Personal computing discussed

Search found 1642 matches

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 55
by etilena
Thu May 19, 2016 8:02 pm
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Recommendation for 2nd DSLR
Replies: 34
Views: 8580

Re: Recommendation for 2nd DSLR

The A7 series might be lighter overall but the battery life is inferior. Sony ships them with 2 batteries and they do 300-400 shots per battery? I have not shot with the D810 but I do have a D750 and I love it to bits. One charge gives you around around 1,000 shots or more if you don't use the LCD m...
by etilena
Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:10 pm
Forum: Processors
Topic: would you upgrade a 3770k ?
Replies: 32
Views: 5325

Re: would you upgrade a 3770k ?

If it were just for performance, I would not have changed from a 2500k to a 4790. My system had random slow downs and rather than troubleshoot the individual parts I decided to get a CPU and motherboard, recycling most other parts. Performance wise it felt the same, but I got more than 2 x SATA3 por...
by etilena
Mon Oct 19, 2015 10:37 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Graphics Card Upgrade
Replies: 55
Views: 7007

Re: Graphics Card Upgrade

Mr Bill wrote:


There's an Amex deal giving 15% off from Amazon for purchases over USD$100 and it puts the card at AUD$270.65. That's a pretty great deal. I might bite.
by etilena
Mon Oct 19, 2015 10:13 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Graphics Card Upgrade
Replies: 55
Views: 7007

Re: Graphics Card Upgrade

Thanks for the link. It was an interesting read.

Might probably consider the 4GB 960 then and overclock it. Might wait until November to get it as there might be some sales then.
by etilena
Mon Oct 19, 2015 6:57 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Graphics Card Upgrade
Replies: 55
Views: 7007

Graphics Card Upgrade

Am looking to upgrade my 2GB Radeon 6950. I have a 27" monitor that does 2560 x 1440 but generally game at 1920 x 1080 for some of the newer titles. It was still ok running Tomb Raider (minus TressFX) but recently got Metro Redux on a Steam sale and it just lags like crazy at high settings on 1...
by etilena
Sun Jan 04, 2015 6:59 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Book and photo printing services
Replies: 14
Views: 4401

Re: Book and photo printing services

I use Blurb for all my regular photobooks, but use their heaviest grade of paper. Have had books for 3 to 4 years and the binding is still in place. I made one Milk Book when they first started and personally am not impressed with the print, paper or binding. One of the pages have fallen off my 3 ye...
by etilena
Fri Mar 07, 2014 5:23 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Contented?
Replies: 25
Views: 3590

Re: Contented?

I do have some side projects that just haven't taken off since they still work. I have an old Shuttle cube from 2007 with a C2D in it and a basic Radeon to decode 1080p to my TV, so that's been my HTPC for the last 3 years after I stopped using it as my main PC. Other than taking forever to logon to...
by etilena
Fri Mar 07, 2014 12:56 am
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: need a new point and shoot camera
Replies: 85
Views: 13563

Re: need a new point and shoot camera

XF1 is good for around $200.

Another review for getting it.

http://blog.mingthein.com/2012/11/13/fuji-finepix-xf1/
by etilena
Fri Mar 07, 2014 12:54 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Contented?
Replies: 25
Views: 3590

Contented?

I am looking at my 2011 build which has an i5 2500k, 16GB of RAM, 120GB SSD and a plethora of other old drives for storage. Had a Radeon 4850 die on me so that was upgraded to a 6950. Ivy Bridge and Haswell have both arrived and previously I would have upgraded my computer every 18 to 24 months. It'...
by etilena
Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:27 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: DIY NAS
Replies: 1
Views: 1597

DIY NAS

Planning a NAS build as I need more space for my photos and media. The gist of it is a case with an ivy bridge pentium, a ssd as boot drive with 3 or 4 3TB green/red drives. Just looking for ideas on parts and software to run it. Planning it to be mini itx to save space, with upnp to stream to my ht...
by etilena
Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:29 am
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: Bent Pins - We have the Technology!
Replies: 11
Views: 8007

Re: Bent Pins - We have the Technology!

Got a bent pin once with a LGA board. Installed CPU and tried to max out 16GB of RAM on 2 slots but no matter which of the 4 slots I tried it wouldn't work. Decided the motherboard wasn't working so brought it back to the shop and they visually inspected it, saying that there was a bent pin on it an...
by etilena
Fri Sep 14, 2012 4:54 pm
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Photos of big racks!
Replies: 23
Views: 6726

Re: Photos of big racks!

was sort of expecting server racks as well. :P it's great that you were excited to get up early to go photograph wildlife, wish I had access to that near where I lived. for the first 2 pictures, the exposure would have been a bit difficult to get right due to the extreme contrast between the bright ...
by etilena
Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:22 am
Forum: Mobile Tech
Topic: Lenovo reviews
Replies: 25
Views: 7439

Re: Lenovo reviews

Love my X220. There are probably no formal reviews done yet, but if you look at the forums at notebookreview.com you might be able to find people who have purchased the latest models and given their thoughts.
by etilena
Thu May 17, 2012 10:01 am
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Diablo III
Replies: 736
Views: 152523

Re: Diablo III

Finished regular with some friends. It's sort of like WoW but much faster paced. Definitely faster to finish the game if you team up. Now on Nightmare and it's really tough. Hehe. Overall the game has been more fun than I expected compared to when I tried the beta. Logging onto a server is annoying,...
by etilena
Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:51 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: Intentionally using a slow computer
Replies: 37
Views: 6348

Re: Intentionally using a slow computer

I used to get a kick out of running a bare Linux OS on older computers and it was so cool to see me more productive on that than on a Vista machine (booting, loading time etc was horrendous).
by etilena
Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:12 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Good GPU Update for this system
Replies: 21
Views: 3682

Re: Good GPU Update for this system

Concur with the 6850 as an upgrade for your system.
by etilena
Mon Dec 19, 2011 7:01 pm
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: IR Receiver For HTPC?
Replies: 1
Views: 2194

Re: IR Receiver For HTPC?

Got a microsoft media centre IR receiver from eBay without the remote. Works well with my Harmony remote.
by etilena
Sat Nov 26, 2011 9:54 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: a good universal remote?
Replies: 7
Views: 1542

Re: a good universal remote?

The Harmony remotes are great to reduce clutter, but it depends on how tech savvy your dad is, because they aren't exactly straight forward to program. It will take some time to figure it out. At least you don't have to program it to run a Windows PC, that took me a few hours to figure out. Another ...
by etilena
Tue Nov 22, 2011 6:00 pm
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Enter our Anomaly: Warzone Earth giveaway here
Replies: 161
Views: 22027

Re: Enter our Anomaly: Warzone Earth giveaway here

Random text.
by etilena
Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:14 am
Forum: General Software
Topic: The best anti virus program
Replies: 129
Views: 25381

Re: The best anti virus program

AVG until they updated to scan every link that popped up on Google search to verify if it was safe. Downloaded MSE and find it the least bloated of everything else out there that's free. I've been using it ever since.
by etilena
Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:09 am
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Help me troubleshoot
Replies: 6
Views: 1480

Re: Help me troubleshoot

Any guess whether the pin came that way, or if it happened during system assembly? I remember the big stink people raised back in 2004 when Intel switched to LGA CPUs. But the predicted mountains of dead motherboards never materialized. Seems to me a bent pin is a bent pin; it sucks regardless of w...
by etilena
Tue Sep 06, 2011 8:12 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Help me troubleshoot
Replies: 6
Views: 1480

Re: Help me troubleshoot

Ok found the problem. Dismantled the motherboard, brought it back to shop. They took a look at it, and found a bent pin, so wouldn't take the board back. Brought it home, and google is your friend in situations like this. Grabbed a mechanical pencil, bent the pin back, and what do you know, the 16GB...
by etilena
Tue Sep 06, 2011 6:57 am
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Help me troubleshoot
Replies: 6
Views: 1480

Re: Help me troubleshoot

Hallucin8 wrote:
Is the RAM listed on the Asus site as approved and tested? Does the RAM work in another motherboard?


Yes for the first question, even says ok to populate all four slots. Unfortunately I don't have another motherboard to test it on.
by etilena
Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:05 am
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Help me troubleshoot
Replies: 6
Views: 1480

Help me troubleshoot

Just got a new system together but having some issues. The specs are core i5 2500k, Asus P8Z68-V LE and 4 x 4GB of GSkill 1600 DDR3. I put everything together and the system won't post. There is a red LED which indicated a memory problem. Fiddled around a bit with one stick of memory and swapping th...
by etilena
Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:36 am
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: photo editing build
Replies: 8
Views: 2034

Re: photo editing build

There is no feeling like having 8 threads pinned at 4.8ghz making some cool photo. It makes me sigh with joy almost every day. hehehe, that sounds cool. it's about A$100 more for the 2600k, i was contemplating it but saw no significant gain in Lightroom based on benchmarks at review sites i do the ...
by etilena
Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:58 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: photo editing build
Replies: 8
Views: 2034

Re: photo editing build

You may have the SBA addiction. Fortunately, the side effects are mostly benign other than the empty wallet. i've been trying to hold off for a long while now, usually the upgrade cycle is more like 18 months and i'm already 6 months overdue (partly thanks to the sandybridge bug). heh. :) thanks JA...
by etilena
Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:21 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: sam9s HTPC project! Powered By XBMC!!!
Replies: 15
Views: 3457

Re: sam9s HTPC project! Powered By XBMC!!!

Damm then ofcourse WOL wont work, BTW, over wifi are you able to stream full DB ISO. Reason I am asking is that I have a wifi-n network and still I was not able to stream full BD ISO. It stutters. I decided to go wired and all is well since then ......What is your experience on this ...... it is a ...
by etilena
Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:12 am
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: photo editing build
Replies: 8
Views: 2034

Re: photo editing build

Personally, I find that ATI works just fine in photoshop and Lightroom. Same with 8GB of ram. Havent been able to max it out yet. Video on the other hand... it does work fine, no issues with my Radeon 4850. i think the bottleneck is more with the previews and caching, which is probably either CPU o...
by etilena
Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:06 am
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: sam9s HTPC project! Powered By XBMC!!!
Replies: 15
Views: 3457

Re: sam9s HTPC project! Powered By XBMC!!!

oops, just realised another problem, can't do WOL because my HTPC is running on wifi.
by etilena
Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:40 am
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: photo editing build
Replies: 8
Views: 2034

Re: photo editing build

Take a few minutes to find out if the apps that you use for photo editing support GPU computing. If they do, you'll want to make sure that you buy a video card that supports this. Nvidia has a huge lead over ATI in this area. Doesn't seem like Lightroom has CUDA support. I think I picked the 6950 b...
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 55
GZIP: On