/br/ - Buyer's Remorse General

Bought an rx480 on pcbg pajeets' assurances that "It'll totally max 1080p at 60fps on everything, bro!" It doesn't come close and I should have listened to my head and bought a 1070. It's now on ebay.

These fucks are now even recommending the 4/570 the same way.

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>>59933706
I rarely have buyers remorse on tech, as a cheapskate i research all my purchases.

...Apart from this one because I fell for the meme.

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>>59933971
What games are you not hitting 60 fps on?

i bought some $40 logitech "gamer" pad thing with a bunch of customizable buttons, i already have a mouse with a bunch of buttons i use in general purpose for every program so i thought it'd be cool

i also bought two raspberry pis

I got a smaller Bravia and I'm pretty happy with it.
Don't have it connected to the internet though.

ref 980 on release. should have just gotten a sapphire 290x, granted the 980 has been flawless but it doesn't have near the same life length as the 290x

>>59934025
It hits fps but its not stable. Fluctuates from 30 to 60 regularly in AAA shit

>>59934085
According to reviews it does exactly what pcbg said.

could it be down to your shit tier setup perhaps?

>>59933971
fell for the same meme here and the bonus 4gb for 1080p meme. can't afford to upgrade for a while. thanks /g/.

>>59934034

The G13? The one with the shitty thumbstick? Yeah had one of those too. Changing walking direction reliably in fps was a nightmare coz of that stick. Theres just no true substitute for WASD.

>>59934085
Huge fps dips often point to CPU bottleneck

>>59933971
>>59934161
i get over 60fps on everything at 2560x1440 highest display settings with the 4gb card

clearly you're retarded

>>59933971
>hurr durr i'm running the game supersampled to 4k and it doesn't not perform good
retard

>>59934368
No you don't, mate. Glad we could clear that up.

Thinkpad X220 that I ended up returning, holy fuck it sucked dick. Along with a few other items.

I usually heavily research my things, but when I was younger I fell for the gaymer mouse memes. What a load of overpriced bullshit they were. Fell apart.

>>59933706
>buys sony
kek
that's your problem

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Got it in 2007, broke in 2011. Fuck this thing so much.

>>59933706
bought xps 13
while its a good laptop i should just have bought a t450 or some other thinkpad

>>59934077
this desu but I never had a problem with the browser. Im happy with my 42" bravia i got for like 400 bucks

gpdwin.

I kinda wish I saved up an extra month to get a 480 instead of a 470. Not because I need it, but because 480 is a much prettier number.

>>59933706

>rMBP
ok machine but a fucking waste of $3000. Maybe worth half that. Had hardware problems after just over a year and had to replace half the insides because lol we're apple and we glue everything together. Never again.

>Asus 290 GPU
shit cooler, shit fans, shit overclocker, just shit. Never buying an asus GPU ever again.

>windows phone
self explanatory, now have an S7

>>59933706
I bought a 500 GB Samsung 850 Evo M.2 ($125) for my OS and some shit, a 750 GB Crucial MX300 ($100), a 1 TB WD Caviar Blue ($45) and a 2TB Seagate Barracuda ($65). I don't even save that much shit and my younger brother's games only take up like 500 GB in total. I feel stupid just having that much storage although I use the WD for a back up utility instead of general file storage since I don't do daily back ups to an external drive.

Bought a 21.5" monitor instead of a 23.4, it is only for gaming on but I could have spent the extra €55 for a slightly bigger screen. I don't know if I jewed myself.

>RX480 4GB Armor
Sidegrade from a 970, same performance, more heat, more noise, issues with Cemu, issues with multi-monitor and high memory clocks, issues with FIFA17. Piece of shit, sold it on ebay and kept the meme card.

>EVGA 650P2
DOA, can't return it.

>G.Skill 780R RGB Keyboard
Several issues with the software (dogshit coded by braindead monkeys) but still, the keyboard materials are very good. The $150 price tag wasn't worth it though. Felt for the RGB meme.

>>59934974
what is wrong with x220?

>>59934368
if you play 3+ year old games only, sure

>>59934368
I'm getting in the 100's at 1440p with my 4GB [spoiler]fury[/spoiler].

>>59937828
Touchpad is bad, screen is bad, and build quality is iffy. Keyboard is also not that good.

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>>59937800

>EVGA 650P2 DOA, can't return it.

Fuck, that plain sucks. Especially if it held up a fresh build.

>>59938016
>Touchpad is bad
Which is why you use clit
>screen is bad
True
>Keyboard is also not that good.
Compared to what? To this day I haven't used laptop with keyboard comparable to old thinkpads.

>>59938000
nice digits

>>59938143
I don't like using the clit, it wasn't all that good or accurate.

Nowadays there are laptops with mechanical switches. Not talking about those though.

>>59938038
Yeah, what's worse is that I figured it like 3 months later. The piece of shit shuts down if more than 50% of the max load is used.

>>59933706
I fell for the mechanical keyboard meme... Twice.

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$250 Samsung S24E650 1920x1200 PLS screen.

My 8 year old LG died and this seemed like a good replacement and welcomed upgrade from TN to PLS, which didn't seem any worse than IPS.

>viewing angles are in effect not any better because of bright sheen on matte panel when not viewed right on
>lower right side of the screen has a bright orange glow and the lower left side has a bright blue glow unless I'm 10ft away from the screen
>can't handle low brightness settings without what's displayed on the screen being drowned out by background light
>colors look strange an unnatural

Guess I'm stuck with this crap for the next decade then.

>>59934034
I have one of those. Almost never use the function keys, just keep it around for LCDSirReal.

The used x230 with IPS display meme
* 1376x766 is actually that bad
* The screen is too dim when there is any sunlight
* Only 2h of battery life and I don't want to buy a 60€ battery for extra 2h
* Already lost at least 100€ in resell value after 1 year

>>59940147
there's no meme to it. you either enjoy it or you don't
the only reason I don't use my model M is because it's too heavy to sit on my lap as I like to do with my lighter keyboards

an amd cpu in 2011
if I had spent like 50 dollars more I would have gotten the 2500k which would still be good today. as it stands, I already can't play some games
also, not placing enough importance on my gpu. I got a 6850 which was shortly discontinued by the manufacturer after I bought it. it was one of the worst midlines even back then

>>59941731

>buying x230 instead of x220, x201, x200
>expecting a 4 year old used business laptop to have decent battery
>being so poor you have to care about resale value

If anyone still had any doubts that /g/ was a shitty consumer technology board, this thread should get rid of them.

>>59933706
I brought a pair if studio monitors for £340

Amazing quality.... except I live in a flat and can barely turn them up... why did I do it?

>>59941731
dont forget that it has a garbage keyboard

>>59941850
Hard to be into "technology" if you dont buy any "technology"

>>59941942
The keyboard is pretty good if you don't mind the different layout.

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>Zennheiser HD800
>Had to swap out the cable 4 times already because they keep quitting on me
>Coating flakes off
>Be semi-deaf
>people said it's easy to set up the volume differently on both ears
>Took 3 days of intensive work to get set up
>buy it because not too colorful
>Taste becomes more bassy so instant regret

Acer Aspire E15.
Bought one in a store because I was in dire need of a new notebook and my ancient notebook was an Acer too and I was content with it.
The touchpad sucks donkey dicks in hell, shit is slow as fuck (slower than the old notebook which I repurposed as mom internet machine), my guess due to fucking Win 8.1 where I had to spend a whole day uninstalling bloatware.
Furthermore, it's constantly losing screws from the bottom. I am just waiting for the day when it decides to just fall apart. If I didn't need certain windows applications for work, I would wipe it and put some debian on it. Most of all I am irritated by the shitty touchpad, it's just so bad.

Moto 360 1st Gen
It was cool for a little bit but the battery died pretty fast and I started to forget to bring it with me when I went out.

>>59934085
cpu?

>>59933992
What is pcbg?

>>59933706
Audio technica ath m40x. One ear stopped working after having them for < 1 year.

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>>59933706
>>59936496
>buying sony

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>>59941760

>>59942316
just cut the wire and resolder an aux cable. literally the easiest fix. doesn't even count as a fix really. I do it every 6-12 months on my headphones. Haven't had to change them.

>>59934368
Not on anything modern you don't. Medium-High settings maybe.

I game at the same res and recently upgraded from the 8gb 480 to a 1070 for this very reason. Paired with a 1700

>>59942316
what is it with the audo technica meme? beyerdynamic studio headphones are literally in the same prize range, I don't get it

>bought an rm1000x to future proof for an SLI+custom loop build
>PSU fan only turns on when 400w of power is being used instead of x amount of heat
i wish i'd known about this before, it's literally hot to the touch every time i check it because it's rarely under heavy load.

Would an 8gb rx480 suffice for gaming? I don't play PC games enough to justify getting a 1070/1080/other pricey card.

>>59933706
>insane clouding/lightbleed after only 2 years
TVs are not really supposed to have perfect picture quality after 2 years anymore.

I own a Dell with glossy display. Protip: Don't buy glossy.

>>59940250
PLS is the same as IPS, basically.
Don't make up stories. If you got problems with your display, it's the panel itself.

>colors look strange an unnatural
Did you adjust them? Use a spyder or whatever to adjust your colours. Without hardware calibration every monitor looks different.

>>viewing angles are in effect not any better because of bright sheen on matte panel when not viewed right on
Bright sheen? I don't really know what you mean. Never had matte though. Are you talking about the coating of your monitor?

>Guess I'm stuck with this crap for the next decade then.
It won't last a decade though. LEDs are not CCFLs. My old monitor is still doing fine after 10 years, with it's old backlighting. But you can expect your LED monitor to not make it this long. They are not designed for that.

Nexus 5 was a piece of shit. I replaced it with a Moto G after 4 months

>>59933706
>2015
>Year of Sony's X940C series
Should have gone 4K FALD with Android TV you poorfag

>>59943550
>4k for a tv
WHY
who the fuck broadcasts in 4k

>>59943144
/g/ will try to meme you into getting 480 but trust me, if you want average fps (the only important one) to be above 60 at all time on ultra 1080p you need 1070 and above.

480 doesnt cut it

>>59944045
a 480 is fine if it's in his budget. did you forget prices are a thing?

>>59933992
I have the 8120 @4geegahurtz, honestly for £90ish compared to the equivelent £165 i5 back when purchasing i think its done quite well. 6 year old silicon now

>not buying your electronics on a credit card with extended warranty
>buying sony TVs in the modern era
sony is overpriced garbage. i have one TV that sony sold to me at cost in 2011 to give up the risk to sue them for the fire hazard I had before and a 37" I picked up in 2015 because it was on sale and literally the only TV I could fit sans wall mount in the location where I needed it since all modern TV stands are cheap little "Triangles at the ends" ones now

>>59937181
I swear I knew it was goma be an HP before opening image. They seem to have very very Bad reliability

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>>59944473
hp laptops were a mistake
pic related

I keep buying things I don't need.

Latest tech regrets are a GTX 1080 Ti, Edifier R2000DB, 2016 Macbook "Pro", and a sit-stand desk.

The speakers and Macbook are especially shit. The desk actually isn't bad but I stand for at most an hour a day and so it isn't worthwhile.

>>59944473
>They seem to have very very Bad reliability
Back in 2007 they did

>get popular
>gain market share
>suddenly quality and reliability plummet as they strive to make as much money as possible

Sounds a whole lot like another laptop company that has out of nowhere gained a huge market share and is pumping out a bunch of laptops...

>>59941731
The batteries are dirt cheap on Amazon/eBay at least in the states.

>>59943428
N5 was a nice phone but it made a lot of compromises for the price point, battery and camera were huge ones.

>>59944531
ehhhh, I'd kill for an hour a day standing. it beats the eight to ten hours straight I usually sit at client sites.

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>build pc for the first time
>tell myself I'm not interested in overclocking
>got an i5 6500 instead of paying $30 for 6600k that will last much longer with overclock

I'm a retard

>>59944662
*$30 more that is

>>59933992
I wish I got an i5 instead of my 8320, but it handles most tasks well enough and most of the time my bottleneck is the GPU

Sony Vaio with nvidia gpu that had the solder issues killing it outside warranty, not american so couldn't claim the class action lawsuit reward.

GTX 670 which has killed 4 PSU's and is now in a bin. In hindsight a 290x would have saved me a lot of money.

nvidia 3d vision, bought 2nd hand cheap but still was only good for about 20 minutes before it became boring

Steelseries 300 rival, randomly stops working

ipod shuffle, was a gift but it was just a burden. Totally unintuitive and had to eventually use 3rd party software to avoid the bloat and bad design of itunes.

Nexus 7 2012, known for the shitty nvidia tegra gpu that destroyed the tablet's performance if you dared to upgrade past android 4.

MSI z68 motherboard, No offset voltage setting and would randomly reset overclocks for no reason.

HTC desire s. First android free with a contract, I understand why it was free.

>>59944662
If you got a Z170 mobo, you can still overclock it.

>>59944783
I thought that was blocked now or something

Has anyone heard of Nokia 2520?

>>59944798
That was just fud. Download the right bios and you can get it to 4.5GHz easily.

>>59937181
The DV9000 was so horrible that my family bought 3 of them. Ran hotter than any other laptop I've ever seen, collapsed keyboard keys, broken hinges, an optical drive that scratched DVDs.

>>59944045
What are you smoking?
Everything about the 480 is stable 70FPS ultra. before the dips ...
unless your running NVIDIA HAIR WORKS THE WAY ITS MEANT TO BE PLAYD® x64 Because you can see the difference :^)

>>59944495
>MacBook Pro
>remove entire guts before the 60-ish screws
>but that's pre-retina, for all I know everything newer could be fucking glued

>>59944473
Their high-end business class machines were nice for a while. Anything other those were still utter and total shit.

I bought a used Lenovo Yoga 3 11" for $330 and thought it would be a great little laptop for light usage

Turns out it's a completely unusable piece of shit because of Core M and how quickly this laptop heats up and throttles the processor. I just bought http://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-Latitude-E7250-12-5-In-Intel-Core-I7-5600U-CPU-2-60-GHz-Black-Ultrabook-/332180805493 and will be reselling the Yoga as soon as possible

>>59944495

>60 (SIXTY) screws holding the keyboard in place
>every other laptop has 3 (THREE) maximum

WHAT the HOLY FUCK is THIS?

LG G4
>Sprint version never had bootloader unlock
>No CM/Lineage because of this, only some "MellowMallow" shit
>Started to have software issues with only the hotspot trick
Went to a Samsung S5. Too bad S7 and above lack unlockable bootloaders in the US.

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>Fell for the 4k meme
Worst purchase ever, bought an lg 27 inch ips freesync monitor and it was so good i had to go out and buy two more

>>59945031
If you want HP, only buy from the business series. I am very happy with my EliteBook I am posting this from.

If you really want a "consumer" laptop, buy Dell.

>>59933706
>PS Vita
bought it at release when i was a /v/irgin, played it regularly for a year and sold it at a sizeable loss. Memory cards were a ripoff and the OS was shit with little app support.

>Goophone N3
Galaxy Note 3 clone I bought in 2014, actually worked pretty well for the first year and only cost me $260 AUD, unfortunately it started overheating heaps and then cracked the screen when I left it in my packpack. Didn't have a stylus like the actual note phones and the camera was good, not much else to say about it.

>Logitech G15 keyboard
Bought one new in 2015 for $40 AUD because it was the wrong layout (italian), the screen on it is useless and is only really good for showing the time and CPU/RAM usage, keys stick a bit as well. Also it takes up a shit ton of room because of the thick bezels and all the extra macro keys.

>>59945085
>PS Vita
>bought it at release when i was a /v/irgin, played it regularly for a year and sold it at a sizeable loss. Memory cards were a ripoff and the OS was shit with little app support.
Same.
A shitty Lenovo prebuilt from 2010 that I used for 7 years before build my current pc. (It was actually and upgrade from using the family's shitty Dell optiplex gx270)

>>59937181
I bought a DV something something in the first week of 2009...returned it by week 2.

Swapped it for a (then) new unibody MacBook that hasn't had a single issue through today in 2017. It's gone through 8 summers, being used on my bed, in 90+ degree weather (usually have the AC off) for several hours.

>>59944662
I made the same mistake, only with the 3570 and in my defense my parents bought it for me as a a gift so I felt it would be bad to ask them to pay more for it.

>>59947532
is overclocking really that significant? i mean, the cost of the unlocked cpu, plus the cost of an aftermarket cooler, given the increased performance ?

>>59937350
Seriously?

>>59947557
I don't know, I'm still on my 3570 looking for an upgrade.
I still feel like an idiot either way, now that I'm working full time I spend $30 on a whim on all kinds of dumb shit.
$30 just to have the option should have been the logical choice.

>>59941817
Good damn you're literally me. Fx 8120 and 6850 instead of 2500k. I regret it so fucking much. Bought an used i7 3770 and it doesn't even compare. Literally night and day difference. Never buying amd garbage ever again.

FX 8120
Razer Naga
Expensive office chairs that are the exact same shit as the inexpensive ones
Used smartphone (xperia z3)
Cooler master mechanical keyboards (plagued with issues left and right)
760w psu for a single gpu
First gen ipad
PS3
3DS XL
My boyfriend

My life is regret

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>buy Sony TV with Google TV built in
>Google TV is deprecated a year later
And this is why I'll never buy another Google product until it's been around and active for at least 3 years. They cancel shit without a second thought.

>>59948014
Android TV is getting good support.
Android O just got released for the Nexus Player which has been discontinued for months.

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Literally no good reason to own this hunk of shit.

>>59947929
>My boyfriend

>>59948014
>My dad buys a Samsung Smart TV
>Buys camera peripheral extra so we can Skype when I'm abroad studying
>Microsoft buys Skype
>SmartTV department canned
>parents get notification on TV that Support for Skype will be pulled and the app will be auto-uninstalled within a month
>forgot to tell them to not install any updates
>lo and behold, the app is gone because Samsung refuses to host unsupported apps in TV app store
(others with rooted SmartTVs report the app working fine when denied the update)
>there are now 0 (zero) apps we could use to utilize a camera the NSA can turn on and use even while the TV is feigning a standby state


Boy I sure do love propietary closed-source software!

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>>59933706
i fell for the dr dre beats meme
> kill me

>>59943598
Netflix, Blu-rays, even youtube.

Bought an Intel SSD 540s then found out Anandtech did a review and rated it as overpriced entry-level shit.

Last time I buy anything based on >mah brand value.

Always check reviews and tests from multiple sources first.

>>59933706
I got the KDL- 42W705B for my bedroom and PS4, it's a fantastic TV with excellent response time. Maybe if I did pay close to £1000 I might feel a little remorse.
TV's in general are an absolute rip-off anyway. Never buy a new model TV, buy the previous model for half the price and similar performance.

>>59933706
Asus eeebook quite a few years ago. Time has not dulled the pain.

Fell for the Macbook Pro meme.
Used to have a 2011 13" base model which I upgraded /w SSD, HDD, RAM. Used it until 2015 when I sold it for half over what I paid for it.
Then got a 2015 rMBP with top specs through work.

Oh wait I don't actually regret owning any of these as they are still my fav gadgets

>>59933706
A XFX TS 550W 80+ Bronze power supply. Got it for around 60€ and while it has served me well, I wish I could've spent more cash for a premium, (semi)modular unit with higher efficiency.

At the moment it's the most audible part inside the case and trying to route the fully wired cables is like fighting against a tentacle monster from hell...

>>59947929

>Expensive office chairs that are the exact same shit as the inexpensive ones

Ha, this all day.

>>59933992
amd fucking sucks just buy intel

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>>59948014
>buy new sony tv
>now it's just android os
jfc

I don't mind android, but it's so buggy sometimes

luckily it's fine but one day
>be me
>playing vidya
>literally nothing TV intensive
>tv literally reboots mid game
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>>59944796
Oh cool, looks like I already posted.

>>59937181
Holy fuck, my sister's boyfriend asked me to fix one of these pieces of shit.

>>59937219
lol xps 13 is a lot better than shitty T series thinkpads.

Why the fuck do we need ANOTHER general tumor for fucking buyer's remorse?

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MX Master
>thought it'd be great for both my macbook and my desktop
>bluetooth is absolute cancer and stutters like shit so have to use USB dongle anyway
>mouse is too fucking big, have to grip like door handle and still don't get proper hold of it
>strange side thing means I can't rest my wrists properly
>forward/back button are tiny af and too far reclined
>get cramps after using it for more than 20 minutes

sold it after a month for half the price on ebay

>>59933992
THIS
Heck I tried to believe in AMD multiple times but they failed me every single time. Not gonna fall for Ryzen meme.

>>59937181
This was my college laptop. Thankfully I didn't spend a dime on it because man was it the worst computer I've ever used.

>>59933706
>lenovo y40-80

terrible keyboard, the screen could glare in practically total darkness, literally every component failed to the point where I was sending it back monthly because I didn't want to work on it myself, and as soon as the warranty ran out (as in, the very next day), the fucking motherboard died (something with power handling, I don't remember anymore happily).

The hard drives they didn't make were okay though.

>>59948014
Does it even still work, today? What happens when you try to use it?

>>59933992
Yeah. Bulldozer and its variants sucked a ton of ass. However, Ryzen's the real deal though. Its strong and numerous cores make the i3 and i5 a waste of money in most scenarios. It's not just one or the other this time. It's both.

Only the Pentium (poor fucks) and i7 (rich fucks) remain. I could see Ryzen capturing the mainstream in the very near future.

>>59934077
>buy a non smart TV
>it just werks
>retarded friend bought smart TV when they were new shit
>the controls are fucking laggy and jittery, feels terribly, by now it's probably borderline unusable at all
Did Smart TVs get better or are they still a fucking terrible meme ? Not even interested personally, as TVs are shit in general, but relatives still need TV advice

>>59957291
Smart TVs are a fucking meme still by and large. The Roku TVs are not high quality panels, software is good but they're slower than standalone rokus, pretty much all other smart TV functionality is garbage. You're best off buying a smart TV if if happens to meet all your other needs and then buying a Roku/Amazon Fire/Chromecast/whatever to put content on the screen.

>>59957749
You need to use the dongles on already smart TVs ? I always thought they're meant to be as an addon to non smart TV to make it more "smart" like
If you need both it's a bigger meme than I thought before

>>59938201
Doesn't EVGA G2 and up have a 10 year warranty?

Did you even contact EVGA? If it's a hardware fault, you should be able to get it replaced.

>>59957785
The "smart TV" of a smart TV is supposed to replace the dongles, but in reality the smart part of smart TVs is shit.

Imagine you're told "This fork can also cut steak!" and then you say, okay, I'll buy it for $20. They hand you the utensil and it's a regular old fork with a small serated edge that wouldn't cut Jello. You'd be better off with a fork and a separate steak knife that did its single job (cutting shit) well.

The Roku TVs if you can tolerate slight slowness compared to standalone rokus (and the Roku TVs are still faster than many smart TVs) are a great bargain if you're okay with the panel quality. All other smart TVs I have tried are a meme. Size, price, panel quality, sound quality, etc. all real purchase decisions but I just purchased a 50" 4K HDR Vizio P50-C1 panel and I didn't even wait to try the smart TV functionality, I just bought a Roku Ultra to connect to it. Have a Vizio M65-somethingoranother and the built in functionality is OK but not great. I'd actually put Vizio on the upper end of smart TV functionality. Sony and Panasonic are fucking abysmal.

>>59957291
I don't really use the "smart" stuff with my Bravia.
But the UI is pretty good for just watching tv.
Turning on and channel switching (DVB-C) is a lot faster than on my old Toshiba dumb tv.

>>59944857
Dude, I'm on your side, but allowing nvidia to grab such important techs like tessellation and even physx is purely ATI/AMD absolute stupidity and shortsightedness.
Only dumber move by amd is to "not" release immediately simple,free and adequate substitute game developers will have no excuse to not use.

>>59958472
>game developers will have no excuse to not use
Except the wads of cash given by nvidia

>>59947557
Check this!!
I had i5 2500k, CPU is really great and no regrets(maybe one of my favorite piece of hw I had,up there with free upgrade (rma)from hd 3850 to hd4890 1gb ddr5=first GPU with ddr5,o boy,if only PC had games back then,dark age of PC but I digress!! )
but it had turbo up to 3,8 if needed.
So,it would oc itself up to 3,8 if needed , and I would crank it up to ~4,5-4,8(winter/summer,fresh thermal paste ,new cooler etc),
but beyond synthetic benchmarks I never noticed some palpable difference in vidya(maybe those 3,8 were more than enough for everything thrown at it(GPU:7970ghz)and I liked modding betheshitsoft gaems /arma/total war!?!
I'll praise 2500k to hell n back but fuck me if I saw one frame difference oc/non-ocd .

>>59958524
And ,amd can't into buying actually good game?
Fuck, if they bought dishonored2, witcher3, some other AAA shit,maybe TW:Warhammer they would double sales of gpus

>>59958865
gimping games for your competition is just low
gimp their sales by making better products

>>59951996
wow your life must be hard

>>59933706
i bought a blackberry priv when it went on sale a few weeks ago

>>59958925
OK,I agree, but if there are just those 2 solutions, AMD should really chose one already and stick with it, as it is ,they make more harm than nvidia.

>>59941986
Just eq the highs and mids down and wow youve got 1,2k beats by sen

>>59955694
It still works, partially. There are no apps for it but the search function is fine.

>>59948014
NEVER. BUY. A SMART TV.
Just get a dumb TV / computer monitor + a Chromecast. It really is that simple.

AMD 9370
I've literally gotten into video and game development because its completely useless for anything else, rather than just bad.

A-at least 7zip is fast.

>>59933706
i bought an asus laptop for like $1250 just after windows 8 came out. It was really shit for the money with like a 1.4GHz i5, 4GB ram and a HDD that was so slow the laptop was completely unusable within 2 years (even with a fresh ubuntu install). I recently bought a $150 SSD for it and put a fresh win 7 install on it, been okay since then aside from a few random crashes. Such a nightmare considering what you can get for $1250 in a PC at the moment, especially second hand

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I fell for the VR meme

>>59937684
asus 290 and 390 use gimpvidia cooler wich makes shit contact with gpu. Asus 280x was the best oc version of it apart from toxic for ex.

>>59954705
really? i've had it for 2 years now and like it. i do get that the back buttons are too far back, though. i've gotten used to it.

>>59947579
>I still feel like an idiot either way, now that I'm working full time I spend $30 on a whim on all kinds of dumb shit.

I know that feel. I used to be crazy cheap about my purchases when I had no source of income, then I got a job and realized how little difference saving few bucks actually make, when compared to getting better quality product.
I'm still cheap as fuck and end up saving most of my money, save for expenses, but that's mostly because I'm content with most of the things I have now.

>>59933706
>not buying an Android model
Shiggy diggy.

t. ex Sony employee

>>59942114
probably a bulldozer :^)