[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

[devildogelite]

I don't think a pci wifi card is 100% needed. A usb one should be fine.

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[Treynolds416]

There could be hundreds of reasons. Do you have proprietary drivers installed for an AMD or NVIDIA card? How fast does your drive benchmark? I could go on.
As for the "Windows transfers files faster" issue, the NTFS-3G driver for Linux is forgetstuff horrible and can only transfer up to 40MB/s irregardless of hardware. Use vFAT for a storage partition and use that to transfer files between Linux and Windows, it works much better in my experience.
Either way, I couldn't recommend Ubuntu to anyone at all. My experience with it is less than satisfactory. Mandriva and Fedora seem to be much better "user-friendly" Linux distros.

I had no proprietary drivers installed at the time. The drive is a caviar blue, so it probably bm's decently although not spectacularly. Everyone else whom I've talked to who has installed a ubuntu partition (I guess it could be the fault of ubuntu specifically) has had experiences similar to mine regardless of hardware. Thanks for the tip about vFAT, will look that up

[AfterShock]

That one looks good. ASUS is a great company.

Thank ya, sir.

I don't think a pci wifi card is 100% needed. A usb one should be fine.

I agree with you, but I can't think of anything I'd use a PCIe x1 slot for. I have these weird thing where I want to fill my slots.

[fawkes..]

I have a usb one, works fine

[MackTheHunter]

It looked good while it lasted.

Here's my gripe rant about SLI/surround.

When you set up a dual card SLI configuration, NVIDIA wants you to connect the desktops like this.



Now, this was a big pain in the ass for me because I have 2 DVI cables and 1 HDMI-to-DVI cable, which the cards refused to accept with SLI surround. So I had to use a DVI adapter on a VGA cable which gave be a stupid refresh rate issue as usual (lines in the screen).

After about an hour of NVIDIA Control Panel crashing, I finally got the SLI surround setup to work normally.

Then I noticed I couldn't leave surround mode.

With one card in surround, I can easily press WIN-P to switch from Extended (regular multiple monitor management system for Windows, makes each monitor an individual) to Projector or Surround mode (Makes all 3 monitors act as ONE MONITOR. This means everything you put in fullscreen wants to span across all 3, including Youtube videos and browser windows).

With the two cards, switching from Surround to Extended killed the displays. They simply did not respond. This was a $420 deal breaker for me.

Even when testing the two cards on games like Far Cry 3 I noticed little performance increase at all. This was just depressing.

So, buyer beware - TL;DR, If you want to do Nvidia SLI, surround mode is going to suck because you're stuck in it. No extended allowed - oh, unless you want to use 1 monitor for gaming, then SLI will work for just 1 monitor an forget the rest.

I'm taking back the second card. I'll probably sell my first 670 as well and just loving buy a GTX Titan.[/b]

[Demian]

I have an odd problem. My mouse (Logitech G400) has been "lagging" as of late. Occasionally there's a 3-5 second long period when every move I make with my mouse including clicks are ~300ms late. It will do all the things I did with my mouse but just some 300ms after I've actually done it. It's very annoying. It also applies to my keyboard (Logitech K200), the keys I press are actually repeated. This has never happened before and I've had both my mouse and keyboard for a year now.

[KoopaScooper]

I have an odd problem. My mouse (Logitech G400) has been "lagging" as of late. Occasionally there's a 3-5 second long period when every move I make with my mouse including clicks are ~300ms late. It will do all the things I did with my mouse but just some 300ms after I've actually done it. It's very annoying. It also applies to my keyboard (Logitech K200), the keys I press are actually repeated. This has never happened before and I've had both my mouse and keyboard for a year now.

Try installing SetPoint?

[Muzzles56]

I don't think a pci wifi card is 100% needed. A usb one should be fine.

i have a pci wifi card. I have had bad experiences with USB wifi dongles. Also, it makes it slightly more portable

[Headcrab Zombie]

One of the HDDs in my RAID is going bad, do I have to buy another of the same model, or can it be a little bit different, and if so, how different can it be?

[Muzzles56]

My birthday's coming up and I was thinking of getting a headset with a microphone. Thing is, I don't know if it's worth it. I suppose I can talk during games and also to friends via skype. Still, I don't know if I would use it very often. Should I get one? If so, suggest me one

[KoopaScooper]

I think it only matters for size, but for the same reliability, you could try to grab one of the same drives.

[SiliconCactus]

Get a Sennheiser HD 280 and a $15 microphone from Amazon.

[devildogelite]

My birthday's coming up and I was thinking of getting a headset with a microphone. Thing is, I don't know if it's worth it. I suppose I can talk during games and also to friends via skype. Still, I don't know if I would use it very often. Should I get one? If so, suggest me one

I didn't think I would have many uses for my headset when I first got it, but use it for a few hours every day. Most important thing would be comfort. I also highly recommend a usb headset, or a usb sound card. Overall I think the sound quality doesn't matter as long as it's decent. I've never used my headphones for listening to anything but voice chat actually.

[Isjix]

Mack how much would you sell your 670 for