KhakiHat

M1 chips far outperform any of the Intel model based MacBooks

Are you buying this from a certified retailer or just a random individual? If they weren't certified and they attempted to replace the battery, it would break the warranty

If those are the only thing you are wanting to accomplish then you should be fine from a performance needed standpoint. Assuming this individual actually changes the battery, as this device is a tablet really, hardly a laptop. Having said that, if you are looking to keep the device long-term, it's not upgrade-able. So if anything were to fail on the device, it would be a major headache to try and replace or fix anything. EDIT: How much was it being sold for?

If you want something that has the best chance of not losing data, setting up something with raid would be optimal(multiple drives working together). RED WD drives are a higher tier than the BLUE if I remember correctly. Maybe the only difference initially would be that the BLUE drive would be a newer HDD than the older RED HDD, so there might be some performance improvements solely on the fact that old HDD are usually horrible

This may help https://condusiv.com/sequential-io-always-outperforms-random-io-on-hard-disk-drives-or-ssds/

What are you trying to use the laptop for? Like just generally use it or for as specific purpose?

If you have a turbo boosting esk mode on, you could try disabling it to see if there is a performance equilibrium. I found when my Intel i9-10900K was in a turbo mode, even tho there was "more" performance to go around, my PC crashed constantly and had constant stutters. After disabling turbo boost specifically(because turbo boost is unique to Intel), all of my PC issues ceased.

So it's really sounding like I should just deal with the cord and buy a better corded soldering iron XD XD

I didn't even know there was such a thing

I've been looking for a new cordless soldering iron. I've had the same $30 Adafruit soldering iron for 3 or so years now, works great, but I'm sick of the cord. Hakko Soldering Irons are generally considered some of the best(from what I've seen based on the community) but they're corded and I'm looking for something a little less tethered. Here and there I have seen all sorts of cordless soldering irons whether they be rechargeable by usb-c or micro usb, but I'm unsure of the quality. There have been complaints about not reaching the specified temps the soldering irons claim or the batteries dying far too quickly. If anyone has any recommendations from personal experience, I'm all ears.

I mean you could probably run Black ops at 30 fps, 720p, and low settings with that hardware

Have you messed with your BIOS settings at all? Anything to do with you RAM or CPU settings? If you have, you could also try resetting your BIOS back to factory settings just to see if that may fix something that was set off balance. Though a noob question, is all of the hardware seated properly?

What is the monitor model? Brand, etc.? Edit: I know seemingly simple, have you tried just unplugging it and plugging it back in to see if it would stop? I feel like I've had monitors kinda act clunky but then after just unplugging them they go back to normal in some cases.

There is probably a setting you can change on the monitor itself.

You need a lot of cores for your CPU and the more RAM the merrier

You might need a larger PSU(wattage wise) for a little breathing your for your GPU and CPU, you'd probably be running the PSU at max load a lot while playing games. Edit: If you're tight on cash(I doubt it because of the 3080), you could swap your case for a cheaper one, to better spend money on the parts and components themselves. Also 3080's are hella difficult to come by. I only got a 3080 ti because I was lucky to get selected for the Newegg raffle haha.

That UI interface actually looks super sleek. The Intel Celeron that I ordered is a dual-core with 4 threads, but being that mine will be using DDR4, it'll probably compare to that build ngl. Assuming I can configure it properly. I'm assuming that there are guides on using Unraid, I'm not familiar with that though. Is that image the main face of the software/OS? Or is that just a window you can open?

I see on the VM part now, I can see how that would make things way easier. I was definitely mixing up bytes and bits but alright!

As far as servers that will be hosted. Most likely just a few minecraft servers for my friends and I. I say a few because of vanilla and modded. So nothing too out of this world. I haven't experienced any issues with needing IP protection, I was just curious if it is a precaution I should take just to be on top of things in general. I can look into running a hypervisor like proxmox while running a VM. Would running a VM be necessary if it is at such a small scale? Or is just for the separation between PC resources and vulnerability? And fair enough on wattage concern. You're probably not wrong, I think the Celeron's max wattage is 58W but you'd probably really have to push it even get that. I planned on bottle-necking the server PC with around 200MB/s for down speeds just to keep other devices on my network running smoothly. My up speeds are around 39MB/s.

Recently I decided to build a budget PC to host a server at home for games I have been playing, as I usually end up paying a host to host a server for my friends and I. I went with lower end parts but stayed in the more consumer market as I'm not trying to dilly dally with an actual server rack. SO, here is my plan. I went with current generation parts for Intel, an example being a ASRock B560M micro ATX moba that has an LGA 1200 socket for instance. I paired it will an Intel Celeron CPU that is clocked @ 3.5GHz, 8GB of Patriot Viper 4 DDR4 RAM(running in dual channel I believe), a 120GB SSD as I am only storing the server files for a few games at a time, and finally a Corsair Fully Modular SF series 450w Gold Rated PSU. Hopefully, I will also run a no fluff linux distro to save on resources and storage space that I could use for the servers themselves being hosted. My question is what may go wrong that I didn't account for? Hosting on this scale is obviously just the tip of the iceberg but is there anything I should do even regarding IP protection that I may not know of? Should I try and run a linux server distro or just a generic linux distro like Ubunto, or should I go into my bios and underclock the CPU and RAM to save on power costs? As the servers will likely be running 24/7? I should also mention that I'm not very worried about bogging down my internet connection as it is only myself using the network mostly. I have unlimited data clocked at 1200MB/s down. I'd love to hear your thoughts! I am very open to changing up the setup(keeping these parts but changing the BIOS, network, software, and OS configurations) to maximize speeds and efficiency within warranted reason. EDIT: Build list https://newegg.io/1f755dc

With the G15 you are probably gonna lose out on performance unless you manually turn it to 1080p, it has a 1440p display which maybe sounds good but with a 3060 it isn't very realistic Edit: Even with my i9-10900k, 3080 ti, and 128gb of 3200mhz ram I have trouble playing on the highest settings a game can offer at 1440p with consistently good frames

GPU's are basically rare art pieces now ngl, being the whole market is wack XD

If you have a soldering iron, you could try gettng some desoldering wick to suck up all the loose metal. If so, I would go into it thinking that the GPU is already lost. Buy a cheap $30 soldering iron and see what happens. But whatever caused that initially if not fixed will likely just happen again even if you replace that broken part.

Does the GPU need secondary power outside of being in a PCI slot? Make sure those connectors are plugged in properly if so, on both the GPU side and the PSU side(if your PSU is modular). Does the PC have integrated graphics? That would be a simple way of checking if it is a GPU problem or a OS problem. Remove the GPU and try to boot off of the display connection port directly on the motherboard. If you know already that it isn't the GPU, you may need to do a windows reinstall. If you need to recover any files, you can make bootable linux drive just to save some files you want or need from your SSD or HDD, really whatever you run the PC on as far as storage goes. After I upgraded to my 3080 ti, I had a similar situation and had to reinstall windows and use a bootable USB drive to recover my files.

The Corn brand has been around for awhile now, I think they got popular on the Wish app first and other apps housed outside of the U.S. like banggood and alibaba. They kinda just seem like a low quality version of part but that's not to say they don't actually work out