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Sweet, thanks. Lynnfield :cool: That was my first desktop

Hi everyone, I've been meaning to get an aftermarket cooler and try out overclocking for some time now, and yesterday I finally did it. I taped most of it and took a bunch of pictures as well, here's the link to the post about it...

Despicable, those types of people ruin it for the honest people trying to get some wind under their wings.

Even though I was partial to AMD, I'd say either is a good choice right now. Just keep an eye out for sales or wait till Black Friday and make your buy.

Then I have some solace since I ended up not buying it right away :) Though my compulsive saving habits would probably mitigate the crashing problem.

You might even be able to go and manually edit the fields where Windows looks to check hardware. I know you can change the name in the registry, but I'm not sure if Windows looks deeper than that.

I'm not quite up to everyone's level here, but I have a feeling I probably will be in some years :D

Just wait until they tap into facial expression recognition...

I'm sure SteamOS will progress more rapidly, at the very least. I'll reserve judgment for now, I suppose.

Yeah I can see the style being off putting to some, but functionality comes first. Compatibility is nice, but seamless integration is better. Nobody wants to start a presentation, only to notice halfway through some text box trails off the screen, or some link stopped working.

Yeah, plus if you're doing light gaming you could even rock a G3250. The only scenarios I would justify an AMD processor are: big sale/combo or video editing + BF4 gaming. Sadly, Intel's pricing and specs leave only a small window for a rational customer to choose the competition.

Exactly, there is an emergent property when all these select pieces are painstakingly assembled, imbued, and christened -- allowing for angels and saints themselves to sing directly into your ear canal.

Same exact issue, similar name. Probably, I guess one message board of PC geeks isn't enough to tell you that your thermal paste is probably the cause.

I didn't either until I saw the reference a couple times too many... So I went and looked. I wish I hadn't.

The PC version most likely has controller support.

I really have to force myself to start using Libre Office - so sick and tired of Microsoft's BS

I'm debating buying and playing this now, or getting it on a steam sale in 2016 for like $20-30. Well, I am between jobs right now...

Wow that looks really sharp. I had no idea things like this existed. I was in the market for something like this over the summer.

Why switch camps now? I would wait until the next showdown, it might be a little more exciting than the last line of cards (from both companies) released.

Sooo... How does Apple respect their customer's privacy, relatively speaking? Might not be a bad time to build a hackintosh!

I don't mean to backtrack the discussion, but I find myself using Lubuntu and Mint more than anything, Ubuntu recently as well. Though sometimes I really wish you could just have the all the best parts of each Linux distro packaged into one. That's the dilemma though. Haven't had any reasons to...

There's a difference between being a "straight shooter" or blunt, and being professional and tactful. From OP's snippet, Linus is venting and raging a little without contributing back to what he is knocking down. Pissed with the quality of work being submitted recently? Take a breath, bite...

Have there been no attempts for a 3rd company to enter the GPU market? I'm sure there are a lot of reasons not to, but it can't be impossible. In fact, if done right, it could be very lucrative.

Roger that. So suit up and get uBlock origin and NoScript! Good luck

Well said. That's my preferred method, reformat & reinstall fresh :) OP, thoroughly removing malware infections is a dirty business, since there really aren't any ways to guarantee 100% removal. I shuddered when I learned about boot sector viruses. The best defense malware is prevention.

I stand by the speakers at concerts, so probably not for me :D

I mean, a large part of virus detection already has something in common with the human mind: the use of heuristics. What's funny to me is that people who fall for click bait or phishing links are likely relying on some silly heuristic when they let in a virus ;)

For themes on Wordpress, there are plenty of sharp looking free ones - they'll just have the authors name at the bottom or something, and may not have the high quality stock/background pictures, which is fine. As far as security and managing users, I have Wordfence which scans your Wordpress...

I have ISOs and machines running off non-primary partitions, separate from where my OS is located. But I'm running Windows as host and Linux as guests - which is the recommended setup most of the time. Are you that limited on your internal storage?

Broke a million recently. It helped to enable GPU folding ;) Now I appear on the top folders for my team!