Recent content by Robomcd

I got some other replies also from colleagues, asking me why I do not go for the new Intel processors. Did some checking here, and actually I could switch without too much price difference: MB: ASRock Z890 PRO RS or the $35 cheaper MB: ASRock Z890 PRO-A CPU: Intel Core Ultra 5 245K GPU: Intel...

Adobe CS6, Dreamweaver, Chief Architect, DaVinci Resolve free version. If I like it, I might buy it; I hate annual cloud subscriptions . Also an old ACDSee version as photo manager (I have over 100 000 digital images and tons of old analog stuff that has to be digitalizedand) and using...

For our Czech non-profit (home office), I must get a new video editing PC for making simple and short event and education video's, and also go through 10 years of video-camera and mobile phone footage and make them into something nice. Our non-profit budget is very limited; the z790 setup I...

I think I will end up with the 14600K anyway, spending $100 extra on a non-K version is nonsense, for that money I buy a nice cooler. The alternative would be a 14500 non-K, which now is the same price as the 14 600K

Here in the Czech Republic, I can get the 14-600 only in two places, and they are about $ 110 more expensive than the 14-600K. In Germany, they are cheaper, but still at least $50 more expensive. The other problem is, non of those 14600 non-Ks mention if a cooler is included, while the lower...

My original graphic card was an ASUS-NVIDIA GTX 570 (museum piece :LOL: ) I am not completely stuck to the 700 ONLY for the CPU, GPU and motherboard. If it gets to 800 with something that blows the rest out of the water, I am game. However, the $1,400 for the z970 + 4070 Super was just way to...

First, thanks for the replies. Not fixed on Asus, but got very good and long-time results with both Acer (laptops) and Asus (components). As you said, that is over 10 years ago. At that time, msi was ok for middle of the road, but most reviews did not include them in the top. That was why I...

My 12-year old DIY video editing PC (i7 2600K, Asus P8Z68-V Pro Gen3 MB, 16GB Ram) really is getting too old and the original graphic card (also Asus) is kaput. I will start video editing again, so I need a new rig and started to look into today’s DIY builds for our non-profit. The combo of...

I would love to spend money on the M1 or M2. Unfortunately, the new macs no longer can run bootcamp, and almost all my stuff is windows stuff including bought stand-alone software like Abobe Premier Pro CS6 and 10 Windows Office licenses. So that is not an option.

Both my DIY desktop (12 year old) and laptop (7 years) are getting really old. More problematic, my graphics card (shoe box is a better description) is fried. I am now considering what to get as replacement: an old macbook pro or a new , as my nephew would say, "el Cheapo" laptop. 1) Macbook...

We gave up on the replacement motherboard and bought a new laptop HP Probook 455

In the W7 configuration I put another GPU, an old GEFORCE 8800 GT that I had laying around, in this rig. Presumably this one was still good, only needing 110 WATT, but Windows gave the same error code 43. So either both GPUs are kaput, or there is another problem.

PSU: Coolmaster Silent Pro 850W I managed to get the missing driver installed by getting the ASUS 8.1 ME software installed, and that fixed it. However, still nothing. So I disconnected the W10 OS SSD, connected an empty SSD, and installed Windows 7. Still nothing. Device manager mentions...

The W10 March 2032 update showed a screen saying its ready. So shortly thereafter switched off my PC. Turns out it was not ready at all, so I interrupted the update process. CRASH. Could not restart, role back or anything but getting stuck in a repair-diagnostics-reboot loop. Tried everything...

This is a 12 year old rig using 4 Kingston DDR3 1866 Mhz 4 GB sticks and an Intel i7 2600k CPU. We run a small museum as non profit, and can display that rig there. Or use it as anvil in our historic smithy 😄