I have like four DVD drives and absolutely none of them still work.
I suspect they're just rotted belts or something but I haven't tried fixing any.
[QUOTE=INH;52798615]am I the only pc builder and gamer who uses his dvd/cd drive extremely often and will buy a BluRay Reader / DVD + CD Read and Writer drive in the future?[/QUOTE]
I actually use a Blu-ray/DVD drive for ripping movies, but on my Linux HTPC.
[QUOTE=INH;52798615]am I the only pc builder and gamer who uses his dvd/cd drive extremely often and will buy a BluRay Reader / DVD + CD Read and Writer drive in the future?[/QUOTE]
FUCK NO playa, you're in good company, I still have two separate optical drives in my tower.
yay im not alone
I use dvd/cd for operating system installers and such, BluRay and DVD for movies too
they are gud
[QUOTE=INH;52798615]am I the only pc builder and gamer who uses his dvd/cd drive extremely often and will buy a BluRay Reader / DVD + CD Read and Writer drive in the future?[/QUOTE]
I have one in my tower but checking real fast, it's not even plugged in because I just pilfered the cables when I got my SSD (3 years ago :v:)
I think I tossed my last drive when I tossed my old tower.
I use to have a BD-RW drive, sold it when I upgraded from Nehalem :v:
My DVD drive is in some box somewhere in my electronics closest.
I think it's in a motherboard box :v:
[QUOTE=Bugga12;52797829]Happy to report that my puny lil FX8350 build survived updating to the latest Windows build successfully and hasn't exploded.
:eng101:[/QUOTE]I'm running it on a piss weak i5 650, apart from a laggy VNC server, no issues.
[QUOTE=Kiwi;52798907]Precious bulldozer[/QUOTE]
Apart from it being power hungry af and running hot all the time for no reason, it's a nifty (flawed) lil cpu.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52799159]I'm running it on a piss weak i5 650, apart from a laggy VNC server, no issues.[/QUOTE]
I quite like it tbh, makes for an affordable backup PC build with an SSD in it, only thing I can complain is the TDP on it.
I keep getting GPU glitch artifacts for a split second is it dying.
[QUOTE=Bugga12;52799453]Apart from it being power hungry af and running hot all the time for no reason, it's a nifty (flawed) lil cpu.
I quite like it tbh, makes for an affordable backup PC build with an SSD in it, only thing I can complain is the TDP on it.[/QUOTE]My home file server is an old 8350 with a few drives.
[QUOTE=INH;52798615]am I the only pc builder and gamer who uses his dvd/cd drive extremely often and will buy a BluRay Reader / DVD + CD Read and Writer drive in the future?[/QUOTE]
I bought a writer back in 2011ish when the writers and blank BD-R's are just becoming affordable. Back then, those BD-R's are great for making archives and backups, but that's not the case anymore. I haven't touched that drive in at least two years now.
So is the People button the most useless thing on W10?
Every major Windows 10 update so far has had like at least one new addition to the UI that you have to right-click and disable, and you're back to normal.
I just can't remember what they did last year.
[QUOTE=Andre Gomes;52799943]So is the People button the most useless thing on W10?[/QUOTE]
It's for normals I guess
With these Windows 10 major updates "Creators, anniversary, that other one I can't remember", are they pretty much like the old service packs or do they do something deeper?
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52800381]With these Windows 10 major updates "Creators, anniversary, that other one I can't remember", are they pretty much like the old service packs or do they do something deeper?[/QUOTE]
Much deeper.
SP's never provided much UI changes. They're more like large collections of cumulative patches, along with some changes to the kernel and other Windows internals. Their release cycles were also a lot slower than Windows 10's major updates.
Think of them like mac os 10
just instead of mac os, it's windows
Then you also have a similar incremental on each release build
[url]https://changewindows.org/milestone/redstone2/pc[/url]
So it's as significant a change as moving from Windows 8.1 to 10? Do you have to have these updates, I mean if you're using older hardware, can you just use 2015 Windows 10?
I think I have like 6 laptop DVD drives in my closet somewhere. Nothing to do with them, all of them working.
I also have a DVD drive on my PC but I mostly use it to burn CD-s to listen to in my car, because I have currently no AUX in it. The stock radio should support it but I lack the cable. When I went to the dealership to enable the AUX inputs, they said they got an error and now I don't know if buying the cable and going back to the dealership will help me or it won't.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52800430]So it's as significant a change as moving from Windows 8.1 to 10? Do you have to have these updates, I mean if you're using older hardware, can you just use 2015 Windows 10?[/QUOTE]
Microsoft and their partners decide if hardware can get the update from windows update
that's why you don't always see the update until four months later
problem is that regardless of anything, it isn't common for compatibility issues to turn up
Home edition has barely any control over updates, Pro has group policy changes you can implement for added prevention
LTSB is something also to look at, as it's the long term servicing branch
Microsoft will eventually stop any updates to older builds, they have already done it to the first version of the OS
[editline]20th October 2017[/editline]
shock horror
mspaint.exe still opens mspaint
[QUOTE=Scratch.;52800446]Microsoft and their partners decide if hardware can get the update from windows update
that's why you don't always see the update until four months later
problem is that regardless of anything, it isn't common for compatibility issues to turn up
Home edition has barely any control over updates, Pro has group policy changes you can implement for added prevention
LTSB is something also to look at, as it's the long term servicing branch
Microsoft will eventually stop any updates to older builds, they have already done it to the first version of the OS[/QUOTE]
So they're pulling an Android and fracturing the fuck out of their ecosystem?
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;52800859]So they're pulling an Android and fracturing the fuck out of their ecosystem?[/QUOTE]
[img]https://tenryuu.blob.core.windows.net/astrid/2017/10/17-10-21_00-03-48-keynote-microsoft-the-new-microsoft-in-a-cloudfirs.png[/img]
Stationary workstations needs lovin' too :sad:
[editline]20th October 2017[/editline]
:frown:
So last night I was bitching to demache about how I can't find anything in the Xbox one ui any more since they updated it while I was deployed.
I wake up to another UI update.
I bought a cheap Optiplex 990 on ebay advertised as an i5-2400 with 4GB of ram, both the listing and the photos showed this.
I got an Optiplex 990 with an i7-2600 and 8GB of ram in the mail :v: If this thing could fit a graphics card (and a larger PSU) it would be on par with my gaming desktop.
Also I can confirm you can still upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free with the accessibility image, it updated straight into the Creators Update with none of the accessibility options turned on :v:
My friend fit one, it's doable :v:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ZmZDK2W.jpg[/t]
I was about to say that seems like an awful destruction of the case, but then I remembered I'm the one that took sidecutters to the top of my case and installed a radiator outside the case.
[QUOTE=WastedJamacan;52801295]So last night I was bitching to demache about how I can't find anything in the Xbox one ui any more since they updated it while I was deployed.
I wake up to another UI update.[/QUOTE]
the obvious solution is don't go play in the sandbox for a year
And just look how at home Windows 10 looks on that phablet :v:
[editline]20th October 2017[/editline]
I legit thought it was running Windows Phone or whatever they called it at first glance
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