The Computer Megathread

[Ethan]

chkdsk was run the next startup after the random power down
like 4 files were recovered and some components of windows were corrupt

Download HDDRegen and chuck it on a USB drive and run it on startup

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[devildogelite]

Would it be worth it to buy a 60gb ssd for a cache for my hdd. I have a 120gb ssd but I can't put steam on it so it only holds a few games.

[SPooK]

Would it be worth it to buy a 60gb ssd for a cache for my hdd. I have a 120gb ssd but I can't put steam on it so it only holds a few games.

As long as it's SATA III. Then yes. Do it.

[DrMaxwell]

Right now I have an AMD Phenom II 955 Black Edition (3.2ghz, 4 cores), and I have a ATI Radeon HD 4890.

I want to upgrade my video card to a 560 ti, but would my AMD Phenom processor bottleneck it and is it worth the upgrade from a 4890?

[Ethan]

Right now I have an AMD Phenom II 955 Black Edition (3.2ghz, 4 cores), and I have a ATI Radeon HD 4890.

I want to upgrade my video card to a 560 ti, but would my AMD Phenom processor bottleneck it and is it worth the upgrade from a 4890?

You'll be looking at around 40% to 50% performance increase depending on the game. And no, your CPU will not bottleneck a 560Ti. It wouldn't even bottleneck two of them.

[Fracture]

Dont ask why im looking at this card, I just have a simple question

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-600-us.html

is this a good gaming card

[Alyx Vance]

Dont ask why im looking at this card, I just have a simple question

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-600-us.html

is this a good gaming card

I would say yes (I used to always look into graphics cards)
But being I don't exactly knwo what I am talking about.. Ethan is it?

[Ethan]

Dont ask why im looking at this card, I just have a simple question

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-600-us.html

is this a good gaming card

That's a workstation card... i.e for business design use (3d model design, graphic design and video editing). Will suck at gaming no matter how powerful it is.

[Fracture]

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[Doomonkey]

Actually, I have a better question to ask, and Ill explain.
Last week my dads companies computers all crashed. Something went wrong with the electrical system and they got fried. Because of this, my dad called his insurance company and filled a claim. Well, they're giving him a stuffload of money to buy computers for his office, and hes going to be building a special computer and giving it to me. Basically, I have a limit of about $4500 to build a computer on Dell.com, but it cant be an alienware.

Yes, I understand that dell is kind of a stuffty place to buy a prebuilt, but its the only place we can go.
Thanks

So he is going to embezzle insurance claim money from the company he works. Cool.

[Fracture]

So he is going to embezzle insurance claim money from the company he works. Cool.

good point

[Marcem]

Dont ask why im looking at this card, I just have a simple question

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-600-us.html

is this a good gaming card

No.  It's built for CAD.  Get something like a GTX 560 for a bit more.

[Trymos]

I accidentally locked my own brother out of his laptop. (I had to set up a password to enter a network drive and now i forgot it)
Is there any way i could reset his password without reformatting?
I tried a password recovery tool, it wont let me reset without registering for something i can't do because i don't know what the loving thing is.

[SPooK]

That's a workstation card... i.e for business design use (3d model design, graphic design and video editing). Will suck at gaming no matter how powerful it is.

This

[Mr.jacksaunt]

Is it just because of the low megahertz clock?