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Yes I remember doing that. Easy answer, microwaves.
Les, the symptoms sound like a dodgy router. That’s not to say your broadband is something wonderful though.
Perfect weather for a ride.
Quite a good day of football, better than I was expecting. Every time the Welsh moan that lack of population means they can never have a world class team, look at Uruguay.
This may be of interest Les https://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/isp-directory/Isle-of-Man.html
D2 – This is where my RM and working on a PO counter experience comes in ?
Once you frank an envelope you’ve paid the postage (there’s a counter in the machine and various methods of reading / paying / prepaying) . Not good when you want to slip a pre-paid envelope into your junk mail given the hit rate is 1% or less.
The service is called Freepost or Business Reply.
- Only pay for the replies you receive
- Opt for replies by 1st or 2nd Class
- Pre-printed
Businesses can print their own envelopes once the contract is agreed – it’s all barcode based. The cost of the postage is all based on volume.
So Nolan and John have only had to pay for the added services they require, the bump to 1st and track and trace.
Was it specifically for the DWP? If so they would have arranged the discount.
Very interesting.
If you want someone to build it for you you’re going to have to decide where to compromise or up the budget.
Personally I would do what the buyer of mega build has done. Look on it as an investment that will last 5 years + (your current rig must be 7 – 8?) and up the budget to get something that will not be having you regret your decisions.
I did much the same with my laptop. I didn’t need an i5 and 12GB of ram but I’m glad I did now. #1 son has come home to finish his PhD writing up and my office – his bedroom – is no longer available. There is nowhere practical to move the PC that’s got the specialist CCTV design software on it. Had I compromised on a dual core and 4GB ram for the laptop I’d now be stuffed.
Too hot to do anything in the workshop at the moment! No windows and a south facing non opening black metal garage door.
Watched the last 20 minutes of the German game. Marvellous.
Just hope the same happens to Brazil a bit later. I have some Brazilian lager chilling in the fridge (it was on offer in Tescos) and some Belgian Leffe for Thursday if the jinx works ?
The reason the above is as it is is due to the free 128GB SSD in the bundle. If you’ve seen the benchmarks in my mega build thread, an M2 SSD is absolutely the way to go. That’s why there’s such a fast one in the mega build, we saw how many temporary files were being produced and proved it in the 2 drive CAD laptop.
Where I’m getting confused on this one is CPU vs GPU. I thought D-Dan favoured GPU only, in which case why bother about a higher end CPU? and vice versa. If it’s a case of both is best I can understand, but I’m just thinking of ways to get the best solution in budget.
i.e. Spend an extra £100 on a GTX1070 and £100 less on the CPU? Or £80 more on a 2700X and a £80 less on a GTX 1050?
E-Buyer have a 1700X bundle deal. Here’s what could be done if I was starting from scratch i.e. ignore any existing components.
Gigabyte AX370M-DS3H Motherboard with Ryzen 7 1700X Processor and SSD Bundle 841824 £297.98
(Free Item) AMD Ryzen 7 1700X 8 Core AM4 CPU/Processor 778679 £0.00
(Free Item) ADATA Ultimate 120GB SSD – 2.5 840831 £0.00
Psu Vs550w 80+ 834999 £43.98
Toshiba P300 3TB 3.5” SATA High-Performance Hard Drive (OEM) 726224 £65.57
Corsair Carbide Spec-03 Series Blue Led Mid-tower Gaming Case 705405 £41.99
MSI GeForce GTX 1060 AERO ITX 6G OC GDDR5 Graphics Card 819765 £249.99
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200 2400MHz DIMM C16 Memory Kit 739888 £147.39
Corsair Hydro Series H55 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler 410726 £67.97
£914.87Just totting up the cost of the parts and a 1700 without liquid cooling it’s £900.
The 6 drives are a big problem for 2 reasons.
- AMD only has 4 SATA ports but there are 2 SATA Express which some manufacturers repurpose as an extra 2 SATA. This pushes you up the motherboard scale to the more expensive end.
- Getting a case to deal with 6 x drives. People just don’t have 6 drives these days. 1 x SSD and 1 x large spinner for storage. They are about, something like the Antec 302, but the cabling becomes a nightmare and the cooling options are limited as the drives go where you’d put a fan, plus they add extra heat.
They will both play to win whatever anyone says.
I don’t think we (or they) have anything to fear from any of Group H. After that they will all be tough whatever.
I have one of those in the kitchen, works a treat.
The mobo has a 24 pin ATX and 8 pin CPU. I don’t need any other connectors as no SATA drives and the GX1050Ti is pci-e power (it’s currently got a GT210 in to lessen the load).
The only difference in the 430 and 650 is that the 650 has another 6 pin pci-e and more juice available all round.
I’ve been in touch with CCL and they agree it’s probably the motherboard, but I’m sending back PSU, mobo, ram and CPU so they can test it all together.
But I tell you when it’s running it’s ridiculously fast which I put down to the WD Black M2 as much as anything else. Reboot times are <5 seconds.
This is really doing my head in now.
Corsair CX 650M arrives this morning, it’s the big brother of the 430 that works. It won’t boot.
Same issue as the original Thermaltake Paris 650, it tries to start then stops then starts again. The 430 does this too but in a few seconds it boots. The 650 keeps going but no boot, the Thermaltake starts and stops ad infinitum and you can hear a solenoid clicking ever time it stops.
WTF is going on? There is an option in the Bios to apply a dummy load to stop PSU going into a fail safe if the voltage drops too low. It makes no difference and if it is this why is the 430 unaffected?
Why would you want to go back to 7? It’s dead as a dodo. MS will only be keeping essentials update going to service the Corporates who won’t move until the last minute (and beyond) but pay them loads of $$$.
Ran Crystal Disk Mark on my laptop with SSD and on the new PC
Lenovo V110 Hynix HFS128G3BMND-3210A : WD Black (512GB) M.2-2280 PCIe x4 NVMe
Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 537.763 MB/s : 1899.107 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 183.872 MB/s : 848.456 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 350.161 MB/s [ 85488.5 IOPS] : 696.854 MB/s [ 170130.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 156.388 MB/s [ 38180.7 IOPS] : 496.061 MB/s [ 121108.6 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 138.698 MB/s [ 33861.8 IOPS] : 623.199 MB/s [ 152148.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 125.208 MB/s [ 30568.4 IOPS] : 459.448 MB/s [ 112169.9 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 22.951 MB/s [ 5603.3 IOPS] : 36.205 MB/s [ 8839.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 48.528 MB/s [ 11847.7 IOPS] : 105.536 MB/s [ 25765.6 IOPS]Bloody hell!
Well I’ve kept quiet about this one as it’s had it’s problems. Once CCL had managed to get everything here….
It wouldn’t boot. Motherboard diagnostic lights indicated the CPU so back it went. CCL tested, seems OK. Got delivered here today, still no boot. Hmm, perhaps I’ve damaged the mobo in some way? Shit that’s £200’s worth, but I’ve built hundreds of PCs and never damaged anything.
Light bulb moment, try the PSU. Yep it was the 650 watt Thermaltake PSU. It’s got a Corsair 430 Watt in it now but PSU calculator says 380 watt so I’ll get a replacement fitted.
Windows 10 installed in a flash.
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