#because the builder didn't bother to do basic crap

[robotsprinkles]

trying to figure out where my dad got the idea that his friend's kid (who I think is a few years older than me. so some sort of actual adult) is a computer/tech guy who knows stuff.

"hey you should talk to this guy/hang out with him, he knows a lot about computers and you could probably learn a lot from him," he says.

the guy thought his ram was his ssd. his pc didn't have xmp enabled. his cpu was 67C at idle (in bios) and 97-101C after going past bios with a couple firefox tabs and hwinfo open. he didn't know what thermal paste was.

he flatout just went to a pc building store and told them he wanted a system that could run a 3090 at full potential.

(which is fine; nothing wrong with that. I'm not of the opinion that people who buy prebuilts are dumb or "inferior gamers" or lesser or whatever. My last pc was a prebuilt. I'm mostly just really confused about how my dad thought this guy knew PCs)