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ITT: building an attack profile DB for teh hacking for some reason long long ago i named my computer stick, and ever since then every reinstall or upgrade to it has caused a doubling down on the name, and it spread. so now my computer is OAK, my media PC is BROOK, my server is THEFOREST, laptop is GRANITE (old ROG gaming laptop), my chore board display PC is IVY. all natural sounding names that only tangentially relate to the function or form of the PC.

That sounds about right for a performance drop, but out of curiosity why did you switch to a VM for your daily driver?

I do agree with you, i'm in the same boat, I'm actually moving away from back blaze as the consumer version does not like unraid. I am instead switching to a VM running on a friend server on the other side of the city....but if you don't want to do that, Backblaze is still a good middle of the road option.

On this episode of scrapyard wars, who is the real king of raw power, Intel Pentium processors or the hot new competitor the all new AMDs K5 series! Now with the latest in VooDoo 4Mb Graphics card!

I'm a fan of backblaze, i've been using them for a few years now and they offer all the options you are looking for, including file version backup. You can access single files that have been backed up or have them send you a whole new HDD with all your data on it, plus the consumer version has no backup limit.

So the biggest part about having the name is making it easy to identify which computer you are looking at in a network. and having an easy name that you can map other computers to, especially when you use DHCP for IPs on your network. If you are in a network where you only have 1-2 computers there is no real reason to change your name. however once you get past that it starts to become more important. Really at that point the question becomes, how are you going to name them. I personally have 2 techniques i employ for this, one for work and one for personal machines. The work formula is simple, [location][function][iteration] in practice this may look something like EDM-Till1 or Cal-Srv-1 or Edm-FL1-Xerox. this is great when you have lots of machines you are looking over as it makes it very quick and easy to find what machine is having the problem. For personal machine i would recommend using a theme, like in my house i went for the ecosystem approach, since you usually only have a few dozen devices it is a lot easier to keep track of more abstract names. So servers are called TheForest, or TheGrove, computers are called Brook, or Oak, or something along those lines, I call my printer Dozer since all it does is destroy trees. Hopefully this answered your question though it was probably a bit long winded.

Yup, just turn off the monitor, keep in mind though, windows may still disconnect it after you turn it off, but usually it will still keep it as an "active" display even if you hear the disconnect noise from windows.

using User Benchmark in most cases the Vega 56 stomps on both the other cards, however for price to performance ratio, the 980TI may be a better deal, but it would be close.

You may also want to take a look at your RAM, if you have a faulty stick, it may be fine when you are just running on the desktop, but as soon as you load a game and hit that bad memory chip it can cause a crash, try loading up chrome and open 30-50 tabs, if that causes a crash it may be bad RAM.

Crossfire is AMD's version of SLI, it allows you to run 2 video cards in a single PC as if they were a single card*** ***Usually it is supposed to work like this, your mileage may vary

My personal pick would actually be a Gigabyte - B450 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard, for the extra $40 you get alot more features, more space for furture RAM expansion, better thermals, as well it is a full ATX board so you have the option to add crossfire in the future

PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor ($79.89 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-A320M-S2H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Amazon) Memory: G.Skill - Sniper X 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($54.99 @ Newegg) Storage: ADATA - SU635 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($47.99 @ Amazon) Case: Rosewill - R536-BK ATX Mid Tower Case w/500 W Power Supply ($79.99 @ Newegg) Total: $322.85 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-07-22 13:02 EDT-0400

personally i would invest in a cheaper HDD, you don't need a SSD right off the bat, i think 16GB of ram would suit you better, but that's a personal recommendation, also if you can afford it, i would splurge a little more on you PSU, especially if you can get a silver or gold rated one all the better.