if it can play at least battlefield 2 and get me to amateur porn thats about all i really need
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NW8000 is the machine for you.
I don't want a new computer that's limited to to 'Old' I/O and features. I chose my current motherboard as it had M.2 and USB Type C. Maybe my next computer can get 10Gbit ethernet. (I wish).
Also Linux support is a must for me.
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what do i need in a pc?
Needs to be a laptop. I travel around too much for it to be a pc
720p screen. anything lower does not have a high enough dpi for me. i run firefox at ~75% zoom @1080p
4gb of ram but could maybe get away with 3gb
some form of linux with dnf package manager
some form of wifi since nobody has ethernet anymore 
12" - 17" - nothing less and nothing more
dual core with HT at 3+ GHZ
a grapics card with 1gb of vram that can run titles upto 2010
2 usb ports
500gb HDD
headphone port
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What do I need in a PC?
flexibility
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Most days I am doing Photoshop, but some days I may be doing 3D solid modeling for finite element analysis of an engineering structure. Who knows what zany experiment I may think up next?
Fortunately because I want to play AAA games in high resolution and at high framerates, a PC built for that is flexible enough to handle nearly anything.
When I was helping my niece pick a computer for college she wanted a netbook "I only need to do word processing." I said "A netbook may serve your needs now but after a few years at school... Who knows? Your needs may change. This is not a time to cheap out." She bought an i5 Dell laptop, because it was pink.
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My 7850K fulfilled all my needs. Luckily for Microcenter shareholders I really wanted an 8 core, 770GTX build:)
Portability - The one thing I don't have right now.
Considering I used to do CAD work with an 11.6" AMD E-450 laptop, I don't need that much power.
For me it's being portable with at least 8GBs of RAM. I will use a lot of RAM having multiple applications running while I listen to music. Lot's of screen real estate. Other then that I don't need much. Most of the games I play are Dwarf Fortress and SimCity 4.
I've talked about what I want in a desktop, lemme talk about what i want in a laptop.
I have different criteria for laptops depending on what it is I expect them to be able to handle. But here are some of the criteria that ALL my laptops must meet regardless of their use case, or I point-blank refuse to use them.
- they MUST have an SSD.
- they MUST have a user-serviceable battery (i.e. one that detaches from the back)
- they MUST have an easily-accessible motherboard, either by detaching the keyboard (older thinkpads) or by a removable chassis plate (MSI, etc)
- they must be of at least reasonable build quality - laptops should be tough and flexible, not flimsy. This takes the vast majority of consumer laptops off my approval list.
- They must have decent cooling properties. If the laptop in question has a dGPU, it must do a good job of cooling regardless of the noise, even at idle. If it does not have a dGPU, I expect it to be near-dead-silent at idle.
- not a requirement, but given that my options are never limited to brand new laptops, I like my laptops small, 14" or smaller. Lugging around a 15.6" laptop regardless of how thin it is kind of defeats the purpose of a laptop for me.
If I'm traveling and I see myself wanting to spend some time gaming, a small workhorse with a good power to weight ratio is what I need. QC i7, GTX 760M or better and 8-16GB of RAM and I'm happy.
if I just need a decent laptop for taking notes or drawing, a used business-grade laptop is my go-to option. Sandy Bridge i3 or better, 8GB of RAM. ExpressCard slots and Wacom panels are nice too. The touchscreen on my X220T is great. It has a Wacom digitizer too, so I can use this as a $160 Cintiq killer.
if I'm getting a Linux laptop, the bar is set much lower. 3GB of RAM and a Core 2 Duo T7700 is a good start. Like the general-purpose Windows laptop, I like these to be older Thinkpads or Dell Latitudes because they have thick magnesium frames and resilient bodies. Drop them off a table, leave them out in the rain or put them between two 15kW Tesla coils and not much will happen.
Other things I try to look for:
Displays - something that isn't 1366x768. 1366x768 is the satan resolution, but I can forgive it if it is an IPS display and small enough. Some T61ps have 1920x1200 TN panels which are... really, really nice for their age...
I also try to look for laptops that have large aftermarket parts surpluses. Business-grade laptops that are or were manufactured and sold to businesses by the thousands have tons of OEMs selling cheap replacement batteries, hard drive sleds, etc.
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What do I need in a pc? It depends. Is it my work PC or is it for leisure?
Let's start with work:
- something that can compile with decent efficiency. I spend a lot of time optimizing kernels for my company's openstack implementation. (I suppose I could distcc it if need be)
- good network connectivity. (I'm talking 100mbps)
- somewhere around 500GB disk space. Don't care if it's SSD or HDD, Linux is fast enough for either to get it done.
- 1920x1200. Based 4:3 is the only option.
- mechanical keyboard. Fingers get tired with membrane keyboards.
Now, on to leisure, this is harder to figure out. Do I specify need as a want or do I specify it as the bare minimum, because if that's the case, I could probably get away with the specs in OP. That said, I do enjoy playing some AAA titles on occasion, so I would sorely miss my 6700k and Fury if I were to ever give them up.
I think defining need is a matter of determining quality of life. If you're near broke, you don't need a car or a house, an apartment near a bus stop will work fine, and will be less expensive. That said, you may need the car to maintain a certain quality of life. I'm saying this because I have a certain quality of life that I'm trying to maintain and I'm only going to be able to do so with certain things. I like to sit down in front of my expensive color-change machine and make the pixels dance. That makes me happy, but it's not something that I need to survive.
Currently, I would argue that I need:
- i7 (could probably do with a 2600k at 3.8GHz or 4GHz)
- 8GB ram (at least 1866mhz)
- recent gen mid-tier GPU
- accurate mouse and mechanical keyboard. (preferably cherry browns)
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What do I need? I need for companies to update drivers for old hardware that is fucking amazing so I don't have to use a windows version that's older than I am. Fuck you windows 3.1. Fuck you 32 bit. I can't wait for 128 bit os. Moar vectors.
What do I need? Depends on if we are talking 100% minimum for me to be ok with my PC and an ideal
First lets do the Ideal:
I already own a 40inch 4K, so I need a PC able to push 4k gaming to at least medium settings I think that translates to roughly this
i5(or Zen) would be fine
likely a 1060gb or 970 or RX480
8gb-16 of RAM
a decent SSD
A minimum build ignoring my 4k screen
still an i5(or Zen), maybe a lower version
a 1050 or 470 would be fine for medium 1080
6-8gb of ram still
An SSD would be a nice to have, but not needed for a minimum
Now what do I own?
i7 4790
980Ti
16GB RAM
3 SSDs and a 2TB HDD, with 2 3TB HDDs as a crappy backup
Dances with pixels is my favorite spoof film
Well in terms of what do i need for my usage? It would be a laptop with a decent CPU maybe a quad core i5 and a nice gpu to play some games with friends or when i'm not in home. It would be my perfect daily driver for school and some gaming.
On a desktop have a decent setup to also game when i'm in home, maybe an i5/Ryzen equivalent would be the max i would need, and a rx 480 for 1080p or maybeee a gtx 1070 for 1440p gaming and must be silent.
I dream to have a workstation/1440p gaming setup when i finish university and start working on my engineering field. But i think a quad core its enough for me
This should be a thing.
Actually, this is a thing.
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A Chromebook is all I need. I don't really do PC gaming.
Sometimes I can't tell the difference between dancing and randomly flailing around.
This is one of those times.
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That's Okay.
It is perfectly acceptable to not know how to feel or to feel uncomfortable when ART takes you outside of one's comfort zone. At first I thought it was pretentious and weird, but I watched the whole video and liked it.
Thanks @SgtAwesomesauce !
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Very true. This was the first thing I noticed when I searched for Dances with Pixels. It's definitely a cool idea, one way or another.