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I love new tech but even in 2016 I see no reason to upgrade my S3. The screen is great, battery life is good, and it does everything I could ever want a smartphone to do. Why would I pay $300-$700CAD for a new phone that really does nothing all that new. Hell, even some newer phones I've looked...

Ugh.. yes, some stuck on the keys (not kidding) and others with f'n hairballs stuck in the fan and underneath the keyboard. How? Why? Some people have no shame. This week has been particularly bad. Absolutely disgusting machines, 2 of them were less than a year old. I would be embarrassed...

Why is every laptop I work on so disgusting? Crap all over the screen, keys stuck with crap, stains all over the place. I swear 99% of consumer laptops 'regular' people use all look like this. It's like they don't think they can be cleaned or something. Just working on them grosses me out...

I can understand that but why does 4K video look 4 times sharper than 1080p video on a 1080p monitor? I am seeing a huge difference watching that above clip in 4K compared to 1080p on my Samsung monitor. Is VLC making the video stream look 4 times better?

Download this 4K vid as an example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B35Le_BWIu3DS3dfd1NCVk5tZnM/view?usp=sharing Its looks stunning on a 1080p display (thru VLC) and when I play it on a Seiki 4K monitor it looks the same, maybe a little bit worse. Could be the quality of the Seiki monitor...

I have downloaded dozens of 4K video samples and they all look stunning on my 1080p Samsung monitor. Way better than regular 1080p videos. But is what i'm seeing really 4K quality? To me, it appears to be. I have tested the same sample videos on 4K monitors and they look no better than...

Installed a Corsair H60 liquid cooler this morning. Install was easy, the rest of the day was a frustrating disaster. Now I feel like a complete idiot for overlooking the simplest thing. My PC powered on fine but my i7-3770 temps were all over the map from 35-45.c idle to 90-105.c at full...

Other than the pump going bad/making noise and possibly the fan dying how likely is it for leaks to happen with these all-in-one units? Would you say its rare?

I found out who made the liquid cooler in my system. A company called AVC. I had never heard of them before and there doesn't seem to be much info that I could find. What i did find out was they seem to be like the Foxconn of cooling and make coolers for other companies. Enermax and Asetek came...

I have a 2 1/2 year old iBuyPower system with a no name (that I can find) CPU water cooler. System is running fine, temps are always in the low 30 degree celsius range. Other than blowing out the dust its been working great. How often do you guys replace a CPU water cooler? What's the average...

I want to install a 120 or 140mm fan on the side panel but i'm reading recommendations for intake while others say exhaust. I have a front intake and top exhaust fan already installed. What do you guys consider best for a system that has a water cooled CPU? thanks

In Canada a 1TB SSD goes anywhere from $450-800. Do you expect prices to fall dramatically this year (or in a year)? If I could find a 1TB SSD in the $250-300 range I would be happy. How long do you think it will be? Thanks

When you were flashing the BIOS? I wonder if this has actually ever happened to anyone?

I had been using an unbranded Radeon 7850 for 2 years (came with the ibuypower system I bought). Thought the image quality was ok but remember thinking 2 years ago that my old system with a MSI 6850 looked better. Overall the 7850 was stable until recently. The 7850 bit it a week ago, no...

Its an ASRock B75M-DGS. 7850 is seated in a pci-e 3.0 slot. CPU Type QuadCore Intel Core i7-3770, 3700 MHz (37 x 100) Motherboard Name ASRock B75M-DGS (1 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 2 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Video, Gigabit LAN) Motherboard Chipset Intel Panther Point B75, Intel Ivy Bridge System...

Second time in a month my 7850 has come loose. At first there will be minor corruption and then the card won't initialize. I reseat it and it works fine. It seems secure in the mobo and I have it secured with both screws. The only thing different I can think of is its been pouring rain all...

I think its one of the best Windows 8 features. It allows even pokey mechanical hard drives to boot up in 10-20 seconds. Do you guys like this feature? I've been reading some odd ball comments from other sites stating it could cause hard drive corruption. Is this true? Is it a good idea to...

I imagine this question has been asked to death but which is better? Currently I have the page file set on my secondary HDD to conserve space on the SSD. My system has 16GB of DDR3 so I was tempted to disable it completely but I didn't.

I have to admit I kind of rushed this and only did an hour of research before deciding I was going to buy the Enermax. At least its better than the crap that was in this system before. I suppose I could take it back but I can live with this PSU.

well, I ended up buying the 750W Enermax. I had a $50 gift card so it only cost me $45. Overkill for this system but at least I have some peace of mind now. It was a cinch to install and is much cleaner than that ugly Apex. Thanks for the replies and for motivating me to replace it. edit: in...

Thanks for the advice you guys. Here's what an ibuypower tech rep had to say. Doesn't really reassure me all that much.

what do you guys think of this one: http://otvtech.com/catalogue?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_stock.tpl&product_id=13683&category_id=531

Bought an ibuypower system that was on sale for a really good price (ordered through tigerdirect.ca). So far i'm liking it but the cheap 500W Apex/Allied AL-D500EXP power supply has me nervous. This power supply is manufactured by the same people who made the crappy DEER PSU's years ago...

I bought a new PC with an ASRock B75M-DGS motherboard. I also bought two new Asus VH232H 23" monitors. The problem i'm having is the graphics look horrible. Color banding, grainy, blurry/washed out video, fuzzy text. It looks like everything is in 16-bit color and some images have a...