The "Quick Questions that does not Deserve a Thread"...Thread. V3

[Chubbs]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;35947247]wav[/QUOTE]

FLAC > Wav

Same quality, smaller files.

[Fish Poke]

Ok, so Tiger Direct just went out of stock of the laptop that I was going to buy after graduation. (to be specific, this [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1753820&CatId=4938[/url] ) So I was wondering if anyone knew of something with similar specs and price from any distribution site in the US. Sort of a question, I suppose.

I should probably mention what the price was. It was roughly $860.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;35952244]Friend of mine gave me game of thrones on DVD for my birthday, whats the best program to watch them with on PC? I don't feel like downloading codecs to get windows media player to work.[/QUOTE]

VLC will play anything you throw at it. Even the obscure formats that haven't been invented yet.

[Fish Poke]

[QUOTE=lavacano;35953821]VLC will play anything you throw at it. Even the obscure formats that haven't been invented yet.[/QUOTE]

I use MPC-HD and it handles damn near everything I throw at it, plus it has AA on subtitles as opposed to the compressed subs of VLC. It looks really nice and is a fantastic alternative in my opinion.

[ijyt]

What's a good quiet fan that still has reasonable airflow?

[jaybuz]

Scythe GentleTyphoon

[ijyt]

[QUOTE=jaybuz;35954387]Scythe GentleTyphoon[/QUOTE]

I'm guessing not the 5400rpm variant. :v:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC8TEYDNjQ4[/media]

[Crest]

Ap14 is probably the highest I would go if you care about noise. I have four AP13's in my case.

[Keegs]

Newegg has the OCZ Vertex3 SSD marked to $110 is it worth it or are there better deals?
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227706[/url]

[Shadaez]

[QUOTE=ijyt;35954531]I'm guessing not the 5400rpm variant. :v:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC8TEYDNjQ4[/media][/QUOTE]

because recording a fan that's flat on a solid surface is a good way to measure its loudness, right

[:smugspike:]

[QUOTE=AK'z;35937675]this is currently the only issue I have with vista. other than that, I'm fine.[/QUOTE]

People usually don't have a problem with outdated operating systems until they try the new one and see how silly they were to stick with the old one. I switched from vista to 7 on my laptop and it actually runs a lot faster. :v:

[ShaunOfTheLive]

[QUOTE=:smugspike:;35960434]People usually don't have a problem with outdated operating systems until they try the new one and see how silly they were to stick with the old one. I switched from vista to 7 on my laptop and it actually runs a lot faster. :v:[/QUOTE]

I use 7 mainly, but I don't really have a problem with Vista (as long as SP2 is installed). It's not outdated in the sense that XP is; most of the major changes to the kernel and driver system happened in Vista. Windows 7 is basically just Vista SP3, with some changes to the taskbar. (The kernel is even listed as version 6.1, not 7, showing that it's a minor update from Vista's 6.0)

[mark6789]

How is a Geforce GT 520? My brother bought me one but havnt got it.

[butre]

[QUOTE=mark6789;35960949]How is a Geforce GT 520? My brother bought me one but havnt got it.[/QUOTE]

crap

[:smugspike:]

[QUOTE=mark6789;35960949]How is a Geforce GT 520? My brother bought me one but havnt got it.[/QUOTE]

It's what one would consider a low-mid range card. It's not total trash, it can probably kick the shit out of source games. (Which isn't saying a lot, but Source is still a widely played engine and thus such information isn't irrelevant.)

[editline]14th May 2012[/editline]

[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;35960687]I use 7 mainly, but I don't really have a problem with Vista (as long as SP2 is installed). It's not outdated in the sense that XP is; most of the major changes to the kernel and driver system happened in Vista. Windows 7 is basically just Vista SP3, with some changes to the taskbar. (The kernel is even listed as version 6.1, not 7, showing that it's a minor update from Vista's 6.0)[/QUOTE]

I'm not disagreeing with you, but I've seen a significant performance increase from vista to seven. It also manages to look better while doing it.

[Waals Vander]

When I plug in my headphones the sound still comes out of the speakers. It's been doing this for a while and I've just been dealing with it. Does anyone have a quick solution, I feel like it's probably an easy fix....

[img]http://i.imgur.com/kotnZ.png[/img]

and i realize my computer is a bit warm.

[nemmises5]

as some of you may know, my HDD is dying and I need a back up so I am oing to use my dads HDD however I 1. cannot boot from it and 2. am having a crazy amount of permission errors trying to access files I can get individual pictures, one at a time but I cannot get an entire folder
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/X5Vtz.png[/IMG]

[Missing User]

I was making a piratebox, and i was prompted to set an SSH password. I did, and now the damn thing won't let me in, effectively bricking the entire project. How can i bypass the SSH PW?

[editline]14th May 2012[/editline]

nevermind, figured it out

sort of

[Pugsworth]

So steam downloads have been pissing me off. First it was with steam downloading 11GB for a 800MB update. Now it's that the download progress is jumping around backwards.

Is there anything to stop this bullshit and just get back to steam downloading at the correct size?

[Missing User]

how can you tell the internal IP of a router?

[Shadaez]

[QUOTE=krazipanda;35962839]how can you tell the internal IP of a router?[/QUOTE]

cmd -> ipconfig -> default gateway, usually is 192.168. -- 1.1, 1.0, or 0.1

[Missing User]

[QUOTE=Shadaez;35962897]cmd -> ipconfig -> default gateway, usually is 192.168. -- 1.1, 1.0, or 0.1[/QUOTE]

aah, found it. thanks.

all this openwrt stuff is way new to me, basically pissing in the fucking dark.

[Shadaez]

[QUOTE=krazipanda;35962908]aah, found it. thanks.

all this openwrt stuff is way new to me, basically pissing in the fucking dark.[/QUOTE]

I suggest tomato if your router supports it, much better interface imo

[Surfur]

So Diablo 3 just released and i am unable to play. around 2-5 minutes into it the game will stutter and the screen will go black, graphic drivers crash and then some times the computer will just all out crash.

I have a HD6970 and im running on the 12.3 drivers. I've tried the 12.4 12.2 and even 12.1 drivers and they ALL do this. I tried running BF3 for a good hour and i had no issues what so ever.

[Allstone]

[QUOTE=Keegs;35955794]Newegg has the OCZ Vertex3 SSD marked to $110 is it worth it or are there better deals?
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227706[/url][/Quote]How much would it cost you to get a Crucial M4 or Sandisk instead?
OCZ have an extremely poor historic failure rate, leading every other manufacturer by a significant margin as of Hardware.fr's last report on return rates.
Of the SSDs that tend to be well-priced, the Crucial M4 is generally the best regarded option, followed by non OCZ Sandforce drives using cheaper NAND, such as Sandisk and Corsair's cheaper options.
If you can get the Intel 330 for a similar or lower price then that's also an option, carrying Intel's fairly high reputation in terms of reliability.
All of the current generation SSDs will be fast enough that there are little to no noticeable differences between them in terms of speed, so a general focus is reliability.

[ijyt]

Is the Corsair 240GB Force Series 3 any good in comparison to the Crucial M4? The Corsair seems to have double the write speed of the M4. (I just heard what my IDE Maxtor HDD's sound like and holy fuck they need to be retired.)

[PyroCF]

[QUOTE=ijyt;35965701]Is the Corsair 240GB Force Series 3 any good in comparison to the Crucial M4? The Corsair seems to have double the write speed of the M4. (I just heard what my IDE Maxtor HDD's sound like and holy fuck they need to be retired.)[/QUOTE]

What controller does it have in it

[ijyt]

SandForce 2200.

[Crest]

[QUOTE=krazipanda;35961705]I was making a piratebox, and i was prompted to set an SSH password. I did, and now the damn thing won't let me in, effectively bricking the entire project. How can i bypass the SSH PW?

[editline]14th May 2012[/editline]

nevermind, figured it out

sort of[/QUOTE]

I want to stop this. People will google the problem and find this topic and you will be the one thing that millions of internet users fucking hate to death.

Edit in what you did to fix it.

[ijyt]

[QUOTE=Brt5470;35966364]I want to stop this. People will google the problem and find this topic and you will be the one thing that millions of internet users fucking hate to death.

Edit in what you did to fix it.[/QUOTE]

My triple regulating legacy hyper bypass system is disarticulating spleens while recycling clocks, I've googled for hours how do I fix this?

[editline]Edit:[/editline]

Nvm fixed lock thread pls