You can totally turn off all the snoopy ad stuff in 10
then its actually pretty darn good. I keep looking at the high end Ryzen. My AMD 9590 and r9 290x are still capable enough that I can't quite justify it.
The 480 looks great too.
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 11:03,
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^ This in regards to Win 10.
It really irks me that people complain about Windows 10 'snooping' on them and serving up targeted ads, when the vast majority of it can be disabled.
Not to mention that a lot of the tools that complain about Microsoft's questionable privacy policy don't bother with VPNs and peruse the web quite happily with trackable browsers.
It's like these cunts moaning about the government snooping charter and their personal right to privacy being breached, despite owning a credit card, mobile phone, smart TV, subscribing to a broadband provider and being on the voting register. Spastics.
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I was going to run an older CFD program on it...
It works great on Win7, but for newer versions of Win the uni would have to fork out a forklift of, erm, forks.
The R7-1700 would have meant a sub 1000€ 8 core, 18gb CFD beast. The same performance with Intel is 1000€ for just the cpu...
Edit, the computer would be airgaped and not running any antivirus/tasks/other softs, not sure basic versions of Win10 allow this
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Good point, have only used the premium/pro versions
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 11:43,
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you can disable Windows Defender
that runs the anti-virus / malware detection, also firewall if you need. By "other softs" I assume you mean Windows Services? Those can be disabled too, some may be required for core operating system components to function, but you can cut a lot down. What's the deal with doing all that to it then?
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Yes,
But doing a fresh install of 7, doing SP2, and she's ready to go - all offline - is much easier.
Win 10 "needs" to be connected, or a work around + fiddling.
in that respect I'm what you could call a "lazy cunt".
Not counting that I'll never manage to talk the Uni into shelling the extra dosh, and quite frankly, i don't think the new version does anything more than the old one...
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