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The preview displayed fine for me just now, so hopefully it was some weird abnormality that won't happen again. I have: AB+ 2.6.6 Downloadhelper 4.9.24 Ghostery 5.4.1 NoScript 2.6.9.5 WOT 20131118 installed.

"Preview Post" button shows correct preview but completely erases the message!?!?! Goofy problem that started happening for me, but not for every post. "Preview Post" button shows correct preview but completely erases the message!?!?! 1) I enter text. 2) Click "Preview Post." 3) Correct...

"Philips BDM4065UC 40 inch UHD (‘4K’) monitor" This looks interesting. A 4k monitor that is 40" in size. About the same PPI as a 27" 2560x1440 screen.

"EIZO Announces the IPS 26.5” FlexScan EV2730Q Monitor with 1920x1920 Resolution" News blurb from Anandtech.

This.

Consumer HDDs have reached 1,000,000x the storage capacity of their their great-great grandfathers released in the early 1980s. It's amazing these thing don't have a higher failure rate as it is. Probably the greatest thing to impact the failure rate(s) of consumer drives is the...

I instantly thought the same thing. The 850 is a bit faster but for business/professional use I would trust the more mature firmware of the 840 over the 850. I would have spec'd the 1TB drive though. This. Although two things. 1) The "wait next year to get 90% for 50% cost" is a good idea...

Indeed. How about a 22" 1080p set.

How bad is your vision Sed? Mine was 20/200 in one eye, worse in the other. BTW (x/y) = see things at x feet, that you should be able to see at y feet is how I remember it?!? I've seen more and more kids (18-25 yo) going back to the "Hank Hill" type glasses and not the smaller "trying to...

Your brother in law probably needs one (or 4) of those 18-core Xeons, 15 SAS drives in RAID-6 and 1.5 TB RAM. Oh and don't forget the 1.44mb floppy drive for OS/installs. Save some cash be getting Windows 3.11 on floppies instead of the CD-ROM! LMAO. Clocker if nobody here chimes in with a...

If one is not a classical music fan this video will help you appreciate the finer things in life. Must see.

Wow! I must have checked prices just before they lowered them. $304 right now. $309? Newegg shenanigans? $304 when listed with other SSDs but $309 when you click the link? What the F?!?

You might be able to find a good deal on a Samsung 840 Pro 256 or 512 GB as they are being discontinued for the 850 series. ($160 or $380 @ Newegg)

You are probably right, looks like 970/980 are upper range SKUs, but not the "high-end" SKUs to come in the future. I'm guessing bigger die (aka 980ti) and dual GPU (aka 990) 780=2304 CUDA cores. (192 cores/unit) 780ti=2880 CUDA cores. 980=2048 CUDA cores. (128 cores/unit) 980ti= perhaps 2560...

HardOCP review. 980 vs 780ti 1) $150 cheaper launch price than 780ti. ($549 vs $699) 2) Game play 10-20% faster than a 780ti. 3) Lower power/heat. 4) 3x displayports, 1x HDMI 2.0 and 1x DL-DVI-I 5) H.265 hardware encoding. This is an upgrade targeted at the 680 owners. 780/Titan owners are...

Uphill both ways.

Goofy problem with Malwarebytes. On one of the three machines I installed it on, if you rename the desktop ICON and re-boot it will no longer show the correct icon. It shows the windows default icon. I can right-click the icon, go into change icon, and click on the blue MWB icon, apply, etc...

I think it was SD that mentioned it before, but any thought on SuperAntiSpyware. And yeah, I could have wiped his 8.1 box and started over.

"SanDisk Launches Extreme PRO SD Cards: Up to 512GB" Anandtech blurb here.

I remember when a friend got a 10 MB HDD for his XT-Clone and it was godly. This sucker is 1,000,000x the capacity of that 10 MB drive. And it will cost less as well.

Well I guess if you are going to bang* it (the keyboard) you need protection. *A buckling spring keyboard + plastic cover = LOTS OF FORCE needed to press the keys.

Avast didn't find much as it looks like most of it was just adware/crapware type stuff. I just uninstalled "Nitro Pro 8" and "pl-usHD" so 29 crap programs. I need to make sure things are auto-updated and figure out the procedure my pop needs to do on a daily/weekly basis to prevent...

Looks like at least 27 crap programs installed. I'll delete the old "CCleaner" and "Java 7 Update 67". Not sure about "Driver & Application Installation" and "LVT" as they seem to be part of the Lenovo suite of programs and I don't want something to stop working? Unless all the Lenovo...

I've read that the Cherry MX-Green switches are the closest to feel and sound of buckling springs. I'd like to try one of those, although I'm happy with my loud Unicomp.

Holly crapware Batman! Well I got my pop computer at my house up and running, no internet access or access to my other computers. Here is a screen cap of what's in add/remove programs: Holly crapware Batman! Looks like there are at least 15 programs that are complete bullshit without...

"IBM wants to kill the hard drive it invented," story here. "But whether it's a solid-state or hard disk drive, conventional storage solutions have their limitations -- namely, speed, rewritability and durability. A team at IBM Research's Almaden facility in California has a cure for all of...

"4K Blu-ray Poised For Holiday 2015 Debut" News blurb here.

What happens if Verizon throttles your in-car WIFI or god forbid you BSOD the traction control computer while you are doing the Laguna Seca corkscrew at 140 kp/h?!!??!!!!!111111eleven!!!!!1111

I don't know if this new 5k monitor will take off and set the standard or die, but I'm just glad that the vendors are actually thinking HIGHER resolution is the was to go. We had been stuck at 2560x1600 for years and years. Good to see something higher. Get the higher rez and transmission...

I pick up pop's computer tonight for the grand.....Decrapifying Hopefully I'll be able to pick up pop's computer tonight for the grand.....Decrapifying. I'm gonna Merc-ify the machine in the hopes it lasts a few weeks before he finds a way to install another browser hijack. LOL. So what's...

Again great info. MUCH THANKS. Any links you can provide to specific tools would be appreciated as well.

Dell UltraSharp 27" 5k monitor (5120 x 2880). Four time the rez of a 2560x1440 monitor.

Looks like Anand is going to work for Apple. Link. Link.

LG to Unveil 34-inch 21:9 Curved IPS Monitor. Link. It's not 4k but looks like it could be an interesting gaming monitor for those that want a wide field of view but don't want a multi-monitor setup.

Maybe this site needs an update?

You know, I also have vague memories of such a device. Or maybe it was a jumper on the drive or controller itself that disables writes. Who knows... But in today's Windows world I don't see how such a device could work. Every time you move the mouse, click on an element or simply burp up...

I wonder if he sold his site or is just stepping down from playing an active role in it. If he keeps ownership it should mostly stay the same as the other editors have been creating the majority of the content recently, but if he sold it...........well, I just hope it doesn't turn into another...

I'm temped by both of those suggestions but he just bought his new desktop when winXP support ended so he'd be upset "wasting his new computer" and having to learn something new. Plus he actually likes Win8 and he thinks it's easier to use. I dunno. Maybe get an external HDD and create a...

/facepalm Once again my pop has had his brower hijacked. By the quick start browser hijack. /facepalm He's on Win8 (or 8.1 not sure). He's in he's 80s. I think he or his wife are too trusting and are installing shit, probably shit they don't even know about. They use Facebook. They read...

This. Most definitely. The new Intel "consumer" chipsets/CPUs are nice, but barely a real improvement in the last 3 years.

...for himself, not the site. Anand's blog post here. He really got started on the net when I did in the late 90s. Anand is one of the originals that set the standard for modern, high quality, PC hardware review sites. Good luck to him on his future endeavors.

One. Maybe two?

ZERO reason to go X99 and Haswell-E unless you actually have apps that can use 8c/16t, and/or you need more than 32GB RAM and/or you need 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes for your insane quad-titan gaming box and/or you have plenty of money and/or you need an ePeen boost. And/or you are <cough> DD <cough> and...

Anandtech review. HardOCP review.

Which external USB 3.0 enclosure are you using? Likes/Dislikes/etc? I was thinking of doing the same thing ... 850 Pro inside of an external enclosure. THXs.

This. Although there isn't much room for prices to drop on the "low-end" as I imagine the margins on the "non-premium" drive is pretty thin. I'm guessing that if there are no "problems" getting the 8TB drive to market that 2TB drives will be the bottom of the product stack, with 4TB drives...

Let me add to the chorus of THANK YOUs for returning the forum to the previous versions and another THANK YOU for the hard work and time involved in setting up, maintaining and paying for this forum. and also...................WTF vBulletin??????

Wow! That 500 Mb upload would be awesome for off site backups. I wonder how "low" that $305 will be in 5 or 10 years. And would 500 Mb be enough in 10 years? No problem. You really have to re-visit your internet/cable bill every 6 months or so to see if anything has changed. I do think...

Fast internet, CableTV and Phone for only $128. That is cheap as far as bundles go. Really cheap. I also have CATV and phone and bill is around $200/month. Two HD boxes, DVR and phone with all the "features" so yeah, $128 total is cheap. The CATV part of the bundle is the expensive part as...

Thanks for the info. As an FYI, I downloaded Planetside2 from Steam. A bit over 15,000 MB in size and got 12.5 MB/s on download. So Steam is definitely the place to test your sustained internet download speed.