The Computer Megathread

[steve5451]

Get a network monitor and see if it's really being used by your computer.
If it is go into your task monitor and end each suspicious looking process until your network monitor drop down.

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[Legodude77]

I think my internet is just being slow today because its not showing anything that is using it all the time.

[D3ATH LORD]

I got a new list here

motherboard - MSI 760GM-P23 (FX) AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) Motherboard - £38.99 - http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/motherboards/amdam3plusallchipsetmotherboards/760gm-p23%28fx%29.html
   processor - AMD Quad Core Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz Socket AM3 - Retail - £88.98 - http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/processors/amdphenomx4/aduhdz965fbgibox.html
   Graphic card - AMD Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5 - £99.98 - www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/atiradeongraphicscards/atihd6800series/nov-6850.html
   
Those are going to replace my previous choices

[SlayerZ99]

Which laptop would you suggest?
Im looking at these 2 currently.
Willing to spend up to $500.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1365822&CatId=4938
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1936161&CatId=4938

[suburb]

Which laptop would you suggest?
Im looking at these 2 currently.
Willing to spend up to $500.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1365822&CatId=4938
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1936161&CatId=4938

The gateway in my honest opinion.

[SlayerZ99]

The gateway in my honest opinion.

That's what I was thinking.

But I might not get one for a while actually.
Maybe not till Black Friday. :(

[Legodude77]

I guess I'll get my old graphics card and put it in this one because I won't be getting a new one in a long time. Its not that hard to take a GPU out right? Just press the tab and pull it out?

[KoopaScooper]

jesus christ how horrifying

C: WDC WD1600JD-00HBB0 ATA Device
3 Tests, 500MB
512KB Random
Test1
15.52 Read
23.17 Write
Test2
18.13 Read
25.54 Write
Test3
18.56 Read
26.92 Write
brown townysis
17.21 Read
25.7 Write
Free Space
35.4 GB free of 148 GB

X: ST340014A ATA Device
3 Tests, 500MB
512KB Random
Test1
22.12 Read
26.32 Write
Test2
27.61 Read
24.30 Write
Test3
25.22 Read
25.11 Write
brown townysis
26.66 Read
25.59 Write
Free Space
11.4 GB free of 37.2 GB

X is my IDE drive while C is my SATA drive
I trust any drive made within the last 3 years has a faster speed than that?

[steve5451]

How do I measure my read/write speed? :o

[KoopaScooper]

How do I measure my read/write speed? :o

There are plenty of testing programs on the internet, I did multiple tests with this one and jumbled them together

[steve5451]

Sweet
Gotta test my read/write speed on this new 1TB HDD.
Whenever I transfer files from my old HDD to my new one it's about 50MB/s, I hope that's just the old HDD holding me back :v

[D3ATH LORD]

Umm ethan got that list yet?

[Doomonkey]

how the forget to clean out useless trialprograms

Control Panel > Add and remove programs.

[KoopaScooper]

Which laptop would you suggest?
Im looking at these 2 currently.
Willing to spend up to $500.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1365822&CatId=4938
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1936161&CatId=4938

What are you planning to do?

I guess I'll get my old graphics card and put it in this one because I won't be getting a new one in a long time. Its not that hard to take a GPU out right? Just press the tab and pull it out?

Provided the GPU doesn't have a power cord going to it, yes.

Umm ethan got that list yet?

I'll grab one for you once I get on a decent computer.

[Blooker]

My graphics card keeps overheating when I play Games. It is a XFX Radeon HD 6870. It's getting very irritating and I need some help.