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Craton
United States17266 Posts
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
How important is thermal paste? | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20321 Posts
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
The Skype app is awful, the classic Skype scales terribly and is all blurry. Thanks! | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
On February 16 2014 16:31 endy wrote: Any advice using Skype with very high res display and Win8.1? The Skype app is awful, the classic Skype scales terribly and is all blurry. Thanks! The compatibility tab in the properties of program shortcuts has an option that might help you: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/0RAiSps.png) You can also check out what happens if you run the program in compatibility mode of an older version of Windows that did not yet have have the capability to do that sort of scaling where the blurriness comes from. | ||
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
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Deleuze
United Kingdom2102 Posts
I have an HDD that I used to back up some files from my Mac backed up via Time Machine and I would like to access them. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
Format is some variant of HFS on OS X, right? I've never had to do this, but you can look up stuff that reads it. e.g. HFSExplorer: http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html | ||
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Deleuze
United Kingdom2102 Posts
On February 18 2014 04:59 Myrmidon wrote: Usually just reading is less of an issue than writing, if that's what you mean by "access." Format is some variant of HFS on OS X, right? I've never had to do this, but you can look up stuff that reads it. e.g. HFSExplorer: http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html Thanks, yeah tried that. They're HFS+ I think. For some reason the dirve itself isn't even showing up in Windows Explorer - does that sound normal? It does show up as 'External HDD' under Devices and Printers in control panel though. Using HRSExplorer seems to only work if I can open the device to begin with. | ||
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plasmidghost
Belgium16168 Posts
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Rannasha
Netherlands2398 Posts
On February 18 2014 08:11 plasmidghost wrote: I am a massive idiot, so if someone can help me out of the mess I've made, it would be greatly appreciated. Last night, I partitioned a few gigs of my hard drive to put Linux Mint on, which I installed with LinuxLive since I thought it would work fine. What I didn't realise is that Windows set that partition as the default boot partition, so my computer immediately booted into Linux Mint, where I found out that it didn't install. Now my problem is, I have no way of accessing Windows since I can't get to it at the boot screen. I used a live distro of Linux on my flash drive to completely get rid of the whole partition, thinking that would cause my computer to boot up with Windows. Now, it doesn't even recognise a hard drive. How would I go about fixing my computer so it recognises my primary partition with Windows on it at boot? This is the Windows 7 approach, but it ought to be very similar for other versions: - Start from an installation and/or recovery disc. - After starting from the disc, choose "Repair your computer" or something similar. - Follow whatever steps you have to follow to open a command console. - In the command console, type: bootrec /fixmbr For more detailed instructions, see: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32523/how-to-manually-repair-windows-7-boot-loader-problems/ | ||
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plasmidghost
Belgium16168 Posts
On February 18 2014 08:18 Rannasha wrote: This is the Windows 7 approach, but it ought to be very similar for other versions: - Start from an installation and/or recovery disc. - After starting from the disc, choose "Repair your computer" or something similar. - Follow whatever steps you have to follow to open a command console. - In the command console, type: bootrec /fixmbr For more detailed instructions, see: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32523/how-to-manually-repair-windows-7-boot-loader-problems/ What if I don't have a Windows recovery disk? | ||
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Craton
United States17266 Posts
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/create-a-system-repair-disc | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20321 Posts
There's a big noise bump on windforce cooler (or mine, at least) at about ~65% - i remember keeping it below that, i was able to hold like 70 degrees at 1293mhz in Heaven - now, at the same level, similar ambients.. i'm hitting 80c and losing >100mhz from my core clock to throttling, just with GPU load.. If i load up the CPU too and let case heat up, i'm actually losing like a quarter of my core clock in planetside which is GPU limited shooting for >>60fps, which is extremely unacceptable | ||
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Craton
United States17266 Posts
I'm assuming you've done the normal diligence with de-dusting? | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20321 Posts
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
You took out the graphics card, held the fans down, and sprayed the shit out of every nook and cranny of the card with air, especially into the heatsink itself and through all those fins, especially under the fans? When was the last time you did this? How much dust came out then? Regardless, try this again before doing anything else, unless you did it just now. If it's clean, maybe the cooler got knocked a bit too much and needs a remount. That shouldn't be too commonly needed, but I guess it depends on the cooler mounting and then handling after purchase. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20321 Posts
You took out the graphics card, held the fans down, and sprayed the shit out of every nook and cranny of the card with air, especially into the heatsink itself and through all those fins, especially under the fans? I didn't clean out the heatsink much, because it seemed like it would take a lot of effort without taking it off (i don't have compressed air). Tempted to clean everything, repaste etc. If it voids warranty though, that's an issue I didn't expect temperature to degrade to the point where my parts are underclocking, need to monitor in more exact terms in the future (and get better airflow, because this gpu is >supposed to be< freezing) Kepler throttling is annoying. If you're peaking 70c, it'll cut into GPU clocks. If you hit 80 it will underclock you by 20%+ to maintain temperature (so if you don't max fan before ~77c, it'll never spin up) | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
Usually on a graphics card there's no way to know if the heatsink's been removed or not (and hence no problem with warranty removing it), but I'm not positive about that. Check for any seals or similar you could be breaking by visual inspection first and probably look around for Gigabyte's policy. | ||
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