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    What Paste Application Method do You Use in 2020?

    This is a silly poll, there is nothing about 2020 that changes thermal paste application.
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    Are the AMD drivers really that bad?

    I prefer nVidia because it's well laid out like the days of Windows 2000/XP, instead of a mess. It's not just prefer though, I simply won't buy any more AMD cards. Over and over I did, getting stung, waiting a while then trying them again hoping they got their act together and to save a few...
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    Win7 extended support ending soon - any options?

    That's just it, that it has little to do with security for a home user except that new code in Win10 has NEW vulnerabilities. The risks are primarily due to the user and environment. A corporate environment where any random stranger or disgruntled employee might attack their employer, sure...
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    Win7 extended support ending soon - any options?

    Then why does this topic exist? This is what updates and "support" is. You don't need the support, nor do any of the end users worried that the sky is falling. Your Win7 is no less secure now than it was 3 years ago and will be no less secure 3 years in the future. What this "support" does...
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    Seiki 42" 4K SE42UGT Experience

    Just had my SE42UGT fail. Was using it, observed horizontal wide black and white bands, about 2 dozen in total. Ugh. Time to investigate. Grabbed some tools. This effin' thing has 7 different screw sizes. Note that for my repair at least, you don't have to take the entire thing apart...
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    Seiki 42" 4K SE42UGT Experience

    There's something odd with my SE42UGT. The on/off button usually takes multiple tries to turn it on. Once on it works fine. It's not a matter of not pressing it firmly or long enough, sometimes it just takes multiple attempts. Using the remote to turn it on works fine but I never use the...
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    Blown Resistor - Advice?

    ^ Can you give an example, schematic or picture, of these secondary side transistor biasing resistors? I'm asking because I can't think of where a junk PSU would even have transistors on the secondary side.
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    Blown Resistor - Advice?

    Resistors in PSU don't normally fail on their own, not to the point of burning off the enamel on them anyway. Odds are you had another component fail which caused excessive current through the resistor, and if you replace it the same thing is going to happen again to the new resistor. As a...
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    Intel motherboard quality

    Intel boards are made by Foxconn. They tend to have fewer features but will do the job at stock speed/no-o'c. I prefer Newegg but one thing Amazon has going for it is if the board arrives DOA you may be able to get them to cover return shipping cost, but really that's only a (what, $10?) small...
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    Watch Out, Google: Bing Nabs 30% of Search Market

    Dekoth-E made a good point in post #14, I also often type in a word to get a link for sites so that might account for the 29% of searches being single words data, that I found questionable.
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    Watch Out, Google: Bing Nabs 30% of Search Market

    I'm curious how Experian Hitwise comes up with the data to make these conclusions. Is it submitted by every search engine owner? How does hitwise come up with a 10 million user sample? Are they spying on these people as I've never talking to any human being nor read of one that was knowingly...
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    The Pirate Bay Calls Anonymous Attacks Censorship

    I can sort of understand TPB's stance on this. If they don't like Virgin's censorship regardless of the cause, then to be consistent they should also be against Anonymous censoring Virgin with the DDoS.
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    Seagate to Buy Samsung's Hard Drive Business

    so funny how everyone is STILL quick to repeat urban myths. Besides the seagate 7200.11 firmware fiasco, all major brands mentioned are far more reliable than a one-off anecdotal failure seems to have suggested. If you want to know which are reliable it is easy, look at what any/all OEMs use...
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    Why Best Buy Checks Your Receipt

    Well, most of us can manage to figure out if all the items we have were on the checkout counter. Are you kidding? Are you really serious? Really? No. It isn't possible. Actually, they are hourly waged employees and didn't really care one way or the other, in fact you made their day...
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    Why Best Buy Checks Your Receipt

    So was your car... you have no point. Just because you consent to something, it would be foolish to think you can assume we are all so loose to bend over for anything that wants to probe us. It is not "making waves", THEY did that when they chose to stop customers when leaving. Refusing to...
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