What would you guys value this stuff at? Only used for a little over a year in an office environment.

First the tower: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/Tzrrj2

i7-9700K
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler
Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4
Western Digital SN750 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME SSD
PNY Quadro P1000 4 GB Video Card
NZXT H510 Case
Cooler Master 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular PSU

Also a laptop, a Dell XPS 15 7590, i7-9750H, 32GB RAM, M.2 1TB SSD, GTX1650 4GB, 15.6" 4K, W10 Pro, ProSupport warranty til Jan 2023.

And lastly a couple of LG 27UD58-B 4k monitors.

tower 7-800
laptop 850-1000
monitors was about to say 200ish but then found this, so 100ish https://www.staples.ca/products/2467...2160-60-hz-5ms

forum was bumping in late 2000s but seems dead. Linustechtip forums so much more busier but its due to Americans / Canadians / (Worldwide users pretty muich from their youtube fanbase)

I put the computer at around $925 without the video card.

I put the laptop at around $1500 at the lower end. You can probably post it for a bit more. Does it have ProSupport Plus? Even better.

I put the monitors for around $200.

Been watching used and new laptops for a long while now and Imo 1500 for laptop high end.
1100-1200 low end. Even with those upgrades.
If you can get 1500 that's great. Anything more you're getting into more newer better performing one's.
Agree on rest.

What do you guys do to erase the hard drives before selling it so people can't go back and retrieve old data?

CCleaner multi pass clean. Takes awhile tho. :okay:

From what I've read if you have REALLY sensitive information on it, then it's not worth the money to sell the drive. Hackers will find a way if they really wanted to. Just keep it or physically destroy it, but unless you are Gal Gadot recording homemade porn or banking profiles on it I wouldn't worry too much. IMO just format it.

Personally when I upgraded to SSD, I just kept my old hard drive to hold backups (I have 3 iPhone backups in there that took a huge chunk of memory) and random old Chinese movies that you can't find on streaming sites anymore.

Question

I've got an enterprise ssd installed into a workstation motherboard (re: bitcoin thread)

The drive is plugged into a m.2 to u.2 adapter, windows isn't detecting it, I've no clue as to why... Ideas? Is there like a bios setting I need to adjust?

Does it show up in the Disk Management snap-in or in the BIOS?

Is it an HDD or an SSD?

If it is an HDD, I'd use this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...nloads/sdelete

and I'd run anywhere between 1 - 35 passes to wipe the drive, depending on how concerned I'd be about the data on the drive. (Actually, I won't. If I'm going to do anything more than 3 passes, I'm just gonna not bother selling.)

If it is an SSD, I haven't found a reliable enough program to wipe it yet, although Intel and Samsung drives are supposed to have 1st party tools that can do this for their own drives.

For the cost of a drive I just keep them. Maybe I'm just paranoid lol.

No doesn't show up at all

I've tried different adapters, two m.2 to u.2, and a pcie to u.2 adapter, and no luck

I've even downloaded a Samsung nvme controller, still no luck (Google showed someone with the same issue, and the controller fixed his problem)

Going to try a different computer, and cable next

But omg it's always something when I put a computer together!

I've never tried slotting a U2 into a home computer, but if it's not showing up in the BIOS, you'll never see it in Windows.

These drives were insanely expensive, I hope I can figure it out :okay: might still be able to return it tho, but ugh such a pain

Also do a count of your PCI-E lanes. Could be that, who knows.

Tried a different enterprise drive (same model) and tried both drives on my other WS neither of them work

The other WS has SAS ports on the board, so I didn't need an adapter, so I'm thinking it's either the drives or my cables FeelsBadMan

I found this in the bios under Advanced

"generic nvme pcie ssd configuration data" and it gives the details of the u.2 drive, it can't detect its capacity, or seem to offer anything more than the model # of the drive

But I don't know what to do with that information

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyl...h=186393991c68

3080 TI + 3070 TI announced

on a mission to get a 3080 TI lol

pricing is also crazy for those cards as well :(

Apparently the 3080ti is supposed to have a hidden hash rate cap on it as well so it won't be as efficient for miners.

I dont plan to build a new PC till next year. but at this rate, I feel like I should try and at least get a 3080 TI for retail.

no new games this year that really catches my eyes either... far cry 6, back 4 blood, dying light 2, diablo 2 remake and thats about it.

Im just hoping I get my new gaming rig in time for GTA 6 whenever they actually decide to do it lol

If your not building till next year just wait to buy a GPU.

US drop is today. wonder if Canada is the same and if anyone is lucky enough to score one lol