Recent content by crizzah

@nostrocrompt Rock Chalk!

Whew, I had a few days' worth of fires to put out, but I'm back on pc building track now... ...arrite, so I'm guessing it's more of a "Do as I say, not as I do" kinda advice - which I'm okay with. I went ahead & purchased the Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB stick last night. Thank you very much for...

Thanks USAFRet - 07 1-3. Roger that. After thinking about it some more, transferring that license would brick my old PC, so I'll just throw another bill @ Microsoft, & simply keep the old SSD & OS w/ the Frankentower...then repurpose that somehow or gift it to my son. 4. Affirmative future...

Hello, I've finally decided to pull the trigger on a new gaming rig build to replace my +8 y.o. Frankenstein tower - and I'm trying to build it around a new RTX 3080 (...for when I can actually get my hands on one). I actually pulled the trigger on a few components that have come up on sale...

I have an older rig, pushing an i5-3570k & EVGA GTX-1070 FTW GPU, and currently gaming at 1440p on a decent, but cheaper Acer 27" IPS K272HUL. It's a good monitor, and it's really opened my eyes to 2k gaming, but I have noticed some significant stutter/screen fracking at times. I know my rig...

@King_V great stuff, thanks for your insight - this has opened my eyes a bit & will definitely be something for me to chew on for a bit.

Your sentiment is not lost on me - I was simply looking at this as an opportunity to use my skillset to help save this company some expense. My business is a well-oiled machine that honestly doesn't require 12 hours a day from me. I do have extra time - or at least putting in a little extra...

It wasn't a terribly rigorous "must do", it's simply their recommendation, & what they said they feel comfortable with. I will push them a bit more on it tomorrow though & see what more I can discern from their answer. It may simply be that they know I'll go out & build my own rigs rather than...

It would definitely be an upgrade to some of our newer i3-4150's, but they will already install/run Win10 Pro just fine, so I don't think I'll look at the additional SSD expense. The rest of our upgrades will need more than a simple SSD addition I'm afraid, so I'm looking at new builds for...

Before I came onboard, our company hardware was very much a smorgasbord of PC's - basically purchased 1 or 2 at a time when dictated by necessity. Now that I'm in charge, I'm pushing more towards standardizing the gamut. It was recommended that I replace all of my i3 machines with newer i5's...

Well Mandark - I just did some quick checking, and it wasn't long before 3 HUGE negatives killed that option for me: 1: the costs were definitely going to be higher for me in the long run - with all the extra expenses they're throwing in & nickel/diming for this/that - I could probably go out &...

That's a good idea, I just have zero experience with AMD. I'm guessing the AMD chip comes with it's own onboard graphics processor then? Personally, when I thinking about AMD (from what I've known in the past), initial economy is definitely there (low cost), but so is inefficiency and high...

I have a few local small-business peers that have shared some of their IT leasing costs with me, and I'd dismissed the lease option due to the expenses that they've claimed. I appreciate the advice though Mandark, maybe I'll have to give that another look.

Budget: as little as possible. Definitely sub-$800; and I was optimistically hoping sub-$500. Country: US

Hey all, I'm a small business owner, and I've been told by our tech support that we'll have to update at least 1/2 of our desktop "fleet" (about 10x machines) so that we can get everything upgraded to Win10 by the end of the year. The last time we ordered PC's from this tech support company...