Get an RTX 5090 Alienware PC for less than the price of the GPU alone — $1,550 discount means Area-51 is $20 cheaper than buying the card by itself

Get an RTX 5090 Alienware gaming PC for less than the standalone cost of the GPU.

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I swear, if you have more than one PC you're just asking for issues, aren't you. (also a security system, these days)

So our MH Park maintenance dude told us our electric meter is sketchy and needed to be replaced on Fri around noon. Didn't see him the rest of the day, so I figured maybe Sat, and shut down a bunch of stuff in prep for a power outage.

Well he didn't come by (also I "fixed" the meter by punching it a couple times 🤣 ) but when I went to turn on the PC in the bedroom for the night time sleepy noise (MST3K eps, I have the OG 10 years plus the "1st" season before it got picked up by Comedy Central) the displays were fucking broken asf. Like the top one was half static lines when I got to login screen (had been fine till then) and once I logged in, the bottom screen was half blank and when I clicked on it, it went blank and then "No Signal" on the display.

"... oh shit."

Nothing I tried would fix it, rescue kernel etc. After an hour of fucking with it, it's now 10pm and bedtime so I said "aw the hell with this" and stuck in the Live installer I'd just created for the fresh install on this PC, which mostly worked (top display was green lines until I set it to 2K down from 4K), got VLC up and opened the folder with the season of MST I was on, called it a night.

This morning I set about trying ANYTHING to fix the Mint. Nothing doing. Decided to install Bazzite. Installed fine, but then refused to boot. Even from BIOS boot menu. IDK wtf. So I set up a Garuda/XFCE disk and installed that. THAT didn't want to boot on its own, but will boot from the BIOS. I still have no clue.

But it's been updated and I've got all the reg stuff set back up as it was before. Also got a bunch of gaming extras since SO been pushing her laptop hard with stuff like Palworld lately and I'm starting to wonder how long it'll hold up, heh. This way she'll have another option (also get her more used to Linux muah hahaha). Here's hoping there's no other issues (there will be I"m sure).
#Linux #PC #Tech #WTFMintGoBang

9to5Toys Battlestation Weekly: Back to School PC deals, RTX 50-series gaming laptops, OLED monitors, and more

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During the recent months, me PC crashes during high load. Yesterday, it crashed many times, resetting it self. I was very much scared at first, thinking it might be the RAM being faulty. I wasn't sure if I could buy a new kit if the current one goes out of business and warranty also doesn't cover it. I mean the prices are insane!

However, after memory test, no problem was found. The next theory is that the PSU is either faulty or cannot afford such a load. I have a Ryzen 9 3900X which is also overclocked. Last night I downclocked it from 4.0Ghz to 3.5Ghz and started the tasks on it. This morning, the PC was still online and a reset hadn't happened. This reinforces the theory about PSU.

However, I also think the PSU is not faulty. Overtime I have added new parts to the PC while the PSU stayed the same. So the first thought which naturally comes to mind, is that I need a new PSU with higher capacity.

I have added a new high speed NVMe SSD, a new PCI Wifi card, and yesterday I added a tiny USB Wifi dongle before the resets become so much more often.

In the long term, I need a new PSU. In short term, I think I have to disable the one of the Wifi hardwares to say the least.

#PC #PCBuilding #PCrepair

Hi #PC nerds, I'm retrofitting a trashpicked PC tower with a Gigabyte AMD B550 motherboard and a Ryzen 5 (5500) CPU. I have three working DDR4 modules:

• one G.Skill DDR4-3200 16G module
• two Corsair DDR4-3200 8G modules

I gather that running 2x8G plus 1x16G is not a supported configuration, but is it a lethal combo, or just not "performant"? If using them all is a Really Bad Idea, and I'm limited to 16GiB of RAM, which set is preferable? I'd appreciate advice on pros & cons (eyerolls accepted).

For context, I plan to deploy this box as a home media server (not sure which OS yet, but probably Debian) for family photos and my ogg/MP3 collection. It'll sport an old geforce 1650 4G GPU, and may do some occasional transcoding, but nothing I'd call high-performance computing (I might play some old games on it sometimes).

(I did manage to blow most of the stink out of this old chassis, at least.)

#PCmasterrace #HomeServer #SelfHosted

Man.

Got the pc today. Decided to just do an emergency disk of the windows install to have around and then blow it away with Ubuntu...

An hour later, after all sorts of windows updates, spinning circles...

Asking me to share everything down to my inner feelings to microsoft...

I still haven't actually gotten into Windows.

Never again. 🤣

#windows #pc #linux

🐧🎮 #Linux-#Gaming macht weiter Fortschritte! Das neue Open-Source-Projekt „ #Xodus " (vom Team hinter Heroic Launcher) zielt darauf ab, die letzte große Hürde zu überwinden: Den #PC Game Pass.
Authentifizierung & Downloads funktionieren bereits. Die Spiele sind noch nicht spielbar, die technische Umsetzung läuft allerdings.
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