Quinnbeast

Clothes FTW.

Hmm, my gut feeling is a flaky GPU - partly because a dead CPU doesn't typically result in intermittent faults. It should also be easier to confirm or rule out. I had issues with an old Nvidia 780 where it would take me 10-20 minutes to get the PC to power back up after a crash, probably relating to some sort of safety trip either on the PSU or the GPU itself. It can be hard to tell exactly what you have and haven't tried in these situations. If it was me, I'd power off the machine (switch it off at the wall) pull the GPU out, pull the CMOS battery out, press the power button a few times and then leave it for 10-15 minutes. After that, try going back to your iGPU... you mentioned getting no output via your onboard graphics, but without BIOS access it's impossible to confirm the settings for the (display) boot device. If you had it set to PEG/PCI, then it's correct that it wouldn't display anything through the iGPU at all. Hopefully, a CMOS reset will put it to auto / default and give you an output. Can you try other cable types if the DVI isn't working? VGA? Display Port etc? If that doesn't work, can you borrow another GPU from somewhere or test your own in another machine (i.e. at your friends place?)

A little bit of both, but definitely American first and foremost. While there are diners in Europe, they're more likely to be restaurants or fast food joints in the style of a diner, rather than being part of the fabric as they are in the US. It's also unlikely that you'll see that classic rail-car style pre-fab unit (long and narrow) that you get in the US. And nobody does portion sizes quite like America either

First off, it's worth noting that the term HTPC was first coined at the end of the 90s, far back enough that even the humble DVD player was relatively new to the market. It's easy now to look at today's streaming boxes and wonder what the fuss is about, but at the very least, it ignores the decade or so preceding all of the gear we now take for granted. The hardcore fans of the HTPC will tell you that a gaming PC plugged into a television is exactly that. It's a PC with a big monitor. Some of the things that define what you might deem a "true" HTPC is that it's as easy to use as a set-top box (i.e. decent remote control / IR receiver on the case / TV-friendly GUI), that it would fit in aesthetically with typical A/V equipment, but with the functionality and power of a PC + any extras you might want. If you go back 15 years (and much of this remains true today), and you want to watch a DVD, play a video game, record live terrestrial / cable / satellite (w/ pause-rewind etc), play back your own ripped films and CDs from fast HDD storage etc, then you could easily need four or five boxes for all the different functions of a single well-equipped HTPC. My plasma TV has lost nearly all of it's smart functionality - after 4 years, most of the support was dropped for the streaming channels. The Roku that I now use is a brilliant piece of kit that is easily worth the price, but an HTPC it isn't.

One might wish to try furiously masturbating while maintaining steady eye contact with said camera.

Only the importing of slaves was made illegal in 1808, but the domestic slave trade combined with illegal import grew continually up until it was formally abolished in 1865. There were in fact 3.9 million slaves as of 1860. African-Americans have been free citizens in the USA for less time than they were enslaved. Either way, quoting dates doesn't change the big picture here. Historical events do not happen in a vacuum, so to say that the USA "as it is now" as if a separate entity is misleading. Many of the early industrial-era investments came from the agricultural profits of wealthy land (and slave) owners. You were the one that brought up the issue of reperation. Surely it's important to continue talking about historical slavery as and when it's contextually correct to do so? Otherwise you just appear to be shying away from it.

Oh dear. *deep breath* I'm probably wasting my time here, but - More than 87% of the UK population is "White British". The failure of the NHS, the economy and the lack of housing was primarily the fault of a late 70s early / 80s Tory government (and more recently Labour) that has systematically sold off council housing, failed to correctly fund and support the NHS, and has allowed the majority of modern infrastructure and investment to be centered in and around London - all to the determent of the entire north of England (and the rest of the UK). The white man is clearly to blame for the failing of the UK, and England along with it. The sooner you realise that, the sooner you'll be able to act on it accordingly and stop blaming people based on skin pigmentation. The important word in your quote there is "pride". You group it in among tangible notions of health and economy, as if to somehow make it a similarly quantifiable issue. Pride. Loss of Empire. Descent in to mediocrity. Much of which is understandable up to a point, and yet the "poor white sidelined western male" routine is just excruciating. "According to the Office for National Statistics, there were approximately 64.6 million people living in the UK in mid-2014. Of these, 56.2 million (87.2 per cent) were White British." http://www.irr.org.uk/research/statistics/ethnicity-and-religion/ Also, you seem quite happy to talk about whites in the USA "building the entire nation from scratch" without so much as a hint of irony. So, no slavery? At all? In the UK or USA? Either you're a master of satire, or master of your own delusion.

My guess: some people are predisposed to inventing any old bullshit in the hope that someone will believe it. Much like Sean Spicer claiming (aka "alternative facts") that Friday's inauguration was in fact viewed by "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration – period! – both in person and around the globe". Attaboy. You fuckin' tell 'em Sean.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article8-page2.html Decoupling HDDs using bungee cord.

"Whodathunk???"

That's a massive over-simplification of the issues (that would be) faced by both countries. Buying cheaper drugs from another country with only makes the issue even more complex, but it won't help to fix anything in the long term. For example, the deregulated (i.e. expensive) system in the US has a few positive side-effects (pun alert!), such as generating cash that is poured back into research for future generations of treatments that will ultimately be brought to the market. We're talking approx $3billion in current money by the time a treatment is ready for the global market. Canada directly benefits from US research and development, without ever contributing to it financially due mostly to it's strict price control laws. And sure, feel free to buy your medicine from whoever is selling it cheaper, but don't complain when you find that your baking powder tablets don't turn out to be as effective as the real thing, or future treatments don't appear on the market as readily as they used to.

Doesn't every company fuck up given enough time? When you say 'track record', do you mean the issue with 970 heatsink alignment or was there something else? We've had AMD previously releasing drivers that permanently damaged some GPUs, Intel having to recall entire chipsets in years gone by and Asus being forced to swap-out dodgy batches of $800 ROG G-Sync monitors. I've had two MSI 780s exchanged over an 18-month period; the first one died with a pop and a tremendous belch of smoke, and the second one didn't fare much better. While this might be more like anecdotal evidence, I'd be running out of brands to buy if I decided some of them were permanently a no-go.

2. It's important to distinguish between redundancy and backup. Even if you have a NAS that holds two HDDs to provide a mirrored copy of your data, it's still important to make backups of your NAS regardless. A mirrored copy of your data on a 2nd NAS drive does not protect against file corruption, accidental deletion of files, viruses, glitches in the software or firmware, or damage to the NAS itself (leaky roof or coffee spilled on it). A true backup is something completely separate from your NAS (i.e. a USB / eSATA hard drive or cloud storage for small amounts). If the data is important enough and I had to make a choice, I'd rather have a true backup of a single-drive NAS than a dual-drive NAS without a proper backup. In a perfect world, I'd gladly have both of course.

Yeah. Both brands have some utter garbage, as well as some of the best units available on the market. I'm also fairly sure that Corsair has turned a much bigger profit selling their cheap crap than EVGA ever will.