Recent content by Jaxon_s

There are about half a dozen sellers in the For Sale / Trade Forum that sell genuine Windows 10 Pro keys for less than $10. Have a look there.

As far as I know the SMART data logging is handled entirely by the hard drive, so if any bad sectors are reported the cause can be isolated to the device itself. A malfunction of the sata cable or port wouldn't show up there. If it were me I wouldn't worry too much about it. If I went to the...

Thanks for the recs everyone. I did take a look at prebuilt but didn't come across a deal quite like Prev's. Unfortunately it appears to be dead now. =/

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Web, Email, Word Processing, Accounting 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? <$500 3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible Florida, USA (No...

The Monoprice 8320 earbuds have good sound but for some reason just didn't sit comfortably in my ear. I spent a week fiddling with the positioning and ended up giving them away because I couldn't wear them without getting an earache. They may not work out for everyone, but at $7 you can't feel...

I don't have my computer set up that way so I can't test it, but it looks like there's an option you can check when mounting a volume that will get Truecrypt to do exactly what you want: http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=mounting-truecrypt-volumes

My understanding is the same, when you buy a matched set, the manufacturer has claimed to have tested all the sticks in the set together to ensure that they're compatible with each other. If you mix and match sticks, you're the one doing the testing. Like you said, because you've found errors in...

I'm kind of conflicted about this one. $50 isn't a lot of money, and an E8400 with a SSD is still a pretty nice system(I use mine for office work), but there's also the view that the money might be put to better use if you save it to put toward buying a more recent architecture. To put it in...

I'm grateful that those of you who have had a bad experience have chosen to share it with us instead of keeping quiet. I recently had to build two new office computers, and thanks to your stories I decided to make my purchase from Amazon instead of Newegg. I feel really sorry for those who...

I just finished a couple of builds with GA-B75M-D3H motherboards, and the one thing I needed to change was the SATA controller mode. IDE mode is selected by default, but you may want to change it to AHCI, depending on whether you were using it on your old system.

I have a 550D and I can tell you that the case comes with a dongle that will allow you to plug the USB 3.0 front panel into a USB 2.0 header on your motherboard. The amount of airflow is configurable -- if you want the maximum, you can expose the side and top intakes and attach some fans to...

No heatsink included. Still a pretty great deal if you have a spare stock Intel heatsink lying around from another build (as I'm sure lots of us do).

I'm sure the OP is already aware of this, but no matter what kind of memory you end up getting, you should be sure to populate at least four slots to take advantage of the four memory controllers on the 3930K, thereby getting the largest possible memory bandwidth.

Yep, most likely the drum needs to be replaced. If installing a new drum doesn't solve it, the next place to look is at the fuser. Basically, either the toner on the drum is not completely transferring to the paper or it's not getting swept off properly, or toner is getting stuck on the fuser...

The correct answer is going to depend on how well Cern-Root will perform on each machine, and we have no way of knowing that. I did a quick google search for benchmarks and failed to come up with anything meaningful. Apparently, there's a benchmark suite for the software, but I didn't find any...