The Meme Box

[Deleted User]

I see Leon S Kennedy from Resident Evil on the first layer blasting zombies in raccoon city and some other titles

 

[DoggaDude]

 

[HRudyPlayZ]

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My mom on her computer.

 

[hakd88]

 

[Veho]

 

[Jiehfeng]

hehe

 

[JuanMena]

hehe

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*giggles*

 

[ChibiMofo]

Capacitors come in four quality levels, cheap, normal, extended and high (also called military-standard quality). Cheap is used in random knock-off devices and usually have expected lifespans of around a year (capacitor lifespan means that they last that long of total use, continuous or not, until they start swelling up, similar to how light bulbs claim to can last ~500 hours for example), normal lasts ~2.5 years and is the most common (used often in low-end GPUs since you aren't gonna be running a low-end PC 24/7 so doesn't matter), extended last ~5 years (used in pretty much all GPUs above 100$/€ since those see heavy use and finally high quality lasts roughly 10 years (only ever put in motherboards though since most people change GPUs while keeping the same motherboard so on GPU it would drive the price up for no good reason). Those are theoretical values though, could get lucky and get a capacitor that lasts much longer than it should or one that dies right away. But yup, heat is the single most important factor. My issue is that I run my PC ALMOST 24/7 and picked parts specifically with high-quality caps on purpose for longevity, so I never trust used parts since they won't last long when I use them.

I use two 2004 Dell Pentium 4s (3.2Ghz and 3.8Ghz) every day and have since 2004. I did upgrade the graphics cards in 2009 and the 5V batteries in 2010. Otherwise they are unchanged and work perfectly as they did in 2004. I have an IBM Thinkpad I bought in 1999 with Windows 98 SE on it which I use for old school PC gaming. The battery died back in 2004, but every part of it works as well as it did 20 years ago and nothing has been replaced. I also have a 1982 original IBM PC that still boots into DOS 2.10 and hasn't ever had a single component or capacitor replaced. I have devices all over my home that are probably older than you are that I haven't replaced a single component on, nor have I ever spent even half of $100 on a GPU, and I haven't had these problems. Maybe I've been lucky since the 1980s, but properly made electronics should work for decades, not years.

 

[Xzi]

Something about The Mandalorian was strangely familiar...

Only tangentially gaming related I know, but at least it's OC.

 

[ThoD]

I use two 2004 Dell Pentium 4s (3.2Ghz and 3.8Ghz) every day and have since 2004. I did upgrade the graphics cards in 2009 and the 5V batteries in 2010. Otherwise they are unchanged and work perfectly as they did in 2004. I have an IBM Thinkpad I bought in 1999 with Windows 98 SE on it which I use for old school PC gaming. The battery died back in 2004, but every part of it works as well as it did 20 years ago and nothing has been replaced. I also have a 1982 original IBM PC that still boots into DOS 2.10 and hasn't ever had a single component or capacitor replaced. I have devices all over my home that are probably older than you are that I haven't replaced a single component on, nor have I ever spent even half of $100 on a GPU, and I haven't had these problems. Maybe I've been lucky since the 1980s, but properly made electronics should work for decades, not years.

So you are saying that you have ALL your devices running 24/7 for 10 years each (which is what I mean by "lasts 10 years", as in 86000 HOURS of running and that's often on more than idle/medium load, if you don't stress the components they last even longer). I, for one, do stress my components a LOT, often running them at 90% usage for about 20 hours a day, so even the slightest longevity/performance loss affects me a lot. Otherwise your post is completely irrelevant because there are SO many variables for part longevity you literally can't fit them in just one book... But by all means, go ahead and buy all used PSUs for your devices and use those instead if you are so sure, unless you are just full of crap

 

[gameboy]

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So you are saying that you have ALL your devices running 24/7 for 10 years each (which is what I mean by "lasts 10 years", as in 86000 HOURS of running and that's often on more than idle/medium load, if you don't stress the components they last even longer). I, for one, do stress my components a LOT, often running them at 90% usage for about 20 hours a day, so even the slightest longevity/performance loss affects me a lot. Otherwise your post is completely irrelevant because there are SO many variables for part longevity you literally can't fit them in just one book... But by all means, go ahead and buy all used PSUs for your devices and use those instead if you are so sure, unless you are just full of crap

ive had my laptop turned on all day since 2013

 

[Veho]

 

[ThoD]

Some classics that have been lost in the funny pics thread and don't remember them being posted on here

 

[Veho]

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No I didn't, you little shit, I just said it was dangerous to go alone, I didn't tell you not to go. Now shoo.

 

[Jiehfeng]

 

[Deleted User]

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>2020
>Using OneDrive (or any form of cloud storage really)

But why tho?

 

[ThoD]

>2020
>Using OneDrive (or any form of cloud storage really)

But why tho?

Cloud storage is fine sometimes if you can't afford normal HDDs or have a server built, OneDrive though I agree, you have to be quite the masochist to use such outdated options...

 

[Deleted User]

Cloud storage is fine sometimes if you can't afford normal HDDs or have a server built, OneDrive though I agree, you have to be quite the masochist to use such outdated options...

Are HDD's even expensive anymore? Didn't they massively drop in price because of the increased affordability from SSD?

 

[ThoD]

Are HDD's even expensive anymore? Didn't they massively drop in price because of the increased affordability from SSD?

For some they are expensive honestly or they already have too many to manage them. Also, cloud doesn't run stupid risks like data corruption since they don't keep it physically, meaning as long as it's a reliable cloud then you don't have much to worry about.

 

[Veho]

>2020
>Using OneDrive (or any form of cloud storage really)

But why tho?

Accessibility.