Budget PC specs
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What do people think about the build linked below, making a cheap pc for my dad with a budget of around £550 for tower, monitor and operating system which is getting pretty close for a budget.
Any suggestions
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Could probably get an SSD for not much more?
Is your dad still into Civ?
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Yep he is still in to civ, hopfully a new computer will be able to handle civ 5 etc, If I was to get an extra £100 budget what would you spend it on.
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SSD is indeed surely the best quality of life improvement on what is listed, it otherwise seems pretty sensible.
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It took me more than 2 years from this point, but finally also got myself a new proper PC built. Cute little thing too:
Should never have connected the hdd led though. It is brighter than the sun and in the ssd era pretty much just constantly lit :p
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HDD light is a bit of a relic.
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rip.
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oh no
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Evidence is strong and you still have warranty, so should be no problem. (other than not having a PC for a week)
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Then again, why should I use 20 minutes of my precious time to put my GPU into a box and send it to Denmark, when I can spend three hours of my worthless time learning enough CUDA to write a little program which allocates all the memory on the card, figures out which memory blocks are broken by random sampling, and then frees only the memory which is good:
Turns out it is precisely 1 gigabyte broken, so presumably one actual memory chip. At 8 gigabytes of video memory I don't think I will actually ever care about being down to 7 gigabytes usable after this hack though.
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that's dedication , i love it
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Good work, Marti.
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I would still send for a replacement in moral principle!
But I must admit that is pretty impressive!
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@Black-Bob said in Budget PC specs:
I would still send for a replacement in moral principle!
I motivate it a bit for myself that replacement is kind of wasteful. It is not like they'll fix this thing, so it'll be several pounds of fine electronics thrown in the bin if I get it replaced.
Though the real reason is that I am pretty lazy, not so much for the initial replacement, as for the hassle if anything goes wrong (mishandled in the mail, they fail to diagnose the issue, etc.)
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yea true you could end up with a gpu / pc for weeks or something
