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I like an efficient system as I work in a basement that doesn't have air conditioning. One of my old computers could raise the temperature of the room to where I would notice it if it were running at high CPU load for a few hours. The fans were indicative of the CPUs running hot. But, all things being equal, it would be nicer if things were quiet.
Nothing wrong unless it annoys you. I had an earlier model razer a couple of years ago and its noise bothered me, but now with a newer model, its 2 (3?) years old. The fan noise is acceptable even when pushing it with games.
I much prefer the noise coming from my newly built desktop simply because its extremely quiet. The case fans are silent, the only sound is from the RTX 2060 which makes sense when I'm gaming. Even then, I modified the fan curve, so that the fans won't spin up much until it gets a bit toasty
I miss the silence of the M1 Air, but I don't mind the noise of my current build. Could have it almost inaudible but prefer slightly cooler temps. Gets pretty loud under load though, sits my arm length away on a shelf level with my head haha, just have to turn the volume up when gaming. Maybe I should invest in closed headphones.
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Fan noise can also be indicative of a poorly optimized system. Active cooling kicks in when passive cooling doesn't cut it.
The Roku Streaming Stick that I paid $35 for five years ago can stream the same basketball game silently.
Silence is golden.
So as I mentioned back when I decided to build a new PC, this will eventually be used as a dedicated gaming machine. There are many aspects of Windows that I like but overall I do prefer macOS for working on day to day. It's the best of both worlds really and a path I've been resistant to for sometime, but come round to the idea.
My home office is quite small which makes it challenging to have 2 full setups. Short term I plan to just have both the PC and a new iMac when they are released, on the same desk. It's a little cosy but it's all I have to work with. Longer term (2-3 years) we will have an additional room in the home that I can use as my man cave.
The PC is almost done in terms of tweaks. I'm keeping an eye out for a 3080 founders edition in the UK which sell for 679. If I can bag one, then I can sell my 3070 for what I paid (695) making it no brainer.
Peripherals are almost dialled in. As this will be a gaming setup I've gone for a Razer huntsman mini in white and the glorious model o wireless in white. These should arrive in the next week or so.
My home office is quite small which makes it challenging to have 2 full setups. Short term I plan to just have both the PC and a new iMac when they are released, on the same desk. It's a little cosy but it's all I have to work with. Longer term (2-3 years) we will have an additional room in the home that I can use as my man cave.
The PC is almost done in terms of tweaks. I'm keeping an eye out for a 3080 founders edition in the UK which sell for 679. If I can bag one, then I can sell my 3070 for what I paid (695) making it no brainer.
Peripherals are almost dialled in. As this will be a gaming setup I've gone for a Razer huntsman mini in white and the glorious model o wireless in white. These should arrive in the next week or so.
did windows get an overhaul this week?
all my icon on the task bar look "healthier" since Tuesday.
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i need to upgrade a 2016 Dell XPS desktop computer
the original OS was windows 8, they have 19, and 4GB of RAM and kinda slow.
I upgraded, deletes excess files and ran some clutter tests, the system is still slow.
i am installing more RAM, with 8 or 10 GBs, and i know a ssd drive would speed things up big time,
but im worried about losing windows 10 on their computer.
the added RAM should help the Dell run thing faster, correct?
all my icon on the task bar look "healthier" since Tuesday.
and
i need to upgrade a 2016 Dell XPS desktop computer
the original OS was windows 8, they have 19, and 4GB of RAM and kinda slow.
I upgraded, deletes excess files and ran some clutter tests, the system is still slow.
i am installing more RAM, with 8 or 10 GBs, and i know a ssd drive would speed things up big time,
but im worried about losing windows 10 on their computer.
the added RAM should help the Dell run thing faster, correct?
thanks for the advice,
im one of those people who would not pay 35 cents for something i won't use.
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the fan noise on the Dell also makes up for the fans not being there at the game!
What version are you rocking? (type winver at the start menu) 20H2 did tweak the start menu icons
Where will you sell your 3070 to get back what you paid?
I wish I was that lucky I always lose money on stuff I buy, must be looking in the wrong place 🤦
20H2 was released in October 2020, but MS takes there time rolling it out. It can take months for a PC to be upgraded unless the user initiates the update
I'm a member of Overclockers UK forum, they have a very active members market, but they have tough requirements for access. The only reason I'd be able to sell for what I paid is because there is zero stock available.
Something happened as I had to log in to my desktop this week (don't recall the day).
I'm back to Windows now. I was using my Windows Desktop tied to a MacBook Pro using 3x4k and 1xQHD. I decided to go all Windows and with just 3x4k. It's working out well as a trading station. I kind of hacked Virtual Desktop to behave more like macOS - one big plus of macOS is Virtual Desktop is much nicer when you have multiple monitors.
I do have a Mojave Virtual Machine running on Windows and it's how I run iCloud and other macOS-only programs. I need to clean up my tables and my desk. My proper desk has the Dell XPS Studio 435mt, Late 2009 iMac 27. I might do two separate desktop setups. I'm still also eyeing a 2020 10700 iMac. That would be ideal for trading. If Fidelity ever gets around to a proper trading platform, then I could go all Apple Silicon. In the meantime, the best solution is Windows and second-best is macOS Intel.
One thing that Windows does better is screen capture; at least with the little tool that I wrote. I used to use Shift-Option-4 on macOS but it has two problems:
1) It captures in PNG format where JPG provides much better compression,
2) On Retina displays, it makes the image the size of the actual pixels used instead of the scaled pixels resulting in huge (size and space) images
One of the sites that I upload charts to has a filesize limit on images and I run into the limit with PNG images but not with JPGs.
I wrote a little PowerShell program which does some of the macOS stuff (uses a filename with the date and time of the image), and saves the image as JPG. I could modify it to also resize for retina screens too. One of my friends wrote an automation script to auto-resize and it's a right-click.
I have a 2008 Dell XPS and it's a nice system with i7-920, 48 GB of RAM and SSD. A 2016 Dell XPS Desktop should be really fast. I'm pretty sure that a 2016 XPS wouldn't have shipped with Windows 8 either. What's the CPU on it?
Windows remembers the system signature so it shouldn't be a problem install Windows 10 on it on another drive if it already has a licensed Windows 10 installation. I've done this many times. Dell systems may be special as well in bypassing license checks. You could install Windows 10 using the SSD in an external enclosure to check it out.
Are you sure that it's a 2016?
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You have bash/zsh at your fingertips to modify Mac os....
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Thanks. I just did this on one of my Macs and saved the link so that I can change the other Macs.
I've bought a 3090 founders edition 😅 need to upgrade my PSU now.
rezenclowd3
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Replace the thermal pads asap. Brought my memory junction temp in my 3090fe from 110°C to 94°CI've bought a 3090 founders editionneed to upgrade my PSU now.
need to upgrade my PSU now.
Well my first time back in a windows machine was short lived lol. Love the Yoga 9i but experience very subtle white lined flickering along the top of the display when the image is static. They chalked it up to a driver issue with the xe graphics but no idea when it would be fixed. Only have 30 days to return it so its going back. Back to square one!
I am very eager to see how you proceed.
My 12-month goal is to acquire a 3080/3080 Ti FE and shove the custom cooled modded card into an NZXT H210 case (two PCI slots available for GPU).
The H210 case has enough room for a 150mm reservoir and a 240mm radiator. The PCB of the 3080 FE is short which is ideal. I've been eyeing parts from Alphacool but their inventory situation is pretty bad. Every purchase from Alphacool incurs a lot of shipment charges from Europe to the USA. If I buy little bits here and there I'll get killed on shipping. I need everything to be in stock at the time I place my order and right now this scenario looks very unlikely.
I have two mini-ITX motherboards and it looks like my ASUS Rog Strix B550-I board would be the one to use since it has a thermal sensor header on the motherboard (to measure the temp of the custom cooling loop's liquid). My MSI MPG B550I Gaming Wifi does not have a thermal sensor header.
I plan to stick with my 65W TDP Ryzen 5 5600X CPU so I'd avoid putting it on the GPU's cooling loop.