who here cursed with a bad computer? >2013 made laptop >4GB

>>36291985

>2017
>for some reason only 3.66GB RAM usable
>overheats like a motherfucker even after cleaning it out and applying new thermal paste
>randomly spazzes out and rejects the battery cable and hibernates on it's own
>motherfucker uses virtual memory if it runs out of ram which clogs up the disk usage and makes the entire shit freeze and lag
>continues doing that even if i disabled page file
>any game that used to run fairly decent on it now requires everything set to low and config file tweaking as well
>poor and cant afford a new one

>>36291985
>poor
>have tablet with 1 gig ram that I usually use
>ded screen laptop with 2 gig ram form 06/07
>phone that is anal found on ground with 3 gigs, but it's android OS takes up a gig just to turn on, pretty shabby for a 150 dollar device
>tablet 50 dollars btw
>keyboard 6 to go with it
>tfw poor
>would fix laptop but not worth time and money
>sometimes put lamp behind screen when need to use real computer for something (has XP though)

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>>36291985
HAHAH

>tfw poor

;_;

If you had bought a console in 2013 you would still be able to play every new game and it would have cost you less

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>>36292066
Hey look it's my nigger. We poor huh?

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>>36292056
>tfw a supermarket in my city put a bunch of 50 dollars tablets on sale last year
>bought one of them and in 2 months it wasn't booting up anymore

>wasd keys broken from gaming, had to rely on on-screen keyboard until sister lent me her old keyboard (she gets a lot of free stuff for streaming on Twitch)
>overheats when streaming videos or play games so have to use a coolpad and a fan
>one of the usb slots of broken from overheating
>there's always a virus that not even MalwareBytes in safemode knows how to clense
>lost a $50 mouse and a decent keyboard because laptop overheated and destroyed every device that was connected by USB
>bottom of laptop is all scorched, the sticker labels on bottom are all melted and the model number can no longer be read
>less than 20GB of free space
>folders take 2 minutes to load and preview thumbnails don't even load
>Internet browser will randomly freeze despite only one tab being able and it's being used to post on 4chan or some message board

>>36291985
You're not "cursed". Go get a job and save up for a basic but not bleeding edge build. Buy the components second hand.

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>>36292164
Be nice to your shit then. Mine last years. Did ya hack yours or something? You could've used it as it was if that's the case, baka.
>old tablet with solar panel and sheeet (and sword found in dumpster

>>36291985
Exactly the same specs here, except I'm not that versed on computer hardware and I don't know if it has integrated graphics or if that counts as a gpu. But I don't use it for games, and it still runs fine.

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>>36292104
motherfuck i didn't even buy it myself, father bought it for 300 euros from italy and gave it to me a few months because he bought himself a desktop

>expensive rig
>just use it to watch pirated Blu rays and browse at this point


At least I can use nice madvr filters.

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>>36292198
getting a job would imply having to go outside and work and i don't want that

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>>36291985
is it a macbook air? cause thats exactly the specs of my laptop. my mom bought it for me if she hadn't i would still be using a core 2 duo from 2008. I wish she hand't though because I wanted to be one of those people who uses ancient technology to get work done.

>>36292294
nope it's a windows laptop from packard bell. but at this point im pretty sure a mac would rum better than this dogshit runs right now

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>tfw when you're playing an awesome free to play game and you fucking love it
>Quickly move up in the ranks
>Right before being released from alpha it has a major update
>Kills framerates and makes your favorite game nearly unplayable

>>36292593
i feel you anon. ogoriganl

>2008 craptop
>Windows Vista
>dies instantly if not plugged in
>need to use external fan to keep it from overheating
>sometimes the screen gets fucked up being white with moving lines about every hour so i need to move the top part back and forth while pressing down to get it to return to normal
>google chrome is no longer receiving updates

>>36292732
is google chrome actually having updates at all?
i never got any notification on updating it, just installed it and that was it

>>36292648
What was your game of choice, anon?

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>>36292934
SWTOR. used to be able to play on up to high settings until the first story expansion came out, after that i have to set everything to lowest to get at least 24 fps while out of battle, battles get it down to 11 fps

pic relared describes it better, right is close to how i used to play it, left is close how i have to force myself to play it now

>Comp so bad I run tf2 on low graphics with 30 fps
> Have to wait 10 min to open some games
> Used to crash when I played MINECRAFT

I don't have a computer I only have a phone. And you idiots hate me for it. Dawt JPEG

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tfw i bought this premade in 2011 and am too cheap to replace it
>>36292014
it may not be great but try buying a USB disk and dedicating it to readyboost

>>36292164
I bought a samsung tab 8 from costco for 170 with my fafsa money

>>36291985
not me really for my use cases

>self built pc
>fx8350 (will be hated because its not intel and weak but it does all i need)
>r9 290
>32gb ram
>ssd + bunch of hdds
>godtier lelnovo thinkvision 16:10 ips panel
>basic 1080p as second monitor

no complains with that, then 2 thinkpads, T420 and if i need a smaller one to carry around, X230

the t420 has i7-2620m which is sandy bridge so not new but still absolutely fine, ssd and 8gb of ram

wouldnt say my machines are shit since they do all i need more than perfectly, absolutely not the best and latest but good for me

Yeah. I have a shit tier laptop but then I grew up and don't give a shit about video games anymore and acquired new hobbies

>tfw played pc games for 7 years but only got a real pc a few months ago
>tfw over a thousand hours in TF2 and close to a thousand hours in LoL, all at ~25 fps at best
>wanted this computer for years, got a job and saved up for it myself because poor family
>tfw can play any game now but just feel empty inside

>>36292113
The camera quality tells everything

I can't pity NEET plebs complaining about wallmart bought laptops with Intel graphics overheating when gayming and being surprised that it runs like shit. You can get ex-business i3/i5 desktops for $50-100 if you're smart enough to look in the right places or better yet find one in a dumpster for free.

>>36294231
this

get business grade machines if you dont want to build your own, or if you want a laptop get a thinkpad or elitebook or equivalent

business machines are cheap second hand and many times in great condition and will last

>>36294231
>>36294272
nice samefagging bitch faggot

>>36291985
>first world problems, the thread

This whole board is just people complaining about 1st world issues when they have every opportunity to better themselves

>>36294231
>finding a nice computer in the trash
>finding a computer at all in teh trash
You mean craigslist. You're not even poor. You don't know shit.

>>36292014
>motherfucker uses virtual memory if it runs out of ram which clogs up the disk usage and makes the entire shit freeze and lag
what exactly would you prefer to happen if you run out of ram? blue screen and crash?

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>>36294295
right

sorry but the guy is right, build your own desktop, or go with business machines. they are worth it

or do you have something againist cheap good computers and would rather keep buying your walmart garbage with poor build quality etc. every 1-2 years?

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>tfw mobo only supports 8 GB of RAM and video games are getting arbitrarily increased requirements, but I have no reason or desire to build a whole new computer

>>36294381
you're braindead if you unironically think only first worlders absolutely need to use computers to make a living in 2017

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>>36294401
maybe actually auto managed it like it did a few years ago??

disk usage was going up at 32% max on anything back then but now it goes up to 100% just when i open google chrome, it freezes the browser and i have to wait 30 seconds for it to unfreeze and work

any program i open instantly uses VRAM instead of RAM now

>>36294389
I've found an HP i3 and Dual CPU Xeon server. They won't be playing the latest titles but both capable gaymen machines once a second hand GPU is thrown in for the shit F2P games you'll be playing. The i3 required repair but it was only simple soldering. If you're not going to look further than searching craigsshit and ebay then no, you won't find anything because that's what every other lazy NEET is doing. If you're a third worlder then you're fucked either way anyway.

>2k16 computer
>20 gb ram
>i7
>gtx 1070
>runs every game on max settings on 4K
>only 255 SSD and only 2TB hard drive

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>8 gb ram
>Intel core i5 2500, 3,2 GHz
>GTX 660 2 gb
>2 tera HDD

It was the shit few years back but now...Well, I can run pirated Mass effect Andromeda on nice 30 fps on Medium.
Pls give me some (you)s, I am lonely

>>36291985
anyone else have one of these bad bois? I used mine until like 2014

>>36294610
Have you tried turning it off and on again? Is it just the software that started using so much more? Maybe you can find lighter alternatives to those programs. Have you checked if you still have the same total amount of RAM as before?

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>>36294819
forgot pic

original roblox

>>36294790
I hate you and i wish you'd die.

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>2009 dell inspiron
>2gb RAM
>can't even play games like postal 2 and sometimes hotline miami smoothly

Thank god it might be dying, I was getting lag spikes and a tint of green while playing garry's mod today.

>>36294790
Not really a bad computer, you'll just have to stick to slightly older titles. I have something similar, but I don't really play the latest AAA games anyway. I need to add more hard disks though. I filled 2TB with memes and anime and I don't even know why I save all my watched anime. I guess it's out of hope that I'll ever find a friend to rewatch and share it all with.

>>36292014
Check your RAM chips and make sure your version of Windowcleaner is 64-bit.

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>>36294834
it's not just the program, it's the entire system, like opening file explore takes clogs up 45% disk usage, using any memory management program to free up RAM does nothing but transfer it into VRAM, clogging it up further. also yes, RAM size changed, used to have the full 4GBs available, now only 3.66GB are usable, rest is apparently taken up by the integrated gpu and WindowsOS

>>36294864
Aaaaaw... Thanks you, Anon, I love you too

I'm a really poor motherfucker

i7 6700
MSI R9 390
8gb of ram
2 tb of storage
144hz 1080p freesync monitor

Shit tier pc Here. Used to be ok
>3.4ghz I7
>8gb ram
>760 gtx
Should I upgrade my gpu and get more ram or should I just get a new pc?

>>36294696
>>20 gb ram
how?

>>36294790
Ai-chan, best Chan

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>>36295081
probably 16GB RAM and he added 4GB VRAM

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>>36291985
I fell for the lenovo meme.

Most I can get out of the games I play is a whooping 10 fps on the lowest possible settings

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>>36291985

Works fine desu
Just need to update motherboard before I can change anything else

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>>36291985

low quality budget build reporting in

>>36291985
I have a pretty high end rig, but I rarely get any use out of it. For the most part I just use it for shitposting, anime, and playing games that could run well with a garbage gpu.

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>2012 laptop
>could play some games at lowest setting when first bought
>some places were screws go are broken
>overheats in an hour or so
>fan sounds like a plane turbine

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>>36295418
>fan sounds like a plan turbine
aren't you scared of it blowing up or something when the fan just starts motorboating? i know i'd be

>>36291985


Get a job, dipshit

>2014 laptop
>a4 processor
>"6gb" ram, really 4,94 usable
>cant close the lid or some metal part will pop out of the screen and have to place it back in, its not easy
>screen pops out of lid a little bit
>screen cracked trying to put it back in and now the touchscreen is unusable
Tried to take care of it but this shit always happen. Also mad about the specs because I was hoping to play planet coaster with my first wagie paycheck and now I'm working for no real reason

>>36295592
Get a life, asshlick

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>>36295553
yeah,sometimes I shit myself up when it boots and the fan start running extremely fast

>computer from 2002

1.5gig RAM
2.9GHZ Pentium 4
80gb HD
Windows XP
Monitor from the mid-nineties because my other one shit out finally

Just got a new job, but it'll be a few months before I can afford to replace it. Might just get a cheap laptop, even that would be better than this thing, then I could shitpost in my room instead of having to come upstairs.

>>36291985
i find it a blessing than a curse.
>2012
>2 connected raspberry pis
>plan 9
>no need for games and doom works fine
>surprisingly good monitor i got from my job
>same for mouse and keyboard
>hdd i got from a sale
i think 60$ for rpis, 2$ for sdcard and 20$ for hdd

>>36295722
did you already try cleaning out the fan?

>>36295081
16GB standalone ram
4GB ram on graphics card
^it's 20 GB total

>>36294683
I'm in FL and the only computer I found before had only 512 megs of ram and had a bent frame.

I used to be but then i bought a 6 year old meme laptop.

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My PC performance feels as optimal as it can possibly get running Gentoo.

Things that weren't a mistake

- Intel Xeon 1230v2
- Supermicro Motherboard
- RX 460 AMD GPU (Open-source AMD drivers are far better than Nvidia GPUs with proprietary driver)
- 4TB WD Red
- Intel SSD
- ATH M50X Headphones
- Dell Ultrasharp monitor
- Zowie FK2 mouse

Things that were a mistake:

- 450W non-modular PSU
- Terrible Fractal Case
- Logitech G400 Mouse
- Open-ear AKG headphones
- 8GB of non-ECC RAM
- Tiny 1TB hard drives
- 1600x900 crappy TN panel
- low-end i3
- low-end Gigabyte motherboard

>>36295840
I did,years ago,always forget that I have to clean it again

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>>36291985
are you me? HP Pavilion laptop here
>tfw can't even unlock the stock clock speed

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>>36296078
same desu, everything in the BIOS is locked, can't change anything, not even the dedicated video memory or unpark the cpu cores

Yeah but it runs paradox games, ro2, mount and blade and total war so I'm happy