I've had this Dell Inspiron 15 7510 for a couple of years now. It has an Intel Core i7-11800H (8C/16T) and an RTX 3050 Mobile (4gb) and 16GB of RAM with a 512GB NVME SSD. It's served me well but it's been really niggling me as of late:

• The i7 runs HOT for whatever reason and the fans will go loud because of this, while doing light work (it's doing it right now and I've only got FF open).
• The plastic that holds the hinge in place finally snapped so I need to replace the entire top lid.
• The battery will only last for 2Hrs (and that's as long as it has ever lasted)
• F*ck NVIDIA on Linux

Whatever I decide to do I'm going to need to replace that lid.

Is it worth trying to sell it (after repairing it) and using that to offset a Framework laptop (which might be cheaper in the long run)? Or should I just keep using it for the next couple of years to get full value from it?

I don't need a really powerful laptop anymore since I've bought a Dell (I know right) T7910 second hand which I'

Almost 2 months ago I posted here with a question about a GPU upgrade. I got some awesome answers (thanks again everyone!) and ended up doing a couple of upgrades at once, and now have a much better system! I went from

Zotac Gaming GTX 1650 (4GB) > Gigabyte RTX 3060 (12GB)
16GB (2x 8gb) > 32GB (2X 16GB) DDR4 RAM
500GB WD Blue M.2 NVME SSD > 2TB SanDisk EXTREME M.2 NVME SSD
2TB Seagate Barracuda > 8TB Seagate Ironwolf PRO HDD

I didn't end up upgrading the CPU, so am still rocking my Ryzen 5 3600. I'm not super happy with its performance in certain games, particularly the more CPU intensive games like Transport Fever 2 (with large, well developed maps), and NIMBY Rails, but I can hold out for now. All of my roomates moved out, so I've also taken the fairly ugly approach of running CAT6 ethernet cable down the hallway and under my door to my PC, so I've got a nice internet speed boost as well. This isn't permanent though (planning running proper cabling underneath the house in

So a while ago I managed to damage one of my GPUs fans (wifi card fell out of the PCI slot and hit the fan). Although still usable (and probably fixable), it struggles with a few of the games I play. I mostly play games like cities skylines and transport fever 2, and from what I can tell, I think I'm being bottlenecked primarily by a lack of 3D performance and dedicated GPU memory (both of those reach 100% in task manager)

I tried to ask the people at centrecom, but they told me I wouldn't notice any performance increases with an upgrade as my CPU and mobo aren't fast enough to notice a difference. But they never actually asked me what CPU or mobo I have, so I can't tell if that's actually the case or if they're just trying to get me to upgrade the rest of my components too. I'm new at all of this and my PC is a pre-built, so I don't entirely know what I'm doing in any case.

I currently have a Zotac GTX 1650 (4GB) but want to upgrade to an MSI RTX 3060 (12GB). I have an AMD Ryzen 5 3

If you want a 100% efficient computer like me, all you have to do - and it's very simple!

Count all of the noise and heat as useful work.

The Neology group buy is live. These are OEM drives with the warranty through Neology. Prices are cheaper than what he's got on his site and there are bulk discounts available.

Some decent monitor arms at firesale prices for anyone interested.

Got recommended this store for cheap HDDs recently. They sell enterprise HDDs at near wholesale rates so they're almost half the price per TB. Just picked up a couple of 16TB drives for like $800.

Available here

If anyone is in the market for a new pc, this is decent. A bit short on storage but hey, 3060Ti.

Miscellaneous keycaps and mechanical keyboard spare parts fire sale for anyone interested.

Decent ultrawide 4k monitors for anyone in the market for one.

Surcharges: 1.2% Card & PayPal, 2% AmEx. Free shipping excludes WA, NT & remote areas.

Controller: Realtek RTS5762
Memory: Hynix 128L TLC
DRAM Cache: Nanya 128MB DDR3
Sequential Read: 3500 MB/s
Sequential Write: 2900 MB/s
Random Read: 450,000 IOPS
Random Write: 400,000 IOPS
Endurance (TBW): 2400 TB
Warranty: 5 Years

From https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/785276.

Some cheap portable solid state storage.

Great for anyone who needs something cheap to run a home media server on. You'll need to pony up more for some extra storage though.

Gotten from OzBargain

• Controller: Phison E21T
• Memory: Micron 176L QLC
• DRAM Cache: None
• Sequential Read: 3500 MB/s
• Sequential Write: 3000 MB/s
• Random Read: 650,000 IOPS
• Random Write: 700,000 IOPS
• Endurance (TBW): 800 TB
• Warranty: 5 Years