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A GTX 770 which a friend kindly gave me during the last mining boom / pandemic / gpu shortage when my 290x decided to die. I later "fixed" the 290x by bios flashing it to remove defective ram channels so I have that as well now. Also have an iGPU these days as well, it was more of a selling...

Will Globalwin802 be in stock complete with OcUK case badge?

Weren't they all actually selling at a loss though when the prices were down at 1tb drive for £35? Think I read that somewhere... not sure how much of a loss of course.

That's pretty incredible, the ping is better than my ping on FTTC 900m away and you have 22x my download speed and 42x my upload speed too :D. What modem are you on with that? When you say worst case is it weather dependent?

There was a somewhat recent LTT video (I know... groan...) where he was trying to find the source of some interference and he had some kind of expensive scanner, but he also mentioned some cheaper hardware, perhaps you can look into this? I don't know if the scanning app you have is similar but...

Dunno about the 1080Ti being the GOAT. Yeah it's a great card, and it's had quite good innings, but a lot of cards actually last a while these days. GOAT still has to be Radeon 9800 pro.

Yup that's where I really see it. I bought a 3.5 year old 290x which released at $550 (according to google) for £120 or so. Can't even buy a 5 year old 2070 super for that money now adays and I think that was launched $50 less. Maybe it's due to nVidia holding its value more than AMD. GPU prices...

There's clearly someone buying second hand GPUs at those prices, I think the second hand market would be a lot more susceptible to the price dropping if the demand wasn't there.

Yeah I think the big drop off around Q1 2022 was mining, it correlates roughly with the bitcoin price, you also had the electricity price skyrocket in Q1 22 as well I think.

Is that deal still on the go or am I being blind? They ended it recently right? It's like a tenner + vat now?

Feels like even the second hand GPUs are affected as well, they hold their value way more, even years out of warranty.

There shouldn't be 5. This might work differently on a Dell PC but on a standard motherboard the pin header for the case switch is 2 pins, one will be ground and the other will be a signal wire, by shorting the signal wire to ground the PC should prompt the PSU to start. The pin header is...

Faulty case switch perhaps? If it's starting when the power cable is connected (this can happen for a few reasons), then one possibility is the case switch is stuck closed, and pressing it has caused it to open but stay open if it's broken. So now when you press it nothing happens. Use your...

I agree, but it seems to be happening. It's happened to a friend as well, slightly different circumstances though, he was on an OEM key and updating his BIOS deactivated his install, it was unrelated to the more current issue where an install activated off a W7 key won't re-activate the same...

It'll work fine if it is originally a Windows 10 or Windows 11 license, you'll not have an issue with hardware change there afaik. It's a specific interaction now with Windows 7 and 8 keys linked to an MS account.

And this is with a Windows 7 license? :/

As mentioned in the other thread, I tried that. This information only applies after around October 2023 when MS decided to stop allowing W7 licenses to activate 10 and 11, if it was before then that you tried this off a Windows 7 or 8 key you should have no issue, perhaps that's why? Edit...

Folks should be aware that updating their BIOS for security patches may cause your hardware IDs to change and invalidate your windows activation if you're relying on a windows 7 / 8 digital license upgraded to windows 10 or 11, as I recently found out after updating bios for this very reason...

My usage of dual sim in the past (on android) is that the phone has 1 sim for voice and text and 1 sim for data. The wifi hotspot its self isn't tied to a sim card, it's just a wireless access point which can use whatever sim you've set the phone's data to. Might be different on iPhone though.

Honestly! Customer support nowadays is all like this it seems, they CBA to take on anything that doesn't have a directly obvious fault or solution. "Our internet service is not intended for being used as the internet."