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Honestly I think the only reason MS didn't extend the upgrade offer to users of Vista as well is because they are so few in number and have had almost nine years to upgrade now and still haven't.

True, but I'm just not as comfortable as you are using a machine as a bare board. I don't have the open table space for laying out the pieces, I've got to have SOMETHING to secure that stuff to. Found my x4 630... gonna have to spend a couple hours tonight bending pins back the way they should...

If I took one of the boards, I'd have to have the case to go with it. I have no full ATX cases at the ready, though I have a couple mATX cases. The chip I wont need, because the board supposedly supports AM3/AM2+ chips (with the caveat that the system bus speed downgrades from HT3.0(5200MT/s) to...

It just feels rather sluggish in general. I can't really put it into words, it makes me feel like the whole thing is... bloated. You're probably right about the board. It seems rather hit-or-miss. I don't want to get something only to have it not work correctly or at all. You make a fair point...

It's... well, it's much slower than I was expecting from any sort of dual-core machine. Honestly, this feels slower than a Pentium D, and almost as bad as one of the old dual-core Atoms. I'd compare the two but I don't have any suitable motherboards for my Pentium D 820 CPU. As for how I know...

A barely 3-week-old install of Xubuntu 64-bit. I have 2 GB of DDR2-667 RAM. I know going from a 4400+ to a 4600+ or so is only going to do a little bit, but isn't there a much bigger gap between the 4400+ and something on the order of the mid 5000+ models? Or am I placing too much weight on the...

Regular old AM2, otherwise I have an AM2+ capable Athlon II x4 630 chip I could use. I just need something that you can spare, this 4400+ is glacially slow, much slower in comparison to even the Athlon II X2 230 I put together from scrap for my uncle. Part of that has to do with it being of a...

If anyone here has any socket AM2 CPUs could they send me a PM? I'm in somewhat desperate need of an upgrade.

For what it's worth, I have a nearly identical machine spec-wise (mine's a Toshiba and has a Turion 64 X2 Ultra ZM-80) and it idles at about the same temps. It's a fight to keep them under 90C when it's under significant load. Like Merc said, however, it's just going to be slow no matter what...

Noted. Thanks for clearing that up, in all seriousness. Honestly I'm wondering why they don't have an official *buntu build? Everything I'm seeing is telling me to either use the official Linux tarball or use a PPA that hasn't even had the index updated for Wily. EDIT: Well, this is somewhat...

You can install Win10 with the 7 key directly now, is my understanding of the matter.

Is there much that Pale Moon does that classic theme restorer on pure Firefox can't? Right now I have it set up to look pretty much like Pale Moon, without the big toolbar buttons, mine are all tiny courtesy of the MicroFox theme.

Ech. I have experience with all those things too. Even the well building part, though that didn't go according to plan when we tried it. Wireless up-link to the internet: HughesNet. Ech. Nope, not doing that again. I'd rather have an ISDN connection or an expensive cellular hotspot than...

If you do any 3D gaming from this decade you're probably better off with the HD7770. If not, the integrated graphics are more efficient.

Oh, but there is. Zorin, for one, aims to be a clone of Windows in regards to the UI if memory serves me correctly, or at least as close as you can get Linux to that ideal. Plenty of prepackaged Linux distros have the primary aim of making Linux easy to use for the common person, and Ubuntu is...

I watched The Force Awakens with my (now ex, long drawn out story that frankly I don't feel up to relating) girlfriend back in the beginning of January. I liked it, but it was clear that it was mostly a set up for the events of the next movie.

I'm not certain about how to get into a single-user mode, but I do know that all the *buntus and the things that base off them in essence heavily restrict access to the root user.

Throwing in my two cents. On my laptop I'm using Arch x86_64, but honestly it was a pain to install and an even bigger pain to get everything working properly in. I still haven't finished with that over two weeks later, that's how big of a pain it is. Repository convenience with Yaourt be...

I was, once upon a time. It worked well enough. I didn't care so much about the privacy thing, after all, I do use Facebook, but the whole "download a whole new build of the OS instead of regular updates" thing got old the first time it happened.

It seems they're taking the "any attention is good attention" route. I haven't heard a single good thing about them or Windows 10 for quite a while. As for me, I'm wondering who they're going to screw over next. They're certainly generating an awful lot of interest in Linux. Of course, Linux...

So I just made the connection that the Redhill computer information site was run by Tannin. I've read so much of that site in the past couple years.

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...