Have any of you said retarded shit when you were just starting to learn about computers?

Have any of you said retarded shit when you were just starting to learn about computers?

>be me
>12yrs old
>Had my laptop since christmas
>playing minecraft at a solid 30fps
>FeelsGoodMan
>one night see minecraft youtuber using "shaders"
>makes this autistic game somewhat pleasing to look at
>download shaders
>barely 2fps
>thought I downloaded a virus because I should be getting my sweet 30 frames
>cry to big bro
>big bro tells me I need a graphics card to run this sort of mod, not integrated graphics.
>"graphics card" huh...
>walk to gamestop after school the next day
>go inside and start spinning the shelf with the various xbox live and gift cards
>employee asks if I need any help finding anything
>ask if he has any graphics cards in stock while pointing at the spinning shelf
>he starts to chuckle
>realizes im serious
>hfw
>actually has to sit me down and explains computer hardware to me

mfw

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i used to think a computer's performance almost entirely depended on the amount of ram it has

One time my older brother told me I needed a graphics card to run a game. I promptly went to google and typed in 'how to download graphics card' he saw my screen and sighed.

how much did you download, user?

not me, but a friend once told me that years ago when he botted on diablo 2, he thought the monitor had to be on for the bot to work.

so he went to bed and left his entire setup on in order to keep his bot running overnight and his dad turned his pc off after coming into his room in the night and seeing it on.

i downloaded a car when i didnt know better.

He gave me his GT 610 later on, pretty crappy but somewhat capable.

well played

Thought i simply could go on the internet just by using the internet explorer on the desktop. Couldnt figure it out why it said that i dont have connection. In my defense i was just 7 yrs old

When I tried to build my first computer, randomly picked out a bunch of parts and tried to put it together and made the following mistakes:

>CPU and motherboard weren't compatible
>Ram was too slow for motherboard
>Didn't buy a sata cable, motherboard didn't come with one, so I couldn't plug in hard drive
>Didn't know you had to plug case cables into motherboard, so couldn't turn on pc
>PSU too weak to power whole PC
>PSU didn't have enough 6 pin adapters, so only plugged one of two into GPU
>PSU also didn't have enough pins to power motherboard

ended up taking it back to the store, and for an extra $200 they showed me how to build it, and also swapped out for compatible parts.

>Be me
>Be 6, 2000
>Parents have computer
>Don't know how internet works
>Go on computer and type 'nakid ladies'
>Parents find out because I didn't close it
>Internet didn't work because it wasn't plugged in
>Beat me like a rancid mule.
>To this day, they don't like me looking at porn

holy fuck dude i think thats a record for the most times anyone ever striked out simultaneously

>beat me like a rancid mule
kek

OHHHHH that explains why my pc wont boot! it must be the 2nd hand shitty ram stick

I still do.. fuck
How uneducated am i?
What else does it depend on?

is this bait

Ok so this a true story:

>be me 8 or 9 yo
>fuckin autistic
>fuckin loved the oblivion
>the game was my life
>because i fell in love with the game so much I bought a PSP
>i started playing battlefront and tomb raider, but nothing compared to the masterpiece that is named oblivion
>i wanted to play oblivion on my PSP
>went to a store and asked if they had oblivion for the PSP
>said they don't have that game in stock for the PSP
>went home sad af
>literally screaming in tears
>went online
>found out oblivion wasn't available for the PSP
>heartbroke.jpg
>fuckin felt dead inside
>but I had hope
>googled "how to play oblivion on PSP"
>found a tutorial video
>glory.jpg
>in the video a kid poured milk and smashed a cookie in the fuckin diskdrive of the PSP after that inserted the oblivion-disk
>smashed that to
>and afterwards he could play oblivion on PSP
>normalpeopleknowitsatroll.jpg
>autisticmedoesnt.jpg
>poured milk and smashed the cookie in my PSP
>prayed
>smashed oblivion-disk
>hope.jpg
>it didn't work
>battlefront didnt run any more
>tomb raider didn't too
>fuckin PSP didnt work either
>oblivion-disk smashed
>died inside

I cryed more than on my bestfriends funeral
Don't even feel bad because of that.
Oblivion was my life and I killed it.

It was pretty fucking special. I was 13 at the time though. I'm a pro now

I am sorry you didn't get to see your nakid ladies user.

The RAM only controls the speed at which things can be temporarily stored. RAM is only temporary storage for open files. Your speed at which you can perform tasks is based on your CPU, and the speed at which programs open is based on your hard drive.

It depends on the cpu, hard drive(specifically if it's an ssd it'll be far more responsive), graphics card for playing games, and the amount of ram you have helps with using multiple programs that use a lot of ram/hosting a server for a game.

do you still have the link to the video, user?
i'd love to see what you fell for lmao

Thanks dude

Wait how much does RAM help with hosting a server? This might be really good info for me because I like to run servers but they always lag to shit.

What does hosting primarily depend on? your internet or the amount of RAM you can dedicate to it?

Well hosting a server, specifically minecraft requires a fuck ton of ram something ridiculous like 32gigs, you can see your ram usage on the task manager. Other than that your internet speed will affect the server, and of course your cpu.

Depends on what kind of server you're running. Some things take lots of RAM, some things need a powerful CPU. Etc.

Hosting a MC server for only a few people doesn't require very much RAM at all. Even hosting for upwards of 50+ only requires like 6 gigs. The bottleneck of a MC server is almost always its CPU.

I suppose for vanilla that's true I meant modded minecraft.

>12 y/o
>Minecraft

Old school gaming.

If you hit the page file / swap often it matters.

>minecraft exists when op was 12

crazy how time works isn't it

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Not exactly the same, but you'll get the idea.
It was a boy in a Tie-dye-shirt that tought me the lesson to never trust the internet.

how old are you now? 15?

If you hit the swap it always matters. That's why operating systems rarely ever let that happen. A program would have to be super shitty basically on purpose to achieve that. For the overwhelming majority of end-user applications, you don't have to worry about that.

18

>ask if he has any graphics cards in stock while pointing at the spinning shelf
>kek

That $100% happened.

It kind of does, especially for Minecraft.