Quote from: Tessa James on September 04, 2015, 01:55:11 PM
We will be here for you Sade and as the motel commercial says "We'll keep a light on"

Are you homeschooling this year too?  Any family trips coming up?  What kind of PC is on your xmas list?  I met some local guys who invented a water cooled CPU because they are wicked gamers and were melting down too often.

Apparently melt downs are bad for them and us?

Yes I am homeschooling again this year and I probably will until college honestly. I don't think I could survive in public school since I never went to public school. No family trips are planned, we just had one a few weeks back and my parents just fought the whole time.
I want to get a powerful PC preferably built for hardcore gaming (meaning lots of RAM and very fast speed) I'm thinking Alienware but I'm not sure if that would be the best.

Quote from: JackieFox on September 04, 2015, 02:37:59 PM
Yes I am homeschooling again this year and I probably will until college honestly. I don't think I could survive in public school since I never went to public school. No family trips are planned, we just had one a few weeks back and my parents just fought the whole time.
I want to get a powerful PC preferably built for hardcore gaming (meaning lots of RAM and very fast speed) I'm thinking Alienware but I'm not sure if that would be the best.

One of my seven brothers and his wife home schooled their kids and I worried about them being isolated and shy.  I did not need to worry as his son came out gay/gender queer and is one of the most popular guys i know as an adult.

That vacation sounds like a bad movie.  We get so little free time and often have big expectations about how good it must be and then....

China's Tianhe-2 remains the world's most powerful computer, so i hear.  but there is so much out there especially if you are into the assembly thing?

I spend way too much time at my PC and my dog is reminding me to go for a walk now.....se ya later girl

Quote from: JackieFox on September 04, 2015, 02:37:59 PM
I want to get a powerful PC preferably built for hardcore gaming (meaning lots of RAM and very fast speed) I'm thinking Alienware but I'm not sure if that would be the best.

Well its a solid company...
would self assembly be an alternative ?

Self assembly is definitely not an alternative although I wish it was.

Quote from: JackieFox on September 04, 2015, 04:12:10 PM
Self assembly is definitely not an alternative although I wish it was.

Well you can start by chossing components and have it assembled...
and changing some components later...
there are lots of howtos on the internet...
like how to change memory...
upgrade a processor...
or even change a mainboard...
you can get aquainted a bit with components first and work on it later 
many people have started out this way


and you can also experiment a little with operating systems...
setting up multi boot and trying out linux for example...
for linux there are also live dvds by the way... where you can try it out... sometimes they are part of pc magazines...
it can be really fun 

Its not an alternative due to that wouldn't really go over great with asking to assemble a PC for a Christmas present.

Quote from: JackieFox on September 04, 2015, 04:26:24 PM
Its not an alternative due to that wouldn't really go over great with asking to assemble a PC for a Christmas present.

No
But you might say exactly what kind of PC...
have a look at components like mainboards... memory... processor...
and make a clear suggestions... what type with which components... and its assembled and delivered...

and later on you might think about upgrades of memory, processor or mainboard...
this way you might get aquainted with components first in theory and then in practise
Thats really how most people started.
They got a pre assembled pc and started upgrading. 

Quote from: JackieFox on September 04, 2015, 04:12:10 PM
Self assembly is definitely not an alternative although I wish it was.

I have another web site I have been a member of starting in 2001 and we do distributive computing. A number of the people are running more than one rig in order to process more work units so cost and power are the main factors in hardware selection. As the result, I don't think any of the high power rigs were purchased assembled. Water cooled is common but a few use freon systems and one guy played around with liquid nitrogen but that didn't prove practical. I am not into really high power systems so I am just running a single Mac Pro and I had to disable one of the graphic processor because the thing was running to hot. It still puts me in top 5% of the most powerful computers.

Quote from: Laura_7 on September 04, 2015, 04:32:52 PM
No
But you might say exactly what kind of PC...
have a look at components like mainboards... memory... processor...
and make a clear suggestions... what type with which components... and its assembled and delivered...

and later on you might think about upgrades of memory, processor or mainboard...
this way you might get aquainted with components first in theory and then in practise
Thats really how most people started.
They got a pre assembled pc and started upgrading. 

Um I think I will just get an alienware and not upgrade it..

Quote from: JackieFox on September 04, 2015, 04:35:18 PM
Um I think I will just get an alienware and not upgrade it..

Well its up to you how deep you want to go into the subject.
Its often the graphics card if you play games.
So many people after some time think about upgrading their graphics card.

But, well, sometimes its not necessary to have the very latest games...
there are quite old games for example which have nice stories and are not demanding on hardware 

I will need to play some newer games for YouTube. So I need a pretty decent PC.

Quote from: JackieFox on September 04, 2015, 04:52:10 PM
I will need to play some newer games for YouTube. So I need a pretty decent PC.

What kind of games do you play ?

I will be playing multiple different games and some will require some RAM like heavily modded Minecraft.

Well as said something to look forward to 

By the way there is also a minecraft server on susans...
maybe your pc now might be sufficient for an entry...

I dont have a PC anymore.

Well as said something to look forward to then...

would you prefer a pc or would be a laptop a better idea ?

When I say PC I am most of the time referring to Laptop sorry about that. I want a laptop.

I prefer laptops too.
Its much more convenient... you can take your files and all your setups with you...

Exactly.

Well by the way if you don't like those glare displays there is a foil which reduces glare...
I prefer matte displays which don't mirror much the surrounding...
if you wear a white tshirt and the lighting is unfavourable you mostly see the shirt