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That would be a very expensive NAS in terms of power draw. The CPU eats a lot of juice, and I don't think there's an iGPU involved, so you'd have to run a dedicated GPU with it. IMO, there is no X58 CPU that makes sense for a NAS, but there might be a low power quad Xeon out there that runs at low power.
 
X58 boards in good shape that come with their I/O shield are still worth inexplicably more than they should be on sites like eBay. For the board, RAM and CPU, $125-130 easily, maybe more. On FB Marketplace, not as much. I'd consider selling those parts and using the proceeds to fund the purchase of something like an N95-based mini PC.

Pretty sure those red tags mean the CPUs came from the return warehouse. I do hope that Best Buy made a couple of phone calls to get whoever certified those into some very deep shit.

Pretty sure those red tags mean the CPUs came from the return warehouse. I do hope that Best Buy made a couple of phone calls to get whoever certified those into some very deep shit.

Pretty sure those red tags mean the CPUs came from the return warehouse. I do hope that Best Buy made a couple of phone calls to get whoever certified those into some very deep shit.

Workstation GPUs use the same dies as consumer cards, most of the difference is in the drivers. 
If the school WiFi is fast enough, you could use Parsec. Try CAD on your Radeon first, though, and see if the card does what it should. Hopefully the card is stable enough.
Also Amazon is not the best place to look for... anything, really. You could find the same laptop on eBay for $800 I'm sure - and a slightly older Precision with similar specs for like $600. You could also install your own RAM and SSDs and save a good deal of money.

TIL that there is a worthy successor to the late, great SpeedFan out there.
 
Bless you, kind all-seeing cat. I'd hug you if I could.

TIL that there is a worthy successor to the late, great SpeedFan out there.
 
Bless you, kind all-seeing cat. I'd hug you if I could.

TIL that there is a worthy successor to the late, great SpeedFan out there.
 
Bless you, kind all-seeing cat. I'd hug you if I could.

That is literally, exactly, 125% what thermal paste was invented for.

I think the bigger problem with Apple is that they actively find ways to stop third-party parts and third-party repairs from happening. Want to change your battery? Here, have a nonfunctional battery health function and a message every time you boot up the phone. Want to change your display? Hey, now Face ID doesn't work! And now that they do "allow" third-parties to get Apple parts, they make them so ridiculously, prohibitively expensive that it rarely makes more sense than just buying a new phone would anyway.
 
You'd be amazed (or not) how few people get this concept. I'm not a vegan, but I have family who are, and few things piss them off faster than going to a non-vegan restaurant with vegan options and finding out that their tempeh panini was grilled on the same griddle that my steak panini was cooked on at the same time.

I think the bigger problem with Apple is that they actively find ways to stop third-party parts and third-party repairs from happening. Want to change your battery? Here, have a nonfunctional battery health function and a message every time you boot up the phone. Want to change your display? Hey, now Face ID doesn't work! And now that they do "allow" third-parties to get Apple parts, they make them so ridiculously, prohibitively expensive that it rarely makes more sense than just buying a new phone would anyway.
 
You'd be amazed (or not) how few people get this concept. I'm not a vegan, but I have family who are, and few things piss them off faster than going to a non-vegan restaurant with vegan options and finding out that their tempeh panini was grilled on the same griddle that my steak panini was cooked on at the same time.

I can't believe I'm about to say this, but just buy a mini PC. There are models out there with the same specs for half the price (or less). Hell, you can get something fully specced out with a Ryzen 7 7840HS for less than that.

So that was your first mistake 

Its possble apple has done it in the past with ADC, but there are a lot of problms so no one uses it.
 
As far as making monitors cheaper by removing the PSU, this probably won't happen unless every device has the power adaptr built in. And a lot of device that can connect to displays like phones and laptops aren't really ready to provide extra power. You could only have it for lower power displays but there its annoying which display needs power and which has it included.
 
I doubt this would be a win. Extra large PSUs only really make sense if the monitor is using it. And how much extra power? A basic office monitor is like 20-40w, but a few HDR displays could be 1000w+, so this makes it much more complex.
 
 

I have definitely seen LMG videos that call out Razer for everything from poor design choices to poor QC to their legendarily bad customer service.
 
A laptop secret shopper would be great, especially if it focused on models with similar to identical specs across different brands. Something that really highlights the differences in cost and quality between brands. Like, brand A's laptop with a 7840HS, 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAM side-by-side against brand B's laptop and brand C's laptop with similar specs so we can see who's using the crappiest screen, who's got a cooling system designed for the hardware and who's just dropped a blob of copper and a vacuum cleaner of a fan in there, who used crappy plastic and who used a metal frame, that kind of thing. That would be far more useful than reviews from all over Youtube that spend 15 minutes to get to the conclusion of, "Yep, $189 Walmart Specials with a dual-core Celeron from 2016 still suck."
 
You out there, @LinusTech? I'm guessing you guys have a few laptops lying around with specs close enough to each other to do something like this.

An ITX case that can hold a 280mm long GPU with a 240mm AIO to cool it, plus a separate 240mm AIO?
 
I don't think there is such a thing. You'd be better off looking at a smaller mATX case with a design like the In Win 301 that allows for two radiators to be placed while staying fairly small. The 301 would fit into a carry on roller bag, but it is heavy.

Need more info. What are your system specs (including the OEM and model of your PSU)? What games? What detail setting? Are you the "upgrade every generation" type, or do you want this to last? Open to used?

Install the M.2 and leave the motherboard heatsink off. Or exchange the SSD for one without a heatsink built in.

Check your motherboard manual. Either one should work fine, but some M.2 slots will disable SATA slots if used. Once in a blue moon (and Gigabyte boards are frequently blue moons), you'll find a board that can't boot off of a certain slot.
 
Basically, you should be fine.

I have definitely seen LMG videos that call out Razer for everything from poor design choices to poor QC to their legendarily bad customer service.
 
A laptop secret shopper would be great, especially if it focused on models with similar to identical specs across different brands. Something that really highlights the differences in cost and quality between brands. Like, brand A's laptop with a 7840HS, 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAM side-by-side against brand B's laptop and brand C's laptop with similar specs so we can see who's using the crappiest screen, who's got a cooling system designed for the hardware and who's just dropped a blob of copper and a vacuum cleaner of a fan in there, who used crappy plastic and who used a metal frame, that kind of thing. That would be far more useful than reviews from all over Youtube that spend 15 minutes to get to the conclusion of, "Yep, $189 Walmart Specials with a dual-core Celeron from 2016 still suck."
 
You out there, @LinusTech? I'm guessing you guys have a few laptops lying around with specs close enough to each other to do something like this.

Clearly, your CPU is the rare Ryzen 9 1701, and Mr. Scott's giving her all she's got.

That is quite old. 8GB of RAM and 160GB of total storage are tough sells for anyone, because they're going to have to go out and buy a new drive and more DDR3 immediately to make the PC viable for much of anything.
 
I can get a 970 off of eBay for $60 (holy shit). An i7-4790 is $30. I would actually deduct about $20 from the value because I'd have to go out and buy RAM, and another $40 because I'd have to go out and buy a 1TB SSD.
 
Bottom line, I'd probably offer you somewhere around $100 USD for this if I were in the market for it. You would probably get more from someone else if you leave it as-is, call it a "gaming PC" and let your buyer figure out that 8GB of RAM is woefully inadequate for most tasks in 2024, gaming or otherwise, and they can barely fit Rocket League and a few 2D side scrollers after they have Windows installed. $100 would put you in range of something like a mini PC with a Celeron N3350 or an Atom x5 in it. Neither one is anything I'd recommend. I also don't see enough value in the CPU and GPU for it to be worth upgrading the storage and RAM yourself. You won't get enough return on the added investment to be worthwhile.
 
tbqh, I'd just keep the system and continue using it as your HTPC. It's better than anything you could afford if you were to sell it.

In a new report, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has called on developers to use "memory-safe programming languages," a category which excludes the popular languages. 
 
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The market has been flooded with developers who have degrees or certifications with only a single semester of Java programming. Doesn't matter how "memory safe" the language is. With the incredulously low standard for programmers these days, they are all a threat. Stop blaming the language!
 
Sources:
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/security-software/white-house-urges-developers-to-avoid-c-and-c-use-memory-safe-programming-languages

A typical GPU (well, what used to be typical anyway) uses 2 of the PCI slots on the back of the machine. A 3-slot GPU is taller and will need 3 of those slots. Motherboard connections are all the same, it's just got a thicker cooler.

That is quite old. 8GB of RAM and 160GB of total storage are tough sells for anyone, because they're going to have to go out and buy a new drive and more DDR3 immediately to make the PC viable for much of anything.
 
I can get a 970 off of eBay for $60 (holy shit). An i7-4790 is $30. I would actually deduct about $20 from the value because I'd have to go out and buy RAM, and another $40 because I'd have to go out and buy a 1TB SSD.
 
Bottom line, I'd probably offer you somewhere around $100 USD for this if I were in the market for it. You would probably get more from someone else if you leave it as-is, call it a "gaming PC" and let your buyer figure out that 8GB of RAM is woefully inadequate for most tasks in 2024, gaming or otherwise, and they can barely fit Rocket League and a few 2D side scrollers after they have Windows installed. $100 would put you in range of something like a mini PC with a Celeron N3350 or an Atom x5 in it. Neither one is anything I'd recommend. I also don't see enough value in the CPU and GPU for it to be worth upgrading the storage and RAM yourself. You won't get enough return on the added investment to be worthwhile.
 
tbqh, I'd just keep the system and continue using it as your HTPC. It's better than anything you could afford if you were to sell it.