Jay Deah

I sold a 3770 / 16gb / 1050ti system for £500 recently but took us few months to shift. Had a few easy £350 offers

He optiplex has a seperate front panel and power connections. The power switch is simple to reword but the front panel not so much.as long as you can live without the extra USB2 ports and front panel audio the simplest thing to do is short 2 of the ground pins (can’t remember which but it’s 2 in the middle of the connector) and then that’ll stop the ‘front panel not connected’ error on boot

Yes, you short the ground pins and it will work... this is already documented on the forum

Low end nvidia quadros should do the trick

I’d keep an eye out for good deals on 3770s the motherboards of 3rd gen Intel seem to by dying off regularly around this age and so there will be a few people selling their 3770 chips on when their mobo dies. if you can do the upgrade for cheap then by all means do it, but if you’re paying strong money you’re probably better off selling what you have now and buying a Newer platform.

Be careful of scams, but if it’s all good then yes that’s a nice deal and a worthwhile upgrade

Just grabbed an old dell vostro and was contemplating upgrading it, recasing it and shifting it on. the max processor it supports is the E8600, my thoughts are that this is too weak for any sort of gaming even fortnite, so therefore not worth bothering with. Anyone care to confirm/deny this who has experience of the core2duo processors? I

2nd / 3rd Gen Core i5 / i7 processors on LGA1155 / DDR3 are still capable systems by modern standards. The Pentium is pretty weak and you have hardly any RAM, but find an i5/i7 and some ram cheap on the second hand market and you can bring your system up to a good place for cheap. i recently sold and i7 3770 (LGA1155) 16GB DDR3 based System for £500, so certainly not old junk!

Those board still command good money so it’s not great value to buy one.that said if you want afford the jump to a DDR4 platform then you’re options are limited. maybe investigate a repair? I’m sure some places can do mobo repairs?

I once watched a great talk where the guy put hackers into 2 types. 1 - Mossad 2 - Not Mossad mossad are the kind of organisation that could use this vulnerability to get your data. They also have apache gunship helicopters, green berets and machine guns. if Mossad want my data, they don’t need to hack it off my gaming PC they simply knock on my door with a mildly intimidating army type and ask politely, i’ll Give them my data. not Mossad on the other hand lives in their mum’s basement and wouldn’t have a clue how to actually exploit such an exploit to get the data.

Enderman has absolutely nailed it with a perfect analogy. these hardware vulnerabilities are not the sort of thing average consumers need to care about one. The only reason you even hear about them is they get YouTube views so people are talking about them. far far far more serious vulnerabilities are discovered every month and get no coverage so you never realise they’re even a thing.

This zombieload thing is getting blown out of all proportions. Honestly it’s not worth factoring that into any buying decision it’s just background noise. When choosing your next processor definitely consider AMD but choose based on real reasons of what best meets your requirements and budget.

Don’t get too exited about these HT vulnerabilities. This isn’t a serious concern for the average consumer. The amount of media coverage is not equal to the risk of the vulnerability. for example there was a windows rdp bug found recently so scary that Microsoft even went back and released a patch for XP... 10000000000000x higher risk to people than these HT issues yet not interesting for the tech influencers so no coverage.

Yournissue is unlikely going to be related to the PCIe slot either a driver issue or an issue with the card etc. I’f Be looking to tplink for support

I recently switched from cpu based encoding to quicksync accelerated encoding on an i3 6th gen. it has had a 20x performance boost! do not underestimate the performance gain of Quicksync acceleration in plex. based on that, I’d reccomend the i3 as I assume the Xeon doesn’t have quicksync (and I can’t be arsed to look it up)

i think the best thing to remember here is that you want to K.I.S.S Keep It Simple Stupid i agree with everytihng dalek has said, a QNAP/Synology will do what you need it to do PLUS they have some very simple and easy to use modes on them so that you dont need to be a GURU to set it up. if for whatever reason you can't do that, then i'd be looking at running Windows Server Essentials: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-essentials/get-started/get-started it's somewhere in between the NAS option and the "proper" server option, it simplifies a lot of things the opther thing to bear in mind is that with this centralised server setup you introduce a single point of failure, all your data is on this one server and if it breaks, everything breaks. for this reason make sure whatever you use had redundancy! and backups! hard drives fail... its not a case of if, its a case of when... make sure at the MINIMUM you go for a solution with redundant drives. make sure youre in a position so that when it breaks your biggest stress is getting the thing up and running as quickly as possible, as opposed to worrying about writing your CV when you realize the data is lost forever and the company's about to go bankrupt!

http://quest4.org/ccna/subnet_cheat_sheet.htm

so it will be a mATX board that'll fit into any standard ATX case. the power button is a non-standard layout, you can cut off the original power button cable and connect the wires to a standard power switch. The PSU connectors will be standard (4 pin and 24pin ATX) the front panel connector will be a pain to re-wire so just live without HDAudio. the USB2 and USB3 headers are standard ones. The fan connectors are dell 5pin so either use a 5pin->4pin adapter cable form MODDIY.COM or use the standard Dell fans from the dell case. I did this on my 3770 based optiplex and it was fine. heres a video ScienceStudio did recently:

82 isn’t anything to be scared of. These chips run very hot.

Unless you’re allergic to money don’t do either.

Don’t be scared by these HT vulnerabilities. Mountain out of a mole hill. It’s not exactly ‘fake news’ bit more like ‘fox news’

You can but it’s not trivial and honestly I wouldn’t bother just grab yourself some cheap android TV sticks and use that. Super simple. run plex server on the mac and plex for android on the TVs and you’ll have a great experience.

Honestly I’d buy an old switch off eBay and just use that, any old layer3 switch will do as long as it’s not so old it runs catos! however when it comes to passing the exam you really don’t need any hands on experience it’s all very hypothetical. And infact often hands on can harm you as for the practical sections you have to solve them using certain commands that in the real world you wouldn’t bother with and you’d just do a ‘show run’ as for subnetting, again practical doesn’t really help it’s all maths. Best advise anyone ever fave me is learn how to draw out a grid of subnetting like a cheat sheet. Then the first thing you do when you get into the exam is draw out your cheat sheet and use that to look up all the answers for the rest of the exam!

Forget all this ‘bottlenecking’ talk people repeat from YouTube videos. Buy whatever card fits your budget and use case. Maybe a high end card like a 1080ti won’t be able make 100% use out of it you’ll still get a great experience. then when you later come to upgrade your CPU, you don’t need to replace the GPu you just carry on using the one you’ve got. i personally ran a 3770 with a 970 and it was a great experience. Pubg’s uniptimised nonsense made me upgrade to a 1080ti and it performed great. later I went to an 8700k and yes it was a better experience than the 3770 but by no means was the 3770 ever bad.

the problem is PUBG is horribly un-optimised and you need a stupid crazy system to run it well. yes you could go out and spend money on an 8600,8700,9700,9900 etc. and it would struggle less on vikendi, but is it really worth the $$$ ? personally i run a 5Ghz 8700k / 1080ti @ 1440p with similar settings to you and it copes ok with vikendi. but thats a LOT of money to spend on a system just to play a game with slightly less stutter!