![]() ![]() I saw this ChuWi larkbox after I ordered the parts ( even though I spent a lot of time trying to figure out an ITX build, I didn't even realise that mini-PCs were a thing ):ĭownsides: 30 day warranty from China some kind of proprietary power supply some kind of problem with SATA cabling: In retrospect, really what he wanted was a cross between a mini-PC and a prebuilt. My dad sent me a diagram of the dimensions that he wanted ( 14.5 inch long x 10.5 inch high x 4 inch wide ). The price difference between SATA and NVMe is $30 CDN ish but 6x / 4x faster. He has the desktop set up in the basement. I asked him why he needs a desktop if he already has a laptop? His answer didn't make a lot of sense, he said something about power (?). He doesn't need a GPU because he doesn't do gaming or download movies or. It took me literally 5 hours to do one Windows 10 update ( the forced updates thing ). I borrowed the laptop from my mother to work from home ( it has Win 10 on it, I'm still using Win 7 64 bit ). He's so out of date when it comes to computers that he would have bought a pre-built with a 7,200 RPM HDD that's basically as obsolete as a floppy drive and will end up like vinyl / an 8-track. "unique" / "strange" perspectives.Ībout 5 years ago, I went to Peru, stayed a week in the city and three weeks in the jungle. I'm never going to be able to encapsulate my father into text because of the generation gap, he grew up in Guyana, South America in extreme poverty and had to drop out of highschool so he has. He's actually more docile in his old age now. The entire scene is much longer but for brevity: My father is a mixture between Donald Trump, Bill O'Reilly and the drill instructor from "Full Metal Jacket". He had to have clearance through CSIS to get into Canada because he worked on submarines ( reserved access - under Top Secret ). He worked on motherboards, that went into satellites, that went into space. he was in the British military ( Royal Air Force ) ( mid 1970's ( born in 1947 ) ) as an aircraft engineer. I've never used IGP so I have no experience. Not included in the price, stuff like a Silverstone heat sink for the NVMe & 5 x Noctua 120mm fans. SSD: SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus M.2 NVMe PCI-E 250GB Solid State Drive, Read:3,500 MB/s, Write:3,300 MB/s (MZ-V7S250B/AM) (CC $129.99)Ĭase: Corsair CC-9011086-WW Carbide Series 88R MicroATX Mid-Tower Case ( Amazon.ca $74.99 )ĭVD burner: ASUS (DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B) Internal 24x DVD Writer, OEM Black, SATA Green Environment with Software Bulk ( CC 27.99) PSU: GIGABYTE PW400 400W 80 PLUS Certified Power Supply (GP-PW400) (CanadaComputers $39.99). MB: GIGABYTE B365M DS3H Socket 1151 Intel B360 Chipset Dual Channel DDR4, PCI-E 3.0, SATA 6.0Gb/s, M.2 USB 3.1, D-Sub, DVI-D, HDMI1.4 mATX Motherboard (CanadaComputers $109.99 ) I'll do the testing on Wed / Thursday.ĬPU: Intel Pentium Gold G5400 Coffee Lake 2-Core/4-Thread Processor LGA1151 300 Series, 3.7 GHz Base UHD Graphics 610 54W Gen8 Retail Boxed (BX80684G5400) (CanadaComputers $79.99) I still have to do RAM & CPU tests and see what core temperatures are like. Samsung Magician says that the NVMe is "healthy" & 35 Celcius ( which is really what I was most concerned about ). ? If you were building a computer for a client, what would you do? I guess I could load up a couple of games and run benchmarking software and see how it looks but I was wondering if there was something quicker / easier. I can't find any information about if or how to stress test a rig that has integrated graphics? With a dedicated video card, I would just run Furmark ( that software that models a furry donut thing ) but I wouldn't want to stress out something as weak as integrated graphics? I've never worked with integrated graphics before. I'm used to building in a full ATX case, with a high-end graphics card: He didn't want to pay more than $600 so I figured I'd build it for him and subsidize the $ that he didn't want to pay. I built a computer for my father, for surfing the Internet and burning to CD/ DVDs etc.
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