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The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition
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10. April 2012 @ 12:22 |
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Interesting little tidbit I picked up on newegg, whilst panning through reviews for the WD30EZRX (no longer sold by anyone in the UK until the next shipment arrives in a month or so, hence looking at newegg).
A couple of people proclaiming to be in the IT industry have observed extraordinary rates of mechanical premature failure/DOA of WD green drives of all sizes (e.g. click of death) that they have not observed in similar batches from other retailers - leading them to suspect inappropriate warehouse storage.
It's something I've suspected for a while, with every WD Green drive usually seeing about 30% of its reviews claim a DOA drive, considering multi-buy purchases, yet I own 20 WD Green drives, of which none have yet failed.
Food for thought?
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10. April 2012 @ 12:31 |
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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Originally posted by FredBun:
Originally posted by sytyguy:
Originally posted by FredBun:
I have VLC, I have Gom and several other frebbies, none wotk with bluray.
VLC works fine for me for Bly-Ray. It is also one of my favorites that I use.
Yeah I hear you guys, you all tell me it works, why it works for you guys and not me I don't know, I have several players, neither works with bluray, go figure.
Because VLC doesn't recognize the index file of the Blu-ray but does play the M2TS files. You have to go into the Streams folder and play the biggest M2TS file which is normally the movie but there are Blu-rays that use multiple smaller files for the movie so that isn't a hard fast rule.
Not plug-and-play so I can see why you wouldn't of found it useful or thought it would work. It does play the stream files rather well and I like it for taking snap shots of the movie which I use for custom covers and labels.
For a easy free Blu-ray Player try Digiarty's player;
DAPlayer 1.0.1.9
VLC will be supporting native Blu-ray movies soon as they are working on that and have some buggy limited use versions out there right now named "VLC media player nightly 2.1.0" in both 32bit and 64bit.
Wow, somebody finally explained it to me in a way I can understand, thank you, I will give that a shot and see what happens and hope I can figure it out, and that vlc 210, buggy is an understatement, I had to get rid of it after messing with it for about 5 minutes, it was a total bust, would not play anything let alone bluray.
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10. April 2012 @ 12:32 |
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I keep very close tabs on my HDD's(SMART statistics). It would be quite the shame if either of my drives up and failed. Most of them are at 75% capacity. Can't wait til something non mechanical becomes standard...
Although there's always risk ;)
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11. April 2012 @ 13:51 |
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Yeah! I found the replacement 8600Gt fan on ebay for $9.99!
Totally worth it in my opinion. My mickeymoused hot glued solution wasn't working. It did work, but the glue wasn't holding very well. Now I can probably sell it! Probably not for much... But at least I paid zero shipping on the fan ;)
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12. April 2012 @ 17:18 |
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This is the smallest computer rebuild I've ever done LOL! The screen was severely scratched. I replaced it with a perfectly cut chunk from something lying around. Is this not the cutest thing you've ever seen? The screen even lights up with a typical classic apple/mac desktop. It's apparently part of the american girl set.
It'll likely go for auction.
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12. April 2012 @ 17:25 |
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12. April 2012 @ 17:38 |
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LOL, I did it for my mother. Working on tiny things is kind of difficult for her. Plus I had to prove her wrong. She said that we wouldn't be able to replace the plastic screen. It was a sixteenth thick. I used something that's only 2 hundredths thick. But I braced it well. Apparently they fetch a pretty penny too. So of course I had to repair it ;)
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12. April 2012 @ 17:45 |
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I still collect toys from time to time :P
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12. April 2012 @ 17:54 |
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Some toys are very cool. I've been watching Star Trek toys for instance. I really want a large enterprise to play with. Heck, any of the trek lore ships would be cool! I'd love to do some image editing with them!
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12. April 2012 @ 22:17 |
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me, i build model warships, 1/144 scale down to 1/720 scale. the biggest in 1/144 scale is a 52" model (eventually radio control) of the british battleship HMS Warspite.
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26. April 2012 @ 15:57 |
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The pentium 4 is a joke by todays standards. I recently lost internet, and found myself tethering to another switch in the house(50ft Crossover ethernet). I'm so glad I bought that cord a while back LOL! But before hand, I was handling my facebook on a 2001 Pc. Monster World(a flash based game) taxed the CPU fully. I've been thinking that her hard drive has been the bottleneck. Now, I'm looking quite sharply at the CPU. That whole system is OUTDATED LOL! I plan to open up her case this weekend, and see about Micro ATX/ATX options.
Probably just go with a micro with IDE option, and a low watt CPU. She doesn't do anything intensive on that machine. She's an ebayer solely. Of course Ram will also need to be updated. She likely wants to stick with XP for a while longer. So I can probably uninstall the main drivers, shut it down and do the build. That way I theoretically don't need to reinstall XP. She has Apps on there she wants to keep ;)
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26. April 2012 @ 16:24 |
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if different chipset then might have to reload xp.
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26. April 2012 @ 16:26 |
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Surely not? I guess I'm gonna have to chat with her then. I will NOT reinstall XP. If it comes to that, I'll install '7' instead :)
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26. April 2012 @ 16:52 |
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why not xp?
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26. April 2012 @ 16:58 |
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New hardware very often means new install of windows, even if you uninstall the drivers - there are some parts of the system you can't remove, and it's those that cause the problems.
If new machine, I don't see why windows 7 is an issue, but then XP isn't really an issue either.
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26. April 2012 @ 17:25 |
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If the chipsets are radically different you'll have to reinstall since Windows never seems to get rid of the old drivers and will revert to back to those. You can get rid of the old drivers but it is too much of a pain and much easier/better to just reinstall clean.
If it is for a women I would install Seven but if it is for a old man I would install XP for a surf machine. Women like pretty and will get a big kick out of the new UI were as old men don't want change and won't appreciate the updated UI, in fact it will be too confusing for them to learn a new structure.
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26. April 2012 @ 17:30 |
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I really need to sit down with her tonight. Get her thoughts on her 7 and XP machine. And why she insists on using the older machine more...
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27. April 2012 @ 10:48 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
I really need to sit down with her tonight. Get her thoughts on her 7 and XP machine. And why she insists on using the older machine more...
Oman7,
I've used Driver Magician to remove all the drivers, providing the old motherboard still works, even when switching from Intel to AMD, without reinstalling XP. I've done it with different chipsets of the same brand too! Just remove the drivers on the old motherboard and then switch the motherboard The main problem is usually the chipset drivers. If you can't remove the chipset drivers, the computer will likely bsod and you would have to replace XP. I've never come across one I couldn't remove yet though. I've seen it happen to others, and heard about it, but maybe I've just been lucky! Maybe it's my Older version of XP (2003), with SP-1 on a separate disk.
You can also use the Device Manager and uninstall the drivers manually. Just go through the hardware and uninstall each driver for everything you have on the old MB that will be different on the new one. Be sure to turn off automatic updates first, just to be on the safe side
Driver Magician does pretty much the same thing as you would do manually, but a lot faster. I's easy to use, and removes all the drivers with one click after you select which drivers you want to uninstall.
Best Regards,
Russ
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27. April 2012 @ 12:07 |
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So apparently her main reason for using the old machine is because the version of AOL is better(9.0). Her windows 7 machine uses version 9.5. What the differences are is something we'll have to talk about. Perhaps I can persuade her to use the new version, by teaching her new ways of doing things. But she's the type who doesn't like change.
Thanks for the useful tips guys.
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27. April 2012 @ 16:33 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
So apparently her main reason for using the old machine is because the version of AOL is better(9.0). Her windows 7 machine uses version 9.5. What the differences are is something we'll have to talk about. Perhaps I can persuade her to use the new version, by teaching her new ways of doing things. But she's the type who doesn't like change.
Thanks for the useful tips guys.
Kev I have been using AOL 9.7 for about 8 months, I really have not notices any difference from 9.5.
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27. April 2012 @ 17:37 |
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9 point ZERO apparently has a difference compared to 9.5.
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27. April 2012 @ 19:20 |
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27. April 2012 @ 19:28 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
9 point ZERO apparently has a difference compared to 9.5.
Kev all of AOL's 9's are relatively the same, not much of a change, it's all minor, nothing like jumping from XP to 7, tell her don't be scared of it she will hardly notice any difference, just my 2 cents.
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27. April 2012 @ 19:50 |
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She has already used 9 and 9.5 and doesn't like 9.5 so apparently she sees a change.
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29. April 2012 @ 01:47 |
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Woo just got myself a rather vicious rootkit and had to reformat today. Lovely.
EDIT: Even lovelier, it survived the reformat. Time for Killdisk... One of the few times I'm ultra glad to have decentralized my storage. Only ~30GB worth of OS partition to wipe.
Have it down to an exact science. Backup my documents, my desktop, and my rocketdock settings, reformat. Paste everything back over, reinstall my few small programs(under 20) and bam. Everything back like it never happened within an hour or so. Would make it even leaner but the only thing that can be RELIABLY installed to a separate drive and work normally after a format is games and the programs associated with them. All my small utilities rely on OS integration and thus have to be freshly installed every time.
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
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