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Thanks a bunch Striker! I really appreciate it. The money came in earlier than I thought it would by far -- but it's 150 dollars spread across two cards. So getting a new graphics card really isn't in the question unless I want something on the lower end like a GT730. That's still a significant...

I can't say I've really stress tested this yet, unless you can count leaving it on for hours at a time doing nothing (I unexpectedly had more than a few errands to run yesterday) as stress testing it. It still works fine, and right now I'm copying my personal files back to my freshly-NTFS...

So, while cleaning an old layer of thermal paste from the top of a CPU to put another layer on, I accidentally bent a couple pins on it. I reminded myself to stay calm, and grabbed a pair of needle-nose pliers. I know, using a sledgehammer for cracking an egg, yada yada... anyway, I bent them...

I'm looking into picking up one of these from amazon because they're currently very cheap (less than forty dollars on amazon ATM) and my birthday is quickly approaching. I've recently migrated to a CM11-ified Droid X for my phone -- but it is very clearly showing its age and some oddities with...

Congrats Joe! I know I have a long way to go before I get close to anyone else's post count.

We can only get 3mbps down/ 768kbps up DSL where I live now. It's significantly slower than HughesNet, but leaps and bounds more reliable. I wouldn't mind if they ran cable internet or fiber out this far from town, but I know it's probably never going to happen. We're lucky to have DSL, from...

I don't much care for cars either. My priorities are, in order: - Safety - Affordability - Gas mileage (where applicable)/range

I've only noticed that under Linux. Under Windows, it renders perfectly for me. I don't have anything running OSX so I couldn't try that.

I never create PDFs from pages, so I couldn't tell you. Merc, what rendering problems are you seeing with Chrome? I have never had any issues whatsoever. Not saying I can solve them or anything, just curious as to what's happening.

I am not a fan of the way Chrome handles tabs either. Aaaaand just fixed the tab management. Tab Manager seems to be a lifesaver in this regard. I haven't tested it extensively yet but from what I have done with it, it seems very stable and usable. It's also hosted on GitHub, if for some...

Yes. :grin: Face it old timer, you're stubborn as a mule! :rofl: Personally, I will give just about anything the time of day as long as it isn't gangster rap or modern country. Both of those grate on my nerves like nothing else. If I had to list a favorite album, I would probably say one of...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/heres-how-to-get-windows-10-for-free-even-if-you-dont-have-windows-7-or-8/ And like a goddamn idiot I didn't just stick it out. Eh. I'll just slap it on the testbed PC (Pentium Dual-Core E2200, 2GB RAM, Radeon HD 4670, 250GB HDD) for the...

I will be 16 until July 18th. Then I become... 17. Woooo. Who cares. I didn't care last year, and certainly won't this year. I'm not going to let age stop me from doing what I want to do. Luckily for me I don't want to do anything illegal.

Most of my "What to Watch" page consists of uxwbill, bbishoppcm, The Angry Video Game Nerd, The Game Theorists (MatPat), JonTron, Lazy Game Reviews, and the Gaming Historian.

My first computer was a Pentium MMX 200 with 8MB EDO RAM and Windows 95. The oldest computer I have ever had ahold of was a Commodore 64 with a 1541 floppy drive.

When I said mixing them, I meant mixing the carbonated beverages.

Hey, I resent that remark! Also, I totally do. I have a Pentium II 300 around here somewhere. I run Windows 2000 on it.

Nonono, I don't drink alcohol at all and probably never will. I must have miscommunicated.

I don't watch TV much anymore. I watch a ton of YouTube and will occasionally put my uncle's Netflix subscription to use (I binged my way through Archer about a month ago). If I'm ever living all by myself, I'm probably going to forgo a TV altogether and have a desk and a really comfortable...

Cool. When I get around to setting up a GOG account with actual funds I'll see about grabbing them. They sound like a good way to kill a few afternoons.

I don't think it was built to code, the addon wasn't at least. Remember, this is nothing more than a closed in deck.

It gives me a good laugh too.

I use the same two passwords for everything. It's probably really insecure, but I have nothing that is absolutely mission-critical. Except the StorageForum account, of course. :grin: In all seriousness, when I start doing online banking and stuff like that, I'll need to look into software like...

Finally got the latest build to install and holy crap is it unstable. I went straight back to Arch Linux with my tail between my legs like a scolded dog.

I'd love to find the first two games some time. Never played them but I hear they're really good. I hated the hoops i had to jump through to get 3 running, where New Vegas has given me no issues, even running in WINE admirably on a crappy Intel HD graphics chipset on the Celery laptop I had at...

My aunt's house has an uncooled sun room (converted deck) and without the windows open it can get up to a blistering 150 or so degrees F in there. Highs tend to be around 85 to 90 around here right now.

That new "Sangrita Blast" Mountain Dew is pretty good. Nothing I would want to drink all the time, but it starts off sweet and gives you a refreshingly sour kick in the tastebuds as an aftertaste. See, I'm substituting carbonated beverages for alcohol here. I'm going to keep doing this. Also...

Anyone here excited for Fallout 4? I'm not really excited for anything, mostly because I don't have any hardware capable of running it.

Ah, if only I could even hope to run something on that order.

So I might actually be getting that GTX750Ti for my birthday this year. Can't wait to actually be able to play games, because in 99% of the cases my CPU is not the limiting factor, although a faster one could never hurt. In lieu of throwing my whole system out, this is still going to be used for...

I love Shadow of Mordor. I have a family member who has it on PS4 that was my first experience with it, and it was amaze-balls on that. I got it for my PS3 and had to wait for about four hours for it to download a 1.2GB update (we have 3mb/s down 768k/s up DSL and I limit my speeds so as not to...

I really hope the preview doesn't have a timebomb in it, because I don't have $120 and I don't have an eligible Windows version for upgrading. The latest version of Windows that I have licenses I can use on these machines (OEM licenses for my systems) are Vista. I didn't think through upgrading...

You guys are echoing a personal finance class I took on student loans. Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere near those things. I saw how much trouble they put my stepmother through. They never let her rest after she had to stop working.

Thanks for the advice and support, guys. We made it into Kentucky last night, around 2 AM. We were aiming to avoid the Derby traffic. From your advice, I've decided to instead pursue a degree in computer science as so many of you have. Things are finally looking up. I'm home again.

I'm not really all that upset. It's par for the course for me at this point. Their marriage has only lasted about five and a half years. Like I said, women have come and gone through my dad's life. Just an FYI, there is no possible way my dad is going to be working -- he has Parkinson's...

So this is a thing now. My parents are splitting up. A bit of background: I live with my dad and step-mom, whom I refer to as my mother for all intents and purposes. My real mother is really nothing more than the egg donor for me. My dad and I left her when I was 5 and the last time I even...

Those shots are beautiful. The technical specs whizzed right over my head though. Now I know how people feel when I talk about computers.

That looks amazing. I'd love to have one of those open air cases for my own, but alas, I have small animals and a little sister who likes to touch EVERYTHING. Anything I put out there is guaranteed to be fried in the space of a few days. By the way, is there anyone out here who ever actually...

I can't really participate in the whole 'sharing memories' thing mostly because I don't have a lot of them to share. I came in here in the very last few months of Mark's being around, and I only ever really ran into him in the Folding forum, where he was always willing to help. That's all I can...

I actually think the quad-core Atom in those tablets outperform the dual-core Bay Trail Celerons in most of the Chromebooks. Rarely do you see a Chromebook with user-replaceable RAM. I'd probably be in the same boat either way, except I would have no touch screen and it would be bulkier. Touch...

If I was going with something I planned on keeping longer than a year or two, I would. But as it stands now I don't really see myself really keeping ANYTHING I have right now for all that much longer. The Core 2 Quad, lovely as it is now, is starting to show its age -- nothing urgent, but I am...

Actually, I may forgo the Stream 7 and it's assorted things and go with a WinBook T802. Double the RAM, still cheaper than a ChromeBook (but not by much) from MicroCenter itself, full USB 2 compatibility, microSD support, and a micro-HDMI port from what I've found. The price from Amazon is out...

Hm. Cool. I'm really looking at an HP Stream 7 tablet -- the touch stuff is kinda meh to me but it's cheap and really portable. And it runs full Windows. And it has a quad-core (!) Atom. Keyboard cover and bluetooth mouse is cheap too. Altogether, I'm looking at ~$127 for the whole thing, KB/M...

I have a small question. Why do most motherboards these days still ship with PS/2 ports, but the only kind of mouse/keyboard that's commonly sold anymore are all USB/wireless of some nature? Are they expecting people to use their old keyboards and mice with new hardware? I can't say much, of...

Same. I really hope this is all just a coincidence. Side note -- my last name is Turner as well.

Well, my old Radeon 9550 card worked beautifully for what it was used for. I had absolutely no troubles with it besides a single blue-screen during driver installation on Win7. Though as a result of that, I'm always waiting for AMD drivers to blue-screen during the install process now. ... But...

Swapped the Radeon HD 3650 for my trusty old GeForce GT 610. It isn't quite as fast, but it works with far less troubles and is actually supported for GPU folding. On one of those Ars Technica stories I was tempted to say something to the effect of, "Everyone's all on about these Broadwell i5s...

I finally have a little bit of money, but alas, I need to keep it back for driver's training this summer. Not like I have any USB 3 hardware anyway, not that it's terribly expensive or anything, but nothing I own has it and nothing I regularly use has it. You'd think that for $850 apiece in 2014...

I think I managed to force it to fold on the GPU here -- but being a Radeon HD 3650, I'm not expecting anything stellar. Still, I looked up the specs on this card, and wouldn't you believe it... they completely obliterate the GeForce GT610 in every area but one, VRAM size. 256MB vs 2GB. I still...

I don't necessarily care if someone's gay or bisexual or whatever, it's not my business. Less so is it the business of... Well, businesses. I support gay marriage through and through, because no one's getting hurt by it and everyone should have the same rights as anyone else. This law in Indiana...