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Kinda want to keep the i7 from this system, but may move the RAM over to the other Optiplex. Will prob just junk the rest of the system (minus storage). I found LGA 1150 and LGA 1155 MOBOs for about $40 and 16GB DDR3 kits for about $20. The eBay seller I got my 1246s does have discounts when buying multiple, so may pull the trigger on 2 more if I can find MOBOs for them and keep the two i5s and frame them. Also speaking of Ryzen, was thinking of upgrading girlfriend's 5600X to a 5800X3D, so might have a 5600X to use, but this will likely happen after holidays. Yeah def. Actually found some 2060s for around $150. Not sure how well it would pair with a haswell Xeon or sandy bridge i7.

Budget (including currency): $200-$300+ Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Roblox, Minecraft +mods, Rocket League, Dying Light, Forza Horizon 3-5, NFS (2015-present), other AA games Girlfriend and I retired our old PCs this year and like always, we gave our hardware away to a niece and nephew, then take whatever they previously had and give it to another niece/nephew. Niece PC Intel Xeon E3-1246 V3 (4C/8T) ASRock Z97 MOBO 24GB DDR3 1.6GHz (Corsair Vengeance) Zotac GTX 1080 AMP Edition EVGA 850W G2 1TB SSD + 2TB 7200 HDD NZXT S340 This one is my old gaming PC. Niece has it atm. Nephew PC Intel Xeon E3-1246 V3 (4C/8T) Gigabyte Z87 MOBO 24GB DDR3 1.6GHz (Corsair Vengeance) Zotac GTX 1070 AMP Edition EVGA 850W G2 1TB SSD + 2TB 7200 HDD NZXT S340 Just found the Xeon E3-1246 V3 for $30 on eBay so upgraded nephew's i5 4670K to that. He is still rocking the i5, until I get the Xeon, but it is the same Xeon that I ran on my old PC. Was a huge upgrade to that PC, so expecting it to be a big upgrade to his PC. Spare PC #1 (Dell Optiplex) Intel Core i5 3570 Dell MOBO 8GB DDR3 1.33GHz EVGA GTX 1050 512GB SSD + 1TB HDD Spare PC #1 is running flawlessly. This one is a full tower Optiplex. Going to go to another nephew soon. Need to buy more HDDs as the 1TB on this one is failing already. Spare PC #2 (Dell Optiplex) Intel i7 3770 Dell MOBO 8GB DDR3 1.33GHz 500GB SSD + 1TB 7200 HDD Spare PC #2 used to have a GTX 1050ti, but the card died about a year ago. This one is one of those slim Optiplexes and 1050ti was a tight fight. Thinking that's what killed it over time (very little breathing room). Spare PC parts: i5 4460 i5 4670K EVGA 850W G2 The Spare EVGA PSU was due to a faulty wall outlet that girlfriend and I thought was bad PSU. So here is what I am thinking of doing: Take i7 3770 from Dell PC and throwing it on a ITX mobo with a used GPU. Am currently looking at used GPUs in the $150 range that would not be bottleneck'd by i7 3770. Similarly the same with spare i5s. See list of games that they play above. The PCs that I would build wouldn't have to be extra powerful or run on crazy displays. Most of my nieces and nephews play on their small LCD TVs (32"-40" 720p or 1080p). I want to spin the spare parts for small PCs to give to family so that the kids can play with us over holidays. Appreciate any suggestions on what to do or if I should just give up.

My current WIP build looks like this: CPU: Ryzen 9 7950X COOLER: Lian Li 360 AIO RAM: 64GB G.Skill 6000 DDR5 MOBO: ASRock X670E Steel Legend PSU: Corsair RM1000x CASE: Lian Li Lancool III GPU? Planning to get RTX 4090 or RX 7900 XTX. Sometime next month or whenever they restock and are at MSRP. Budget for monitors/TVs: $2000 My current monitors (LMAO, if you can call them monitors) are an LG 27" 1080p 165Hz and LG 50" 4K 60Hz LED TV. PC is in bedroom and I use it for gaming during the day and Netflix and movies at night. Currently driving these is my old PC with GTX 1080. My current build is overkill for these two displays, so I want to upgrade this next, after acquiring GPU. This time, I just want to get two 43" or smaller (non-curved) monitors or TVs that support 4K, low-latency and 120+ Hz refresh rates. Also, without breaking the bank/budget. They will be used primarily for gaming and late movies, with occasional work (engineering work). Not sure if OLEDs still suffer burn ins, but something that won't burn in from doing CAD work with white or blue constant backgrounds for hours. Thanks!

Budget (including currency): $4000 (USD) Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Too many games to name but want to game at 4K and 1440p with high refresh rates. Need to run Catia, Solidworks, other CAD software Want to run Linux and virtualize Windows 10/11 Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): About 8TB worth of SSDs and 6TB worth of HDDs. Don't need mice or keyboards. Yo what's up?! I am planning to start my next PC build this week with BF sales. I am still rocking my GTX 1080 and 4th or 5th gen Xeon from 2015-2016. Now that I've graduated and have been working in the industry, I want to retire my old faithful. So far, I have these generic builds: PC Build #1 Intel Core i7 13700K 64GB DDR4 or 32GB DDR5 Z690 or Z790 MOBO RTX 4090 or RX 7900 XTX Radeon Pro W6400/W6600 or RTX A2000 6GB (WORSTATION GPUs) 1TB NVMe Gen-4 SSD (OS Drive) Lian Li 011 Case or HYTE Y60 1000W PSU PC Build #2 AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 32GB DDR5 AM5 MOBO (whatever name/number they have) RTX 4090 or RX 7900 XTX Radeon Pro W6400/W6600 or RTX A2000 6GB (WORSTATION GPUs) 1TB NVMe Gen-4 SSD (OS Drive) Lian Li 011 Case or HYTE Y60 1000W PSU PC Build #3 AMD Ryzen 9 7900X (Considering this now that its $470) 32GB DDR5 AM5 MOBO RTX 4090 or RX 7900 XTX Radeon Pro W6400/W6600 or RTX A2000 6GB (WORSTATION GPUs) 1TB NVMe Gen-4 SSD (OS Drive) Lian Li 011 Case or HYTE Y60 1000W PSU PC Build #4 AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 128GB DDR4 AM4 MOBO RTX 4090 or RX 7900 XTX Radeon Pro W6400/W6600 or RTX A2000 6GB (WORSTATION GPUs) 1TB NVMe Gen-4 SSD (OS Drive) Lian Li 011 Case or HYTE Y60 1000W PSU Also, this will be my first time going full Linux and using a VM backwards (emulate Windows instead of Linux). Have used Linux for years though, but only for academic purposes and occasionally for CFD work or as a backup computer. Would appreciate any advice on build and Linux distros!

Going to start this off by posting my 65% babies! https://imgur.com/Mo9ZHtr

No. I don't know what driver it previously had. I tried drivers from 2015, but they just crashed the PC. I tried drivers from 2017-2019 and all retained Error 43.

This is a very unfortunate post and plea, but recently I helped a friend get into PC gaming. I scoured Craigslist and eBay for some used PCs for a couple of weeks and found one that seemed too good to be true... PC Specs Intel Core i5 2500K Asus Sabertooth P67 8 GB DDR3 1866MHz (or 1886Mhz) EVGA GTX 780ti SC EVGA 750W PSU 80+ Gold Windows 10 Pro (64-bit) The person we bought it from had it in pristine condition; hardly any dust anywhere and components and PC smelled fresh. The guy had it sitting for years and it was never brought online from 2017-2019. When my friend took it home, it played flawlessly. We played a couple of online games over a week's span. He enjoyed it for a few more days and during that time, as you'd expect, the system started updating. I told him it was ok for it to update and that Windows and Nvidia periodically update drivers. I told him to keep his PC up to date. On February 5th 2019, his graphics drivers updated (through Geforce Experience) and then all hell broke lose. Windows disabled the 780ti and reported Error 43. I thought I could go and fix it by uninstalling drivers and then reinstalling drivers... NOPE! I did driver wipes with DDU, safe mode... I tried uninstalling drivers and installing older drivers... NOPE! I tried reseating the card, changing PCI-e slot, dusting it, double checking cables, reinstalling Windows 10, updating BIOS and nada... Still keep getting that damn Error 43. I was going to test his graphics card on my PC, but the 780ti uses a 6-pin + 8-pin connector, something that I do not have (I have only 8-pin VGA connectors) and couldn't wiggle an 8-pin onto it. I've never really had problems with graphics cards before. Usually when a graphics card went bad (actually my PSU had gone bad), the computer displayed a black screen. There was no video output from GPU. This time though, his PC does have video out through the GPU, but just displays Error 43 (also his motherboard has no video display out ports). Is there any hope for this PC or what can I do?

I finally caved into Windows 10, too many things that I needed or wanted to use ran only on Windows 10. Since late 2013, I've been running on Windows 8.1 from a WD 2TB HDD. The drive was okay, took about 1-5 minutes to boot sometimes, which didn't really bother me. Recently though I picked up a couple 500GB SSDs (Crucial MX500) for cheap and decided to make one of them my Windows 10 drive. Since installing to a new drive. I no longer see my 2TB HDD which I was hoping to just keep for storing videos and other projects. Going into Disk Management also doesn't show the drive. Previously, I had upgraded a Windows 10 laptop to SSD and was still able to see the old 5400 RPM main drive. I really don't want to lose all those 2 TB of data from over the years. For further context, I had to switch the SATA cables on the motherboard to get the SSD in since the WD 2TB had an L-connector and was obstructing the other SATA ports on motherboard. How can I partition or unpartition the HDD and get it to show in Windows 10??? Also, would it be wise or stupid to get an external drive enclosure for the WD HDD? I'm kinda running out of physical space on my PC case for drives. Thank you all?

I should have updated this thread.. Well after negotiating with people over the weekend, I lost a bunch of these offers. Either seller wouldn't go down on price of they sold the PC before I could go look at it. I was busy Saturday and Sunday was only free in the evening. I ended up finding this: NZXT H440 i5 2500K Asus Sabertooth Z77 8GB 1866MHz DDR3 480GB SSD + 120GB SSD (Main Drive) EVGA 780ti SC EVGA 750W 80+ Gold PSU Sound Card (forgot the name) Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Total: $300 The guy who sold it to us had it in near mint condition. PCB on motherboard and GPU looked fresh out of the box not a spec of dust and case looked clean too. He said he worked for an IT company and that he never really used it since his company basically gave him a better computer. My friend ended up loving the PC. The 2500K was able to overclock to 4.4GHz stable. Only thing was the RAM which had trouble overclocking, but that was above my friend's needs, so we kept everything to factory settings (for now). Honestly, I think I was more excited than my friend, but in the end both him and his wife ended up thanking me. He's now hoping to be able to play with his wife with Xbox Play Anywhere titles. I honestly cannot wait to play other games with them. I'll post pictures later or another day when I can, but for now I welcome another member into the PC gaming scene.

Not sure how to start this... I have this really close friend 15+ years. Every time I've run into a pickle, this dude has been there to bail me out. Whenever I'd run out of gas in the middle of the street (I had a car in highschool with a broken gas guage) he'd go to me with a gas tank and get me out. The couple of times I've had flat tires / blown out a tire on the freeway or road he'd go and help me change my tire. The last and only accident I was involved in (about 4 years ago), he got me towed and paid for my towing. Then he helped me sell and scrap my totalled car. That was after we hadn't spoken in over a year!!!! This dude is one of the truest friends I've ever had. Recently he began asking me for help about building a PC or helping him set up a streaming PC. Unfortunately at that time, he had his car stolen and his wife's car broken into. He works at an autoparts store and is a car mechanic on the side. Over $1000 worth of tools were stolen from his and his wife's car. Talks of a gaming PC died out and now he's been really busy working OT to pay for the new car that he needed and have had much time to kick it. In kind gesture, I started wondering about possibly hooking him up. I've been looking online for how to go about this and this is what I've found/options: Used Gaming PC 1 Intel Core i5 3570K 8GB DDR3 MSI GTX 780 3GB 256GB SSD 750 W 80+ Gold PSU Price: $260 Used Gaming PC 2 AMD FX-6300 8 GB DDR3 AMD RX 580 4GB 1TB HDD 650 W PSU Price: $300 Used Gaming PC 3 AMD Ryzen 3 1200 8 GB DDR4 AMD RX 570 250GB SSD + 1 TB HDD 500 W PSU Price: $300 Dell Optiplex Budget Intel Core i5 2400 / 3570 (+$20) / 4560 (+$40) 8 GB DDR3 500 GB HDD 300W PSU Price: $100 GPU: GTX 1050 Total Price: $230-$270 Dell Optiplex Higher-End Intel Core i7 3770 8GB DDR3 500 GB HHD 300 W PSU Price: $140-$160 GPU GTX 1050 Total Price: $270-$300 I've actually gone with the latter two builds in the past. My streaming PC is actually an Optiplex i7, modified with a capture card, SSDs, and GTX 1050 ti. My niece's PC is another Optiplex i5 + GTX 1050. I played online with this dude since back in the days. We always played Socom and Halo 2, later Gears of War, Forza, and other Halo games. Would really love it if he joined me in PC gaming, but I don't know how receptive he will be or if he will be like my last friend, whom I helped fix his PC and gifted him my old GPU (set up his PC with that GPU and tested it with games). He literally just treated PC gaming as some cool gimmick, but then ultimately defaulted back to PS4. Maybe I'm just too ambitious idk... What do you guys think? Should I proceed or just drop it? I've talked to this particular friend. I actually let him know of my intention, but he kinda ignored me. Anyone have any positive experience(s) with similar situations? Thanks!

What about Chromium? I've heard that one is good too. Though all I know is that people claim its good. Is it good?

I had previously been using Chrome since it's early days. It was a great browser, but recently I started having issues with it and only when watching YouTube. The tab I was using for YouTube kept crashing(not the browser itself, just the tab). This kept happening consistently after the recent UI changes. Chrome ended up telling me that the problem may be with Adblock and recommended uninstalling it. I ultimately uninstalled Chrome and switched back to Firefox, my default browser before Chrome. I've run into another problem with Firefox. It uses up too much CPU power at random times. And it's done this too many times to be some kind of bug. My CPU usage will randomly start spiking up going all the way up to 86-90% until my whole system bricks and freezes. I've ran Virus scans before with Malware Bytes and never seem to hit anything. It is so bad that I can't even open Task Manager because of the CPU usage. So I need help, either figuring out what's up or finding another lighter browser. I'm almost about to switch to Edge/Internet Explorer or dare I say, Safari.

Thank you so much for all your feedback! I got this: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-1TB-SSD-WDS100T2B0B/dp/B073SB2MXT/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=1TB+M.2+2280&qid=1547969636&sr=8-5 1TB WD M.2 2280 SSD Also, the I ended up somehow fixing the wifi probem. I turned on the laptop and while it was on, I disconnected the wifi card, then reconnected it and windows was able to detect a hardware change and install drivers... Phew! So it was basically some software/driver issue. I was basically trying to see if Windows even detected a hardware change. I thought maybe the slot was dead, like you mentioned, but thankfully it wasn't.

Is there a difference between M.2 2280 SSDs??? I've seen M.2s with two notches and some with only one notch... The connection on my laptop has one notch, do I need an M.2 with one notch or is it okay with two notches? Thanks!

I need some help from someone who has experience with Asus Laptops. Manufacturer: Asus Model: R516UX-RH71 CPU: i7 6500u GPU: GTX 950m 2GB DDR3 RAM: 8GB DDR3 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Storage: 1TB 5400rpm HDD My mom got me this laptop around December 2015 or January 2016 (about 2 years ago) for school. It was great out of the box, except for the slow HDD. Recently, the WiFi stopped working. I don't know if this was due to a Windows Update or the actual wifi card. The wifi was working fine before the creator's/Fall update and then a couple days later when I booted the computer up (I used Update & Shutdown Option) it wasn't working. I tried getting help from ASUS support, but even they could not identify the laptop. They did give me a driver (because their website did not have my specific model), but that ultimately didn't help. WiFi does not show up as an option for Internet Connection. Only thing that shows up is Ethernet and Bluetooth. What could the problem be? Over the years I tried looking up tutorials on how to open it, since it didn't have the traditional removable panels, but I was never able to find this specific model. I found similar ones, but they were slightly different. I never opened it due to fear of it breaking (the cover was kinda hard to pry open). I am debating on upgrading this laptop or getting a new one altogether. If I get a new one, I could give this one to my girlfriend, since she needs a laptop for her computer science classes. I have the following options: Upgrade: 1TB WD Blue OR Crucial MX500 SSD: $134.99 500-1TB GB M.2: ??? Acer Aspire 7 CPU: i7 8750H GPU: GTX 1050 4GB 8GB RAM 1TB HDD Windows 10 64-bit $699.99 Lenovo 81FK0000US CPU: i5 8300H GPU: GTX 1050 4GB 8GB RAM 1TB HDD Windows 10 64-bit $629.99 MSI GF63 8RC CPU: i5 8300H GPU: GTX 1050 4GB 8GB RAM 1TB HDD Windows 10 64-bit $649.99 Below are pictures that I took after I managed to open it. I cannot identify that M.2 slot, if anyone knows the size, I'd appreciate it! Also, I do not know where the wifi card is and if it could be the issue. Anyone know where the wifi card and antenna is at??? Thanks!