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Yay, another mudflation clusterfuck. Why bother introducing new content if it'll be irrelevant in 3 months?

And by the time developers tone down all their shit to look the same on every platform, that won't matter anyway.

It's funny, because the 7970s I just put in my M17x R2 don't have heat issues at this point. They run at 70 or so under load. I think production quality has just gone for a shit or something, because I was having heat issues with the 5870s that I replaced. It's likely that the heat sink was just...

Overpriced and you won't get SLI/CFX in the 17 inch any more, I don't think. They only do SLI/CFX in their 18s now. Heat issues.

Fairly sure it works with XP as well.

Very interested in how this one works out if you do end up going with it. I have a shitty Thomson modem right now and have been pondering switching to something else.

Mine's not nearly up to date, it's running CFX AMD 7970M, so it's probably much more on par with the 860M. Passmark says the 7970M is faster, but Passmark is also full of shit on most benchmarks. I'm curious to see what something like 3DMark would say. My cards are undervolted to 0.975V to...

Very nice. You should post a couple benchmark scores when you can, I'm curious as to how much it'll outperform my Alienware.

Post specs? Never heard of these guys before but they look legit. I'm tempted to order my next system through them.

sumdain, you get your laptop yet, or have you gone postal (luls, a pun) on some poor bastard?

No, but my wife is. She knows where I sleep, and I know what's good for me.

Yep. If there isn't a specific issue affecting you that is fixed by a newer BIOS, don't bother. You don't need to run the latest one if yours is working properly.

I absolutely hate this one. Happens on my TV laptop all the time and it's pretty much the most aggravating thing in the world, mostly because I have a desktop full of TV shortcuts and it moves them all over the place. OCD hurts, bros.

Is yours one of those laptops that comes with the function keys obfuscated by default by some lameass function modifier button, like every HP laptop I've ever seen? You might be mashing the wrong key without knowing it.

Problem Event, Need - Microsoft Community 0xA0000001 appears to be an AMD specific BCCode, called by the driver directly. Uninstall your video drivers, run Driver Sweeper (or something like it) in Safe Mode, and reinstall the latest known good drivers.

I stand corrected. Thanks, Silence.

Some asshole postal worker is having a few hundred beer on you right now, dude. But seriously, hope it arrives soon. That's just shitty.

All consumer drives are absolute shit. They are the bottom of the bin. All the good stuff goes to enterprise these days. Take backups. Lower your blood pressure. Win-win.

Yeah, I'm still on now and then, but for the most part, I don't play anymore. You're the only other active person in the guild. I'll make you an officer so you can invite folks if you want.

So much QQ. Never had a single issue with Microsoft activation by phone, and I use it much more often than your average user (at work and at home). It's been the same for years and has worked fine for years, unless you have a rotary phone or some silly shit going on. I use 3 monitors and...

Meh. It's all about having options. It's easy to get any little geek shop to assemble your computer for you. I wouldn't do it, but it's not a big deal either way.

Yep, I always put them together myself. There's a sense of satisfaction in knowing that you did everything properly. (The reverse is also true, of course. If Shit Happens, it's no one's fault but yours.)

2x 3.0 slots, so yes, you can run two cards, provided both slots are usable for the cards, and you have enough power for them. Edit: Apparently I don't English well. "Provided both slots are usable" means "provided your case isn't a rat's nest of bullshit wiring that prevents you from using...

Easiest way to put it, Delicateflower: FFXI compares to Everquest as FFXIV compares to WoW, especially if this particular server follows the earlier FFXI stances on grouping.

BitLocker's reasonably secure, but you'd better not lose your encryption keys or you're a thousand times hosed. Back those up, and I don't mean on a cloud storage platform.

If that's all you're doing, and you're content with being very limited, the price is reasonable. But, as was pointed out above, you want the 14" for sure.

If you see yourself ever wanting to do anything other than use Chrome and play a (somewhat adequate, but still restricted) subset of media files, don't buy anything that only runs Chromium. I have a ChromeBox sitting in the corner collecting dust because I can't make it do some of what I'd need...

Why the hell not. I threw my friend # in the list.

I pick up my kid from day care every day on the way home from work. I don't drive a boat, just an average size sedan, but it is 100% impossible for me not to see my daughter in her car seat when I'm looking at the car from outside unless I'm staring at it from the front. I haven't paid enough...

Both parents did, apparently.

Browser-based fucking garbage. Still better than Pantheon, though. Edit: Got to level 20 in about 1 hour of absolute linear bullshit. This is way worse than any modern go-get-me-20-bear-asses MMO. Haha.

The Killer install is half driver, half service. You can't disable the driver part, clearly, or it'll stop working altogether. Your best bet, if this annoys you that much, would be to uninstall the manager software entirely and just install the driver on its own (which I seem to recall doing on...

2x is probably fine at 1440p as the jagged edges are much less pronounced (and they would be). This doesn't mean they're invisible.

Damn near equal in real world numbers, but watch out for the heat and power requirement on those 290s.

Still around from time to time, but haven't done much since 2.1. No one's ever on to play with and I don't really feel like finding another FC.

There will always, always be a better deal the next day. Or the hour after you press Go. Unless you're willing to cancel and re-do your order, the best piece of advice anyone could ever give you is: Don't Look At Prices After You Order Yours.

There is usually (but not always) a small triangle on the positive wire. That said, you don't really need to worry about this with the case plugs. It's pretty rare that you can't just turn it around if it isn't working. You'll notice pretty quickly if it isn't.

Not sure if other manufacturers are doing it, but these days, ASUS boards all come with a plastic header that you attach all that shit to and then just plug the entire thing in to the motherboard at once. It's much easier. I couldn't use it on my last rig -- not enough clearance from the...

Popular opinion seems to be that the Razer 2013's screen is shit compared to the 2014. The 870M is a large enough upgrade over the 765M that those two things would justify the $500 increase in my mind -- although you can likely do a lot better for that price anyway by going with another brand of...

Those programs usually just modify the registry anyway. It's less likely that they hook into the power management routines directly.