u/Worried_Party_7588

Im reading Junger Storm of Steel. In the Guillemont chapter, his group marches to some front line trench. But well before they get there, already there is massive destruction and abandoned dead. Its what I thought no man's land was supposed to be but its on their side still! They stop at the village Combles, but this too is practically a complete ruin and wholly unsafe. When they finally reach the front line trench it seems hardly much worse than anything behind it. How large an area was victim to artillery fire? Ive been accustomed to think it could only be so bad a bit near the front.

Is this a viable place for one man to spend a week in? Some of the reviews say its literally Fallout 3 but I think I'd be fine. Ive Never been robbed, mugged or murdered before so maybe it will build character.

HP Slimline S5000.

M2N68 LA Narra6 (533578) motherboard

AMD Phenom II X2 CPU

Radeon HD 7750 Low Profile

220W PSU HP model #TFX0220D5WA

Lmk if any other information is relevant I suppose.

Shouldnt this have enough power for the GPU? My computer does not recognize it even though I have it seated correctly. I looked it up and it should have only a 55W power draw.

I found a 500W PSU upgrade built for this pc on newegg, might order it. Is it possible that the low 220W psu is what killed my other SSD too? It was a patriotburst which Ive heard are junk so it couldve just been garbage to begin with.

I have an old HP Pavillion Slimline. Threw new RAM in it and a new CPU, then switched back to the old one since I remembered the new one doesn't have integrated graphics and my gpu hasnt arrived yet. No display still. Idk why. I even tried resetting the CMOS.

I guess this is a bit of a naive question. Basically, 14 years ago 512 MB of RAM ran Halo 4 and every other xbox 360 game. Nowadays you need 16 GB to run most things well. I understand that the console hardware itself was optimized for the single purpose of gaming, and that the developers probably spent many hours and $$$ trying to optimize everything to fit. Is the development of cheaper, larger amounts of RAM just making things easier for devs? Less effort needed for optimizing if you have it 32x the resources available. Maybe it is similar to when we thought machinery would give us so much free time but then we still worked the same hours and just filled it with more things, partly to support modern life luxuries. It just surprises me that we have 32x the resources but things dont *seem* 32x better.

Did some research and this is what I came up with. I got an HP Pavillion Slimline S5000 desktop and a Compaq Presario 6000 desktop.

HP Slimline Pavillion:

OS: Win 7

CPU: AMD Phenom II X2

Storage: 128 GB SSD for Boot

750 Gb HDD for extra if I need it (I wont)

RAM: 2x 4GB DDR3

Compaq Presario 6000:

OS: Win XP

CPU: AMD Athlon (original, didnt feel need to upgrade)

Storage: 128 GB SSD + smthn GB HDD

RAM: 2x 1 GB DDR

Cleaned them out with compressed gas and putting new thermal paste on CPUs. Builds not complete yet waiting for stuff to arrive by mail.

What do you think of these? My only goal really is to play Halo Combat Evolved and aoe2 and maybe a few other games from legally acquired ISOs from archive.org. The HP Slimline as it was and how I remember using it a decade ago runs Halo Custom edition at 640x480P at lowest settings at 30ish fps. Still good enough to drop nukes on Cold Snap before CE died.

Title. Its a very basic HP Pavillion but when I booted it up recently for the first tike in years it doesnt seem to even be able to do basic tasks very well at all, like browsing files or opening programs. It has 4 GB RAM, 750 GB hard drive, 100 GB used. I remember it used to be able to go crazy on Halo custom edition, (at 640x480 of course...) AOE2, GBA emulators, Minecraft, and TES3 MP. It for some reason had a log file that was 400GB but I deleted that, Disc Cleanup didnt do it so I had to do it manually. I know this computer was always and will always be slow but what can I do to make it more functional? Im thinking throw more RAM in it and do a clean Windows 7 install. Idk what the other components do, I just know that more memory = more resources to do stuff = faster

Ive been trying to boot up my old desktop windows XP computer. My monitor gives the whole "running in power saving mode" because it doesnt connect to the computer consistently, though I got it to do it once and it worked fine until I restarted.

Monitor works just fine with my other windows 7 computer. Any ideas? Im not especially knowledgeable on this stuff but I can only guess its something wrong with the Compaq computer, since it has no issues on other computers.

My guesses are maybe a virus broke something on the software side, maybe a driver that allows monitor usage, and perhaps thats why it got retired 20 years ago. Or it could be hardware side, perhaps on the 15 pin connecting port.