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my point is i would install for a mate for free, but have you ever tried to remove the security put in place by a competent company?, i used to apply security to company laptops in the past and i find it difficult to believe that even a great IT person with admin rights would be able to completely dissasemble all the crap i would put on, our users did have local admin access and still were not able to disable our stuff and they were all top techies

in 25 years of working in IT it has never taken me more than 4 or 5 hours to completely re-install a pc, with all the software and get the persons settings back to where they were, most of that time just waiting for things to actually install so can be doing other things at the same time and i have done that litterally hundreds of times for friends. What i will not do however is spend days/hours trying to track down all problems that get caused by the crap that is installed by companies to secure their laptops as that can take days in itself of constant behind the screen time. Even if you were willing to pay my hourly rate (which is certainly not insignificant and you could buy a new surface pro after a days work) I wouldnt take it on due to the stress and worry that i missed something. Go for a clean install and forget the hasslt

as a good it guy i can tell you that if the company has done it's job right this will not be easy in the slightest. Especially if the bios is locked you are pretty much screwed. as for group policies yes they can be over-ridden provided he has admin access, but stupid thinks like ivanti that may have made unknown registry changes etc will make it a nightmare. If someone asked me to do it i would tell them i wouldnt waste my time when i can re-install windows in 30 minutes tops.

ahh, then i would have to say it would depend on game, indeed for fps i would go 1440@144hz but for other games that are more graphical based, think the final fantasy series etc or most single player games i personally would go 4k 60hz, others will most likely disagree with me but its what i play most games at

watch the ltt videos on does a faster refresh rate make you a better gamer and you will have your answer

I just edited my answer and want to make sure you got what i said, IF its a case of you having limited cash and having to choose between a better processor, more ram, better gpu etc and an aftermarket cooler, then don't choose the cooler, you can always do that later as well and you will get the most benefit from the other choices

first of all, when he buys it from them make sure that they remove any bios locks that are in place or your screwed. Other than that just download windows 10 media creation tool from here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 run it and create a windows 10 boot usb, boot from the created usb and just follow the instructions, 2 things to remember, 1/you will need to do a clean install not an upgrade to properly clean all the crap off the machine,2/ if you are doing a clean install you will delete everything on the computer so make sure to back up all the files that he wants to keep onto a usb drive first

well, yes you will, the 5900x does have higher single core clock speeds as well as more cores, now at this moment in time the extra cores wont make a difference in general for games, that being said in the next few years that could change as more games are developed to take advantage of more cores, also the single core difference is small so it wont make much of a difference but still a difference. so the question is more how much extra do you want to pay for a little more performance?. If however you are not just doing games but for instance development work, graphics/video work, anything that crunches or compresses then it will mae a big difference to have those extra cores

indeed the stock coolers with AMD are enough to keep your processor cool enough for gaming etc, That being said it is generally a good idea for lifetime and more consistant higher boost clocks to get an aftermarket cooler. * just to add, if it's a tossup of spending money on an aftermarket cooler or the better processor ordefinately choose the better processor (or more ram, better gpu etc) over the cooler

I did take into account his requirements tbh but in my haste to put my baby to bed i clicked submit reply before i finised the post stopping on the workstation cards and not elaborating further, First of all, he has to ask himself, do all of the machines actually have to have a dedicated graphics card, for instance on some of my setups some of the vm's have dedicated graphics cards for various reasons but others do not, so for instance he could comfortably have either 2 vm's running(the ones with the dedicated cards) and the third (probably his work vm) accesible via remote desktop which could be started from the web ui whenever he needs it or if it's just sitting idle could comfortably sit powered on all the time. Secondly i wanted to point out that he doesnt actually need 3 x16 slots dependant on his graphics needs. pretty much any x16 graphics card will work quite happily (albeit with reduced performance for the higher tier ones) in an x8 slot as well, they will of course also work in an x4 and x1 slot as well but you might be going into edgy territory there as well as having to make sure the slot is open ended or modding the slot. BUT that being said, you are quite right it probably would be better with a dual boot system so that he doesnt have to go into the hypervisor each time to change the dedicated graphics card to the other machine each time he wanted to use it if he did indeed need to have all graphics power all the time. as far as modern hypervisors that dont support over-provissioning memory (proxmox definately does) I have yet to come across one that doesnt, admitadly with things like citrix xenserver this is a paid feature. Finally i would never advise having a headless hypervisor(i have seen it done but most dont even support it), it is not uncommon for something to go wrong and you needing to plug a monitor into it to see wtf is going on. and finally again, for an everyday use pc(s) setup i would never advise anyone to go the virtualisation route even if they are a complete expert and certainly not if they are just learning.

ram most certainly is not fixed, you can overcommit ram in virtually any hypervisor and it will balance what is being used across the machines, it is standard practice in business to overcommit ram by up to 200% in dta systems and between 10% - 50% .in production, of course if at any time all your machines combined use more than the total memory for whatever reason you are fucked as it will get real slow real fast. as for choosing which vm you want to boot, most hypervisors have a web ui so you have 2 real choices there, have 1 vm which is set to startup at hypervisor boot so you always have at least 1 vm on to work on, then from that vm startup or shutdown the others so basically. config 1, - start vm1 at hypervisor boot - start either vm2 or vm3 on the hypervisor web gui from vm1 - from either vm2 or vm3 start the one that is powered off then shut down the one you are on. config 2, - start vm1 and vm2 from hypervisor at boot - start vm3 when you need it and shut down one of the other ones if you really want to. config 3 - start all 3 vm's at boot and just leave the one(s) you are not using idle, chances are it will barely impact anything other than memory as long as its not doing anything. as for your graphics card question, it really depends, there are a lot of different solutions, as others have said you do get vgpu capable cards that would meet your needs. Now all this being said (and i am a huge vm fan, litterally running thousands of vm's on various hypervisors) for a home setup i wouldnt bother especially if one of these machines is for gaming, you will bump into all sorts of compatability and performance issues you have no idea about and it will suck up your time.

scratch that, i was mistaken, they were using a b450 aorus , still a hell of a coincidence

what motherboard is it? i ask because there is now another post from someone with the same sort of issue as you. *i just reread and say it's a b450 aorus so clearly not the same, they are using a b450 tuf, but id you ever work out what the problem us

now, this is a little bit weird, but wasnt there someone a few days ago on the forum saying he had to use a hairdryer to start his pc, and wasnt he also using an asus tuf b450 motherboard? , mmm i am beginning to wonder will have to find the other post as it would be too much of a co-incidence

have you checked what your mtu is set at throughout your network?