Curious Pineapple

You're right, but for my use a KFC priced machine with 12 cores and 24 threads is much preferable to single thread performance. I will however for the hell of it run Cinebench single thread and see where it stacks up. Probably dogshit if I'm honest. Never said I have NVME, although there are a few drives that have a BIOS to allow them to boot on older boards. I'll be using one when I find one. I use a SATA3 add-in card so no SATA2 bottleneck. You don't know what games I play, could be HL2 for all you know. I'd say the GPU at 100% utilisation pushing 300 FPS is not being bottlenecked by the CPU. In something more modern and demanding, again the GPU is maxed out whilst the CPU's never break a sweat. To be fair to you though, my machine has been on balanced power mode. On high performance it boosts to 3.3 GHz and stays there but still with low usage. All this is irrelevant though as the point was I can jam in any hardware that fits, but with my Apple machines, half the hardware is "custom" for no reason other than making sure Apple are the only ones that can supply parts.

Insert key into lock, rotate it though 360 degrees, remove key. Problem solved.

Dual Xeon with DDR3 and CPU performance just ahead of an i7 7700. For all you know I have an NVME drive. By the way, this workstation (and the other one I got with it) cost about the same as the graphics card that I need just to get this Power Mac to boot. In games my GTX1050 is maxed out and the CPU's clock back to about 1.5GHZ at 15-20% usage. I'd say there's some room there for a huge GPU upgrade. You can continue to make assumptions about my "pathetic investment" that cost the same as a bucket of KFC chicken, but they will probably continue to be wrong I shall add that I bought a Power Mac because the design is awesome and I like older Apple hardware. It's useless to me but I like them. It can go in the collection with a G3 iMac Indigo, 2011 (I think it is) Intel iMac (with a fucked display), iPhone 3G, iPod classic (with a failed DAC) and what's left of my iPod mini. I'm also sourcing parts to upgrade a Core Duo Macbook as that tank still works, just really slowly.

Many straws are being clutched here *Casually upgrading my 11 year old HP workstation whilst waiting for a specific graphics card to arrive just to test if a Mac works*

I was monitoring CPU usage, I don't know if I have a screenshot of it but I recall a lot of them were running. I was bug finding so may have the info still in the bug report.

I may be wrong but I recall Sea Of Thieves spawning 40 odd threads.

Oh it may still be cursed, just isn't causing audio issues

Yupp, headset connector has 2 channel audio and a mic

It acts as a USB audio device for the headset, Windows defaults to it when it's plugged in

Your point is?

That's my issue with them, using components that just can't cope with the job they are being asked to do, custom variations of parts that serve no purpose other than to be impossible to source, replacing whole boards for a single failed component, and then blaming 3rd party repairs as a reason for this. Every engineer makes a fuck up at some point, whether it be something minor like a flex cable that's not capable of handling the bending required and may fail, or a right whopper like using an under-rated resistor that fails after 18 months of daily use. Things like that happen and are easy to remedy, what can't be excused is then using the same part in the next revision knowing that there will still be failures and then only offering a replacement board as a repair option. If it's under warranty then there's no cost to the user, but when SSD's are soldered down and Apple refuse to recover data then it becomes totally unacceptable. Everyone should have backups, especially on mobile devices, but for those of us that occasionally work offline or need to configure specific drivers an OS settings, it can be a day or so to get productive again and potential lost data. Apple, just repair the customers damn board. Even if you don't warrant the repair and have a week turnaround time, that's better than nothing. Or better still, if you really can't be arsed to do board repairs, send it elsewhere with the parts, charge the customer, give it back and say good luck.

With auto brake and lane keeping you can effectively drive hands free and just keep the throttle to the floor....

I have about 500GB of files that windows galdly lost when running a check on a secondary drive. Any tips on free tools to use for recovery? Data isn't worth paying for recovery software but I could do with getting some files off the drive, I'd rather have a stab at recovery before I take what I need and ditch the drive as it's old and not needed nay more. Thanks in advance

Most likely the same reasons BMW get away with replacing head gaskets and charging for it when a £25 sensor is what's failed. When your old parts are long gone with no way of getting them back, you can't prove a thing. I doubt Apple will allow you to keep your old logic board to have it inspected, that thing is already off to be repaired and sold to the next customer for a few hundred.

I had a bunch of damaged contacts, a few hours with a sewing needle got them straight enough

It's also illegal.

So not buying a warranty plan is a good reason for them to lie and effectively scam people out of money?

No, you really don't get what I was saying. Nothing wrong with paying more for a 1st party repair, there is something wrong with said 1st party replacing displays and logic boards when it's a ribbon cable that's failed. This is new engine when you have a cracked sparkplug kind of deception.

I think you missed the point

Can't find a 2TB for that??

There's a difference between paying a bit more, and being sold half a machine because the manufacturer won't replace ribbon cables.

I have a gaming machine that's in it's 11th year of usage. If I was offered a good discount on a more modern machine at the expense of every component of this one being crushed I'd say shove it up your arse. If it was recycled and put to use again then no problem. Thats the problem here, taking a functioning device and effectively destroying it for a discount on a new one. Not saving the environment at all.

Nothing illegal about giving cars away here, neither is there any costs involved

Nahh, UK. It was a repairable car I bought for track days, but gave up with the idea. I've ended up using it for parts and as a shed.

I know the feeling, I tried to give a damn car away. It's going to scrap in a few weeks.