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On December 29 2012 13:47 micronesia wrote:
My mouse is randomly behaving as though the left mouse button is depressed even when it isn't. If I shake/press the buttons a bunch it improves for a while. Is this problem likely with the mouse or digital? I'm looking into swapping the mouse with another computer.
Its 99% broken microswitch. Solutions:
1) RMA
2) http://www.redferret.net/?p=31008
3) Buy new mouse
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I've personally never heard of either of these 2 brands. A quick Google search for the models doesn't really show any expert reviews either.
Personally, I would go for the TCL. A new product with 2 yr warranty gives additional peace of mind, even if the used alternative is from a reliable source. Components can fail at any time and with neither brand being an A-brand, having a solid warranty to fall back on seems useful.
The only practical difference between the models I can see quickly is the fact that the TCL has a USB port, which allows you to connect a camera or something like that. With no reviews available, other than customer reviews on Amazon (which favor the TCL), it's impossible to really compare image quality.
I would try to stretch the budget and go for the TCL.
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Hello!
I'm in the market for a router (right now I swap my single ethernet-cable between my PC and PS3 when I play, which feels ridiculous). On the wifi-side I'm a light to nonexistant user. I plan on getting a tablet some time in the future, but as of right now the only two items I use on my network is my PC and PS3, both of which are wired. I use quite a bit of network on the wired part though, so speed is really what I'm looking for, as well as ease of use. I have an old PC laying around which I was planning on converting into a NAS soon too.
After some googling, right now I'm torn between the ASUS RT-N56U (~€70 on sale atm) and the Linksys WRT54GL (~€45).
Is the increased price worth it for the ASUS? With my limited wifi use, should I be looking at cheaper routers? Here is a list of the available routers from the place I'm planning to buy from, sorted by price, if you can find a more suitable alternative.
Thanks a lot!
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On December 30 2012 09:43 hellgoat wrote:Hello! I'm in the market for a router (right now I swap my single ethernet-cable between my PC and PS3 when I play, which feels ridiculous). On the wifi-side I'm a light to nonexistant user. I plan on getting a tablet some time in the future, but as of right now the only two items I use on my network is my PC and PS3, both of which are wired. I use quite a bit of network on the wired part though, so speed is really what I'm looking for, as well as ease of use. I have an old PC laying around which I was planning on converting into a NAS soon too. After some googling, right now I'm torn between the ASUS RT-N56U (~€70 on sale atm) and the Linksys WRT54GL (~€45). Is the increased price worth it for the ASUS? With my limited wifi use, should I be looking at cheaper routers? Here is a list of the available routers from the place I'm planning to buy from, sorted by price, if you can find a more suitable alternative. Thanks a lot!
The Linksys model you linked is a classic, but that means it's also quite old. It doesn't support gigabit ethernet or wireless-n, which means you're limited to 100 mbps wired and 54 mbps (in theory) wireless instead of 1000 mbps wired and 300 mbps wireless.
For NAS purposes, 100 mbps is quite limiting, that's roughly 10 MB per second file-transfer speed after overhead. If the old PC you're going to convert has gbit ethernet, I would definitely not go for a router that doesn't support it. And even if it doesn't, I would go for a model that supports gbit ethernet anyway. On the wireless front, if all you need it for is casual internet access, the older wireless-g standard is sufficient with its 54 mbps (count on half that in reality, with good reception). But again, it doesn't hurt to future-proof yourself with a wireless-n model.
Since your needs appear to be very basic (just connecting multiple devices to eachother & the internet, no particular high bandwidth, high connection-count requirements and such), you won't need an expensive model. Linksys and Netgear are 2 well-known brands of networking hardware that I would recommend. Pick a cheap model that has the features you need (ethernet-speed, wifi-speed and number of ports are the main specs to look at) from one of these 2 brands and you'll be fine. Asus makes good stuff as well, but they're more of an allround company that doesn't specifically focus on networking equipment.
edit: D-Link is okay too.
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Hey can someone link me to the thing where on reddit it will reveal what league people are in (if they are using the add-on too)?
I did a system wipe a few weeks ago and realized i can't see what league people are anymore. can't find it through search/google either.
thanks.
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On December 30 2012 10:46 Rannasha wrote:Show nested quote +On December 30 2012 09:43 hellgoat wrote:Hello! I'm in the market for a router (right now I swap my single ethernet-cable between my PC and PS3 when I play, which feels ridiculous). On the wifi-side I'm a light to nonexistant user. I plan on getting a tablet some time in the future, but as of right now the only two items I use on my network is my PC and PS3, both of which are wired. I use quite a bit of network on the wired part though, so speed is really what I'm looking for, as well as ease of use. I have an old PC laying around which I was planning on converting into a NAS soon too. After some googling, right now I'm torn between the ASUS RT-N56U (~€70 on sale atm) and the Linksys WRT54GL (~€45). Is the increased price worth it for the ASUS? With my limited wifi use, should I be looking at cheaper routers? Here is a list of the available routers from the place I'm planning to buy from, sorted by price, if you can find a more suitable alternative. Thanks a lot! The Linksys model you linked is a classic, but that means it's also quite old. It doesn't support gigabit ethernet or wireless-n, which means you're limited to 100 mbps wired and 54 mbps (in theory) wireless instead of 1000 mbps wired and 300 mbps wireless. For NAS purposes, 100 mbps is quite limiting, that's roughly 10 MB per second file-transfer speed after overhead. If the old PC you're going to convert has gbit ethernet, I would definitely not go for a router that doesn't support it. And even if it doesn't, I would go for a model that supports gbit ethernet anyway. On the wireless front, if all you need it for is casual internet access, the older wireless-g standard is sufficient with its 54 mbps (count on half that in reality, with good reception). But again, it doesn't hurt to future-proof yourself with a wireless-n model. Since your needs appear to be very basic (just connecting multiple devices to eachother & the internet, no particular high bandwidth, high connection-count requirements and such), you won't need an expensive model. Linksys and Netgear are 2 well-known brands of networking hardware that I would recommend. Pick a cheap model that has the features you need (ethernet-speed, wifi-speed and number of ports are the main specs to look at) from one of these 2 brands and you'll be fine. Asus makes good stuff as well, but they're more of an allround company that doesn't specifically focus on networking equipment. edit: D-Link is okay too.
Thanks a lot for the quick response. I really hear what you're saying with 100 mbps being somewhat low. The cheapest gbit router they had from a name brand (which also features .11n, obviously) was the Netgear WNR3500L at ~€49, so I'm going with that.
Thanks again.
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On December 30 2012 09:43 hellgoat wrote:Hello! I'm in the market for a router (right now I swap my single ethernet-cable between my PC and PS3 when I play, which feels ridiculous). On the wifi-side I'm a light to nonexistant user. I plan on getting a tablet some time in the future, but as of right now the only two items I use on my network is my PC and PS3, both of which are wired. I use quite a bit of network on the wired part though, so speed is really what I'm looking for, as well as ease of use. I have an old PC laying around which I was planning on converting into a NAS soon too. After some googling, right now I'm torn between the ASUS RT-N56U (~€70 on sale atm) and the Linksys WRT54GL (~€45). Is the increased price worth it for the ASUS? With my limited wifi use, should I be looking at cheaper routers? Here is a list of the available routers from the place I'm planning to buy from, sorted by price, if you can find a more suitable alternative. Thanks a lot!
Do you not have a router right now? If you're comfortable with your router and all you need is a way to share a connection then a simple switch would do the job just fine (and much more cheaply than a new router). Access points for wireless are about $30, though the majority of new routers today will come with wireless capabilities.
Note that advertisements have a nasty habit of treating a kilobyte as 1000 bts (and 1 MB 1000 KB, etc.) and always list things as megabits instead of MB to make the number look bigger than it really is. It irks the hell out of me that companies found legal loopholes to fraudulently advertise in this manner. You see the byte being 1000 (instead of 1024) much more with storage devices.
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On December 30 2012 12:05 Craton wrote:
Note that advertisements have a nasty habit of treating a byte as 1000 bits (and 1 KB as 1000 bytes, etc.) and always list things as megabits instead of MB to make the number look bigger than it really is. It irks the hell out of me that companies found legal loopholes to fraudulently advertise in this manner. You see the byte being 1000 (instead of 1024) much more with storage devices.
One byte is eight bits...
If you're talking about binary vs. metric prefixes (2^10 = 1024 vs. 10^3 = 1000), then blame somebody else for the confusion. KiB, MiB, GiB at 2^10, 2^20, 2^30 bytes should be used to be unambiguous. But certainly because of historical reasons that still sometimes remain to this day, it's confusing because sometimes the plain decimal KB, MB, etc. are used to mean 2^10, 2^20, etc. rather than 10^3, 10^6, etc.
In telecommunications, there's no underlying technical reason why binary prefixes should be used. In fact, in many standards and actual systems, rates can be expressed neatly with decimal prefixes. Also, there's not much reason the base unit should be bytes. So 1 Mbit/s is 10^6 bits/s or b/s, which is 125 KB/s, which is clear. Anyway, all the engineers are using decimal prefixes, so it's not particularly a stretch for advertising to do the same.
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Yes, that bit was an oversight.
Advertisers do it explicitly because they know it will confuse people into thinking they're getting more than what they do and it works quite well. Industry professionals have even tried to get retailers to use a separate nomenclature to remove this ambiguity, but it has been largely unsuccessful in terms of consumer confusion. It's something anyone in the market needs to be aware of.
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Obviously marketing is in no rush to educate people otherwise, which makes the numbers look worse to those who don't know.
But you're (almost) making it sound as if this is some dastardly marketing contraption set out to confuse people. No, the actual people designing and maintaining the systems are all using bits and powers of ten. This stuff was invented and these conventions established long before it was being marketed to consumers. In fact, if you're using powers of two to describe bit rates, then a system with a 1 Mb/s data rate (meaning 1 Mib/s) with 1 bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency would have a spectral occupancy of 1.048576 MHz and so on... damn that's confusing. You don't even want to go there.
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First off I've never assembled a PC before so I have to google pretty much everything.
I'm looking to replace my HD 5770s for something that runs better at 1920x1080, where should I start looking for something compatible with my motherboard and cpu?
Also, with my stock fan I could barely push my GPU temperature below 60°C without running it at something like 80% speed which would make it really loud. Do I need to look for a replacement?
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Pretty much any even semi-modern video card uses a PCI Express x16 slot so there isn't a compatibility issue.
The most of an issue you might have is having a sufficient amount of power (probably not an issue) and your PSU not having proper connectors (some combination of 2 6-pin or 8-pin connections), which is minor since they typically come with molex adapters and they're cheap even if you have to buy them.
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Yeah, the case fits normal ATX power supplies (including long ones), which are the vast majority of options at retail including every power supply Corsair has ever released.
HX750 is good, but I wonder what you're thinking with 750W? Going to run two or three flagship graphics cards in that case?
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Hey guys about a year ago TL helped me pick the parts for my computer and build it, and up until a few weeks ago everything was running perfectly. Now that I'm done with finals and holidays and have time to fix things, I figured I'd give you guys a shout again. I've noticed in the last few weeks I've been getting bad frame rate stuttering, even in games that didn't have it before. I'm guessing this is a gpu issue, but I don't really have any idea what to do to fix things. I've tried limiting my fps to 60 and even 30 and it only helps a very small amount, and usually only for a short while.
Are there some settings I can double check or tweak, or something possibly wrong on the hardware side? I don't really have any idea what else to do.
My specs:
i5 2400 @ 3.10 GHz
Radeon HD 6870
8 GB ram
21" screen at 1920x1080 resolution
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On December 31 2012 06:03 kef wrote:
Hey guys about a year ago TL helped me pick the parts for my computer and build it, and up until a few weeks ago everything was running perfectly. Now that I'm done with finals and holidays and have time to fix things, I figured I'd give you guys a shout again. I've noticed in the last few weeks I've been getting bad frame rate stuttering, even in games that didn't have it before. I'm guessing this is a gpu issue, but I don't really have any idea what to do to fix things. I've tried limiting my fps to 60 and even 30 and it only helps a very small amount, and usually only for a short while.
Are there some settings I can double check or tweak, or something possibly wrong on the hardware side? I don't really have any idea what else to do.
My specs:
i5 2400 @ 3.10 GHz
Radeon HD 6870
8 GB ram
21" screen at 1920x1080 resolution
Check your temperatures (GPU and CPU). A program like HW Monitor will let you do this. As time goes by, dust collects in the case, especially in heatsinks and fans, lowering the effectiveness of cooling mechanisms. Consequently, temperatures will rise and the system may throttle itself because temperatures have gotten too high. A temperature-check and some dust cleaning may resolve your issue if this is indeed what's causing it.
Otherwise, check to see which processes are using CPU time with the task manager. Some background processes may be competing for resources with your game.
And of course ensure that your pc is free of malware and that all drivers and software is up to date.
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On December 31 2012 06:09 Rannasha wrote:Show nested quote +On December 31 2012 06:03 kef wrote:
Hey guys about a year ago TL helped me pick the parts for my computer and build it, and up until a few weeks ago everything was running perfectly. Now that I'm done with finals and holidays and have time to fix things, I figured I'd give you guys a shout again. I've noticed in the last few weeks I've been getting bad frame rate stuttering, even in games that didn't have it before. I'm guessing this is a gpu issue, but I don't really have any idea what to do to fix things. I've tried limiting my fps to 60 and even 30 and it only helps a very small amount, and usually only for a short while.
Are there some settings I can double check or tweak, or something possibly wrong on the hardware side? I don't really have any idea what else to do.
My specs:
i5 2400 @ 3.10 GHz
Radeon HD 6870
8 GB ram
21" screen at 1920x1080 resolution Check your temperatures (GPU and CPU). A program like HW Monitor will let you do this. As time goes by, dust collects in the case, especially in heatsinks and fans, lowering the effectiveness of cooling mechanisms. Consequently, temperatures will rise and the system may throttle itself because temperatures have gotten too high. A temperature-check and some dust cleaning may resolve your issue if this is indeed what's causing it. Otherwise, check to see which processes are using CPU time with the task manager. Some background processes may be competing for resources with your game. And of course ensure that your pc is free of malware and that all drivers and software is up to date.
Good point, I haven't cleaned out the inside of the case in a while. I should've thought of that. Also, what temperatures are normal/abnormal for a gpu?
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