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That's one reason I'm excited to restore it because if it would fit modern PC components I would probably just keep it just for this later on. Thanks for the heads up on the capacitors I'll be sure to give it a thorough inspection. With it being 20 years old it's almost more of an fun rehab project than a flip for a quick buck.

Hello All, So my question isn't technical as much as general question on pricing. My in-laws where going to just throw out an old Dell computer, before even know what it was I told them I'll take it from them to clean up and see if i could use it or resell. Once i picked it up i saw the floppy disk drive and realized it was older than i thought. I'm still going to rehab it and see if it works well. It's a Pentium 4 processor with integrated graphics. What would you think a fair price on FB Marketplace would be if I ensure it is working. I also have the monitor and keyboard for it as well. I was thinking $25-75. But I also don't want to jip anyone at all. Let me know what you really think. Even if it's worth nothing i would use it or throw it on the buy nothing group for the local town as I am just very excited to work on a computer from this era and clean it up. -DT

All great factors. I suppose I didn't think of cost, electric/noise as my current set primary computer area is in the basement away from the Mrs and kids. The big area I see is the properly securing it. I suppose on this area it's almost worth going with something like Proton whose product is privacy and security. Thier business is knowing how to protect those things. Helm is more expensive year to year, however my Data would be secured inside my network and not elsewhere. This is more Private but if not don't properly maybe not as secured.

That was one side I thought about. However I heard good things about helm being user friendly. However I don't mind tinkering and I have some experience with playing around with stuff like MotionEyeOS ect. So part of me wants Helm just to be able to self host because I enjoy that side of things. But yes something like Proton would have a nearly 100% uptime.

Hello Everyone, Not sure if this is where to ask this but figured here is better than nothing. I'm contemplating a way to slowly move myself and my wife off the Google ecosystem and self host things on a FOSS environment such as nextCloud. One area however I'm not sure which is best is to either host my own email on something like "The Helm" or to pay for secure and private email through something like ProtonMail. I'm aware of self hosting limitations and the fact that it's my internet goes out then we won't receive emails ect. But I'm looking at these options to remove myself from the big tech ecosystems and try to real in Privacy and Security for my family. Any input or suggestions would be great. Looking forward to hearing others thoughts. ~~DJ

Well i was going to say it looked like you could purchase this on AMD's website until I added it to my cart to check and saw the out of stock notice in a small header.

Yeah when you compare this card to the Radeon Instinct MI50 its nearly identical in many ways. It seems like AMD just decided to put Video Out on the back end of that card they already had in the process of making and call it a gaming card. This probably means that we won't see or hear anything about Navi until late this year.

I see that now. I just looked over on Newegg, and thats where I got the pricing. But I see that ebay and hardwareswaps are probably way cheaper. I'll be sure to take a look before pulling the trigger.

I have a hard time thinking that buying used for $250-300, when yes I would need a new MOBO and RAM but a i7-8700k goes for almost the same price. My idea is going to be to get a new PSU and Case and Sell this unit with the 250GB SSD, and help cover the costs of the new build. I just have to figure out what price is not ripping someone off. I'm thinking about $400 but still contemplating. I really like the white LED's on the fans that just make it look like a clean build. Although with these particular fans and the cable extenders instead of replacement cables, the cable management is a bit of a mess in the back. Luckily there is no glass panel on that side too haha.

Hello Everyone, Here is the start of my upgrade process. I'm waiting to get new major components until later this year because I want to see when the new Ryzen 3 series will be launching as well as potentially seeing if the Radeon VII will have a little brother. But none the less here is what I have right now. Components (Old stuff was from origional build 6 years ago): CPU: I5-3350P GPU: EVGA GTX 760 4GB (Still can run most things on 1080 Low to Medium) RAM: 16 GB ( G.Skill Ripjaw) MOBO: ASRock Z77 Extreme PSU: EVGA G3 650 Cables: UpHere Extensions (Not bad but probably going to get full replacements with the new build.) Case: Lian Li O11 Dynamic (Plan to go Liquid on the new build) And enjoy a few photos I took. Let me know what you think. Doing this little bit of tinkering has settled my bug to build while I wait out the next release of silicon.

Thanks i'll keep that in mind as I continue to research on if I should even mess around with Linux. I got Windows 10 and have optimized it for the most part, so it really does work for what I do. I may get a Pi to mess around with Linux OS at some point instead.

I havn't asked about different OS before, was just the other day I had been contemplating and starting researching this process. I'll do some more research through the forums to see if there is a similar thread I missed though.

Hello All, So I have a computer that I am contemplating putting a Linux Build on. It currently has Windows 10 on it. I have a 250 GB SSD as the boot with a 1TB HDD along with it. Would I have to partition both drives in order to allocate space for each OS or would Linux be able to coincide with the 1 TB secondary drive without partitioning that. I am aware I would have to partition the boot drive but that shouldn't be a major deal. Thanks in advance, also if you have any suggestions on which flavor of Linux I should try let me know. My friend uses Arch Linux but not going to lie, that one scares me a little as apposed to something like Mint, Debian or Ubuntu. --Seacoast

On the EVGA Website, the FTW Version is $400 more.

This is good to know because i am contemplating switching my mouse from the Razer Naga and Keyboard Corsair Vengeance K70 to the Logitech G603 and G613 Wireless System. Still waiting to make the jump.