CobbleWalker

I have the opportunity to buy an a6500, E PZ 18-105mm f/4 G, and Sony E 20mm f/2.8 for $1200. Around 3000 shutter count. Should I buy it or pick up an a6400 plus some new lenses? Do the color science/hlg/auto focus benefits of the a6400 make this a comparatively bad deal? I'm looking for a camera for travel and backpacking. I'm equally interested in photo and video capabilities, although I lean slightly more toward photo given I've never had a half decent video camera. Any help is appreciated, Thank You

Will do, thank you.

I've had my G502 for around 3 years and it's served me well. Since then, however, I've been having issues with it. It's having trouble tracking on my corsair mouse pad, stuttering as it moves over black streaks (most likely damage imparted by too many all too close csgo matches). The slippery pads at the bottom are also starting to go, and it feels rough to move. I've always been interested in a lighter mouse, but loved the tracking on the G502. I play a lot of CS:GO, TF2, and PUBG. Any recommendations?

What are you up to....

@Princess Cadence Not my proudest moment, for sure, but there are no lights on my board aside the one that indicates a second gpu is plugged in, and I must of hit reset instead of shut down. This probably could have been avoided if wasn't in a rush, but even so I had no intentions of slotting the gpu while the PC was on. I have no one to blame but myself. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No dual bios . Went into HWinfo64 and not recognized there either.

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nope

I have another identical card that posts, this one does not, but maybe somehow it'll work. To no avail.

Tried in first slot rather then second, board appears to be posting but its not coming through the GPU if it is.

Slotted a RX 560 into a Asrock Fatal1ty motherboard while the computer was on by mistake. GPU no longer being recognized. I understand it's probably bricked, but is there anything I can do?

What gives you malware vibes about this? Doesn't seem like anything I've seen in the past.

Just an SSD. He updated Windows yesterday.

Just this morning. As far he knows, he didn't do anything to prompt this. The Windows install is 6 months old.

Windows 10 via CD. Edit: He has the CD, if that's what you were getting at, he'd just have to reinstall his CD drive. @Enderman

Hey Forum, I'm trying to troubleshoot for a freind of mine who was having problems launching csgo. We tried verifying game cache. We tried uninstalling and reinstalling. We tried ddu. The thing is, when we did ddu, and went to reinstall drivers, the AMD install service wouldn't run. As it turns out, almost no executables run on his computer, yielding the "Application was unable to start properly (0xc0150004)" error message. We tried reinstalling C++ as many solutions to this error suggested, but this too leads to the same error. Anyone know what's going on? Thanks, CobbleWalker

Fair enough. I understand where you're coming from. But we can really make it easy for you. The people on this form will tell you everything you need to order and provide countless sources helping you put it together. It's not soldering or anything, just plugging in cables and cards. It's legos for geeks, really. The hardest part is ordering, and even that's not that hard. I put my first computer together in 6th grade, and many people have built theirs younger. It just really kind of sparks this epiphany in your head "hey computers aren't really that fragile or complicated". Of course, you can go deeper, but building a computer is an easy surface level project anyone can take on. If you're not interested thought, go with a prebuilt. I understand not wanting to deal with the hassle. Cheers, CobbleWalker

If you're into learning, saving money and hot systems you should try to build it yourself. It really is very easy.

Hate to be that guy but building a PC takes like an hour or two and you save and learn so much.

Oh, whoops. Thanks for pointing that out. I've done like 5 builds all with Seasonic, time to make it 6.

That's $135 over budget.

It's hyperthreaded

Hey guys, I've posted about this a few times before, but after making a few changes I wanted to know if this budget build would be ok. It's for some light cad work, research, and miscellaneous robotics programs every once in a while. We're going to 3d print motherboard standoffs and legs to make a test bench type case, so there is no need for a case. I'm mostly worried about the motherboard and power supply. Amazon had to be used as frequently as possible, as that's how the school orders parts. PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/p4RF3F Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/p4RF3F/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.99 @ Newegg) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($53.99 @ Amazon) Memory: Avexir Core Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($39.90 @ Amazon) Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($94.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon RX 460 2GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card ($94.00 @ Amazon) Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Amazon) Total: $387.86 Thanks, CobbleWalker

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