[QUOTE=WastedJamacan;52744088]I've had a couple people from my deployment approach me about helping them build new PCs. I've just taken the "give me a budget, I'll build it out online, then you buy the parts, ship them to my house, bring a 6-pack over and we'll build it together" approach, but mostly because these guys are friends.[/QUOTE]
I meant gaming PCs as a service like infrastructure as a service. Pay monthly and get up to date hardware on like a 3 year cycle. A decent gaming rig over 3 years is like 30 bucks a month so I'd charge 50.
[editline]3rd October 2017[/editline]
Obviously not a serious idea but if I had loads of money to just lose I'd trial it.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52740073]I'm still living with third world 6mbps up because charter[/QUOTE]
I share your pain, Charter/Spectrum is the shittiest ISP I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with.
Zero customer service, insane amounts of downtime, terrible up/down speeds. I genuinely can't wait to be rid of them for good.
I've seriously never actually run into a problem where an ISP's DNS servers will randomly fail and cause 10-30 minutes of downtime, maybe even more (worst I've had lasted a couple of hours) before Charter/Spectrum.
Hell they had a catastrophic failure on a firmware upgrade the other day and knocked out internet for the entire south/southeast and west coast of the U.S. for 10+ hours.
I just use Google DNS so it's not [I]so[/I] bad, but yeah, their DNS servers are absolute shite.
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;52743080]how do you even use computer components for 7 years
i just sell my old shit[/QUOTE]
Why would I sell things I use? I'm not made out of money, can't just buy new stuff for fun if the old stuff still works.
This is literally a 10 minute commercial for Puget Systems
[video]https://youtu.be/WgzThkM3DuQ[/video]
Also I see they are marketing towards content creators and other YouTubers, I first heard of them from Corridor Digital
[video=youtube;qb4LIvxUP2w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb4LIvxUP2w[/video]
[QUOTE=garychencool;52744314]After building my first desktop by myself, I'd probably die of blood loss if I went into the computer building business...[/QUOTE]
Eventually your hands toughen up and you don't even notice the 50 tiny little spikes that are embedded in your palm, after 3 years of doing this as a job this hasn't happened to me though.....send help.
git gud
[QUOTE=Levelog;52744332]I meant gaming PCs as a service like infrastructure as a service. Pay monthly and get up to date hardware on like a 3 year cycle. A decent gaming rig over 3 years is like 30 bucks a month so I'd charge 50.
[editline]3rd October 2017[/editline]
Obviously not a serious idea but if I had loads of money to just lose I'd trial it.[/QUOTE]
Ah, makes sense. Yeah, that could potentially work. A lot like issuing out a loan for a pic tbh
[QUOTE=garychencool;52744929]This is literally a 10 minute commercial for Puget Systems
[video]https://youtu.be/WgzThkM3DuQ[/video]
Also I see they are marketing towards content creators and other YouTubers, I first heard of them from Corridor Digital
[video=youtube;qb4LIvxUP2w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb4LIvxUP2w[/video][/QUOTE]Well Linus is basically the infomercial of guy of PC builders and Corridor used to love Origin PC, no idea what happened to that relationship.
I can see an advantage to using a PC builder like Pugget if you're a business and need the support reserved for a brand name PC with the price and components of custom built one, but the rest of us know how to build a PC, troubleshoot and would rather save money than get a print out from a thermal camera with a laser etched case.
[QUOTE=WitheredGryphon;52744364]I share your pain, Charter/Spectrum is the shittiest ISP I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with.
Zero customer service, insane amounts of downtime, terrible up/down speeds. I genuinely can't wait to be rid of them for good.
I've seriously never actually run into a problem where an ISP's DNS servers will randomly fail and cause 10-30 minutes of downtime, maybe even more (worst I've had lasted a couple of hours) before Charter/Spectrum.
Hell they had a catastrophic failure on a firmware upgrade the other day and knocked out internet for the entire south/southeast and west coast of the U.S. for 10+ hours.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, Spectrum just bought TWC in my area.
They're the only real option we have, unfortunately - Frontier is DSL only (or [I]DSL tunneled over fiber[/I], seriously what the fuck) and Greenlight Networks only covers a handful of neighborhoods.
Spectrum fucking [I]sucks[/I]. Since they took over, they doubledcharged us twice, we've had more common downtime than ever, their speeds are nowhere near what is advertised, and prices went up. It's shit.
[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;52745486]Yeah, Spectrum just bought TWC in my area.
They're the only real option we have, unfortunately - Frontier is DSL only (or [I]DSL tunneled over fiber[/I], seriously what the fuck) and Greenlight Networks only covers a handful of neighborhoods.
Spectrum fucking [I]sucks[/I]. Since they took over, they doubledcharged us twice, we've had more common downtime than ever, their speeds are nowhere near what is advertised, and prices went up. It's shit.[/QUOTE]
Move? I know that's not always an option, but internet connectivity is a major factor in where I decide to live. I'd have a [I]really[/I] hard time moving away from Midco.
Someone on explain to me why my friend on the NBN is getting slower speeds than he did with ADSL2+?
[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;52745486]Yeah, Spectrum just bought TWC in my area.
They're the only real option we have, unfortunately - Frontier is DSL only (or [I]DSL tunneled over fiber[/I], seriously what the fuck) and Greenlight Networks only covers a handful of neighborhoods.
Spectrum fucking [I]sucks[/I]. Since they took over, they doubledcharged us twice, we've had more common downtime than ever, their speeds are nowhere near what is advertised, and prices went up. It's shit.[/QUOTE]
What do you mean by DSL tunneled over fiber? Like, the fiber terminates in the home and an ADSL / VDSL modem is hooked up? If so, that just sounds really inefficient.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;52745546]What do you mean by DSL tunneled over fiber? Like, the fiber terminates in the home and an ADSL / VDSL modem is hooked up? If so, that just sounds really inefficient.[/QUOTE]
I just looked into it because my memory was probably wrong.
It seems like in areas where Verizon ran FiOS they'll use those lines for fiber to the home, otherwise its copper to the home but fiber to the node.
Unfortunately it seems they don't actually make [I]use[/I] of that, you still get DSL speeds regardless of what you get. I don't know if they just throttle your connection to 12mbps or really use a DSL modem.
[QUOTE=Levelog;52744332]I meant gaming PCs as a service like infrastructure as a service. Pay monthly and get up to date hardware on like a 3 year cycle. A decent gaming rig over 3 years is like 30 bucks a month so I'd charge 50.
[editline]3rd October 2017[/editline]
Obviously not a serious idea but if I had loads of money to just lose I'd trial it.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of an idea I posted a while back, sort of community based builder network, people put in requests for what they want, builders come back with builds that they can do to their budget, customer picks which they prefer from what comes back, build is then submitted to the builder who puts it all together then ships them out or depending if they're local, is open for pickup by the customer.
Gives the solution that it'll have people all over the world who can build systems for people who just don't either have the time or know how to do it while at the same time likely giving them a saving in overall cost with just a minor fee for manual labour on top.
Think of it as a community ran custom builder where everything is basically unique, its an interesting idea but god knows how shit like warranty would work with it, plus it would need a good feedback and ratings system because sketchy shit could easily happen on it, as it'd be basically the ebay of custom builds.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52744314]After building my first desktop by myself, I'd probably die of blood loss if I went into the computer building business...[/QUOTE]
There are times I'll go have to go swap out a hard drive or whatever and then two hours later I look down at my arm and there's a 3 inch long gash. Had no idea it was there or that I cut myself.
I always joke that the PC repair isn't complete until the blood sacrifice has been made.
People go way too far with the cable management tbh, they have cables so tight that you could play like string instruments.
Can big ISP company services be different in quality from area to area?
I keep seeing people in here say that Spectrum sucks and is worse than before Charter bought them out, but really since they bought out TWC I've had [I]massive[/I] improvements in service. Not as much downtime, increased speed for free (twice!), and customer service that will actually listen for once in their lives.
I guess I'm just obscenely lucky.
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;52746161]Can big ISP company services be different in quality from area to area?
I keep seeing people in here say that Spectrum sucks and is worse than before Charter bought them out, but really since they bought out TWC I've had [I]massive[/I] improvements in service. Not as much downtime, increased speed for free (twice!), and customer service that will actually listen for once in their lives.
I guess I'm just obscenely lucky.[/QUOTE]
It mostly has to do with the infrastructure in your area, so it absolutely varies.
No wonder my PSU spins up its fans when I'm mining, the PSU is rated 620W (Seasonic M12II-620), I'm pulling about 550-560W from the wall.
The +12V rail is rated for 576W.
Now, 560W at the wall doesn't mean it's all going to the +12V rail, but I don't think there's a whole lot of headroom left on that +12V rail.
I have 3 hard drives, the motors are going to be on that rail, my fans + pump are on that rail...
But it's pretty utilized. Doing some quick math, the GPUs + the CPU are probably 500W max together, on the +12V.
[QUOTE=nikomo;52746538]No wonder my PSU spins up its fans when I'm mining, the PSU is rated 620W (Seasonic M12II-620), I'm pulling about 550-560W from the wall.
The +12V rail is rated for 576W.
Now, 560W at the wall doesn't mean it's all going to the +12V rail, but I don't think there's a whole lot of headroom left on that +12V rail.
I have 3 hard drives, the motors are going to be on that rail, my fans + pump are on that rail...
But it's pretty utilized. Doing some quick math, the GPUs + the CPU are probably 500W max together, on the +12V.[/QUOTE]
You would probably do well with a 1000-1200w PSU, pulling about half their capacity under load they would lose less power to heat. You're still probably safe considering Seasonic is a great OEM, and 620 is probably a Continuous rating. My old EVGA 650W could technically push 800+ watts balls to the wall.
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;52746161]Can big ISP company services be different in quality from area to area?
I keep seeing people in here say that Spectrum sucks and is worse than before Charter bought them out, but really since they bought out TWC I've had [I]massive[/I] improvements in service. Not as much downtime, increased speed for free (twice!), and customer service that will actually listen for once in their lives.
I guess I'm just obscenely lucky.[/QUOTE]
I've had Charter for a long time and they got worse in my area after buying out TWC. Goes down for a few minutes pretty much once a day now, whereas before the one good thing about Charter used to be its reliability.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52745457]Well Linus is basically the infomercial of guy of PC builders and Corridor used to love Origin PC, no idea what happened to that relationship.
I can see an advantage to using a PC builder like Pugget if you're a business and need the support reserved for a brand name PC with the price and components of custom built one, but the rest of us know how to build a PC, troubleshoot and would rather save money than get a print out from a thermal camera with a laser etched case.[/QUOTE]
IIRC the Node channel still uses Origin PCs and got a bunch of new ones almost a year ago for Christmas.
[video=youtube;PccGBHOddzE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PccGBHOddzE[/video]
I believe Corridor has some Origin PCs and self built some others. They got some 3 years ago, not sure if they paid for it or if it was given to them for video promotion. They are probably still using them, I still see the cases around in the more recent vlogs. They did get another desktop from Puget Systems, but it's a smaller form factor one, couldn't find which vlog it was.
[video=youtube;kDJgv6ILTAA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDJgv6ILTAA[/video]
Anyways, Puget seems to have a good marketing campaign targeting content creators on YouTube. It's seemingly working as not every content creator is tech savvy on the computer department.
[video=youtube;LyJv4f8kJIk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyJv4f8kJIk[/video]
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;52746161]Can big ISP company services be different in quality from area to area?
I keep seeing people in here say that Spectrum sucks and is worse than before Charter bought them out, but really since they bought out TWC I've had [I]massive[/I] improvements in service. Not as much downtime, increased speed for free (twice!), and customer service that will actually listen for once in their lives.
I guess I'm just obscenely lucky.[/QUOTE]
on spectrum i'll have periods throughout the day where my internet speed drops to 0.1 Mbps
sometimes the speed test doesn't even load
[QUOTE=Reagy;52745603]Reminds me of an idea I posted a while back, sort of community based builder network, people put in requests for what they want, builders come back with builds that they can do to their budget, customer picks which they prefer from what comes back, build is then submitted to the builder who puts it all together then ships them out or depending if they're local, is open for pickup by the customer.
Gives the solution that it'll have people all over the world who can build systems for people who just don't either have the time or know how to do it while at the same time likely giving them a saving in overall cost with just a minor fee for manual labour on top.
Think of it as a community ran custom builder where everything is basically unique, its an interesting idea but god knows how shit like warranty would work with it, plus it would need a good feedback and ratings system because sketchy shit could easily happen on it, as it'd be basically the ebay of custom builds.[/QUOTE]
Ok RoboChimp I'm genuinely curious why you think this is a bad idea, or are you just dumbing it like you do with basically all my posts in a thread you're in because you don't like me, because if its the latter I recommend stopping.
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;52746161]Can big ISP company services be different in quality from area to area?
I keep seeing people in here say that Spectrum sucks and is worse than before Charter bought them out, but really since they bought out TWC I've had [I]massive[/I] improvements in service. Not as much downtime, increased speed for free (twice!), and customer service that will actually listen for once in their lives.
I guess I'm just obscenely lucky.[/QUOTE]
Our charter spectrum service is so fucking bad that it goes down completely at least once a day for HOURS. It's fucking infuriating and it's been happening for years.
[t]https://i.imgur.com/U0JDLQj.jpg[/t]
I call this one "Man uses T-Mobile in middle of a large metropolitan city, 2017".
[QUOTE=Kiwi;52747394]That's how it feels in the middle of Auckland. Congestion so bad speeds drop as far as HSPDA. At least it's stable and it works, but streaming content past 480p on youtube. MMMMMMM not worth trying.[/QUOTE]
What's funny is I find that airports are either the absolute worst at this, or the absolute best. Never in between (Not counting regional airports). Some will range from 50KB/s to no data at all (SLC) and some will range from decent 10Mb/s HSPA to 80Mb/s LTE (ATL).
[QUOTE=Kiwi;52747394]That's how it feels in the middle of Auckland. Congestion so bad speeds drop as far as HSPDA. At least it's stable and it works, but streaming content past 480p on youtube. MMMMMMM not worth trying.[/QUOTE]
It's so stupid. I pay $184/month for two lines of unlimited data that I can hardly use. I used to think T-Mobile was a better value proposition compared to Verizon, but a sports car without an engine only looks better than a brand new and (importantly) functional sedan.
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