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    PCSPECIALIST Lag spikes on new pc

    Can't help then. There are just too many factors that could cause it over WiFi.
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    PCSPECIALIST Lag spikes on new pc

    Do you have a network cable to hand that you could plug into your PC and router and redo the speed test? You shouldn't be getting a much higher upload than download speed. You may need to call your ISP.
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    PCSPECIALIST Advice on new build for Plex Media Server

    Glad you got there... what was the setting in your router? It might help others searching for the same issue.
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    PCSPECIALIST Replacement key

    Totally agree. I'd also ideally like to be able to buy key caps, like the OP.
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    PCSPECIALIST Replacement key

    Yeah I have a Dell like that - have to take the whole thing apart to change the keyboard (I know as I put a backlit one in). It's under the motherboard!
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    PCSPECIALIST Fusion Series: 14" Matte Full HD 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080)

    Looks lovely. Is it just the first pic or is there a slight upward curve to the keyboard?
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    PCSPECIALIST Pre production working days

    It was always a fear of mine that if I died, my ex-wife would sell my diving equipment for what I told her I paid for it! :)
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    PCSPECIALIST Advice on new build for Plex Media Server

    What Spyder said. But it's also worth bearing in mind that Transcoding is a seriously heavy-lifting operation on 4k. Some good information from Plex is here: https://support.plex.tv/articles/201774043-what-kind-of-cpu-do-i-need-for-my-server/ And the hardware-acclerated streaming capabilities...
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    PCSPECIALIST Partition advice

    @SpyderTracks - When I was speccing my lab server a few years back, I encountered a company doing full blown i7 and Xeon fanless systems but they took up serveral U in a rack and were basically just humungous fins all around the cases. The reviews looked pretty good but they all left out key...
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    PCSPECIALIST Flypast (Introduction) - Negative Ghostrider, The pattern is full .... \-]->

    Hello and welcome. A+, Network+ and Security+ have always been decent introductory qualifications to get. Microsoft have some decent free online training content these days, mixed into their usual paid-for stuff. Take a poke around here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/ Amazon had...
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    PCSPECIALIST Ipv4 Boot failed

    It does sound like a loose connection. PCS have an open chassis policy so as long as you don't break anything you won't void the warranty. It would be worth popping the bottom off and checking that the drive is hone firm.
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    PCSPECIALIST Excellent service during Covid19 pandemic

    Nice to hear. That picture looks like a SATA connector for adding a SATA drive. Not sure it should from your unit or be outside the laptop, if it is, though...
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    PCSPECIALIST Annoyed In Hampshire

    Microsoft Exchange - great for email, not so good for imaging/managing systems. Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) or System Center Config Manager (SCCM) as it was called until recently is the tool. As I just said - I do agree that you shouldn't have been told those two things and...
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    PCSPECIALIST Annoyed In Hampshire

    Apples and oranges - if you buy a new PC from PCS with Windows then it comes pre-installed and configured with the correct drivers. You plug it in, turn it on, type in a few details into the the Out of Box Experience (OOBE) and you're away. PCS don't install any real bloatware. However, if you...
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    PCSPECIALIST More delays for Intel's 7nm chips

    Well Softbank have realised that ARM isn't the golden goose they thought it was - don't get me wrong they make a ton of money but SB thought they would be able to squeeze existing and new clients but many just shrugged and went to RISC - even the open source variant. Given ARM originally came...
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    PCSPECIALIST More delays for Intel's 7nm chips

    Not to mention Apple pre-pay TSMC billions a year for their chips, so Intel would still be be stuck at the back of the queue.
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    PCSPECIALIST Hello from Cee Gee

    Hello and welcome. 78 isn't past the sell by date!
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    PCSPECIALIST Bad experience

    How incredibly condescending!
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    PCSPECIALIST Bad experience

    I would be equally as annoyed and frustrated but I can confirm that kit can be bay damaged in transit even with no visible damage to the packaging. I've had more than one server turn up all properly packed and in undamaged boxes to be opened up and it's like elephants stomped all over them. It...
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    PCSPECIALIST Quick note to prospective buyers

    I've had to repaste every gaming laptop I've ever owned at least once during their life. Temperatures creep ever upwards under load and eventually it just makes sense to do it and bring them back down. The heatsink in a desktop is often many times the height of entire laptop chassis and then...
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