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I hate to break it to you, but from lots of experience, if you choose "escalate to eBay" they won't even bother reading anything you put in. They will just simply automatically side with the buyer, and then for extra fun give you a bad mark on your seller ratings for having bothered them with...

I have Windows 7 x64 running on a Dual processor Xeon Scalable Gold CPU workstation booting from an Intel NVMe SSD, so I think there is a fair bit of life left in it if you don't mind pulling out the PS/2 keyboard & mouse from time to time.

I wonder if they happened to read the financial report from Apple where they said that the huge jump in phone prices seemed to maybe be linked to a similar drop in sales? Seems like they might not have. Really nice phones... but the price... it hurts.

So our new Technocrat overlords are still not satisfied in their quest to control all speech and thought to make it conform to their whims. So now if they don't "like" or "agree" with the news (regardless of if it's actually true or not), they want to try to block it or at least make people not...

Interesting how the people that claim to be so "progressive" and "Free Minded" and "Diverse" and "Tolerant" and "Accepting of everyone" pretty much decide they want to be some Fundamentalist Christian Prudes when it comes to the human body. There is a lot of other things on Tumblr that might...

I wound up getting one of the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC ULTRA GAMING, 11G-P4-2383-KR cards a bit ago. Now I turn on my system each day wondering if it will boot up, or catch fire. Computing hasn't been this full of crazy dangerous excitement in some time.

It could be interesting. A lot of the good old Science Fiction writers had assumed we would have semi ballistic transport services by now, so this would kind of be the first step on that. First you get cargo delivered, then once you figure out all the details, you could do passengers eventually.

Have you looked around for a cheap used i7-4790 or such? Also if you have a HDD, a SSD would also be a good upgrade & 512gb ones used are pretty cheap. Then when you get some more money, add in a video card depending on the deal that comes your way.

My guess is they are about to go into a nosedive financially. Apparently they decided they want to be the moralistic police & couldn't even bother to explain what misguided religious viewpoint they were following. It's just plain an simple religious bigotry against the natural body that these...

So all the gamers who were whining loud, long and all righteous about how Nvidia needed to make tons of video cards so they could have all they wanted & lower the prices back to MSRP because they are "loyal virtuous gamers".... So now all the cards you want, at prices lower than they have been...

You should only use 1 cable going from the raid controller to the primary EMM. You should only run 2 cables from the same controller / system if you have the front selector switch set to the split mode & then half the backplane will be on one cable and half on the other.

On the other side, there are quite a number of customers that seem to have no problem removing the do not remove sticker from a complicated product, opening it up, ripping components off the boards while trying to haphazardly "inspect" the product & then call you up and complain that you sent...

Some people bought the video cards they wanted for gaming when the cards first came out, there were plenty and were around MSRP & didn't worry for the next 1 to 2 years. Some people didn't buy the video cards they "claim" to "need" when they could, and then shouted all loud and hard for a bit...

Your new corporate overlords. Pretty much the Technocrat class today are repeating how things went with the "industrialists" or "Robber Barons" of the late 1800's Trying to see how badly they can treat employees and how little they can pay so they can have it all & laugh at their slaves...

There was also some new scam going around with hacked accounts on eBay/PayPal, ordering video cards with 2 day shipping option, shipped to the confirmed address on file for the account. Apparently the plan was some kind of refund scam if they still had control of the account by the time the...

I don't care what the software makers believe, on MY computer, you do not get to ex-filtrate data without my explicit consent and my ability to turn it completely off anytime I want.

The HP drives are hugely expensive because of the HP markup for extra profit for putting their own custom "validated" firmware on them. If you have to have brand new, then you're stuck, but great deals can be found on used ones. If you don't have to use HP drives (normally you don't), then you...

Considering you could get good Brand new EVGA 1070 OC models online anytime (such as eBay) for $650, why even consider Best Buy at that crazy price?

New in box 1070 OC cards are probably doing about $530 for current MSRP and then on the open market in batches for $650 So you could wait and watch eVGA's web site and hope to get a new in box one for around US$530, or go on eBay and buy a new one anytime for US$650, or make a deal with them...

The drives you listed are slower 5400rpm class drives (they say 5900rpm). Those drives are designed to be cheap and low powered & are a poor choice if you actually need high end sustained throughput, however they can be made to work if that's all you have to work with. IF you are using this...

You are correct on many fronts about the ease of use for macs & for the average user them having way less issues with the OS. The systems that I have to use windows on (both 7 and 10) regularly have me loudly exclaiming expletives at Microsoft, mostly over the horrendous slow as anything update...

Many photographers and people in the graphics design business use Macs because of the lock in they are stuck with. So they pay way over the going rate for hugely substandard specifications on their system. The Apple OS while nice, is hard locked (without tons of work) to Apple's own low end...

I don't really think it "Can be done" in a business profitable sense. Even Intel is not going to try to jump in and make a video card that is performance competitive & price Competitive with the Nvidia high end (such as 1080Ti) video cards for gaming. The money just is not there based on how...

Since speed, IO and capacity are not all that important, If you want to keep your drives for OS/ Data separate & are not concerned about the space. 2 drives Raid 1 5 drives Raid 6 1 Drive hot spare Otherwise if you want to just have 1 big volume and partition it, go with 7 drives Raid 6 1...

AMD and Nvidia make their money by selling large bulk lots of items to manufacturers and wholesalers at negotiated & agreed prices They also don't have to deal with all the risks, headaches & loss that come from selling to the end users & they don't want to. If they get greedy for all the...

Actually the HBM memory on the Vega series is what actually saved AMD's rear end as it let cards that were mid range for gaming, be at the top of the pack for certain mining applications & enabled AMD & their partners to basically sell everything they could make at full price or more.

The Optane drive is useful if you have a very specific use case & can spend the money on one of the bigger ones. Otherwise get the fastest & biggest NVMe SSD that you can & 16 to 32gb of fast memory and you'll be better off for most applications. The Optane caching drives are basically a way...

I don't think you are going to see competitive 3rd party any time soon for a number of reasons: 1. Patents Between AMD and Nvidia, there are so many patents covering just about every idea for faster graphics currently in use or planned. It would be a huge undertaking to design around all their...

I think actually the outlook for PC gaming hardware is pretty bright. CPUs, SSDs & memory while a bit expensive are faster than ever before Monitor choices are excellent currently Video cards are better than ever & while they are a bit more expensive than many would like, the fact that they...

The prices for the 1080 / 1080Ti / 1070 & 1070Ti are actually going up on the Wholesale market even as actual buying demand at high prices is leveling off. I'm not sure what the chip production is like or if they have totally shut down those production lines to make way for the new stuff...

If you care about security, run your own system that you control where you have all the data & nobody else. All these "cloud" connected things are at the whims of whatever new evil idea some technocrat comes up with.

The question is will the 2080 be a big enough upgrade over the 1080Ti to be worth the upgrade. If you already have a well overclocked 1080Ti card now for gaming, will it make sense to try to sell it & upgrade to a 2080 or will it be worth waiting a bit for highly overclocked 2080 cards to appear...

1 person can be working on 50+ systems at one time when it comes to testing & installing the OS in batch mode. When doing the automated installs based on configuration scripts (usually on a USB for the script and then media or PXE for install media), a well setup operation could configure 100+...

I'd consider holding off till April / May on the video card & see what the price / performance landscape is after the new Nvidia launch. For gaming, a 6700K, or 7700 / 7700K would be more than enough for good gaming for many years to come, but there are great deals to be had on the new AMD CPUs...

If they do that once, they will try something similar in the future. They need to be boycotted & sued into bankruptcy.

If you want long life, leave them a bit empty, especially some of the TLC ones that have to background refresh the cells from time to time. I'd probably say just so you have a bit of elbow room for yourself leave at least 10% to 5% free space if it's mostly read operations.

Nvidia is not stupid & has no intention of messing up a good cash flow. You don't make billions by trying to be petty and they know miners are no fools. They can if they want to, make a cost competitive card that mines much better than the gaming lines without being stupid.

Ask that question & you'll get many different answers from each Microsoft licencing rep you talk to. As an individual, for a one time thing, if you sell it with the OS on it & it came that way from the factory, AND you include the ORIGINAL factory OS install media with it & the system still has...

Unless Rick gets into the central computer and changes it to 1 bitcoin = 0

Sorry to hear about your loss, dogs are the best, way better than humans.