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2015 started out crappy for me, got really crappy halfway through, started looking up and then got worse, then started to steadily get better. Here's hoping 2016 continues the trend.

Ah. See, I just go with standard fans so I don't know these things. Noctua was the only specific brand I knew of and they sounded somewhat similar.

I'm guessing it borked itself over? That's a possibility with any sort of Windows upgrade. There's a reason they tell you to make a backup before you do it. Still, no excuse for it to do that. This isn't like the jump from XP to Vista. It's still fundamentally the same as Vista, after all.

Pretty sure you're thinking Noctua?

Damn, that's a lot of storage. I can't even fill 1TB, though after backups and setup files I can certainly come close. Might upgrade to a 2TB when I finally do that build I've been putting off for forever. Your build looks nice and solid though. I've seen people use Pentiums or even Atoms for...

Oh my god, that internal shot made my knees turn to jelly. So... much... power... Been playing Undertale recently. I actually managed to buy it myself this time. It's pretty fun, but on the P4 if I'm doing anything else it lags horribly, as to be expected of a 2004 machine playing a 2015 game...

Ditto, just with less flashiness.

Out of curiosity, I checked the current OS marketshare figures. Kind of sad to see that 10.59% of people on the web are still using XP, even a year and 8 months after they dropped support for it. I'm one of them, at least for the time being, but I chose this fate. The rest of them may not have...

Remember how I said that? I lied. Donating the rest of the Phenom II innards to my dad's computer, whose motherboard is the reason behind its instability. (Clocker's 9600GT is still greatly appreciated, a very nice upgrade over a 210 for Dad) It's far more computer than he needs but it's what I...

Same here. My phone gets louder and more obnoxious than my old alarm clock could ever hope to.

Sweet. Next time I order something from there I'll use the link. Should be right after Christmas.

This one in particular dates from at earliest mid-2003. It's no big deal, my USB sound card works well enough. It's based on a C-Media chipset. I have to wonder if it's impacting my USB performance in any significant way. If not, it stays. I don't feel like buying a breakout box for the Audigy...

Drivers are installed correctly. No jumpers are set that would prevent it from working. Nothing is shorted out, to the best of my knowledge. It just quit working out of the blue one day. Stuff's plugged into the right port. Volume levels are fine. It's set as the default playback device. Yet...

Damn. This isn't going to be a very popular decision.

I dug out my old Magic: The Gathering cards last night. I actually remembered how to play! It's been at least half a year since I picked them up last.

I'd be folding except a Pentium 4 doesn't exactly help much and the GPU client doesn't like anything older than an HD 5000 series it seems. My Phenom II is still under repairs, I still need to get ahold of an appropriate PSU for its draw. It'll be back online come about Christmas.

This is true. That SE198WFP is my most recent monitor, and it's the better part of a decade old now.

I don't even have my own TV anymore. I never watched it much anyway. I play the odd DVD on my computers and have my PS3 connected to an HDCP capable monitor via DVI.

If it's PCI-Express my dad's GeForce 210 crapped out the other day. He's not fond of onboard video (stealing RAM is no bueno to him) so I gave up my GT730. His needs are very simple, pretty much extremely so. That it's an nVidia card is only icing on the cake. Long story short, I can't use it...

I can do that much without becoming a billionaire, surely! Well, at the rate the US dollar is depreciating in value...

Apparently your mileage DOES vary. I must have extremely good luck with monitors because my two Dells are going on seven years old each and they're going strong. I've never had them open and personally have not been very comfortable with the idea. If something goes wrong though and its an easy...

It staggers me to think of $250 as "cheap" for a display. Certainly cheaper than higher end parts, but really cheap? Puts that delectable 20" 1080p monitor for $150ish into perspective. Dad's got a 23" of the same brand (Asus, if you care) but I don't care for size at this time, I don't have...

It's Windows XP Pro. I'm running the gold release updated to the latest service pack and update for POSReady 2k9. It ships a technically usable driver, if all you want is 32bit color at 800x600 with no 3D acceleration whatsoever. It's serving merely as an interim main machine while I sort out...

Same. I had to do something similar to find drivers for my new 9600XT (courtesy of snowhiker, can't thank you enough! Works like a charm!), and I'm stuck on the Catalyst 10.2 series. It's site-wide methinks. Just because they don't support a particular hardware/software combination anymore...

Perhaps something like a NUC, like Howell mentioned, or maybe one of those Compute Sticks Ars has been looking at in recent memory? Ah, wait. Compute stick = needs HDMI, which isn't exactly guaranteed, while NUCs can still have VGA to my knowledge. Personally for the least amount of expense and...

The Radeon 9600 XT will be a darn sight better than a GeForce2MX. The HD4670 would have been freaking sweet though. :D I actually have that exact card but in PCI-E 256MB flavor. This machine, being a late S478 machine (i865) is an AGP 8x capable machine, to the best of my knowledge. If the...

So I put together a S478 Netburst rig to replace the PIII for vintage gaming on account of the PIII's anemic 3D capabilities (it has a Radeon 7000 but it's only connected via PCI -- there IS no AGP in this machine). It's powered by the motherboard out of an HP d530 with an i865 chipset -- no...

I know that nVidia is not to blame for this piteous state. Manjaro is supposedly semi-rolling release. It uses the -MANJARO kernel instead of -ARCH, which is a few versions behind (4.1.x instead of 4.3). I figured this out and I'm working on trying straight Arch since it might actually end...

The installation of the nvidia drivers is probably somewhat at fault. Last time I had Arch it worked perfectly well, installed the nvidia driver and compiled it with my kernel for it to work automatically. This one I don't think is working. This version doesn't seem to blacklist the nouveau...

So the nouveau drivers for my GT730 GPU don't work right, and don't work right on ANY linux distro, not just this one. Freeze up the system after so long in use, about an hour depending on what I'm doing. Last time I could fix the problem by removing nouveau and installing the proprietary nvidia...

True enough, and beyond that we're entering an age where the only machines with user-serviceable parts are either really high-end corporate stuff (still need to know) or high-end enthusiast stuff (slightly less important but still important). It hasn't happened yet but it's fast approaching it...

I feel so bad for you. Mine is already very slow (and flaky to boot), what's your average DL speed? For the record I'm going with Manjaro because it has all of the advantages of Arch without being as difficult (or to me or one of you, a mere PITA) to set up and configure as it already comes out...

I'm getting tired of the endless update train of Win10 (doing that on 3.3mbps DSL is, shall we call it unpleasant) and I don't like the idea of having to fend off my system from unwanted upgrades so I think I'm going to hop over to Manjaro and keep 7 around in a VM for GMetrix and Office 13 so...

Believe it or not, I have had virtual machines of OS/2 working for me to play around with. I don't have them anymore, but I can set more up fairly easily. Doing so on a phone is asking a bit TOO much though. :smile:

Yup. I'd be sorely tempted if I didn't only need my phone to do, like, six things. Heck, a cheap Windows Phone could accomplish everything I need. That's going to be my next phone, by the way. Why spend the extra money on a decent Android handset when a cheaper Windows Phone works just as well...

Aye. That's admittedly most of the appeal. It will accomplish the job I have in mind for it very nicely, a 'retro' machine that I can use and play around with outside of my cave. My i3 laptop doesn't like to play my older games very well for compatibility issues that I don't care to resolve, or...

Got a Latitude C-series laptop from another friend of mine. Lacks an AC adapter, other than that, the lack of a pad on the Trackpoint, and some cosmetic blemishes it's almost mint. Pentium III, unsure of clock speed but it has to be at least 700MHz, Rage Mobility with 8MB (or was it 16? Either...

Am I weird for not using the touchpad, ever? I ALWAYS have a mouse with ANY laptop that doesn't have a good ol' tracknipple.

Positively adorable.

I currently have no insurance. The state keeps sending my "Passport" applications back for no reason other than they can. Passport in this instance is the name of a state insurance plan for minors.

Given some time to really use it I've come to appreciate its rock-solid stability. The photos app still takes forever to start and run, but once it runs, it's running perfectly fine now, although I continue to use IrfanView for personal preference and speed reasons. I don't like the spying that...

CPU-Z reports nothing strange. Linux reported that it remained within spec ALL of the time. Not sure where it's getting the values.

I'm hoping TWC does come out this far but that my aunt just never investigated it. Doesn't matter too awful much though, I will start to spend most of my time out of the house and away from my cave as I use the laptop I'm getting soon. School blocks almost anything worth going to. My old high...

Probably, but these days 30,000 times your first experience just doesn't cut it.

Yesterday HWMonitor caught my processor dipping as low as 257 and then 20 MHz. That's twenty, as in two with one zero. Not a typo. Task Manager has been reporting similar fluctuations, it's almost never exactly within spec. It seems rock solid so I'm not going to bother myself about it.

I haven't been paying close attention to Task Manager, which in Windows 8 and up does report current clock speed, but I would imagine they'd say the same thing. My motherboard is cheap incarnate, a micro-ATX job from Foxconn that came in a low-end (Athlon II x2 in 2011 low-end) HP slimline...

As someone with a 3.3mbps internet connection... I envy you all. Often I end up not being able to do much at all for fear of bogging down the internet for everyone else in the house. Still, better than having the raw speed required but having a data cap as well. Excuse me while I unplug my...

I for one can't tell much of a difference between 1080p and 4K. I just want more workable space in my monitors, that's the only reason I'd care enough to upgrade to 1080p even. Noticed an interesting comment though: As someone with a very weak GPU (a GT730 to refresh your memory, supposedly...

Accidental double post, sorry.

Officially my processor's lowest clock speed is 800MHz, but with HWMonitor I've caught it dipping as low as 450MHz. Similarly, the rated max is 3GHz, but I've caught it scaling as high as 3.88. These incidents are very rare, though, since it mostly remains within the rated specs. As far as I'm...