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BloodrayneZA said:
Seriously? I've had my Corsair Vengeance 2 x 4GB DDR2 1600 for nearly 10 years now. I rather pay a little more for quality PC parts than have something fail on me a year later. My Sandybridge is 9 years, still going strong (quad core if you need to know).

I just replaced my HD5750 GPU fans sometime before Christmas last year and they were running for like 7 / 8 years. No overclocking, nothing, just a work machine, media machine and gaming machine all in one. Plus bonus is that the Asus motherboard has surge protection - since the load shedding started, that surge protection has saved my hide many times. My PSU failed after 8 years (thanks Eishkom) so I got myself the Corsair 650w PSU (I can't remember which series), cost me a pretty buck but I know it's quality and it will go a long way.
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Maybe it's just bad luck with Mushkin. My only SSD that died was also Mushkin :mad:

Corsair in general is good, never had problems with either RAM or PSU.
 
i want to ask a computer technician would i be able to fit A RadeOn RX580 between a wireless NIC and a 1 Gbps lan card on my desktop currently have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 760 in the second graphics slot of my desktop
 
BloodrayneZA said:
Seriously? I've had my Corsair Vengeance 2 x 4GB DDR2 1600 for nearly 10 years now. I rather pay a little more for quality PC parts than have something fail on me a year later. My Sandybridge is 9 years, still going strong (quad core if you need to know).

I just replaced my HD5750 GPU fans sometime before Christmas last year and they were running for like 7 / 8 years. No overclocking, nothing, just a work machine, media machine and gaming machine all in one. Plus bonus is that the Asus motherboard has surge protection - since the load shedding started, that surge protection has saved my hide many times. My PSU failed after 8 years (thanks Eishkom) so I got myself the Corsair 650w PSU (I can't remember which series), cost me a pretty buck but I know it's quality and it will go a long way.
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i have a got a 730Watts gigabyte and it survived The load shedding power cuts power surges pc still running strong
 
spit said:
Thank you for your response but I've decided against it.
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the ups i have has issues with the monitor it turns off the monitor sometimes at start up of windows and other times it just carries on showing "no signal" on the monitor during day time randomly got it from matrix warehouse
 
TheSuperSonic said:
i want to ask a computer technician would i be able to fit A RadeOn RX580 between a wireless NIC and a 1 Gbps lan card on my desktop currently have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 760 in the second graphics slot of my desktop
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That all depends on how thick they both are, if they're both dual slot and the fans are not obstructed by other cards it should be ok.
 
TheSuperSonic said:
i want to ask a computer technician would i be able to fit A RadeOn RX580 between a wireless NIC and a 1 Gbps lan card on my desktop currently have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 760 in the second graphics slot of my desktop
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Doesn't your motherboard have LAN built in? For the last 8 years or more those have been 1gbps as well.
You can also get wireless usb cards.
 
I used: https://www.wootware.co.za/asus-usb-ac51-wireless-ac600-wi-fi-adapter.html on a friend's machine, was just plug-and-play (windows automatically downloaded the needed drivers and stuff), worked fine.
It's a cheap USB WiFi adapter, rather pick something like that than using one that requires a PCIe slot unless you really need to constantly transfer stuff or it's pretty far from the router/edge of signal.

If you need better signal/performance: https://www.wootware.co.za/asus-usb-ac54-wireless-ac1300-usb-adapter.html is supposedly good as well, supports USB 3 as well, so will actually be able to max out the WiFi connection if good signal. The original product is from 2014 though (the ASUS AC56), so might be something newer that's better.
 
Ugly PC is now Slim PC and got an upgrade to the Athlon 200GE. Sadly I did not feel like cable management. Getting twice as many points a day on WorldCommunityGrid than the A6-9500.

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Rouxenator said:
Ugly PC is now Slim PC and got an upgrade to the Athlon 200GE. Sadly I did not feel like cable management. Getting twice as many points a day on WorldCommunityGrid than the A6-9500.

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Doesn't actually look that bad. Remember that case is an older design so the layout is different.
 
TheSuperSonic said:
i have a got a 730Watts gigabyte and it survived The load shedding power cuts power surges pc still running strong
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Yeah but mine had been running 9 years before it failed so I think the power surge added to its old age stress and it just gave up the ghost.

Since getting the Corsair VS650, I've had a few surges and it has been running fine every time.
 
Lupus said:
You can also get wireless usb cards.
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Rather get a usb one - I have one by TP-Link and it works really well. Just plug in, select the network you want to use, add the password and you're good to go.

It's also great for laptops as it's very low-profile, exactly looks and is the size of a wireless mouse USB reciever.
 
My old core 2 duo was really showing its age, and I was lucky? to happen upon an old server. It is an( also old:)) HP proliant DL160 G6 in a 1U rack case.

It has a Intel Xeon CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz × 4 cpu and 8GB of ram fitted.
My old graphics card fitted( GeForce GT 740) and I have bought a SSD and put my favourite linux on it.
It runs like rocket and I am very pleased, just have some questions.

Would it make sense to buy/get more RAM?
Has anybody moved something like this into a tower case?
If so would I be able to cool (with monitoring) it the same way as a "normal" computer? (i.e. Direct active fans)

I don't game, but do like to have Atom, Brackets( and it live view ), the Arduino Ide and a few chrome tabs running at the same time, other than that the other things I use a pc for are relatively light.
 
Düber said:
My old core 2 duo was really showing its age, and I was lucky? to happen upon an old server. It is an( also old:)) HP proliant DL160 G6 in a 1U rack case.

It has a Intel Xeon CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz × 4 cpu and 8GB of ram fitted.
My old graphics card fitted( GeForce GT 740) and I have bought a SSD and put my favourite linux on it.
It runs like rocket and I am very pleased, just have some questions.

Would it make sense to buy/get more RAM?
Has anybody moved something like this into a tower case?
If so would I be able to cool (with monitoring) it the same way as a "normal" computer? (i.e. Direct active fans)

I don't game, but do like to have Atom, Brackets( and it live view ), the Arduino Ide and a few chrome tabs running at the same time, other than that the other things I use a pc for are relatively light.
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Do you care about power consumption and noise?
 
Soul Assassin said:
Do you care about power consumption and noise?
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I have not yet measured the actual consumption yet but it is a concern. The power supply is a 750w so I'm pretty sure it might be too heavy, just weighing up options.
The noise is why I was thinking of moving it to a case where I could use bigger quieter fans.
 
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