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    IPS monitor, radiation, and sharp object question

    thanks everybody who have answered, i appreciate it!
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    IPS monitor, radiation, and sharp object question

    good to know! so there's nothing harmful to my eyes and my body then right? except the vertical scratch that's only visible on white backgrounds...? (it's not visible at all on hardforums or some films)...
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    IPS monitor, radiation, and sharp object question

    i was eating meat while watching yahoo! screen, i moved my wireless keyboard from under my monitor with knife and forks still on my right hand, and when i lifted the keyboard from under the monitor, "scratchh" goes the knives end scratching the monitor. it's a small scratch all things...
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    IPS monitor, radiation, and sharp object question

    Hiya, I have a Dell 23 inches IPS monitor. Just now I accidentally scratched the monitor with a steak knife. It has a little scratch as per the picture below. I'm Asian, and not particularly savvy with computers, but my parents (when I was a kid) were particularly wary about new technology...
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    WD Red very loud noise when being used and quiet when it's not. is it normal?

    okay as i've mentioned in the first post, im a long-time laptop user, i rarely use PC and this is the first internal drive i bought. so i don't have a comparison of what a regular quiet~loud drive sounds like (i did YT how wd drive sounded like though). From the the time i last posted here, i...
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    WD Red very loud noise when being used and quiet when it's not. is it normal?

    since im new to building pc and pc components in general. that could be it. how do i know if it's normal spinup of a drive anw? does drive spinup means.. if i hvnt access the drive for some period of time, say 30 minutes, and then i go and access it, then it emits sound? what about when...
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    WD Red very loud noise when being used and quiet when it's not. is it normal?

    crystaldiskinfo reported good
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    WD Red very loud noise when being used and quiet when it's not. is it normal?

    any tests i can try to check the drive health? if i rma i probably have to argue with the local distributors, so it's always good to bring "proof" the only thing i've tried is crystaldiskinfo and it reported good
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    WD Red very loud noise when being used and quiet when it's not. is it normal?

    so... i bought my first WD red around 3 weeks ago... from reviews i assume it should be quieter than WD green. i never have an internal WD green but i have a couple external 3.5" mybook (which is green? CMIIW), so im familiar with it's seeking sound and the fan-like noise it generates. on my...
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    my 1st pc build, aim for quiet pc and reliability, went from zero knowledge, kindly n

    dumb on the MSI part i mean, not on mine... great i'll just wait for nvidia maxwell series to comes out then, and find one with backplate :D thank you for snapping me out of it. regarding fps... so far i've played tomb raider and some very light games with it. tried benchmarking with tomb...
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    my 1st pc build, aim for quiet pc and reliability, went from zero knowledge, kindly n

    that's a great answer, thank you very much as always for being so helpful... fyi, i tried to find wireless pci/e card with no blinking light, there are none apparently. :D alrighty about the vga card. if you say so then in several months i won't be upgrading to 770 or r9 280x then... now...
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    my 1st pc build, aim for quiet pc and reliability, went from zero knowledge, kindly n

    alrighty... i hv a question about upgrading my card. if down the road in a couple of months i've decided to get 770 or r9 280x... which eats more power than my current r9 270x... is it still fine to plug my 1 pci-e cable to power it, or should i use 2 pci-e cables to do it? since each 1 pci-e...
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    my 1st pc build, aim for quiet pc and reliability, went from zero knowledge, kindly n

    damnnnn. i just broke my baord trying to smash the led light. :D alrighty so... since this is my first PC, all i know when i built it was to make it quiet or silent and have window so i can see what i built i didn't know how it was gonna look until i assembled it and see the finished...
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    my 1st pc build, aim for quiet pc and reliability, went from zero knowledge, kindly n

    alrighty... last question, ATM im using a PCI-e wireless adapter, but its only 150mbps TP-LINK brand the link. it's quite sucky, i couldn't maxed out my DL speed with it from where i put my computer. To max out my DL speed i have to move the PC to the center of my room 2 foot over, which is not...
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    my 1st pc build, aim for quiet pc and reliability, went from zero knowledge, kindly n

    i tried every possibility of cable management i could think of that didn't involve ducktaping or pressing the USB3 cable under another thick cable and zip tie it a certain way so that it'd push down. (im afraid it'll bent sideways if i do that) if you wouldnt mind checking out this photo, you...
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