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[satanboy]

Charles Voyde Harrelson (July 23, 1938 – March 15, 2007)] was an American hitman and organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr., the first federal judge to be assassinated in the 20th century. Charles Harrelson was the father of actors Brett and Woody Harrelson

 

[Jings]

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Charles Voyde Harrelson (July 23, 1938 – March 15, 2007)] was an American hitman and organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr., the first federal judge to be assassinated in the 20th century. Charles Harrelson was the father of actors Brett and Woody Harrelson

Do you see the resemblance?

 

[satanboy]

3% chance of rain

I got soaked through

 

[Spizz]

3% chance of rain

I got soaked through

Gee, what are the chances...

 

[satanboy]

Gee, what are the chances...

100% since I got wet

 

[Nicholas]

Having installed the new PSU I bought to replace the one that went bang, I booted Ultimate Boot CD and started testing my computer's CPU and RAM. CPU is okay, but Memtest 86+ returned several errors. This is DDR3 RAM, so I am not convinced that looking for second-hand memory [Carbonite] is worthwhile. [YMMV].

I was thinking that I would allow myself to spend up to R8 000 on 16Gb of DDR4 RAM and whatever CPU and motherboard I can buy with the difference.

I'll be testing my SSD and mechanical disk drive next week. [Well, that I'm telling myself. ]

 

[Nicholas]

This is what I sit in when I am using my PC/Mom's laptop/PS4. Works for me.

 

[biometrics]

Having installed the new PSU I bought to replace the one that went bang, I booted Ultimate Boot CD and started testing my computer's CPU and RAM. CPU is okay, but Memtest 86+ returned several errors. This is DDR3 RAM, so I am not convinced that looking for second-hand memory [Carbonite] is worthwhile. [YMMV].

I was thinking that I would allow myself to spend up to R8 000 on 16Gb of DDR4 RAM and whatever CPU and motherboard I can buy with the difference.

I'll be testing my SSD and mechanical disk drive next week. [Well, that I'm telling myself. ]

I had 2x8GB DDR3 in my i5 3470 media PC. It works perfectly. I had some other RAM from an older PC so I sold the 2x8GB on Carbonite but it was returned as faulty. I ran Memtest and it failed. But the RAM works perfectly in Windows. So I don't know what to make of it.

 

[biometrics]

This is what I sit in when I am using my PC/Mom's laptop/PS4. Works for me.

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Oh no, those are terrible, lol.

 

[biometrics]

Having installed the new PSU I bought to replace the one that went bang, I booted Ultimate Boot CD and started testing my computer's CPU and RAM. CPU is okay, but Memtest 86+ returned several errors. This is DDR3 RAM, so I am not convinced that looking for second-hand memory [Carbonite] is worthwhile. [YMMV].

I was thinking that I would allow myself to spend up to R8 000 on 16Gb of DDR4 RAM and whatever CPU and motherboard I can buy with the difference.

I'll be testing my SSD and mechanical disk drive next week. [Well, that I'm telling myself. ]

This was me upgrading my gaming PC in Jan so prices will have changed since, but your budget seems good. I also sold the old parts on Carbonite easily at reasonable prices, so total cost was quite a bit less.

 

[Johnatan56]

I had 2x8GB DDR3 in my i5 3470 media PC. It works perfectly. I had some other RAM from an older PC so I sold the 2x8GB on Carbonite but it was returned as faulty. I ran Memtest and it failed. But the RAM works perfectly in Windows. So I don't know what to make of it.

Basically errors will keep happening, as long as it's nothing critical, it's fine, but randomly will blue screen and chance of corrupting the data you open once it saves again.

 

[biometrics]

Basically errors will keep happening, as long as it's nothing critical, it's fine, but randomly will blue screen and chance of corrupting the data you open once it saves again.

Currently I have the old RAM in there which is fine. I guess one of the 2x8GB sticks are faulty. I still need to run Memtest on them individually to find out which one and toss it. But yeah I wouldn't take a chance with a work PC, this is just for media.

 

[Nicholas]

Thanks for the input, guys.

 

[Nicholas]

This was me upgrading my gaming PC in Jan so prices will have changed since, but your budget seems good. I also sold the old parts on Carbonite easily at reasonable prices, so total cost was quite a bit less.

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I'm likely to settle for a lesser CPU so that I can get a full-sized motherboard. I don't like working with micro-ATX boards.

 

[Nicholas]

Oh no, those are terrible, lol.

I can add a cushion or pillow should I ever feel uncomfortable in it.

 

[Nicholas]

This was me upgrading my gaming PC in Jan so prices will have changed since, but your budget seems good. I also sold the old parts on Carbonite easily at reasonable prices, so total cost was quite a bit less.

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I was surprised to see that your CPU has become cheaper since then. Do you need to use a 3rd--party cooler with it?

It seems that Ryzen 5 is cheaper than Core i5.

 

[Nicholas]

Basically errors will keep happening, as long as it's nothing critical, it's fine, but randomly will blue screen and chance of corrupting the data you open once it saves again.

Hmmm...trivial as it may be, I'd rather not have something go wrong when I am saving my game progress or something I am playing around with in graphics software.

What should i use to test my graphics card [I have been using integrated graphics so far] and SSD?

Thank you in anticipation.

 

[biometrics]

I was surprised to see that your CPU has become cheaper since then. Do you need to use a 3rd--party cooler with it?

It seems that Ryzen 5 is cheaper than Core i5.

Includes a cooler.

 

[Sinbad]

I was surprised to see that your CPU has become cheaper since then. Do you need to use a 3rd--party cooler with it?

It seems that Ryzen 5 is cheaper than Core i5.

And way way superior.