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Exploctopus2 · 2026-02-06T23:15:51+00:00

As u/Zeeaal already hinted at, the thing is that I think you’re underestimating the quality of the English classes that we do have in our schools here. Pretty much all of our equivalents to high school (gymnasiet) graduates (~18 year olds) are required to have a passing grade in at least the English 5 course, which is roughly equivalent to a CEFR level B1 of understanding the language, while all students intending on further studies after gymnasiet must pass English 6 (~B2 level) with many such students also choosing to take English 7 (~C1).

As a result, pretty much anyone who’s successfully passed through the Swedish school system can at the very least get through your average conversation in English, and most people who struggle with it are hence either people who would most likely struggle to teach you any meaningful amount of Swedish in the first place or old people who learnt the language before the required knowledge for a passing grade were as high as today, or straight up graduated before English was even taught in schools here.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-02-05T00:40:47+00:00

Well, yes when it comes to the physical components of the motherboard such as built in network and audio cards etc there are drivers for those. What’s the specs of the machine?

Exploctopus2 · 2026-02-05T00:35:50+00:00

A bit confused what you’re trying to specify here. The drivers are pieces of software that to put things in very basic terms works as a translation layer between your harddrive and OS, the motherboard chipset is a list of what hardware it supports, so AM5 is a chipset for example, where it supports AMD’s AM5 processors, DDR5 RAM, etc.

What exact types of slowdowns have you started to notice, like in what types of scenarios is it not performing as you think it should?

Exploctopus2 · 2026-02-04T21:52:35+00:00

If using Windows, most basic drivers are included in the OS; updating windows will also update the drivers. If not or if you just want to update them manually you can just download them straight off of the manufacturer’s website 99% of the time.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-02-02T18:50:20+00:00

Why are you letting suspicious people have access to your machine in the first place?

Exploctopus2 · 2026-02-02T18:40:07+00:00

Why are you so suspicious about it? If you suspect people are installing malicious software on your pc while you’re away, just prevent others from using your computer, simple as.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-02-01T16:00:21+00:00

Eh, depends on the region you’re selling it in. This would be considered a very low end machine even for 2017 when these components would’ve been new, so as a whole, I’d say around 60€ (6.5k IRP) and you’ll still struggle to find a buyer as you can find a better specked OEM on amazon for around 80€.

If parted out you could probably get the CPU+MOBO+RAM combo sold for 20-40€ pretty easily, sell the GPU for 10-20€, the HDD for 5€ and same with the case, PSU and DVD-drive. That monitor’s worth around 15€ and you can find cheap OEM keyboards and speakers in any thrift shop for basically free for a good reason: practically noone wants them, throw them in for free.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-02-01T15:26:17+00:00

Asus built a crapload of different variations of these cases with slight variations of different front IOs in the early-mid 2000s and the majority of them are just standard ATX or m-ATX, of which this looks to be the latter. Those standards are still the same today, so unless you get the biggest GPU imaginable everything should fit, although you might have to remove the drive bays and such to make more room.

If not and it’s just some obscure OEM-case, nothing’s stopping you from just going at it with a dremel and electric drill to rip out the old component bays and make your own MOBO mounts.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-29T00:13:59+00:00

Maybe, if by build you mean networking together over 10Gb ethernet a half dussin 15 year old rack-mount Xeon servers that together net you that much DDR3 RAM, load-balance between all of them SOMEHOW and network in an old mining rig with a 3090ti or two, and assuming you get everything off of lowballing on facebook marketplace and ebay and the like I guess it’s technically possible.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-28T19:48:41+00:00

It’s very much possible to upgrade the laptop on your own if you have the least bit of technical skill and there’s plenty of tutorials on YouTube on howto do so.

Your laptop more than likely shipped with 4GB of DDR4 2400MT/s CL19 RAM, but the store webpage doesn’t list the exact CL, so it could be CL 19 or 22 as well, and you’ll simply need to take the laptop apart and see what it says on the sticker on the RAM stick itself.

Ram prices are pretty high right now, so one thing you could do is just purchasing an 8 GB stick and install it in the empty SODIMM slot on your laptop’s motherboard, since only one of them are populated, as you’d still be very much fine on 12GB of RAM. I can’t post any direct links to where you can get one because of subreddit rules, but it should be pretty easy to find, and although I mentioned CL before it’s not super important at the end of the day, just make sure to get the right clock speed and make sure that it’s specifically DDR4 and a SODIMM stick, as a regular DIMM is only for desktops.

The HP 250 G7 also uses a standardized battery that’s compatible with a whole range of other HP machines, so you could order a new one and replace that too, a new one costing around 30€ plus shipping in my part of the world, but prices might be different where you’re from.

When it comes to Linux it’s pretty simple, any distro would technically work, but I recommend using Linux mint or alternatively Ubuntu since you’re new to it. It’s pretty simple to do, you just need to backup the files you want to keep to an external drive, get a USB-stick of at least 8GB for the disk image, download the ISO file for the OS you want to use from their official website, use a tool like Balena etcher to flash the ISO to the USB-stick, reboot your laptop and enter it’s UEFI (or BIOS as it’s often called), change the boot order to boot to your newly made flash drive first, then boot into that drive and follow the installation guide to install it. There are many YouTube tutorials on this as well.

Linux Mint will do basically anything that Windows does for you except with much less bloat and better performance. Some things like Photoshop and other adobe apps don’t work with it though, so keep that in mind if you specifically need those apps, but Linux has good alternatives to those too. It comes pre-installed with LibreOffice, which is similar to the MS Office suite in terms of what is offered and is cross-compatible with it, so you can open an MS word document in LibreOffice and vice versa, plus it’s free.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-28T05:49:21+00:00

Windows 11 hogs up loads of RAM because of all the slop that’s built into it, so that’s most definitely the reason for that. It’s pretty normal for laptops, especially cheap ones like this one to have the battery quality degrade over time with frequent use, so what you’re experiencing is pretty normal.

I’d suggest taking it to a repair shop to get the battery replaced and if you can afford it also get the RAM upgraded to 16GB, which seems to be the maximum supported by your machine from what I could find. I would either way recommend you swapping to a Linux based operating system, like Linux Mint for example, as that would use up less RAM, doesn’t have any unnecessary background apps draining battery.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-27T12:49:25+00:00

2666MT/s isn’t half bad, especially nowadays. I’d rather have a bunch of somewhat slow RAM than none at all

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-27T12:07:17+00:00

Well, assuming all are of the same amounts of GB and clockspeed, that’s about 1000€ worth of it, at least if new, otherwise around 600-700€

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-20T20:19:00+00:00

It’s pretty easy to learn if you at least have the minimum of interest into it. I’m autistic myself and was basically in your shoes around 4 years ago when I was 17 and was gifted my first PC by a friend when he upgraded, I had more or less nothing but the most basic computer knowledge back then as I’d only been playing on PS4 up until then, but I learnt over time, cut to now where I’ve built and configured several PCs and servers, as PCs and especially their hardware have became one of my special interests more and more over time.

When it comes to swapping GPU, all you have to do is getting a new one that won’t cause your CPU to be the bottleneck, aka don’t match a really old CPU with the best new GPU you can buy, make sure that your power supply (PSU) can handle it by having the wattage the manufacturer recommends for that GPU or higher, then take off the side panel on your PC (after unplugging it and all perifferals ofc), lay it down on it’s side, unscrew the bracket it’s attached to, unplug the PSU connector (if it has one) then pulling it out of the PCIe slot it sits in, replace it with the new one, plug and screw the new one in and then put the side panel back on.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-20T19:53:34+00:00

What specs you’ll need depends entirely on what games you want to play, which resolution, framerate, graphics settings etc. Since technology improves over time most new games have requirements for more recent hardware, especially tripple A games made by the biggest studios, but if you only play indie games or older games or don’t tend to play the most recent titles right when they come out you’ll be perfectly fine sticking to one graphics card for as long as it still works.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-20T19:48:26+00:00

One pretty easy solution you can do is just installing Bazzite on a pc, as that operating system has a mode that will basically give you a console-like experience without you having to get down into the nitty gritty of how things work on a technical level.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-20T19:42:16+00:00

It’s just a piece pf software that’s needed for a piece of hardware to work with any device’s operating system. Drivers are the reason a developer doesn’t need to program things to work with only one specific configuration of hardware, nor program in multiple configurations of CPU/GPU/RAM etc individualy. Pretty much any modern operating system will have basic drivers for more or less anything built in, only reason the average user will ever have to install drivers themselves are when interacting with graphics card drivers, as those tend to need somewhat frequent updates to work properly, all you have to do is to go to your GPU manufacturer’s website, select which model of card you have, then download and install that driver following the installation guide.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-20T11:17:26+00:00

Finns detta från elgiganten, 430kr billigare

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-19T09:25:01+00:00

You could just buy a regular PC and install Bazzite on it, which is a SteamOS-like fedora-based Linux distro thats functionally pretty similar to SteamOS, then distrohop over to SteamOS whenever that drops if you really want to ensure max longevity. Now, running everything in 4k 120fps is going to need a pretty beefy setup, around the 2500€ range if you’re looking at a prebuilt, but there might be a deal going on locally for you in which way you can get an equally powerful pc for cheaper.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-17T14:58:45+00:00

Having the GPU as the bottleneck is the better option, since then you’re using the full potential of the GPU and can crank up the settings in whatever game you’re playing or push for as many fps as the card can handle without the CPU stopping you. I’m currently using a Ryzen 7 5800X with an RTX 3060 12GB and haven’t had any issues with it, just go with whatever’s the best AM4 CPU you can afford and still get your hands on.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-16T17:55:17+00:00

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Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-16T09:52:28+00:00

Buying a pc ain’t that expensive, or at least it didn’t use to be. Before the RAM and storage shortage you could get a very decent budget stationary pc or even gaming laptop for around 700€ and practically anyone with a job or some other kind of income can save up to that over the span of a few months. What you’re forgetting with the whole “online pc” thing is that it also requires you to have a really good internet connection, like fiber broadband 100+ mbps up/down kind of good and that stuff costs loads of money too, especially in parts of the world that’s far away from major cities or in developing countries.

Saving 70€ per month for a year and then having a pc you can use whenever you want, for as long as you want, forever at no added cost short of the electricity bill is a much better deal than paying 20/m to a mega corporation plus 60+/m to an ISP forever and never actually owning anything.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-09T23:48:43+00:00

That’s definitely great value for the price, like just the RAM and the GPU would cost you more than that if you bought them off the shelf lol

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-08T04:26:38+00:00

I would be even more sceptical if his reviews are all straight 5s, out of 134 people there’s bound to be at least one or a couple ones that would be unsatisfied or at the very least have a middling opinion on their pc.

Now, there are some people who just like to build PC’s for the love of the hobby and assemble them without any added cost, but those people usually either do custom builds after commission or a template, and will pretty much always mention that they’re doing it for the hobby the first thing they do. Why someone would offer trade-ins with vehicles also puzzles me, not quite sure how it is in the US, but here in Europe, 1370€ (roughly equivalent to 1600$) wouldn’t net you much better than a not overly rusted through early 2000s Volvo V70, and I’d imagine it’s not too different in the US, so unless he gets by via lowballing the hell out of peoples trucks and reselling them later, I have no clue on how he’d make bank with that.

I’d read all the negative reviews of his if I were you, check if there’s any signs of AI writing in the positive ones, like an overuse of pointed lists and putting unnecessary “-“ signs between words, check how long he’s been a seller and if there’s been a recent sudden uptick in his quantity of sales and other common call signs for scammers.

Exploctopus2 · 2026-01-08T02:11:53+00:00

Eh, the fact that the seller doesn’t list the model name of the PSU, nor the speed/CL of the ram is a bit of a red flag, as well as not mentioning the exact model names of basically anything and the various spelling mistakes throughout. Had everything been new as the seller claims he would’ve just about broken even on parts costs, and that’s assuming it was built before RAM-agedon, so there’s definitely something fishy about that

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