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Oh those are some great graphs, thanks very much! At least I’ll have some time to consider while waiting for stock haha. Appreciate the help.

Thanks for the heads up in the case! I’m adding airflow to the list of things I need to remember to think about haha. Will take a look at your case suggestions. I might be able to squeeze a 3070 into my budget. What sort of performance gain would it offer if I did? It’s about a $130 price difference from the 3060 Ti it seems.

Hey all! Lately I've been dreaming of a new build to replace my ~7 year old one that's definitely starting to show its age, as I'm sure many of us have been in the COVID times. I've put together a list of parts working around a ~$1600 CAD budget and I was hoping people with more knowledge would be able to take a look and see if I'm hitting the targets I want to. In short, what I'm looking for is: Something that can run modern AAA titles at 1440p at high frame rates. By "modern AAA" I'm thinking the sorts of games LTT tends to use for benchmarking. What's "high"? I'm not sure, but my current rig barely pulls 30 in many things so anything would be an improvement. Is 100fps+ unreasonable for this build? I don't really play a ton of recent titles, but my thinking is if the build pull this off I'll be set for my uses. Something that could be used to run a Valve Index in the future, I'm wanting to pick one up at some point. Full disclosure: I'm a software person so I have very minimal hardware knowledge. Is what I've put together reasonable for the above wants, or am I out of my mind? Any feedback or suggestions is appreciated! As a side note I am attached to my case choice so I don't want any changes there, but if I've missed anything obvious that would get me more bang for my buck (or somewhere I could shell out a bit more and get a performance boost) please let me know! And yes I realize that my CPU and GPU choices are hopelessly out of stock at the moment, but I've yet to save up the cash for this so this will be more of a late-Spring 2021 build. PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor ($279.99 @ Staples) Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard ($189.99 @ Newegg Canada) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory ($113.99 @ Newegg Canada) Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($144.99 @ Newegg Canada) Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB VENTUS 2X OC Video Card Case: NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case ($94.99 @ Newegg Canada) Power Supply: Corsair RM (2019) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($139.99 @ Canada Computers) Total: $963.94 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-13 19:45 EST-0500

Thanks! I'll let him know about the RAM/GPU idea, don't really want to throw an entire new system at him if this is almost there. Regarding VR, would you say this is a decent spot to start out with and upgrade down the road for a better experience? I have no idea when he's planning on buying a headset, I assume not for at least a year or so.

As the title says, I got a text from my 13 y/o cousin yesterday with a PCPartPicker list and an ask for my opinion. It's been years since I did any PC building, and I've never had much knowledge on it anyways so I told him I'd come post here. For context this is the parts list he sent me, it's in USD but we're Canadian so if you have any thoughts/other suggestions CAD is best. Budget (including currency): $1200 CAD Country: Canada Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: He mentioned a few specific things: Minecraft, Valorant, CS:GO, Warzone, but also that he "wants to play VR on it". He doesn't own a headset or anything so that's something he's planning for in the future I guess. I'm not really sure how feasible building something to run a current/next-gen VR setup on his budget is. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): He will need a copy of Windows (looks like he forgot that in the list he put together) but should be good for peripherals. He's picked a 1080p monitor, but as I mentioned he seems to want to do some VR in the future as well. Thanks very much!!

Budget (including currency): $1500 CAD, but I'm flexible Country: Canada Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: All I really do these days is light to medium gaming, lately things like Minecraft or Tower Unite, but I have some staples in my Steam library like Garry's Mod and the Half Life games. I'd like the system to have some headroom for the future in case I do get back into some heavier/newer stuff. My current build is also serving as a Plex server at the moment (just for 1080p streaming on my local network). My plan is to shift that responsibility to a Synology NAS but this new build would be doing that for a handful of months while I save some cash. That won't be its main duty so doesn't need to be a priority. Other details: Don't need to worry about any peripherals or Windows as I have those from my current build. I play at 1080p and am happy with anything that'll do at least 60fps, but of course higher than that is nice to have. I could re-use the 2.5" SSD from my current build, but was thinking of getting something in an M.2 form factor (not sure if that'd make a significant difference, though). Really my main reason for investigating a new build is I want something in a mini-ITX form factor to help tidy up my workspace a bit. I'm big on aesthetics and my current NZXT H440 looks great but is a bit big for the office in my apartment. I'm eyeing the black NZXT H200 for this new system, and it'd be nice to have the components match that scheme/have black as the primary colour, but I'm not obsessed with that idea. If it helps you can see what I'm currently running here, with the addition of an SSD and some more RAM. (Also as a rather inexperienced PC builder, am I going to have a rough time building in a smaller case? I'm all for a challenge, just wondering what to expect.) Thanks!

Managed to change my locale by setting PreventGeoIdChange to 1 in the registry. I still can't switch to a local account, but I know it's better to use a Microsoft account anyways so I can just stick with that.

Back when I first upgraded to Windows 10 around its launch, Cortana still wasn't available in Canada. I did some Googling and found something that set (and locked) my region to the US so I could enable it, and didn't think anything else of it. Fast-forward to now and I'm having some issues with my Microsoft account, leading me to try to switch to a local account on my computer. However, I've been getting the following error when attempting to do so: I'm going on a limb and thinking this has something to do with the following notice in the region settings of my computer: Since Windows 10 Home doesn't come with the group policy editor, I'm unable to use it to try and remove the settings I set previously. Is there any way to allow myself to edit these settings again by deleting the group policy?

Will macOS install on something like VirtualBox? I always thought it was a pain to get the software to cooperate with non-Apple hardware. Also I always thought battery life of gaming laptops was pretty bad? I'm gonna be having 10 to 11 hour days and need something that can get through nearly all of that.

I'll need to be using macOS for iOS development in second year.

Pending me trying it out at the local Apple Store, I am really interested in eventually getting a Mac with the new Touch Bar; not only just to see how it works in things like Photoshop and InDesign, but to see if I can write something for it to add some features to Atom which I use for code editing.

Sorry to be the person making another "Help I need a laptop!" thread, but I'm honestly lost. I'm starting college in the new year, and am looking to replace my ~5 y/o MacBook Pro. My original plan was to buy a nice Windows machine, maybe dual boot Ubuntu if I needed it, and use that for the two year program. However, I've recently decided that I am most interested in taking the web and mobile app option in second year which requires macOS for iOS development. Needless to say, as much as I want the new MacBook Pro, the 512GB model costs more than a single term's tuition and I'd like to put off that purchase if at all possible. I will eventually need a MBP for second year, but for now I am just looking for a Windows laptop that will be able to handle first year. The courses are mainly business and math, as well as some Java, C, and web development, so nothing crazy. As someone who has only ever bought Macs for school machines I am quite lost looking at the wide variety of Windows laptops, and could use a shove in the right direction. I'm looking to spend maybe $1000 CAD at most, but can be flexible. Thanks in advance! If you need more info just ask!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_XgQhMPeE Been shuffling Billy Joel all week haha.

The Time Round has a battery life quoted at a day, and isn't water resistant. If you want that you'll need to get a Time.