Slugdude

This is both outdated and wrong. A TL;DR of the situation is, Ubuntu would send your dash bar searches to Amazon, who would then return products to show up in your results, and give Canonical some money for the advertising. The issue was that it didn't ask you if you wanted to opt-in. After significant backlash from the community, it is now opt-out by default as of 16.04. No, Ubuntu is not spyware.

If you have sensitive files you should be encrypting things. As the others have said "backups are good" is an understatement. An external HDD is essentially just a normal internal HDD in a box with a board to convert SATA to USB, or whatever standard it uses and so would be fine.

OK, thanks.

Well if that was fine, considering the 390X draws 275W, 125 more than the 480, I'm more confident now. I'm going to look to see if that particular sapphire GPU I linked comes with one.

What kind of adaptor was it? I've seen 6pin -> 8pin, 2x Molex -> 8pin, 2x SATA Power -> 8pin (Interestingly no 6pin + Molex -> 8pin which seems to make the most sense to me)

I'm looking at getting an RX 480, but the only one in my budget is a Sapphire one with an 8 pin power connector: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-11260-02-20G-Nitro-Memory-Graphics/dp/B01IQS6QE6/ref=sr_1_3?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1472184262&sr=1-3&keywords=rx+480 My PSU only has one 6pin connector. Now - I have heard very bad things and very good things about GPU power adaptors ranging from "Hey, I use mine and I get no problems whatsoever" to pictures of melted plastic connector bricks. There doesn't seem to be a consensus about this so I was hoping somebody could point me in the right direction? Are they all bad? Are only certain ones OK to use? Should I not get an adapter at all and instead opt for the less powerful RX 470 with a 6pin? I really don't know.

Time to code a custom BIOS that blacklists booting from Win10 and doesn't allow the BIOS to be changed via software. And then, like, put some really strong glue in the CMOS chip so if they try and remove it they break the motherboard. Too bad I'm in the UK so can't actually try this.

I have a 9400GT from 8 years ago that only just gets 60FPS in a game as easy to run as Minecraft. KSP is hardly playable and I run Linux, and the drivers don't work well so things look really glitchy. I've been wanting a new AMD card for quite some time so I can actually *play games* but so far I haven't had the money. These polaris cards look perfect and came at just the right time for me.

As you can see in the screenshot, I am clearly *not* running Vista as Cinebench reports lol. Not exactly a really high score because Pentium, but that single core performance surprised me. I didn't run the OpenGL test because I haven't actually bought my graphics card yet. The CPU just flat out refuses to do 4.6GHz even though it's got plenty of heat headroom, no matter what I do it will crash when stress testing. I tried getting CPU-z running in WINE but it just showed all blank boxes so I included screenfetch instead.

I tried.

Ubuntu on all my PCs! Main rig, old PC, laptop and Lubuntu for my old family PC (It has an AMD Duron 800MHz lol). I won't touch Windows with a barge pole... It hasn't been run on any of my computers for 4 years. I also run Android on my moto G 4G, Nexus 7, HP Touchpad and LG Watch Urbane... which is still technically Linux.

I'm expecting to pay somewhere between £90 and £130 (I don't actually have the money yet, but I have a bunch of stuff I can sell), and as for games I've not even decided. Though I'm perfectly happy playing a game at medium/low settings at 30FPS as before I built what I have now I was playing KSP on a core 2 duo system :P. One thing though, I've seen some cards with no VGA port. I currently have a dual monitor setup, one is a "decent" (at least by my standards) HDMI monitor which I use for games, videos and other stuff that's supposed to look good, another is a fairly old VGA monitor where I put everything else, like when I have IRC open. So I really want a VGA port in addition to the standard DVI and HDMI. I don't really care for DisplayPort. I had a look and I saw a 750 Ti from Asus that looked decent: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-gtx750tioc2gd5#viewImages Any reason to not get this one?

OK well I didn't know that about multiple GPUs, I was actually going to ask but I thought the post was quite lengthy. Thanks for the info, and the other guys. For that PC what card would you suggest? I'm thinking 750ti?

In January 2015, I went and built a PC. I didn't have a whole lot of money, and at the time most of my gaming consisted of Minecraft which is not very graphics intensive. So, I didn't buy a graphics card. However I decided that at some point next (this) year I'd get a graphics card, and get into gaming properly. I wanted the system to be upgradeable, but cheap initially, so this is what I went with: Intel Pentium G3258 CPU (OC to 4.5GHz) 1*8GB Kingston HyperX fury RAM MSI H97 PC MATE Motherboard Sandisk Ultra II 240GB SSD The case, fan, PSU and optical drive were salvaged from my old PC. Finally for the OS, I use Ubuntu Linux (currently 16.04 LTS) Now, you will notice one thing about that motherboard, it supports crossfire. It was on offer at the time, so I figured once I needed a graphics card I'd just get one AMD card - then all I have to do to upgrade it further is get another one, rather than ditch the one I had and get a new one. But if you follow Linux news, you'll lnow that AMD turned around and said they won't support Xorg 1.18 (I think that's the right number), which is included in Ubuntu 16.04 and probably other distros too - if I had an AMD card then I'd have no choice but to use the open source driver. stuck get me wrong, I'd much rather use it. But, it's not so great performancewise and if I recall correctly, doesn't support the latest version of OpenGL. So, if I get an AMD card I lose some performance straight off the bat. But if I opt for Nvidia, I have to ditch the card if I wanted a better one further in the future. Bear in mind that I don't have a ton of money. So what do you guys think I should do? It feels like I'm stick between a rock and a hard place. (Oh, and no need to worry about power, that PSU is 700W for some wierd reason).