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Hunt for this one. http://www.legitreviews.com/overclocking-msi-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-4g-oc-pushed-to-the-max_187385 Personally I would try and keep the systems total power draw below 184W Some guesstimate values GPU = 75W CPU = 77W Motherboard = No idea 25-80W depending on the model Fans ~5W per fan Ram = 3W HDDs max ~10W

Use what you have, just make sure the AP's don't have dhcp turned on. Generally speaking each AP should be able to handle up to 15 clients, given someone is not trying to saturate the AP. The AP's will do about 6-10MBps and the switch will handle 10-11MBps. Remember this when your network feels slow Use channel 1 and 11 and preferably put the AP's a decent distance away from one another If you have an old pc to play with, then look into RouterOS, PFsence or IPFire and go read about QOS. Good luck

Some questions How many devices are connecting? What equipment are you using? If you are only using 2 APs, then use channel 1 and 11 to further limit interference. Use a wifi scanner to see how saturated the spectrum is around you.

Installed a new power supply, turned the power on and snap crackle and pop as the psu fries the motherboard, GPU, ram and itself. PC shop gave me a refund on the psu, which was <10% of the total system replacement cost. Having my pc be infested with a gremlin called Murphy. Been troubleshooting everything for a week now, while trying to find out why my pc would randomly switch off or just crash without a bsod. All part of the PC game

Depending on your goals and how much time you want to spend I would suggest you start with the Windows Settings (Win+I) Start with system and move through the settings till you reach Updates and security. It takes a bit of time but it gives my pc more of a personal feeling. System will allow you to change notifications, multitasking things and some default applications. Devices; meh just look through it Network&internet -> ethernet -> change advance sharing settings -> check if you are happy with the defaults Personalization: go wild Account: skip, the control pannel has a better tool Time & language: Spend some time if you are not in USA. Im in South Africa and some of the settings were not correct Ease of access: check it but I normally skip it Privacy: Take a bit of time and go through it all Updates is a bit of an irritating one. To truly make this less of an irritation you need to google for the registry or group policy hack that allows windows to only notify you of updates. As long as the update isn't downloaded it will not try a force install, leaving you with a windows is updating screen for 10-40min This depends on how irritable M$ is to you. On my new installs I find they install random app crap like candy crush. I use iObit uninstaller to hunt them down and remove them. Next I would suggest looking at the power settings. The defaults annoy me in general, might be fine for you Depending on your laptop's capabilities I would look into hibernation over sleep. Mine has an ssd but a horrible battery, thus hibernate is preferred. Last little advance ones that I always do Partition the hard drive into 2 chunks. One for data and one for windows. Most of the user files like my documents, desktop and downloads can be remapped to the new partition. Setup backup software to image only the windows partition to the new data partition. In the event of windows crapping the bed you can just restore the image. Easus Todo and Macrium reflect have served me well. Keep another backup on an external hdd or another pc. Install glasswire. It is a simple firewall management utility, which gives you a lot of information about who your pc is talking with. Hope this helps

Good morning/afternoon/evening to you all In the last week my pc has shown me a bunch of wonderful new way to crashes, see attached images. Those crashes see to be due to nvidia drivers, but that seems to be fixed after a format. Along with those crashes my pc has switched off with no warning. In the one case I was just reading something on my browser and on the other I was playing Supreme commander, spanning 2 screens. Current configuration: CPU: i5 2500 OC to 4.0GHz (been running like this for 2 years) RAM: 2 x 8 GB Corsair vengeance CL9 1600MHz + 2 x 4 GB Adata CL9 1600MHz (Not the best combination, but it has been working) GPU: MSI 1050ti 4GB (No 6pin connector) SSD: 128GB Samsung 840evo PSU: Corsair TX 750 Motherboard: GA-P67A-UD3 (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3698&dl=1#ov) Windows 10 Pro What I have tried: Format windows Got rid of the coloured crash screen Removed all oc and xmp. Ran valley benchmark 3 times and was stable Evaluated Event viewer and found no errors during the benchmark Restored CPU OC Ran LinX with a 16GB problem set along with Kombuster's frame buffer filling stress test PC ran at 100% cpu load @4GHz at 79C Ram was filled to 20/20 GB GPU used the full 4GB frame buffer Test period 20min System was stable 2017.02.04 Removed the 1050ti and installed my old 660 PC powered down when starting supreme commander FA Struggling to replicate the behavior 2017.02.05 May today be the end of this crap Stripped the pc in its entirety and took a few hours to clean and inspect every nook and cranny. All parts were photographed during the process. The motherboard Inspected the are under the slots to remove the dust that might have settled in ther Found a little dust bunny lodged under my PCI-E lane between the pins Inspected all slots for dust partials and damaged pins Inspected all capacitors for ovality, buldges, leakage and superficial damage Inspected all power connectors for damage or burn spots Clleaned and replaced the thermal paste as the paste was more of a putty than a goo. PSU: The warranty was up so decided to remove the lid and see if all was still well in there Cleaned the fan Cleaned 6years worth of dust Inspected the capacitors for signs of damage Resembled the psu and tested it before using it again Removed some redundant case lighting Redid cable management to remove any possible pinch points Testing Ran Aida 64 for 30min passed Included a picture of a shorter run after the temps had stabilized 2017.02.13 The Pc randomly powered down again. As a next step I was investigating my psu's different voltages (3.3V, 5V and 12V) for deviations exceeding 5%. For the evaluation I used a multi-meter rather than software. Measurements were taken at molex and sata connectors All the voltages are within tolerance and did not shift regardless of idle or load conditions. I think my initial gpu crash were due to windows driver issues. After allowing windows to do all its updates, the problem went away.

I upgraded my system and had 2 x 1TB drives to play with. For my experiment I split the drives into half and then format one half as a simple volume and then combine the other half into a striped volume. The gains were not special compared to my SSDs, but this led me to a different idea. If I were to take 100GB from my 5 drives and create a new striped volume, then I should have a nice scratch disk area that leaves the rest of the data alone in the event of a drive failure. I am not expecting the same performance as hardware raid and I am expecting soso scaling due to the full drive not being used. Overall I found the idea interesting, but I am not as knowledgeable as many of the form members and would appreciate comments/warnings/advice on the idea. Thanks in advance!

The old gpu seem to have survived, but I am planning on giving my GTX 660 to them as an alternative.

Background My family had been using a Ivy bridge system as their daily driver(surfing the web, writing documents and occasional playing sims2) since 2012. The system had no problems aside from a PSU which was nearing end of life. I purchased a new PSU only to install it and see a nice plume of magic smoke. The PSU unfortunately pulled a kamikaze and took out the motherboard. I cannot leave them with this mess and need help to find a suitable low end replacement. Required Cheap i3 or better DDR3 comparable (Upgrading my system, so I have some spare) Desired information Please advise on which chipsets and Intel CPU generation would be a good fit. For reference I am also including a link to one of South-Africa's cheaper pc shops. R1.00 (zar) = $0.07 (usd) https://www.rebeltech.co.za/7-intelcpus

Thank you for the inputs. @slightlyjaded and @Sauronthe sandy bridge might not be cutting edge, but moving to a new platform will cost the same as four of my car payments. Thus being cutting edge with a horrible return on investment is worthless to me. @BloodyWaters Then there might be a 1050ti in my future. I unfortunately have to little free time to justify higher end GPUs. @Narnash and @middleclasspoor Well I was running Numerical Fluid and Structure models on it with no real difference between me an a friend who was running a Haswell i5. Given that was a ways back. @Sauron The engineer in me has been screaming for a new toy, but yes I cannot find a logical reason to upgrade aside from wanting to have the feeling of having a blazing fast new pc, like in the pentium4 to core2 days. Thus my conclusion is that there is no reasonable reason to upgrade the architecture at this time, but to rather use the funds to improve other reusable components/peripherals/infrastructure

A long time ago when I was still an engineering student I built a Sandy bridge system to handle all my CAD models, numerical modelling and reports. Over the years the system has received a few upgrades in the form of RAM, a SSD and newer GPU. A reasonable amount of time has passed since then and Now in 2017 I am looking at the CES coverage (on my Sandy bridge system) and still wondering if there is any real reason to replace it? At the moment I am looking to upgrade the RAM from 8GB to 16GB and then to install a Nvidia 1050ti for casual gaming. A summary of my current system is shown below.

Good luck with the project

I currently do energy optimization/auditing for a living and I have to agree, a PC is not a priority in the optimization process. Heating/cooling will be the dominant power consumer, lighting should be second. Even knowing that justifying component replacement is difficult. The only time I would recommend that a home user buys the most efficient product, is when they are producing the electricity feeding it or if the product needs to be replaced. In summary a normal consumer will save more money just thinking about what they are doing, then by replacing components. Note all of what I said flies out the window when you start looking at commercial operations or consumer specified operational criteria

Depending on how the compressor works a few things might happen. I doubt the compressor will break unless the system’s massflow gets so unbalance that the compressor is flooded with liquid refrigerant. My guess is you will reach a point where the fridge will sound like it died when the compressor is switching off the whole time to try and protect its self. If you can find an "Absorption Refrigeration system" (camping fridges that use a small flame) it might become a bit more interesting.

The newer verision(2.2.1) seems to have fixed a lot of the stability problems of 2.2.0. One of the features which can make VLC very handy, if you have multipal machines, is the "resume playback" feature. If you do a little bit of extra setup you can sync the positions between machines. This allows you to consume media on your main machine, get up and walk to another machine and continue where you left off. A better method to streaming audio over vlc is to use the capture and streaming service together. Then you just switch the audio player to play the audio on the channel you are capturing. Using this method you access the content using a link on nearly any browser on your network/internet.