Small Questions Thread

Need a second phone for stuff.

Do I go windows or android?

Repost in case anon missed it:

>>55341964
Also why the fuck are they selling W10 keys for $35 while W8 is $15?

W10 is free to download and will accept W8 keys as authentic no?

>>55342195
windows

>>55342201
>>55342195
Answered both in prev thread.

I'm going to be studying compsci in September. If I buy a laptop for classes does it need to be particularly powerful or can I just buy a used Thinkpad?

How powerful are high end smartphones of today compared to the Wii, PS3 and 360?

can we stick to one thread name please
>qtddtot
>small questions thread
>stupid questions thread
>dumb questions thread
>simple questions thread

at least put /sqt/ into the subject

Is it possible to kinda build your own laptop? What are some good guidelines

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>>55342257

>>55342279
Why does it matter as long as it says sqt? Stupid Question Thread is more popular but Small Question Thread is what it should be. Regardless searching "sqt" will get you here.

>>55342326
no

>>55342330
but aren't flops innacurate to measure what the device can do, since architecture plays a major factor

>>55342348
Yes there are differences in how efficiently you can use the power for different things, but as a basic comparison between very different platforms its the best measurement to use.

My mom's laptop had a pesky Trojan infection. It was undetectable by antiviruses. Yet the hacker had remote control.

1. It was a Trojan right?
2. I reinstalled Windows 10 on the laptop and installed Panda Free Antivirus and made mom use a limited user account only. Will this be enough to prevent future infections?
3. Is it possible for a hacker to install a Trojan without prompting the user? In other words, without tricking the user to grant permission?

Is UDF still the best choice for a filesystem compatible with all major operating systems?
I'm setting up a Linux/Windows dual boot and I want partition with shared files.

>>55342141
put /sqt/ in the subject you flaming faggot

some of us rely on filters in this vast wasteland called /g/

Im pretty sure i just killed my new and old motherboards while changing them

How retarded am I?

Also could I somehow have damaged my new processor if it was mounted while handling my motherboard?

Just kill me now

>>55342468
why do you think that? mobos are pretty hard to kill, cpus even harder

>>55342465
Oh lawdy you had to shift+click to hide the thread? How did you ever survive such a horrific experience!?

Address me like that and I'll keep /sqt/ out of the subject.

Please, tell me why I shouldn't get an iPhone. I'm beginning to think that all the bullshit everyone on this board throws at Apple is this false kind of mind set. Can someone give me an UNBIASED opinion on the SE? It looks fine. I'm not looking for a phone that can pen test, I just want a phone that I can kinda play around with and maybe do some neat stuff.

>>55342410
For example, Apple iPhone 6 can run a PS2 port of GTA San Andreas at a much higher resolution, on top of that with extra graphical effects like reflections and more, while the graph shows it having less flops than the PS2, while reality seems to point the iPhone 6 is way ahead of what a PS2 could do.

>>55342552
If you want to tinker with it then iOS is not the platform for you, Apple tries very hard to squeeze you into their narrow ecosystem. If when you want to do fits inside this vision, you'll probably be happy, but if it doesn't you'll have a hard time doing anything about it.

>>55342552
no directory access is an absolute killer

>>55342488
The new one wont boot, and the old one wont even start at all even when theres power to the grfx card. I tried juggling the RAM, going without the graphics card, checking for bent cpu pins, and so on for the new motherboard.

Also there are two mysterious wires from the front panel only labeled with + and - and with separate connectors (but entwined wires). It's not the power, reset, sound, hdd led or USB wires because those are labled.

>>55342593
Okay, thank you. What would be the best phone to just tinker with, then? chink?

>>55342625
sounds like insufficient or faulty PSU

>>55342141
What is 9 +10?

>>55342640
Something that you can unlock the bootloader on and has community support on XDA

>>55342625
power led? beep speaker?

>>55342663
19

What's the difference between print and console.log in JavaScript?

>>55342640
honestly the nexus devices are basically a tinkerers dream as long as you can excuse the lack of microsd

the 5x is a pretty damn good deal right now at $239 if the battery life is OK for you

Is there a way to always have the option to display boot menu on Windows 8.1? I want to boot Linux quickly from a Ian, and I hate having to jump through hoops to access the boot menu.

>>55342141
How can I get the default Ubuntu mouse theme in Gentoo?

>>55342682

window.print()

opens the print dialog

console.log()

writes into the console

>>55342681
ooh thnx

What can I use on gentoo to convert manga to .mobi for my shindle??

>>55342755
thanks.

Whenever i try to open a port on my router, it always says the port is closed when i try one of those port checker websites.

But i've discovered that if i put the port into the port checker inside Transmission and then click the check button. Transmission tells me the port is opnened, and the port checker website will now say the port is open as well.

Can somebody explain why this is?

newfag guide to torrenting?

>>55342780
maybe transmission uses upnp to open the port for you where if you do it manually you fuck it up at some point so it doesn't work.

>>55342745
*lan
USB. What the fuck autocorrect?

>>55342838
download torrent client
download torrent file
insert second item into first item

>>55342745
>>55342860
what hoops?
your motherboard should have a key to list all bootable devices and lets you select one.
before it even starts booting windows.

What's the difference between HGST and Hitachi?

>>55342648
pcpartpickers calculator says that I have about 150 watt as margin and it worked just recently

>>55342672
Hdd led is shining, the beep speaker is silent, the mobo was emitting an orange glow, my mouse was glowing but not my epin gamer keyboard, fans were spinning, there was no monitor response no matter what I did. Strangely my reset button didnt work no matter the orientation of the connectors and holding down the power button caused it to restart a few seconds after shutting down.

And my old Motherboard was just dead, though I didnt tinker as much with it.

>>55342861
well yeah but what do I need to use to not be tracked and all?

>>55342930
Hitachi is a huge conglomerate
HGST was part of that conglomerate until it was sold to Western Digital.

>>55342967
VPN

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>>55342842
I've unchecked upnp in Transmission so that shouldnt be the case.

Pic related is a port that's currently opened according to the port checker site.

But if i try to add another port using the exact same settings etc but another port number, the website says its closed.

It's fucking odd.

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Complete electrical retard here, I just bought a 2.0 channel audio receiver rated at 200 W, 100 per channel, @ 8 ohms... I also have separately from a different hand-me-down two speakers with 40 W each @ 6 ohms. Would I brick either my speakers or my new receiver by connecting these and using them?

>>55342975
I was researching about Hitachi/HGST HDDs since around here everybody says WD Red is shit and/or placebo. Also they say WD failure increased.

If HGST was sold to WD, should I stick to research just hitachi?

This is more of a /mu/ question, I suppose, but does there exist a foobar component that will automatically download album covers?

>>55342977
did you open the port in your firewall?

>>55342982
If you ran the amp at full power it would probably fry them, it should be fine if you leave it under 30%

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>>55343106
I have not done anything with the firewall.

Does ubuntu have one that's on by default?

I just installed gufw and it seems like it's off.

>>55343122

Hmm okay, thank you for the response. I think I might wait to buy new speakers then with specs that match. Thanks again.

I have a folder full of various scripts in my path. The files are failing to run, claiming it cannot find the config file,which is in the same folder as the scripts.
What do?

Asked in the old thread, got no answers, trying again.

I want to buy new harddrives for my Server / NAS.
It doesn't run 24/7, I only wake it up via WOL when I want to watch something via Kodi or access some files.
Would it be better to buy desktop or NAS drives for it? Looking at 4TB and 6TB drives right now, probably going for either Seagate (Desktop / NAS) or WD (Blue / Red).

Hello

When I overclock my monitor, it forces constant gpu voltage and memory clock

Is that normal?

Fell for the water cooling meme. Got an h240x and expanded it to my GPU and another fat radiator. I've had the 240x for about a year now and did the expansion about 6 months ago. Today I noticed a slight crack in the plastic lense that displays the water level. No water is visibly dripping but the water level is slowly dropping and one of the screws has what seems to be on it, rust. I'm guessing it's from the interaction from the screw and the biocide.

The real question is this. The novelty of water cooling has taken a big hit since this happened for me. Paired with the fact that every year or so when I get a new GPU I'll have to buy another water block as well kind of makes this seem not worth it. Should I get a dh-15 and be done with it? I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Reason I'm thinking the dh-15 is because I plan to keep my 3770k as long as possible which means I'll be over clocking as high as I can.

>>55343538
Since you seem to be concerned about the power usage you might as well use a low power red drive.

I started learning C a while ago. But now I really want to make myself a good programmer. Reading your wiki, seems the God Tier books are the way to go. However, with which one should I start? Suppose I'm a beginner.

what do after the codecademy coding shit? Just read more detailed books?

>>55343604
No.
You didnt do it properly.

WC'ing the cpu is worth it.

Been using my 1080p monitor for both PC vidya and my PS3/WiiU via HDMI. Since those consoles only upscale to 1080, what exactly is gonna happen to the visuals if I try and use them with a 1440p monitor?

What's a good .net library for generating QR codes that can handle nonprinting ascii characters? ZXing is shit and throws an error if there's one in the string.

>>55343787
http://stackoverflow.com/a/9836136

>>55343621
I just think that it doesnt make much sense to leave it running 24/7 when I use it for maybe 1 to 2 hours a day and some days not at all.

Laptop for class.
i5 or i7. I'm running max 3 virtual machines, and it's for general note taking.

How difficult is it to change control boards on a hard drive, and does it have a pretty likely chance of fixing it?

My HDD stopped spinning after replacing my power supply for some reason. It's not my boot drive so it still boots up when the HDD isn't plugged in, but when it is, the PC won't even boot.

>>55344072
i5, i7 are not worth the additional cores. Typing this on a i5, running exactly three debian virtual machines with gnome-shell and all is smooth.

>>55344088
Ouch, perhaps a specialized company can try opening it up and hooking it to a compatible control board. I can hardly see myself do it, unless you buy the same thing and you can somehow unscrew the control board (which I doubt you can).

Can I use a feather duster on any part of my computer case while its unplugged? Can I use it on a case fan that's not connected to the case?

>>55344247
> Fan
Yes
> Any part
Avoid the cpu, ram and all places where memory is present. Why don't you use a vacuum? Static electricity sucks, and these shit can build up quite a lot of it with current peaking pretty darn high. I've never fucked up any parts that way, but I wouldn't recommend it.

>>55344247
A feather duster will be very staticy, do not use it on static sensitive parts. A fan is not static sensitive.

>>55342141
Is it possible/viable to make a gaming pc out of a chinese box, GPU wise? (considering it has like i3-5 and 4-8gb ram).
hint: PCIExpress support desu

>>55344237
yeah it's terrifying, i also live in a place that's pretty dusty so i dont know if i want to try it.

i did find a place called DonorDrives that will do a PCB swap for around 60 bucks with shipping, and if it turns out to be a different problem, you can just pay for the shipping back to them or you can also have them recover the data for a much heftier price (around the $600 - $2000 range)

should i go for it? all other data recovery services sound like they're around the same price, Geek Squad had it a little cheaper but they also take 6 weeks to return the drive and there's no guarantee that it will be the cheaper tier.

>>55343642
Code some projects, learn advanced concepts like latest Java, Python, some functional programming perhaps. Look into parallel computing.

>>55344428
what?

>>55344304
>>55344306
I ended up using a toothbrush to clean it instead. I read that using a vaccum to suck up the dust can be dangerous (static wise). Just used up my last bit of compressed air too. Any suggestions on what do clean the inside of the case with? Currently only using paper towels and a toothbrush.

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Why is it called LINUX but not NT (as in Windows)?

>>55342141
is there firefox plugin that stops facebook from tracking you

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is it autistic to add a small sticker of pic related on my laptop?

>>55344433
TBO I think it's risky, depending on what kind of important data there is on this HDD. If it's sensible, I know I wouldn't be too confident to send them the drive, plus it could get damaged some more in transport depending what company you use. GeekSquad is more safe considering it's bigger and more public company, but then again the price.

My call is if there's sensitive data, I guess I would take the price bullet or destroy it to get rid of it (sucks if there's work stuff, but better that than leaking private stuff). Otherwise given the model I might check out if it can be replaced given you buy an additional HDD of the same model. If there's no sensitive data, it seems like a good option, 60$ ain't that much. But then again, if there's no sensitive data and no important data at all, I would just buy a new one, along with an external HDD for backup this time.

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Pic related is a format to get a building permission. I'm 100% sure that the floors can be done in Autocad, and 99% sure that the frontal view can be done in Autocad too. I need to know if the street map and the information table are supported as well, or if I'm supposed to do it with some other software and them put them together in an image file or something (to print them).

>>55344488
I've used a vacuum fine for many years, but I must specify I have a long nose head which doesn't conduct electricity very well too. For inside the case, with a good vacuum cleaner I never needed anything else.

How can i get rid of that "provide admin permission" bullshit from win 10? i hate this shitty OS but am too lazy to switch back to 7. I dont want to have to go through the security settings for everything and make myself the owner instead of admin, but if thats the fastest way i guess ill do it

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How does this laptop look in terms of specs and value?

>>55344030
You're going to have to wait for it to spin up and boot the os,you're going to have to wait for services to start
If any part of this cycle errors out, you're going to have to manage it,instead of having your media there when ever you want, with no errors on boot.
There is no reason to not have it constantly running.Shit one be loud

>>55344526
Having a facebook is already entering the inner circle of data collection

>>55344600
If it was important, he would have a backup.
So its just chinese cartoons, and furry fanfic

>>55344656
>Lenovo
Enjoy your spyware

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>>55344455
Chinese box, pic related. My goal is to hook up a GPU outside of the box, mounted on a custom little case with all the necessary cooling. My problem is I can't find a chinese box with appropriate PCIExpress. The question is, does it exist or can it be at all done by some other PCIE enabled boards (Thunderbolt 3 support perhaps).

>>55342195
android

>>55342326
there are webstores i think but it's not cheap

>>55342435
yes
>>55342552
you can't do shit on iphone
it's closed system
android is way to go for you
>>55342967
don't seed and you should be fine
>>55344247
best way to clean your computer is compressed air but even that is not 100% safe

>>55343713
What do you mean I didn't do it properly?

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Android problem here. Android won't boot. Normally my device would boot in the next order: Phone logo, carrier logo, Android boot. But now it is like this:

>Turn on device
>See phone logo
>Device is infinitely stuck on carrier logo screen

Or, and this is what makes me think this phone is beyond saving:

>Turn on device
>Press buttons to try to access Android's Safe Boot mode
>Phone is infinitely stuck on phone logo screen

I have no idea what-so-ever of how did this happened. I slept with my phone on the bed with me (idiotic, I know) and in the morning my phone was stuck on the carrier logo for what I presume to be quite a while, since the phone itself was dangerously hot.

I will most likely move on, but I hate to leave it at that without knowing why. Also, don't go to sleep with your phone on your bed.

>>55344656

Storage is too low and it's expensive because it's an SSD, that means it's faster than a normal HDD. The touch screen probably adds a lot to the price, but the graphics are bad and processor is meh. If you (1) only want it for work stuff (not gaming) and not for design or rendering tasks, and (2) care about the touch screen and fast storage, but (3) don't need that much storage space, then you could buy it and it would be fine for you. If you don't need those things then you should be able to find better stuff for even less dosh.

>>55344656
>AMD anything in a laptop
Like shit.

>>55344676
as far as i know all it takes it you visiting one site that has like button for facebook to track you
i guess there should be some popular extension for that problem

>>55344551
not if you run gentoo

>>55344710
Just do an ITX build

>>55344759
ublock origin and enable the tracking lists

And you can block them modifying your host list.

>>55344777
I thought I could reduce the price even more with chinese, your point is that it's not possible or not worth the work?

>>55344814
Correct

>>55344784
thank you

>>55344814
You're jewing on a maximum retarded downs jew level.Just fucking build a system.
Fucks sake

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Am I retarded or is there a way around copy and pasting directories in basic File IO with Java and python?

Like, if I want to open a simple .txt file and read it line for line, with python I open the whole fucking directory which can get long as hell, and sometimes that doesn't even work. Especially when I want to read and manipulate files in that long ass path.

I'm probably just retarded aren't I

What's a good free/with trial VPN/proxy service? The /g/ approved one?

What would be a good "real" programming language for a Bash wizard? The more similar the syntax, the better..

What can be considered safer:
1) storing passwords and credentials for online services directly in a browser (firefox / palemoon) assuming I use browsers synced on two devices - windows and linux.
2) in a plain text file that is encrypted (not just in an encrypted volume)

Pls no password manager suggestions.
I am not asking about NSA proof, if the state is after you, you are fucked beyond any hope. I am simply trying to prevent a theft of my data.

>>55344600
They are small but they do have a pretty good amount of 5* reviews, about 150 on Google and facebook. I'm in California and sending it to Geek Squad is going to be in Kentucky, and sending it to Outsource is going to be Ohio.

The data on the drive is mostly personal, but there is some graphic design work I had been working on for some bands, nothing worth that $1000 price tag though that I can't just redo.

Also, I have an external, I back it up every few months because I've never had a HDD failure before and didn't see it as a threat. I was going to back it up yesterday on my day off. I'm an idiot.

>>55344700
My chinese cartoons are already on my external, for some reason that is backed up and none of my design work is. Like I said, I'm an idiot.

Where can I find some decent themes for 4chan x, that aren't 2000 years old (aka, not compatable)?

I'd make my own css if I weren't a lazy asshole, but even if I were to make one, I don't know what tags to use

>>55344927
stylish

>>55344771
i run archlinux >:(

>>55343760
Anyone? Is it simply going to make the image look less sharp?

I'm having some issues with my mice as of late. They just seem very unpredictable and I'm constantly overshooting or missing links and other things on the screen during daily use. I'm not sure whether I'm losing my mind or if there's actually something wrong. I've tried looking for other interfering drivers and acceleration but no luck yet. I've even tried fresh installs of Win7. I think the problem might have started with a fresh install desu.

Bought an MX Master yesterday hoping for some miracle. I've had a Func MS3-R2 and a Steelseries Sensei before. I'm also using a Steelseries XXL mat but I can't feel a significant increase in accuracy on other surfaces. A friend of mine told me that it might be because of the polling rate but he's usually full of it.

Is there anything that can help me identify if there's any drivers or acceleration hidden somewhere? Am I just a loon?

>>55342235
There's nothing in CompSci that has real hardware requirements, so look for display, battery, keyboard and weight. Thinkpad sounds good.

>>55344985
If you can just use them to output 720p it'll look great as 720p scales perfectly to your new monitor's resolution.

>>55342235
Thinkpad should be fine, hardware shouldn't matter much. Select for good display, keyboard, battery, weight.

>>55344861
Calm down mate, I was just wondering to what extent a fully built cheap pc could be hooked up to a gpu on a separate rig. Fuck's sake, them jimmies are hurt bad.

>>55342141
First off I'm sorry if I'm in the wrong place to ask this, I just thought you guys were the most likley to have experience with this.

I ordered a razer blackwidow chroma from the razer store, it arrived yesterday. Earlier on I'm sat at my desk with a glass of coke and my wife comes past and asks if I want tome ice. She put a couple of cubes in my glass, one of them goes in with a bit of a plop and the tiniest little drop falls on the keyboard. Didn't think anything of it at the time, my generic mechanical keyboard from ebay has survived a lot worse.

It's now a couple of hours later and disaster has struck. The 1 key and everything in a vertical line beaneath it either aren't lighting up at all, or they're lighting in a different colour to the rest. I've tried resseting synapse and restarting the pc to no avail.

I know this won't be covered under warranty, but will razer be able to fix it if I pay for it? Or have I just become the proud owner of a £150 keyboard that will never ever work the way it's supposed to?

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>>55345074

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i installed gentoo on my friend's computer to show her what she was missing. she woke up screaming and yelling: "what the fuck is this? where's my twitter and insta??". my friends and i are hiding in her house waiting for the storm to subside. when will she be calm to listen to open source wisdom?

>>55345082
Don't eat or drink around your computer.

>>55344904
Meh, then let's do it. I just hope these reviews are legit.

>>55345082
>razer
>keyboard
That was your first problem.
You could take the keys off and attempt to clean it, in a last ditch effort,maybe mask the incident a little if you do send it in for repair.
Where did you buy it from? Newegg/amazon?
Being you just got it, they will throw you a replacement at shipping cost.

>>55344004
That doesn't stop the error, and it puts out UTF-8 encoded data so the scanner wouldn't pick up the control characters anyways.

>>55345131
>computer
>instagram
???

>>55344875
none?

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>>55345131

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>>55345131
~

How to break into someone's gmail?

>>55345240
keylogger

Is this a decent motherboard for a budget build?

http://www.microcenter.com/product/455510/H170A_PC_Mate_LGA_1151_ATX_Intel_Motherboard

>>55345304
If you stack them they're pretty similar in size

Will the dual core i5 4570t cpu be decent for gaming if I were to buy it?
It's only dual core but it does have hyperthreading so it's got 4 threads at 2.9 GHz, with a turbo boost up to 3.6.

>>55345323
kek'd

What are the consequences of getting a micro atx or other "small" form board?

Is it implied at all that they perform worse?

How does the GTX 770 compare with newer GPUs with respect to performance, temperatures, power drain and technology?

>>55345168
You know what the worst thing is? I'm relativley new to pc gaming, and everyone I know from every game I play was like "mate, don't buy razer gear, you'll regret it". But because I'm a clever bastard and I know fucking everything I ignored them all and dropped £300 on a keyboard, mouse, and headphones.

>>55345168
>Where did you buy it from? Newegg/amazon?
>Being you just got it, they will throw you a replacement at shipping cost.
I bought it direct from the razer store, which I think was a mistake. If I'd got it from a reseller I'd just send it back claiming it was like this out of the box, but because it's going back to razer I'm guessing they'll take it apart, so claiming the product shipped with a small amount of generic store brand cola in it probably isn't going to fly.

I feel really, really fucking stupid now.

>>55345350
It would probably be okay but there are better options at that pricepoint.

>>55345374
They are smaller,so you dont need a full atx card, like a gaymer child.

>>55345374
Fewer ports, possibly more thermal restrictions on overclocking.

>>55345414
thanks friend

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So I've recently discovered that if I plug a usb cord into my topmost port here, it causes some kind of short and the computer freezes. Should I just buy something to cover it up? I've got a soldering iron and a desoldering iron but I am not super experienced with either.

>>55345395
yeah someone is offering me a desktop to trade for my laptop, so I'm not buying the parts.

>>55345440
Get a peice of black electrical tape

>>55345350
>>55345441
Does it have a graphics card? That's the bottleneck you'll run into. Tell us your laptop specs and all of the desktop specs.

>>55345440

Just open it and disconnect it from the inside or something. That shouldn't happen by the way, the problem is not the port or the wire.

>>55345440
are you experienced with sticky notes or tape?

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>>55345465
here are my laptop specs
>i7 4720HQ (quad core @ 2.6 GHz)
>GTX 965M (2GB)
>8gb ram

pic related is what he's offering me

>>55345379
The 970 gives you 30% increase in performance and draws less power, but your card should be good for a few years still.

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>>55345512
>maybe 1-2 fps slower at most

>>55345535
Thanks anon. I'll wait.

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>>55345470
>>55345459
That would look like shit. I want one of those rubber things some flash drives come with, but flush.

>>55345468
It's part of a board

>>55345512
If you don't have a spare HDD you'll find the ssd lacking, so maybe you could get him to sweeten it with a 500GB hdd. I wouldn't consider that a terrible deal for either of you. That desktop will beat the pants off your laptop for gaming because of that card.

>>55345614
forgot to mention he was throwing in two 1tb hdd's with the computer.

Any reason im getting almost no DL speed on pretty much all torrents? just DL'ed 2 games on steam and both were going at 5mb a sec, yet most of my torrents barely ever make it past 2 mb/s. The one im dl'ing atm has been going for 10 mins and hasnt even topped 200kb/s yet. it supposedly has 1k seeders, got it from rarbg. I switched to deluge from utorrent because i figured utorrent just went to shit, but my issue hasnt really improved. Any ideas/reasons as to why this is happening?

>>55345379
I'd keep an eye on the new 1070 card.

>>55345614
>That would look like shit
cover the whole thing in electrical tape. you wont have to worry about it looking like shit, you wont have to worry about shorting/freezing your pc again, and itll still probably be cheaper, quicker, and easier than whatever it is you are wanting to do

>>55345634
Sounds like a fine deal to me. How much did you pay for your laptop and how old is it? The setup he's giving you was probably $1000 new and is about 3 years old.

>>55345677
You're getting the shit end of routing.
Are you using dht/pex/utp?

Is there any way I can grab Radeon Drivers without it coming with shitty bloatware

Best online site to do an internet speed test?

>>55345762
Seriously? speedtest.net

>>55345723
My laptop retails around ~$1100 and I bought it for $950.

He didn't mention anything about a case but even without one this would be a pretty good deal right?

>>55345762
speedof.me

Will using Windows only as a limited user account and using Panda Free Antivirus enough to keep me safe from Trojans?

Can Trojans be installed without prompting me for permission?

>>55345747
probably not as i dont know what those are

>>55345775
some isp's give bursts of speed to make simple ones like speedtest show your speeds as better than they are. i use testmy.net, it keeps testing until you get a steady speed

>>55345796
if you dont care about what the case looks like and all that extra BS, you can get a good one for $20-50 on ebay/amazon.

>>55345796
I sincerely doubt he's giving you the parts sans case. It's a fine trade if you aren't concerned with portability, which I assume you aren't since you're interested in the trade in the first place.

>>55345811
Good point.

>>55345717
Just checked, getting these niggers. https://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Black-silicone-anti-dust-stopper/dp/B005LA9FXW/

Just bought the Cooler Master Elite 110 for my home server.

Did I do good, /g/?

>>55345839
>>55345849
Yeah he just replied saying there is no case, but I'm fine with that. I'll have to buy a monitor, keyboard, and case, but that total shouldn't be more than $300 and I was prepared to spend $400 out of pocket anyway.

Is a $300 gaming PC something that I can reasonably build? I was gifted a very nice case a while ago so we can leave that out of the equation.

Just the inside part, can i play most modern(ish) games on such a build? I'm not expecting a 120fps ultra setting Battlefield 4 PC here just a robust one I can casually play on.

Maybe just some 60fps and high settings on games released before or during 2010.

>>55342681

Can anyone verify this?

How to find all personal information of a person online?

>>55345082
Your first mistake was razer. Your second mistake was not unplugging immediately.

>>55345917
No. Unless you're pulling 99% of the parts from other computers, a GPU+CPU are gonna be over $300 by themselves.

>>55342141
what the name of the addon for xmbc to watch pirated shit?

>>55345943
People just dump that shit on the deep Web on anon pastebins. Good luck sorting through that mess though.

>>55345811
Check your connection settings for those settings and enable them all

>>55345317
Anyone?

>>55345917
Ayyy anon, I've got a spare PC with a GTX 460, 6GB of ram, and an i3 I'd sell you for $200. If you live in the Ohio river valley area, that is.

My receiver says that it's impedance is between 4-16 ohms. The only speakers that are available to me are rated at 3 ohms. Will I broke it if I use them?

>>55342141
Sup /g/uys. What's that website that's written entirely in html just to prove that web 2.0 is shit? That one that looks nice and it's fast as fuck. There were two different ones, one older and one newer.

>>55345317
>>55346090
It's not terrible. I hate boards that have a ton of sideways sata ports, but that's just me.

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>>55345747
>>55346086
>Are you using dht/pex/utp?
checked my settings and they were all already enabled.

>>55346171
this wasnt an issue until i moved. i never learned much about torrents as i never had to. utorrent worked perfectly for me, and i never had to change any settings. any chance its somehow related to my having a different ISP (AT&T)?

Best mATX mobos? Looking for a good, cheap, skylake motherboard.

>>55345163
yeah the thought did occur to me, due to a couple of the reviews looking a little strange (broken english, poor grammar) but the majority of the reviews looked legit. i guess i'll give it a try, if they try and fuck me over, i'll just have them send it back.

i believe i'm in charge of packing it though. what would be the best way to pack the drive to ensure it doesnt bump around much?

I'm building a NAS / seedbox / maybe some other server related stuff in a Fractal R5 case. I don't know if I should use all the space and get an ATX motherboard or get one of the smaller motherboards / motherboard+cpu combo. And if it's either of the former two, which CPU should I get?

Downgrading Windows 10 back to 8.1, where to get ISO with latest updates?

>>55346423
Microsoft website probably.

Can anyone link me to good Computer Science resume examples?

>>55346171
>>55346258
You're in a better place then me, deluge dosent even function at all.

It could be your isp shaping your traffic, and blocking or throttling. I've never used at&t but it could be something to look in to.
Is it a public or private torrent? If private your site might throttle block certain clients

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Will rx480 power draw be fixed?

>>55346458
>buying a new card
>with 980 specs
>instead of a used 980

you fucking what

>>55346497
Please, just tell me. 980 prices are blown up here and i want warranty.

>>55346403
Unless you need 10 drives, of storage.Get a microatx mobo and case
>cpu
Depends on what else you want to use it for.
What you listed, a 2ghz cpu is more then enough

>>55345809
It's a start, but you really have to worry about your internet browsing as the weak link and focus on preventing malicious code from the web from having a chance to run at all. Any time you have an AV trying to clean up damage that has already been done, you are at much higher risk. The browser is key. Use Chrome NOT firefox. Firefox has no sandboxing and no immediate plans to implement it. savvy trying to stay safe. Install adblock, it prevents a lot of shit from getting through. Try to find an av with a browser plugin, that's a prerequisite for certain security measures. Setting a custom DNS like norton is one of the fastest, easiest ways to eliminate a lot of threats, because it will simply block access to a lot of fucked up pages before your computer can even access them. And remove flash and Java from the system. Disabling javascript is helpful too, but way not worth it for most people. Doing those things will greatly decrease your chances of getting an invisible driveby infection from surfing the web

>>55342141
I'm so frustrated, I am on the verge of screaming right now.

My GPU died and I'm using integrated graphics right now, can't do shit with my computer right now as you might imagine.

I held out to by the RX 480; it's sold out and on top of that the benchmarks are weird/bad, doesn't perform as well as a 390.
The 1070 is sold out everywhere also.

Now my only options to even get a graphics card are to buy an old generation card like a 970 or 980. Both of these are unprepared for DX12 and feel like a waste of a purchase.

I can't fucking wait any longer /g/. What the FUCK should I do? It looks like the 1070 won't be back in stock until august, and I don't think I will be satisfied with a 480 or a 980.

>>55346423
If it's been less than a month since you "upgraded" you should just revert your install within windows

>>55346792
It has not but now I'm remembering the things that bothered me about 8.1 and I'm honestly thinking about just dragging out the old mac pro again

>>55346785
>can't do shit with my computer right now

Stop being a manchild and live without cutting edge vidya for a few weeks.. You can literally play any old/non-grafix game anyway. Here anon play some Tetris: http://www.tetrisfriends.com/games/Marathon/game.php

>>55346785
>unprepared
They both run dx12 fine
980 surpases alot of these new cards

>>55346785
Nobodies using Dx12 except microsoft for their shitty xbone ports. It might never take off, and it doesn't do a damn bit of good for games that weren't designed for it. If you don't care about the VR the new generation is not magic. Buying a newly released model from a new generation of cards is a shitty idea in general. Nobodies worked out the kinks yet, found out which cards are lemons and found the unexpected weaknesses. Think 970 3.5. Or potentially much worse. In the beginning it's all gonna be shitty untested reference cards. If you wanna roll the dice it's your money. I say add a minimum of 2 months to any release date, and if you can't handle that, then take advantage of the falling prices of the previous gen

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>>55345547
i've seen him from somewhere. is he still kneeling before cracks?

>>55345757
why wouldn't you download them along your drivers? it helps your gaming experience

>>55346943
I read this thread and it scared me away from buying a 980. are these claims overblown?

http://pcpartpicker.com/forums/topic/105376-do-not-buy-gtx980-or-gtx980ti-they-are-obsolete

Hey is Windows 7 any good yet? I am really starting to be pissed off by Windows 8/10 UWAs and tablet bullshit

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Can a kind /g/ anon help a starting Java programmer out?

I'm trying to draw an image onto a graphics context in an applet. I'm extending the applet class. I want to know how to retrieve the image via an absolute path on my hard drive. Pic related is my code, but it always seems to stop executing after the getImage call. What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance

>>55347138
I was updating until windows 10 showed up. Then i luckily canceled the 'upgrade'. Good stuff.

>>55347201
>white background
Do you hate yourself?

When i add magnet links to any torrent client. They just stay at their hash name, and never complete. I can confirm they are well seeded(500+ seeders in this case), yet it stays stuck and wont download.

what's the best image zooming addon for firefox?

>>55347494
control+scroll wheel

>>55347503
i mean if you wanna do that sure
im looking for the simplest most convenient way to browse the web tho so
sumone HALP

I'm thinking about sleeved cables for my next build. However, my power supply comes with 9 cables, and this "complete" kit I've been looking at has 14. Does that mean they've reduced the number of connectors per cable and made whole new cables for them? I mean, my power supply can only use 8 cables at a time, why even bother with 14 like that?

>>55342141
do i need 1920x1080 for a 13 inch laptop? thinking about getting the thinkpad 13 either in that resolution or 1366x768

>>55347637
It depends on your psu.I have a 2200W and it has 18 rail slots.

>>55347658
I'd call it optional. The main difference is the amount of screen real estate you have. Lower resolution translates to less room to view documents, webpages etc. I would say that's more important than the actual ppi but it doesn't make a huge difference either way

Is it alright to mount a Fractal Design GP-14 fan horizontally? Looked up the bearing on it and it has a hydraulic bearing, which is apparently just a sleeve bearing.

I got a T420, I dual boot Windows and Debian, I wanted the ThinkVantage button to open the terminal, it was easy to do in XFCE, but I have no clue in how to do this on Windows 7, anyone can help me out here?

>>55347637
might want to look at modular or semi modular ones too. they might come with 14 cables, but you can remove some or all of what you arent using

newfag here, what the hell is the point of two monitors? Or even 3,4? Could it be possible to have one run a specific OS and another one something different?

>>55347941
More shit visible at once without having to buy a bigger monitor or being able to have some shit up on another window with something else full screened on the other.

>>55347941
Anon here answered
>>55347963
As for the second question, you can use a VM in the second monitor so you got 2 OSs

>>55347941
My left monitor is the main things im working on or have that i use constantly, switching between or having them side by side
The other monitor i have all my monitoring serivces loaded up. Music player,system resources,file managers etc.
When i need to read source material or have 10+ programs open at a time,it is fucking easy as fuck to use them on 2 monitors.Good luck with multitasking on a single monitor.Good luck switching between 5 pages of shit you need to constantly be writing or reading from on a single monitor
Going back to CRT's i always had 2.

>>55347941
>run a specific OS and another one something different?
sure, with 2 computers, one for each monitor

or a VM that you move to another screen, but depending on what os you want to run, and what you want to run on that os, you might need a pretty good cpu/video card

>>55347941
For vidya, I can play a fullscreen game on one monitor and watch system temps or read something on the other monitor. Its actually pretty handy in that sense.

>>55346171
looked around, found out that at&t fucks with any and all torrents.
would setting up my torrent program to go through a free vpn work? too cheap to pay for one

When will internet be so advanced that we'll be able to get 0 ping from America to Europe for example? Is that technically possible even now?

First time builder here:
Do I need to worry about a Wired Network Adapter? installgentoo wiki doesn't say anything about it.

If I do what should I be looking out for, specifically?

why does my new asus monitor make everything beige? what do i do?

>>55348116
Most motherboards already have an ethernet port. You should be looking out for chipsets, but that doesn't matter too much unless it's some GAYMER KILLER SNIPER XxX garbage.

>>55347658
I wouldn't pay for anything less than 900 tall.

>>55348133
get colored contacts to balance out the beige?
fuck with the monitor's contrast/RGB/whatever?
hmi cord might help, no idea

>>55348095
>is that technically possible
Short answer: no

>>55348015
>not using multiple workspaces per monitor, to easily have everything you need relevent to what you are doing.Easily swapping between everything at the moments notice.

>>55348265
What if every PC in the world was connected via ethernet to a huge rounter? What then smartass?

>>55348183
Cool, thanks

Also, what's the smallest "safe" storage size for a mid-range desktop? Trying to get a SSD worked into my plan without blowing the roof off my budget, I had planned for a $50 1TB HDD but that's looking ridiculous now. SSDs seem to be much more expensive per Gigabyte so I'm trying to balance cost and storage size.
I'll probably grab a larger external storage source down the line.

>>55348300
Still no, because even with fiber optic conmections you're talking hundreds of thousands of MILES of physical space between connections. Sending a single blip of information might work with virtually no latency, but when you're daisy chaining between systems that each need to process their share of the information, package it and pass it along, all of which is going to generate at least some latency.

Even with a perfect network of quantum computers and flawless fiber optics, you'll experience some latency due to the uncertainty principle, though that may be completely immeasurable. The only means of true lossless communication is quantum entanglement.

>>55347658
1366x768 is an awful blight on computing as a whole and you will hate it every moment you're using it.

>>55348095
literally impossible without FTL communication

>>55348300
what do you think the internet is?

>>55348348
put your OS on a smaller SSD (128 or 256 GB, whatever you need for the OS and high-usage apps) then put the rest of your shit on a mechanical drive

>>55348400
>hey what's the least I can spend on a SSD?
>durrr just buy two storage sets lol
Why

>>55348400
>what do you think the internet is

A tool to share porn between people allover the world.

>>55348433
because using your SSD for long-term storage is fucking stupid and buying a big SSD is stupider?

gee, i dunno, you figure it out, then, smartass. sounds like you knew what you wanted all along.

What are amazon tablets programmed with?

>>55348433
>im not going to listen to that guy, im going to buy a giant SSD and put everything on it
enjoy losing all your data when it eventually dies
more reading/writing on the SSD shortens its life. come back in a few months when it dies and get called an idiot

>>55348459
basically android but they're locked down so good luck getting to an actual android home screen

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I need an understanding. Can someone explain why this was necessary at all?
It's literally the same ep over and over again...

>>55348453
why do people insist on acting like an ssds lifetime is drastically less than an hdds? it's simply not true any more and ssds have a far smaller failure rate

>>55348497
a competent torrent client would have allowed you to select the files that worked best for you without downloading anything else

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I'm trying to partition my hard drive. I could only get about 20GB partitioned before the Windows partition utility told me I had no space left, which was bullshit.

I defragged a couple times, and think I've found the problem, although I could be wrong.

This is what my Defraggler looks like. At the last little bit of my hard drive (I don't know what the exact term for it is), there's nothing but the pagefile. I think it's standing in the way, and I think it's why Windows is telling me I have no free space left.

Why the fuck is it there? Can I move it to a different address? I don't want to remove it.

Or am I barking up the wrong tree entirely?

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fucked my start menu up by using w10privacy wat do

>>55348527
stop using dodgy programs?

>>55348535
no

>>55348514
i just saw the folders, I didn't realize it, I thought there was more too and I didn't read it all was the same till after, but I still don't understand the point in this at all. Why did the guy do this at all?

>>55348527
>discord
AYE whadup?

>windows 10
I'm sorry
stop being dumb and do the right thing and go back to windows 7

>>55348513
why do people insist on coming to /g/ to ask for advice then refuse to change their minds like if you wanted to fight you could have just gone to facebook

>>55348515
administrator command prompt
list disk
select disk # (where # is the disk youre workign on)
clean
then partition it with whatever you want

>>55348527
>Windows 10
>Privacy
hahaha

>>55348543
you answered it anon, because they want a fight. And a lot of times people don't really know why, they just do it out of habit

>>55348547
I didn't do it for the privacy but rather for removing the bloat. Couldn't care less about "muh privacy"

>>55348543
I don't want to wipe the whole disk, I just want to move the pagefile or temporarily get rid of it.

>>55348543
burden of proof is on you bruh, show me a reliable study that shows moderns solid state drives are any less reliable or more prone to failure than regular hard drives

>>55348527
you can turn all that bullshit back on somewhere in the settings app, or you can resize the start menu and be done with it

>>55348552
fair enough

>>55348553
anon, windows 10 without the bloat is just windows 7. you wasted your time

>>55348568
lol bro, burden of proof? you're gonna pull your bullshit atheism 'debate techniques' on me? i don't even care. do what you want, just don't get uppity with me for suggesting something that wasn't what you wanted to hear, christ.

>>55348591
anon, ubuntu without bloat is linux you wasted your time

>>55348591
I'm not even the guy you originally replied to, I just wanna know if you actually have sources to back your shit up or if you're just pulling it out of your ass?

>>55348463
If this is actually the case why are people preaching how much better than HDDs an SSD is? Why are they much more pricey per gigabyte?
This whole thread sounds like memery

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whats with this? happens everytime i have to do a captcha. takes around a minute to load the captcha, sometimes it loads if i hit escape or click around a little bit. when it does load, the captcha is way on the left instead of over by my post where it usually is

>>55348619
They cost more because they're harder to produce

If all you want to do with your computer is watch videos then sure, get a 5400RPM HDD

If you want it to multitask well and launch programs quickly, get and SSD

If you want it to not cost an arm and a leg to have good performance as well as be able to store large games and video files, get a mix.

Is there some way to 'hack' my monitor to reduce the input lag?

People weren't joking when they said most IPS monitors have noticeably more input lag than TN, this thing sucks for TF2.

>>55348669
Input lag is not the same as response time

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>>55348660
then this shit happens

>>55348679
Yeah well whatever it is, it's bad on this monitor. When I play fast FPS games there's a shit load of motion blur.

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>>55348699
a shit load of motion blur you say? worst feature of all time you say?

How does weather affect the internet if it's all cable?

>>55348669
What is your monitor's model number?

Chrome is scrolling really slow on Ubuntu. It works fine on the same computer with Windows.

I recently upgraded Ubuntu, but it happened before the upgrade also and just kind of went away.

It doesn't happen all the time time now either, but when I reboot, sometimes it does and it doesn't fix itself unless I reboot and only sometimes does it fix then.

What do?

>>55348787
Acer H236HL

>>55348666
All I want to be able to do is run standard PC programs and do midrange gaming. Any storage for videos and such I'll get an external storage unit for, so in the end I'll probably have a mixed storage setup anyways.
Now that being said, what options should I look for in the $50 to sub-$100 price range that can work as my standard PC storage? If HDDs are the way to go long-term, I can probably save a lot by getting a smaller HDD (I had been looking at a 1TB for around $50 before I heard anything about SSDs for shorter storage)

>>55348847
hmm. I read somewhere to turn off hardware acceleration and I had it turned off. I just turned it back on, restarted chrome, and now it is scrolling fine. I don't think that is the issue though. I think it was the restart that fixed it temporarily. I would still like suggestions for a permanent fix

>>55348801
open your task manager and make it top priority. That should help.
I do that with FL and vlc sometimes and when it's given that it gives it a tad more RAM.
I would recommend switching to FF if it's out of it's crashing phase

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What is a good mat for my computer chair?

My last one went 4 years before breaking apart.

>>55348619
An ssd isn't about reliability, although without moving parts they're less likely to get rekt in a laptop. SSDs are about speed and responsiveness. They're basically like a 100 small flashdrives in raid. A single file can be written across the drive in multiple places simultaneously, improving both read and write speed. It's a particular improvement in random access. This makes it great at running the os, which was never quite at home on the spinning platters of HDDs, but it really doesn't make a difference on large contiguous files, so a lot of people combine options to get the best of both worlds. That's the whole idea behind hybrid drives, which are basically HDDs with mini SSDs built into them, although solid state storage that small has more drawbacks, and the drive has to be very good at making sure the most critical system files actually make it onto the ssd part or it doesn't do any good.

>>55348814
Get a 144hz monitor.

60hz is always going to feel laggy.

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>>55348736
More people in your neighborhood stay home and watch Netflix when its raining and the increased load causes slower internet.

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Looking to pick up a (discounted) 970, most of the current coupon codes and mail in rebates end tonight (last day of the month). Are new rebates/coupons usually announced on the 1st of the month (tomorrow)?

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Anyone has experience doing temp IT contract work? I was offered a 3 week contract to help deploy new systems for a nursing home. while the gig sounds nice for some quick money, I'm also applying for full time positions. would there be any repercussions if I were to leave the contract job for the full time? The IT staffing agency that offered it said I shouldn't worry but I'm still a bit suspicious about it.

>>55348952
I can get that. What if the nieghborhood is split up among different providers?

>>55349033
if you're that scared anon, ask for the contract, read the fine print.

Fall is my last quarter in CS, and I've literally done nothing worth showing for all the years I've been in college. What should I do/learn over the summer so I don't become an unemployed loser when I graduate?

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Im having trouble deciding between a 144hz TN monitor and a 60Hz IPS monitor.

I know there are 144hz IPS panels, but i cant justify spending $800 on a monitor right now. THe only shooter i play is overwatch. The other games are single player adventure games like the witcher 3, GTA V, batman, fallout, and skyrim. I do edit pictures fairly often and i like watching movies at my computer.

I am leaning towards the IPS because right now because im not sure how much of a benifit being able to go over 60 frames is in shooters like overwatch.

So I decided to jump in and install debian but I get to a part in the installer asking for a domain name and I feel I'm already in over my head

Google results make it seem like it's more for servers rather than as a desktop computer thing but its all Greek to me. What do and should I just give up if this has me stumped or can I likely persevere and move from Windows to Linux?

>>55348898
Do you have a command for that? I'm having trouble setting all chrome processes in task manager

>>55348814
Sorry, I think you're SOL. Newer IPS monitors have started including overdrive features, but it has to be designed into the monitor specifically, no hack. That model doesn't seem to have anything like that

What's a good and cheap pci-based TV tuner?

>>55348898
>>55349273
I tried the nice command but I'm getting an error. I'm drunk right now, so I don't actually feel like trying to figure it out since it is working fine at the moment. But I really think you're onto something with changing the priority. I'll check it out tomorrow. Thanks, dude

>>55349238
>>>/flt/
>>>https://www.debian.org/doc/
>>>https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/
Read the documentation. You don't need a domain name.

>>55349163
Definitely IPS. 144hz is really only for shooter enthusiasts and people who want 3d. That's also a heluva lot of frames for a GPU to have to pump out, especially if you're trying to avoid tearing. IPS color is a very noticeable difference, and once you see how vivid everything looks you'll never want to go back to regular TN. It really makes games come alive. The second thing I would recommend is going 2k(1440p) with a 27 inch monitor. The extra real estate is nice. 60+ frame rate is really a distant 3rd for most people. If you do go IPS, try to find a monitor with some version of an overdrive option. It's a mode that lets you sacrifice a tiny bit of image quality for big improvements in input lag. I use it sometimes for shooters

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What are the most reliable brands to go with when choosing a video card.

sapphire asus gigabyte i honestly have no clue.

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Hopefully someone who knows a lot about RAM compatibility can help me:

This is my mobo: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6X58DE/

And this is what I am currently using for RAM: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231254

Built this in 2010 and I want to add more RAM, ideally go from 6gb to 12gb. If I add another 3x2gb set, will I still have triple channel speeds? Currently I have my 3 sticks in the blue slots of the mobo. The other 3 slots are grey. And if I do add 3 more sticks of 2gb, what if they are different brands/slightly different specs? Because the ones I currently have aren't available to buy anymore.

Pic related is my current RAM specs in Speccy.

so for some reason VLC locks up whenever I try to play a video that's live on Youtube
I can still manipulate the interface, but I just get one screen of the video and no audio at all
I can't figure out what's wrong for the life of me
anyone else have this problem?

>>55348847
If you're gaming a lot then you'll probably want a lot of storage, unless you delete most large games after you play them. SSD's are nice for load times and may occasionally have a minor improvement on game performance, but installing to a disk other than the one with windows on it can be a pain sometimes. With steam for instance if you install anything to a secondary drive, you want to make sure that every part of steam and it's games are installed to that drive. You still see some improvement though, because now windows and your games are not competing for the same disk. Also you'd be amazed how much of a pain it can be relying on external storage for things.

>>55349498
Generally all six slots will default to the lower specs, but you will have everything in triple channel.

Little known fact about that chipset is that it is capable of running two different memory configs on each triple channel (or more; some workstation/server mobos had 12 slots), but few mobos actually had the capability to handle this.

>>55349500
should also mention that non-live videos work just fine, it's only live stuff that has this problem

>>55342141
whenever my raspberry pi is connected to my router via ethernet cable, the router crashes continuously. Other devices do not cause the router to crash just the pi.

Is this just a problem with my ethernet configuration on the pi?

>>55349238
I'll tell you what most idiots on here are scared to tell you anon:

Linux is not worth it. It's fun, it's cool, it's interesting but in 2 days you will be back bitching about how much you need help on it. Essentially, if you were set up on windows or mac, you are good to go. yes, those 2 OS' hand you everything you need right out of the box but essentially it's dumb. I say avoid linux if you're at all "normal" when it comes to it. Do yourself a favor and stop while you're ahead. You will think me later

>>55349273
>>55349380
Chrome splits up in task manager (on everything) on purpose. That way if a tab crashes not the whole thing crashes. each tab is basically it's own process. Most browsers do this now.

>>55349500
i didn't know you could stream youtube to vlc that are live, never tried that before, but I've done videos but that normally crashes.

>>55349423
MSI and EVGA are generally tops. I've traditionally regarded ASUS as a premium brand too, but lately I've been hearing them get a lot of hate. Gigabyte is good for a discount brand, but they usually don't refine the cards as much. Sapphire is pretty good too

I have an old server with these specs,

- Intel Xeon CPU x3350 @ 2.66ghz Quad Core
- 4GB DDR2 RAM
- 465 GB Hard drive
- Running Windows Server 2008 Standard (will need reinstall)
- Full-duplex integrated 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet controller
- two redundant hot-swap 430 W power supplies


Can i put an old GPU in it and turn it into an old/Spare pc that can handle WOW/LOL?

Should i just use the CPU/HDD and put it onto a normal mobo/ram?

>>55349602
you can
it works on my laptop for whatever reason, but not my desktop

>>55349617
You should be able to though no sure how well WoW/LoL run on windows server 2008..

>>55349617
probably, but why even bother unless you're a complete poorfag
also it might not work on server 2008, plus you'll probably run out of memory
feature creep is real and deadly

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New thread >>55349691

>>55349238
So ubuntu is probably the easiest distro to get used to linux with, both in terms of accessibility and online community. Debian's gonna be a bit rough while you're still learning the ropes. I would install timeshift too, which is a lot like system restore for windows, but more comprehensive. It can really help you out when you inevitably fuck something up, being able to just revert the system back in a flash instead of having to try and weed out the problem. Once you get used to the way linux installs things and updates it gets a lot easier. If you're nervous about it try practicing with linux in vmware or set up a dual boot so you can go back and forth whenever you feel like it.

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so I have pic related (Gigabyte 7970). is there some reason I can't connect something to the DVI port as well as one of the miniDP ports? I'm not trying to use eyefinity or anything, just had a third monitor lying around and I figured I'd at least put it to use. main screen (26" Vizio, 1920x1080) is running HDMI, Second screen is some HP branded monitor (1280x1024), which is using the DVI. third screen is an older gateway LCD (1024x768) plugged into the MiniDP via a DVI-to-MiniDP adapter. all three monitors are confirmed working, including through the adapter, so I'm not sure what the issue is here. windows DETECTS the third monitor, but whenever I try to extend the display I get "Unable to save display settings".

google's not turning up anything relevant to me.

>>55349695
>>55349650
I'll put windows 7 on it.

It's here and not being used, Could put it to some use for the family instead of collecting dust

>>55349542

I'm okay with it I don't necessarily get the 8-8-8-20 timings when I have 6 sticks (I actually never overclocked the RAM to get that in the first place, they were advertised as 9-9-9-24 and my mobo automatically uses them at faster timings. I just don't want to go all the way down to single channel performance.

So if I got something like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/G-SKILL-6GB-3-x-2GB-240-Pin-DDR3-SDRAM-DDR3-1600-PC3-12800-Triple-Channel-Ki-/122015694934

And stuck these 3 sticks in the grey slots, I would still have triple channel on all 6 slots/sticks, but all 6 would be running at the slightly slower 9-9-9-24 timings?

>>55349645
what are you refering too?

>>55349956
vlc playing live youtube videos

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>>55342141
Quick torrenting client question: So when uTorrent or a bitTorrent client uploads the files, does the client upload them to the trackers?

If so, does that mean when the ratio (I usually do 1:1 ratio at least) is met and I delete the files on my computer after I use them, are the files still uploaded?

Thanks in advance

>>55351461
Trackers just tell peers about other peers, the torrent data doesn't go to or through them.

You can have a 1:1 ratio and not have uploaded the entire file if you're not the original seeder, you will have probably uploaded some parts multiple times, and other parts not at all.