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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Greece149 Posts
On October 17 2012 07:01 skyR wrote: No. oh okay, i thought it was a good deal  | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
Deer power supplies are used in some of Rosewill's early power supply lineup (making them known widely for high failure rates, problems, a bad reputation to this day) and many for Apevia (same results). Those really bad PSUs bundled with Apex/Allied cases? Same. These are some of the most egregious liars in the business. | ||
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Medrea
10003 Posts
On October 17 2012 02:42 Caramine wrote: Hi guys.. I'm buying a new computer and i decided to recycle my old computer that has a power supply 500W and a hdd sata 250GB. I want a computer to play any kind of actual game. I'm also a league of legends player (2233 elo :D) and i decided to stream for some friends so i want my new computer to be able to. My budget is about 320€~ To get RAM, Motherboard, Graphic card and Processor. This is what i thought: - AMD FX Series FX-6100 3.3Ghz 6X - Corsair Vengeance PC3-12800 DDR3 1600 4GB CL9 X2 - Gigabyte 970A-DS3 - Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 Refurbished 1. I will be able to stream LoL at 60 fps? 2. I will be able to play games like BF3 at 1920x1080 (23") without any problems? I forget why did we pick FX-6100 again? Bulldozer is awful for gaming, though LoL takes almost no hardware to run. Im guessing you still play other games though. | ||
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
[18:08] Grobyc anyone know if there's a way to have chatzilla (firefox IRC app/extension) display two channels at once [18:08] Grobyc in one window [18:08] Grobyc so you can read from two channels at once [18:08] Grobyc without having two separate windows? Would be nice instead of flipping between tabs. | ||
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Iranon
United States983 Posts
Am I better off with OS/programs on the smaller, slower one and data on the big one? Or the other way around? Does it make a difference if I'm going to be using some of that data (a music library) frequently? Thanks. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On October 17 2012 12:39 Iranon wrote: I have an older 250 GB 5400 rpm hard drive in my desktop. I just bought a 1 TB 7200rpm hard drive. My motherboard has last-generation SATA ports (3 Gb/s, not 6 Gb/s). Am I better off with OS/programs on the smaller, slower one and data on the big one? Or the other way around? Does it make a difference if I'm going to be using some of that data (a music library) frequently? Thanks. Put the OS install on the faster, larger drive. For starters, it's really hard to use a full terabyte. Honestly, unless you have tons of video and music files you've torrented, it's very difficult for a home user to use up that kind of space. I went through the same thing when I got my first TB external drive, I was amazed by how hard it is to fill that thing up, and I have plenty of crap. My guess is a TB will last you a lot longer than you think. And the thing is, even if you have tons of movies and music, a 5400RPM drive will work just fine for storing those. The seek time isn't so important when you're opening on file every so often. And MP3s are small enough that the slower load speed wouldn't be a huge difference either. What you don't want to do is put your OS files, game files, and applications on a 5400RPM drive. The speed difference between a 5400 and 7200 drive when booting windows or loading maps in SC2 is very noticeable. Those are the things you want to boot and load quickly. Definitely use the 7200 RPM drive for you windows and applications installs. If you run out of space, you can always pop the 5400 RPM drive in there to store some of your crap, or to back stuff up to. -edit: ninja'd... | ||
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Caramine
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On October 17 2012 08:00 Medrea wrote: I forget why did we pick FX-6100 again? Bulldozer is awful for gaming, though LoL takes almost no hardware to run. Im guessing you still play other games though. Which processor would you recommend me instead of fx 6100 to stream league of legends? I don't play many other games to be honest.. | ||
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Medrea
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wajd
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On October 18 2012 09:29 wajd wrote: Why can't I post a new topic in Blogs? Because you need to create a blog first by going to the "blog" link under your user name in the top left corner of the TL page. | ||
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Mesha
Bosnia-Herzegovina439 Posts
On October 16 2012 05:53 Mesha wrote: Is there any advice or tweak that i can do in order to play sc2 on lowest details with my E7500 core2duo processor? With no frame drops under the 25 border, that is. Since i have experience with different machines i am positive that it is this processor that is bottleneck that is causing occasional stutter and frame drop that is completely ruining experience of playing the game. I have 3 GB of ram and a card that easily can render low graphics. I know that this is "old" processor but since i am currently stuck with it i was wondering maybe someone have some magic advice to turn this shit machine in playable machine. So depressed that i can't play a single flawless game from time to time. Frame drops are really completely destroying play experience and i rather don't enter the game. Come on you wizards, help me! ^_^ I guess nothing can't be done. Just as i though, but i hoped maybe someone would suggest something... | ||
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Medrea
10003 Posts
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drivec
United States354 Posts
Hi I looking at building a new comp but before i do that, i am looking at slowing upgrading it and salvaging old parts while i do it. I have a AMD Phenom(TM)II X3 720 Black Edition Triple-Core (which id like to possibly overclock and get a fan that i can use in with it and future processors) my current mother board Asus M3N72-D AMD 750a SLI Chipset DDR2/1066 SATA PCI-Express MBoard w/Video,GbLAN,USB2.0,&7.1Audio I cant get into the overclocking options the computer was prebuilt and I believe it to be oem bios. Id like to upgrade to a new board that supports ddr3, newer processors, and overclocking. basically I want to move from ddr2 ram and not being able to overclock to be able to. but the ability to use a new processor once I feel that i need to. currently I can run all games fine. I like to have a bit more processing power but iam not ready to jump the gun and buy a new processor but i am currently looking at doing it sometime early next year. do I need to rebuy windows if i get new motherboard? can I use the above mentioned processor on a new mother and be able to overclock it. if i buy a new mother board that supports this processor will it only be able to use amd processors | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
Yes, you can use the Phenom II X3 on a new motherboard. Yes, you would only be limited to AMD processors. It's a terrible decision to buy a new board to overclock an old processor. This is just throwing money out the window since AMD is years behind Intel and Bulldozer / Piledriver isn't a big improvement over a Phenom II in gaming. | ||
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Rannasha
Netherlands2398 Posts
On October 19 2012 06:11 skyR wrote: No, you don't need to rebuy windows. You can just re-use your existing license. Technically, Microsoft uses the motherboard as the defining component of a computer when it comes to OEM licenses. Replacing a motherboard by a different model constitutes the creation of a new computer and therefore invalidates the OEM license. | ||
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Medrea
10003 Posts
On October 19 2012 21:50 Rannasha wrote: Technically, Microsoft uses the motherboard as the defining component of a computer when it comes to OEM licenses. Replacing a motherboard by a different model constitutes the creation of a new computer and therefore invalidates the OEM license. It doesn't hold up in court however. Its just a ploy for microsoft to get you to give them more money. | ||
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Rannasha
Netherlands2398 Posts
On October 19 2012 23:18 Medrea wrote: It doesn't hold up in court however. Its just a ploy for microsoft to get you to give them more money. Has it actually been to court (the OEM license terms, that is)? Personally, I don't really have issues with bending the license terms a bit, especially since Microsoft is so incredibly unclear about the differences between different licenses. | ||
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Medrea
10003 Posts
But the sentiment was that if you change anything on a system, like the hard drive, you need a new OS for it. It sort of is a conundrum because of the boat paradox. Technically speaking without that motherboard clause you can endlessly clone licenses forever. If you replace each part in a computer one by one. It could still be licensed, but then what happens if you take all of the parts of the original computer and rebuild the old computer. Technically speaking this old computer is the original computer you bought the license for, and the current one is a new computer, but you have magically shifted the license to the new computer. | ||
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