne
Gravity Rush
Persona 5
Ratchet & Clank
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
Nier Automata
Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator
Spider-Man (2017)
Guys, i cummed on my mobo, will it be okay?
>>344933498
I don't really see how it's really that complicated.
>>344935193
Do you have cerebral palsy?
>>344935649
if you can screw on a lid to a jar of mayonaise, you can screw in a screw
>>344933498
>alright everything is plugged in lets turn it on
>doesn't turn on
>devastated and assume parts are doa or got fucked mid build
Its like i get heart attacks everytime i do a build
>Vice
I remember going onto their channel and finding some video of a bunch of Europeans telling us to ban guns
I might as well go to CNN for news
>>344935649
how do you drop it?? you lay the case on its side, align the board, and install the screws. you can even use two hands on the screwdriver itself to keep it secure.
>>344935804
maybe if you were sticking your hand into a small box full of expensive electronic pieces, and the 9 jars of mayonnaise were 2 centimeters big
why is a website called motherboard telling everyone it's "too hard" to build a computer?
>>344934228
or just fucking use pc parts picker, which makes sure you don't have incompatible parts.
also
>I decided to build my PC now because I finally saved up enough money to afford it, and because Nvidia just released its new GeForce 10 series of video cards, which have been getting great reviews. There's the GeForce GTX 1080, which at $700 is simply the most powerful GPU on the market, and the GeForce GTX 1070, which at $450 is stronger than what was the most powerful GPU prior to the 1080, the Geforce GTX Titan X, but at half the price. Nvidia also recently announced the GeForce GTX 1060, which is even less powerful but only costs $300.
> Nvidia also recently announced the GeForce GTX 1060, which is even less powerful but only costs $300.
This reads like a high school essay. Please don't tell me this guy got paid for this shit.
The only thing you even need to use the manual for is:
>Installing some aftermarket CPU heatsinks
>fpanel shit (why is this still complicated?)
I will say the first boot is always nerve-wracking.
>>344936089
see
>>344936001
and
>>344932372
you're literally less dextrous than a nigger
>oh man I'm such a clumsy chucklefuck I can't hold onto a screw driver
do you grab your dick and drop it too because you can't hold a boner?
>>344934746
>conspiracy to control everyone
>>344933116
>>It's better than spending time trying to get all my mods running smoothly at 60fps
He deleted his post but god did I have to point this out.
Needing to spend time getting mods running at 60FPS is better than having no mods at 30FPS. Or you can just you know... play with no mods?
>>344930574
>850W
>for that
Huh
>>344935392
i know you're just a frog poster but no it's not a meme you dip
>>344935392
Static damage is real, but destroying hardware with it is actually surprisingly difficult. You have to either be really stupid, really unlucky or deliberately trying to roast some components
>>344932372
>Builds a PC ath age of 11
>Talented
top kek
>>344930574
What a whiny bitch.
I'm building a PC for the first time and sure it's a bit daunting but it's also exciting to research all this, build something that is thoroughly yours.
But this ass clown is actively discouraging people which is bullshit and the worst kind of """"""""""""""""""journalism"""""""""""""" because it's his opinion that has no water speaking like he knows anything.
You know what I don't like? Ballroom dancing, so I'm not going to go do it and then write an article about how you shouldn't.
What a piece shit article written by a piece of shit human.
>>344930574
Daily reminder that this is the site Austin Walker left Giant Bomb to head.
Friendly reminder not to use your OS boot drive in the USB 3.1 slot, you probably don't have the drivers yet so your BIOS won't recognize it.
>>344936376
or lock your framerate to 30fps if you're blind and arent willing to spend 10 minutes to get the best experience.
>>344930574
Sort of.
There is a lot of shit that needs to be cleared up before you spend a ton of money on it, while you may have a working build, not doing it correctly will certainly have some shit you overspent on.
http://www.pcgamer.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-gpu-coolers/
stuff like that should be required reading
You fags can cry all you want, but it's true. Normies can't into building a PC. They have no fucking idea and they can't be assed to it, they don't even care about 60fps anyway. They'll just buy a console that "just works" and that's it.
>>344933463
>>344936413
You realize that most of the population doesn't give a fuck about building computers and therefore knows nothing about it right?
>>344930574
Good. So the average IQ on PC is higher than the IQ on consoles.
>>344933463
Best part is that's the sort of shit kids use now to get scholarships and look extremely talented
>>344932978
xbox scorpio killed PC gaymen desu
other than for total war and a few other game fans
What gets me is you can easily build a gaming ready PC for the $600 range, or do some modifications on a pre-build and make it functional for next to nothing. Hell, you can buy a 3rd or 4th gen i5 pre-build off ebay and get a decent card and be set with a good chunk of stuff.
And hell, I have been building for nearly 12 years. Back when there literally was next to no information on doing builds, and youtube still was not at the point it is now with tutorials and guides. There are so many resources, guides, youtube videos, websites dedicated to picking our compatible parts, etc that there is no excuse. I can literally plan out a new build in 5-20 minutes, and probably 40-60 minutes if I was not as knowledgeable.
![aircraft-mechanics-check-a-jet-engine-of-an-airbus-320-at-the-a380-picture-id78903688[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/kNDt44k.jpg "aircraft-mechanics-check-a-jet-engine-of-an-airbus-320-at-the-a380-picture-id78903688[1].jpg")
>>344936089
Try fitting tiny screw and nuts on pic related without dropping anything, knowing that if you fucking up you've potentially killed hundreds of people and done hundreds of millions of dollars damage.
>>344930574
>I also think that, with the exception of crazy PC case creations, the notion that building a PC is some sort of craft is ridiculous. People who build their own PCs aren't like garage woodworkers building their own birdhouses. They're not making anything in the same way that someone might restore an old hotrod. They're just taking different parts from different companies and plugging them together.
Then why is too hard Schlomo?
>>344936783
Yes kids getting money for college is such a bad thing how dare they
>search thread
>no pastebin
Point invalid
>Step 1: Have an unreasonable amount of disposable income.
If $1000 is unreasonable amount of disposable income then you're a bottom line nigger.
>Step 2: Have an unreasonable amount of time to research, shop around, and assemble parts for your computer.
This takes literally 1 day for the inexperienced and for the experienced not even an hour.
>Step 3: Get used to the idea that this is something you're going to have to keep investing time and money in as long as you want to stay at the cutting edge or recommended specifications range for new PC games.
I upgrade once every 4-5 years and don't ever look at recommended specs. This is the average life of a console.
>>344937001
It just shows how the whole system for the scholarships is fucked
>>344936904
>HIGHEST QUALITY PIXELS
>vice
>written by blatant console gamer with preconceived notions and even used those stupid images from pcmr
>>344937138
People will give money for scholarships for anything, yes, but it's not a bad thing. Kids should be encouraged to go to college.
I bought an office-retired Compaq shitbox ([email protected], 8GB RAM, 500GB HD) off eBay for $90 and then slapped a $100 GeForce GTX 750 in it.
Am I a genius? If not, what did I do wrong?
>>344937218
a pixel that only changes 30 times per second is a low quality pixel
>>344934858
They're that much better. Whites refuse to do anything about any of these so called issues they keep yammering about. Defeated cowards, every single one of them. There have been many many times where "the day of the rope" should have happened but every single time a massive injustice occurs whites and /pol/ are nowhere to be seen. "i-i'm gonna w-w-w-wait for next election and vote differently!! That'll show them!!" is all they can come up with.
I love when they call for a race war then when action is taken they sit the fuck down. They're not going to go down to the ghetto and start shit. They're not going to protest black violence or try to start a movement. Cowards through and through.
>>344937239
It's all sorts of fucked up but they are changing it for the better like with the new SATs and AP testing
>>344936928
It's more like building a model car. Yeah, you're essentially just following instructions but it still feels like "yours" at the end.
>>344936521
>discouraging people which is bullshit and the worst kind
Cheapskates jump on Amazon RAM deals. Buy the absolute wrong RAM, for the wrong kind of computer.
I'd rather tell people not to try than have them buy $1000 of incompatible parts from all over the internet.
im going through and picking out the good stuff
dont read this article, itll literally give you cancer
>This makes the 1070 a no-brainer, and its release is a good excuse to build a new PC, but I wasn't going to spend time researching other PC parts.
>I could have saved a significant amount of money bargain hunting, but this was an inconvenience I was happy to avoid for a price. I ordered everything from Amazon because it delivers quickly, allows me to keep track of all shipments in one place, and because I trust it to take care of me if something got damaged in transit. Overall, I paid around an extra $100 to buy everything from one store.
>That's why I recommend Apple products to people who aren't tech savvy. They just work. When I'm pushing a water cooler down on the CPU while twisting its radiator into place and screwing it into place at the same time, it becomes clear that PCs don't just work.
>once when I couldn't figure out why the case fans weren't spinning, and again when the computer didn't recognize an ethernet cable. I was literally bleeding from a cut on my hand by the end of it, which my YouTube guides said was common. I bled for this fucking thing.
>But getting there was a nightmare. It is by far the most difficult product I've ever bought and put together.
Really, there is no good way to do this.
>Sadly, most players will never make the switch because they rightly assume that it's too much of a headache. I can tell you with some authority, it is.
>>344937035
What? You don't have a plugin that automatically redirects clickbait sites for you?
You're the one here that's part of the problem.
>>344936904
PC's forced them to give their customers better value for their money. I fail to see why that is a bad thing. Of course you console war shitposting little twats don't care about sense, you just want to fling shit all day erry day.
Meanwhile this doesn't change anything for PC's. They are still the best platform for everything. Everything known the man and gayman.
>Nu Male Adventures in Hardware
>my CPU Corsair Hydro Series H100i water cooling system, which, unlike a standard heatsink, doesn't require applying thermal paste.
>screwing in nine (!) tiny screws to keep it in place... it's just not what I'd call "consumer-friendly."
>This is why people buy from Apple. It designs everything from the trackpad to the box the computer comes in, which unfolds neatly to reveal everything you need. Apple reduces friction to the point where even my mom could upgrade the RAM on her iMac, and it can do this because it controls everything that goes in that box.
>That's why I recommend Apple products to people who aren't tech savvy. They just work. When I'm pushing a water cooler down on the CPU while twisting its radiator into place and screwing it into place at the same time, it becomes clear that PCs don't just work.
> I was literally bleeding from a cut on my hand by the end of it
>It's hard to put all these PC parts together
>there isn't even pressure from consumers to come up with better, universal standards that will make the whole experience easier.
>Sadly, most players will never make the switch because they rightly assume that it's too much of a headache.
>I can tell you with some authority, it is.
>>344937305
You could have bought a 750ti for that price.
>>344936918
that's an airplane, a significantly more complicated machine than a computer simply because it has more moving mechanical parts
>>344936904
>5.1 tflops
>next year
>killed pcgaming
>>344930574
I wish pcs were easier to build/upgrade. My idea of an easy way to upgrade your PC is just to pop it in like inserting an sd card. Just your ram,CPU,GPU, and motherboard. Would be pretty cool.
>>344937305
>if not, what did I do wrong?
if the machine meets your needs, nothing.
>>344936907
Even overclocking is so piss easy these days
>2006
>adjust the FSB to increase CPU clock
>except now the memory would go out of spec, so adjust the memory strap and fiddle with the timings
>adjust the gorillion different voltages
>stability test, adjust everything again, repeat
>2011
>set multiplier to a larger number
>adjust Vcore until stable
>2016
>press SUPER ULTRA GAMING X-OC button
>twiddle your thumbs for a few minutes
>>344930574
>PAE CAEEE BILTING TOOO HAARD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr3MgKkS314
>>344937753
still more teraflops than the 960 and 970, the most widely used non-integrated video cards on steam
>>344935715
>bloodborne
>steam
>>344937583
>I was literally bleeding from a cut on my hand by the end of it, which my YouTube guides said was common. I bled for this fucking thing
That actually happened to me once. I was removing the stock heatsink from my shitty OEM PC I bought for college, when I pulled my hand up it was covered in tiny cuts and bleeding.
>>344937305
Should have got a 750Ti instead.
It's noticeable his solution to the difficulty of building a computer is pointing to proprietary modular systems.
The reason computers are "hard" to put together is because of their greatest strength, that because they conform to a standard you can mix parts from different manufacturers to build the system you want.
Necessitating every piece hardware be developed and licensed to work with that thing Razer is building would drive prices up and innovation down.
Also, to top it off,
>There were some things about my build that were different from the guide, like my CPU Corsair Hydro Series H100i water cooling system, which, unlike a standard heatsink, doesn't require applying thermal paste.
>>344937951
Those are ALL PS4/Vita exclusive, anon.
>>344937583
Jesus christ, does he assume all gamers are thoughtless retards who won't look into this shit more than a fucking second? oh wait.... that might be true. Really though those people should just buy prebuilts.
>>344932661
>PCs are hard!
Do the jews not play with legos?
>>344937326
Watch out Schlomo, don't forget what happened last time your kind got too bold.
Sites like NCIX exist that will not only tell you if you're buying incompatible parts but will fucking build your entire PC for a small fee if you're not comfortable doing it yourself. You put in some time for research and now you have some more knowledge about PC's and their components and you get access to the best gaming platform in existence. There's a billion tutorials and other shit online to help you if something goes wrong, as well. The only reason to avoid PC gaming is the initial cost (the "console-killer" $500 PC's or whatever are cheap fucking junk, nobody should ever bother with one) but the savings on games narrows that divide pretty quickly. There are reasons to stay on console if you so desire but don't ever use "pc gaming is too complicated" as one of them.
>>344938147
stay mad pcuck
>>344934190
>mfw true peecee by playing halo 1 and 2 and multiplats because i dont touch that dota trash or sign retarded petitions
i also play racing simulators with an autistic sim setup
>>344937949
AMD just released a 5.1TFLOP GPU for $250
NVIDIA will release a similar perfomance/price GPU
by the time the scorpio releases this gen will already be obsolete, don't expect most people to stay with their 960/970s
>>344935715
>PS4 has so few games you have to list upcoming games
>be challenged by something
>it turns out the way you desired
>this was too hard
What the fuck kind of reasoning is that? If you haven't built a PC or even seen the interior of one in your life, ever, of course it's going to be something you have to read into and try to understand.
It's like saying being able to cook is not a trait worth picking up, or being able to fix your fence or whatever the fuck.
inb4 >food analogy
>>344930574
So you're telling me that Austin Walker left to join these idiots?
>>344937639
>>344938107
Yeah. This is also my face when they introduced a 65 watt GeForce 950 variant.
>>344937852
Lately I've played Invisible War, Bioshock Infinite, and a whole bunch ofSkyrim and TF2and I got a little piqued to think that there are poor bastards who spent $2,000+ on computers that play the exact same games.
Also this is the first time I ever had a machine that can run Dolphin and HOLY FUCK EVERYTHING ANYONE'S EVER SAID ABOUT THE THOUSAND YEAR DOOR IS TRUE
>>344930574
>Can't put together electronic legos
smdh
>>344930574
No the author is a fucking retard who doesn't know how to use simple guides and sites like logical increments. PC gamers get the best experience because we put effort into building our rigs. PC haming by nature is like a retard filter
>>344933556
You know I was just quoting the article, right?
>>344938124
You're reading too much into it.
People don't want to have a hardware project anymore. They want Christmas morning where they open the package and it has batteries included.
>>344938267
Oh please, i've been lurking /pol/ for years. You know for a god damned fact outside of trolling and memeing /pol/ is just some very prideful roleplaying where they pretend that they'll actually do something about injustices.
Hilary Clinton Status: Alive, crime free, already chosen by the owls to be president.
George Soros: Super Jewlord, Alive, Hidden from normies eyes, Impervious to all
/pol/ failed.
>>344937949
>still more teraflops than the 960 and 970, the most widely used non-integrated video cards on steam
That means fuck all. However PS4k will probably be better than a 960 based on leaks, and Scorpio will be better than 970. This still means consoles are 2-3 years behind midrange PC GPU's.
>>344938459
now if only Alex would leave with him and it could just be Vinny
>>344935618
Can I bribe them to replace this article with something worth reading?
People do not have time. Plain and simple. Install game, play game. Fucking done.
>>344938812
Austin has good chemistry with Vinny when it comes to on-topic videogames. Just don't let him write or drink. It was nice to see the two of them play the Rollcage revival game with no bullshit.
>"It's too harddddd!"
Fucking really? If you can't follow simple instructions then you really need to off yourself.
Or you know, take the easy way out and pay someone else to build it for you.
>>344938459
When I heard him joining Vice. Why?!
>>344937949
>its better than 3 year old cards that will be completely outdated by the time its released
conslecucks lady and gents
>>344937995
did you make sure to post about your rape on tumblr?
>>344938427
480 is 5.8 tflops, not 5.1
>>344938953
>talking about overwatch
>spend over 35 minutes complaining about cultural appropriation to vinny because of an unlockable outfit
>NO HE WAS GOOD GUYS
fuck off
>>344934228
check your non-retarded privelege ableist scum
>>344939130
>when it comes to on-topic videogames
>with no bullshit
Wow good job omitting the most important parts of my post to attempt to prove your point
>>344939057
>480 is 5.8 tflops, not 5.1
6.4tlfops at 1300mhz
>>344938907
Yet we DO have the time. Building a PC is easy once you've done it just once. Are you trying to give us some bullshit that we're all high-power executives that have no free time? Even they have free time and you're being unrealistic.
I feel like the 900 series made it so much easier though.
I mean it took me a day to build mine and troubleshoot it as I had a bad ram module and the mobo wasnt flashed to work with my cpu
luckily i got my mobo flashed for free as the cpu and mobo were sold as a combo deal
I admit I smiled when Phil got so excited for the Scorpio, I miss when consoles actually tried to have as powerful hardware as possible. N64 bragging about 64-bit, Saturn having a byzantine hardware setup, Gamecube and Xbox pushing the limits of 3d console gaming at the time, everyone trying to run PC ports better than the others. PS4 and Xbone were so disappointing. Everyone forgets the 360 and PS3 were both pretty good for the time, the problem was gen 7 lasted way too fucking long.
>>344930574
Even if building a PC is too hard, people can find a local computer store and get them to order the custom PC parts and build/install the PC.
>>344930574
Gee I must be a fucking genius then for not ONLY building a PC but also installing Arch on it as well.
>>344930574
Emanuel sounds like a whiny little bitch to me. Successfully building your first PC after dedicating the time to research parts and how to build it is a hugely satisfying experience (at least it was for me).
And once you've built one, it's easy. Retards can stick to consoles.
>>344937951
>WE HAVE A GAME HA HA THAT JUSTIFIES MY SPENDING HABITS
>>344939554
are you some kind of genius wizard
>>344930574
We were laughing at this at work earlier today, this guy is fucking retarded.
>water cooling
>1080
>$2000 to play JC3
>5 hours and bleeding to put together legos
It just doesn't stop
>>344930574
>emanuel
>maiberg
if youre too stupid to build a pc, then i dont want to game with you
fuck off
>>344939829
Just till you see my green on black terminal
>>344939949
Please anon, I really like you and want to play games with you on my alienware.
Pic related is me.
>>344939554
I watched my friend struggle to install Arch for three days. I don't think he ever got it working
>>344932372
That's indeed pretty impressive but hardly enough to justify a news article unless he literally build the PC parts himself. The only thing they write stuff like this is because they literally think niggers are too stupid to do it.
It took me like 4 hours to build my first PC and get everything up and running. Comparatively it took me 3 fucking days to set up my Arch Linux dual boot. I just took it as a challenge, if something's hard you just step back, think, maybe do some more research, and do it. I don't understand why you would just whine about how hard something is.
>>344930574
1. Get a list from falconguides
2. Sit on a newegg wishlist for like a month
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!!
>>344930574
>ordered a new graphics card and a psu a month ago
>never have installed hardware onto any computer
>do it in half an hour
Why do people say this shit is hard?
>>344939472
The 900 series didn't improve jack shit apart from the usual performance boost. The last real improvement is the modern case design and layout, which has been around for a whole number of years and really became mainstream around 2010-2012, and the electronicy bits have been straightforward for the better part of this millennium.
What about pre-build PCs?
How are they different from consoles?
Even if we accept for a second that you have to be Stephen fucking Hawking to somehow finish the herculean labor of assembling a PC there would still be pre-build PCs that let you play minecraft with all the mods you could dream off.
Why is this part of vice called motherboard shilling against PCs?
>>344934190
not subtle enough but ppl will still get mad and reply
>>344940130
Every time I think my generation isn't completely retarded I read a vice article and cry
>>344934531
Not him, but yes
>>344930574
>reading and watching youtube videos is too hard
>>344940024I love that shit though. That and light grey on black.
>>344930574
All three of their primary points are blatantly false.
>>344934190
The person who originally made this quite obviously just listed all of the things they, themselves don't like. Hotline Miami is awesome, and Anime is completely unrelated.
>>344940703
Hard compared to the effort for console gaming. You are sort of making the same case the article did.
Didn't knew DSP writes for Vice.
>>344936246
Fuck internationalists
Fuck globalists
Fuck any politician who puts something before his country as his own priority, fuck corparatism too in that case for driving forward globalism in the US so they can have their multinational megacorporations exerting influence and wielding power over sovereign governments, including the US which should be above the corporate mega-conglomerates not beneath them, not subservient to them. Also fuck the Rockefellers too.
>>344936918
My nigger
>>344937745
As an actual aircraft mechanic I can assure you, using a screw driver is not hard, and neither is not dropping something. If you cant do either of those things, then you should off yourself because you very clearly dont do anything important to society
>>344930574
They're full of shit.
1080p standard of graphics aren't going anywhere for a long time and old tech that can do 1080p at 60fps is always getting cheaper as this standard isn't even new anymore and quite easy.
Putting the parts together to build a pc is adult legos these days, everything clearly states what it is and is not compatible with and if you're too stupid/lazy to read up on these things properly then you probably struggle with the magic buttons on that rectangular object to turn your magic color box on.
Oh they want to talk about price?
How about the new upgradeable ps4 and xbone coming out that are essentially pc's anyway and cost as much.
The person who wrote that article is an idiot and the kind of person that still thinks touching something in his case will make it explode for some reason.
>>344932372
How is this news.
I mean okay the kid is pretty cool, but come the fuck on.
>>344941141
That's the mindset of people who put their refrigerator besides their couch because going into the kitchen is too hard.
>>344936904
>PC GAMING IS DEAD jjj-jjjust you w-wait and see!!!111!11
>>344933456
Topanga?
>>344941178
Go back to /pol/ and then kill yourself faggot
Sage for not vidya
>>344941141
You only have to do it once. One completed full build and now you are an EXPERT COMPUTER BUILDER
>>344937326
Anon, it's called nepotism and power-congregation. A lot of Jews have high intellect, but there's more to it than that. With whites it makes sense since they make up such a large portion of the population, with Jews they're such a small minority that has a disproportionate amount of power. The main problem being how they use that power at the expense of the nation and its people, not that they have it.
Take your off-topic bitching about /pol/ and whites back to rebbit or tumblr if you can't handle a joke without going into tirades.
>>344940371
The only difference is graphics drivers (which are done automatically by Nvidia/AMD if you want) and graohics settings, which are also done by your GPU card if you want. PC gaming is literally plug and play now, the only thing that ever gives me trouble is older games but there's usually guides on how to get them up and running.
>>344941378
Please stop it with these stupid comparison. You are way too close to a food metaphor and every time someone makes one of those they officially lose the argument.
>>344941606
>>344937612
Scorpio will force PC to give value to customers when you have this very affordable price for the power you get
>>344941480
Filthy globalist, dirty internationalist, treasonous rockerfeller.
/pol/ is leaking
Where are the mods
>>344937584
I'm on mobile
>>344941141
>literally every important plug, wire, or cable is specifically distinguishable from one another, meaning you cannot get them mixed up
>the manual literally explains what everything is and where it goes and what you should do
>hard
>>344941774
>Scorpio will force PC to give value to customers when you have this very affordable price for the power you get
It will probably have a 480 in it which is $200. How much more value do you need? I'm not deriding the Scorpio but I don't see how it;s a "threat" to PC gaming, especially as it appears Microsoft is going all in on PC gaming now.
>>344930574
I built my own PC capable of running every modern game on high settings and I'm fucking retarded
anyone who can't figure it out has to be like an actual for real super retard
>>344941497
And you don't even have to do it once with console gaming. Just plug in and play.
I am not saying I couldn't do it. I can and I have. I am saying I can understand the people who might be scared to. It can be a lot of money. A decent amount of effort and you aren't sure it will work.
We both know it isn't as hard as building your own car but can't you at least see how most people think it is.
Think of your computer illiterate grandma and imagine her buying all the parts and then assembling it all by herself.
Didn't read the thread.
Whyen I built my PC, I basically found some PCs in my budget range on PC part picker. Consulted the builds with some folk current on hardware what they thought of it and got two recommendations. The process took a couple of days before I bought everything and assembled it a week later. My first time putting together a PC took about two hours from unboxing to boot. Pretty pleasant experience overall, though my wire time routing the wires was a bit of a clusterfuck.
