Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "I Built This PC for $1360 in 2010. Here's How It Holds Up." video.

  1. Mine too.
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  2. yeah you're going to need more money.
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  3. I actually did buy the PC I'm using now for $1. I had to put a few bucks into it to get it going though. The idiots must have pushed this machine up into a wall because they managed to break the VGA jack on it. The onboard GFX suck so I put a video card in.
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  4. I'm using my $1 computer from 2008. I bought it for a dollar at a senior center sale. They thought they fried the mobo, it turns out they just broke the VGA jack off the board. I threw a $30 video card in it, a PSU and here I am. But like you I have been starting to feel the system's age lately. So I am building a system a few generations newer than it. Should still be about 4X faster than this is. Though 10X slower than something new, and fast. 10X cheaper though too.
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  5. Did you know that 200 tons of dust fall on the Earth from space every day. So not all dust is dead skin and hair.
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  6. PC in the computing sense means IBM compatible. So x86, which phones are not.
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  7. But it is still 7 years old.
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  8. I'm not saying the PC is dead, but things have certainly changed between 2010, and now. I will say the midrange average segment of the PC market is gone. I'm still not seeing a performance explosion in SBC computing yet either. That stuff just isn't there enough for me. Though I am hopeful that it will get there eventually.
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  9. It depends. There's hobbies that make PCs look like nothing. Try jet aviation. Heck just own a boat. I'm into hobby machining and I have a list of tools I'd like to own as long as my arm. A new shop would be nice too.
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  10. For $2K you should have no problem putting a system together. But because of cryprocurrency miners GPU prices are pretty inflated today.
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  11. Yeah but some us use PCs for things other than gaming. I for instance need to do CAD CAM on my system. Which I don't think I could do on a game console.
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  12. When you compile large programs it helps to have some horsepower.
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  13. By prebuilt you don't mean by a company like Acer, Dell or HP, do you? Because if you do those machines suck. They build mass market crap.
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  14. Cases today are a joke. All I want is a plain metal box. Is that too much to ask?
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