repair or replace?
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Yes RAM reseating often works. You haven't mention the first most important thing and that is what do you use it for and neither the second thing what are the specifications - make, model, motherboard, CPU, RAM speed, etc. oh and what operating system? Replacing the hard drive with an SSD always speeds up the older computers.
This PC is my everything PC. Gaming, programming, and general use. Gaming & programming drive the hardware, especially gaming and video. My final choice is a an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X. I considered other models, looked at benchmarking and reviews, and finally at price. It seemed like the best bang for the buck, and one that I'll have no problem using 5 years from now. RAM is 3200 -- that's what the MB and CPU are rated for, so getting faster didn't make sense. MB is an Asus, but depending on ship date, I may have to make a different choice.
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This PC is my everything PC. Gaming, programming, and general use. Gaming & programming drive the hardware, especially gaming and video. My final choice is a an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X. I considered other models, looked at benchmarking and reviews, and finally at price. It seemed like the best bang for the buck, and one that I'll have no problem using 5 years from now. RAM is 3200 -- that's what the MB and CPU are rated for, so getting faster didn't make sense. MB is an Asus, but depending on ship date, I may have to make a different choice.
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Define "haven't been pleased." Please with what? You've picked about the worst time to build a new PC. Prices are high, and supply is short and even impossible to get. You can't find a video card anywhere on the planet. You're in line behind more than a million (not an exaggeration!) other people waiting for video cards.
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Dave KreskowiakDo you know if this shortage of video cards (and their ridiculous prices) has to do with their intensive usage for crypto mining? Or is just the need for gaming - the raison d'être of 'computers' for more and more people? Because I - not being interested in either perversion - could happily live with what the motherboard itself has to offer in terms of video and sound. At least for a good while.
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Do you know if this shortage of video cards (and their ridiculous prices) has to do with their intensive usage for crypto mining? Or is just the need for gaming - the raison d'être of 'computers' for more and more people? Because I - not being interested in either perversion - could happily live with what the motherboard itself has to offer in terms of video and sound. At least for a good while.
Miners are buying them up by the pallet.
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I have old Laptop RAM floating around... You might look around for used. Someone probably has some shelved (welcome to 2022)! FWIW, Once a machine hits 2yrs, I try to buy an off-lease cold spare. My previous cold spare is sitting on the shelf. I am close to getting one. I've been taken down HARD before. I fresh install is about 80hrs of my time. [Supporting Software from 25+ years ago]. Moved to VMs, so it might be down to 40hrs. Eventually, I guess my Dev machine(s) will be in the Cloud, and I will just remote into them. Why do I picture an X-Windows Like World?
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You sound like my lost development brother :)
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
LOL. No, just old enough to have watched HDDs fail. Lost a RAID because a drive failed while the previously failed drive was still repairing (learned not to use drives from the same batch!). Had SSDs fail. And whole laptops/workstations die. I was called in to help a client who had Mirrored his server drives. Using an obsolete controller, and NEVER backed up because he had MIRRORED drives. Well his controller took a dump, and BOTH drives were IDENTICALLY USELESS because the controller formatting them to be unrecognizable in a regular system. I still remember the first time my machine FAILED and I had a spare. It took me longer to take the drives out and put in the backup machine, then to boot up and get back to work. Glad to consider you a development brother!
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LOL. No, just old enough to have watched HDDs fail. Lost a RAID because a drive failed while the previously failed drive was still repairing (learned not to use drives from the same batch!). Had SSDs fail. And whole laptops/workstations die. I was called in to help a client who had Mirrored his server drives. Using an obsolete controller, and NEVER backed up because he had MIRRORED drives. Well his controller took a dump, and BOTH drives were IDENTICALLY USELESS because the controller formatting them to be unrecognizable in a regular system. I still remember the first time my machine FAILED and I had a spare. It took me longer to take the drives out and put in the backup machine, then to boot up and get back to work. Glad to consider you a development brother!
RAIDs - false sense of security. Years ago (like 20) we had a very high end RAID in our production system. Many systems shipped to customers. One day, our engineering test unit went down with a bad controller board. Now, in addition to RAID drives and dual controllers, it had dual power supplies - I mean the thing was sold as no single point of failure. Then one of the controllers died. And the tech replaced it, and we found out that the controllers weren't redundant. Apparently the RAID 5 they did depended on the specific controller. Sales guy and the company were very upset when I cancelled their contract.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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RAIDs - false sense of security. Years ago (like 20) we had a very high end RAID in our production system. Many systems shipped to customers. One day, our engineering test unit went down with a bad controller board. Now, in addition to RAID drives and dual controllers, it had dual power supplies - I mean the thing was sold as no single point of failure. Then one of the controllers died. And the tech replaced it, and we found out that the controllers weren't redundant. Apparently the RAID 5 they did depended on the specific controller. Sales guy and the company were very upset when I cancelled their contract.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Reminds me of the old 10 inch backup tapes on the PDP/11s Control Data Came out, and did their maintenance. When they were done, we could read OTHER tapes fine, but the ones we wrote for backups could not be read, because the tape head was out of alignment when the tapes were created. (They aligned it because it was having trouble reading OTHER tapes). Being Young, we crossed our fingers. But the Operations Managers, barely 20... Changed procedures so that at least the first tape of each backup had to be mounted/confirmed on a DIFFERENT PDP/11, which meant that there were at least 2 tape drives that could read the tape. [FWIW, that process then discovered we hard Morons on the night shift backing up incorrectly. Thankfully he had the morning shift do this when we were all around, so we could find the issues. But backups were being made to the wrong days tapes. Crazy stuff]