There's another simple and important factor to consider here: if your desktop becomes sluggish and unresponsive while encoding, and that doesn't happen to you when you're running other processor-intensive applications, it's probably because the encoder is running at too high a priority.
If a...
Good to know I'm not the only one!
This is where I ended up:
Worth noting that I couldn't get x44 stable (Prime/Linpack AVX) at auto voltages without either disabling power saving features or enabling PLL overvoltage. After comparing power draw at the wall and idle temperatures, I decided to...
Yeah, that thought had occurred to me as well. I figure Fry's is worthless to me beyond 15 days anyway, and Intel should know better, unless I actually did get screwed by Fry's somehow--in which case, I will have words with them. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
That's what I figured. I'm not too worried about it.
I would, of course, have tried this already if I weren't still waiting for the motherboard to arrive in the mail.
My favorite part was getting stopped at the door by the guy checking my receipt. He looked even more confused than I did, and...
I couldn't find any evidence online of this happening elsewhere, but I stopped by Fry's and picked up one of the anniversary sale i7 2600ks, and the box is sending me mixed signals. The cashiers were discussing how weird they thought it was, but the CPU cap and the barcode all check out. Is this...
There are a couple of angles to approach this from. One is that Diabloii.exe actually immediately just spawns game.exe, which is probably the one trying (and failing) to connect or receive a connection. You could try adding an exception for game.exe.
Alternatively, I believe port 4000 on the...
I was gonna jump on this because the Westinghouse site says it's an MVA, but I realized the 170/160 angles on Best Buy's site didn't seem right, so I looked around and found this...
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=2107419
Arg. I need something to replace these...