To save you a click: The company in question is Lenovo; they sold a prebuilt desktop with a motherboard that ended up not supporting nVidia driver updates for the GPU. Now anyone with this desktop is stuck on an old driver version and their computer crashes a lot, and can’t play games as they become incompatible with the installed driver version.
Editorial by me: The only real solution would be to upgrade the motherboard which is at least a few hundred bucks; they may need to buy a new CPU or RAM as well, depending on what else Lenovo cheaped out on, and labour which the owner may not have the skill for, meaning even more money.
Don’t buy Lenovo. They’re the dumbfucks who sold machines with the Superfish pre-installed malware back in the day.
Considering that Lenovo is the biggest computer manufacturer in the world, I don’t think people care.
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
I’m sorry but I believe in polytheism, I have so many Gods and Goddesses to worship, and of course Linus is one of them.
Linus is a generous god. He’s not jealous.
Prebuilt machines are always a scam.
I’ve built my own in the past, but as of a few years ago it wasn’t really cost effective compared to prebuilt. I ended up buying from CyberPowerPC and had a great experience, zero issues. I did customize it slightly and swapped a motherboard and the processor in my order. Several of my friends had gone that route before and since then too, I’ve never heard complaints from them either.
At the time I bought it I got a good deal - it was during covid when the RTX3080s all got snagged instantly by crypto miners. Got mine with the 3080 and basically paid MSRP for the parts. That thing is still going strong, I’ve only added another M2 drive since then
A custom order doesn’t sound like it was prebuilt.
I mean, I didn’t build it. They also have tons of their own builds you can go with, I just chose to change mine. You can split hairs on that if you like, just saying those guys do a good job.
My point is that a custom-built order isn’t the same as a prebuilt machine. I’m not drawing the distinction at whether or not you personally assembled it, but rather whether or not it’s a statically defined unit.
Yeah they sell those too. They’re good. Go take a look
OK, that looks like it comes out about even with piecing it together yourself, assuming they aren’t cheaping way out on some of the unbranded components.
I mean, I didn’t build it. They also have tons of their own builds you can go with, I just chose to change mine. You can split hairs on that if you like, just saying those guys do a good job.
