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mr_lebowski

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8. Are you building your desktop?

Fri Jan 10, 2020, 12:52 PM

Jan 2020

I'm not too up on lappies but I just finally replaced my trusty first-gen i7 mobo/cpu/ram (which was still actually going strong with a Xeon X5675 6c/12t, which is a server chip with 3.33GHz on all cores ... still has the juice to handle anything just not super fast).

Ergo, I'm pretty up on the latest stuff ATM as I did a ton of research after being out of the market for a good while (except for GFX cards, I'm a gamer so I've upgraded GPU like 8 times with that same platform over the time I've had it).

If you wanna pick my brain on hardware, feel free to fire away, can even PM me.

The value king for chips right now is the one I got: AMD 3600, which is Ryzen 3rd Gen. $200, goes on sale for 190/195. It's 6c/12th, and it's a monster for that price, esp. for productivity apps.

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Avoiding the Tickware economy, and working offline. [View all] TygrBright Jan 2020 OP

Bright, I hate subscription software too canetoad Jan 2020 #1

InDesign is the element of CS4 that I actually use most. TygrBright Jan 2020 #4

Have you heard of this? canetoad Jan 2020 #6

Oh, that's cool! I still miss XP, yep... but I'm used to W7 now TygrBright Jan 2020 #7

possible u can download then save office to a disc. photoshop last time on disk was msongs Jan 2020 #2

Oh, I have all my discs. Just don't know if newer OS will run them. n/t TygrBright Jan 2020 #3

if yer upgrading to 10 u can ask questions about software here... msongs Jan 2020 #5

Are you building your desktop? mr_lebowski Jan 2020 #8

I might do another build. TygrBright Jan 2020 #10

If you decide you want to do your own build and wanna bounce parts options off me mr_lebowski Jan 2020 #12

Just to clarify the software subscriptions.... ManiacJoe Jan 2020 #9

Yeah, I know. But I also object to tickware on principle. n/t TygrBright Jan 2020 #11