I was stupid, I'd read about these updates that were coming a few days ago, but tonight I got the notification for my laptop with Windows 8.1 and let them run through without thinking, I completely forgot.
It blue screened during the restart phase and now it cannot boot at all, telling me...
In terms of free antivirus, I'm using Avira and it seems to be very fast and efficient, I've also used NOD32 and I didn't notice any difference switching between the two in terms of speed.
Meanwhile Linux improves more and more each day. If Microsoft does anything stupid it's going to be easy this time for me to switch to Ubuntu and never look back.
They list Youtube as a tech failure, then their first sentence on it reads: "Youtube is the largest video sharing site in the world."
Tech failure =/= to financial failure.
Yeah the fan doesn't seem to have changed it is still spinning and as loud as ever :rolleyes:. When it was loud but did the job I was still planning on getting an AC fan, now that it's loud and useless I guess it's a no brainer. Another consideration is to sell my 4850 and buy a HIS IceQ 4870 or...
My card (sig) has been getting way too hot lately, it idles at 84-87C with the fan set to auto, and with the fan at max it idles at about 76C. I can't play most new games for long without the computer shutting down on me, I've seen it hitting 112C on load and beyond with the fan at max.
I...
Last night I ordered the $160 E8400 from Microcenter and today they emailed me saying the estimated ship date was august 4th, which is way too long for me to wait. Do they normally have accurate estimates? I think I would cancel the order right now if that's accurate, which I have never done...
So I'm working on a new build right now, trying to keep as cheap as possible, already ordered a 4850 and case, now I just need a motherboard, ram, and cpu while reusing the other parts from my current desktop. Right now my big decision is whether to go with 4gb of ram and get an E7200 or E8400...