Marbo

I can't give advice on what you should be studying towards, but I can give you some life advice. Being confident is great, being a smart ass who thinks they know everything will work against you. If I'd have had that attitude when I did my apprenticeship (1988-1991 in the paintshop of a car dealership) I'd have had my balls greased on a daily basis.

I wasn't going to bother trying a new master io. The cost was putting me off, but I managed to find one at a reasonable price. This should arrive at the weekend, hopefully sorting the problem. Turns out I'm far too stubborn to give up whiles the rest of the pc is running fine.

Seems sensible to me. Not worth getting yourself into debt for the lates bit of tech if what you have works. Seems a lot of people here will spend a small fortune to get that little bit of extra performance when it will be hardly noticeable if at all. Great if you have a large disposable income but not worth going hungry to get a few extra fps.

I've never been 100% sure on the correct use of the word irony, but I think that reply qualifies. We post stuff like that because we have a slight hint of a sense of humour.

Being realistic and only upgrading to parts I could get full use from I'd double my ram to 32gb, get a decent ultra wide monitor and a couple of RTX titans. Oh and maybe a 4tb hdd. Changing my cpu, mb and cooling would make little difference. Edit Forgot, I'd need a more powerful psu for the titans.

Why is my computer humming? Because it hasn't been programmed with the words. Sorry, I'll get my coat.

One thing I didn't say is that it's not feasible. However careful consideration must be taken. If you buy a load of parts and put them together then sell as brand new you then become a retailer of prebuilt systems. In that case you need to be in a position to offer the protection afforded by the consumer laws of your country. On the other hand you buy new parts put them together and sell "as is" then your customer has the same protection as anyone buying a second hand system. In that scenario you can't expect to receive retail value, but you might still make some beer tokens. The other case you state is a custom build, where the customer is involved with picking the parts. This would be a service you're offering rather than retailing pcs. Depending on how you advertise that service i.e professional or hobbyist making a little bit of pocket money would come with a different set of responsibilities. And the price you could offer that service at.

The way I would look at it, unless you are a business that can offer guarantees or after sales service, then you are selling a second hand computer.

If its anything like the 2600 I can't see much point to oc. I had mine running at 4ghz and apart from extra points on a benchmark and shaving a few seconds off a cpu render the is no perceivable difference imo.

Not posted for a while on the Aurora. It's all up and running as a pc and is in a much better state than when I got it. I still can't get Command Center working. Thinking this is an issue with the master io. It's just not reading from the MB. Maybe time to flip it as is. Hopefully make a few £££ on it and still leave a bit of profit for the next person.

5g was brought in to kill off those of us who survived 4g. If all money was reset and everyone in the world started a fresh with £1m by the following day many would have £2m and an equal amount of people would have a box of usb dongles.

If you could get one the right size I reckon something like this would look good with a noctua, if it's a brown and beige one. Take out the mirror and drill a couple of holes in the fan housing. Easy to rewire the fan for usb, although it would run at 100% all the time. Edit Thinking if you really wanted to go to town then you could even find a small in line variable resistor for the speed. Now you got me thinking about another lock down project

I decided I would replace the original caps on my Speccy. As someone who had never soldered electronics before I should have practiced on an old circuit board first. But I'd watched a couple of YouTube vids got myself the cheapest iron possible and compleatly butchered a number of pcb traces. Then ended up but another with faulty memory. Got it really cheap because of the faults thinking I could use the other for spares. Sort of learnt my lesson I managed to recap this one with no problems. Them messed up a load of traces on that desoldering the faulty memory. It does work with the aid of a few bridges. Still not content I've found a brand new recreated pcb. Plan is to build what will be not far from a brand new Speccy. Will probably be about 90% brand new with a handful of doner parts from the first mess.

As always with the bottleneck questions there isn't a definitive answer. It all depends what you're doing. I do a lot of gpu rendering so I could pair a 2080 Ti with something like a 3200g and not see a bottleneck. The cpu would be restrictive but it wouldn't affect the gpu as that would be pushed to the limits also. So it's all about what programs/games you want to use and as has been stated see if you can find stats for that pairing.

Anyone get the feeling Evanz and Logan are the same person? I reckon Evenz is trying to drum up business and revenue.

That's how it works for most. We play with them then pass them on or chuck them out when we get something better. I'd never have thought of hanging on to my spectrum and atari 2600 back in the 80's thinking they were going to collectable. My first pc is now as rare as hens teeth, wish I'd kept it.

Old case fan and a few tweezers.

Ha ha this was out of a pc I took pity on. It was disgusting I think part of its life was spent stored in a barn, it also had hay in it.

If that's 5 years not sure how long this one had been going. Although this one was mounted as an intake at the back.

Like most things with pcs, there isn't a one size fits all. A 1080 ti would beat my 2060 super hands down for gaming. But my 2060 S is about 15-20% faster rendering in Daz studio. In iray benchmarks it's around the same speed as 2 X 980 ti's

If you're comparing gens shouldn't you be putting it against the 1660?

I can't believe anyone is still considering a mineral oil pc case. All the stuff I've seen is more of a proof of concept and people dicking about. There's probably a very good reason for the lack of commercially available kit. In my opinion a well built desk with a custom loop is a far better option.

My Alienware Aurora R1. Picked it up for £100 as faulty. Given me something to do during lock down. Had to get a new cpu for it but that was also cheap. If I can get Command Center to work it could be worth £250-300

The argument with the RTX Titan is not so clear cut. It may not have much better performance than a 2080 Ti but the vram difference is huge. If I could spare titan money I'd have one, and not just for bragging rights. Whereas I wouldn't even consider $700 pc wheels.

I do like the vents on that. Totally over enginered machines, which I love. I'm currently having issues with command center, but it's keeping me occupied.