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I'm straight connected. I did just now go run the length of the cable, inspect it and then disconnected and reconnected both ends. It did get me up to about 23 Mbps, so I think that fixed it. It's just odd to me that it was shitty, but no so poorly connected that it dropped.

something daemon i remember being good for it.

Bought the sennheiser momentum in ear true wireless earbuds despite mediocre reviews. Lasted less than a day before the batteries died. Sending these back and going back to wired.

uziq wrote:

RHA do a decent wireless set but i’d always recommend wired. just not sure what is the great advantage of not having earphone cables?

Snagging wires while commuting is annoying but it's not worth having another battery operated device to worry about.

im sure im not in the majority here, but I don't like wearing earbuds or over-ear headphones of any kind, pretty much ever.  It seems like the only time I'm using them is when im on a flight or in a hotel room. I have nonsensical reasons such as the fear of not hearing something important and practical reasons like the lack of any solutions that don't make me feel like i'm wearing earmuffs or have a bug in my ear.

I am looking for a reasonable price range home set up though.  Can I realistically find a 2.1 or 5.1 with a receiver for less than $1k?

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

im sure im not in the majority here, but I don't like wearing earbuds or over-ear headphones of any kind, pretty much ever.  It seems like the only time I'm using them is when im on a flight or in a hotel room. I have nonsensical reasons such as the fear of not hearing something important and practical reasons like the lack of any solutions that don't make me feel like i'm wearing earmuffs or have a bug in my ear.

I am looking for a reasonable price range home set up though.  Can I realistically find a 2.1 or 5.1 with a receiver for less than $1k?

for music or a complete home entertainment?

you can get open headphones that sit very comfortably on your head and have a lot of environmental noise bleed in suitably noisy environments. it does strike me as a weird complaint but then again i have earphones in and music playing for about 4 hours a day.

Last edited by uziq (2019-06-26 00:36:33)

Is it worth attempting to upgrade my PC from Win 7 to Win 10 or would I be better off with a new PC

Current:
Win 7 Pro
Dell Optiplex 9020
i7-4770 3.4GHz
16 Gb RAM
64 Bit OS
NVIDIA Quadro K620

Apparently Dell support it on that model, so I dunno.
https://www.dell.com/support/article/au … n#Optiplex

I don't know if there's going to be a hiccup down the track and I'd be better keeping it as a legacy machine, then I could ditch the XP box which is running my robot.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2019-10-19 20:09:57)

Thats my current PC, my work PC was about the same and ran 10 fine. I like Win 7 a lot, 8 and 10 not so much although 10 is OK.

I could use an upgrade for CAD work, maybe I'll plod along until January and see if I'm making money out of it.
It would be handy to be able to run Solidworks in my shed with a Win 7 machine as well as at my desk on Win 10, and I hate system 'upgrades' as something always goes wrong.

Solidworks 2020 is the last build which will run on 7 so that will force me in a year or so.

Win 10 has issues running older software and games. That's why I had to downgrade from Win 10 to 7.

uziq wrote:

black friday is the next date for a tech splurge. i might even finally upgrade off this i5 760 board. when it came out it boasted revolutionary USB 3.0. lol.

I feel like I'm going to do what I did last year and add a bunch of components my cart, then leave it on the backburner until the sale is over.

I probably shouldn't for much longer, though. I don't want to be stranded by possible failed old parts when prices are higher, and have to go back to my ancient laptop.

If I had to upgrade it, I'd (in order of priority) swap out my storage drives for newer devices and use the old ones for Steam, toss in an RTX 2060 or 2070 Super, maybe try 4x8gb 2133 Ripjaws for cheeky OC. But by then I'm already partway to a new PC and absurdities like 4k considerations.

shrinking prices for CPUs? intel CPUs/bundles seem more expensive than ever. to get a mid-range intel gaming bundle currently you're looking at £500-600 just for the CPU/mobo/RAM alone. i guess there's the AMD ryzen stuff ... meh, good luck with that. don't know enough about it.

feel the same way about GPU cores. a few facepalms in recent years by both nvidia and ATI to genuinely best their mid-range cards. i guess they haven't really had the usual commercial impetus to improve, seeing as the crypto bubble has kept them in hock.

i've been repeating this here for what feels like the last 10 years now, but i haven't seen the justification in building a gaming pc for years now. something i never thought i'd say in my peak gaming years, and what would have been tantamount to blasphemy: but console gamers have had it best for years. you can spend a couple hundred on a console and play your GTA/red deads, access your big online multiplayer games, etc. and you're not missing anything from that $1k+ gaming pc bracket. what have PCs had to offer in that time? starting another play-through of skyrim or fallout modded with the latest hi-res texture pack? 'competitive' gaming on the latest derivative of counter strike, which is noticeably worse than the last one, which in turn was noticeably worse than the original? throwing oodles of processing power at some poorly optimized, buggy shit-show like dayZ? i mean grats ... PCs and PC gaming blows.

funny you say that a 2gb GPU is due for the rust-heap. i just bought one second hand for the price of a few beers so that i can play WoW:classic on max settings. what in the name of fuck would i need 6Gb of VRAM for, for a handsome sum?

I'm not sure how good the 3rd gen Ryzen are, but I have a 1st gen desktop at work, a 2nd gen laptop and bought my mom a 2nd gen desktop. My work desktop and my laptop both have had continuous video problems - my work desktop display occasionally goes black and resets and a few others here with the same set up have had the same issue, and my laptop has an annoying display issue where if I stream netflix to my TV with an HDMI cable, the feed goes crazy and freezes. It ONLY happens streaming netflix, and I have not been able to find any solution. I'm not sure if my mom's desktop issues are related to Ryzen or if it's just an HP bloatware issue, but there are processes that run nonstop that eat about 40% of CPU resources, and I haven't figured out a way to disable it. I just found out about it over the weekend so I haven't been able to isolate the issue, but based on my own experience, I'd stay away from Ryzen. Like I said though, maybe their 3rd gen is a bit more stable of a platform.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

I'm not sure how good the 3rd gen Ryzen are, but I have a 1st gen desktop at work, a 2nd gen laptop and bought my mom a 2nd gen desktop. My work desktop and my laptop both have had continuous video problems - my work desktop display occasionally goes black and resets and a few others here with the same set up have had the same issue, and my laptop has an annoying display issue where if I stream netflix to my TV with an HDMI cable, the feed goes crazy and freezes. It ONLY happens streaming netflix, and I have not been able to find any solution. I'm not sure if my mom's desktop issues are related to Ryzen or if it's just an HP bloatware issue, but there are processes that run nonstop that eat about 40% of CPU resources, and I haven't figured out a way to disable it. I just found out about it over the weekend so I haven't been able to isolate the issue, but based on my own experience, I'd stay away from Ryzen. Like I said though, maybe their 3rd gen is a bit more stable of a platform.

The problem is Win 10. I had so many problems with Win 10 that arrived after my upgrade from 8 and disappeared after my downgrade to 7.