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I didn't say that. But you continue to be an ass.

You can have it both ways by having a strong CPU and enough memory. If someone is complaining that 4gb and a lowly CPU doesn't cut it when having 50 tabs open or encoding or whatever while playing a game, yes, "they're doing it wrong" because their expectations for that level of parts is...

Keep being an arrogant ass when someone disagrees with you. You're the one who thinks gaming while encoding is some crazy thing that no one would ever want to do. Just because you don't want to do it doesn't mean someone else wouldn't want to. Which is the "not smart" and "silly" part...

The not beside the point was about only having a few browser tabs open. Just because you only want a few open doesn't mean everyone else is the same way. As for encoding while playing a game, well, sure, why not. Some people do like to multi-task with their computers. You might as...

Because I want to. It's not beside the point. 10 browsers with multiple tabs is similar to one browser with 10 x multiple tabs. One person's "fuckton of unnecessary shit" is another person's standard requirements. My SSD drive even uses 1gb of memory for cache.

How many tabs of stuff were open in those browsers?

I'd sell you an IP35-e if you want, but, after probably $12 in shipping, I don't think it'd be worth it for either of us. 3-400? Let's do a Sandy 2500k. You can beat the following numbers if you try. CPU $150 mobo $40-$75 8gb DDR3 $50 = $240-$275 If you don't require an overclockable board...

I had that happen today on a 775 board after I clicked "reset to safe values" or whatever in the bios. Plugged a PS2 keyboard in and then changed the setting for "use OS/bios for USB keyboard." Though the OP's problem I would guess may be a failure to boot problem. I had that one today too...

I went from 8 to 16 to 24 and didn't notice much if any difference other than the pagefile is a lot smaller. I usually use around 10gb lately, so I think Windows is good at pagefiling the overloaded 2gb if it's just from a browser that isn't currently being used or something. I assume people...

Trillian is pretty good. Looks good and has lots of themes, can unify other IMs, I think it has cam chat built-in but not sure.

May as well say the same for any drawing, painting, or whatever else of a "good looking in a sexual way" visual. If someone painted a picture of [insert currently-popular hot chick here], would it be pleasing in a sexual way even though it's only a painting of the actual woman? Probably.

But registering is different than registering your real name. I didn't know Huffington Post even allows completely anonymous comments. I thought you at least had to register, just like here. This sounds more like they will require a Facebook or something. (Guess I'll have to dust off my...

The U.S. government supports middle-eastern terrorist groups, so now what? We'll have to wait and see how Al Jazeera America is. In the meantime, everyone can watch RT.

lol, Daily Kos. The liberal media doesn't like to talk about things like Glass-Steagall because Bill Clinton pushed to end it and signed the repeal for it. Bill Clinton also cut capital gains taxes more than Bush did. I bet most people haven't heard that from the "we're not liberals"...

I assume they have at least some kind of warranty on the board, and my credit card company would be happy to do a chargeback for a non-working board if there's trouble, so I'd buy one if it's that much cheaper than getting something new with a longer warranty.

I've seen plenty of female players say they play male characters not only for the looks but because they think they will get less unwanted attention if playing as a male. Though, judging by this thread, maybe they should play female characters because everyone will assume it's a male player anyway.

BF3 users complain about lack of single-threaded performance? I thought BF3 and Crysis 3 were the main two games that liked 8 cores? (Even if they still might wind up being slower than a fast Intel CPU.)

That may not be a fair comparison especially if the 960T had the power-saving features disabled either by you or by exceeding a certain voltage or something limit in the bios due to overclocking like sometimes happens. If power-saving features are on, usually AMD and Intel are similar at idle...

Hating this boring MMO crap makes sense if the only MMO you've played is SWTOR. :D

A la carte games like DDO and LOTRO you can buy the current entire game for probably around $150 if you want. That's "only" 10 months of $15 a month. You can get pretty far just putting $25 or $50 into these games. You can look up reviews for each area of land and see if it's worth it to you...

GD65 also has two more sata ports. If you don't plan on being hardcore with that 4670k and don't plan on needing two more SATAs, I'd lean towards the 45. But if you're going for the best bang for the buck, I think you can do even better unless you really need three video card slots or...

I'll pass on renaming every program just so I can type something in the search bar to then bring up a list to browse. If it's a program I don't use enough not to remember the name of it without seeing it again, I'd rather just click on Start and quickly eyeball what comes up. If I want to...

That still doesn't help for things not pinned. Besides, pinning things to the taskbar makes the desktop "cluttered." ;)

Yes, I'm forgetful and can't remember programs I rarely use. And so "just type in the name of the program to load it up" or "perhaps you should only be launching things you plan on using," or "If you're scrolling endlessly through your Vista/7 start menu, you're doing it wrong" doesn't help...

That's hard to do when I don't remember the name of the program. I was testing out five different DVD-maker programs the other week. Ask me what their names are. Go ahead, ask. I could maybe name three if I took a minute. I have a Chrome-alternative browser installed for the times I...

I think I'd Memtest the memory and go from there.

Quick Launch Bar. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-dojo/restore-the-quick-launch-toolbar-in-windows-7/ In the pic, it has little icons for the shortcuts, but the person can just drag the bar to the left and turn all those into a popup list menu. Doing that, most people wouldn't even...

Small Start menus make me lose focus via nothing grouped together and via endless scrolling. I make sure to keep extra mice on hand when using the Windows 7 Start menu since it burns out my scroll wheels. ;) Fortunately, I recommend Start Menu X so people can have the best of both worlds...

That's true. But not pocket change compared to all other countries. And China is, we'll call it "lacking certain freedoms," and in parts of India it's even illegal to drink alcohol. Actually, thinking about India, maybe they're not higher in internet porn because they can't keep the...

But you can't use your desktop when you have the Start menu open anyway. Windows 7's little endless-scrolling program files window is like having a huge office desk and when you're looking for a specific piece of paper in a five-foot-high stack of papers you only flip through the corners of...

To me, cluttered is what Vista and 7 brought forth. I don't know why Microsoft wants me to scroll endlessly in a little window for a program name when I have a giant monitor where with one click I can see them all.

It also doesn't hurt to have 315 million people. Probably 350 million if you count all the illegal aliens.

They're both wrong. http://www.startmenux.com/index.html is better. It's free. There's a pro version for a price that does a couple more things. Even Windows 7 start menu is bad compared to this.

That's good, because I prefer football stadiums with more leg room. Or maybe it's more like asking which section of the stadium has more leg room. Or maybe it's more like asking which team has the hottest cheerleaders. They don't affect the game, but they're still nice to look at.

$50 buys him a brand-new motherboard for a new CPU. If he can get a nice cooler on a good sale for like $15, (which he can), that's a little different. Plus, he already has an H50. No, because you can get 7850 1gb right now for $100 after rebate and a 2gb has been $125 recently. When I...

Tera and Neverwinter both have mouse targeting, for those who don't know. And both are rather fun. Tera is super-newby at low levels, so don't let that get to you. Age of Conan is... weird. It's like it has great detail and sharpness, at times, but then the rest of the time I look at it...

And if you can't increase the limit, just go another route and get 17 or so cards with $1000 limit on each. Having credit cards doesn't mean you have to use them. Though that is a problem for some people, of course.

Similar here. AT&T DSL always worked. I never saw it off, not even for a minute. My cable is apparently above average, and it can go long periods always working, but then, like lately, it's like they do some upgrading or something on their end multiple days at midnight or 2 a.m. with no...

Opera may not be #1 in that study, but it's still #1 in my heart.

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