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Yeah the budget my brother specified was 350 Euro max. Looking at the prices from reputable vendors in Germany, I can get this stuff for 340 Euros. Regarding the GPU, that is true. But the GPU would be a bigger upgrade anyways considering it would also require a new PSU. Hopefully he can delay upgrading long enough until the new Intel Gen is out to hopefully have some options in the entrylevel to mid segment. If really necessary I would also give him my 1660 super since I'm fine with onboard graphics

Budget (including currency): 300 - 350 EUR max Country: Germany Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: CS:GO, some light to medium programming work 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): Hi guys, I'm looking for an upgrade path for my brothers prebuild PC. It's currently running a 7th Gen Core i5 and is slowly but surely dying of old age. He is looking for an upgrade path to make this system last throughout his degree and upgrade after as soon as he has some more money. The only thing about his current build he wants to retain is his 1050 TI which he hasn't had any issues with so far (and a substantially better GPU wouldn't fit the budget anyways). Current parts list MSI GTX 1050 TI Some unbranded mico-ATX Board A 350W no-name PSU Intel 7000 series i5 8GB of RAM 1TB SATA SSD + 1TB HDD I've been thinking it would probably be wise to go with an AM5 platform since we'll (hopefully) get some more generations out of it. My suggested parts list looks like this AMD Ryzen 5 7600 (using the box cooler) Crucial 16GB (2x8GB) Crucial DDR5-5200 CL42 ASRock A620M-HDV/M.2 He doesn't want to buy used cause he has been burned by eBay in the past. Would this setup be any good for the coming years? In case he wants to upgrade graphics soon he'll definitely have to use some other PSU, but other than that I think this would futureproof him for the time being? Hopefully this time it'll work out I appreciate your insights

Thanks for the heads up! I found a Crucial P3 Plus with 1TB for 41€ as an alternative This was the cheapest unit with that power output I was able to find from a reputable brand. I found a 650W unit from Cooler Master for only 4€ more, anything else is substantially more expensive. Oh wow, just watched a Der8auer video and selected the Liquid Freezer II 240 instead. 80€ instead of 120€ with better performance! Yeah I was shocked regarding the absolutely horrendous mITX AM5 mainboard availability. There's a grand total of 4 to 5 boards I was able to find and they're all super expensive. The cheapest one was the MSI B650I Edge, but I chose to go with a somewhat more expensive one in my configuration because this one has an VRM fan and I had bad experiences with high pitch fan noises with these kinds of things. The Asus ROG B650E-I Is the one I currently have configured and comes in at 280€. What exactly is the issue you experienced with the vertical daughterboards? What ports are they used for?

Hello all, I'm currently looking into buying a new system. I'm currently on a 2019 16" MacBook Pro that is slowly starting to be a worse and worse option for my hobby tasks as it is getting increasingly unreliable, probably thanks to Apple focusing on their Apple Silicon lineup. I initially considered buying a M2 MacMini, but the price for any reasonable spec is not worth it for me. I contemplated buying a Mini PC "MacMini killer" as shown on LTT (Minisforum), but I'm somewhat concerned about the noise under load (I absolutely hate fan noise) and the lack of upgrade paths. So my goal is to build a reasonably priced compact Mini ITX system that is somewhat future-proof and can be upgraded for a long time. My goal is to build a relatively power-efficient system that is relatively silent under normal use and reasonable under load. However, due to being relatively similar in price, I'm very unsure if I should go with current gen AMD or Intel. Do you have any input on that? My current configuration looks like that: 1TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus: 103€ Corsair Vengance DDR5-6000 32GB Kit: 106€ Lian Li x Dan H20-A4 Mini ITX Case: 158€ Be Quiet SFX-L 600W: 110€ beQuiet Silent Loop 2 240mm: 119€ As I said, I'm unsure regarding the platform to choose. A R9 7900 configuration with a suitable mainboard is roughly the same price (slightly more expensive) than an Intel 13700KF. I have no clue which benchmarks could be a useful indication for performance in my usecase, so I was hoping to get some help here. Regarding graphics card, I was lucky and got a hand-me-down 2070 Super for essentially free, which is more than enough for my purposes for now. I appreciate your input! Post Template Budget (including currency): 1.300 EUR max Country: Germany Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Light gaming (occasional Minecraft session) Software development work Virtualization (KVMs with Windows, Docker) Data analytics & computer vision Light video editing

Hey all, thanks for your suggestions. Its been a while, but I just wanted to share the path we've decided to go now. As I stated in the intro post, as a student, my brother is on a fairly tight budget. As it turns out, with his new schedule he'll definitely have to invest quite a bit into a new notebook which is priority #1. I still wanted him to have his desktop system at home which he still uses for occasional gaming (mostly CSGO and RocketLeague). Inspired by one of the recent LTT videos, we've decided to go with a clean install and to give AtlasOS a try. We'll also clean out his wayyy too dusty case and add new thermal paste in hopes to get temps back under control. He also said he wanted to give Linux a try which I definitely approve of, but that'll be in a dual boot way. To improve the overall experience a little bit I'll probably gift him a RAM upgrade and a bigger SSD as well, so he can dedicate his budget entirely to his new university machine. Although I did not end up choosing one of the suggested paths, thank you all for your ideas!

Its a prebuilt, but its not be the big vendors of the likes of Dell, HP, etc. As far as I am able to tell, there are no non-standard parts in the build. The only part that do not appear to be regularly purchasable off-the shelf parts is the mainboard and the RAM.

Funnily enough the non-G chip is 25€ more expensive than the G version. Is there any downside by going with the G version?

Budget (including currency): 250-300€ Country: Germany Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Python programming & light to medium simulations (CPU bound) Occasional gaming (CSGO, Minecraft) My younger brother is in desperate need of an upgrade. He's in his third semester of his math bachelor and is now facing some CS/Software engineering modules where he's supposed to build out small to medium projects primarily in python. His current PC is ~5 years old and was a prebuilt back then with the following components MSI GTX 1050 TI Some unbranded mico-ATX Board A 350W no-name PSU Intel 7000 series i5 8GB of RAM 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD He needs to by a new laptop as well (my hand me down is also not the greatest anymore) and wanted to by one of those Gaming machines. I recommended him to invest the markup into upgrading his desktops PC instead since they are usually way better value. Since he doesn't need a whole lot of mobile computing power, he wanted to go down that route. Being a student, he's on a fairly tight budget and the components should not dramatically exceed 250€ I'm currently considering the following replacement parts AMD Ryzen 5 5600G for CPU GIGABYTE B450M K Kingston FURY Beast DIMM Kit 16GB (currently has a slow 8GB DDR4) Western Digital WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD 1TB (will keep the current SATA SSD to dual boot Linux) With current prices, all of the components listed above would be around 280€ which would be in acceptable range. Should I re-consider anything before actually ordering?

Unfortunately resetting the BIOS didn't help either. But according to the BIOS event logs, the error exists since the end of November, which roughly aligns with my SSD replacement and me actually wanting to put this thing to use (it has been sitting on my desk for three weeks at this point). Is there a chance that I did mess up the power circuitry on the board (the screw did sit very tight and did require a decent amount of pressure to become loose)? If that did indeed happen, I guess there is not really a chance for me to fix it myself, right? I will definitely try to get in contact with the seller, but unfortunately they appear to be out of stock for these clients as well. Assuming I did indeed damage some part of the circuitry, what would be my best options to proceed? Visit some board level repair shop to let them take a look and see if they can fix it. I have no experience with these kinds of shops, but if the damage is relatively minor this should be fairly economical, right? Try and get a similar ThinClient CPU wise and use the RAM and SSD from my current one as donor parts to get it fully specced (seems like prices have increased dramatically, probably due to limited supply over the holiday season)?

Yes, it came with an OEM power supply unit. It also says 19V - 2.1A, so we should be fine there. Unfortunately I don't have anything to actually measure the voltage that being supplied by the PSU. However, I can't remember it having those issues on the first couple boots

Hello all, I recently purchased a refurbished Fujitsu S740 Thin Client with the Intention of using it as a small home server for some frequently used docker containers and home assistant. It came with 8GB RAM and a 16GB SSD (m.2 SATA). It seemed to work fine, but when I'm booting it up right now I am getting an error message along the lines of It initially seemed to work fine, but eventually it started showing this error message. I didn't really change anything about it, the only change I made was replacing the 16GB SSD with a 240 GB m2-SATA SSD (had to be a little bit rough with the screw holding in the factory assembled one, but made sure not to damage the board). Does anyone have an Idea what could cause this issue and how I could fix it? Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone, I'm looking for a decent yet affordable microphone setup for my homeoffice/discord/potentially voiceover needs. I just want to improve my audio quality since my current headset sounds like I'm screaming into a trashbin. I'm primarily going to use it for online conferences on MS Teams, voice chats on Discord and potentially Voiceovers for YouTube Videos. I did some research and from what I found, I came up with the following configurations: Rode Procaster XLR Mic (150€) M-Audio AIR 192|4 (105€) Rode PSA-1 Microphone Arm (75€) Config 2: Rode Podcaster Dynamic USB Mic (165€) Rode PSA-1 Microphone Arm (75€) Config 3: Rode Procaster XLR Mic (150€) Rode PSA-1 Microphone Arm (75€) Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen (101€) Is there a chance anyone here is working with one of those configurations and can share some feedback on the gear? Which setup would you choose? Do you have any alternative suggestions? Is the added cost of a XRL mic worth it? I appreciate your feedback!

Yeah you're probably right, while a ultrawide monitor looks pretty cool, its a bit overpowered. I think I'm better off purchasing the two 27" monitors you suggested and spending the money I have left towards a proper docking solution for my MBP and my work notebook

Not really a strict one. I'd set 1000€ as a hard limit for now for the cost of the complete monitor setup

Hey everyone, I'm looking into buying a new monitor for my homeoffice setup, which is long overdue. I'm currently starting at single 23" FHD monitor, which is less than ideal. I've been thinking about getting an Ultrawide monitor (LG 49WL95C-W or similar) or maybe two seperate monitors. My main focus is on productivity (programming + office work) with occasional casual gaming sessions. My main machine is a 2019 16" MBP. 1440p would be perfect, 60Hz is sufficient, more is appreciated nontheless. Do you have any suggestions on monitors, maybe from your own experience?