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Hello, Exhibit A: cat stealing my mouse matt. I like him being near me, but whenever I make space for him nearby he ignores it. What do I do? He's too big to sleep on my lap.

Is 980 worth doing? I've got one sitting doing nothing. electricity costs is high, £0.15 ($0.21)

damn lol, hmu if u want to sell me some of those

Thanks for the input. Ah damnit, that's the conclusion I've come to too

Hi guys, I own a Razer Kiyo which I thought would be good but honestly, I'm pretty disappointed by it. Terrible colour accuracy, mic is ok (peaks a lot), & no windows hello support.. I'll mostly be using it for work calls. So I'm looking for an upgrade but not sure what is good.. I want: - Decent mic. I had a blue snowball and that was good but I gave it away because i need space on my desk. - Decent image quality - ideally it'll be good - Windows hello support - i want to be lazy when i unlock my pc As a side note: u used to get these flashing indicators for skype for business where you'd get a call then it'd flash - is there anything like that for ms teams? Thanks - appreciate it ! Seems good https://www.amazon.com/BRIO-Ultra-Computer-Webcam-Omni-Directional/dp/B08CK31S42/?tag=wpcentralb-20&ascsubtag=UUwpUdUnU61074YYwYg

Honestly the 9900k idea would be acceptable, not the best per say but I'd be happy with that to last me until prices are reasonable - maybe 2023. I'm seeing them listed for around £279 which seems a bit much for nearly two gens old though :/. It's only £90 more for 10900k which is waaay better but new motherboard is a good excuse to get thunderbolt 3. Then i go back into the loop of aaaah, what do i get.

I do want to re-use my RAM. It's not that I don't want to hop over to Ryzen - it just doesn't look like it's worth it. I know 3200mhz RAM is bad for ryzen but idk how much worse & if I went Ryzen I'd want the 5900x which is 50% more expensive than the 10900k. The 5800x doesn't really interest me but maybe I'm not being fair to it.

what do you guys think is the good option based on my ramblings & other stuff u know. I don't know I'm being silly AF for being tempted to go for the 10900k or if I'd be silly not to wait. Everything seems like a compelling option but there's downsides & I really don't know what matters.

Hi guys, Based on what I've seen I think the 11700k will be notably better IPC which is good for gaming & Ryzen 6000 series chips will be really awesome but ddr5 etc and based on what I'm seeing right now I'm thinking it's going to be really expensive to upgrade to. It feels like the 10900k might actually be a really good value when compared to other chips on the market. I'm a software developer & a gamer & the good thing if I use Intel is I can re-use my RAM without a performance penalty (32gb @ 3200mhz). I do want thunderbolt 3 too - both and and intel boards seem to support it but the intel ones cost like £200 more.. Urghh it's difficult idk what to pick. The 10900kf is only £364 on amazon and seems like it'd last a long time but the IPC improvements in next gen intel.. but then ryzen is amazing too but the price isn't worth it for me and I'd probably want to upgrade RAM otherwise I lose performance so ryzen might not be as good as it should be. I have a 9600k atm which is still decent but it's paired with rtx 3080 and I definitely do max out the 6 cores. I also got a bad overclocker so my 360mm aio is extremely wasted (got it mostly for looks, rgb hype yo).

The way the card is configured (and all RTX cards, I'm sure it applies to GPU's in general but I haven't checked) is they had the option of 6GB or 12GB - the memory arrangement is in 6GB chunks. I presume it was too expensive to redesign the board or they would have. The way they've done it maximises profits from a business perspective IMO (12GB vram does cost more than giving 6GB but weakening the "Nvidia number 1" with one of the most popular GPU's isn't worth the risk when they can give 12GB and make the consumer pay for it). Side note: I want to buy this card for crypto mining (at MSRP) - good job Nvidia????? (half hash rate is 30-35 and the proper crypto miners seem confident they can bypass it hence buying them up). So really, Nvidia aren't really fixing any problems but increasing there ability to make money at the expense of everyone else. THis type of shit should be illegal for companies of this size. It'd be nice if after a company reached a huge size (think msoft, amazon etc, facebook) they should be held to much higher standards and be less for profit & more for benefiting people - the system is rigged so badly that these companies will still do fine even if they give more back to the people.. (IMO at least)

Depends on the person. For me personally, 1TB - enough space for your most played games, some additional games, all your normal storage stuff. I have a 2TB NVME in my rig, eventually i hit 1TB then i'll remove some games I don't play anymore.

What happens is, every so often my internet will start to cut out or the lag in games will hit 2k ping. Recently, my internet was bad but I realised I had accidentally knocked the wi-fi antenna on my pc off so it was pointing the wrong direction. Making it point the right direction made my internet work again for a bit so I began to doubt whether it's my pc or my isps problem. Of course the issues I've had today are with my wifi attenna pointing in the right direction. I've noticed my tv seems to have internet issues maybe once or twice a week whereas my pc is daily - both on my wifi. That being said I get bad internet on my laptop but my specific laptop is known for having unreliable wifi (most people upgrade it). That being said I don't think upgrading wifi will fix my problem - I do think it might help a bit - presuming this upgrade does help with stability.

I have powerline adapters and what not but for right now - it makes sense to use wireless because of where my pc is located. At my old house I used wireless for a few months with no problems in gaming etc - I'd like to get to that point again.

I'm considering upgrading from my motherboards built in wifi to a dedicated pcie card but I'm not too sure if it'll translate into any improvements over my connection. For context my current setup is: Integrated Intel® 802.11ac Wave2 CNVi WIFI + Bluetooth 5 @ 1.73Gbps TP-Link AX3000 Dual Band Gigabit Wi-Fi Router @ 2.4Gbps I'm looking to upgrade to this pcie wifi card: OKN AX210 Wi-Fi 6E Card Bear in mind I'd be upgrading from the AC standard to AX because my access point supports it. My internet speed is 100 mb/s - I care about the stability of my connection. I feel like because it's an onboard wifi solution that it might be less than ideal but I have no idea if that is the case or not.

Wow, that is some excellent advice! Really good, thank you! I never even imagined that I could get an old E5 in this kind of price range but it totally make sense. An older xeon like that would definitely meet my needs. I can nab a Xeon E5 2660 V3 for only £85, that will be absolutely brilliant. The question is do I spend an extra £40 for 2 additional cores - what do you think? I think 2 extra cores could make a difference long term but I'm not sure if I'm overthinking it because 10 cores is a lot. In my case I definitely need CPU but it's more about multi-threaded workloads, no gaming. I can buy a used motherboard & RAM and save a tonne there too. I already have an old SSD I can use so the cost is literally hundreds lower than what I was expecting. I think I'd want minimal setup & a tower/mini tower of some sort - like mini-itx. Any ideas on a case? I imagine a hyper 212 evo should be decent enough for sound? It doesn't need to be ultra quiet, I actually still have my old custom watercooling loop I can use.. I replaced it with my AIO water-cooling because of RGB but it was an overkill cooler so it can definetly handle a server chip. Do you think a 240x30 mm radiator is enough? My other radiator is a 280x83mm which is too big for most small cases I think. Man, I'm so hype about this - I wasn't expecting to get something this good for this type of money.

Before I get into the specifics I'll provide the info outlined in the sticky: SIMPLIFIED Budget (including currency): No fixed budget, it's more about meeting my requirements with minimum spend apposed to a fixed budget. Currency: GBP (British pound) Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Hosting a CMS called "SharePoint 2019", it's very resource intensive (minimum requirements). It can run on less resource than outlined in the minimum requirements i.e. I've got it working on a dual core + 16GB of RAM before. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): - I have a good router that should be able to handle all network traffic - I might upgrade my PC depending on the what type of performance level I should go for.. I've got an i5 9600k, 32GB of RAM (I don't need 32GB anymore, I used to do a lot of virtualisation stuff which I don't do anymore), a high end motherboard etc. - I'll re-use my old 500 GB SSD - As small & reasonably quiet as possible (no noisy servers) DETAILED I'm looking to setup a local server for both home use & to demo some of my technical skills as I'm self-employed. Currently I'm hosting a portfolio website with Hostinger ($8/month) & my SharePoint 2019 environment in Azure but the costs look fairly high for Azure - total spend looks like $200/month for less performance than if I build something myself. This also works nicely from a tax perspective as I can claim money back. I'm not really sure what level of performance I should go for.. I want something that is more responsive and snappy than what you get from Azure (I forget the name of it but the option I'm using but it has 4 cpus (aka 2 cores, 4 threads)/16gb ram + SSD config). I do have my i5 9600k which I can use as an excuse to upgrade to one of those juicy 8 cores - I don't need an 8 core so it's mostly me looking for an excuse to upgrade. I can also re-use 16GB of my RAM for this. I have been toying with the idea of buying a NUC but I'm not sure if it can handle what I need it for.. I also have a Dell XPS 15 (i7 8700k, 16GB RAM etc) which seems like it should be fine to handle my needs but I don't want to give it an early death & I use it for watching Netflix in bed (:D) - thoughts? I really don't want a noisy server because my flat is small & I don't want more bulk if I don't need it - I've already got a tonne of tech. That's why I love the idea of a NUC but I don't want to shell out a tonne of money and then it doesn't suit my needs. Realistically I want this to be as cheap as possible while meeting my needs, money I spend here is less money spent elsewhere - I have no qualms buying used parts, a lot of my stuff is used because it works just fine. I might use the server for personal stuff in the future but it really depends on the load etc. The primary function for this is to host SharePoint 2019 but I can see this being useful for hosting things for smart devices for my home etc. I'm more than capable of figuring out a good build but it's more about figuring out what's reasonable (the part I'm stuck on) & taking it from there i.e. do I buy an engineering server chip with DDR3 ram or do I go full modern specs etc..

I don't know anything about "IM:" but I've always used mailto: & that's the only way I've ever seen it done before. I personally wouldn't implement it this way either but you're better informed of the constraints you're working with so I'll assume there's a reason for it. There's probably a connector app that does this type of thing btw

It depends what you do.. The stuff I work on is locked behind permissions etc so it's not like I can get randoms to test my work. If you've got budget Use a local specialist testing firm. You need to engage with them properly otherwise you're not going to get good value out of it. If you want to do things as cheaply as possible If you're cash strapped you can use sites like upwork.com If you don't mind being exploitative (IMO)... Use an intern. If you've got a pre-existing user base... Create pilots for ppl interested in your product, if they like it they'll share info with others, they're also more likely to be useful for smoothing issues out etc.. If you're me.. Do it yourself

Does the | in the notmatch work with other things i.e. -like? That's the first time I've seen that, pretty cool.

Yes, building a PC is still viable. Sure us consumers have been getting price f'ed by Nvidia/Intel etc buut the PC itself has a great platform and I think it would take a while for people to give up on PC and switch to console. The PC platform is fine but we are definitely hurting from getting ripped off all the time. For context, I bought a GTX 980 EVGA Superclocked SC 2.0 for around £500 brand new maybe 6 months after release - at the time this was the best thing you could purchase apart from a titan etc. The equivalent purchase today is a RTX 2080 ti which is around £1100.. Even if I bump it down to the RTX 2080 that's still £600+ for a card that released in 2018. It's hard to believe manufacturing costs have gone up enough to justify these prices.. Console manufacturers are clearly getting a good deal, lets hope AMD can offer us something good instead of slightly undercutting Nvidia lol. (sorry about going offtopic but I'm so mad lol)

000webhost is free. The paid version is provided by hostinger which is also good. I used 000webhost for free for years before moving to Hostinger. Both are really easy to use & sound perfect for your needs.

Consistency is what matters most imo. Good ethic to learn and a genuine interest in taking things to the next step (i.e. you learn something new so you decide to try it out in a different way, it might not work but you'll have learned something new). That being said everyone learns differently, just put in the effort and you'll be rewarded (Eventually).

There is some truth in that but you don't need it. I have very poor maths skills and I have good problem solving skills. It's never stopped me getting a job etc but it did make it difficult for me to get into higher education as most of them require higher level of maths than I have, I bypassed it luckily as you only need it for year first year of uni where I live and I went to college instead which are more flexible with requirements.

1. I'm not psychic 2. Then your entire question is a moot point

You asked a question, people answered it. Then you proceeded to say you'll contact the manufacturer despite people telling you to contact where you bought it from. So basically, you asked for advice, got it, then proceeded to it ignore it for the most part