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8 hours ago, SmoocheeWallace said:

OK, so when you create a media device for a usb boot drive for a clean install, the SSD that had windows still keeps all the data that was on it right? Im guessing I should still back it up though correct? Any recommendations on a good free backup software?

yeah, as long as you don't accidentally install windows in the wrong area (i personally disconnect every drive except my new boot drive when I'm installing windows just so I don't have to worry about that, then I reconnect them after windows is installed.)

7 minutes ago, SmoocheeWallace said:

if I were to do a clean install, what happens to all the data on the old SSD that used to have windows 10 on it?

you'd still be able to access that data and you could manually copy stuff over onto your new drive, at least that's what I've done every time I've upgreaded my boot drive.

As for whether to clone or do a clean install, I've never tried cloning the drive so I don't have any input here. I know from experience copying stuff over can be a bit annoying, but idk if you'd run into issues cloning either.

that's a m.2 SSD, it connects to a slot like this on the motherboard

you probably destroyed that drive by plugging it into a SATA power connector.. Disconnect it from the power supply and hopefully your pc will boot again, otherwise you'll probably need at minimum a new PSU.

something like https://www.amazon.com/100-240V-Transformers-Switching-Applications-Connectors/dp/B077PW5JC3/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=12v+power+supply&qid=1634073766&sr=8-3 would be a real cheap way to do it, you don't need like a pc power supply.

It probably depends on how your school monitors students, if you're just signing into another microsoft account your school should only be able to monitor stuff directly tied to that microsoft account.

I've got a NH D15 and yeah I can confirm it's plenty quiet. Just make sure you pick a good case, GamersNexus does really great in depth case reviews, their case review playlist is https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsuVSmND84QtrMP_niRTD2zIa3uUhxIvn.

If you want even better thermals and you don' think you need the extra cores on the 5700G you could probably get a 5600G because at least what i see at https://www.anandtech.com/show/16824/amd-ryzen-7-5700g-and-ryzen-5-5600g-apu-review/11 they're pretty close in iGPU performance.

does it look like this? (without the boxi just copied it from an amazon listing)

Those are fan splitters, they let you connect multiple fans to the same fan header on your mobo (in case you have too many fans or not enough mobo headers or whatever else)

every time someone asks when the gpu shortage will be over they add another 5 minutes to the shortage

was this previous computer a pre built one? people like hp and dell like to manufacture e waste by making their power supplies useless on everything else.

If it was anold computer and has a 20 pin instead of a 24 pin it should still work, I just wouldn't recommend using a power supply that old

do they have any stickers or engraving on them? you might find the model number that way.

is anything else plugged into the usb ports? "USB Device Over Current Status Detected ! !" sounds like either something attached to the usb port is broken or the usb ports themselves are broken/shorted.

a 240mm liquid cooler seems a bit excessive on a 5600x to me (but there's nothing really wrong with it), other than that the build looks fine.

with a 6700XT I'd get the Optix MAG322CQR-002 because you definitely have the gpu power to run it at 1440p, Unless you really want 240HZ for like ultra competitive gaming idk. 165HZ refresh rate is pretty good too, and the Optix MAG322 or whatever also seems to have the same brightness as the acer one (I think, I can't read german but I assume both of them say 300 cd/m^2)

the gpu market doesn't make any sense right now. don't think too hard about it.

I could probably sell my RX580 for 400 dollars right now...

if you know how to solder (like pipe soldering, not electronics soldering) you could try (i don't know anything about pipe soldering though so maybe that's a bad idea).

You could also order some thermal epoxy and try using that, that may have been what was originally on the heat pipe too.

have you tried inserting the drive the other way? it looks like the keying (the little slots in the drive) match up that way.

I got one of the 20oz water bottles when they first launched, then I got a 40oz a bit after those launched. They're super great stuff, they really do keep drinks at temperature for really long times. I pretty much use the 40oz one exclusively these days, I occasionally grab the 20oz one and fill it with coffee if I'm going on a road trip or something.

you could get a 12 volt drill battery and hook it up to a power inverter like you'd use in a car

Summary

Charles "Chuck" Geschke died at age 81 died Friday according to Adobe. He founded Adobe with John Warnock in 1982 and was part of developing the PDF format and basically revolutionized modern printing and publishing.

Quotes

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LOS ALTOS, Calif. (AP) — Charles “Chuck” Geschke — the co-founder of the major software company Adobe Inc. who helped develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs — died at age 81.

Geschke, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, died Friday, the company said.

“This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades,” Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen wrote in an email to the company’s employees.

“As co-founders of Adobe, Chuck and John Warnock developed groundbreaking software that has revolutionized how people create and communicate,” Narayen said. “Their first product was Adobe PostScript, an innovative technology that provided a radical new way to print text and images on paper and sparked the desktop publishing revolution. Chuck instilled a relentless drive for innovation in the company, resulting in some of the most transformative software inventions, including the ubiquitous PDF, Acrobat, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and Photoshop.”

My thoughts

Honestly I'd never heard of him until seeing this news, but seeing someone who had such a profound impact on computing pass away is always depressing. Love them or hate them, PDFs are pretty much ubiquitous everywhere you look, and while they have their downsides they definitely get the job done better than a lot of alternatives.

Sources

https://apnews.com/article/business-john-warnock-san-francisco-b77f216f52d736a6b5a383a429208f51

seems all good except

44 minutes ago, WalkerYYJ said:

. Will end up going with a 3800 as an interm solution if need be

I hope you mean "3900x" or "3700x", because the 3800x is nothing but a waste of ~$100 over the 3700x

looks like a solid build to me, I don't see anything bad about it. Unless you're doing streaming or production stuff occasionally I would go with a r5 5600x instead, you get about the exact same gaming performance for like $100 less.

5 minutes ago, Huwster said:

. It states on pcpartpicker that 'Some AMD B550 chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Vermeer CPUs', how will I go about doing this?

Some motherboards (like the one you picked) have a BIOS flashing button that'll allow you to flash the BIOS even if you don't have a cpu for it. You can find out how in your mobo's manual, though a lot of B550/X570 motherboards will say "5000 series compatible" if the manufacturer has already gone and updated it for you.

4 minutes ago, Huwster said:

Can anyone please tell me how to copy a list off pcpartpicker that looks alot cleaner than the one i've just posted with working hyperlinks too please lol?

Everything on that list seems good except the GPU, I know you're waiting for better stuff like a 3080 to be available but a 1050ti is just going to do poorly especially at 1440p. If you guys are fine with that (because hey it'll at least do a lot better than his old mac) I guess it'll do when/is GPUS go back to normal, but personally I'd try to find like a used RX580, 1650 Super, 1660, or something

you could technically solder on a 6 pin connector, but it wouldn't do anything. The board might not even have the circuitry to use the power from the 6 pin connector, in that case it would be entirely useless. Not sure what you mean by "shooting down", like you have bad framerate drops? your GPU is most likely not the cause of that, it might be running low on RAM, your processor (or GPU if video is playing with GPU acceleration or something) could be too weak to run a game and netflix or whatever at the same time, or it could be a software thing, but the power connector wouldn't have any bearing on that.

is your college assigning you a project you have to make? are they just telling you to create something using thwe skills you've accumulated so far? your question is exceedingly vague.