Jay Deah

i wouldnt spend that much on a DDR3 platform. maybe half that

that CPU will not fit into your current motherboard so its not a simple upgrade. the only thing re-usable would be your ram but 8GB of DDR3 ram is worth hardly anything anyway mtherboards for 3rd gen intel systems sell for strong money so they offer very poor value. i would not recommend investing money in a 3rd gen processor+mobo as its money thrown after a dead platform.

Why do you want to swap the board? Is it faulty? if not you can fit the dell motherboard into a standard atx case and with a few minor adaptions have it work fine. If if the board is dead then buy the cheapest 97 chipset you can. You don’t need a Z series as your chip isn’t overxlockable anyway. The dell board is a Q97 which is actually pretty good!

agree. its interested how you have a system with a K CPU and H chipset vs a non-K and Z chipset!

8gb to 12 or 16 is a worthwhile upgrade, means you don’t have to close everything down for a good gaming experience you can just use your PC as normal without worrying about RAM usage. i’d keep an eye out for local second hand bargains as DDR3 can be had for cheap that way.

I’d be checking temperatures on things as a first point. Over time dust builds up and thermal compounds go off and older coolers can very easily fail to keep things cool and stable. If this is the issue it’s an easy fix so definitely check it first. also these crashes aren’t necessarily hardware issues they can be caused by issues in OS/Drivers/Software so don’t just jump to swapping out hardware

Firstly, i'm an ESXi guy... so im biased towards it... what to use would depend on what you want to learn and why... if its's just the Microsoft certification then use Hyper-V. as that's far more relevant and all the lab things interface with that super-easy. infact you dont even need windows server they have labs for all their exams that will run off of windows 10. If on the other the and you want to learn about enterprise virtualisation then use either Hyper-V or ESXi. these are the 2 big players in the market. vSphere is arguably better but comes with a huge pricetag so you'll tend to find it in larger and/or older organisations. Hyper-V is catching up to ESXi in the functioanlity space, but sicne it is included with the windows license you buy anyway to license the VMs it has a much lower licensing cost, and so is VERY attractive to organisations. If you come across things like proxmox, unraid etc. in the workplace they'll tend to be smaller, crappier companies.

Docker for Windows has 2 modes, if you’re not running Linux containers put it in Windows container mode as that doesn’t use hyper-v at all.

Ah yes thanks I’ve gotten 58/79 muddled up! thanks

Just looking on my local marketplace and i see an i7-920 system with a P6X58D-E board. https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6X58DE/HelpDesk_CPU/ I've got a few spare E5-2670 CPUs and got me thinking could i fit that into the board. Asus only list the i7s as supported, but its not clear if thats an "offically supported" or "only these will work, no Xeons" anyone know for sure?

Please remember that there are users other than gamers who buy laptops. These cards are not GTX branded ‘gaming’ cards so why you would even think they’re aimed at gamers? For example my work laptop (Lenovo t480) has an MX150 GPu. It’s not a gaming laptop.

Depends on use case. 9900k is currently best for gaming but there are lots of other ‘best of’ categories out there

Please take a picture of the sticker on the PSU and the cables that you have available. This information will be sufficient for people to know for sure if it can/will work or not. there are 3 possibilities berr 1 - it won’t work 2 - it will work but could catch fire and burn your house down killing your whole family 3 - it will work, and be safe. without the facts we can only assume the worse case scenario and advise ‘don’t do it’ but if the facts show it is safe then that’s a different story

have a look at these mini PCs https://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-nuc8i7hvk-hades-canyon-vr-gaming-nuc-i7-8809g-w-radeon-rx-vega-m-gh-graphics-4gb-hbm2-ddr4-2x?source=hx1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwh6XmBRDRARIsAKNInDFpD2FfUODedNpacXZW2RPEJYZvH1kKu3C_y5dWtlemlkKy9GYlObIaAp_jEALw_wcB basically if you want 4K AAA Gaming then you'll be forced down a path with a beefy GPU as thats seriously demanding. All your other requirements are fine tho! if you ditched the gaming requirement you could run it all off a tiny PC: https://www.amazon.co.uk/W5-Windows-Computer-1-83GHz-Bluetooth/dp/B076D5SX9T/ref=asc_df_B076D5SX9T/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310708967400&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=578202952445009171&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045060&hvtargid=pla-692511359182&psc=1 Also what about using steamlink/gamestream or similar? what way the TV PC has a low end processor and strerams games over the network from a beefier PC in the same house. if the main PC is capable of 4k then it should work.

These chip have a type of thermal paste inside them that isnt brilliant and means nomater what cooler you throw on them you end up with those sort of high temps as the die cant transfer the heat to the IHS and away fast enough. look up some videos on "delidding" to see what people do to rectify this. It's will utterly void your warranty tho. the temps you are seeing are not a concern, so if youre happy with everything else just pat yourself on the back and move on. Feel free to give 5Ghz @ 1.35v a try too, it seems most people can achieve this with ease.

i ran a GTX970 on mine and also a 1080ti the 1080ti performed great, but i couldn't push it to its limit, probably around 80% utilization. Yes i could have bought a cheaper GPU and got a similar experience, but then a few months later i upgraded the rest of the system so the 1080ti wasnt wasted.

The key thing people forget about this area is requirements around availability. What is your required availability, how much downtime can you afford to have etc. if your server breaks and it takes you a week to fix it, have you gonna bankrupt already? servers are about a lot more than raw spec/horsepower. It’s more about availability and redundancy oh and yes for a small business absolutely think about cloud!

Back in the day CPUs didn’t have dedicated Virtualisation support and the products used a method called ‘binary translation’ to enable virtual machines to work. Nowadays since Virtualization eztensions are built straight into the CPU most virtualisation software has dropped support for binary translation so you can only use it on supported hardware. I could you could run an older hypervisor like ESX3 but there’s really no point doing this

Daily updates are normal. It’s just the antivirus product updating its database of new viruses that get discovered.

I doubt you’ll experience any better gaming experience with an upgraded CPU. You already have a well balanced powerful system that should give you great experiences. save your money and take the wife and kids on a weekend away instead

https://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-OptiPlex-780/3883 personally i'd keep an eye out for a newer optiplex like a 9010 as the "Core iX" generation systems are a big step up form the "Core2" generation and on the used market theres npt a huge difference in price. you'll also benefit from things like USB3.0 and better PCIe Gen3.0. my old PC was a Optiplex 9010 re-homed in a standard ATX case with a GTX Card in it, and its still a damn useable system now many many years later... ...The Core2Quad systems i had have i either scrapped or sold on facebook marketplace for about £20

this will show you what other people with optiplex 9010s run... looks like everyone uses 3rd gen intel i3/i5/i7. so if you bought a 2nd gen it'd be a risk https://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-OptiPlex-9010/829

If your question is ‘should I buy this mknitor’ Then i’d Say yes even if you can’t drive it to it’s fullest, it’s not going to go obsolete any time soon.that said if you want to pay some competitive esports games then take a look at 1080p 120+he monitors as the extra refresh rate mkes a huge difference. casual single player gaming 60fps is fine as you don’t need lightning fast reactions etc

Ok, ignore all the people advising you to upgrade your GPu, they haven’t understood about the fact you’re using GeForce now. Can you post what motherboard / system you have and we can check which processor is the best you can fit on that board. Also keep an an eye on your local second hand marketplace for full PC systems that can be picked up for cheap with better specs that what you already have, you want to be careful not to spend too much money on upgrading your PC as that will have been money wasted when you finally go to upgrade it. also what kind of experience are you currently getting with your system?

If your budget is low then keep your eyes peeled on the second hand market. Can get some good stuff for cheap. i picked up a complete system with an i5-7400, 1060 3GB for £250 recently unfortunately cheap new kit is often of poor ‘value’