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I've been playing a riff on Pathfinder (Final Fantasy d20) with some friends of mine online using Roll20.net and Myth-Weavers' character sheet hosting. It's pretty fun, but the scheduling is brutal -- I'm trying to get used to going to bed and getting up at a decent time again, and the games...

My great-grandmother and great-uncle always confused me for my dad. Weird, considering my dad was blonde growing up and I have very dark brown hair.

Isn't one of the benefits of a reference design that you can more easily find aftermarket coolers for it, should you need them?

I personally plan on following it. College costs too much for me not to. I only really have one shot at this, I need to make it count.

Typo. But then I figure you already guessed that. :grin: Basically I was all but forced to take fifteen credit hours my first semester (yes, it does go by a semester system here), else I wouldn't graduate on time. I'm actually pretty happy with my final schedule, I should be able to easily...

Metro College isn't going to work out, I have 8AM classes and I'm not capable of running on >4 hours of sleep with any regularity. Went to bed at midnight, orientation went until 11 and then I wanted to grab a pizza. Woke up at 4, the A/C had cut out and I felt like I was suffocating. To...

Orientation started this morning. Most of it is rather boring, speeches and what is probably the usual information. Lunch is easily the highlight of my day so far. An interesting opportunity has been laid before me though, if I work graveyard shift for UPS in their Metropolitan College program...

Diablo 3 can apparently run on a potato now, as I can crank the settings pretty high in 720p on the HD 4400 and still have decent FPS provided I turn 'Low FX' on. I even ran it on the desktop, runs fine there too. I guess the fact that it released in 2012 has something to do with it? It's so...

Assuming this isn't MS rigging the results like with Windows 10 adoption, this might just be a compelling reason to go to Edge. Vivaldi is not very nice to my battery, using something like 30% of my CPU just sitting with YouTube open. Edge still looks more like a toy than a browser though, and I...

I wonder how much lower we can go without being completely unable to go any lower.

I looked at the guy running Doom 4 on an HD 4600, at 720p (I think you can take it down to 800x600 minimum, so not that much lower) at the lowest settings he was getting unplayable framerates, like 20 just in the menu. No thanks. Not paying sixty dollars for a slideshow. I can play most older...

I'm kind of sad that the new Doom doesn't seem to be playable on an HD 4400 even with all the bells and whistles turned completely off, but honestly looking at gameplay footage I think I prefer the Brutal Doom mod in GZDoom anyway. It at least doesn't require a supercomputer...

When we were on HughesNet the speed was fine, 12mbps at least, but the latency was horrible, something like 4000 or so. I would often ping out of loading web pages and an IRC chat was nearly impossible to stay connected to. But the thing that peeved me off most about it was that they had the...

Figured out why my internet connection sucks so bad. Our plan is advertised as 3mbps down, 768kbps up -- pretty much standard DSL speeds, right? Except we got maybe half of that on a good day. Looked at their brag sheet and in fine print under the big 3mbps... "Burst speed only. Normal...

Was looking at open world driving games today. Test Drive Unlimited (2007) or Unlimited 2 (2011) would have been my first pick except they run SecroROM BS on PC and not only does that dog not hunt on Windows 10, period, I also oppose SecuROM in it's entirety. No torrenting around here, small...

"Supported Operating Systems : Windows 98 / 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10, each 32-bit and 64-bit, Mono (Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, ...)." That's a pretty wide range of support. I can understand still supporting XP and Server 2003, but why still support 98? That's been out of...

Thanks! This is pretty much what I was after.

Anyone know of a way to control SpeedStep? I want to stay in the lowest frequency possible while the CPU usage is from 0-20%, kick up to mid range from 20-50%, and go full throttle from 50-100%. This is more for temp reasons than power reasons, given the Thinkpad barely sips that as it is. But...

How would a CPU with a drilled in hole open anything? I figured by key fob he meant something to get a better grip on your keys with? A handle or something? Like a keychain, only with an actual use? Shaddap, I'm sleepy. :-P It didn't occur to me that he might have modified the junk CPUs...

I use some old broken 30-pin SIMMs for key fobs, myself.

I ordered the extended battery for the Thinkpad, should arrive sometime this month. I had a bit of sticker shock, though -- the thing cost almost $75! I guess it's worth it, coming directly from Lenovo... I don't know why, but I've been collecting CPUs for a while. Right now I have: an...

On second thought it would probably be easier to install to the hard drive and then use the M.2 SSD for caching purposes. I heard of a piece of software that does that -- Fnet Hybridisk? Has anyone used that here?

I have an awful, terrible idea about the T450. This is purely hypothetical, in the event that I do ever get the drives needed, but I wonder if this will work. If I were to clone a Windows install to the M.2 SSD and then install GRUB to an HDD (that I would have upgraded to either 1 or 2 TB to...

Chrome 51 has the new material design UI. Can't decide if I like it or not.

Funny, it's usually AMD I associate with breaking games with driver updates.

I also appreciated the card. The 42mm M.2 slot is kinda crappy I guess but if I play my cards right I won't need to upgrade the storage at all, the 840 Evo blows my old Kingston drive out of the water... and I thought that thing was fast! Yeah, the T460 is pretty pricey at this point, I...

University of Louisville, and I'm sure they'd like Windows much better than Linux to be perfectly honest. I thought the first semester was spent doing core classes like English and some form of math?

A lot of the reviews I looked at for this cite the screen and sound quality as cons. As a first impression, coming off of my nc6400, the screen is nice, bright and colorful. The res is no better but no worse than the nc6400, and the sound actually has depth, stereo separation and some bass...

Gentoo is way beyond even me. Arch is a PITA like nothing else, so if (and that's a big if) I use Linux on it, it will likely be Xubuntu or some other Ubuntu variant. No, despite my misgivings with Windows 10, I will be using it on this machine, with Anti-Beacon and Classic Shell of course.

Just got the ThinkPad today. I think it's actually last generation's model -- it's got an i5 4300U! Still about twice as fast as anything else I have. Thank you so much, everyone!

For me restarting the whole machine always fixes such issues. I have them all the time, sometimes an older DX9 game like Asheron's Call or Oblivion craps out and then I can't start it back up without a restart.

Sorry about the slow response time. My school blocks SF as part of their "forums" rules and I don't get home until 4:30 - 5:00 PM, and my phone gets crap reception in there due to it being an almost entirely cinderblock and brick building. Usually I can get around it by remoting into my desktop...

This I/O shield cutting thing is going way too slowly for my liking. I blame it on having to use a battery operated dremel. It charges in three hours, is drained in less than 10 minutes. I have it maybe halfway done now.

I can handle hearing puking, even seeing puke, but I can't handle smelling it.

I think it's crazy that we're still seeing increases like these from generation to generation of GPUs when we see small fractions of these jumps from generation to generation of CPUs.

When I used Vista on a regular basis, I had an MBR scheme, and it still only made the one partition that I remember. But it would make sense for them to start doing it then, since Vista introduced the 6.x kernel and all and introduced a lot of the changes that have stayed the same since 2007.

Speaking of power tools, I'm using a dremel to cut out the I/O shield of a Dell Inspiron 530s case. I'm looking up the pinout of the front panel connector on the motherboard too, so I can rewire the headers to fit my Skylake board. If I'm going to take my desktop with me, it's going to be in a...

Windows has done this since 7. 7 made a 100MB partition, 8/8.1 make a ~300MB partition, and 10 apparently makes a ~500MB partition. I thought this was completely normal behavior, similar to some Linux people making a small /boot partition during setup of their various distros (first time I saw...

That sucks. One time I ordered a Verizon prepaid Moto G off of Amazon, it still had the PIB lock on it and I couldn't get it removed. I ended up giving it to my cousin who used it like an iPod touch.

Either I'm not running into this issue or I'm just not noticing. The last version you listed as it working properly on being XP x64 makes me curious... does 7 or 8 have the same issue?

I've used Bluestacks before, I never had an issue beyond my machine not being powerful enough to run it at full speed at the time. However I'm currently a much bigger fan of Genymotion.

Sweet jesus, 8GB/250GB SSD and you still want to upgrade it further? It already dwarfs every laptop I've ever used, much less owned! Not saying I wouldn't appreciate more, just don't beat yourself up over it if you can't add more, it's already far more than capable of meeting my needs. Just out...

It just puts things into perspective for me, last time I tried was pitiful. On OpenGL it would stutter if a lot was going on, Direct3D12 (experimental, probably because of this) it was worse, but Direct3D9/10 or whatever it was works even better than OpenGL. I should be able to take it up to...

Just tried emulating a GameCube on a whim tonight, last time I tried it was like 5 years ago when I was still running an E2200 with the G31 express chipset (and got a whopping 6FPS) and was shocked to find it working just fine. Played Wind Waker for almost an hour tonight on the G3900. At...

So I've been using my rubber dome Model M (circa 94) on my desktop for a while now, used SharpKeys to reassign ralt to start, rctrl to play/pause, and rshift to mute. Works beautifully. I didn't think I'd like it so much, being rubber dome, but the tactile feel is like nothing else you'll ever...

Just saw Civil War today with a couple of my friends and while I found it entertaining while I was in the theater, I didn't really remember much of it once I left. I found the nods to earlier Avenger films pretty cool.

Actually, I'm using a 1280x1024 17" display as well on the desktop, only it's in tandem with a 19" 1440x900 display as well. The laptop has a 1280x800 14.1" screen. If I had about 90 dollars to my name right now I could get a decent 1080p monitor (VGA/DVI only, no HDMI) at 21.5".

The specs are very impressive but at that price point I think I'll have to pass for a good long while. What kind of monster rig do you need in order to not bottleneck one of these bad boys anyway? If I get any sort of GPU upgrade anytime soon, it'll probably be to a 950 or 970. The 1050 if it's...

I'm back to folding, after a fashion. The Intel 510 my desktop is pushing isn't recognized by the folding client (I wonder if we'll see the GPUs.txt update again and add support for it?) but the CPU gets me a cool 1k PPD. That's five times as much as I was getting back when I was folding with a...

Thanks a bunch guys, you don't know just how much I appreciate it. Motherboard came in today, chip and RAM came in Tuesday. Put it all together, it all works fine. Windows thinks it's pirated again, just what I needed. But the hardware works great, temps are fine, everything's good. It's...