Recent content by randomusername85

Definitely. I buy all kinds of stuff used, but rarely ever do that with computer stuff... You never know how much use it could have seen. Especially with a GPU if somebody was overclocking the heck out of it or something.

Well it's good to know I can at least still fake it! I used to be a pretty proper geek, new sweet stuff every couple years... And now I'm like "Pshhhh, these 10 year old computers will be fiiiiiine with a new GPU!" LOL

Yeah, could be. It has been a minute since I've bothered to look at any benchmark sites for kicks. I just remember not that many years back last time I did I was surprised it wasn't completely awful compared to a lot of newer products out there on SOME benchmarks. They were always dogs single...

Sweet. I'll make sure to look up those models. Yeah, $300 something bucks is just a bit much if I end up doing all 3 of these computers. Although, maybe I could get 2 cheaper ones and one slightly better one for what will be my "main" box when I build new systems.

Cool, thanks. You read a ton of stuff online trying to figure out how any of it works out in the real world... It's easier to just ask somebody a lot of the time. I used to be a hardcore specs geek when I was younger, and always kept up on the new stuff coming out... Nowadays I just kind of cram...

Different ones in different computers. But they're all pretty high end fully modular with a TON of excess wattage available. I don't imagine any GPU I will be buying will soak up enough juice for them to not be sufficient. As for what's in there now, a few different models of 1-2GB old AF, super...

Well, that and maybe 4K movies playing smooth. But as I said in the long bit, also want to future proof a bit. Just because something will max out my current systems throughput doesn't mean it wouldn't be nice to have some breathing room when it goes into a computer than can fully utilize it. If...

I sperg out on details, but I know it so I made the short version for a reason ;) Thanks for the suggestions. Is there a reason you suggest 6 or 8 GB? Is that what's really needed for tons of tabs and some multi tasking nowadays? Keep in mind, I'm not doing intensive gaming stuff. Having...

Hello.! Short Version: What's a good decent graphics card for basic stuff that will still be workable in a few years, maybe $200ish bucks range? Going on old PCIe 2.0 computers, but want to use in future builds when the old ones are retired. Long Version: I have a few pretty ancient 6 and 8...

Anything man? I know you said some stuff before, but I don't see an option to convert to NTFS as you suggest, and am curious about your thoughts after the new info I posted...

I don't have a functioning RAID drive I can show right this second... It may only be because I have multiple computers running the same motherboard (hence same RAID hardware/software), but usually if I pop out a drive from one of the RAID arrays and put it into another computer as far as the new...

Hey. So I finished cloning the drive, which seemed to work fine. I also copied off all the actual data folders that had unbacked up versions of things... So I guess I'm ready to try fixing the cloned drive. Interestingly the system reserved partition (likely the new wiped one without the...

Thank you. I believe I understand what you're saying. Just because I'm paranoid I think I will do a bit by bit copy as I said above, and perhaps try this on that first to see if it works... In my other software I did see that the file structure was there and looked correct. Just looked in here...

To me it looks like the 4th row down which it labels as "Primary (A)" is probably the current wiped System Reserve partition that doesn't have the info needed to boot on it. Then one of the found 105mb partitions is probably the correct one that I deleted like an idiot. I suppose I could...

Ok, did you see the image showing what's going on? I just posted it.