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On April 15 2012 11:34 Mordanis wrote:
Does anyone know how to change versions of Ubuntu. I have (I think) the version that is optimized for AMD cpu's on my old HDD, and I'm using an Intel motherboard and processor, so I'd like to change this if it doesn't mean losing all the work I've already done within Ubuntu. Thanks!
What do you mean 'optimized for AMD'? There is no such thing as an 'optimized for AMD' version of ubuntu.
You may be confused because 64 bit ubuntu distributions were tagged with 'amd' for a long time, even though they were just x86_64. They changed that as of 11.10 I believe, but it's just a name. It doesn't actually mean anything is optimized.
On April 15 2012 11:34 Mordanis wrote:Also if anyone knows of a way to test my performance in Ubuntu, I'd be grateful to know. depends on what kind of performance test you're talking about
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what older version of xsplit lets you use all of the premium features without getting a license? and where can i download it
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AVG Free or Microsoft security essentials for an antivirus program?
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On April 15 2012 22:43 Termi wrote:
AVG Free or Microsoft security essentials for an antivirus program?
Even R1CH suggests MSE as a free one. Pretty good endorsement in my book.
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On April 15 2012 22:46 JingleHell wrote:Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 22:43 Termi wrote:
AVG Free or Microsoft security essentials for an antivirus program? Even R1CH suggests MSE as a free one. Pretty good endorsement in my book.
MSE uses a lot of system resources though, my parents have and older PC and my brother put MSE on it for them. Drastically increased boot time and was using a big chunk of RAM. Though it's one of the few free ones that doesn't constantly pester you to up to a premium version.
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On April 16 2012 01:16 TheToast wrote:Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 22:46 JingleHell wrote:On April 15 2012 22:43 Termi wrote:
AVG Free or Microsoft security essentials for an antivirus program? Even R1CH suggests MSE as a free one. Pretty good endorsement in my book. MSE uses a lot of system resources though, my parents have and older PC and my brother put MSE on it for them. Drastically increased boot time and was using a big chunk of RAM. Though it's one of the few free ones that doesn't constantly pester you to up to a premium version.
Well, you can only expect so much. If I'm going with a free AV, I'ma take good and slower over faster, annoying, and less effective, personally.
But then, me and my wife just pony up for a Norton sub now that it's actually good. Resource light, and effective. But then, that's largely because she works from home via VPN a decent bit, and her company has a lot of people who open random ass attachments at work.
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On April 16 2012 01:28 JingleHell wrote:Show nested quote +On April 16 2012 01:16 TheToast wrote:On April 15 2012 22:46 JingleHell wrote:On April 15 2012 22:43 Termi wrote:
AVG Free or Microsoft security essentials for an antivirus program? Even R1CH suggests MSE as a free one. Pretty good endorsement in my book. MSE uses a lot of system resources though, my parents have and older PC and my brother put MSE on it for them. Drastically increased boot time and was using a big chunk of RAM. Though it's one of the few free ones that doesn't constantly pester you to up to a premium version. Well, you can only expect so much. If I'm going with a free AV, I'ma take good and slower over faster, annoying, and less effective, personally. But then, me and my wife just pony up for a Norton sub now that it's actually good. Resource light, and effective. But then, that's largely because she works from home via VPN a decent bit, and her company has a lot of people who open random ass attachments at work.
True, granted the default configuration for MSE is a bit overkill, and by changing some of the options you can reduce the usage. One does not, for example, need to be scanning both incoming and outgoing files.
I actually recommend against Norton. In my experience with Symantec's corporate versions, both SAVCE and SEP11, it's not at all any more effective than the free stuff. In some cases, I would find that the free stuff would detect items that Symantec would not. Not at all worth paying for.
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On April 16 2012 01:38 TheToast wrote:Show nested quote +On April 16 2012 01:28 JingleHell wrote:On April 16 2012 01:16 TheToast wrote:On April 15 2012 22:46 JingleHell wrote:On April 15 2012 22:43 Termi wrote:
AVG Free or Microsoft security essentials for an antivirus program? Even R1CH suggests MSE as a free one. Pretty good endorsement in my book. MSE uses a lot of system resources though, my parents have and older PC and my brother put MSE on it for them. Drastically increased boot time and was using a big chunk of RAM. Though it's one of the few free ones that doesn't constantly pester you to up to a premium version. Well, you can only expect so much. If I'm going with a free AV, I'ma take good and slower over faster, annoying, and less effective, personally. But then, me and my wife just pony up for a Norton sub now that it's actually good. Resource light, and effective. But then, that's largely because she works from home via VPN a decent bit, and her company has a lot of people who open random ass attachments at work. True, granted the default configuration for MSE is a bit overkill, and by changing some of the options you can reduce the usage. One does not, for example, need to be scanning both incoming and outgoing files. I actually recommend against Norton. In my experience with Symantec's corporate versions, both SAVCE and SEP11, it's not at all any more effective than the free stuff. In some cases, I would find that the free stuff would detect items that Symantec would not. Not at all worth paying for.
In very recent years, Norton has rated pretty high, actually. IDK about the corporate stuff, but when coupled with a bit of sanity, it's pretty much perfectly effective.
IMO, ANY AV is kinda like using a condom. It works ok for certain things, but you're still better off if you keep your dick out of a random street hooker.
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It's really outdated, but not bad, certainly not as bad as $25 power supplies. You can find some reviews from around 2004 for the older Powerstream model with the green LEDs; it was decent enough for back then. The blue LED model, like as shown, is supposed to be an improvement, though I have no idea how.
http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3051
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I've decided to try a little bit of OC, used AMD OverDrive and got these results. I didn't want to try to go higher.
I wanna try and hit 4GHZ but i'm afraid I might mess it up.
http://i.imgur.com/hvUmJ.png
Any feedback would be great.
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OK, so I reused my old HDD for my new computer, and was planning on reusing XP from that. The problem is that I bought the computer second hand and it was a pre-built, so I have neither a copy of the install cd nor a digital copy of it on my computer. I am running Ubuntu currently, and it is working fine to browse the web, but I would like to reinstall windows so I can run SC2, actually use my gpu, and have other capabilities that are either not present or more difficult with linux. Here's the dilemma though; I will be dog-sitting in 11 days for two weeks, and there is about a 75% chance I'll be paid at the beginning, and I'll likely be paid enough for a 60 gb SSD and win7 with the student discount. So should I get on the phone to Dell customer support and try to get them to mail me a copy of XP so I can reinstall, or should I be patient and take a drastic hit on what I can do with my computer despite having much better hardware than I had previously?
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So, speedfan is reporting that my +12v rail is at 10.47V, is that something that is normal?
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speedfan is garbage and software readings for voltages are not accurate.
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Well, software readings for voltages CAN be accurate-ish if they're getting data from the motherboard. Unfortunately, if you have a mobo that reports voltages, that "ish" won't be close enough for anything except shit that you can figure out, like "my 12v rail is in spec, because my PC is still running".
If you're OCed outside stock VID, odds are you'd want to be using a multimeter, rather than trusting that "ish". That's why high end motherboards that CAN report voltages also tend to have handy little voltage testing contacts.
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Ah, ok. Thanks.
I was just curious if it was being wildly inefficient or if it could produce instability should I add another graphics card somewhere down the line (I dont even know what hardware uses the 12v rail)
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Nearly everything uses the 12v.
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