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So, if I'm understanding this correctly, you: Boot from the USB made with the media creation tool Follow the instructions shown When prompted to reboot for the first time, you remove the USB and then reboot With the USB not plugged in, your computer boots into the Windows installer again, basically ending up at step 1 again I have never seen anything like this. Do you by any chance have other USB drives plugged in?

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The resources are not reserved when the VM is powered off, but I'm not sure about standby.

If you want good performance and are on a budget, you could try looking at used computers. For example an old office PC with a 4th generation i5 (e.g 4460, 4590) and a cheaper graphics card (e.g GTX 1070, RX 580) performs relatively well. Just make sure the card fits in the case and the power supply can run it.

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As has been said here before, for CAD you really want to spend more on the CPU, rather than the GPU. I'd also endorse the build that @Jurrunio posted, but with the Crucial SSD. The Kingston drive doesn't have DRAM cache and because of that its lifetime will be significantly shorter and performance will be worse. I've only had bad experiences with Kingston drives in the past.

AFAIK NVIDIA has only confirmed it for Ampere. So I wouldn't count on the 20 series getting it.

Because you have tried using the output from your iGPU, you can assume that your graphics card is not the cause. I would check all the power connections on the motherboard.

Try disabling your overclock first. NVIDIA support is unlikely to help with overclocked cards.

I believe he's running mods, which consume a lot more resources (especially RAM). Vanilla can run on a potato.

Your six core CPU will run it just fine, even when playing. I've done it on a 4 core APU with 8GB RAM.

Yes.

I don't know how the used market is in your country, but I would recommend upgrading to a 4th gen i5 or i7. Most games still run fine on 4 cores.

It does not. You need to buy Windows separately. They come on a USB drive, from which you will boot your computer and install.

Discrete does not mean upgradeable. There is a separate chip, but it's soldered onto the motherboard. See the service manual for more details: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05228250

Still worth waiting because the AMD cards seem really affordable, and the launch will lower the prices of current cards.

After a quick Google search, it seems that the GPU is soldered onto the motherboard and therefore not upgradeable.

I'd wait until the Ryzen 5000 series and new GPUs (both RTX 3000 and AMD 6000 series) are more readily available. You will get much more bang for your buck.

It's all up to you, it has no effect on longevity or performance as to when and how long you shut down. As for me, I have an SSD so I shut my PC down every night when I'm done for the day, it helps me feel organised. Some prefer to leave it running, some use sleep mode. In the end, just find what works best for you.

Just for the OS it is fine, but I also like to keep some games on it that I frequently play. But it's up to you. I personally feel that GTA V loads much faster on an SSD, if you play it as well.

Thank you for your suggestions. My server is local hosted, on the same network as the 2nd desktop computer (the one running Linux.) I don't really store anything important on the server alone at the moment, other than movies. I would need uploading over the internet because of the 1st desktop computer, which is in a completely different physical building. I used to have a second server on that network as well, with a site-to-site VPN, however I shut that down because I didn't use it a lot. And I had issues with performance on it anyway. I will probably stick with just RAID 1 then, and I'll look into IFTT. Thanks again!

I would consider a larger SSD, such as 250GB. And preferably from Crucial, Sandisk or Samsung, they make good drives. Otherwise it looks good.

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Hello, So I have a rather unusual and complex setup of computers. I have 2 homes, and spend equal amounts of time in both of them, and both have their own desktop computers. One has a 750GB SSD+1TB HDD and runs Windows 10 Enterprise, the other has a 500GB SSD only and runs Linux Mint 19. I also have a server, which has 2*1TB drives in RAID 1, with plenty of available space, running Ubuntu 18.04 Server. I also have 2 laptops: an HP Probook 455 G1, running Windows 10 Home and packing a 256GB SSD, and an HP Stream x360, with a 32GB eMMC drive running Linux Mint 19. Right now, even though I store some files in the cloud, I have no system in place for restoring system state should there be a failure. My current situation and some of my thoughts are as follows Important documents are stored in either Google Docs or Microsoft OneDrive, but not both at once. Photos from my phone are backed up automatically to Google Photos. I've also organised some into albums, for easy access, and have backed up copies of some albums to Microsoft OneDrive. This leads me to my first question: would there be a way to automatically have the copy in OneDrive be updated, should there be changes to the one in Google Photos? The first desktop computer, the one with a 750GB SSD and 1TB HDD, has a lot of programs installed, all with their own settings, and setting everything up again from scratch would be quite time-consuming. This is the main computer that I want to back up, all others are second to this. I'm thinking of using Windows System Image Backup to back up the entire contents of the SSD onto the HDD, and to prevent problems should the HDD fail, I'm gonna run File History backups on it. However, I'm not decided yet on where to save them. Should I use an external hard drive (I have old internal drives lying around which I can easily put in a USB enclosure), or use my server for this? If I were to use the server, I would somehow need to upload backups over the internet, as it is on a different network. Are there any such software solutions available, preferably free? For other computers, the system state isn't as important, but I would still want to have a File History (or a Linux equivalent) solution set up. Are there any such programs available for Linux? If I choose to back up to my server, should I make a backup of the server itself as well? Or is the redundancy from RAID 1 enough? Any thoughts on this are welcome, and feel free to suggest alternative solutions to mine. Huge thanks in advance.

It won't. Again if your connection is below 100/100 it'll handle just fine, even on WiFi. Over that it will handle too, but I suggest using ethernet. Ethernet can do up to 1 Gigabit, and no home router has higher bandwidth ethernet available right now.