leadfoot71

To start i'd like to mention i prefer to build 10year PC's, that entails a good CPU/MOBO/ram combo that will support ancillary easy upgrades down the line, GPU,Storage,Monitor upgrades ECT.

We both have working PC's at the moment, but i upgraded late 2024 to a 14th Gen i9, and we planned on upgrading hers in 2025, but the prices started climbing before we could pull the trigger.

But the time has arrived, the PC we built in 2017 Cant keep up with anything anymore.
This will be primarily a Gaming PC and i just want to get a sanity check before ordering parts, as the "whoops" of getting incompatible parts in 2026 has compounded in severity the past few years.

Current Build:

CPU: I

I'm looking to set up a network for my family at their small office, and while i know my way around windows i've never delved into managed switches and setting up v-lans.

I have a standard 19" 2 post rack with 13 cat-6 terminations so far, with plans for more and i need to segment the network.

Currently they have starlink as a isp but will upgrade to 1gbit fibre soon, the network flowchart i've come up with so far is:

Isp-> rackmount firewall/router-> managed switch-> office wired connections (vlan10), office wireless connections (v-lan10), shop wifi (vlan 20), tuning laptop wifi (vlan30), guest wifi (vlan40), future local NAS (vlan50), future local server/website (vlan 60)

We will have

I'm a j-man that completed my certificate and red seal back in 2021, but shortly after receiving my ticket i moved on from the trade. Both for personal mental health reasons working for an employer at a small shop of 4 guys, and not enjoying the residential/commercial work side of the trade i was doing as much as i hoped. By the end of 4 years i was pretty burnt out and in a low place. So i moved on to operating heavy equipment in pipeline.

My question is, have any of you left the trade then came back? As a fresh journeyman who's been out of the trade for 4 years it would be exeptionally hard for me to get back into it but push comes to shove i need to know if i can fall back on my ticket i

My motherboard finally gave up on life after almost 10 years of me squeezing every last drop out of my rig. My old build was a i7-4790k, ddr3 ram, and an amd 7990, which i donated to my wifes rig when i upgraded to a 1080. (She has since retired it and bought a 1080ti)

Im not quite sure what killed my rig, but the motherboard wont post or receive any power. I thought maybe my power supply failed and killed it, but i bought a new 850w psu and it still didn't power up. So im questioning the integrity of my 1080, but it will do good as a spare card for both of us.

I've been gaming on a 1080p 144hz monitor forever now and i think its time to upgrade to 1440p 144hz. I've settled on purchasing a

Most the time, when i quit a game through the in game menu i end up with an infinite steam loading symbol. Wifi or not.

Insurgency sandstorm, beamng.drive, fallout 4 ect. Is it because these games are not verified and only playable? I usually have to restart my device afterwards as i get strange bugs or lag in the next game i launch. Maybe i'm just overthinking it.

So i installed fallout 4 on the deck the other day and i was surprised it worked flawlessly... at first.

I use my deck away from wifi a lot so i got about 2hrs into a new save with zero issues. When i got home i decided to plug the deck into the dock and try to play fallout on the tv.

The game launched, but did not upscale to the tv and was still in 720p. So i re launched the game, tried to change my resolution in the game launcher but max res was 720p.

I dicked around with the dock in desktop mode trying to get it to upscale correctly but ended up reverting back to what i had video setting wise.

I disconnected the deck from the dock and tried to launch fo4 in game mode again, and the g

I recently bought a new logitec wireless keyboard and mouse (G915 tkl and g502) to use on my steamdeck in its dock while i'm away from home. When i first started using the mouse the sensitivity was normal, and i adjusted my in game settings lower as i like to use a lot of space with my mouse.

I took my steamdeck home over the weekend, and now that i've returned it to the dock my mouse dpi is insanely high, like cant even select things on the menu in game mode ridiculous.

I went into desktop mode, flipped mouse acceleration to linear and lowered the sensitivity there, but the moment i flip back into game mode its right back to unusable.

I cannot find any mouse and keyboard settings within

I Bought my deck as a way to play games while i'm away from home for work, but the wifi at the places i'm staying have web filters on them that make me unable to connect to the steam friends network.

Oddly enough i can still update and download games, i just cannot browse any community pages or the store page without getting an ssl certificate error.

More to the point this has limited my online game options to games that do not use the steam or xbox live network. To the likes of: call of duty and dayzsa.

I've been able to launch and play dayz on vanilla and lightly modded servers, but the vanilla launcher refuses to show any modded servers that i usually play on.

This brings me to instal