The retro gaming community uses Ali for a lot of shit and it usually seems OK for a lot of that stuff if you stick to established sellers. I thought the same would apply to PC parts, but it does not. Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.
At least it was only $50.
I get a lot of my parts like ram and PSUs from old scrapped machines at work. I also have six 1 tb HDDs in there along with a NVME drive to boot off of and it's a Asus X99-A mother board which was high end when I bought it years ago and draws quite a bit of juice. So the mobo, ram, hard drives and processor alone pushes me over 400 watts. Then I have a bunch of fans, two DVD burners and the graphics card. Probably don't need 1,000 in there, but the price was right and it gives me a bit of wiggle room.
It's possible you got a real card, but one that failed QA and "fell off a truck" at the factory for resale. On the other hand, I've seen ambitious chinks put together cards with the entirely wrong chips to fake a higher performing card. Similar story to the cheap, "high capacity" flash drives they mod with something like a cheap, small memory cell but change the firmware so it reports a larger capacity as well as allowing it to pretend to write the data it should be able to hold. It usually just continuously overwrites the full capacity of the drive to pretend it's actually copying that 500 GB file for you.
For this kind of comparison, I love CPUBenchmark.net as you can see what a good baseline performance is between multiple processors. In this case, if you have an i7 4770 (4 core/8 thread) and compare it to the Ryzen 5 4500, there is a massive difference. Overall performance of the Ryzen is 56% better than the 4770, and the single thread performance is also 16% better. The 4500 also uses less power. For me, that would be a no brainer upgrade. The Ryzen 5 3600 has basically the same performance as the 4500, so I'd lean towards the new 4500 over the used 3600 as you said.
My favorite was when it kept telling me "Open the Authenticator and select Number 32" but my authenticator NEVER had those multichoice number options pop up. I had to find a link that says "I can't access my authenticator right now" and when you click it, it sends you to the next page where you can actually type your 6 digit code. Microsoft = suxxors
I use one from Feralhosting.com.
The Microsoft Authenticator app is so awfully made, and they are going to force it on everyone soon. The option to get a text instead is something you have to click at the bottom of the window. And even if you are connecting from the same IP it still asks for MFA all the bloody time. Probably because the 100 different versions and installs of Teams is conflicting with each other.
you probably fucked up at inflation first, if thats your question.
Try CRISPR
Looks pretty decent, and should last you a while. Is that an Intel with like 10 performance, 4 efficiency cores?
8 Efficiency, 6 Performance
I dunno, my goal with this one was the same as my last: one that I can build and forget about for a long while. I intended my last one to be up-gradable, but when it came time it was already falling apart to the point of necessitating replacement (multiple moves including one across the country didn't help).
It depends on if the splitter acts as a hub or has power for individual ports. Some hard drives take their power from a wall jack, but some just draw from the USB port and I've had experiences where even a flash drive didn't work as there wasn't good power on a hub.
get an 8 core cpu and only a 16gb ram stick then if you want to save money. apart from making sure your stuff fits in your pc, you should also make sure your power supply can handle all the stuff, because 3080 needs a shit ton of power / watts nowadays on its own.
