The Computer Megathread

[DontCare4Free]

ALL THE COMPUTERS in my school still use it. They used it back in my last school. And maybe all of DODEA. Maybe.

That's because most school computers are from the pre-Vista era or the county has a volume license of XP.

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[aludane]

School computers that use XP will stop soon since the support for that operating system is to be dropped by April 2014.

[Becquerel]

Ok I know now that my audio problem is with the earbuds after testing on an iPad. Problem is, how do I fix the earbuds?I broke them. GOD loving DAMNIT they were nice.

[Freeze]

School computers that use XP will stop soon since the support for that operating system is to be dropped by April 2014.

Dude some of our computers still use Windows 2000.

[aludane]

Dude our computers still use Windows 2000.

:/

When was the last time your computers' hardware was updated?

[T0XIC]

I'm getting a dell xps 8300 for my birthday. Is this good enough for playing computer games?

Specs:
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English

8GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIMMs

500GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache

Nvidia® Geforce® GT530

EDIT: Forgot the processor
Intel® Core™ i7-2600 processor(8MB Cache, 3.4GHz)

[Doomonkey]

I'm getting a dell xps 8300 for my birthday. Is this good enough for playing computer games?

Specs:
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English

8GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIMMs

500GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache

Nvidia® Geforce® GT530

CPU?

[T0XIC]

CPU?

Intel® Core™ i7-2600 processor(8MB Cache, 3.4GHz)

[T0XIC]

Bump?

[Righteous One]

I'm getting a dell xps 8300 for my birthday. Is this good enough for playing computer games?

Specs:
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English

8GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIMMs

500GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache

Nvidia® Geforce® GT530

EDIT: Forgot the processor
Intel® Core™ i7-2600 processor(8MB Cache, 3.4GHz)

See if you can get the i5-2500 or the i5-2500k instead. THey will give you the same performance for alot cheaper. When you configure it get the cheapest graphics card you can or none at all. If you do that, then you can buy one from a different site that is actually capable of playing games and install it when you receive your computer.

[DontCare4Free]

See if you can get the i5-2500 or the i5-2500k instead. THey will give you the same performance for alot cheaper. When you configure it get the cheapest graphics card you can or none at all. If you do that, then you can buy one from a different site that is actually capable of playing games and install it when you receive your computer.

i5 doesn't have as good SMT-support as i7. So no, not same performance.

[Flush535]

My computer gets slightly louder and makes loudish...'thinking noises'? when I'm playing Minecraft. Should I be worried?

[Ethan]

Nope.

Really?
No audio slots at all in the back?
What a forgeted up setup.

I got a free HDD for my computer thanks to having a friend who had ties with Seagate who gave him free hard drives a while back thus causing him to have too many hard drives and therefore giving one to me. Run-on sentences are fun.

Sell them for $100 each with the current prices of HDDs.

How do I get my computer to recognize a Pro Duo memory stick Its inserted right but is doing nothing.

Do you have drivers for the reader?

I'm getting a dell xps 8300 for my birthday. Is this good enough for playing computer games?

Specs:
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English

8GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIMMs

500GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache

Nvidia® Geforce® GT530

EDIT: Forgot the processor
Intel® Core™ i7-2600 processor(8MB Cache, 3.4GHz)

Exactly what Righteous One said.
Just make sure the PSU they supply is at least 600W, good quality, and has 2 6-pin PCI adapters.

i5 doesn't have as good SMT-support as i7. So no, not same performance.

Threads =/= Cores
Yes, they help, but not for gaming.

My computer gets slightly louder and makes loudish...'thinking noises'? when I'm playing Minecraft. Should I be worried?

Louder = fans, because the CPU and GPU have to work harder, so they get warmer, and fans speed up to keep them down.
Thinking noises, what are they? Are they Hard Drive loading noises?

[Flush535]

Thinking noises, what are they? Are they Hard Drive loading noises?

It's hard to explain. What does a hard drive loading sound sound like?

[Freeze]

:/

When was the last time your computers' hardware was updated?

It was degraded from windows xp I think.