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The "cold-boot blue screen but ok next boot" thing makes me think you should try a new PSU first, I've seen a lot of them degrade a long time before they blow up and there's bluescreens and other issues as a consequence..

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Nah, it's just straight into the bone where there's a spiral fracture to help keep that together...

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I wish I had kidney stones...

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To be honest that sounds like there's something particularly broken with your windows install rather than the drivers...

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Yeah I hardly ever see driver issues mentioned in the reviews on AMD cards so not sure what problems people are encountering. Not to say there isn't any because I definitely had them with my 9800 Pro (even if that was 10 years ago) but they surely can't be totally disastrous. In Funk's case it's pr...

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I guess he remembered where he buried all that nazi gold!

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I have a corsair 650w, not the stock one. Had another look at that card you linked at first, it's a massive overspend imo... but says, "Minimum of a 550 Watt power supply." in the specs on EVGA's site. Might be ok, might not. Looking at the benchmark comparison (http://www.anandtech.com/b...

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edit: on power supplies, I'll tell you this, I don't think your Dell power supply will work with other brand mobos. They used to have different plugs on them. Not sure if yours does, just know there was a time when they were uber stupid. As for size of power supplies, its fairly exaggerated on what...

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Fo sho. I might end up doing the MB/RAM sooner than later just because, but I'll start with the GPU (might still do RAM) and possibly a SSD. Is there a good program to monitor my power usage so I can see if my current power supply is going to be sufficient? Probably not; if there was it would be ve...

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yep, dell board, so super restricted. Definitely no worthwhile upgrade path on the CPU. Just grab a nice GPU and roll with it. Tend to agree; you might be able to get some more RAM if there's some empty slots on the board, but I wouldn't, because when you decide the GPU alone isn't enough of an upg...

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Aslanna wrote:I really don't know why people get so defensive over it. Everyone uses their computer differently that's why I suggested monitoring memory usage over a couple weeks and use that as a basis for what to buy. If you never go over 8 then buying 16 makes no sense.

So... we're in agreement

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I never understood that. I easily burn through 6GB. If I didn't run noscript I could see Firefox chewing up more than it does, and it's easy to use memory if you let stupid things do so (Foxit Updater is 500Mb... for an updater... wtf?) I haven't run from swap ever on this machine, and it's running...

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SSD are pretty important if they're the last bottleneck left and you're playing something with poor code, like Battlefield 2 which let the fastest texture loading player get in 20 seconds early and run half the length of a map before other players joined. All but completely irrelevant to the hard co...

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This should come as no surprise -- we reported the increase back in October -- but Windows 8 upgrades will become a bit more pricey come February 1st. That means you have the better part of two weeks to take advantage of introductory online upgrade pricing of $40 (for the Pro version), before the s...

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Yeah, but I still thought it was funny after the initial reaction to the name when they came out.

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Animalor wrote:128GB iPad Maxi, coming Feb 5th. Starts at 799$.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/29/39280 ... na-display

Maxi? Seriously?

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4% on rotten tomatoes and the one positive review is a "so bad it's good" review.

Sounds awesome.

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Well, it needs to be harder to get to, so you're forced to read the manual to work out which control panel you want anyway. First thing I wanted to change was that fugly Space Needle picture, but you have to go to the settings page on your phone computer, not the control panel. It reminds me of noth...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... TYet-qf1jo

Almost 30 minute rant from someone else that thinks features included in an OS are part of the OS and to be used.

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Well sure, I can see running RAID 5 as being a really stupid thing to do with the incredibly long rebuild times involved. Sounds like you have more than one problem with your HD storage strategy. Back to the subject. What we're talking about is you being so fucking cheap, you won't pay 29.99 to upg...

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What are you talking about? RAID 1 is identical data written to two drives. I didn't say it was a back up system. Yet we're talking about backup, you bring up RAID like it's relevant. My main computer is RAID10, the storage drives are RAID5, none of that is relevant to the discussion. If you're wor...

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My data is saved on my eSATA raid tower, mirrored and encrypted. I have another drive that I use for temp work stuff and some installed games. You should definitely be saving whatever you create on something other than your OS drive. If I completely lost my OS drive and didn't have a backup, I woul...

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I do full backups, not that partial bullshit. If backups are that important to you, upgrading shouldn't be that big a deal. Even once a month is probably a bit much for me as my data drives are raid 1 mirrored anyway so I won't lose much except the inconvenience of reinstalling any app I may have i...

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I'm curious that Winnow hasn't mentioned Acronis requires a payment for his Windows 8 upgrade: http://kb.acronis.com/content/31033 $40 for Windows, $30 for Acronis hrmm. Just boot from the recovery DVD and make your backup or recover. I use Acronis Home 2010 still. I only back up my OS partition on...

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I'm curious that Winnow hasn't mentioned Acronis requires a payment for his Windows 8 upgrade: http://kb.acronis.com/content/31033

$40 for Windows, $30 for Acronis hrmm.

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OMG, they paid a 0.5% dividend, the second in their history, could I be more wrong?

If they were paying out 5% it might make some sense to buy in at their crazy price, but when your only profit chance is them being ever more inflated and risky... huh?

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As someone who pretty much buys most things these days. I really don't think piracy drives up costs for "legitimate honest purchasers of content". Most people who pirate shit would not have bought it even if they were able to so in most cases, but not all obviously, it's not like it's a l...

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I wanna know who was buying a $700 share on the way down when they don't pay dividends...

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Why does this get such good reviews? Watched the pilot and thought it was the worst piece of crap I've ever seen, if you don't count The Transporter TV series since I've only seen ads for that.

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These kinda debates bring out the libertarian side of me; let 'em do what they want.

And the corollary; if they're stupid enough to kill themselves, society can't stop them.

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Probably already involved with a friend of yours

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So Lance was the best doper in a sport full of dopers (http://www.vice.com/read/so-wait-who-actually-won-all-those-tour-de-france-titles), most of the people he beat have admitted doping. The only shock is that people are shocked. To me it's very similar to the Jimmy Savile story, except that I don'...

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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/state-suspends-handgun-carry-permit-of-tactical-response?ref=fpblg The state of Tennessee has suspended the handgun carry permit of James Yeager, CEO of Tactical Response, who recently said he would "start killing people" should President Obama t...

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Mother fucker. Now that I see how Omar goes, I'm even more pissed. Mother.Fucking.Fuckers. I was more pissed about how Stringer went out.. but I'm a big fan of Idris Elba, except for Prometheus, that was shit. Luther should be your next series if you haven't seen it, it will be like a snack after T...

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Interesting post on unfucking Windows 8 images: http://forums.mydigitallife.info/archive/index.php/t-37039.html It's a lot of work to stop installing a gig of apps you don't want, and to remove associations that make Metro pop up as the application handler... but at least it's consistent if you're r...

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Losing a parent due to lung cancer resulting from years of smoking is a good way to bring things into perspective. But I don't recommend it. Thankfully my grandmother died from smoking related respiratory failure before the Alzheimer's could reduce her to a crazy cat lady completely. Of course, she...

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So, the Daily Show. I know it's somewhat good editing, but yeah, the pro-(unlimited)gun side doesn't do themselves any favours.

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B) it has less wall penetration than handguns and shotguns I'm still not sure what your point is here. It's like saying "The Escalade has better braking capacity than the Hummer, so if you're in a pedestrian accident while drunk, you will drag the corpse 100 feet less distance". I reitera...

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Funkmasterr wrote:Go away.

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Spang wrote:I've quit cold turkey twice. First time: 8 months. Second time: 5 years and counting.

Yeah, the worst part is 6 months in I know I'm always going to be a "recovering smoker".

That said, laid up 4 weeks with a broken leg and haven't gone back to smoking is a good sign...

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As long as you're thinking of them as a replacement habit then you can go ahead and assess them on that basis. None of the nicotine replacement therapies are actually that useful for stopping though. The stats would suggest your best chance is cold turkey and that it will probably take 7 -12 attempt...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... UtNF-Le2L0

Interesting film.

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Spang wrote: I don't share those beliefs and values.

Time to move then.

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I'm not sure I see a point there, Spang.

As ex-military, I'd think you'd regard wholesale slaughter of kids and their mums a bit differently to soldiers killing each other.

White-man morals perhaps, but still pretty consistent with everything else your society believes in.

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And you quoted my exact statement about that with TAP rounds penetrating less than handgun and shotgun....which your own link also said. So you do admit that those rifle rounds have less penetration than handgun and shotgun. As to why those 55 grains did not start tumbling and breaking up, well tha...

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Let's just go back to where I joined this line of argument. You realize that a short barrel AR15 with TAP rounds has less wall penetration than a handgun and buckshot from a shotgun right? You realize that the general person can hit much more reliably with a short barrel carbine than with a pistol r...

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I showed you a fucking video of a guy getting shot IN THE HEART, complete with him disengaging and running to the street where he then died ON THE VIDEO. That was also linked to the article where it told you that he was shot in the heart. Getting a lung shot will not kill you in 30 seconds. Christ ...

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What I hear is: I have no proof of God, I have faith. Look at the way the wind moves the trees, you don't have to see it to know it's there.

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Kilmoll the Sexy wrote:Finally someone who looked into it and got it!

You mean someone who heard the same factoid from the same kind of source?

On that basis I have conclusive proof a guy can walk on water.

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By the way, I see a big trend in NRA literature to compare the horror of living in Australia or the United Kingdom where we don't have the "freedom" y'all do to arm yourselves and protect ourselves from violent crime. Let's look at that: Intentional Homicide Rate by Country Country Rate Co...

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