Meowster

weird.

No problem
 
 

@Curious Pineapple Thanks so much for the help! The switch came and I installed it, took a bit of time and patience (which I don't have ) but eventually I got it to work again. Thanks so much!

This build is pretty good with better RAM for cheap:
PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $274.99 @ Amazon Motherboard MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard $114.99 @ Best Buy Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory $82.99 @ Newegg   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total $472.97   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-28 13:29 EDT-0400    

@Vishera   I opened up the case out of pure curiosity to find that all of the capacitors on the motherboard were either bulging or popped completely. I will most likely look for a Ryzen build for her as @Void Master pointed out

I guess it's time to upgrade....
Go for a 3700 and X570 mobo and fancy new ram....(maybe a 3900x if budget allows, as it's on sale)
if the budget allows try to go for a bigger SSD.(maybe a new gpu too)
it would rlly improve Video editing and 3D modeling performance.

Seems to be more of a stability issue than with the hardware since it is good for those applications (try the CPU test as suggested by @Vishera), may want to add another 2x8GB of RAM as an upgrade that may help out in larger models and editing projects:
 
https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-CMY16GX3M2A1600C9-Vengeance-Desktop-Memory/dp/B00D2LGRPG
 
https://www.newegg.com/corsair-16gb-240-pin-ddr3-sdram/p/N82E16820233535

That is pretty cool to have that. Even with the original box. I still have the box for my mid-2014 13" MacBook Pro 2.6Ghz. Had to replace the thermal paste on this a couple of weeks ago after a month ago, I replaced the thermal paste but started to run hot. Turns out I used a little too much thermal paste 😂😂. Used the spread method with my spudger on my new iFixit Pro Toolkit (Highly recommend iFixit to anyone looking for toolkits). 

Funny that you mentioned this as I have a Mac Pro collection as well. I've got a Mac Pro 1,1, 3,1 and 4,1 flashed to 5,1. They're great systems but the foremost two I don't really use as they are too old to run, unless I use patchers but I'm not comfortable with that. Also the 4,1 is a dual CPU tray which I got for a steal with all the hardware it came. 

I love collecting vintage iPods, that's a thing that makes me happy
And in my spare time I like to go outside and do some photography

I love collecting vintage iPods, that's a thing that makes me happy
And in my spare time I like to go outside and do some photography

Mac Mini from 2007, has 4GB 667MHz DDR RAM, 500GB Hard Disk and OS X 10.7.5 Lion. Oh and a Core 2 Duo 2.11GHz

Here in the UK:
 
I have 3 (a phone carrier)
Samsung Galaxy Note10+ 5G
Unlimited Texts
Unlimited Minutes
24GB Data
 £36 a month / 44.90 USD
 

PiHole whole home ad-blocking

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GTA III in 2000 on a custom-buit tower with 512MB RAM!

digger or minesweeper on some winXP pc
 
but the first game i ever played was tetris on a flipphone

msdos chips challenge

That’s the one, so simple but yet I couldn’t remember the name 
thanks

You mean Privacy.com? I use it almost every single time I buy something online. You make a virtual credit card and set a limit for it and you can then delete the card. I use it a lot

I keep my mobile phone turned off except on the rare occasions I actually use it (I don't need to be connected at the lip 24/7). My home phone system (technically, a cell phone that connects to my cordless phones) stays on but I ignore any calls from numbers I do not recognize. If a call is important, they will leave a message.
 
Anytime you answer a scam call, even if you immediately hang up or tell them to stop calling, your number goes onto a live number list that gets sold to other lowlifes abusing people's phones.
 
Losing the landline got rid of political calls. It reduced the number of noncrooked callers (although I still consder them to be from scum stealing my phone service). Ignoring unrecognized callers has reduced unwanted calls even further. The only rare spam calls I get now are from robo callers.
 
Avoiding giving out your phone number except to only a select few is another way to reduce spam calls. I could count the number of people that have my home phone numbers on both hands. Maybe four people have my mobile phone number (it wouldn't do them any good to call me anyway, unless I was expecting a call, since I have voice mail disabled to avoid unwanted messages running up my pay as you go plan bill. Businesses that insist on having my phone number when they don't really need it get a phony phone number that goes to directory assistance (555 exchange) if they are stupid enough to try and call it (I use the same number every time). Also, I have outgoing caller ID turned off on both phone numbers.
 
I own my phones; they do not own me!

In addition to what everyone else has said, I would recommend 16GB of ram if you plan on having the machine a long time (4+ years) or if you usually have a lot of browser tabs open. Otherwise, 8GB will do. Very large excel sheets can also consume a lot of ram.
 
Also make sure whether you build or buy you have an SSD. Sometimes modern cheaper business computers still have HDDs or SSHDs which will make your computer feel very slow.

Awesome, thanks! I appreciate the advice. I have thought about possibly building a minimalist computer to do what I need to do, but I'll have to see how buying vs. building plays out financially. I hope everybody is staying healthy! My work space is going to be insane when I get it all finished and setup with the new computer.

Thank you so much, should fix the issue

A Dell Optiplex with a Core i3 or i5 should do fine. But they can only output 2 monitors. Apart from that, it should suit you perfectly. They are also very cheap nowadays. Since all you will be doing is spreadsheets a Core i3 is all you basically need. If you need you can always throw in a discreet GPU which will increase graphics performance and quality