Damn

and of course people would drive the bids down as much as they could

so unless you already have like really good equipment and training and such it wasn't hard to basically just get fucked but i got some good shit on there before with like Wachovia before they lol went bankrupt

setting up hardware in rackmounts and running cables

Yeah I need to learn a lot more with server computers mostly, also running programs on servers

But as I had stated with hardware I am golden

I know almost every modern cpu on the market

but do you know how to unstick a stuck platter on a spinny disk harddrive

I don't do harddrive repair

i once literally got paid $50 to show up at a person's house and just give their hard-drive a wack

Lol

it blew their fucking mind

That's hilarious

yea but then there'd be times where i'd show up for some shit that should be easy and it turns out it was some super insane shit that was absolutely ridiculous and took like 5 hours of work that i couldn't really charge more than 2 hours for

Eh

there were some contracts i'd get where i'd have to read like a 100 page manual before going in the next day lol

but that's all contractor-related shit which i'm guessing you're not thinking aboutg etting into

Well I mainly do troubleshooting with peoples hardware besides drives. So lets say no video is displaying or their system isn't powering on I give them steps to tell them what might be wrong and what they have to do get said system to display said picture, most of the time it is the wrong ram speed for the system or it is just bad ram

yea one of my friends is currently having an issue with his monitor turning black once in a while and he has to put the computer in hibernate and back out for it to come back on

Sound like a driver issue or maybe not enough power

Mainly software I presume

yea he's going to swap out PSU and see if it keeps happening

But it could be power spikes

Yeah

need to get the GPUZ running or someswatch

Most of the time the powersupply isn't bad it is just getting way to much heat from the system

But it could be going bad

I had this problem where my gpu would only shutoff not my system just the gpu, and it was mainly because of a stupid dust cover stopping air flow coming in

i would hope it's not overheating he's got like fucking 6 fans running in that thing lol

but he IS in a super dusty house so probably a good idea to check that too

No I mean the PSU overheating

Because if air is being sucked from the inside that is most likely the problem

yea

Lemme get a picture to describe better

i had a client who kept having PSUs die on him turned out he had fucked up electrical problems in hishome

It is better to have it like that

damn yea i think his PSU is at the bottom

If the fan is in the system hot air will blow into the PSU

And that isn't good

I would highly advise not doing this

yea i will bring that up to him later when he's off work thanks

Yeah np!

If that isn't the case I recommend getting rid of the dust cover under the psu

easy to explain that to someone like me who has some knowledge of the subject already now try doing that as an actual job with people who are clueless lol

lol

people get frustrated as fuck real quick too if you're having to do like process of elimination

Yeah I have seen that

Old hardware is so impressive to me I sware!

Like I had gotten a lenovo y710 with an i5-7200u and a gtx 920mx for 900 dollars new, but you can find a fatter looking laptop but more beafy specs AND YOU CAN UPGRADE THE PARTS TO THE FAT BITCH!

This is the yoga

And the other is a dell Prescision with an i7 and quadro k1000m graphics the cpu is 20% faster and gpu is 7% and it only goes for 230usd used and 400usd new. As stated yes you can swap out the parts I mean GPU and CPU!

Only problem is it is beafy

But it has a BUNCH of ports and a disk drive

You can find models with k1100m and k2000m graphics and higher

But you can upgrade to a GPU that has the same speed as a gtx 1050 for 150 dollars

That GPU is the K5000m or K5100m

But do note this is already cheaper than a normal desktop with the same specs

As this comes with a display keep that in mind

@mxngxxse @djancak ⤴

Also the display in most of these models are full 1080p!

Here is the DELL Precision used but in near perfect condition

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-M4700-15-6-Intel-core-i7-3840QM-2-80GHz-16GB-RAM-256-SSD-K2000M/382812574012?hash=item592168513c%3Ag%3AmwIAAOSw3-9b7eaH&LH_BIN=1#viTabs_0

Forgot to mention the computer has NFC

@gauravtee What if you build the system while in the U.S. and then take it back with you fully assembled?

I'll be taxed at the airport for having 2 computers. Because I'll obviously have my laptop with me

I could do more research into this but yeah I'm about right

@Deleted User Ever worked with a Pentium Overdrive chip?

@gauravtee Been a few decades since I've travelled internationally, and never as an adult. Does Customs really want to know about every last piece of luggage you bring back with you?

"a few decades" the fuck how old are you?

and yes. Absolutely.

@gauravtee Hint: I was 13 when I saw Bon Jovi opening for Ratt in the summer of 1985. Ratt was the better, though ultimately less commercially successful, band.

https://youtu.be/n1sFCszjBoc

that's not a hint nigga you literally gave me the year

all you're making me do is some arithmetic

I'm offended. Don't call me nigga, call me jigaboo instead.

@Deleted User http://www.os2museum.com/wp/intel-overdrive-part-ii-pentium-overdrive/

@gauravtee It was a mere hint for those who don't have a superpower-by-2020 superintellect.

so you're 47 years old??????????

@gauravtee Yeah, as of late last year.

i'm in disbelief

@Deadly_Ramon No I have not worked with a Pentium overdrive chip.

I have messed around with pentium 2s and 4s

@Deleted User The Pentium Overdrive predates those. It was an upgrade for motherboards with 486 and first generation Pentium sockets, though the benefit was reduced for 486 computers because of their lower data bus sizes.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110709032810/www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/fam/g5P54OD-c.html

GG @Deadly_Ramon, you just advanced to level 3! View the leaderboard by typing !levels in any channel.

Huh that's pretty interesting

What I do find interesting about them is that they have a cooler built in

When you say you're into old computer hardware, and I see you linking to specs with 4 digit i7 and i5 sockets, then I gather that you're significantly younger to consider chips from earlier this decade old <:haha:550081069744128000>

My first i7 chip was the 970, running at 3.20 GHz. I bought it in 2011.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/47933/intel-core-i7-970-processor-12m-cache-3-20-ghz-4-80-gt-s-intel-qpi.html

I haven't really looked into older hardware as in like stuff before 2000 but above I know a good portion. The only reason why is because computers now are smaller and are faster to those dated then

Nice cpu

I love the lga 1367 socket

And 1366

They still hold up amazingly in multicore

Now I'm running an i7 7700 at 3.60 GHz.

Single core less so

Ah cool!