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The cex shop has got some good i7 candidates at around £250. I've bought lots of bits and PC boxes from the cex shop, everything but the majority of hard drives bought separately has been good. I search for stuff like Sennheiser or "Custom i7" every so often.
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needs to go in the bin lol but if the tb ports work with a tv i might be able to get the sound working via the video card.
it has to be this i7 or it will not work.
it wont boot with any other chip bar the one thats in it.
it has to be this i7 or it will not work.
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it wont boot with any other chip bar the one thats in it.
It's always a little cheaper on cex than ebay, plus you get the cex 2 year guarantee:needs to go in the bin lol but if the tb ports work with a tv i might be able to get the sound working via the video card.
it has to be this i7 or it will not work.
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it wont boot with any other chip bar the one thats in it.
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The same CPU is in some other PCs and laptops by Lenovo, Asus and others. Sometimes faulty units will have fully functioning CPUs - if they boot to BIOS it's worth a punt ripping them out if uttery cheap
TBH that i7 isn't a gigantic leap in performance over the i5 you already have anyway:
Intel Core i7-3770S Benchmark
www.cpubenchmark.net
Intel Core i5-3330 Benchmark
www.cpubenchmark.net
Just drop in the item I sent by PM and rip that crappy AMD out. You'll need a good cooler at some point, the Coolermasters 212 is quiet, I've got two:
If nothing is faulty - that i7 I sent details of via PM is nearly twice the performance of that iMac i5, and it'd be in your PC case costing only £73.50 more than the £40+£1.50 delivery you'd pay for that other slower hobbled i7 from the cex shop, while you're waiting for your shiny new AMD with DDR5 to be released. I've got two of the i7s in the link, and they're fast enough for me, but I don't game. Like I said, good gaming rigs from a couple of years ago featured i5s and monster graphics cards, because it's mostly about the graphics cards CPU when it comes to games. After a certain spend point on CPUs and system RAM, it's diminishing returns for cost/performance. Granted, the PCIE slot might not be fast enough for your current (?) 1070 ti.
That iMac isn't really worth holding onto IMHO, I'd get rid of it fast. If Logic installed, it'd be useful for MIDI editing.
That iMac isn't really worth holding onto IMHO, I'd get rid of it fast. If Logic installed, it'd be useful for MIDI editing.
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thunderbolt ports are working and have a tv connected via hdmi
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Either sound has been hijacked by nVidia's HDMI, or the other sound driver can't work - loads of fiddling about required... I had to disable HDMI sound and uninstall the Xonar drivers, then re-enable/detect install (also a clean uninstall) in various permutations until the PCIE Asus card handled all sound. Bloody nVidia ignored all Windows sound routing settings. Left HDMI sound disabled, because it don't want it roaring through the telly.
LG monitors which use IPS panels are pretty good, quite a lot of TVs use TN. The cheaper LGs don't last very long in my experience, and often replacement boards cost more than a new LG monitor. Puffy caps - I might buy Asus next as they promise solid caps, and last longer.
you can opt out of a lot of those pesky data collections while using windows but can you opt out of google analytics? the answer is no, the website owners put google code on their web pages. Would you disable Javascript in your browser? Can you opt out of downloaded fonts in your emails? Can you hide the recipients of your emails? I think it's up to you to decide what you use the computer for, whose apps you want to keep on your computers, which company you want to entrust all your web credentials etc. Microsoft cache more than 500 of my passwords for various IP addresses. Would I keep every password on pieces of paper? No. Would I trust all those free apps I installed on my PC more than Windows?
Two identical files on two drives, backed up regularly, encrypted and disguised as some other file type, then compress as a passworded zip, rename as some other file type, then password with winrar and do the same, just to make things ver ver awkward. The resources required to crack all that (especially with long diverse passwords), would have to be large and whoever wants that info extremely determined...
For added safety, split the winrar volume into several parts, and keep one or two parts elsewhere.
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I am not worried about my password being cracked. My main concern is backup. I always keep two copies on two windows servers on two different networks, one of them is a windows 2003 set to never update. They have simple previous versions so capable of resisting ransonware.
Do you mean backups of the encrypted file containing all of your passwords? Rarely or briefly connected USB drives with encypted files hidden as some other file type, plus copy/backup the file on a phone? The two USB thumb drives would be airgapped nearly all of the time, little risk of ransomware, and ransomware on new phones which are still supported is exceedingly rare. Or keep a simple computer capable of encrypting/decrypting files airgapped, and regularly back that up onto CD/DVD/Bluray ROMs or tape drives.
Most of the time, unless something doesn't work.
Plain text only.
Small companies are not as well connected as Microsoft, which sell your "Anonymised" data to companies small and large.
Clouds provide multiple targets for your copied data. You may not necessarily know when it's been hacked and stolen, it's more vaulable to hackers if you don't know anything awful has happened, after which your passwords will be added to hacking dictionaries.
VPNs and changing the computer name and browser type (also plugins like uBlock) can confuse trackers and confound subsequent data mining efforts somewhat.
But ultimately, the internet now is a pile of sh*t, and computers and their operators real and contrived will enslave us all.
no, not passwords. I don't care about passwords, Microsoft, google and firefox keep my passwords. For the financial websites MS and Google, you have two factor authentications plus partial passwords system. My SIM is a big issue, I can't lose my SIM. For most websites, you have already systems to prevent brute force password cracks. As long as all my passwords follow the standard rules (8+ chars, upper and lower letters, numbers and at least one special character), passwords are not the major issue. The main risks are malware and ransomware brought in or clicked on by staff. We have about 1TB of important data, out of which, about 1GB of recent data that need to be protected with previous versions. I have heaps of online storage and fibre internet so it's easy to sort out.