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| 20:30.46 | hexhaxtron | yaMatt, hi! |
| 21:03.17 | yaMatt | hey hexhaxtron |
| 21:03.38 | hexhaxtron | yaMatt, I'm looking forward to buy a desktop. |
| 21:03.43 | hexhaxtron | Could you help me find it? |
| 21:03.58 | yaMatt | oh yeah? I can try |
| 21:04.03 | yaMatt | not bought a desktop in a very long time |
| 21:04.08 | yaMatt | what are your requirements? |
| 21:04.45 | hexhaxtron | I want it to have 8-cores, 32GB DDR4, 512GB SDD and graphics with 8GB GDDR5 for about 1000 or 1500 pounds. |
| 21:05.02 | hexhaxtron | Do you think it's possible to find? |
| 21:05.08 | hexhaxtron | I'm not having luck on Google. |
| 21:05.30 | ChoHag | Make one. |
| 21:05.35 | yaMatt | wow |
| 21:05.37 | ChoHag | You're only problem is probably the graphics. |
| 21:05.39 | yaMatt | yeah, definitely make one |
| 21:05.39 | ChoHag | your |
| 21:06.01 | ChoHag | But unless you have penis problems, they're basically irrelevant. |
| 21:06.04 | yaMatt | that's a pretty powerful machine |
| 21:06.23 | hexhaxtron | ChoHag, I don't like messing with hardware, I may smash a pin of the processor when trying to plug it in the socket for example. |
| 21:06.24 | ChoHag | Thanks. |
| 21:06.39 | ChoHag | Although only half the RAM (so far). |
| 21:06.50 | ChoHag | hexhaxtron: They're stupidly simple these days. |
| 21:07.13 | ChoHag | I think Intel got tired of people whinging at them and trying to get free replacements. |
| 21:07.36 | yaMatt | yeah, they're quite simple |
| 21:08.09 | ChoHag | Everything's pretty well built these days. I'm fairly sure my similarly-specced machine was well under 1500. |
| 21:08.18 | yaMatt | plus you won't pay over-head, or have to deal with crappy customer service |
| 21:08.20 | ChoHag | But I bought the bits a year or so ago. |
| 21:08.22 | hexhaxtron | Once I built my own computer buying piece by piece and assembling it and... I remember I was mining bitcoins and in the next day the processor burnt... it was such a waste of 1000 pounds... |
| 21:08.44 | yaMatt | I'd send it back |
| 21:08.51 | yaMatt | sounded faulty |
| 21:08.51 | hexhaxtron | I did. |
| 21:09.09 | hexhaxtron | And then I sold it for about half the price to another guy. |
| 21:09.30 | hexhaxtron | It had a lot of problems and I got tired and sold it. |
| 21:09.44 | ChoHag | Anyway I have to go. |
| 21:09.46 | yaMatt | when you buy high spec machines the depreciation is pretty terrible |
| 21:09.54 | hexhaxtron | Take care! |
| 21:10.07 | ChoHag | But my advice is to a) build your own, and b) buy 2 drives and RAID them rather than splurging on graphics. |
| 21:10.24 | ChoHag | Especially if you buy SSDs. They don't go a bit bad, they just fail hard. |
| 21:10.28 | hexhaxtron | Thanks! |
| 21:10.37 | yaMatt | thing is any company I would recommend has terrible service |
| 21:10.50 | ChoHag | Or if you're feeling adventurous, zfs instead of regular raid. |
| 21:11.19 | hexhaxtron | SSDs are not durable? |
| 21:11.24 | ChoHag | They're very durable. |
| 21:11.38 | ChoHag | But if/when they fail, they fail suddenly and completely. |
| 21:12.02 | yaMatt | my colleague did have a partial failure, it just mounted as read-only |
| 21:12.17 | yaMatt | he spent 2 weeks reading and writing tiny files on disk XD |
| 21:12.29 | ChoHag | I have 3 (4?) running in various home machines now and 1 which is in pieces because it died and I haven't sent it off for data recovery yet. |
| 21:12.54 | ChoHag | Of all the spinning discs I've had which died I've been able to do the recovery myself. |
| 21:13.01 | hexhaxtron | Data recovery is expensive... |
| 21:13.23 | ChoHag | SSDs basically throw a "Fuck you. I'm out." and you never hear from them again. |
| 21:13.41 | yaMatt | heheh |
| 21:14.37 | yaMatt | I've replaced the PCB on HDDs before to get them working again, but I figure if you lose data you haven't got a good enough backup strategy |
| 21:15.06 | ChoHag | She didn't, no. |
| 21:15.14 | yaMatt | yup :) |
| 21:16.18 | ChoHag | "Sorry, $wife, this copy of all your pictures and files is completely dead. You'll have to restore from your backups." |
| 21:16.33 | ChoHag | "..." |
| 21:18.03 | ChoHag | Anyway. Bed time for me. |
| 21:18.45 | yaMatt | I could only recommend HP but I suspect you won't get the memory you require |
| 21:19.40 | hexhaxtron | I think I have to wait about 1 year to find such things. |
| 21:20.26 | yaMatt | not really seeing much movement in the desktop market |
| 21:20.33 | yaMatt | they don't really care any more |
| 21:21.31 | hexhaxtron | yaMatt, do you know easy ways of making money online? |
| 21:22.45 | yaMatt | heh, wish I did |
| 21:23.19 | hexhaxtron | Would you like to make money reviewing songs? |
| 21:23.25 | hexhaxtron | I get some cents for the referral. |
| 21:23.56 | yaMatt | na, I don't really have the time |
| 21:24.02 | hexhaxtron | :) |
| 21:24.04 | hexhaxtron | Alright. |
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| 23:20.12 | hexhaxtron | yaMatt, you there? |