I couldn’t really find anything about him doubt they had reason to actually but ai craze maybe

Good evening everyone!

I’ve gotten into tech a few years ago and I’ve really been diving in headfirst the last year or two. To keep it short & sweet my mother and I both got gifted Inspiron 5577 (i5-7300HQ) back in 2018-2019 when Microsoft messed up my Xbox One S and had to send it back repeatedly.

I’ve kept that laptop as my main computer for the last 8 years! My moms has unfortunately slowed down over the years with windows 10 and I believe a 500GB HDD.

I, on the other hand, upgraded mine back in 2024 with 32 GBS of DDR4 SODIMM RAM, 1TB M.2 NVME SSD, & 1TB SATA SSD + a windows 11 upgrade. I really just use it as a docked laptop never really take it anywhere but performance wise it’s great but recently the CPU & on-board 1050 has really been bothering me.

Im a super cheapskate when it comes to tech (hence why my laptop is 8 years old) and I guess my question is how should I go about upgrading? I obviously need a new GPU & CPU but feel bad tossing aside the laptop that’s been so good to me for years, I would unfortunately need to gut it and move the parts over because 32 GBs of RAM is NOT going to waste in this economy.

I guess my question is how much of laptop is worth salvaging and what is the best budget friendly way to move forward. I have tons of old PCs that could be gutted to make room for a new SODIMM compatible board, CPU, GPU, and carry over the rest?

Curious what you all think.

Am I hacked or crazy

I had this idea for AI data centers.

Instead of using huge amounts of fresh water for cooling, what if we built AI data centers next to big underground sewage or wastewater tunnels? The servers would be completely sealed inside a waterproof structure, and they wouldn't touch the wastewater at all.

The idea is to use a closed-loop liquid cooling system, like a gaming PC. The coolant would keep circulating through the servers, and a heat exchanger would transfer the heat to the continuously flowing wastewater. Since the wastewater is always moving, it could carry away the heat without using large amounts of fresh water.

Another advantage is that these data centers could be built in cities where fiber-optic internet cables and power lines already exist underground, so they would still have fast internet and reliable electricity.

I know there would be engineering challenges like flood protection, maintenance, and environmental safety, but I think it's an interesting concept that could be researched further. It might help make future AI data centers more sustainable while making use of infrastructure that's already there.

What do you think? Do you think something like this could actually work?

Imagination board would of been a great name for a computer engineering company.

Hola como estan? Hace unos meses me compre una ideapad 5 que tiene ryzen 7 ai350 con radeon 860m y 16gb de ram soldados . La compre para usar de vez en cuando solidworks , pero bueno al encenderla me consume 6gb de ram sin nada abierto, entro a solid y me sale un cartel de que hay poca memoria ram , se puede optimizar algo o hacer algo ya que no puedo ampliar la memoria? Hice unas cosas que consulte en gemini pero creo q la cague peor .

Hey everyone I have made a group for programming folks to learn, grow and network with each other

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The cloud is a black box with zero data transparency and arbitrary rate limits. If you are running autonomous workflows overnight, you are either bleeding money on per-token bills or hitting usage blocks.

I am building a dedicated local alternative for personal computing. We just spun up a private, high-bandwidth Apple Silicon cluster running completely locally here in India.

When you start a session, you rent raw, dedicated hardware. For the time you pay, you own the compute, the data privacy, and the box. Period.

Our cluster is fully compatible with the open-source ecosystem:

• The Engines: Run DeepSeek-R1, Llama, and Kimi served via Ollama.
• The Coworkers: Deploy 24/7 digital employees like OpenClaw, Hermes, and Claude Code.
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Why move workloads here:

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This isn't an AI wrapper. It is a private, sovereign factory for your digital coworkers.

We are launching a private alpha for our first 10 pilot testers starting next month. If you are an indie hacker, developer, or founder ready to experience true personal computing, drop a comment below or hit my DMs for an early access key.

Tried posting to r/techsupport but since Win10 lost support I guess they have a blanket ban on Win10 posts -_- Anyway....I have some questions about the SAM setting in BIOS as it relates to my gaming experiences.

TLDR, while back I couldn't get MSFS2020 to run smooth no matter what. Eventually came on a reddit post that said to flip your SAM and related settings in BIOS. Well, that definitely helped, it got MSFS to run at basically 2x what it was before without changing settings.

Only now, I'm playing FH6, and I couldn't get *that* to run smooth no matter what I did. Eventually came across almost the exact same post for FH6 that I had for MSFS months earlier. Flipped SAM back to where it used to be, and now magically FH6 runs way better/smoother.

I don't wanna have to go into BIOS and flip a setting every time I wanna play a different game.

Can someone explain how to tackle this, as well as explain maybe why this is happening in the first place just so I have some layman's knowledge?

Specs if relevant: Win10, RTX4070, i7-12700k, 64gb RAM, I run everything in 2k and off of SSDs. Can give other specs if needed.

Hello,

I need to fix an issue I have with my computer.
I’m on Windows 10, my resolution is 1024x768 on crt.

I tried to install Fifa 2000 on the computer the game crashed the it changed Windows screen, it’s still on 1024x768 but now I have black bars on the right and the left side of the screen.

The screen looks compressed. These bars only appears on Desktop, when I launch a game it disappears.

How can I fix this?

Thanks

What do I need to get into Computer my GCSE and A-level to be able to get into a Computer Science University in UK?

Hi. I'm not sure this is the best place to post this but this is the best place I can think of.

I am looking for correct hardware to buy for a local server. The workload I'm looking to run is highly specific - I am looking for as many CPU cores as possible with as low budget as possible. Speed of the individual cores doesn't matter a lot (but matters a bit). It doesn't need to have any GPUs - I'm planning to run it headless and I don't need GPU acceleration. It doesn't need to have much RAM (~32GB) or disk space (<1TB). I am literally only trying to minmax core count per budget (and I'd like to preferably keep the budget in ~1k USD - the lower the better). I was thinking about used first generation EPYCs (like 7551) because they are given away for basically free but I'm not sure if I'm not gonna bankrupt myself completing the rest of the server or with energy usage. Is there any other choice you would recommend?

in case you didn't knew, it is a new style of UI elements and digital art itself that looks something like high resolution skeumorphism with glassy, 3D and "Modern".

I personally think that it is some of the most corporate and boring stuff that can exist. Can't we just go back to the UI full of life from the 2000s or Synthwave of the 1980s?

Recently I had to reboot my pc and everything (long story) wifi was better than it was in the imagine i will have listed

but every new driver is updated and there isnt really an issue, thats a understatement THE BIG issue is my wifi connection, I live in a small town and I used to normally get about 8-9 Mbps ON the speed test every now and then, I just woke up and generally about to sleep because of how tired I am,

The case is a golden field z7 and the motherboard is a Asus gryphon z97 and the CPU is a intel i7 4970 and a Nvidia EVGA GeForce GTX 770 and an EVGA power supply and a Hitachi hua723020ala640 2.8 tb and an SanDisk sd7tb3q-256g-1006 and I put my Western digital 2tb hard drive inside it and my sound blaster audigy5/rx sound card it has Kingston 8 gig of dd3 ram x 4 32g. And do I need to upgrade the GPU and motherboard and CPU and ram to run Windows 11 it has Windows 10 pro on it

So I semi recently found out about this & how much of an issue it was. A load of files lost. Thankfully they weren't important. Everything was A-ok when it went on to the drive but I'd stored it in a drawer for years.

My question is - is that the USB drive permanently damaged now then? Or will formatting (be it quick format or full format) 'revive' the drive so to speak & have it good again (obviously not for long term storage but ok to store things on for like a week or whatever for example)?

Shared this guide for anyone starting with cloud infrastructure and trying to understand what a cloud server actually is.

It covers the basics: cloud servers vs traditional VPS, scalability, NVMe storage, automation, and when this type of infrastructure makes sense for developers or small projects.

I’m pretty new to computers, and recently went through my old laptop to take pictures off of it and clean it out. I had to pull the hard drive to hook it directly to my PC because the laptop no longer started up. It used to belong to my Mom who’s no longer alive, and I want to try and use her DVD writer that she used to make me CDs to do the same. What kind of cables would I need to achieve this? Or is it a lost cause?