PC Tech Thread

I have 3 Macs and one Hack, so I win both.

This v-sync you keep mentioning about isn't a monitor feature. Locking console games to 30 fps (for example) so they look smooth is v-sync and that obviously works on owt.

If you're confusing it with the freesync of the samsung monitor, that unfortunately isn't compatible with your nvidia graphics card.

Aren't you supposed to be a designer?

Yeah, you bozos obvs don't know what ya yapping about!

Sickburn.

I was asking before about cheap MS Office subscriptions. This is the cheapest I found https://bluenandu.uk/ £37 for a year including 1TB of storage on OneDrive. Given that you can't even get the storage for that price with Google/Dropbox then it seems like a pretty decent deal.

looking for decent capacity usb storage device 32gb / 64gb or possibly 128gb ?

anyone recommend anything along the lines of a sandisk extreme 3.0 usb pen stick
this one seems highly rated wondered if anyone had any experience with others or are they much of a muchness ?

My computer needs a power boost. So incoming:

Radeon RX 480 4GB GPU

GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3P mobo

AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 4.00Ghz CPU

Kingston HyperX Savage 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200 2400MHz RAM

Oh I have one of those... appears to do its job...

USB reader for MicroSD cards feels more practical.

Getting tempted by this build seeing as Apple doesn't really make computers anymore...

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Eightarmedpet/saved/#view=PTG3CJ

Looks solid. How reliable/stable are hacks though?

Everyone says "don't use them for work, they could die at any point blah blah..." but, mines been perfect. Even had to take it into work for a few weeks. Plus I have 1 pal who used them for his work and another pal who kitted his whole company (video) out with hacks, so they must be stable and solid enough to use day to day otherwise IT bill would be crazy.

My hot box of hell is so mint now I have a new modular PSU and W10 in EUFI so I can select with the Steam controller. Feels more elegant than dual booting my iMac.

emyr - so a usb thing that has a slot to take a microsd card

are the micro sd's quicker / more modern / the future
why would one be prefereable over a standard or 3.0 usb ?

Fits in more things, and you only need one USB reader for many many cards.

I'm waiting impatiently for my PC parts and DHL is like "Nope, wait another day because fuck you."

Passing the time watching videos on how to actually put this stuff together. Looks straightforward enough..

USB flash drives are cheaper and quicker though.

Any suggestions on programs to test network speed. I was getting some strange results pinging other machines on the network when I was looking at it last night (3 @ 1ms, 1 @ 800ms or similar). There are 3 switches and a separate wireless AP so I'd like to try and narrow it down a bit.

It's super simple BRO... I replaced my PSU on thursday, only took a few mins and I was pretty pissed.

Most whitings just plug in dead simple...

Downloading and installing the OS/Drivers/AllthestuffIwantinthere will probably take significantly longer and be significantly less fun than the lego part.

I recently did a reinstall of W10 and each time I do it I am pleasantly surprised by how automated it is and how it fixes/finds errors.

I think I am developing an enjoyment of the fresh instal process.

That sounds nice.

I have my laptop set up dualboot with limited space for the win 7 partition.
I have 40GB of SSD for drive C:\ and 180GB of HDD for D:.
The inability to install everything correctly under D:\ plus bazillions of drivers/.net/redis/whatever have lead to the C:\ Drive being completely full all the time, throwing errors left and right.

New build: One disc. Looking forward to Win10 too.

A couple weeks into windows machine ownership (having been mac since 2008) and I have some sort of virus.

In chrome, sometimes when I click on a link, instead of taking me to the link in that tab, it seems to be opening it in a new tab (the back button is ghosted out) and sending the original tab to a spam site.

I've been using the free version of AVG since getting the pc and today I've downloaded and run Malwarebytes which found 5 threats or whatever which I deleted but it's still happening.

I've just re-scanned with Malwarebytes and it's came back with nothing.

It might only be happening on links on retrobike, could there be a problem with just that site? Shouldn't AVG detect that?

sounds more like a cookie issue, hence it not showing up in m/bytes or AVG
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en