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06-30-2016, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by bcrdukes  A lot of computers don't have HDMI, only display port. | So get a display port -> HDMI adapter. Or slap in the cheapest card with HDMI that you can find, I like my 210 Silent since it's all passive cooling (no fan).
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Originally Posted by RevYouUp reading this thread is like waiting for goku to charge up a spirit bomb in dragon ball z | Quote:
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06-30-2016, 06:47 PM
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What do you use for audio?
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06-30-2016, 07:30 PM
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#4478 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by maksimizer half those dudes are hotter than ,my GF. | Quote:
Originally Posted by RevYouUp reading this thread is like waiting for goku to charge up a spirit bomb in dragon ball z | Quote:
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06-30-2016, 07:31 PM
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#4479 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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I've got the HDMI from the video card going to the receiver, then the receiver to the TV. There was a bit of fiddling with the settings on my receiver so that the PC knew it could output 5.1 but it wasn't too bad.
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Originally Posted by maksimizer half those dudes are hotter than ,my GF. | Quote:
Originally Posted by RevYouUp reading this thread is like waiting for goku to charge up a spirit bomb in dragon ball z | Quote:
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06-30-2016, 07:41 PM
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Ah, gotcha. My receiver does not have HDMI. Alright, I think I can figure this out. Thanks everyone!
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06-30-2016, 09:37 PM
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#4481 | | Got MOD?
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The Intel Compute stick sux. It's underpowered. Intel NUC's are great.
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07-01-2016, 08:55 AM
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#4482 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by bcrdukes Ah, gotcha. My receiver does not have HDMI. Alright, I think I can figure this out. Thanks everyone! | Are you running surround sound or just stereo?
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Originally Posted by maksimizer half those dudes are hotter than ,my GF. | Quote:
Originally Posted by RevYouUp reading this thread is like waiting for goku to charge up a spirit bomb in dragon ball z | Quote:
Originally Posted by Good_KarMa OH thank god. I thought u had sex with my wife. :cry: | | |
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07-01-2016, 09:15 AM
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Just stereo.
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Originally Posted by BIC_BAWS I literally do not plan on buying another vehicle in my lifetime, assuming it doesn't get written off. | | |
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07-03-2016, 10:42 PM
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#4484 | | Say! Say! Say!
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Waiting patiently for EVGA to approve my step up.
980TI -> 1080
Only need to pay shipping.. which is an insane $47 USD + whatever cost for me to ship it to them.
Either way, under $100 for about 30% boost in performance is nice.
Maybe I'll resell the BNIB 1080 and just buy a R9 480. Should be good enough for the games I play.
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07-03-2016, 11:19 PM
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#4485 | | ninja edits your posts without your knowledge
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Originally Posted by Razor Ramon HG Waiting patiently for EVGA to approve my step up.
980TI -> 1080
Only need to pay shipping.. which is an insane $47 USD + whatever cost for me to ship it to them.
Either way, under $100 for about 30% boost in performance is nice.
Maybe I'll resell the BNIB 1080 and just buy a R9 480. Should be good enough for the games I play. | Could wait a few days and see how the 1060 plays out too before making any decisions.
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07-03-2016, 11:22 PM
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#4486 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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The RX 480 looks like it's on a similar performance level to the GTX 970 and Radeon R390 plus there is apparently an issue with it drawing too much power through the PCI-E connection, which apparently can damage the motherboard.
AMD is supposed to release a driver this week to address the issue. No word on whether that will affect performance or not.
Also, Nvidia is launching the GTX 1060 this month.
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07-04-2016, 10:41 AM
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#4487 | | Orgasm Donor & Alatar owned my ass twice!
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Looking to pick up a basic laptop for general use, but I want to install an SSD in there since there is no way I am still going to use a traditional HDD as the boot drive if I can avoid it. How difficult is it nowadays to swap parts on a laptop nowadays?
I've always been a desktop guy, and always built my own PCs. But I have rarely ever opened up a laptop to fiddle with it. The only time I fiddled with something like that was a few years ago when I opened up an Atom netbook to extract the HDD out of it. Space was so tight and the stupid cable was so fragile that I tore the cable right off the HDD / plug.
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07-04-2016, 10:56 AM
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#4488 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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Originally Posted by Traum Looking to pick up a basic laptop for general use, but I want to install an SSD in there since there is no way I am still going to use a traditional HDD as the boot drive if I can avoid it. How difficult is it nowadays to swap parts on a laptop nowadays?
I've always been a desktop guy, and always built my own PCs. But I have rarely ever opened up a laptop to fiddle with it. The only time I fiddled with something like that was a few years ago when I opened up an Atom netbook to extract the HDD out of it. Space was so tight and the stupid cable was so fragile that I tore the cable right off the HDD / plug. | Changing out a hard drive in a laptop is pretty easy. Most laptops have the SATA plug and power plug as one unit, and changing the hard drive is just plug and play. If you built your own desktops before, then you won't have a problem with this.
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07-04-2016, 11:41 AM
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#4489 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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If gtx 1060 comes out and rx 480 drops to $275 CAD, it will be considered a steal, prices too high right now to justify
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Can someone tell good or unusual dating spots? Or what was your the most unusual date? THanks for sharing!
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Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp my bedroom =D | Quote:
Originally Posted by dhillon09 that's a great secret date spot,
i bet no girl in vancouver has seen it. | | |
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07-04-2016, 03:09 PM
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#4490 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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^same waiting for a price drop on the 480
tried out the VR demo at the microsoft store at metro yesterday and was pretty cool. but at the price of $1.1k
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07-04-2016, 11:54 PM
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#4491 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Originally Posted by Traum Looking to pick up a basic laptop for general use, but I want to install an SSD in there since there is no way I am still going to use a traditional HDD as the boot drive if I can avoid it. How difficult is it nowadays to swap parts on a laptop nowadays?
I've always been a desktop guy, and always built my own PCs. But I have rarely ever opened up a laptop to fiddle with it. The only time I fiddled with something like that was a few years ago when I opened up an Atom netbook to extract the HDD out of it. Space was so tight and the stupid cable was so fragile that I tore the cable right off the HDD / plug. | mini screw driver to the cover compartment under the laptop,take it out the cage...unbolt the disk drive and put in the ssd.....Done....easy peasy.
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07-05-2016, 12:52 AM
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#4492 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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Originally Posted by Traum Looking to pick up a basic laptop for general use, but I want to install an SSD in there since there is no way I am still going to use a traditional HDD as the boot drive if I can avoid it. How difficult is it nowadays to swap parts on a laptop nowadays?
I've always been a desktop guy, and always built my own PCs. But I have rarely ever opened up a laptop to fiddle with it. The only time I fiddled with something like that was a few years ago when I opened up an Atom netbook to extract the HDD out of it. Space was so tight and the stupid cable was so fragile that I tore the cable right off the HDD / plug. | i've swapped out my HDD for an SSD before in my laptop. the HDD was thicker than the SSD, but luckily the SSD came with a spacer that helped prop it up. you can also, find a laptop with a CD drive, and swap out the CD drive for a SSD
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07-05-2016, 07:59 AM
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#4493 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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If your laptop is a ultrathin/ultaportable, it might have its hard drive soldered onto the mortherboard or a M.2 SSD. Basic laptops will most likely have old mechanical hard drives though, so you should be fine.
I would check which type of hard drive it has first before buying a new one.
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07-05-2016, 02:59 PM
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#4494 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Here's one I've never seen before, I pieces together a basic tower for my brother using some spare hardware, but it freezes after being left alone for a few minutes but is totally fine if you move the mouse every few minutes or do something. Following this: Computer occassionaly freezes after being idle for a while. - Microsoft Community I tried running a check disk but it froze up on stage 4 of that as well. Suggestions?
update: I ran a memtest and it finished with no errors.
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Originally Posted by maksimizer half those dudes are hotter than ,my GF. | Quote:
Originally Posted by RevYouUp reading this thread is like waiting for goku to charge up a spirit bomb in dragon ball z | Quote:
Originally Posted by Good_KarMa OH thank god. I thought u had sex with my wife. :cry: |
Last edited by underscore; 07-05-2016 at 04:08 PM.
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07-05-2016, 05:41 PM
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#4495 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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try turning off all the power saving options and see if it happens.
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07-05-2016, 07:11 PM
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#4496 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Originally Posted by underscore Here's one I've never seen before, I pieces together a basic tower for my brother using some spare hardware, but it freezes after being left alone for a few minutes but is totally fine if you move the mouse every few minutes or do something. Following this: Computer occassionaly freezes after being idle for a while. - Microsoft Community I tried running a check disk but it froze up on stage 4 of that as well. Suggestions?
update: I ran a memtest and it finished with no errors. | Try the memtest for like 24 hours, or actually swapping out ram. Also, turning on the fault thing that actually blue screens and throws an error code.
Last time I had this issue, it would blue screen and it was the RAM. But this was back in 2004 on windows 98.  | |
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07-06-2016, 06:34 AM
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#4497 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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Originally Posted by underscore Here's one I've never seen before, I pieces together a basic tower for my brother using some spare hardware, but it freezes after being left alone for a few minutes but is totally fine if you move the mouse every few minutes or do something. Following this: Computer occassionaly freezes after being idle for a while. - Microsoft Community I tried running a check disk but it froze up on stage 4 of that as well. Suggestions?
update: I ran a memtest and it finished with no errors. | Did you do a fresh Windows install? Did you updated all of the hardware drivers?
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07-07-2016, 11:52 PM
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#4499 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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nice card...the last time nvidia gave us that kinda value was probably 5 years ago with the 560Ti
this is why I hope AMD will always stay competitive...and not leave the market
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07-12-2016, 09:21 AM
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#4500 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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decided to buy a used GTX 970 from april 2016 for $260.00 shipped
rx 480 disappointed me with the high pricing and not so worth it FPS.... $100 less and I can get something similar used :/
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Hey guys,
Can someone tell good or unusual dating spots? Or what was your the most unusual date? THanks for sharing!
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Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp my bedroom =D | Quote:
Originally Posted by dhillon09 that's a great secret date spot,
i bet no girl in vancouver has seen it. | | |
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