Recent content by m3m7uk

my strategy for the past decade has been: buy a cheap, used workstation, fill up the ram slots and, if reasonably possible, upgrade the processor to the maximum the motherboard will support. (big hint: look up the motherboard's chipset. a quick google, for example, for intel q390, will tell you...

that's pretty much how it's always been done. processors are made in sheets, then separated and tested. the ones that work but start to return errors at a certain speed, are ranked accordingly. meaning, they always knew a lot of them weren't going to work completely, and had plans to use the...

you need both a base upgrade, and gpu. for my 2 cents, i think you should find a refurbed workstation, with a higher specced cpu, and buy a new video card with the rest of the budget. imo, it's well worth it to pay a little more for a tower model, for the extra room. you may have to buy a...

and my main rig is running an i7 8700. perhaps it's time to upgrade.