GeoffLucas

I don't but I tried the hack and it worked. Ordering a new battery. Thanks for the help.

Afternoon all, I have an older version of this Cyberpower 1500PFCLCD (https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/pfc-sinewave/cp1500pfclcd/). Last night it started sounding an alarm, kind of like a half-volume fire alarm. I don't remember exactly what I did to get it to stop the noise, I think I just unplugged it. It was clicking though, very lightly through the night. Anyway, this morning I've tried restarting it, in the outlet it was in and another downstairs on a different circuit. It keeps clicking but will will not turn on at all. I did notice a few nights ago that when I tried to use a small laser printer on the same circuit, but NOT plugged into the UPS, it caused the UPS to shut off completely killing everything connected to it. It didn't pop the circuits CB or the CB in the back of the UPS. I unplugged the printer from the wall and turned the unit back on. It registered full battery and no problems. I guess my question is has anyone seen this behavior before? Is it possible this is just the battery died and is keeping the unit from turning on? Or is it more likely the PCB shorted out. A new battery is like $60 to $80 and I would rather do that than get a whole new unit. It's had a new battery before, but didn't act anything like this. The unit is like 11 or 12 years old, so it just dying would not be that surprising. Thanks. Geoff

Meh. It's AT&T. There's a reason they've consistently been rated as the lowest scoring customer satisfaction of any major company. They basically lie, take advantage of customers, and provide piss-poor service.

Personally, I would probably try and salvage your current setup for another year or two. And then you can make it a NAS or something like that where quieter is better anyway. I would try a CPU cooler change to a quieter solution (a new fan can make a difference, an AIO solution, or even just messing with the fan curve in BIOS) and a bigger SSD for a couple games as a first step (you can get a 250GB model for $40 - $50). See if this makes it quiet enough and quick enough for you. If not, then I would consider an upgrade. Again, this is what I would do and I'm currently running a 7.5 year old computer (i7-3930k).

You have kind of a mixed bag in terms of uses and what I think most people would recommend. The 1080 will be noticeably better for gaming if you use 1440p / 4K or high-refresh rate monitors, game dependent obviously. If you're primarily going to be gaming with 1080p @ 60 hz (or are willing to lower some graphics settings) I would say the 1070 will do you fine, and the extra cores will potentially help quite a bit when you're streaming, IMHO,

Just wondering who said this?

They are in the minority in Tom's Hardware. So you're saying that no one can do a Google search to find this information if they're looking to build a new computer??? There a reason that LTT's explanation of i3, i5, i7 has 9.7M views. People that aren't as familiar with hardware go to these websites to get information when making purchases and while you're tech-savvy enough to know BS when you see it, not everyone is and they are the people that articles like this prey on.

I would say get whichever computer you like the looks of best. Check out their keyboards / screens in a store if you can to see if any are deal-breakers. Any of the computers you have above will be fine for that type of workload (realistically, even a couple of year old computer that had good starting specs would still work well for that workload). I wouldn't bother upgrading to the 8550u as it's main difference is slightly higher clock speeds and these won't be very noticeable in your workloads. None of them should be load enough to really notice under that workload. I can see that the Acer Swift 5 comes with an IPS screen which is always nice. The HPs seem to come with multiple versions of screens so be careful to know which one you're getting with them.

I ask in large part as best keyboards are pretty subjective and you would probably be best served by going to a store in person and trying keyboards. Looks are also subjective. Screen recommendations would lean heavily on intended uses - professional graphics design vs gaming vs general interneting would probably get very different responses.

What are you going to be doing in school?

Okay, and what about people that are getting into computers for the first time? What if they base their purchasing decisions on this when something like a discounted 1070 or 1080 would have served them just as well for less money.

Exceptionally stupid article. TH has lot all the credibility I thought they ever earned with me. To be fair, though, Huang was making a point about how much more power efficient it would be to run a server farm off of new GPUS, so you save money from lower energy costs. This point doesn't carry over to gamers in general as we're not running a server farm, though, so I wasn't sure why they were talking about it in the launch event for a consumer card.

Oh my bad. I did a search but didn't see it.

Anyone read the Tom's Hardware article: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-gpus-worth-the-money,37689.html and Gamer's Nexus response? I'll admit that I basically stopped reading the TH article when they were took Nvidia's internal benchmarks as absolute truth in support of purchasing a card - though I think we can all admit that Nvidia wouldn't try to find the best possible cases to show off their cards or cherry pick results. No component maker does that do they?

They sent me a box of shotgun ammo by mistake once. Kind of a pain in the butt to get rid of it.