The Elmdor-Appreciation-Out - Number of practitioners: one.

[Slacker Magician]

nice. the card itself could be worth $150+ easily.

They would need to be newer (e.g. RTX 2070 or RX 6600XT) to pull that.

[deadlegion]

[Till]

Free monitor is good monitor.

[Zaladane]

Unless is monitor lizard and it bites your face!!

[Till]

Unless is monitor lizard and it bites your face!!

I used to be manager at a pet shop, hamsters do most of the biting and monitors are better pets.

[Till]

My blood sugar has been going for high scores the past four days. Diabetes is why I'm nearly blind and feel compelled to do art while I can still see.

[Slacker Magician]

Unless is monitor lizard and it bites your face!!

[deadlegion]

Poo

Both graphics cards are GTX 950.
Both psu's are crappy Corsair VS550


Both cpu's are i5 6500 and appear to have stock coolers

I've got 2x WD PC SN520 SSD's and 1x Kingston 480GB sata SSD

16GB ram on each mb... one pair is obviously Corsair with hs, the other pair idk (no hs), I haven't pulled any of them. I think all of them are DDR4?
Both mb's are asus but they're different. 1x asus B150M-A, idk about the other yet but it is asus too (one ssd is covering the board info).

The small case is Fractal Design, has 2x case fans (large back, small front) and both are quiet. Tool-less. This case has Win10 Pro OEM serial sticker on it.
The large case is Antec Design, 1x hueg fan at rear. Tool-less. This rig has Win10 Pro activated but no serial sticker.


Both optical drives are asus DRW-24D5MT

[deadlegion]

I have a spare MSi N750 Ti-2GD5/OCV1 sitting around here but idk if I can run it on either of these rigs anyway. Recommend psu for that is 400w vs GTX 950 recommend psu being 250w.
Yeah the psu is 550w rated but they're notoriously unreliable. I mean they do work, but don't expect them to sustain 550. Also the fans are prone to failing after 3 or so years... these rigs I have are older than that and idk how many hours they've had.

I guess I could maybe sorta try to figure that out by pulling the ssd's and running tests. I'd still be guessing though.



The monitor still works, but after being on for about 30 minutes I can see backlight bleed around the edges. Still usable for me anyway, for hardware testing purposes, as it's perfectly fine for about 10 minutes.

[Till]

As stupid as having invented nuclear weapons is, the stupidity of everything else following it makes artificial intelligence correcting monumental stupidity even more dangerous for humans than nukes because humans are the cause that is the problem to a higher intelligence.

Edit:// by that I mean, AI poses a greater threat of causing human extinction than nuclear weapons. The next level of human stupidity after nukes is creating an intelligence that is not stupid which will inevitably be tasked to solve the world's problems when humans are the problem causing the problems.

[Slacker Magician]

I have a spare MSi N750 Ti-2GD5/OCV1 sitting around here but idk if I can run it on either of these rigs anyway. Recommend psu for that is 400w vs GTX 950 recommend psu being 250w.
Yeah the psu is 550w rated but they're notoriously unreliable. I mean they do work, but don't expect them to sustain 550. Also the fans are prone to failing after 3 or so years... these rigs I have are older than that and idk how many hours they've had.

I guess I could maybe sorta try to figure that out by pulling the ssd's and running tests. I'd still be guessing though.



The monitor still works, but after being on for about 30 minutes I can see backlight bleed around the edges. Still usable for me anyway, for hardware testing purposes, as it's perfectly fine for about 10 minutes.

Turn down the brightness/backlight and see if it still does?

[deadlegion]

Turn down the brightness/backlight and see if it still does?

Yeah I will try that maybe tomorrow. But I might have to pop it open eventually and see if I can do something.
It's still useful as is anyway, just under 24".

[LeftyGuitar]

The fourms seem a bit slow lately. Or is it just me?

EDIT: So I decided to buy some games from Gamestop since a lot of games were on big discount even being sold. Of course a few of those games I bought as new were sold as used :/ At least they work and seem to come with any inserts they had. Lesson learned, not buying online again from GS again.

[deadlegion]

The fourms seem a bit slow lately. Or is it just me?

EDIT: So I decided to buy some games from Gamestop since a lot of games were on big discount even being sold. Of course a few of those games I bought as new were sold as used :/ At least they work and seem to come with any inserts they had. Lesson learned, not buying online again from GS again.

That's due to their return policy. Games returned for whatever reason and are still as new are then sold as new, not used. EB have done that forever over here, which is why whenever I buy a "new" game there (haven't for ages now) I ask for a sealed copy from out the back. If they don't have one I say I'm not interested

[deadlegion]

Got an ASUS VW246H for around $6usd.
Pretty much perfect condition, I tested it thoroughly before purchasing