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  1. Random question, how do you guys store your spare PC components. I have a small handful just kind of sitting in electrostatic bags in a cardboard box but I feel like someones got a great solution out there. Only asking now because I'm upgrading my nvme from an old 500gb one salvaged from a laptop to a 2tb and realised I should store my old stuff a bit better.
  2. So update. Took three hours for them to basically say, we don't know why this encrypted after the update. Made me factory reset, which reverted to windows 10 and update to windows 11 automatically, fun windows license stuff I guess, and loose all my files. Luckily its a newer laptop so most of my files saved weren't that important and all of my school stuff I've been working on, which has mostly been what I've been doing with it, is on my school one drive and Adobe creative cloud. Aside from some modelling work which were more trials for some parametric experimentation I think I'm okay. Honestly think I'm going to try to return this laptop because this whole month of expoerience has sucks. Do not buy the G15 everyone, thermals suck, screen glitches hard, and dell sucks.
  3. I'm thinking it may have to do with TPM in Windows 11 but I'm not entirely sure.
  4. I'm writing this saga as I'm on the phone with dell so lets see how this is resolved together shall we? So it started with nothing more than a simple windows update. I bought my laptop, a Dell G15 5511 (The only one I could afford and get financing on here in Canada to replace my old laptop that crapped out and needed to work on my thesis) for a decent sale price. It's been weird tbh, thermals are god awful, fans either 0% or 100% and heats up bad, only cooling down when I active the Alienware control center which just toggles them to 100, screen randomly jittering and tiling and random shit before returning to normal, and just general buggy stuff, but this was different. I updated my laptop with just the updated windows update. It restarted, and upon restarting it opens: Bitlocker - Enter recovery key to get going again. I haven't set this up, haven't received any information on it. I go to the website listed for recovering the key and login to my windows account. No key recorded. Weird. Contact Microsoft. Super nice, but you have to contact Dell. First guy I talk to, run through a couple steps I've done, Okay, I need to escalate this. Ten minutes of holding, I get put on the line with an Office 685 enterprise guy. We are both really confused coming to the realization that I didn't call them, and they are not dell. We awkwardly laugh wondering how the fudge this even happened. Okay whatever, nice chat, have a good night. Call back, go through the minutes of needing to listen to every fudging option so I can verbally say service and department. On hold for 5 minutes. Hangs up. Again, no one answers. Hangs up. Again, no answer. Hangs up. Again, you get the point. Next time, call, woman answers. Makes me run through all my emails and service Ids, stuff I didn't have to do before because it's all registered to the express service number for my laptop, but whatever. Annoying, take five minutes trying to explain my fudging long email that has a number in it. First thing she does. Turn it off and back on. Ugh fine whatever. Go into bios, tells me to look for TPM setting, which isn't there. She gets frustrated with me. Fine, here, let me go through option by option so I can tell you each and every one I have. Oh look, it's not there. She tells me to log into the computer and do a thing, ma'am, it's behind an encryption key, I can't access my computer. Oh, right, go to another computer. Enter your service number. See the bios download? Download it. On my... desktop? Oh, right, ummm hold on a second. Hold. Put it on a usb drive. Okay, find one, do that, plug it in, go to bios, no the other bios, thanks for telling me there's a different bios. (F2 vs F12) Find the USB option. Ma'am, there's no usb. It should be there. It's not. It should be. Well it's not. Tell her the options. Oh it's not there. (Internally screaming nooooo shoot sherlock!) At this point, my phone, which have been on calls and hold for an hour and a half of this BS, decides NOW it wants to die without giving a warning. Great. Gotta love having an old piece of junk android CAT from 2016 that goes from 20% to 0 in 30 seconds and no one willing to replace the battery locally. So now I'm here, watching my phone in it's infinite boot screen charging, next to my new laptop which is encrypted out of my files while my thesis writing is inaccessible and debating if I should go through this again tonight. Someone kill me, please. Before I dial Dell again... any ideas?
  5. LTT has been challenged (among several other youtubers)! Will they answer the call?
  6. It just magically started working again which is weird. All the drivers were up to date and it went through multiple restarts just leaving it a dead connection. But I have two working graphics cards again lol. Thank you for responding though
  7. I mean, if you want value a used GTX 1070 should out preform a 1660. I wouldn't go any greater than that, there's no point in throwing an 80 series at a Ryzen 5
  8. Hey y'all. This may be a stupid "I can't do it situation" but I figured it was worth a shot. I recently upgraded my 1050ti that I've had for 3 years to a used 1070 I got for a decent price. I'm an architecture student, and my thought was that I could potentially use one card for my active render while using the other on my second monitor for light use. Typically when I render I still have resources available aside from the GPU. The other thought was running OBS on one screen and my game on the other. I thought I could do this at least, but when I plugged the new one in, the old disappeared. I was able to get the 1050ti to show in device manager, but now it's saying: "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)" and nothing except the device manager sees the GPU. Is this even possible or am I completely missing something? I tried poking around to see online and nothing I've tried has worked so far. Cheers!
  9. Lmao I must be high I could have sworn it was higher. TBF I pulled them out of my ass so I probably saw something else. Ill be honest, I completely forgot the GTX 1070/1080 when I was looking at used parts. I just know the last time I looked at them they were still $700+. Defiantly a lot more reasonable than I thought when I went on eBay. Maybe I'll just keep an eye out for the used server market and upgrade them with a GPU. The biggest issue I have is shipping most of them doubling the unit cost is shipping cost for my location. So I saw @BoiseBadger was using VMs but you mentioned there was another way?
  10. Yeah that's totally fair. I'm not so much worried about power consumption because ya' boy has that sweet sweet all inclusive rent. At this moment its less of a fixed budget and more lets try to keep if reasonably lower budget. The only reason I said those two cards is because of the price of around $300 CAD is the max I can really go for a GPU without breaking the bank and living in Northern Ontario shipping on everything used is a fortune, and I just know those cards have 8gb of Vram. In a perfect world the cost overall would be less that $600 CAD that I can incrementally build up. I was thinking a single 4tb HDD and then add another in the future. Yeah, I totally debated just getting a whole used server but most of them were in the US and the shipping of any of them up north was in the triple digits.
  11. My hope was to start smaller and build up for my storage, so for all three systems to have access to 4tb to start and upgrading as I need. I'm only one person, but each project I do have pretty massive file archives. At the moment I have about 3 tb filled (after 4 years of project files but planning for an increase as I start my Master) and about half I plan to offload. I'm thinking Vray GPU, price to performance wise it seems more efficient by plopping in an old Titan or Fury X or something. In all depends on what's available on a given day but I just want to start working on infrastructure. I know I've seen Xeon E5-2620 x2 and motherboard combos for pretty cheap but I don't think CPU could do it efficiently.
  12. Yeah honestly, as long as you have the RAM your programs in Architecture will run on anything. There are people in my program who somehow still run on Mac OS without dedicated graphics despite how garbage the programs have been optimised for it, if they are at all. I'm not sure what year you're going into, but if it's first or second let me tell you right now you will not be allowed to touch the computer for anything that would require serious amounts of horsepower. Ultimately 16gb is your god forbidden minimum is you want a smooth-ish experience. Also keep in mind that most schools have a very narrow range of programs they advise. Most recommend Rhino, which is a CPU loaded program until you render. Because you are using a graphics card, I would optimise for single core performance. I know many of these programs don't optimise well for multi-core performance and I know Rhino (mentioning again because its my go to) is usually better suited to Intel IMO. AutoCAD, Revit, Adobe Suite, it will all run on a potato as long as you shove ram sticks into it. Any parametric work will again eat CPU and Ram. I can't tell you how many times Grasshopper has crashed because I bottlenecked. GPU really only matters to reduce your render time after you set your scene, which you will probably be walking away from your computer anyways. 100% Nvidia, the fastest you can afford. Many renderers dislike AMD, and let me tell you a few of my professors will curse it out mid technical lecture when the program starts failing. If you're gaming, just get what you can afford in the GTX lineup, it's really just a time saver. I am still running old hardware because my broke ass went abroad for a year. i7-4770, 16gb DDR3 @ 1600 MHz, GTX 1050ti, and I can still do everything just fine. Occasionally I run slight bottlenecks but its not often.
  13. Hey everyone, its been a while since I posted. This is more of an exploratory post that I tried to do some digging on and didn't see much on it, probably because I don't really know what I'm looking for. Basically, I'm an architecture student. I have multiple PCs that I work on but only one that's really able to render and work using Vray and Rhino 6. As a result, I've been lugging the bloody thing and both monitors and everything on the bus from the studio every break or when I have to work from home. I also cannot work on modeling or anything for hours at a time when I do render. My thought was, being as I'm a nerdy broke university student, building a server at home which can act as a render farm for Vray and maybe be used to store files. I know I can do one or the other, but I'm not sure if I can do both. I'm assuming I would have to run a virtualized server and divide the resources available but I'm not entirely sure. Not looking for a build guide or anything, more just asking is anyone can point me in the right direction and I can go from there. Thanks to anyone who has a shred of advice
  14. Update: pizza arrived with seconds to spare, and the computer remained updating until I woke up. Food uobtainted, hope remained. Update done, login, after 2 hours with tech support and everything, the hard drive space hasn't changed. Still have 100gb of data floating around. I wasted an entire night. All hope is lost. Guess I'm reinstalling windows on the new SSD.
  15. You know, I really should have backed it up... If my data dies, I blame Microsoft lmao. Checked partitions, nothing that size. Largest was 25 GB I think. Even TS gave up and just gave a fresh windows lol
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