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If you're already imaging one drive to another for your OS, you might as well do the same for the other, assuming both of the destination drives are starting out empty. If they're not you'll probably need to stick to copy/paste.
If you do copy/paste, I agree with using robocopy. You want to make sure you grab all the hidden / system files that are on the drive, which that'll help with. Robocopy has some other flags that you should check out, like preserving file attributes: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145.aspx
Just keep your old data intact until you've verified the process worked. You could even make a system image of your smaller drive and store it on your 4TB in case it fails and you need to restore it. Definitely worth taking the time to at least make a backup image of your OS drive before you start.
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Can I with my 4year old computer, I5 3570 cpu @ 3.4gGHz, go ahead and buy a 144hz monitor and a GeForce 960 2gb and run csgo steady on 144+ fps?
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On April 01 2016 17:29 crappen wrote:
Can I with my 4year old computer, I5 3570 cpu @ 3.4gGHz, go ahead and buy a 144hz monitor and a GeForce 960 2gb and run csgo steady on 144+ fps?
Should have no problem. I'm looking at videos of people getting 200+ FPS at maxed settings and 1080p with a 960.
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I am going to get a Nvidia 970 today, I was just wondering whether my Mainboard and system is compatible with it. Also, can I add 2x 8 RAM to this mainboard?
My mainboard: ASUS H87M-PRO
Current Card: NVIDIA 680XT
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Yes to both. Only question is if you have sufficient power and physical room inside the case.
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I wasn't sure if I should put this is in the Computer Upgrading thread or this one.
First of all, scenario details: I am upgrading someone's computer's hard drive to SSD (specifically eying a Kingston 240GB). It's an older HP, but with an upgraded motherboard. (If it helps: HP m8226x. with an ASUS P8H61-M LE/CSM.)
To my knowledge, however, the PSU has never been replaced. The only connectors left are good old Molexes, which I'm pretty sure are incompatible with SSDs (never heard of a Molex SSD, someone correct me if I'm wrong?). So the question now is whether to get an entirely new replacement PSU. But there's a second option, and the one that is preferred cost-wise, which is to get a Molex-to-SATA (IDE 4-pin to SATA 15-pin) adapter. But I am wondering how viable (and safe and reliable) this option is. I've looked around a little and most people seem to have no problems using them. But occasionally something goes wrong, apparently, and what I am wondering about is from where trouble might arise. Also, if the adapter I use happens to be "faulty", would/could it cause damage to the drive itself or would the SSD simply not receive any power?
Thanks.
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Just got a Rosewill RK-9100x. Is there a way to make the multimedia Fn keys work with Winamp? If I hit the "Play" Fn key, it opens up Windows Media Player.
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@feckless:
I would use the adapter and would not buy a new PSU.
I don't know how HP works. This PC was a cheap, crappy computer from the day it was sold, right? The PSU wasn't built by HP. They bought it from an OEM. There's a lot of bad OEMs that build actually dangerous PSUs, meaning at least like to destroy hardware and perhaps even like to burn the house down when they die because of age. Hopefully that's not what HP bought for this PC (to protect their brand name).
The PSU in a shitty PC does not have to be bad. For example, I know on a cheap PC I had, the PSU was made by "Delta". That OEM never sells anything that's not engineered well from what I heard. With that PSU, I would trust it and would use the adapter.
The OEM might be mentioned on the label of the PSU. There's also numbers that look like "E123456" that can identify it. Google might find interesting forum posts about the OEM and you can then decide after you see that.
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My audio skips/lags when I'm doing anything on my PC. I downloaded SlimDrivers and ensured my drivers are up to date. It doesn't matter if it's my bose speakers or Logitech headphones, it does the same thing. Is it maybe my audio output device?
Also, I never had these problems until Windows 8.
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Check out this program here:
http://www.resplendence.com/latencymon
Go to the drivers tab. If you are lucky, there's a driver that's causing this and it will show up there when you sort by the "highest execution" column.
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hey I'm finally back at my place and put the new SSD in. Everything working more or less... as in what I wanted to do did work (clone my 250GB SSD onto the new 500GB SSD, clone my old HDD onto the old 250GB SSD, toss out HDD) but during the process I used the "make system-image" thing from windows to be safe and while that was ongoing my PC rebooted because of some update...
Long story short I don't have the system image and I don't care anymore because I'm done with the cloning anyways, so I figured I'd just delete it since that probably failed anyways with the reboot inbetween. But ever since the system-image page in my settings seems to be empty. And I have this icon that's telling me that it's running right now... anyone know how I get rid of that? Google didn't really help me and there's no new system-imagine that got created either.
Oh, Win7 btw.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/3I56zkX.png)
gg, I'll never find out what it's called~
Ah found the name with that error code, nvm. Everything fixed
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How do I monitor whether I'm dropping packets or not from specific applications? Been experience some really weird behavior in online games right now even though in game it says my ping and FPS are fine.
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On April 22 2016 10:34 Zess wrote:
How do I monitor whether I'm dropping packets or not from specific applications? Been experience some really weird behavior in online games right now even though in game it says my ping and FPS are fine.
I'd strongly suggest looking in other directions first, before looking at possible packet-losses.
"really weird behavior" is not really an indication that you should be looking at your IP protocols, especially when you're not familiar with networking. Allowing the application in your windows firewall should be enough in a Home environment and unless you've exhausted all other possibilities, packet-losses is the last thing you should be looking at.
However, while I doubt that it would have to do anything with your problem, you can always try a program such as Wireshark or TCPView for checking on your connections. I'd recommend learning a thing or two about the program before using them, since it's very easy to read the output incorrectly.
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i'm currently experiencing a problem with my headset, its a planetonics gamescom headset and seems to work fine on any other device apart from my main computer. It does the job well until at some point I get an error message about a power surge on my USB port, it then disables the headphone, leaving me without sound(this has coincided with playing CSGO twice) but thats about it.
I have however used this headset and this computer for the better part of 2 years and I have never encountered this problem, is this a hardware thing?
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On April 26 2016 07:09 Kipsate wrote:
i'm currently experiencing a problem with my headset, its a planetonics gamescom headset and seems to work fine on any other device apart from my main computer. It does the job well until at some point I get an error message about a power surge on my USB port, it then disables the headphone, leaving me without sound(this has coincided with playing CSGO twice) but thats about it.
I have however used this headset and this computer for the better part of 2 years and I have never encountered this problem, is this a hardware thing?
Could be, for starters did you try using different USB port? Or do any other devices act strange after a while when plugged in in the same port as your headphones?
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On April 26 2016 07:13 OsaX Nymloth wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2016 07:09 Kipsate wrote:
i'm currently experiencing a problem with my headset, its a planetonics gamescom headset and seems to work fine on any other device apart from my main computer. It does the job well until at some point I get an error message about a power surge on my USB port, it then disables the headphone, leaving me without sound(this has coincided with playing CSGO twice) but thats about it.
I have however used this headset and this computer for the better part of 2 years and I have never encountered this problem, is this a hardware thing? Could be, for starters did you try using different USB port? Or do any other devices act strange after a while when plugged in in the same port as your headphones?
And on the above, use a USB2 port for a USB2 device if you have both types (USB3/2) I have better luck on multiple MB's/laptop's/etc if it is available.
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I got a really weird problem. I am no longer able to log in on certain sites. I already tried multiple browsers as well as deleting and reinstalling my ethernet-connection. I also restored my system but still no luck. I got this problem after installing and deinstalling openvpn aswell as GNU32 on my desktop aswell as on my laptop and I don't know how to fix it. Precicely, its the websites of the university I attend to, out of 3, 2 I cant log into, despite my login and passwort being stored. I also tried to tpye it in manually but still no effect. My fellow students still are able to connect just fine.
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So you can load up the website, but are unable to login, is that correct?
When you try you try to login and it fails, does it just go back to the login screen without errors?
I know you said you did multiple browsers, but it still could be a bad cookie issue and they need to be cleared out.
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