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  1. ZeroF0X
    Hm, that would be an easy fix there! I think I'll give that a shot.
  2. ZeroF0X
    Fair enough, Thought I would try and ask before giving up on that.
  3. ZeroF0X
    So I have a simple question, but here is the scenario: While I sit here waiting in a queue to play, I want to play my switch, but I think the screen is too tiny. Desktop isn't in the same room as the TV and Switch; and I have two perfectly good monitors but no addtional ports to plug the HDMI on the Dock for the Switch... Is there any card or something I could throw into my pc so then I can just play my consoles within the PC in a window?
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    I can sympathize with the sentiment, But letting a class (which at this school, max 10 kids are taking the class) wouldn't hurt too much. My contact, her boss, and I are probably gonna put the other 90 together anyways. Since the goal is to replace what they have and have spares to swap out, Maybe the school would be fine for the enrichment of a student wishing to learn how to build computers. Of course they will have extreme supervision (heck, I wouldn't mind leading a class in Computer Hardware)
  5. ZeroF0X
    True, But this school has a technology class and hey, this could be some hands on classes for the kids.
  6. ZeroF0X
    That is definatly something to consider in the after pricing numbers, if they go with the build. I agree with building it myself (and as a student, the time building could be clocked in for Comunity volunteer hours, So I benefit from experience and meeting a graduation requirement!)
  7. ZeroF0X
    Well they did reach out to some of these companies to my knowlege. Quotes are as listed (for 100 PCs): Lenovo - 52,900 (Only PC with Win7) and 51,900 (Smaller Form-factor) HP - Has not responded Dell - 46,600 (PC with Win7, SFF)
  8. ZeroF0X
    True, and 20 dollars from each unit wouldn't be too much of a difference. And at least they would have the extra ram, which has never hurt anyone.
  9. ZeroF0X
    So I have a contact that works for a little private school that could use some slight PC upgrades for their students (I've seen them, a lot of their current PCs are circa-Compaq era and I/Os are starting to die). They don't need a lot of power from them (apparently as long as they can run Rosetta Stone and some word processing program). Any suggestions on how to make these as affordable as possible? Edit: they would like to upgrade 66 computers, and their school head would like some extras so 75 is the goal.
  10. ZeroF0X
    So I am putting a new computer with a M.2 drive as the boot drive, but obviously a large capacity M.2 would be expensive... But I looked around my apartment and realized I had a dead computer with a 1 TB hard drive and thought I could reuse the hard drive as a mass storage/holding my steam library separately from the M.2. After pulling it out, turns out its a WD Caviar Green 1 TB SATA/64MB Cache. Of course I'm gonna check the drive for any issue/wipe the drive, but the question I have is doing this a good idea?
  11. ZeroF0X
    Sure Throw my had in the mix! Poor college student in the CIS major that wants to build their PC and I really love what AMD is bringing in this cycle!
  12. ZeroF0X
    I understand there will be the metric fuck ton of cables, but one solution to this is that I could have them build a room above the place where the computers will be to hopefully keep the cables to a minimum and then have one computer be the controller of the vms. Any ideas if I should go with physical cores with AMD or Hyperthread with Intel?
  13. ZeroF0X
    Honestly, this is what I proposed at first (Even just having the PCs racked up in a large case) though the cousin that contacted me wants to have as little hardware as possible to worry about (despite it being cost effective) pretty sure they really don't know what they want *shrugs*
  14. ZeroF0X
    I was thinking probably 8 to 12, but knowing what they want to do, 20 would set them for life (though i would say 20 to future-proof them if they wanna expand)
  15. ZeroF0X
    So here is the story, I have family out of country and they were thinking "Hey, so we have family that knows a lot about computers, maybe we can help advance the technology a little by starting a cybercafe". Now I tried explaining everything that I could with the limited knowledge that a starting out Computer Information System Major that watches LTT all the time can, while they are oblivious on how difficult this all can get, but they say that price is no issue... That being said, I know for a fact that they do not need something as massive as Linus's "7 Gamers, 1 CPU" because the bandwidth over where this PC is slower than heck and gaming is definitely not a goal there, but basic things like surfing the web, playing videos, music and some games would probably be enough (And probably fail-safes to help deter whatever patrons will download to melt a computer). Also since It may take a lifetime to train a family member to service the hardware, a way to remote in would be spectacular. Any ideas?
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