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Tech Things You Dont Know But Are Too Afraid To Ask.

Tech Things You Dont Know But Are Too Afraid To Ask

 

So, everyone has one or two things that they dont know and are to afraid to ask because they think it will make them look dumb. 

So, what are yours? Post them here and hopefully someone will help you out, maybe even link you an article that helped them, maybe Linus and or slick can address it in the live stream, maybe linus and slick have something they dont know. As i said before Everyone has something they dont know and I think we need to learn more than we know already and what better community to do that in that this one?

 

So post what you dont know and maybe someone will tell you and If someone posted something that you where wondering too dont repost unless you still dont understand or need more questions answered.

 

My Questions:

 

What are RAM timings and why are they important?

 

What exactly is cas latency? and what does it affect?

 

How do you know what voltage to set your CPU at when overclocking?

 

How do you overclock RAM?

 

So post away and remember no question is a stupid question.

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Look at that fancy title.

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Oh right a question. Why are 16x (or just any high speed lane) lanes generally the prefered top slot on motherboards?

I want to put a sound card in my system without restricting airflow to my video card, shouldnt it just be standard to have a 4x lane first, followed by a 16x??

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Well, you can just google most questions and you get answers. 

 

how do you use linux?

I used Mandriva, Red Hat, Ubuntu and i can say that any 10+ year old can adapt to linux the same way you adapt to windows. Tho now i am not using linux.

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Well, you can just google most questions and you get answers. 

 

I used Mandriva, Red Hat, Ubuntu and i can say that any 10+ year old can adapt to linux the same way you adapt to windows. Tho now i am not using linux.

Well sometimes with strange things on google you dont get answers

 

Is a low rma rate good or bad?

Low is good it means less people had a broken part

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Is a low rma rate good or bad?

Generally good because it means that less products are being returned because they are faulty.

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How do you know what voltage to set your CPU at when overclocking?

 

 

When you first start out, you won't know what voltage is good for the particular chip. You basically overclock until you get a bluescreen, assume it is the voltage (lack of power) and thus increase it until you get no errors and no blue screens with your overclock. This is assuming you have left your RAM untounched, and are only overclocking your CPU. Once you're stable, you can then see if you can decrease your voltages with the overclock still being stable. By doing this, you will eventually reach a threshold where decreasing the voltage by just a little will cause a bluescreen/errors, but leaving it won't. That's how i do it, whether or not it's the "right" method i don't know.

 

Is a low rma rate good or bad?

 

Low RMA rate is good as it means that less products are getting sent back as they are faulty / have a problem, suggesting that the product is well built and well made.

 

My question: Why are there different keyboard layouts (UK, US etc?)

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What is this thing people refer to as being EAed?

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Look at that fancy title.

Edit:

Oh right a question. Why are 16x (or just any high speed lane) lanes generally the prefered top slot on motherboards?

I want to put a sound card in my system without restricting airflow to my video card, shouldnt it just be standard to have a 4x lane first, followed by a 16x??

 

You can put the card into a 16x slot though

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My question: Why are there different keyboard layouts (UK, US etc?)

My guess is because they have different needs. like US has $ and UK has the Fancy E. And there are probably other reasons like as far as i know you guys use commas in (Fancy E)3,50  and we use periods $3.50 so for ease of use it might be different. im kind of talking out my butt right now but to me it makes sense.

 

Also thanks for the response.

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My guess is because they have different needs. like US has $ and UK has the Fancy E. And there are probably other reasons like as far as i know you guys use commas in (Fancy E)3,50  and we use periods $3.50 so for ease of use it might be different. im kind of talking out my butt right now but to me it makes sense.

 

Also thanks for the response.

 

Right; but all my keyboards i've used (granted on in the UK) have both £ and $. What about the Enter and Shift keys - any purpose for them being "big" on ISO layout yet small in the US?

 

EDIT: Ok, after a bit of Wikipediaing', turns out it is due to the £ symbol. As this replaces the # key in ISO layout, the # key has to be moved elsewhere. That place is next to the enter key; however, this means the enter key cannot be "long", so they get around this by making it taller and fatter. Things you know eh?

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OK this is going to so sound utterly stupid, but I am totally confused with this as there are so many different ways and ugh everyone says the other is bad But How do you correctly apply thermal paste/compound. I have seen more than 10 different ways of doing it all claiming which one is better i trust Linus and Logan with the pea technique but is it really the best?

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OK this is going to so sound utterly stupid, but I am totally confused with this as there are so many different ways and ugh everyone says the other is bad But How do you correctly apply thermal paste/compound. I have seen more than 10 different ways of doing it all claiming which one is better i trust Linus and Logan with the pea technique but is it really the best?

I don't think there is really a "best" way to do it. I think its kinda like installing the mobo, some install the processor when the mobo is in the case and some don't, its really just preference, at least I'm pretty sure.

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What does a Hyper Threading do?

Hyper Threading is a way to create virtual cores. It is a bit tricky to explain, but I'll try to put it as easy as possible. Take for example an i5 quadcore and an i7 quadcore processor. Both are quadcores, but the i7 has Hyper Threading (HTT) which means it has 4 extra virtual cores. Of course those virtual cores are not real cores, but it is a way to make 1 core process two different threads at the same time by sharing the CPU parts which are idle because they are not used by thread 1 but can be used by thread 2. So basically the i7 is faster (most of the time) when processing a lot of data.

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how do you use linux?

hahaha what do you want to achieve?

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What is this thing people refer to as being EAed?

 

It's a reference from a live show. Linus and Slick were talking about how EA screws everything up, so if someone screws something up they "EA'd" it.

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I think I already know the answer to this but what is the difference between a SATA II and SATA III cable and which one should I use to connect a SATA III device to a SATA II port.

 

Why are there feet on the bottom of keyboards? I never seem to use them, is it just an ergonomic thing?

 

Yeah, it's mostly about ergonomics, it depends on the keyboard and the user but I personally find it uncomfortable to type on a keyboard without using the feet, I think the keys are not at the correct angle so I have to close my palms a bit too much which results in a bit more fatigue.

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OK this is going to so sound utterly stupid, but I am totally confused with this as there are so many different ways and ugh everyone says the other is bad But How do you correctly apply thermal paste/compound. I have seen more than 10 different ways of doing it all claiming which one is better i trust Linus and Logan with the pea technique but is it really the best?

 

Not stupid at all. Everyone always asks this question. This will probably help you the most.

 

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Why are there feet on the bottom of keyboards? I never seem to use them, is it just an ergonomic thing?

 

The ones that flip out? 

 

They're there because I use them :P 

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