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Looking on the UK Ebay site (apparently there is no finland-specific version of Ebay so I'm using that), I'm seeing single-fan 1050Ti cards for 80-ish €, shipping included. Those seem to draw all their power through the PCIe slot (or at least the MSI 1050Ti 4G OC that I'm looking at does).

Personally I wouldn't get a 750. Look for a cheap 960, 970, 1050Ti or perhaps a 1060 3GB. The i7-2600 will be able to handle the first 3 just fine and shouldn't be too much of a bottleneck on the last one. Then again I'm not sure if that 320W HP PSU has the connectors to feed the 60 and 70 series cards. 1050Ti should work fine though, and it'll be a nice match for that CPU. With the 750 you'd probably be at low to medium settings in 1080p, with a 1050Ti you'd have good framerates on medium to high.

Neither, just use the one Windows comes with. The others only add attack vectors in return for a false sense of security. Those quotes are just from the first 2 paragraphs of the article below : https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/antivirus-is-bad/

A bit of searching shows that any CCleaner version before 5.40.6411 is considered "safe" by most privacy-conscious users, but on my Windows machine I am running 5.14.5493 because 5.36 and later can update to the latest version whenever the server prompts them to, even if you have updates turned off. They added an executable (CCUpdate.exe) in 5.36 which runs in the task scheduler for that exact purpose. You should be able to stop that from working though, so theoretically you can still use any version without much worry. Well, any version except for 5.45 which had a lot of monitoring, but they pulled that one after it sparked too much outrage. This functionality was added to 5.36 and later so that Piriform could do emergency updates if needed, but the first time they actually used it was to upgrade users to 5.46, supposedly due to GDPR and other privacy regulations. Regarding those privacy settings, guess what happened to those when they updated people's install without their consent? Yup, they set everything to "default", which means they were collecting people's data until those people found out about the update and turned everything off again. As for defraggler, no idea. I only have hard drives in the NAS, so the PCs themselves never need a defrag.

The Kraken seems to have a small volume wheel on the cable. Does that do anything?

The best way is to use software-based encryption (something like Veracrypt) before you start putting data on the drives. Then afterwards you just format the drive and it's all random noise. EDIT : The wizard beat me to it.

The problem with tools that overwrite drives is that they were designed for HDDs and don't account for wear leveling on SSDs moving things around. The best way to securely erase an SSD (apart from physically destroying the chips) is to fill it completely with files that contain random data. And even then you won't have access to the NAND that's reserved for over-provisioning (replacing damaged/worn cells). I used a small tool called Dummy to create several files in various sizes (from 100MB to 50GB) that I store on my NAS. Whenever I need to securely erase an SSD or flash drive, I copy those files over to fill the drives as much as possible. Then I check the drive's properties to see how many bytes are still free and use Dummy to create a file that's exactly that size. It's quite labor-intensive, but I haven't come across a method that's actually better. No idea if Dummy works on Win10, I only used it on older versions.

Welcome That's weird. It could be a faulty CPU but also a driver issue. Seeing as you changed HDDs, I assume you also did a clean install at some point. In that case I'm leaning more towards a hardware problem (the CPU itself). Try replacing that 4440 with any other LGA1150 CPU and see if it still happens. That's the only way to be sure that it is indeed the CPU itself that's causing this.

Firefox has the same problem on my S9+. I have to manually quit the browser every time or it'll drain the battery.

That looks like a regular displayport, with a VGA port just below it. What CPU do you have? If your CPU doesn't have integrated graphics you won't be able to use it.

Fractal does sell a full tower with decent noise dampening, but it's slightly older. The Define XL R2. 232 x 559 x 560 mm https://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/define-series/define-xl-r2-black-pearl

How tall is that dresser? If it doesn't exceed the height of your elbows, you could put a tabletop on top of it and turn the whole area into a standing desk. You'll then need to use a bar stool if you ever want to sit down while working on the PC, of course.

Looks like this is being picked up worldwide now, so much that Google US felt obliged to make a blogpost about it. I really liked this part : Basically instead of apologizing for misleading customers and mishandling data that they had no business collecting, they're going after the person who exposed this problem. Source : https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/more-information-about-our-processes-safeguard-speech-data/

Hey, at least everyone will learn how to use bitcoin.

Small update : Several privacy experts confirmed that this is a clear violation of GDPR. For this kind of data collection and handling of data to be legal, explicit consent is necessary. That involves clearly being informed about what data Google collects and what exactly they do with that data, so burying a vague description somewhere in a 3000 word ToS doesn't count. Philippe De Backer, Belgian State Secretary of Privacy, has already asked the Belgian Data Authority to investigate this further. Seeing as it doesn't affect only us, several other EU countries will most likely be doing the same. This could very well end up becoming a multi-billion dollar fine.

They probably cheaped out with the ink on the label. It was supposed to say 72 000 RPM

In the aftermath of the Amazon Alexa news from a couple of months ago, VRT NWS (the news site of Belgium's largest television station) ended up talking to someone who works for one of Google's subcontractors. Turns out things are done pretty much the same way there. Google employees are systematically listening to audio files recorded by Google Home devices and Google's smartphone app. VRT NWS was able to listen to more than a thousand recordings, several of which were private conversations, arguments etc, so not intended for the device and often containing personal information. The terms and conditions mention that the audio is being recorded and stored. But they don't mention that Google employees listen to excerpts of these recordings. Google has even claimed it doesn't do this ... or atleast implied it through the clever use of language. Some of the recordings involved violence and/or people in distress. Just like at Amazon, Google's guidelines seem to be nonexistant when it comes to these cases. Employees simply need to write down every word and every cough. In a response to the article, Google claims that these audio files are marked for manual checking "by language experts worldwide" to improve their speech technology. Even though the recordings may not be linked to identifiable information (assuming Google is telling the truth), they still contain exactly that kind of information. No prizes for guessing what happened next ... Source : VRT NWS' article (from the English section of their site) So basically whenever you say something that your home assistant doesn't understand because it wasn't meant for said assistant, it'll be flagged for manual review. No real surprises there. If you get/have one of these devices, always keep in mind that anything you say in their vicinity may be heard by complete strangers. But hey, at least there's no signs of evil intent. UPDATE : Google US responded in a blogpost. They defend the collecting of audio and are going after the person who leaked the audio excerpts. https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/more-information-about-our-processes-safeguard-speech-data/ UPDATE 2 : (2019-08-02) The Data Protection Authority in Hamburg (Germany) launched a deep investigation into Google's practices and started a procedure to forbid them from listening to recordings. Google decided not to wait for a verdict and has announced that they will stop manually reviewing recordings made in the EU for the next 3 months. https://datenschutz-hamburg.de/assets/pdf/2019-08-01_press-release-Google_Assistant.pdf

Belgium. Perhaps I should have clarified that. I assumed it was obvious because I quoted someone who specifically mentioned Belgium. My bad.

Can confirm. 3600, 3600X, 3700X and 3900X are in stock at my local store. Only the 3800 is still listed as "preorder".

As far as I know there's only one X570 motherboard with passive cooling, and that's the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Extreme. But that's slightly out of your price range. So I'd recommend an older chipset. The newer CPUs will run perfectly fine on older motherboards after a BIOS update. I have seen a couple of reviews where they mention the sound of the chipset fan, and apparently it's rather quiet. Once the GPU starts working you won't hear it anymore. Not sure how it sounds when the PC is idling or when you're copying large files.

The Ryzen 3xxx CPUs come with a good enough cooler. So yeah, that would be an easy $40 saved.

I buy almost all my parts at their Belgian branch (which has a large showroom 5 miles from me). Only issue I ever had was an RMA that took 4 months, but that was entirely BeQuiet's fault. By the way, looks like they have plenty of fast DDR4 in stock still.

Alternate in the UK still seems to sell it for £699, it dispatches in 5 days. So it seems like they're expecting delivery of the first batch still https://www.alternate.co.uk/AORUS/X570-AORUS-XTREME-Mainboard/html/product/1555223? Caseking in Germany has it on order without a delivery date, which is rather unusual for them. scan.co.uk has all the X570 boards on their site except for the Aorus Extreme. Weird. I'm getting a "there was an issue and we recalled the ones that were already sent out" vibe.