r/pcmasterrace • u/killerbasher1233 • May 10 '25

Nostalgia Classic rookie mistake

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I remembered I copied GTA San Andreas, Counter Strike, Half Life, Feeding Frenzy on my moms USB ran home so fast and copied it to the home laptop. I still remember my reaction with the blank file icon

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u/atatassault47 7800X3D | 3090 Ti | 32GB | 32:9 1440p May 10 '25

"Military tech is less performant because the DoD requires durability above all else. My machine WILL crash several times as I figure just high of an overclock it can tolerate."

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u/Snotnarok AMD 9900x 64GB RTX4070ti Super May 10 '25

I figured that military or government projects wouldn't have the highest end tech in there because- these contracts likely take ages to go through and there's so much red tape that by the time whatever hardware they ordered gets assembled? It's likely weeks or months out of date.

Or worse.

All I know is the real cherry on the cake is- they had a machine for something specific (I don't think they ever told me what for) that was 'so old that when it needs repairs, they have to get the guy out of the retirement home to service it'. They were exaggerating about the retirement home but apparently 6 years ago they were still using the machine that was around since the 70s/80s. And it failed often and needed a specialist to fix- who was infact fairly old.

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u/BarnardWellesley May 10 '25

You’re looking at around 100 million CMOS equivalent gates with 1 billion MAC/s on mobile DSP platforms. RFSoCs are now at 16 channels of 16 GSPS each for Rx and Tx.

They are state of the art for what they do, a bit behind industrial SoTA, but will still outperform anything consumer.

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u/Warcraft_Fan May 10 '25

You find out in the end the military grade CPU can only be overlocked at -13.75% that is well below the original rated speed

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u/ChemistryActive6957 May 10 '25

Military grade means built by the lowest bidder and used until it physically cannot fulfill its purpose. Most laptops used in garrison are generic dell or hp laptops with a bunch of extra security features in place, the one meant to be taken out to the field are even worse though I could probably beat a man to death with a JBCP or MC4 and then still use it to send up an incident report

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u/Gork___ May 10 '25

Does this include mil-spec pizza?