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No issues using the system as my daily driver for personal things. I have dual monitors, one oriented vertically and one 144hz. All works great! I'd recommend it to anyone
Intel arc a750 are under $300 and are decent cards for 1080 and do well in 1440. Dx9 support has greatly increased since release.
Going up a little in price, amds 6650 amd 6750 are 3-400.
6800xt are under $600.
I’m currently enrolled and will say the networking is the best part. I’ve found a group of about 50 people in a private slack scattered all over the world. We all bounce things off each other.
Now do it in Teams. You can share your screen without completing a voicecall.
I’ve argued that we should have some type of network and OS hardening classes. There is a required network security And secure computer communication class but they are much more about programming vs implementation. The counter arguments I get are that what I’m suggesting is more aligned with a vendor cert. But a lot of cyber security is doing the hardening of os and proper user access.
A lot of the cyber students end up switching to the policy track instead of the information security track. They are admitting students with almost no prior CS experience. They get away with only having to take an intro to cyber security CS class. Their remaining classes are all management classes marginally related to security.
I’m going to use this article to backup my arguments that there is more to cybersecurity than programming.