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24. September 2011 @ 03:24 |
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Yep same here. I use Flashblock and Adblock Plus and haven't seen an ad in years.
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24. September 2011 @ 06:19 |
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That depends. If you use Sky for TV here, they practically throw in internet and phone for free. It's ADSL2, so it's a max of 24Mbps but much less for most due to distance from the exchange. That's about £42/month for the phone, internet and a reasonably high-end TV package ($65 after tax).
Here I run the broadband separate to the TV and phone to get the high-speed service. The 40Mbps internet is £42/month by itself (due to the peak usage allowance I've chosen, FTTC products are very strict on peak usage), phone and TV are also with separate companies and total about £56/month, so the total cost of our services is a bit more than yours, around $150/month.
I don't normally use adblock (I use chrome, and google routinely disable adblock extensions) but the ad ads are particularly annoying. They're meant to expand when you hover over them, but they're bugged, and remain expanded all the time.
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24. September 2011 @ 07:01 |
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
Yep same here. I use Flashblock and Adblock Plus and haven't seen an ad in years.
Ditto, i don't tolerate ads/flickering backgrounds/distractions on any site
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24. September 2011 @ 08:04 |
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Yeah I've been having the same problem, I know they are annoying, but mostly if I can click them off than I'm fine, but these pop-ups you can't get rid off and I can't read the posts, now that is annoying.
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24. September 2011 @ 09:35 |
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That depends. If you use Sky for TV here, they practically throw in internet and phone for free. It's ADSL2, so it's a max of 24Mbps but much less for most due to distance from the exchange. That's about £42/month for the phone, internet and a reasonably high-end TV package ($65 after tax).
Here I run the broadband separate to the TV and phone to get the high-speed service. The 40Mbps internet is £42/month by itself (due to the peak usage allowance I've chosen, FTTC products are very strict on peak usage), phone and TV are also with separate companies and total about £56/month, so the total cost of our services is a bit more than yours, around $150/month.
Well consider that I also live in a dead town in the middle of nowhere down the road from a farm. You live in a major city in the cultural center of the world. Big difference :P
There are similar setups as you have in America but they simply aren't available in this area. They do offer faster speeds than 18Mb all the way up to their "60+" service which a few of my friends use. Around here though, 18Mb is considered impressive and quite high-end as far as basic internet packages go. Last I checked the national average was around 8Mb.
One of the few benefits is that I have no bandwidth cap, and the company are constantly updating their equipment. They raise the internet speed caps constantly and in a few months I should be sitting at a happy 25Mb at no extra charge. The installation technician assured me that my area was first on the list :) A few years ago this same package was 8Mb limited for the same price.
Also consider the service I was using before. 1.3Mb bandwidth, slow and glitchy cable system, all for about $140 a month, which is a massive rip-off. My current ISP is not only $20 cheaper for a vastly superior service in every way, they gave me two years of premium movie channels for free for converting over from their competitor. Now that's service ;P It's quite a bit extra to get the 60+ line... I've been tempted... but anyway considering the relative quality of the services and no bandwidth cap I might actually be getting a better deal than you Sam, reasonably good TV package and all ;P I do get some HD channels for free as well plus a fairly robust on-demand movie service.
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24. September 2011 @ 09:38 |
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A moderately-sized town on the outskirts of the city, not exactly within the city limits (Not close enough to be considered part of Greater London, nor within its travel restrictions on public transport fares and emissions limits) . Fortunately I'm on the tangent on which a fair amount of FTTC coverage has already been introduced. I'm not close enough to the city to get cable services, however, else I would have had faster internet for several years already by now. The bandwidth cap comes with the service type for me, FTTC is all BT-owned infrastructure, and thus ISPs have to pay for their bandwidth, and pay handsomely. Off-peak I can do whatever I like, and indeed, downloaded around 980GB in my first month, despite being away from home for a week.
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24. September 2011 @ 09:42 |
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I think my ISP(Charter) is Time-Warner owned, so I know a few people who've gotten cease and-desist letters for particular bit torrent DLs. But I have other friends who torrent constantly at full speed and have never heard a peep. I would imagine intelligence has a role to play...
And LOL 980GB in a month. I can't even think of that much stuff to download right now, let alone the multi-terabyte volumes you have full.
Yep went from 1.3Mb to 8Mb and I thought that was the end of the world. Now I'm averaging 20 and it's a bit overwhelming. I don't have to wait for anything, ever again :D
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24. September 2011 @ 11:35 |
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24. September 2011 @ 14:21 |
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I have Firefox with ADBlock and your right the drop down ads don't show up so maybe I'll have to start using Firefox or even Avant again for AD as IE is just too annoying.
Speedtest is a joke and doesn't really mean shat!
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24. September 2011 @ 23:06 |
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AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 4GHz(20 x 200) 1.5v 3000NB 2000HT, Corsair Hydro H110 w/ 4 x 140mm 1500RPM fans Push/Pull, Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5, 8GB(2 x 4GB) G.Skill RipJaws DDR3-1600 @ 1600MHz CL9 1.55v, Gigabyte GTX760 OC 4GB(1170/1700), Corsair 750HX
Detailed PC Specs: http://my.afterdawn.com/estuansis/blog_entry.cfm/11388
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25. September 2011 @ 18:43 |
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1500589421.png
Particularly with my connection it doesn't mean much. My first 10 seconds of bandwidth for any download or transfer is some 60+ then averages out to 20Mb.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1501849721.png
Pretty fast download and tranfer times. I only got 30mbps Fioptics throught my local phone land line
http://www.cincinnatibell.com/internet/fioptics/speeds/30Mbps/
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25. September 2011 @ 18:52 |
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Heyyy guys it's been a while lol. So yeah my parents crappy eMachines finally gave out. I've been outta the whole PC building loop for a while now. All I have is a HDD, DVD rom drive, and a CM690 to start off with.
I need recommendations for a Mobo, CPU, and videocard. It's for my parents so cheap is more in mind here. They wont do anything special on it.
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25. September 2011 @ 18:56 |
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Well look who it is!
You know the drill, budget, intended use, etc etc. :)
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25. September 2011 @ 19:02 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Well look who it is!
You know the drill, budget, intended use, etc etc. :)
Haha, yeah, I feel like an idiot cuz I don't know anything anymore. Sigh.
Regular browsing, etc. Just an everyday machine, no gaming, no video editing. I need to get it as cheap as possible lol
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25. September 2011 @ 19:05 |
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To be completely honest, at the bare basic level there isn't much of a reason not to buy an off the shelf Dell/HP - with the sort of deals they get on entry-level components, self-building from the ground up doesn't usually save anything :P
if you want though, can either go i3 or basic pentium, the usual XMS3 memory and a basic gigabyte H67 board, or for the AMD route a dual core athlon, XMS2 and something like a 740G on microATX.
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25. September 2011 @ 19:10 |
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Hmm, alright, thanks :)
Maybe I can score a free one off someone. I swear people upgrade for no reason sometimes lol. They think their computers are slow and need to be replace when all they need is a fresh install.
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25. September 2011 @ 19:15 |
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Running my radiator under water in the sink sounds like too much work :p I just take a compressor, and an air gun and blow my PC out. Being extremely careful about the fan speed. As well as moisture spitting which COULD happen, but haven't seen it yet.
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25. September 2011 @ 21:51 |
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indeed its been a while. I say an AMD apu would suite ya perfectly
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25. September 2011 @ 22:30 |
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Originally posted by abuzar1:
Heyyy guys it's been a while lol. So yeah my parents crappy eMachines finally gave out. I've been outta the whole PC building loop for a while now. All I have is a HDD, DVD rom drive, and a CM690 to start off with.
I need recommendations for a Mobo, CPU, and videocard. It's for my parents so cheap is more in mind here. They wont do anything special on it.
abuzar1,
Welcome back. We thought you fell off a cliff or something! :)
To answer your question, the AMD APU would be the best bet for your parents. For around $200 you can have a 2.7GHz A4-3400, motherboard and 4GB of memory. Pretty basic but very hard to beat, and a lot better than what they had. Or you could get another emachine Tower, KB and mouse, AMD 2.8GHz dual core AthlonII x2 with a 1TB HDD, 3GB DDR3 and a 16x burner for $298 with $0.97 shipping! probably your cheapest bet!
http://www.walmart.com/ip/eMachines-PT.NCV02.001/16608490
Best Regards,
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26. September 2011 @ 19:32 |
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26. September 2011 @ 19:36 |
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There's a premium to pay for performance your rivals are completely unable to offer :P
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26. September 2011 @ 21:28 |
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Completely? How much faster really is it? Not 30% like they might try to claim and even at that is ii worth it? I think not, at least for me, even though it does look pretty cool. But if you have deep pocket what the heck it sure would be fun to play with, I'd take it for sure! :D
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27. September 2011 @ 04:48 |
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Given that the i7 quad cores are already more powerful than the Phenom II X6, I'd say at least 50%, perhaps more. When only the best will do, $1000 per CPU is acceptable to the hardware elite :P
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27. September 2011 @ 04:53 |
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For the life of me cant find my bookmark but Bulldozer just got a release date and some of the model specs were released. Very high stock clock speeds and promising wattage figures with good prices. Overclocking seems hopeful as well. Though too low of a price could indicate the technology flopped like Phenom I. Looks to me that Intel will soon have some very fierce competition.
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27. September 2011 @ 04:57 |
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It's October 12/13, but that's only a rumour at this stage, as far as I know AMD haven't verified it.
It is also suggested that only 8-core and 6-core versions of the CPUs will be released at this stage, with quad cores following next year.
The MSRPs are cause for concern though, $245/£190 for the high-end 3.6Ghz Octacore, is either seriously competitive, or it's making up for a shortfall.
The current gamers' CPU, the 3.3Ghz Hex, is priced at $175/£135, which is considerably less than its main rival, the i5 2500K.
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