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We now have a good reason for DD to buy this power supply. 295X2 Quadfire. Crysis 3, 3840x2160, cranked settings, avg 82 fps.

Intel's new Z97 chipset w/SATA Express ports. HardOCP review of an ASUS board here.

Ars Technica article about this wonderful new technology. /sarcasm NO THANKS!!!

It's one of the best films ever made. Not in the same class as "The Godfather" or "The Shawshank Redemption", but pretty damn good for a summer comedy type movie.

This has to be a running joke and it makes me laugh every time, but the saying is Bueller Bueller Bueller

I have a friend that was just starting his IT career and was working for a medium sized magazine publisher (they have 6-8 mags under one umbrella) and the head IT guy was formatting a new array. When the format was complete he realized that he has formatted the PRODUCTION SERVER'S drive array...

The Lenovo site shows the "upgrade" to 7 pro as $50. Two options 1) Win7 Pro or 2) Win7 Pro upgrade through Win 8.1 Pro downgrade rights. I'm not 100% sure and would like clarification from those that know but option 1 gives you; win7 media/repair disk/win7 key, while option 2 gives gives you...

I've thought this on a weekly basis lately. sigh.

tl;dr - Socket fixed - Computer works - I'm still a clumsy SOB. Sweet Jesus. I'm one lucky stoopid SOB. I'm not screwed, CPU socket saved. Two hours of memtest86, several runs of Intel CPU test program, prime95 for a while and no problems. Installed Win7pro x64 and 150 odd updates, printer...

Thanks for the quick reply. I know my bent socket pins pale in comparison to the medical problems people are having and I wish everybody the best. Didn't intend to gloss over the REAL problems of others with my stoopid bullshite. Sorry, just had to vent. I'm calmer now. Gonna buy a...

A sad night for me. I have been buying all the parts for a new PC for mom, probably the last PC she'll ever need, and I pulled a boner move before I even got started building it. I photograph all the parts, S/N, etc. I also photograph the CPU socket. All is well. Then, for a split second of...

And it's "reasonably" priced ... as compared to the Titan Z. It's only a couple hundred more than two individual AMD 290x cards plus you get water cooling for the GPUs for quiet operation vs two air cooled 290x.

OK. $3000 too much? How about a $1500 video card. HardOCP review. Anandtech review.

<face palm> Now my sister-in-law needs a laptop as her old one is 10 years old. She will be using it for work. She asked me about the Toshiba Satellite S75 Laptop. I told her it was probably crap and that she should look at Lenovo or maybe a BUSINESS CLASS laptop from Dell/HP. So she sends...

DD's new video card. Of course he'll need two to SLI.

Single-Payer FAQ here.

I've been using a Unicomp since 2007 and I finally got a usb one last year. Not quite the sound/feel/quality of an original IBM made Model M but close enough. Buckling spring or go home. Supposedly the Cherry MX-Green keyboards feel/sound kinda like buckling springs but they are still...

At first I thought you wrote ANKLE grabbing job, as in being bent over and taking it. LMAO. You may be bored as f*ck at your job, but at least you don't have some kid 20 minutes out of college driving a spreadsheet and checking up on your rate every 15 minutes. And I'm sure you aren't working...

I haven't checked to see if a newer revision of their Ultrasharp is out yet...but I'd say the Dell is still your best bet. At the very least for Dell's warranty and return policy(s).

Yep! StorageReview test here. I haven't visited that site since before Eugene sold it off. How would you rate to overall quality of the SR of today Vs. "Eugene Days"?

Anandtech tests the Crucial M550.

Sounds like my company. Option A) Spend $100 ONCE to permanently and correctly fix a problem? NO WAY can we afford that. Don't even ask. Option B) Spend $10/week for the next 60 years. Sure no problem.

Not a huge deal but thought I'd mention it in case there is some hidden issue. Navigating the site around 3 A.M. AZ time (got off work early) noticed several delays of around 20 seconds to load pages. I thought it was perhaps my end but I did receive this error once: Internal Server Error...

I just received my copy of this and when I looked at the CD-Key it was too small to read. Two lines of text a total of 3mm high. Length about 14mm. And 2/3 of the key was black printing on a blue background? WTF. I had to use a camera and take a zoomed in pic of the key. It's a plot to...

The singularity.

Babymetal

The sell-off continues.

Intel 730 reviewed here.

"With a curb weight of 1,244 kilograms and a power output of 1,244 bhp" Hennessey Venom GT

More A/C weather next week. At least it's better than last week. I admit if I was in the bitter cold most of you folks are experiencing for just 20 minutes I'd hate it more than this heat...But dammit, I don't want to use the A/C in February. It's gonna be a long summer. sigh.

Here are the "Technical Details" from the error message I get when I attempt to connect to the HTTPS address: www.libreoffice.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: www.documentfoundation.org , documentfoundation.org ...

I didn't know about it either. Googled and found this. I got this error: This Connection is Untrusted You have asked Firefox to connect securely to www.libreoffice.org, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure. Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted...

Some modest mining rigs here. I wonder what the ROI is for these babies?

I hope you aren't up for an emissions test anytime soon. As I recently found out the CEL light is an auto-fail as far as the tests are concerned.

"Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion in stock" Face Palm.

I thought two things when I saw that pic: 1) Holy rat nest Batman and 2) CUT THE RED WIRE!!! IT'S ALWAYS THE RED WIRE!!!! LOL.

This. This + 1. Common sense. It's an enigma. Are there still 15 or 20 countries that have better internet than the USA? F@CK YA!!!! 'Murica!!!!!!111!@!!

Looks like I'll be cranking up the A/C later in the week.

High-End photo gear prOn.

"Sony Forecasts $1.1 Billion Loss as Hirai Sells PC Unit." Bloomberg story here.

Consumer protections don't increase profits so why implement them. Just raise fees to cover costs.

"The news article that you are looking for can not be found or has been moved. Use the navigation links above, the search page or the sitemap in the footer of the site to find the news article you're seeking." Bad link?

My worst "computer related mistake" was NOT making one. By that I mean waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting to upgrade my computer because the "latest and greatest" was just around the corner and just a few months out. Because of that I was still running an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ in 2013...

They are IT pros who work for big corps where the cost of the actual hardware itself is usually the least expensive concern they might have regarding a system implementation or upgrade.

When 1200w just isn't enough Corsair goes one step further with the AX1500i PSU. Retail price is $450 and it meets the "current draft" of the higher 80-plus Titanium certification.

My 2 TB external drive is 15mm high, so the drive must be less than that. Hmmmmmmm.

"Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad and malware-filled updates" "Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad and malware-filled updates." ars technica article here.

You should receive some type of kickback from Handruin's memory/hardware vendor for getting him to bump the RAM from 192 to 256 GB.

I wonder which drive is in my 2 TB external Samsung unit.

And this.