Recent content by pitingres

How old is old? Just because there are fuses instead of circuit breakers doesn't mean that the wiring is necessarily dangerous. I think maybe you need to get an electrician or qualified electrical inspector into the building. All we can do here in the forum is guess. A couple generalities...

A bit of a long shot here, but try removing the CPU and replacing it. This sounds a bit like a bad contact somewhere. Since you've had the RAM sticks in and out, it's probably not on the memory contacts, although it wouldn't hurt to pull them one more time and gently take a (clean!!) pencil...

The CPU is a 9600K? I was going to say just drop in another two sticks and let them run at the slower speed, and then I saw "I don't want to fart around with it." For minimum farting-around, even if it's only potential farting-around, pull the old 2 and install a new 2x16.

Like many others here, I haven't had a hard drive around for 5+ years. (With the exception of backup drives, and two 8TB data staging drives that only get used a few times a month.)

128GB SATA drives are handy for Linux boot or swap drives. NVMe is a little trickier since m.2 slots tend to be a scarce resource; if there's a slot available, then same thing, boot or swap.

I think the first thing I'd try is replace the CMOS battery, (Save your BIOS settings first so you can reload them with the new battery.) If that doesn't do it, do you have any SATA devices? Unplug them and see if it changes. Does the computer restart a few times, or does it just sit there...

You can't daisy chain the be quiet or noctua fans, but you can run 2 or maybe even 3 from a single fan header with a Y cable.

I am very impressed with the 120mm be quiet silent wings pro 4. Very very quiet and seems to move a good amount of air. There's also the Noctua NF-A12x25 that's been around a while; it's not the quietest fan at higher RPM's but the noise is a lot more tolerable than many fans, and it's very...

I would say an external hard drive or SATA SSD. I don't trust flash drives for continuous-on use, and presumably you'll be adding photos and looking at them occasionally.

I have an RX550 that I don't especially like, but am not in a rush to get rid of; if you don't find any other avenues, maybe we can come up with something. (unlike my other parts, this one is in use, so I'd have to replace it ... which I've been thinking about doing, but it's not as trivial as...

I have a couple one Ryzen 1600's that nobody appears to want to pay money for. They both ran fine until replaced (with 3500X's). Both were mildly overclocked to 3.6GHz all-core for a few months until I decided it wasn't worth it; never over-volted. No bent pins. No box or cooler, they'll...

As already mentioned, Samsung 970 or Crucial MX500 are the usual SATA suspects. If you want to pinch some pennies, the Team GX2 or CX2 have worked for me.

AMD is better for power efficiency than current Intel generations. If you aren't gaming, I doubt that the X3D variants will benefit you; I'd stick to the non-X3D units. And, before dumping money into a multi-core CPU, I'd make sure that the specific software you run can scale with additional...

Looks like they are trading controllers for PCIe lanes. Sounds to me like a good way to make inexpensive things expensive (PCIe switches are not cheap). This may or may not be interesting in the server world, I don't see it having any impact on desktops / workstations.

I'm not sure that's a meaningful question. Without OS level mitigations, they are all subject to at least one of that class of attacks. With the appropriate OS level mitigations, they are all secure, as far as I know.