Recent content by MCMailbox

Thanks! I'm a bioinformatician and my work is largely split between my desktop when working from home and my laptop when working in the lab. A lot of my work gets done with pipelines run in software like R and Python, and on top of that some software just runs better on either Windows or Linux...

Hi all, I hope this is in the right category. I recently picked up a 1TB external SSD on which I want to install both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04, and be able to boot into either of those operating systems or the OS on the internal storage of the host computer. I have already installed Ubuntu...

Hello all, Wondering what your opinions are on prioritizing wifi 6 or tri-band routers for a mesh network that will have 3 routers. For my budget range it looks as though it will definitely come down to one or the other. Edited to give more usecase information We are 4 roommates in a 3 story...

Thank you for the reply! So it looks like basic consumer parts will do the trick according to the parts list you put together (much appreciated!), which sounds good to me. I'd like to go for NAS drives because the media server functionality is a priority so I can access files from work/school...

Hello all, I will soon be moving into a house with three other guys for university, and I think it would be awesome to put together a NAS/home theater PC for all of us to use. However, it seems as though there isn't a ton of literature on part picking for these types of systems, so I'm partly...

Hi all, So on this PC I built early last year, the motherboard (Gigabyte Z390 Gaming X) has both an 8 pin and 4 pin 12V connector for the CPU, common in Z390 motherboards. However, my PSU (EVGA 650 G3) only has a 4+4 pin 12V CPU lead, so following some advice I found online...

Update Card works perfectly! Came totally sealed, even did an etoh spritz to look for fingerprints and smudges and nothing came up. It really hadn't seen the light of day beforehand. I didn't want to remove the heatsink unless as a last measure so i first plugged it in and ran gpuz on it...

Thank you for all the feedback! Good to hear it doesn't look like a fraud off the bat. I opted for a 1080ti over the 2080 because of the reliability issues people have been seeing with them, figure if I upgrade to ray tracing I'll wait for the 21 series to work out all the kinks.

*I know there are a couple threads like this one, so just FYI I will be thoroughly testing the product i receive to make sure. Just wanted to get some second opinions.* Just purchased this AORUS 1080ti from ebay. There seems to be some other cards at a similar price point from individual...

Couple of questions actually First, I just want to make cure my OC is stable: overclocked my i7 4770k to 4.5 GHz with a 1.290 Vcore. I stress tested it in prime95 for about an hour (short time but I had to leave and i didnt want to risk not being there if it BSOD'd) and my highest temps went up...

I'm planning on setting up multiple monitors of different sizes, probably having two in total, on my two GTX 770s in SLI (which should be noted that they only have 1 HDMI port each) and I just have a couple questions about it. First, do all the monitors need to be connected to the same type of...

So I've recently noticed (I haven't really kept tabs on this before so this is the first time I've noticed this) that in some applications, only one of my GPU's (the first one) is actually exerting itself. The second one still slightly moves in clock speed and voltage but only the first card is...

Hello, So after a few months of loving my Swiftech H220, it decided to kick the bucket and give me the ol' 'CPU fan error' message on startup, no matter how i tried it wouldn't work and almost fried my CPU after giving me a good false sense of security when it stopped telling me it was broken...