• The "Quick Questions that does not Deserve a Thread"...Thread. V4
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[QUOTE=Levelog;45387944]My use would be primarily browsing, along with a bit of general productivity and work. The fact that it's a full version of windows is the only reason I was considering it. I was probably thinking of offering $150 tops. My boss got it for free as a promotional gift from one of our distributors, and sold it a while ago but it looks like the sale isn't going through because they haven't picked it up [editline]14th July 2014[/editline] Plus it comes with office 2013 h/s. Although I haven't owned a copy of office since '07...[/QUOTE] Then why not. At that price, you can sell it if you hate it.
[QUOTE=Phrozen99;45388144]Then why not. At that price, you can sell it if you hate it.[/QUOTE] Yeah. We'll just have to see what my boss is willing to drop to. He can be a stubborn ass.
What the fuck is going on with Youtube? I can't load any videos - all I see are black rectangles the size of a player, both on website and embed? I had it yesterday, and suddenly it fixed itself after few relogs, clearing cache and cookies, but after 2 hours it suddenly came back (after coming from one video to another). Could it be Firefox's fault - all works fine on IE.
There's this weird thing going on with my Wacom tablet. Even if it's moving, if I hold the pen down long enough, it does that thing where it acts like it right clicked. I can't seem to find an option to disable that. Any ideas?
[QUOTE=Joz;45388550]What the fuck is going on with Youtube? I can't load any videos - all I see are black rectangles the size of a player, both on website and embed? I had it yesterday, and suddenly it fixed itself after few relogs, clearing cache and cookies, but after 2 hours it suddenly came back (after coming from one video to another). Could it be Firefox's fault - all works fine on IE.[/QUOTE] Make sure it's not trying to use the HTML5 player, it's completely broken on firefox unless you change a few settings in about:config [B]Also[/B], is a pagefile really necessary? I have 8GB of RAM and I've never seen it go past 5GB of use, and with my old slow ass harddrives I feel like disabling pagefile and forcing the system to use RAM exclusively would drastically improve performance, am I correct on this?
[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;45395054]Make sure it's not trying to use the HTML5 player, it's completely broken on firefox unless you change a few settings in about:config[/QUOTE] Nope, it used Flash on default, but even after the change the player remained the same black rectangle.
Not sure if this has been answered before, or if it belongs here But is there a tool that can savestate/go into reverse time in applications (Like this [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV-D1ggFUj8"]here[/URL] but not emulated) I'm not going to be using it for greifing or anything (which probably wouldn't work anyways), rather for making [B][I]those[/I][/B] games a bit less hard for the wrong reasons. Here's an example ;[URL="http://www.mfgg.net/index.php?act=resdb&param=02&c=2&id=303"]Super Mario Storm I[/URL] Namely this screen (1st boss 2nd screen) [thumb]https://33.media.tumblr.com/8a0547a81b1851ccb79bdfc83ac3eb4a/tumblr_n8rlzzxW5D1swio6wo2_r1_1280.png[/thumb] This screen has a spike wall that scrolls up, first at a respectable level where it's scrolling up at a pace akin to the rising lava in several games. And then the spike floor accelerates when you get to the first "platform" (This might be due to the fact that newer operating systems tend to run games faster than they were originally. Yes I have a Slowdown application, but there's the fact that when you die you go to the first boss's first screen, which has a waiting period of around 5-10 seconds) To beat the second screen you have to use a stasis platform (which doesn't work 1/3 of the time) done by first getting the wand, pressing Button 2 (For me it's CTRL) and then the jump button and Button 2 slowly and calmly. Which is kinda hard to do considering there's a spike wall going as fast as a quickman laser beneath you, plus it's Multimedia Fusion/Klik N Play, which tends to be glitchy (Mario keeps getting stuck on walls is one of them).
What would be a good external Blu-Ray/DVD drive to use with a laptop? I have a Dell XPS 15 for school that doesn't have one internally. Not looking to spend a whole lot of money on one, I just need something that gets the job done and I'm having a hard time picking one from the many to choose from. [editline]15th July 2014[/editline] It doesn't really require a write option, just read.
If I'm getting a new GPU, what are the real differences between the GTX 760 and the R9-280x? I've looked at benchmarks and they both basically perform the same, but some people say one is better or the other is better. Will either one work for playing games like Far Cry 3 on High (at least) quality at 1080p, preferably above 45 fps? EDIT: I'm looking at the 4Gb version of the GTX 760 vs. the 3Gb version of the R9 280X
[QUOTE=Schmaaa;45401182]If I'm getting a new GPU, what are the real differences between the GTX 760 and the R9-280x? I've looked at benchmarks and they both basically perform the same, but some people say one is better or the other is better. Will either one work for playing games like Far Cry 3 on High (at least) quality at 1080p, preferably above 45 fps? EDIT: I'm looking at the 4Gb version of the GTX 760 vs. the 3Gb version of the R9 280X[/QUOTE] FC3 is pretty old now, my 660Ti can run it maxed out no problem so you'll be fine with either of those. I'd go for the one with more VRAM, and with Nvidia you'll get Shadowplay and PhysX too
The 280x is the competitor of the 770, not the 760. You'll get more performance out of it. Plus the 4gb 760 is rather useless. The memory bus width gimps the increased vram by quite a bit. I'd go with the 280x
I've been looking into Hybrid drives recently. with what I'm looking at, getting a hybrid drive is way cheaper (less than 1/3 of the price) of an SSD/Harddrive combo. Is getting an SSD and Hard drive really going to be worth more than double the price?
[QUOTE=Schmaaa;45402849]I've been looking into Hybrid drives recently. with what I'm looking at, getting a hybrid drive is way cheaper (less than 1/3 of the price) of an SSD/Harddrive combo. Is getting an SSD and Hard drive really going to be worth more than double the price?[/QUOTE] Yes. Hybrid drives are nice for laptops, or situations where you really can't have 2 drives. It's a bit of a noticeable boost from a normal mechanical for frequently used, therefore cached, programs, but it's still nowhere near an SSD.
[QUOTE=Schmaaa;45402849]I've been looking into Hybrid drives recently. with what I'm looking at, getting a hybrid drive is way cheaper (less than 1/3 of the price) of an SSD/Harddrive combo. Is getting an SSD and Hard drive really going to be worth more than double the price?[/QUOTE] Yes. Hybrid drives don't give nearly as much of a speed boost as a real SSD, because I have never seen one with anywhere near a reasonable amount of flash to store anything. 8GB of flash is NOTHING - you'd be better off buying an extra 8GB of RAM and using it as a ramdisk. You don't need a huge SSD - 128GB is plenty. And with that, a slower hard drive is tolerable - 5600RPM will be fine, since you aren't booting off it or running programs from it. Honestly, I suspect most hybrid drives are actually slower than a 7200RPM hard drive, since you won't be hitting the flash for much and every hybrid I've looked at is a 5600RPM drive underneath. If you can find a hybrid drive with like 64GB of flash, maybe then it will be worth it (depending on more specifics - I expect they're using the cheapest piece-of-crap controller they can find for the flash). But for anything on the market now, it's not even worth the price over a regular hard drive.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;45403237]Yes. Hybrid drives don't give nearly as much of a speed boost as a real SSD, because I have never seen one with anywhere near a reasonable amount of flash to store anything. 8GB of flash is NOTHING - you'd be better off buying an extra 8GB of RAM and using it as a ramdisk. You don't need a huge SSD - 128GB is plenty. And with that, a slower hard drive is tolerable - 5600RPM will be fine, since you aren't booting off it or running programs from it. Honestly, I suspect most hybrid drives are actually slower than a 7200RPM hard drive, since you won't be hitting the flash for much and every hybrid I've looked at is a 5600RPM drive underneath. If you can find a hybrid drive with like 64GB of flash, maybe then it will be worth it (depending on more specifics - I expect they're using the cheapest piece-of-crap controller they can find for the flash). But for anything on the market now, it's not even worth the price over a regular hard drive.[/QUOTE] I know Western Digital put out an SSD HDD combo drive, but judging by the fact I didn't hear anything about it after release tells me it didn't do so well.
So, if I go with an SSD and a harddrive, if my OS and a few games are installed on the SSD and, for example, microsoft word is on the hard drive, would I be able to use microsoft word while booted into the SSD, or would I have to have the OS on both drives and reboot into the other drive every time I want something different? (Needless to say I don't have much experience in the way of hard drives, to me it's always just been that thing in my computer that holds all my programs)
[QUOTE=Schmaaa;45403280]So, if I go with an SSD and a harddrive, if my OS and a few games are installed on the SSD and, for example, microsoft word is on the hard drive, would I be able to use microsoft word while booted into the SSD, or would I have to have the OS on both drives and reboot into the other drive every time I want something different? (Needless to say I don't have much experience in the way of hard drives, to me it's always just been that thing in my computer that holds all my programs)[/QUOTE] Nope. Word will just be installed on the second drive, and will be accessible from booting on your SSD. (Unless you do sometjing really, really wrong)
[QUOTE=Schmaaa;45403280]So, if I go with an SSD and a harddrive, if my OS and a few games are installed on the SSD and, for example, microsoft word is on the hard drive, would I be able to use microsoft word while booted into the SSD, or would I have to have the OS on both drives and reboot into the other drive every time I want something different? (Needless to say I don't have much experience in the way of hard drives, to me it's always just been that thing in my computer that holds all my programs)[/QUOTE] Yes - your OS will be on the SSD, and it will see the HDD just like another drive, like an optical drive or network share. No OS-swapping necessary. Generally what I do is install Windows onto the SSD, keep all programs on there like normal. Then I either move all the user library folders over to the HDD (Documents, Pictures, Music, etc.), or symlink the entire /Users/<username> folder to a folder on the HDD. Then I make a Steam library on both as well (I install some games to SSD for fast loading, but everything else to HDD because I can't afford a terabyte SSD just to make everything load faster).
Music player suggestions? I don't want to use iTunes anymore. I tried foobar and Winamp, but didn't like them.
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I seek to start renting web space. I have a linux apache server, but comcast throttles its speed. There is the mysteriously free no-strings Zymic service, that I've had an account with for years, but it doesn't allow for many media file formats. Web hosting recommendations?
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...So I have this weird phenomenon, it doesn't seem to be causing any problems but, I'm curious. When I open Audacity, one of my ODD's makes this weird *click* sound. I have 2 other PC's with the same version of Audacity(the latest) installed and this does not happen on them. Any ideas on what this might be?
Can anyone recommend a decent keyboard under £40
I have a question about PCI Express slots. I currently have a Gigabyte EP45-UDGL with a PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot using a GTX 460. I want to upgrade to an GTX760 but I heard some of the power of the card is wasted because my PCI Express slot is not 3.0. Is it still worth it to upgrade to the 760 and then get a motherboard upgrade shortly after?
[QUOTE=CaptainSnake;45409165]I have a question about PCI Express slots. I currently have a Gigabyte EP45-UDGL with a PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot using a GTX 460. I want to upgrade to an GTX760 but I heard some of the power of the card is wasted because my PCI Express slot is not 3.0. Is it still worth it to upgrade to the 760 and then get a motherboard upgrade shortly after?[/QUOTE] the effective difference between 2.0 and 3.0 is negligible since GPU's don't use that much bandwidth.
[QUOTE=CaptainSnake;45409165]I have a question about PCI Express slots. I currently have a Gigabyte EP45-UDGL with a PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot using a GTX 460. I want to upgrade to an GTX760 but I heard some of the power of the card is wasted because my PCI Express slot is not 3.0. Is it still worth it to upgrade to the 760 and then get a motherboard upgrade shortly after?[/QUOTE] You're still going to get more power out of it, no matter what your PCI-E slot is, just by nature of it being a beefier card. However, yes, there is potential for a bottleneck there, but it's not going to really be much of an issue, if any. I wouldn't worry about it too much.
[QUOTE=CaptainSnake;45409165]I have a question about PCI Express slots. I currently have a Gigabyte EP45-UDGL with a PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot using a GTX 460. I want to upgrade to an GTX760 but I heard some of the power of the card is wasted because my PCI Express slot is not 3.0. Is it still worth it to upgrade to the 760 and then get a motherboard upgrade shortly after?[/QUOTE] Yes, and you might not even need the mobo upgrade. A 760 will not bottleneck on a PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot. That still has all the bandwidth of a PCIe 3.0 x8 slot, which is just fine. You might have problems with an SLI setup if your mobo brings you down to PCIe2.0 x8/x8 (same speed as PCIe3.0 x4/x4), but a single 760 will be absolutely fine since even Titans don't bottleneck much on PCIe2.0 x16.
Ah, perfect. Thanks for the replies! What is the meaning of bottleneck? Does it mean the card will freeze up or the power of the card is capped although that cap won't be reached much?
[QUOTE=CaptainSnake;45409327]Ah, perfect. Thanks for the replies! What is the meaning of bottleneck? Does it mean the card will freeze up or the power of the card is capped although that cap won't be reached much?[/QUOTE] Bottleneck just means your whole system won't be as fast as the individual parts, because one of them is keeping the others from being able to function at full capacity. For example, if your CPU can't give draw commands to your GPU fast enough, the bottleneck in your system is the CPU, and upgrading to a better GPU won't help you.
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