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I'm looking at upgrading my PC to a 3900X and will need to purcahse some RAM. I have heard that Ryzen 3rd gen favours high clockspeeds and low latency. I've been looking at the G.Skill Trident Z RGB for styling, and can purchase the following RAM, but am not sure which would be best. G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB (16GB x 2) 3200MHz CL14-14-14-34 - F4-3200C14D-32GTZR - £250 G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB (16GB x 2) 3200MHz CL15-15-15-35 - F4-3200C15D-32GTZR - £218 G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB (16GB x 2) 3600MHz CL16-19-19-39 - F4-3600C16D-32GTZRC - £180 I've had trouble locating sellers of the G.Skill RAM in the UK, but these are what I have found so far. Ideally I'd like to overclock the RAM to 3600MHz, is the CL14 kit worth the price difference? Which of these would is best paired with the 3900X, and which would you suggest is the better to go for?

I'm looking to downsize my current NZXT Phantom 820 and was looking at either the Define R6 TG or the Dark Base 700. I have 6 Hard Drives which is why I have narrowed it to these two cases, and both are available in white. The motherboard inversion of the 700 would also be good as my PC is to the left rather than the right. Which of the two should I go for? Any help is appreciated!

I've been away from the forums for quite some time, popping in once in a while. Granted, the question is pretty off topic, but I would like some opinions. I'm looking at undertaking a TEFL course so that I may teach English abroad in Asia. However I don't know if I should or not. It's a pretty big decision and I literally have today to decide. The course costs £250 and gets me certified as being able to Teach English as a Foreign Language. I'm just having conflicting thoughts about it since I will have to leave most of my things behind; and if I manage to secure a job but I find I'm absolutely terrible and they hate me then it's kind of a waste. I'd have to learn the language whilst I'm there so there's that too; although I have read that that's not so much of an issue as I would be an assistant English teacher. I'd also have to make new friends as well, which would likely be difficult

Yeah I re-downloaded one of the smaller files to a new location directly on the disk, it works fine now. I think the issue was the length of the file's name within subdirectories reaching the 260 character limit enforced by Windows. I'll have to re-download the other ~40GB again and rename the files ¬_¬

No error, other than when trying to move it/delete it I get the message "file not found". VLC can't play the file and crashes. I think it may be due to character length. I don't think it saved correctly since it was in subfolders and may have gone over the character limit.

I have a few large videos which display the correct file size in windows explorer, however I cannot play them. I looked at the properties and all unplayable ones show incomplete information. No created, accessed, or modified dates, and show a size and size on disk of 0 bytes. They have Japanese characters in this could be the cause of the issue. However I am not sure what the issue is.

Just an FYI they have also reduced the amount of credits you earn by 75% so they haven't really changed anything.

Yes I was asking about USB sticks and external HDDs. Smallness is beneficial, especially if I have to travel with it. Also how good would SD Cards/Micro SD cards be? Using an SD card would allow me to transfer photos and videos from my devices which is always good. Which are the better options for long term storage.

Looking at getting a large external drive for storing and playing back videos. However I am not sure what the best option would be. Either a large USB Drive or an External Drive. Which would you say would be the better choice?

Microsoft purchased Mojang for sales on all platforms and, as Staya Nadella stated, would be a big part of HoloLens.

Obtained two IBM servers for free, one is an IBM AS/400e Series and the other an IBM AS/400e. Both are likely in working condition; were working at the time they were taken. I don't specialise in servers so this is new to me. They are probably from they late 80s to 90s era, but that is as much as I can tell you. I would appreciate any info on these and would like to know what it is I have

Exactly this. The Chinese government wants ways to monitor their citizens, deny access to areas that do not conform with their views, principles and culture. This version of Windows allows them to do this with no holds barred; custom encryption could allow the government a backdoor into every PC running the Chinese OS, allowing the government to spy and monitor those users, install malicious applications to prevent access to content and more. This is not the version we want. If you do you may as well vote for Theresa May...

You can see the Fluent design right now on Windows 10 Calculator app

Yes, if a school buys them in bulk for their pupils then Windows 10 S is the better choice. However if you're a Unviversity/College student then the Surface Pro/M3/3 are the ones to go for, as they are pretty much made for students. Here in the UK colleges/universities don't really buy in laptops for their students to use. And I'm not really sure if schools buy them for their pupils, the last I knew of were iPads being used; then again I don't think the school will be buying £900+ devices for children to use.

A lot of people seem to think this is the case when in fact it isn't. The Surface book isn't aimed at students, when the perfect device for them is the Surface/Surface Pro; ultra-portable devices that have great performance, offer great note taking and have good mics and cameras for recording lectures, as well as being able to run any desktop application; Adobe software, prism, SPSS, MatLab, Endnote etc are all commonly used by students and would likely never come to the Microsoft Store. @Windspeed36 summed it up pretty well for who the Surface/Windows S laptop is aimed at.

Bought a Vive, but not sure what VR games are must haves that I should get. I have Elite: Dangerous, which is awesome, Narcosis, Project Cars and Roborecall. What games would you recommend that are must haves for the Vive?

Exactly this. Scientific research is based on data. However one team of scientists can collect only so much data on a individual basis. The next research may base it on the previous data. The next research the same again. The trouble is that they may not analyse the previous data. One group may come along and want to perform a cohort analysing the previous research with their own and maybe the results of fifty other groups of scientists. If the group of scientists analysed the previous groups of data, which had say 30 samples each (quite low really), and their own 30 samples together they would generate a large set of data. Now they're working as a cohort with 50 other groups of scientists, who could be analysing 6 times as much data each, they end up with a huge amount of data that needs to be analysed; which usually involves testing individual samples with each other, across individual groups and those groups with each other. Humans make errors, especially more so when you have huge sets of data. This Machine would allow the cohort, who will likely be in varying countries, to send the data to be stored and analysed when needed with much more precision and accuracy.

Building a PC for a friend using my old PC parts; CPU: FX 8350 Mobo: Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 GPU: R9 280X PSU: Probably an EVGA 600W 80+ Bronze Need some recommendations for a good ATX case, that will fit all these components. My friend has a budget of up to, or just over, £50

Quite a good friend of mine indeed Awesome. Haha being a student with low funds, I would probably charge a little bit more, but I didn't want to overcharge and thought £280 would be a great price for both of us

So you would say about £250 - £350? I had thought around £280 might be a good price, allows me to get my own liquid cooling rig started.

Going to sell the spare PC parts to my friend to get them started with a basic, decent, gaming PC. The spare components I have, pretty much a full PC, are; CPU: FX 8350 MOBO: Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 RAM: 4GB DDR3 GPU: MSI R9 280X Gaming 3G HDD: A few spare, 500GB will likely be the candidate. WiFi Dongle Spare temporary keyboard They will probably get more RAM, so I'm not going to charge for that or the temp keyboard. They wanted their own case and I suggested a better PSU than any of the ones I have. How much would you consider a decent price for what I will be giving? Edit: Price estimates in GBP... I'm in the UK

Awesome! Thank you very much for the help. It's much appreciated. That kinda sucks, Wendell was pretty cool and added a lot to the channel. I'll have to watch some more to see what his channel is like now.

I was wondering what happened to Tek Syndicate... I couldn't find their channel on my subscriptions list. Glad they're still their but renamed to Crit; preferred the old name much more. Awesome, I think I'll get the Galax/KFA2 card, seems to quite decent Hopefully the 1080 will be good for VR

Was going to be the card I would get but It appears to be far too expensive at £700+. The max I can spend is about £550 Aesthetics don't particularly matter but it would be nice to match my white motherboard or black case Just looking for a good all around card, the HOF seemed good since it's a decent price around £500 and matches the aesthetics. Came to ask since I haven't had any experience with KFA2/Galax. I took a look at the EVGA but apparently there are some problems with them?

Long time AMD user. Need a new card for VR, just purchased a Vive and my R9 280x doesn't cut it. I have one in mind so far - The KFA2 HOF GTX 1080. Any other recommendations as to good cards?