The awesome part is obviously the Core i5 3570K. I've had this thing pegged at 100% for days at a time. This computer is on 24/7. Core i5 3570K doesn't care, it does what it is told to do! No it doesn't. It was throttling down its clock all along. The 100% is calibrated against whatever the current...
Yeah I want to answer OP, but I don't want to do it across 4 threads. So for your entire computer: If you want super cheap office PC, I would recommend you to get the following: 1. Integrated CPU Mobo - $70 http://www.amazon.com/ECS-Elitegroup-NM70-I-Processor-Motherboard/dp/B00G237CMI 2. PSU Antec ...
Yeah based on that video, I am not impressed. Not at all.
I don't know what you mean by your comment about PC vs Console game development. My old hand-me-down HD 7770 could run Crysis 3 at full 1080P on high with an acceptable framerate. And that game looks stunning at any setting.
Just to add to the thread. You can still make a sizable amount of money by mining other crypto currencies and then converting them to Bitcoins. If you buy hardware and mine smartly, your time to break-even can be as low as 30 days.
Well there is a ton of variables that go into deciding which camera shoots better pictures. But between the D7100 and the D610, the D610 wins. Pixel counts have reached such absurdly large numbers that it is not the limiting factor in deciding picture quality. The larger the sensor, the more light i...
The reference 290s are the ones you should really be worried about. I have a couple of non-reference Gigabyte 280Xs. They are pretty quiet. I run them with no case. I can barely hear them over the air conditioning. In heavy load, it is like a car idling (still pretty quiet). The reference 290 is mor...
Man I am so sorry to hear that....I have heard that ASUS support stinks before. I will never buy a asus motherboard. Good lucl! Thanks for the board recommendations, vargis14. I will look into those. But most likely, I will forfeit this build entirely and go for a cheap OC-able Broadwell chip + 9 s...
Yeah the BIOS flash was a bad idea. Trying to re-flash to the original version, I am unable to get past the "Outdated Image" error. The motherboard is an ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS. I called up ASUS tech support. The first guy I spoke to didn't give a damn about being helpful. I tried explaining to h...
Okay I started off with a BIOS Flash. Now my mobo doesn't recognize the second proc and half the ram
I am gonna first revert the bios update and see if that second proc comes online. If it doesn't, I might have just lost some very expensive hardware over a $400 graphics card.
Hi guys, So I bought a new XFX R9 290 Core edition card for my home-office workstation. Installed it into my system and it refuses to be stable for more than 5 minutes after boot. The BSOD error messages are not the same ones each time. Each time it is a different exception message. My workstation c...
I have a very small scale setup going in my folks' home. There is a Windows Home Server with a couple of 2TB drives. All the other computers they have run Windows 8. It has this nifty feature called FileHistory - basically does incremental backups and versioning just like MacOS X with Time Machine. ...
I have a pretty beefy system in place for this. It is a Print server/NAS/Media Downloader/Transcoder. It also handles backups and replication at my home. It is based off an i7 2600 system. The software is Windows 7 with Plex. I've also set up a DDNS to that machine too. That way, I am able to access...
I recently built a 2P system out of Xeon ES CPUs bought from Ebay. I am not recommending you try it or anything, but I managed to get a 2P Sandy Bridge E system for <$1000. I use it as my build machine. So far it has been working quite well.
I absolutely loved my Lumia 900. I now love my new 920 as well. The OS is solid, slick and fluid. Bar Instagram, it is has every app that I used to have on iOS before. I would like a notification center though. But I guess that will be coming in the next release.
I've used the MBP Retina 15 on Windows 8. I run at the native 100% dpi. Text is tiny, but I have no trouble reading it. The screen estate it offers is amazing. I can have two dev windows and a reference page, all opened up at the same time.
So I have managed to accumulate graphics cards and monitors at work. I am right now at 4 cards and 8 monitors. All the graphics cards are low end GT210/Quadro 295 cards. No-SLI here. 4 of the monitors are 1080p, the other 4, 1050p I am having sluggish performance when I move some large windows acros...
After using a friend's Retina Macbook Pro 15 for a couple of weeks, I could easily tell the difference when I had to go back to my Dell XPS 15. The dell has an excellent screen - 1080p, RGB LED and whatnot - It still fell way short of the MBP. As far as productivity is concerned, the current display...
Backup: I would suggest CrashPlan or BackBlaze. These are cloud backup solutions that cost ~$5/month for unlimited storage. This is a far more reliable way of doing back up than anything you can ever have within your own home.