New Computer Incoming

[AdvancedApproach]

I bought a new CyberpowerPC from Amazon.

CyberPowerPC Gamer Master Gaming PC, AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6GHz, Radeon RX 6400 4GB, 16GB DDR4, 500GB PCIe Gen4 SSD, WiFi Ready & Windows 11 Home (GMA3100A)​

Obviously the GPU, Memory and RAM will need upgrading but I’ll work on that over time. Recovering data off my computer successfully in the interim is priority number 1. I’d like to get 80 GB RAM, Nvida GeForce RTX 5070, WD SN7100 M.2 Gen 4 SSD NVME, 1000 watts power supply and AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT. The SSD reads at 7250 MB/s and writes at 6900 MB/s.

 

[pware]

New Computer Incoming

Should we all take cover?

 

[AdvancedApproach]

New Computer Incoming

Should we all take cover?

No, that will not be necessary.

 

[pdkoester]

 

[AdvancedApproach]

 

[pware]

Ohhh. Disco Lights!

 

[autodctr]

I have the disco lights, but prefer them to stay one color. To me, I would rather not have the lights at all, but I cannot turn them off.

Mine is made by Cyberpower and I love it except that the blue power light is extremely bright. In fact, it actually lights up the bedroom which is across the hall! I have to keep some object in front of it.

 

[pdkoester]

Interesting...
What do you use for audio, and how much was this gem?

 

[AdvancedApproach]

I have the disco lights, but prefer them to stay one color. To me, I would rather not have the lights at all, but I cannot turn them off.

Mine is made by Cyberpower and I love it except that the blue power light is extremely bright. In fact, it actually lights up the bedroom which is across the hall! I have to keep some object in front of it.

My old desktop had the disco lights actually. Those are just the rgb fans.

 

[AdvancedApproach]

Interesting...
What do you use for audio, and how much was this gem?

I use Sound BlasterX Katana and spent $706.86 for it.

 

[OddRails]

I'm glad that you're planning to upgrade the RAM. I have 64GB and thought nothing would need that much. Alas, it lets me try even bigger collections of DEM files in Transdem and I've maxed out the memory several times already.

 

[johnwhelan]

I'm glad that you're planning to upgrade the RAM. I have 64GB and thought nothing would need that much. Alas, it lets me try even bigger collections of DEM files in Transdem and I've maxed out the memory several times already.

Now that is an interesting comment.

Cheerio John

 

[pware]

I have 64GB and thought nothing would need that much

My very first personal computer back in the dark pre-internet days had 16KB of RAM and, as I was assured by many, that nothing would ever need more than that!

 

[johnwhelan]

My very first personal computer back in the dark pre-internet days had 16KB of RAM and, as I was assured by many, that nothing would ever need more than that!

Thu first mainframe I worked on had 16KB of Ram. I had to rewrite some programs when they updated the operating system and reduced the amount of memory available to programs.

Cheerio John

 

[autodctr]

Coco with 4k RAM was my first. With a cassette recorder for storage.

 

[johnwhelan]

The first one I worked on was at university, it had 1 k of ram and a teletype input and out put. We upgraded it to 2k, more room for longer programs.

John

 

[pware]

Yes, those were the days. But when you tell that to the Tic Toc generation, they don't believe you

 

[paulper]

I have the disco lights, but prefer them to stay one color. To me, I would rather not have the lights at all, but I cannot turn them off.

Mine is made by Cyberpower and I love it except that the blue power light is extremely bright. In fact, it actually lights up the bedroom which is across the hall! I have to keep some object in front of it.

In your third picture from post #5 there appears to be a second button above the power button. If that isn't a reset button try pressing or holding that down to change/switch off the colours.

 

[autodctr]

In your third picture from post #5 there appears to be a second button above the power button. If that isn't a reset button try pressing or holding that down to change/switch off the colours.

That is the button to change the lights, but it does not disable them.

 

[JCitron]

Thu first mainframe I worked on had 16KB of Ram. I had to rewrite some programs when they updated the operating system and reduced the amount of memory available to programs.

Cheerio John

When I took C, we had to worry about large or small memory models when compiling our programs. It was a fun class and I learned a lot and then got terribly confused when I took Java next because it's so similar.