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They allow me to test if before buying, id there anything I should test for?

Too bad I am using a 1155 socket motherboard. If I have to change my CPU, then I need a new motherboard and RAM too...

Just notice that there are some chinese words, don't mind it

I just saw this deal on facebook, it's a second hand workstation cost around USD$450. Should I buy it or not? I want to turn it into a rendering / gaming server. HP Z420 Workstation CPU Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 1650 V2 3.5G 6 Core 12 Threads CPU (12M Cache, 3.5GHz,) (Socket 2011 LGA)- Windows 7 Pro show 12 粒 CPU Ram 16GB DDR3 ram PC3-14900E 13-13-D1 1866Mhz Hard disk 1TB SATA HDD , DVD-RW Video Card Nvidia Quadro K4000 3GB Ram GDDR5 (samsung) 192bit (有 DVI X1 , 2個 display port 輸出)可同時輸出三個 Monitor GPU-Z speed GPU Clock : 811Mhz , Memory : 1404Mhz, Boost : 811Mhz Intel Gigabyte Lan Here's my current build. CPU Intel Core i7 (3rd Gen) 3770 / 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Chipset Intel H77 Express LGA1155 Socket RAM 16 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz Display Card Zotac GTX 960 4GB GDDR5X Storage Samsung EVO 850 500GB WD Green 3TB 5400 RPM Seagate 2TB 7200RPM

Not really, because Hong Kong is using One Country Two System, it is separated but China is still our country. The IT market is huge since there are too many people, but I guess they are not really well paid compare to Hong Kong.

I know lol. But I don't do a lot of rendering everyday. I just don't want the computer occupied. Do you get what i mean? And I thought about making it into a render farm but it seems adobe doesn't support network rendering

Hello guys, I have an XPS 8500 at home, I would like to replace it with new motherboards and CPU. Here's are the specification of my XPS 8500 CPU Intel Core i7 (3rd Gen) 3770 / 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Chipset Intel H77 Express LGA1155 Socket RAM 16 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz Display Card Zotac GTX 960 4GB GDDR5X Storage Samsung EVO 850 500GB WD Green 3TB 5400 RPM Seagate 2TB 7200RPM Due to i7-3770 is still very good CPU, I want to keep it and use it as a secondary backup computer for rendering videos. Here's my plan of the new build: CPU AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Motherboard Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3 ATX AM4 OR ASRock AB350M Pro4 B350, DDR4, AM4 Socket, M.2 Socket, USB3.1 Gen1,1xType-C,M.ATX M/B RAM Crosair - Vengeance LPX 16GB(2x8GB) DDR4-2400 OR Kingston DDR4 2400MHz 8GB (2x8GB) Ram KVR24N17S8/8 / KCP424NS8/8 Display Card Zotac GTX 960 4GB GDDR5X ( From Old PC ) Power Supply EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply Storage Samsung EVO 850 500GB ( From Old PC ) WD Green 3TB 5400 RPM ( From Old PC ) I am not a RGB guy so anything the performs well and not too expensive will be fine enough. Please do give some comment about the build! Thank you!

We call ourselves IT Dog in Hong Kong, its self-deprecating that we do what people asked. Everyting in the office that is broken, the colleague will come for us. Seriously, I am IT guy not an electrician. We have to develop mobile app, maintain websites with super low budget and short period of time.

But the society is filled with tons of business degree holder lol Hire 100 business and 1 IT

Really sad to hear that It feels like IT degree worth less than business degree

Small companies in Hong Kong can’t even invest a little bit of money to backup their data to a cloud or to a NAS. This makes me hope there would be cyber attacks to give them a lesson.

Apologize for the bad english. I meant if the companies wanted to lower their budget, they will dismiss the IT Department first. Few large companies had devastating incident like supermarket POS malfunction after they dismiss the IT department LOL.

Hello guys! I have been watch linustechtips for a while and just joined this forum! I would like to share some of my thoughts about the place I live, Hong Kong. For some basic information, Hong Kong is a city of China that is a special administrative region, which means that Hong Kong is like a different country with sperates laws and society. In Hong Kong, IT is very important since every bit of data runs through computers and mobile phone. But somehow, people don’t seems to treasure us that much. Since IT is like a supporting industry that works behind the stage. If we did our job well, they won’t notice anything. But if something goes wrong, it’s our fault. And IT is not a “money-making” department, so most of thr companies like even large banks fire IT guys first for lowering the budget. I can understand why people do this, since rather keeping a 30 something years old employee with high salary, they fire him and hire 2 fresh graduate with the same amount of money. That’s why people would like to start IT company in Hong Kong than working for companies, but the rent and electriciy costs are way too high. So, I would like to ask for some opinions in Linus Community. Do you think you can relocate and leave the homeland that you love, just for starting up a company that may not work at last?