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On February 25 2016 08:17 FFGenerations wrote:this is a REALLY dumb question from like 1999 but im not exactly tech savy i bought a japanese DVD i have no DVD drive if i buy a cheap usb DVD drive that is probably UK or USA region , can i still play my japanese DVD? (ie access the files and copy them to my computar machine) here is the DVD player http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003J33YKI?
Not sure about USB DVD drive, but in normal case that would be impossible due to different regions. Wikipedia link
Maybe something changed or this isn't as big of a deal as it was back then, but I don't really have knowledge on that.
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On February 25 2016 10:02 OsaX Nymloth wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2016 08:17 FFGenerations wrote:this is a REALLY dumb question from like 1999 but im not exactly tech savy i bought a japanese DVD i have no DVD drive if i buy a cheap usb DVD drive that is probably UK or USA region , can i still play my japanese DVD? (ie access the files and copy them to my computar machine) here is the DVD player http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003J33YKI? Not sure about USB DVD drive, but in normal case that would be impossible due to different regions. Wikipedia linkMaybe something changed or this isn't as big of a deal as it was back then, but I don't really have knowledge on that.
It's possible, or at least it was, to change DVD regions a fixed number of times with DVD drives. But if you're exceptionally lucky, you may have a regionless DVD. Regionless DVD players/drives may exist, but I would not be sure of where to get one and while it might not technically be illegal in some places it's almost universally frowned upon by the Lords High of Region Locked Media.
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¿Which of these GPUs is a better one to pair up with the i5-6600k?, considering it's going to be used mostly for streaming SC2 and playing some games (Total War, maybe Skyrim) in an 1920x1080 resolution.
1.- GTX950
2.- GTX960
I'm thinking of buying the GTX950 but I want to find out if maybe the benefits of the 960 are worth the extra money.
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Cascadia1753 Posts
The performance bump from going from the 950 to the 960 is pretty small.
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Hey, got another question, is it better to stream sc2 with x264 or with NVENC? (using OBS)
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United Kingdom20295 Posts
950 if you want a bit less perf, 960 if you want a bit more. IIRC it's like a 20% gap and the perf/$ was similar.
x264 encoding is done via CPU, there are significant CPU loads involved and a loss of ingame FPS due to some processes involved with CPU encoding. Quality per bit is substantially better, though.
NVENC for performance.
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What should be the price range (USD) for a used FX-6300? How about combined with an average motherboard?
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United States24698 Posts
I changed my computer furniture and have the following question:
When I'm using my computer, how far from the monitor should my face be? Currently, I'm sitting such that if I reach my arm forward without moving my shoulders/upper body, my palm just barely reaches the computer screen. Is that roughly a good distance? In the past I used to sit too close. I think the distance, eyes to screen, is about 22 inches.
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That one-arm-length rule is good from what I heard, and height of the monitor is supposed to be set so that when you look straight ahead, you look at the upper area of the screen.
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Sounds about right. Just keep moving it around and using it for a few hours at a time to see what's most comfortable.
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My computer has just started crashing constantly. Sometimes there's a blue screen sometimes it just freezes and can't be interacted with and must be shut off. The crashing started the day after I installed a new fan to cool the computer so I think it correlates. My friend said it might have been installed in the wrong port. Anyone have any advice?
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Cascadia1753 Posts
The bluescreen error code should be a hint, if you can grab that.
Could be overheating. Is the fan spinning?
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On March 11 2016 02:19 puppykiller wrote:
My computer has just started crashing constantly. Sometimes there's a blue screen sometimes it just freezes and can't be interacted with and must be shut off. The crashing started the day after I installed a new fan to cool the computer so I think it correlates. My friend said it might have been installed in the wrong port. Anyone have any advice?
On March 11 2016 03:33 Tephus wrote:
The bluescreen error code should be a hint, if you can grab that.
Could be overheating. Is the fan spinning?
^^
Also, first thing you could try is just to uninstall the fan and see if it is still happening.
1+1=2 
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Well the thing is, before i put the fan in when i would play certain videogames it would get really laggy and have lots of frame drops. My theory was that it was overheating then and thats why I couldn't play games at all. Now that the fan is in I can run games really smooth, just the random crashing happens.
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Random guess: Is your PSU strong enough to handle the additional load? Even though a fan should usually be something minor, if it was just barely scraping by before, that might be the problem.
It is also really easy to check the "overheating" theory by taking a look at how hot stuff actually is when you are running video games.
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I learned today after another crash that overheating is not the issue since when it restarted it's temperature was shown as fine on a display screen I get at boot up.
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Some files might have gotten corrupted after all that crashing. There's an easy way to repair the files that belong to Windows, which might help. What to do is described here, with screenshots:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929833
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Is this motherboard fine for Athlon X4 860K Overclocking? Asus A88XM-E
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On March 15 2016 05:02 kunstderfugue wrote:Is this motherboard fine for Athlon X4 860K Overclocking? Asus A88XM-E
Just looking at the pictures, I would be scared to overclock with the board. It looks like there's so very little parts used to supply power to the CPU. It's the area around the socket where you see that row of cylinder shaped parts with another row of cube shaped parts and then a whole bunch of small chips that all look the same. Those small chips get very hot. If a board has more of them, each single one will have to do less work. The board is also missing a heat-sink on those small chips.
To find information about this topic, google for forum posts that explain AMD overclocking and discuss the quality of the VRM = "voltage regulator module" area of different boards. The small chips that get very hot are named "mosfet".
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On March 12 2016 10:54 Ropid wrote:Some files might have gotten corrupted after all that crashing. There's an easy way to repair the files that belong to Windows, which might help. What to do is described here, with screenshots: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929833
Thanks, I'll see if it helps at all
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