How come people don't put a copy of their PIN onto the case? I'm not sure how to get in.
Trying to figure out what to do with this PC that I dragged home from the transfer station, "Ryan" enabled PIN on Win10 (?) and as such I haven't a clue how to get past that. No Windows sticker on this gamer PC so I think I'm stuck shelling out for a WIndows copy? or going Linux? Wife thinks she has XP someplace.
Anyhow. Looks like a liquid cooled i5-4690k at 3.5GHz. I've never seen heatsink fins on its 8GB of DDR 3 1.6GHz memory, but there you go. 1TB HD... that needs to go, this thing is dirt slow getting to boot. The ZOTAC GTX 950 looks like an old video card (nVidia?), but I'm thinking this might make for a decent machine for my son to play video games on, better than what he has today. Unplugged the HD to force it into BIOS to verify processor; it has 4 SATA ports and 4 DIMM slots (only 2 in use), so it has expansion. 600W power supply? Way ahead of the small form factor desktops we currently have.
Free is always a nice price. I know nadda about computers but from what I can tell, it's well out of date, and slow, and I didn't expect it to even power up. So far, I'm ahead in my book. I have a stack of 500GB HD's (useless I know) and a stack of 128GB SSD's, most of which have some form of Windows on them, am thinking to swap in an SSD and figure out how to get Win10 on it.
Trying to figure out what to do with this PC that I dragged home from the transfer station, "Ryan" enabled PIN on Win10 (?) and as such I haven't a clue how to get past that. No Windows sticker on this gamer PC so I think I'm stuck shelling out for a WIndows copy? or going Linux? Wife thinks she has XP someplace.
Anyhow. Looks like a liquid cooled i5-4690k at 3.5GHz. I've never seen heatsink fins on its 8GB of DDR 3 1.6GHz memory, but there you go. 1TB HD... that needs to go, this thing is dirt slow getting to boot. The ZOTAC GTX 950 looks like an old video card (nVidia?), but I'm thinking this might make for a decent machine for my son to play video games on, better than what he has today. Unplugged the HD to force it into BIOS to verify processor; it has 4 SATA ports and 4 DIMM slots (only 2 in use), so it has expansion. 600W power supply? Way ahead of the small form factor desktops we currently have.
Free is always a nice price. I know nadda about computers but from what I can tell, it's well out of date, and slow, and I didn't expect it to even power up. So far, I'm ahead in my book. I have a stack of 500GB HD's (useless I know) and a stack of 128GB SSD's, most of which have some form of Windows on them, am thinking to swap in an SSD and figure out how to get Win10 on it.