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      Black Bob Crazy last edited by

      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

      https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/h7v9M8

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        beach Crazy last edited by beach

        Could probably get an SSD for not much more?

        Is your dad still into Civ? 😄

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          Black Bob Crazy last edited by Black Bob

          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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          • vaette
            vaette Crazy last edited by

            SSD is indeed surely the best quality of life improvement on what is listed, it otherwise seems pretty sensible.

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              vaette Crazy last edited by

              It took me more than 2 years from this point, but finally also got myself a new proper PC built. Cute little thing too:

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              Should never have connected the hdd led though. It is brighter than the sun and in the ssd era pretty much just constantly lit 😛

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              • Tango
                Tango Crazy last edited by

                HDD light is a bit of a relic.

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                  vaette Crazy last edited by

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                  rip.

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                    beach Crazy last edited by

                    oh no 😞

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                    • Tango
                      Tango Crazy last edited by

                      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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                      • vaette
                        vaette Crazy last edited by vaette

                        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:

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                        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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                          beach Crazy last edited by

                          that's dedication , i love it

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                            Tango Crazy last edited by

                            Good work, Marti.

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                              Black Bob Crazy last edited by

                              I would still send for a replacement in moral principle!

                              But I must admit that is pretty impressive!

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                                vaette Crazy @Black Bob last edited by vaette

                                @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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                                  beach Crazy last edited by

                                  yea true you could end up with a gpu / pc for weeks or something

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