PC Tech Thread

I have a W7 HP disc if you need?
Edit: lies - it's Pro, sorry. I do have the W7 HP ISO too though...? Get a USB stick to me and it's yours.

I suspect it'll be easiest to steal a copy or buy one.

Why not W10? It actually looks and works well. 7 is hell.

I have one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/ARCTIC-Freezer-Pro-Rev-Multicompatible/dp/B002G392ZI

Considerably chunkier than the stock cooler but possibly just sneaks under 10cm (but I'm not 100%). Only mounts from the front from what I remember

Give Prime95 a go to see how hot the processor will get.
But the temps you mentioned sound fine. If you've not overclocked it then I expect a stock cooler will be plenty good enough.

I have both the 32 bit and 64 bit iso files downloaded direct from microsoft, therefore they are unadulterated. Let me know which one you need and i will upload a copy to onedrive.

Here is a link to the old digital river iso page, updated.

http://mirror.corenoc.de/digitalrivercontent.net/

Haven't tried this myself but saw it posted recently...

http://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/17/download-windows-7-and-8-1-iso-images-from-microsoft/

W10 doesn't play well with Alienware and Dell not offering any support for older machines.

Thanks for the advice guys. I will quit worrying. Was looking at one of these as I only have 10cm of room for a cooler... http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007D8AXK4/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_img?_encoding=UTF8&colid=25BDW2I9QOEZO&coliid=I14SPBFPDAE0IJ
Now, on to power supplies, I think I need one with 90 degree angles on the HDD connecters due to where mine are meant to be mounted (flush on the bottom of the case). Make sense? Do I need to go full modular? If not then whats a good semi (fnar fnar) as I want as few cables as possible (due to crampedness.).

@hamrack thank you for the offer.

@Brun awesome seems to be working- DLing now!

Nice spot - that's useful to know!

Hive mind, how does this look as a reasonably budget upgrade pack? Couldn't bring my PC back to life and don't want to waste any more time fiddling.

http://www.ebuyer.com/lists/ac54dee87252064f0a869d38d618d33f

One thing I wasn't sure about - for the same price I can get faster (clock speed) RAM with a higher latency though... Don't know which is more important here.

I have a spare i3 4330 if you fancy second hand? Would let it go for £70. Barely used and with stock cooler. Would leave you most monies for upgrading other parts. It's socket 1150 so you'd need a differnt board, not really sure what the difference is/means?

Thanks for the offer, I'm going to stick with socket 1151 though as it's the most recent (supports DDR4 and skylake) and I want the option to pimp in a year or so... Got 7-8 years out of the last lot!

Know anyone with an MSDN account? They will have discs or access to download Windows ISOs.

Win 7 is fine but yeah I'd go for Win 10 now.

The rollback from Win 10 to 7 works fine (so long as you've spare HDD space and do it in a month) so it's not much of a risk installing it to see whether the drivers are there and uninstalling if not.

I had one machine (a crappy bargain tablet) that was missing drivers so rolled back to Win 8 on that.

my external storage drive died (protip: the buffalo diskstation ddr is eye wateringly fast but reviews now seem to state they are pretty much 100% likely to die on you).

looking to replace it with a 2 bay nas, ideally one that can run sabnzbd, sonarr, couchpotato & plex media centre so I can minimize running apps on my main computer.

seems like a synology box would do the trick but are there any other options i should be looking at? budget 200-400 including at least one 3tb+ hdd (will add another later if need be).

Stupidly, if you use the option to create recovery/installation media for Win 10 you can no longer roll back.

My laptop's wifi card didn't have a w10 compatible driver so the upgrade to 10 wouldn't work at all. Bought a different wifi card from eBay for a fiver or so and it worked a treat. Definitely wouldn't return to 7 now.

HP Microserver + OS of your choice http://www.ebuyer.com/722189-hpe-proliant-gen8-g1610t-4gb-ram-microserver-819185-421?

I've been running an earlier model (same price band) for 4 years with 4 x 4TB HDD, SSD and optical drive and it's been rock solid. I have Windows Home Server on mine (was only £30 at the time) but any flavour of Windows or Linux for a cheap build. I have sabnzbd, sickbeard (tv equivalent of couch potato) & plex all running plus a variety of other stuff.

2nd info request- any recommendations for a freeware FTP client which has scheduling?

Was using Filezilla but need to automate the file transfer.

Why not W10? It actually looks and works well. 7 is hell.

Worked ok here, but rolled back to 7 as I had some issues with peripherials.

The "look" isn't well done though.
Just worked on other peoples machines, win10 and latest osx, and boy does windows do a shit job at doing a elegant, simple, clearly arranged system.

As @aggi says, get a microserver. Here's a decent deal that will do what you want.

Wasn't there something weird going on with those HP things a while back? Something like BIOS updates only being available if you have a maintenance subscription.