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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   22 Mar 2018 17:37 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      87 of 145 
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Yeah maybe. OTOH if I want to max out the memory later, that's ~$200 in the bin.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   22 Mar 2018 17:40 
 To:  graphitone      88 of 145 
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I'm usually pretty careful about buying new parts. I've been caught out by cannibalized parts (latest was trying to put "mac" memory in a pc, which is 1 notch off). Oh yeah, also had to put a new PSU into my case upside down.
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 From:  graphitone   23 Mar 2018 09:23 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      89 of 145 
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I think part picking has come a long way, it's easier now than back in the day of Pentium 4s having specific RAM, DIP switches and the murky waters of setting IRQs for sound cards.

There are still a few gotchas, but there's a ton more resources to check you're getting it right.

Speaking of all this, I'm planning a PC upgrade for the missus. Custom PC this month featured an AMD APU build for under £400. I might hang on a month or two though, as they suggested you'd need to flash the motherboard's EFI to get it to recognise the CPU. Newer builds of the board should already have that in place. Not that I'm adverse to doing these things myself, but it keeps the onus on them to get it right and saves any returns/customer service hassle should the update go wrong for me.

Not got the parts list with me at work, but I'll see if I can find it tonight.


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 From:  koswix   23 Mar 2018 13:31 
 To:  graphitone      90 of 145 
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I was playing with part pucker last night and it gave that warning for rysen CPUs and mobos needing flashing.

The worrying part is that it said that in order to do the flashing, you'll need to have a different, recognised CPU installed to be able to do it :/

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   23 Mar 2018 13:34 
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Placed the order after giving MrsD. a heads up. By waiting a day I saved another 5-bucks on the GPU! Now I've got to figure out a case (there are a couple of candidates home), and a Windows. Looks like I'm going to have a busy Easter.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   23 Mar 2018 13:35 
 To:  koswix      92 of 145 
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Something to do with spectre/meltdown?
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   23 Mar 2018 14:06 
 To:  koswix      93 of 145 
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I've wondered that too. It's totally useless. If you've got a suitable CPU you're probably not looking to upgrade.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   23 Mar 2018 15:02 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      94 of 145 
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/amd-sending-out-free-processors-to-solve-firmware-flashing-catch-22/
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   23 Mar 2018 15:35 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      95 of 145 
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Thought that might be an Onion article for a second.
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 From:  graphitone   23 Mar 2018 15:40 
 To:  koswix      96 of 145 
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Yep, that was part of the article too, get some parts off a friend and flash it that way - I didn't read it properly though, and hadn't realised you needed a different CPU to get it done. That's a bit of an arse then. :C

Also, where can I get that part pucker game? It sounds most appealing.

 


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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   23 Mar 2018 15:50 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      97 of 145 
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The AMD page says you can also RMA the motherboard.

Apparently they send the 'flashing' cpu without needing a credit card. Wonder how many of those they'll be seeing back...
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   23 Mar 2018 16:33 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      98 of 145 
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Ebay will be flooded.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   23 Mar 2018 16:35 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      99 of 145 
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Speaking of which wait for the impending collapse of the bitmining economy...
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 From:  koswix   23 Mar 2018 18:48 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      100 of 145 
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Think just more to do with incompetence.

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   27 Mar 2018 14:08 
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So I bought a (supposedly) legit Win7 oem activation key offa this outfit http://stores.ebay.ca/cheapercodes?_trksid=p2047675.l2568

Smells a bit dodgy, but I only gambled ~9-bucks on it and they emailed the key with instructions right away. The OEM key doesn't work with MS downloads (retail only), but they supplied a google drive download link (hopefully not malware-infested). Gonna find out if this thing works in a few days. If it does  :-O~~~ .

PC parts should be here sometime today.
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 From:  koswix   27 Mar 2018 19:58 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      102 of 145 
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Welcome to the botnet :|

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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   27 Mar 2018 20:09 
 To:  koswix      103 of 145 
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It's good to contribute to the net
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   27 Mar 2018 20:49 
 To:  koswix      104 of 145 
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“It is surprisingly easy to sell snake oil”
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   27 Mar 2018 21:12 
 To:  koswix      105 of 145 
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Hmph. ISO passed Microsoft's own checksum.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/checksum-for-an-iso-file/da5cdd7d-f5eb-4e3c-b180-9fca5fc5e01f
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   27 Mar 2018 23:09 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      106 of 145 
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You checked against the 40 character SHA1 hash, right?

Not the 8 character CRC or 32 character md5, neither of which are tamper proof.

(Not that SHA1 is bulletproof, but it's only weakened, not broken yet. Probably.)
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