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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
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Tegin
United States840 Posts
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Tegin
United States840 Posts
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Craton
United States17266 Posts
On November 25 2013 12:09 Ropid wrote: There's a shortcut to switch between the different language input methods you have installed. You can configure that on the third tab of that window in your screenshot. There are two shortcuts depending on what you want to do. One is to switch between configured keyboards, the other to toggle between character sets (e.g. Hangul/Roman). The default for the latter is right alt. | ||
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birdaholic
United States67 Posts
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kaykaykay
Singapore637 Posts
Also is it possible for me to get a headphone mic adaptor with 2 3.5mm jacks to make use of the inbuilt mic on the klipsch? | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
On November 27 2013 01:33 Doodsmack wrote: Would the FX-9370 be a worthwhile upgrade over the phenom II 955? Mainly for SC2 and FPS gaming. Newegg has what looks like an OEM version for $250. I think I heard the 8320 is basically the same CPU, just uses a normal stock speed. If you put it to the same speed as that 9370 you are looking at, you'll still need similar cooling for the CPU and similar board as what you'd need for the 9370. So basically nothing changes when comparing the 9370 to overclocking an 8320, you just save some money. That said, I fear the upgrade might not be that worthwhile. EDIT: What I could find about SC2 and FX and Phenom II X4 CPUs: http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/original/2013/05/Test-Haswell-4770K-4670K-4570-SC2-HotS-v2.png It used some scene where FPS drops a lot as you can see in the numbers. It might actually get you a good improvement, I think? There's that FX-8350 being 50% better than the Phenom II X4 in that benchmark, and that overclocked 9370 might manage 100% improvement? What I'm worried about is the money you have to spend. As that 9370 is basically an overclocked CPU, you can't buy a very cheap board, and you need an aftermarket cooler for it to not throttle speed. You'll be better off just buying a normal Intel i5 with the cheapest board you can find, and it'll beat it in SC2 while being cheaper overall. | ||
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xeo1
United States429 Posts
it would be for school/surfing. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
If you're going to buy something that sucks—and for your purposes, depending on what you want for school, that might be all you need—you might as well get it cheaper. For those purposes, this Dell Inspiron 15 is mostly comparable for $350 (coupon code GB$W15CB6N?7VQ): http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&kc=&oc=FNPCC201h&dgc=BA&cid=271006&lid=4970696&acd=1230918868036016 Or you might be able to find something with say a higher resolution closer to $600. | ||
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xeo1
United States429 Posts
On November 27 2013 03:38 Myrmidon wrote: It's... wow, the price is not very good. It's an Acer, and the Aspires don't really aspire to much. It uses a last-gen low-power processor, a really low-end Nvidia part for whatever reason, and a 15.6" 1366x768 McCrudder screen. If you're going to buy something that sucks—and for your purposes, depending on what you want for school, that might be all you need—you might as well get it cheaper. For those purposes, this Dell Inspiron 15 is mostly comparable for $350 (coupon code GB$W15CB6N?7VQ): http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&kc=&oc=FNPCC201h&dgc=BA&cid=271006&lid=4970696&acd=1230918868036016 Or you might be able to find something with say a higher resolution closer to $600. it would be for my brothers gf who was going to buy a macbook pro (therefore no budget limit really), but I told her they're overpriced and she can get a laptop with similar performance for cheaper. she specified that it's only for school and surfing, and that it should have good battery life because she's there all day. the macbook pro has like a 9 hour battery life. so with this criteria, what laptop would you choose? maybe I was wrong and the macbook pro is the best option. | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
On November 27 2013 06:08 xeo1 wrote: it would be for my brothers gf who was going to buy a macbook pro (therefore no budget limit really), but I told her they're overpriced and she can get a laptop with similar performance for cheaper. she specified that it's only for school and surfing, and that it should have good battery life because she's there all day. the macbook pro has like a 9 hour battery life. so with this criteria, what laptop would you choose? maybe I was wrong and the macbook pro is the best option. What about the Macbook Air? Take a good look at that and then compare with some Windows 8 Ultrabooks. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20321 Posts
On November 27 2013 01:33 Doodsmack wrote: Would the FX-9370 be a worthwhile upgrade over the phenom II 955? Mainly for SC2 and FPS gaming. Newegg has what looks like an OEM version for $250. An FX-9370 is an overclocked fx-8320. If you get an 8320 and overclock yourself, it's cheaper. There's some argument that the 9370 but especially 9590 are binned for higher overclocking, but if so, which is unproven (and people have bad chips, worse than many many fx8320's) then it doesn't seem like a really big effect. It's the same silicon. If you're overclocking also, Intel has over a 50% performance lead in sc2 while being significantly cheaper than the fx-9370 or fx-9590 options. Infact, Intel CPU's are better than FX, period. FX-8320 costs £120 here, i5 costs £170 and i7 costs £240-270. Paying more than that for an FX CPU is ridiculous, simply because i5 outperforms it massively in many situations while being slightly behind in some others, and i7 is better in essentially every way | ||
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Rollin
Australia1552 Posts
On November 27 2013 08:05 Cyro wrote: ... and i7 is better in essentially every way. B-but what if I want to run winzip 24/7? | ||
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Gio24
Australia6 Posts
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DusTerr
2520 Posts
On November 27 2013 06:08 xeo1 wrote: it would be for my brothers gf who was going to buy a macbook pro (therefore no budget limit really), but I told her they're overpriced and she can get a laptop with similar performance for cheaper. she specified that it's only for school and surfing, and that it should have good battery life because she's there all day. the macbook pro has like a 9 hour battery life. so with this criteria, what laptop would you choose? maybe I was wrong and the macbook pro is the best option. sorry sold out | ||
Jer99
Canada8159 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20321 Posts
On November 28 2013 06:45 Jer99 wrote: Skype is taking an abnormal amount of CPU when I sign into it, at about 50%. After about an hour it goes down to ~1%, any idea why it takes up so much when I first sign in? It's a pretty terrible program - try clicking on the little house button near the top left and closing the advertisement there, etc. Microsoft really destroyed it. Ads everywhere that are a little too invasive for me, biased too (they are based somewhat on your personal information, and for example i get dozens of ads for xbox one and none for ps4) as soon as there is a viable, somewhat mainstream alternative, they'll lose a large percentage of their customers IMO. It just goes too far to force multiple ads with video and occasionally audio in a desktop program, update without asking at all to remove features and add stuff that you don't want, pop up stuff over your contacts list every 5 minutes asking you to buy things, and to top it off give all of your data to the NSA or whatever goes on behind the scenes since they centralized it oops [/rant] | ||
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IdiotSavant
United States88 Posts
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ishida66
Japan74 Posts
Like every Mac user, she alleged that it works better with those 3 programs, when compared to PC. SInce on this case the difference is solely the OS, is it still worth paying so much for it? I tried looking on other forums and mac users are so ridiculously bias that almost nothing can be considered.What you guys think? | ||
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