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here’s some in Amazon for £31 https://amz.run/4qcu
Sorry John, I hadn’t realized you’d started ordering and I have confused everything.
If you intend to replace the HP with the new PC, I’d live without a graphics card for a while. If you really absolutely need one, I’m sure I have something here that will tide you over while you’re waiting, just return it to me when you’re done.
The new one won’t need a graphics card, and yes that is the motherboard with Wi-Fi. It also has all the right sockets for the CPU graphics.
As for the ram, don’t worry too much about it, any 8GB of DDR4 at that sort of price will do the job. If you’re looking at CCL then anything on this page.
It must be half height (aka low profile) as your case won’t take full height ones. So you must make sure it does have the right brackets in the box.
Asus GeForce GT 710 2GB GDDR5 £50 Only get this if you can’t afford anything else.
Gigabyte GT 1030 Low Profile D4 2GB £80 All the current GT 1030 cards have only digital output i.e. no VGA. So if you have a VGA only monitor you’ll need an adapter like this for £8.
As you’ll be getting a graphics card now, especially if it’s the GT1030 (I have one in my R5 3600 PC), and you want to take it forward, you can look at CPUs for the new PC project that don’t have onboard graphics. For Intel that’s ones that end in F, for AMD ones that don’t end in G. That opens up a lot more options.
Of course. I remember when an ex Post Office Regional Manager joined one of the watchdogs when sidelined in a re-organization. Revenge is a dish best served as soon as you get the chance 😉
This sort of thing can be used to leverage outsourcers too, but luckily the ultimate security decisions are usually left with a retained rump team in the business. I would have just needed to prove I did what I was bidden to by the client.
There were also all sorts of software tools around dynamically elevating user rights, whether these would stop this activity I don’t know.
I just think it will be overkill for you John, save your money by buying a cheaper CPU, like an i3. The only reason I didn’t was because I needed something in a hurry and the R5 3600 was the only thing I could buy that would fit the motherboard I already had. I had to buy a graphics card too, ouch. This was for work chasing a big contract, otherwise I’d still be waiting for things to calm down.
The one component that really makes a massive difference is an NVMe drive. The difference in price between an i5 and an i3 is more than the cost of a decent one, so it makes sense to buy a fast drive than more cores.
If I was starting from scratch right now this is what I’d be buying:
i3 10105 3.7GHz £125 This has onboard graphics and is better value than the F version + a cheap graphics card.
MSI B560M PRO Intel Socket 1200 Motherboard VGA, HDMI and Display Port £70 There are plenty at this price from all the OEMs. It’s hard to go wrong, but this has the latest chipset. Just make sure it has an M2 drive slot.
Kingston FURY Beast 8GB (1x 8GB) 2666MHz DDR4 RAM £35 Only a couple of quid more for much lower latency, but any DDR4 at this price will be fine. I wouldn’t get less then 8GB.
Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 256GB M.2-2280 SSD £38 A very fast SSD for the same money as others. The 512Gb version is £55. The WD Blue drives are good value too.
Cases are a very personal thing. I have the CiT S503 Desktop Case £38 and a GameMax GT-300W 300W 80+ Bronze PSU £30. You don’t need a larger PSU than that.
TBH John, you could save £75 by using a Pentium Gold G6405 4.1GHz and not notice any difference in day-to-day tasks.
If you need Wi-Fi get the MSI B460M PRO-VDH WIFI Motherboard VGA, HDMI and DVI £90. It has Bluetooth too. It’s better value than a pci-e card.
Don’t do it.
All peripheral equipment is monitored so you can bet they are now on a black list!
This sort of endpoint protection is common in Corporates, it’s a by product of managing USB drives or CD burners, but a luxury for smaller businesses. I doubt many bean counters would sign this sort of software off. In theory it is simple to administer, but you need to know the hardware IDs.
Yes, they will just soak up all they can get their hands on.
Throttling apps at the router end is fraught as all that’s arriving are streams of packets, these have to be opened and analysed and that takes a lot of fast CPU time. Better to try throttling at the PC end, have a look here
I believe you can throttle both EA Origin and Epic in their Settings menus.
I’ve tinkered with QoS then ignored it. It’s hard to see that streaming would interfere with Teams with all that bandwidth. Are the devices wireless? That’s probably the issue if they are, hidden nodes.
I did use Storage Spaces a couple of years ago when messing about using W10 as a server. It just reconfirmed my commitment to Synology for servers. Somehow I now have three but only bought one, but it has cost me £££ in disks. It does let me set up some HQ / Branch experiments though.
Sorry about that. My new machine is a PC and it’s way over the top for a general purpose duties. I got the R5 3600 because it was pretty much all I could get to go with the motherboard (and other bits) I already had. My son is after a new games PC and I am probably going to let him have it and “downsize” to an i3 (4 cores / 8 threads). Once upon a time this would have been called an i7.
For a good “office” or “social media” type PC you really only need 4 “cores”, 4GB of ram (8 if you can) and an SSD (an NVMe x 4 if you can). It’s the SSD that makes it responsive, the ram gives Widows room to breathe and you really don’t need loads and loads of cores if they have nothing to do.
Windows 11 just isn’t exciting me, I’m not even slightly interested in it which is the first time ever. But the rules have changed, the biggest is that it needs a TMP security chip. That basically sorts itself out though as there is a list of CPUs that will be supported, Intel here and AMD here and by and large they have TPM built in.
OK, so the CPU has TPM but the motherboard must be capable of supporting it too. Luckily most motherboards of recent years will and each OEM has got a list to check. £70 – £100 will get you something very capable.
So, for most general purpose users a new £60 Pentium Gold will do fine and sort out the graphics too. If anyone doubts this, it absolutely thrashes the 6th generation i5-6200U in this laptop – by 35% No-one is going to say an i5 of any generation isn’t a capable chip.
But, a 10th Gen i3 isn’t much more, and for geeks like us has lots more features. Unless you are gaming or other intensive computing there really is no need for anything more. That’s why I am quite happy to downsize my 6 core / 12 thread CPU to 4c / 8T and there will still be plenty of CPU left for my CCTV simulation software.
No mention of AMD? That’s because you can’t buy a W11 supported AMD CPU for less than £200, £250 for a 5th Gen Ryzen. Plus you need to shell out for a graphics card too, which are also in short supply even for the rubbish ones. This is the CPU I have and don’t really need. Once things are back to normal, a Ryzen 3 “G” (for onboard graphics) will be the ones to look for, the Ryzen 5 G if you want a bit more.
The mobo has 2 x NVMe x 4 slots, but it’s so quick I decided not to try RAID. VM I/O is another thing thing.
Sorry John the series 1 Ryzens won’t cut it. More later. Delivery of the i7 is here.
If you’re like every other commercial driver I know you’ll be chomping at the bit to get back behind the wheel before long.
My best man decided on a change of course, joined the PO Counter with me, moved to the back office then after a few years wormed his way into driving the cash vans, then the parcel trunking. Made an offer he couldn’t refuse to “retire”, now driving the sh1t tankers for Wessex Water and loving every minute of it.
I would never go back to being full time employed, I can’t think of anything worse. However there are plenty of agencies out there and I’d imagine some short term or casual work would be easy to get. Work when you want, don’t when you don’t want to. The good thing now is you can say no and nobody can make you.
I have an Android tablet with a SIM slot, a Teclast P80X, and it will do the work of a phone too. I can’t remember if it’s the very latest Android, but it’s only 1 behind if it isn’t.
I bought it as at £80 it has a 1280 x 800 IPS screen, 2.4 & 5Ghz AC, Bluetooth 5. The non X is here with no sim slot but everything else.
802.11ac will always be dual band, but 5Ghz was available as an option for 802.11n. So the thing to look for is AC. I would expect most things WiFi these days to be 802.11ac
A USB dongle will be no use to him.
Yep, it’s going to be WiFi not mobile network. There’s an awful lot of rubbish on Youtube and elsewhere mixing up 5G with 5Ghz. A phone can have 5Ghz WiFi and not be “5G”, mines like that.
The standalone “G” stands for Generation, so it’s 5th Generation mobile data not a Ghz frequency measurement. Budget and / or older phones will only have 2.4Ghz WiFi and 4G. Top end new phones will be 5Ghz and 5G. Mines in the middle at 5Ghz and 4G.
But, you say he’s flown it before? How did he do that if the phone won’t connect to it?
They are a good compromise John, I used them a lot before SSDs came down in price.
They have a small SSD internally, you can’t access it yourself but the firmware uses it to cache your most used files (or even just parts of files). So when you first fire it up you’ll not notice any difference as the cache is empty. After a few reboots it will have put lots of the Windows files in the cache and boot times will improve accordingly. Over a day or two it will do the same with your favourite apps and it’ll keep an eye out to see if your use changes.
It’ll never be a fast as an SSD but it will make a difference where it matters and you’ll have plenty of space.
This was a few years ago in de Wildeman in Amsterdam (my favourite pub in the world). It’s a Bierproeflokaal, literally beer tasting room, and I saw people drinking something clearly dredged up from the Damrak.
So, the whole point of the place being to try something new, I asked some questions (the bar staff are very knowledgeable and love to talk about beer) and found it’s a New England IPA. NEIPA is heavily dry hopped to give a hazy appearance but Garage (Barcelona) took it to the extreme with Soup.
It hasn’t got bits in it like a gone off beer has, it’s like any other heavily hopped craft ale in most respects apart from the opaqueness. If there is a NEIPA on offer I will always give it a go. Most look more like Thatcher’s Haze than Soup and if you like the hoppy citra style are usually very good. Most British craft brewers have one these days.
That’s more for contract work Teefie, doing the sort of stuff I used to do. Basically the equivalent of a full time job. It’s not as attractive as it used to be with HMRC changing the rules, retrospectively as well, over how contractors pay themselves if they’re using a Ltd.
This is different and will probably end up in some sort of limited partnership or multi director Ltd. It’s bidding for specific projects on a one off basis every time. I have no desire for a full time job working for a “boss” any more. Been there, done that. Of course it can be dog eat dog, but what they’re doing is extremely unethical.
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