alaknebs

alaknebs

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Reply to Slow PC... in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[tinfoil hat] the trouble with getting someone to fix your machine.. especially if it's a software issue is someone will be digging through your stuff and there's no way to know if you can trust them. that said, even if you were to bin the old machine... there's still the issue of getting rid of the data in it before doing so.. [/tinfoil hat]

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Reply to My New Gaming Rig in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

does anyone find the front jacks/ports (especially the ones that point skyward).... lacking. you plug things in and the wires... due to gravity will be bent 180 degrees fairly quickly and well... get damaged.

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Reply to I just had a WTF moment in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

there is no difference between malwarebytes freebie and premium/trial of the same version number.. (i don't mean the functions), it's the same installer that installs the same files. freebie is basically premium disabled. i'm guessing the one you installed is a newer version that fixed whatever problems or even reinstallation of same version did the job. not sure what flavour of comodo you have but having 2 real time protection on at the same time is bad, just in case you don't know.<

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Reply to Support Request - Game won't start anymore in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

apparently there's this thing native in win 1803 that lets you choose what gfx card you use (if you have multiple) with any program. settings->system->display->gfx settings.. then you pick the exe (from the classic app option) and set your preference. beats me if it does any good, as intel igpu is disabled by default in bios when a discrete card is present.

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Reply to Okay, This Is What I Ordered To Rebuild My Main PC: Updated in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

what are the chances the replacement mobo will have latest bios flashed already? XD asus bios... apparently support doesn't last that long according to their user forum (re: spectre/meldown on older models). and really hate their changelogs. "updated compatibility" or something is typically the whole note. which says absolutely nothing. if i'm going to update bios because intel (or whoever) released some security fix (yeah. another one. where someone can delete your bios), i would lik

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Reply to Help building, or buying a desktop in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="15" id="3706870"] Are you talking about eigth generation intel processor, or are you talking about intel chips with a amd graphics card? [/quote] kinda neither. i was referring to what BigDogBigFeet was talking about. kaby lake-g will have amd gpu and intel cpu in 1 package. those are for higher perf

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Reply to browsers FireFox, Chrome in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="teddybearcholla" reply="18" id="3705610"] Quoting AzDude, reply 17 I probably make and view more videos than anybody ( Dreams ) and I have No problem with Chrome all works fine for me Facebook included only use Chrome Me too.

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Reply to Need a recommendation on Monitor in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

i have the philips bdm4065 ... i guess the biggest difference aside from size is the older model (4065) is va whereas the 4350 is ips. its ok, i sit around a meter away though.. i'm getting a bit of tearing when i play stuff like ass creed black flag (free from ubi over x'mas!). i can also notice some weird thing when scrolling up and down a webpage (sort of like ghosting.. color of text/whatever bleeds into the white bit). the desktop is set at 4k but double dpi, and with a 970 i only play s

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Reply to A Year Without Cable TV in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

it's like that everywhere i think. definitely in uk at least. people are encouraged to switch utility providers for better deals, but if you use isp email, for example, then it's a pain to have to switch your email every few years just to save money. the competition authorities should force those companies to offer the same "intro" prices to old customers who renew their contract really, as switching for the sake of switching is pointless and doesn't encourage real competition.

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Reply to Upcoming patches will slow down all Intel CPUs? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

i think chrome just got patched but you could have enabled a flag before. and i think it's more like 20 years rather than 10? anything intel but itanium is vulnerable or some such. it's not just the google guy.. and they are building on someone else's research / speculation XD (last year or the year before i think. the kaiser stuff)

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Reply to Upcoming patches will slow down all Intel CPUs? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

could well be... but more reboots is kinda meaningless? XD i could understand that to be a problem for data centres and servers... but home users? i'm assuming reboot means os prompting you to reboot (or increasing the frequency of scheduled reboots in them big boys) rather than kaboom and rebooting your machine all by itself XD just goes to show how unorganised/rushed the whole thing is, regardless of whether the info embargo was prematurely breeched.

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Reply to Upcoming patches will slow down all Intel CPUs? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

you are not done with this round of patching until you've got the microcode update via bios. (not yet released for most things) there's a game company which blames meltdown/spectre for its problems. but they aren't home users like most of us. https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/news/announcements/132642-epic-services-stability-update -- fun thing.. the win patch borked some old amd machines https://www.techrepublic.co

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Reply to Okay, This Is What I Ordered To Rebuild My Main PC: Updated in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

if you are going for dual channel, you have to install them as pairs (bigger pair 1st), no? not sure what you mean 1 stick of each making 24ghz per channel. googling gives this random quote.. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3453470/motherboard-dimm-slots-supports-dual-channel.html "The extra two slots just allow for more ram to be address even though it is still only dual channel. The problem with populating all dimms with Ryzen is the f

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