Brennan Price

No no... I believe I have learned my lesson now haha I am also going to be buying a UPS at some point soon so as to not worry quite so much about storms cutting out my power.

Just a quick update, I ended up buying a new PSU as my other was failing (EVGA 750W GQ Gold+) . Ended up getting a BeQuiet! Straight Power 11 850w Gold+. Incredibly easy to make a system look good with fully modular I must say! I'm not throwing away my 750w though, I shall end up repairing it again and putting it into a less expensive system. I guess I've just got to update my profiles PC specs now haha!

Ok so I'm going to be the first to say it... You cannot simply "turn" a laptop into a desktop as they use very different part form factors and components. Your best bet here would be to see if you can find a desktop in your local market that someone is perhaps willing to give away, and then you upgrade it from there. Otherwise, you are stuck to current laptop specs which won't run much at all.

There are loads to consider here, not just the savings and trying to create VM's that will equal what they currently have. What CPU's are in the HP 260 G3 Desktop Mini's? The CPU in those will likely outperform a single core/dual thread of a much older X58 Xeon. You've also got to consider if you have the network infrastructure to cater for 8 people off that server, good luck streaming 1080p display and audio over WiFi, you'd need much better backbone than 1gig eth if deployed to the whole company, more likely spend loads on 10Gig eth to cater for this plan if adding more servers. I doubt you'd save much at all, may even spend more for less results. You've also got to consider if the users will find it easier to work like this or not. There's an awful lot to consider even if done correctly. EDIT: As another has mentioned, redundancy is also a key thing here (why didn't I think of this?). If you've got lots of users constantly reading and writing from the same disks you will see reliability drop, plus, the disks may not be fast enough to hold up to constantly searching for data. The constant access will see diminished results over time plus providing a higher failure rate at which point more users will be affected in one go.

I know I'm just being a pain here but task manager does report the "Double". I've got 1600MHz mem and it defo says 1600MHz in Task manager. I agree with your take on the rest of the upgrade path though as I'd likely do the same

I wish I did but I don't have any systems that utilise DDR4 RAM so is difficult for me to recommend any without first hand experience. Search for the most popular and most reviewed ones though as these likely have the best compatibility with your system plus having less failure rate. I'm sure there are plenty of other users on this forum that could recommend the best stuff to use.

It really does depend on the way the PSU is treated as well as the environment that it is in so is hard to say, therefore, the moving mechanical parts are most likely to fail first i.e. the power switch or the fan.

Honestly, the first thing I would probably do is take out that single stick of RAM and replace it for two matching sticks for dual channel. Doing that alone will likely give you a much longer lasting rig with just that small change, especially since games prefer dual channel over single. Doesn't have to be an upgrade to 16GB though, I reckon it would struggle to reach that amount without a CPU upgrade, this is of course dependent on the games you play and any work related tasks that you do as well.

The power supply sticks out like a sore thumb considering the price of the rest of the build. I completely understand that the whole rig won't use anywhere near as much as 430W as it is, but, it is also only Bronze rated and has few, if not no measures in place to prevent damage in case it fails or encounters a power surge. Not to mention the fact that if you did want to buy a GPU eventually, you will likely have to buy another power supply. I'd say it makes sense to spend more money on a better power supply now in order to spend less with future upgrades as well as being able to keep a better component longevity.

While it would theoretically, I believe the reason it fails is because it is only emulating the PCIe generation rather than physically cutting off the lanes with the hardware available. The setting is likely there though so that the lanes can be split across multiple PCIe devices more evenly, as well as be a way to give a certain device more bandwidth than what it would have if the settings were left untouched.

So my thinking here is that on your new CPU, the lanes aren't functioning properly/your CPU can't handle full PCIe 3 16x bandwidth (even though it should). The reasoning behind the 9500gt working though even on the full 16x slot is because it does not saturate PCIe 3 16x speeds, it is PCIe 2.0 x16 instead which is effectively equal to PCIe 3 8x I believe?? When you put your 1060 into a PCIe 3 4x slot, you are capping the bandwidth and therefore it will work just like the 9500gt does.

Aight, I guess I'd better reconsider my PSU life choices then. At this point I think I'm just too used to it haha! Cheers

This much is true, although I thought it was pretty normal to turn it off after every use though? Nobody else do this??? I've not had this issue with anything else....

Honestly, I'll probably end up buying a more expensive PSU. I really don't trust this one in my rig anymore. Then I'll replace the switch in this one when the time comes for another use.

Eh idk, I bought the PSU in september of 2018, only been flicking the switch when I turn off my PC, and then of course back on when I want to use my rig. Previous switch failed back in October last year, so find it weird how this one has failed so soon afterwards.

Yeah this is true, although at the time I really needed my rig so fixing it myself was actually the best solution for me Wish I wasn't in that situation to begin with but at least power is still going to it this time.

Second time that my PSU rocker switch has failed. Doubt I'll be able to get it under warranty now though since I've replaced the switch once already and will likely have to replace it again. Last rocker switch failed by not being able to carry any power over it at all, this time the power will not cut out. Just thought I'd share for the comedic value at this point. Trust_Issues.webm

I think so yeah

I get the impression that Linus is trying to make a joke about the Fold Z2 that he recently got considering he has done this in more than a single post now.

Thanks for the info, I can get users to map the drive themselves but I'd rather not have close to 800+ students have to map their own drives as this is a pain and confusing for them sadly, plus they'd have to do this every time they logged onto each computer. A log-on script is also a good idea too but only for a single user, I cannot write a single script that will authenticate every user sadly. Scripts also aren't very consistent sadly.

Thanks for the information, I'll give that a go. Cheers!

I don't think the majority of people would turn it off if they didn't give it a shot. It's as simple as Why does my game look/feel so bad when I move my camera in game? Oh yeah because Motion Blur is on. All the same, even if Devs did put a bunch of time into something such as motion blur, it doesn't mean that it should be used or universally liked, that argument simply does not hold up very well. It is exactly the same as a car company putting lots of time and work into a new car, it doesn't mean that everyone is going to like the car does it?

Hello there, I am hoping some members in the community here may have some experience with what the title suggests, I'll lay out the situation below: I am an IT admin for various schools in the South West of the UK, the Main school I work at however is what I am having issues with. The network there is a plain and simple Vanilla Windows network with each user getting their own user account and an email with Microsoft Office 365 A1 Plus. With Corona Virus still lurking and likely to be lurking for a while, I have moved my whole workplace/school environment over to Microsoft Office Online, SharePoint and OneDrive so that my user base does not rely so much on the storage, servers and internet connection of my work place/school. Albeit what I have got is still very quick but that's not the point, it just gives me plenty of wiggle room in what I do as well as overhead and plan B options. The Microsoft Office Online Suite was working absolutely fine whilst everyone was working from home and whatnot. However, with students and staff being back in schools at the moment, everyone is trying to access the whole of the Microsoft Office Online and more from within the school through their browsers which is not ideal and has brought up some major headaches for me. Before I made this move, Students used to get their own mapped drives including to the shared drives that now exist within SharePoint, my problem is that with having moved the drives up to SharePoint, the students can no longer gain access to said mapped drives through file explorer since the drives are not internal to the network. Students cannot save files directly to the computer as this is what the mapped drives were for, but since they are gone then the students can no longer save locally, at which point anything outside of the Microsoft Office Online Suite is currently out of the question. So here's my question: Is there a way I can map the areas I want from SharePoint to the students within Active directory? I ask because I am currently running into issues with the drive maps not recognizing the pupils logged in, at which point the drive has a simple red cross on it and it won't bring up anything to authenticate them. I understand that the simpler option is to let the students use OneDrive for Business but then this stores a cache of each users area on each computer, storage on each machine would go through the roof which is not what I want. I look forward to hearing some of your answers, experiences and/or solutions. Cheers, Brennan.

How can you say it has an inaccurate screen? Pantone literally have their own colour space designed for colour accuracy in photoshop and I can confirm that the screen is great since I've seen it and have used it in person. Also, this is a 14" and is incredibly thin and light for this kind of power, not at all inappropriate for someone looking for a notebook type laptop.

My brother recently bought an Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 for video work so it will be excellent for Photo work and even keep him going well into the future. I would highly recommend one within this budget. The screen is colour accurate and even Pantone validated so will be a very good fit. They are very popular but here's a link to an open box and a brand new one since they are currently on pre-order. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/open-box-asus-rog-zephyrus-g14-ga401iu-nvidia-gtx-1660-ti-16gb-14-120hz-ryzen-r7-4800hs-gami-lt-2ch-as.html https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-rog-zephyrus-g14-ga401iu-nvidia-gtx-1660ti-16gb-14-120hz-ryzen-r7-4800hs-gaming-laptop-lt-29w-as.html I don't care if people say your father will not need this kind of power, I see it as something that will both last him a long time and allow him upgradeability too. (I do photo editing a lot and completely understand that lots of power can be needed at times, not to mention that GPU rendering can help an awful lot in photoshop).