The Computer Megathread

[Pepsidude]

What would be the best settings on CCleaner to basically, restore the computer to factory default?

EDIT: I created a new account on the computer so that my friend would have a clean slate, and whe I try to log-in to the account to test if it works, it says

The user Profile Service failed the logon.

User Profile cannot be loaded.

Never mind, dell has it built right in.

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[Becquerel]

whats better.
1. A Server Computer with one processor with a High Clock speed or
2. A Server Computer with 2 processors with a low clock speed

[Flush535]

Kinda worried about this. I had left my computer on Sleep mode when I went to go to school this morning. When I came back, the little orange light thing that means it's on sleep was off. So, I pressed the power button, and it took me to a black screen that said, 'Please choose the Operating System you would like to use.'. The only OS I have it Windows 7. What's going on?

pageloss ;c

[Captain Crazy]

uugh I need a new processor, stat

athlon II x2 is a tad bit too weak for my purposes so I might move up to a quad or hex when I have the money

also I have a question: how does RAM really work? I think I might of read that it's not just the amount of gigabytes of RAM you have but other things, such as the amount of actual sticks and placement. wondering because I'd like to get two 4gb sticks to make the most out of my teeny motherboard

[Freeze]

If you have the money get something along the intel 2500/2700 range.
If you want something cheaper but still pretty good, go AMD Phenom.

[Captain Crazy]

If you have the money get something along the intel 2500/2700 range.
If you want something cheaper but still pretty good, go AMD Phenom.

My birthday's in April. Hopefully I'll get a respectable amount of money for an upgrade because it's seriously ridiculous how 99% or so of my processor is used when benchmarking GTA IV >:O

[Tokthree]

The Phenom II x4 series is pretty good, apparently you can unlock the fifth and sixth cores on certain models as well since the x4 series is based on the x6 series but with the last two cores locked off for some reason

[Pepsidude]

pageloss ;c

I've had that happen to me, I believe I selected Windows 7 and it did a repair and worked normally. This was like, a year ago however so my memory is kinda bad.

[KoopaScooper]

The Phenom II x4 series is pretty good, apparently you can unlock the fifth and sixth cores on certain models as well since the x4 series is based on the x6 series but with the last two cores locked off for some reason

This is only true with Phenom II x4 Zosma processors.

[Freeze]

I use a quad core phenom, it's damn good.

[Legodude77]

Well, my parts came in today. I installed everything then when I tried to install windows, I got to the hard drive screen, and it said I couldn't install or format the hard drive because it wasn't NTFS or something along that. The thing is, I already have Ubuntu installed on my PC, so how would I format my hard drive?

[Tokthree]

This is only true with Phenom II x4 Zosma processors.

-nevermind-

These models support the unlocking of 2 extra cores; Phenom II X4 650T, Phenom II X4 840T, Phenom II X4 960T and Phenom II X4 970T.
Don't get why they'd lock 2 of the cores instead of selling it as a 6 core processor, but whatever

[SPooK]

Ethan, should I get a CPU Heatsink and Fan, or a Liquid Cooling set like the H80?

[brickybob]

Ethan, should I get a CPU Heatsink and Fan, or a Liquid Cooling set like the H80?

IMO only use liquid cooling if you have a CPU that normally runs hot on it's stock processor.  If you mess up ANYWHERE on the liquid cooling water will spew out and fry your board.

[Tokthree]

Yeah, don't use liquid cooling unless you know what you're doing or you're really loving confident in your ability to not forget everything up