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beefhamburger
United States3962 Posts
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Risljaninasim
Netherlands228 Posts
On February 08 2013 23:54 Hufy wrote: I get this error in the HOTS client saying I need a "game account", even though I put in a real beta key in my account. Does your account have Wings of Liberty? | ||
gbaromman
United Kingdom3 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20274 Posts
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Craton
United States17232 Posts
On February 09 2013 04:17 beefhamburger wrote: So I have a new internal WD Caviar black 2 tb and I was wondering what the normal idle and load temps are for it? I've searched online but I get huge ranges from 25-55° C. Mine runs at about 44° C idle so I was wondering if it was anything to worry about. My other HDD from my laptop that I've moved over to my desktop idles at 28°. Ambient temp is about 20° C. The peak is kind of high for an HDD, but it should still be in the range of being fine. You probably don't have good air flow through your HDD cage. | ||
Alryk
United States2718 Posts
On February 08 2013 17:08 skyR wrote: Yes, that's how Windows operates. If you don't like it thana you can disable Superfetch or whatever they call it now. Nah I don't care. I've never run out of RAM and was pretty sure that was normal but wanted to make sure. Thanks. | ||
Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
i have a blu ray playing program that when you try to lower the volume it lowers the master vgolume of the computer so its impossible for me to watch stuff while i have a concert going in the background. | ||
Craton
United States17232 Posts
Open your sound mixer (click the volume icon in your system tray, click mixer), then drag the slider for that application down. | ||
Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
On February 09 2013 08:18 Craton wrote: On Windows 7: Open your sound mixer (click the volume icon in your system tray, click mixer), then drag the slider for that application down. thanks so much i figured it was something simple. this is really a lifesaver | ||
Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
On February 09 2013 04:17 beefhamburger wrote: So I have a new internal WD Caviar black 2 tb and I was wondering what the normal idle and load temps are for it? I've searched online but I get huge ranges from 25-55° C. Mine runs at about 44° C idle so I was wondering if it was anything to worry about. My other HDD from my laptop that I've moved over to my desktop idles at 28°. Ambient temp is about 20° C. 44C is okay; a bit closer to 50C and then higher than that is cause for concern, maybe enough to put a low-rpm fan close to the drive. I'd imagine that load temps may be an issue if idle is 44C. Actually, 28C is lower than the sweet spot, perhaps even more of a concern (too low) than 44C. I don't know if there's a lot of data on HDD operating temps other than this 2007 paper: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf On February 09 2013 07:47 Alryk wrote: Nah I don't care. I've never run out of RAM and was pretty sure that was normal but wanted to make sure. Thanks. Right, Windows will will load and keep more in RAM if it would otherwise go unused. It doesn't exactly help to have leave extra RAM sitting with nothing in it, so it's just kind of keeping data there that you might access. | ||
neilp187
United States13 Posts
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EUUUNNNGGGHHH
Niger6 Posts
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![]() It was good today until I opened up utorrent and watched a recently downloaded video. After finishing the video, I looked in my IRC window and saw it was basically disconnecting from the time I opened utorrent to the time I closed it, and stopped when I closed it. My internet as a whole is stable enough. When IRC disconnects like this I have no problem using anything else that requires a network connection. Does anyone have any idea why utorrent is cause this (if it even is)? edit: My IRC disconnects regardless of the IRC client I use. I've just changed the utorrent port for incoming connections hoping there's just some kind of port conflict, will update shortly if it does anything. | ||
Craton
United States17232 Posts
For what it's worth, my IRC also disconnects more often than it should without my Internet having issues; it could just be either the IRC client or the server itself. I suppose it's possible that there could be some kind of traffic prioritization causing it, but that seems unlikely. | ||
Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
I've tried 3 different IRC clients all together and they basically all act the same way, so I don't think it's a client issue. I seem to be the only one who gets the issue after speaking with some other people as well, so I want to rule out a server issue, but I can't really rule it out 100% I suppose. Could be some sort of traffic prioritization like you mentioned, I might look into my routers QoS engine if it keeps acting up after these changes. | ||
Craton
United States17232 Posts
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20274 Posts
As long as you have the right type (cloth, plastic) then 99.9% probably wouldnt even be able to find a difference, some colors perform better with certain sensors than others but even that is not really noticable unless you are pushing the hardware limits of the mouse Id still take qck+ any day, because it is cheap ($20), 45x40cm (which nobody will use outside of FPS gaming, so you probably wont find it elsewhere) black cloth (pretty much universally best performing color IIRC) and feels good, and also sticks to desk like it is glued on so you only have to adjust it like once every 100 hours of usage | ||
MisterFred
United States2033 Posts
On February 09 2013 14:38 karis wrote: not sure this is a simple question or not but is there a noticable difference between a gaming mousepad and a normal mouspad? No, but there is some difference in surface depending on the type of mouse you have. If you got an optical mouse, then it's going to work just fine on pretty much anything. Hell, you don't need to bother with a mouse pad if you don't want to. I don't. If you bought a laser mouse (because lasers are cool, obviously!) those are a lot touchier. You want to avoid cloth pads & get a mouse pad with some sort of smooth, hard surface. That will bring a minor benefit. | ||
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