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    A.T reacted to Oshino Shinobu in Need remove everything from hard drive   
    You'd need another system to connect the drive to, then format it. Or, you could format from a bootable Windows installer, there should be an option for that when selecting the disk to install to. 
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    A.T reacted to GoodBytes in Windows compadability mode   
    Windows has a built-in database of programs and games it knows it needs to run under compatibility mode (or at the request by the developer by defining this in manifest file (a file embedded in a .exe during compilation time of the software/game)), so that the program runs properly.
     
    You can define compatibility options in the program settings. Right-click on the program shortcut directly (not from the start menu if you are under Windows 10, but if you do "More > Open file location", it will jump to the location of the program shortcut, and you can right-click on that and select properties). On that panel, go under the compatibility tab, and there you can change options, including turning it off.
     
    You can also disable "Program Compatibility Assistant" service. Simply search in the start menu for: Services, and click on "Services". On the panel that will open look for: Program Compatibility Assistant, double click on it, and select Stop button, and from the drop down list above, pick "Disabled". And click on OK.
     
     
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    A.T reacted to jjohnthedon1 in Fan stop while playing bf1   
    Maby ? Try it, also check the leads into the gpu ain't loose
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    A.T reacted to patrickjp93 in Microsoft Visual C++ 20xx   
    Unfortunately no. This is part of the evils of DLLs. I really wish games were distributed as monolithic executables.
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    A.T reacted to Zagna in Microsoft Visual C++ 20xx   
    Don't remove them.
    They're all different versions required by specific software or games.
    If you remove any of them, they won't work anymore.
    It's common to have multiple versions of them and in both x86 and x64. I got 22 of them installed.
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    A.T reacted to Bananasplit_00 in Help with choosing a game   
    CIV V(or VI when that drops)
    CS:GO
    FTL(not multiplayer but still good)
     
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    A.T reacted to The_Denks in Help with choosing a game   
    Garry's Mod
     
    I bought it 5 bucks on sale, normally 10.
     
    The online multiplayer is what epople live for.
    User created game-modes are  incredible.
     
    Ive spend over 2000 hours playing a $5 game on Steam, just because of the Trouble in Terrorist Town mode.
     
    Its barley demanding at all.
    I have a laptop running a I7-3667 (Intel HD whatever graphics (5 years old) and still gets 100 plus FPS.
     
     
    PS: IF you do get this game, play on Elysium TTT. Great server, great staff, plus i play on there
    Steam : The DInkster
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    A.T reacted to Gingami in Help with choosing a game   
    Not sure for how long it will be fun but give a try to Warframe. You even don't have to buy it, just try it for free and then decide if it's worth your time or not.
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    A.T reacted to BrightCandle in Core vs thread   
    A modern Skylake processor has 7 arithmetic logic units (ALUs) and they are capable of different things. The CPU doesn't actually run instructions one after the other, Intel processors are known as out of order processors and they analyse all the instructions they are given and try to run the program in parallel on the 7 ALUs it has. You can think of the ALU as the piece that does the actual maths while the core itself deals with concerns of going to and from memory or decoding an instruction into lots of calls to the ALUs.
     
    When you have hyperthreading you have 2 Cores exposed to the operating system, so it will run 2 programs on it. But those 2 Cores are actually the same 7 ALUs they are shared between the two of them. If the programs you are running use different types of instructions then you may very well get better utilisation of the 7 ALUs (since they are all different) and get a performance boost, it can be worth about 30%. However if both programs are using similar instructions then they are fighting for the same ALU to do the same thing and as such wont run faster, they may infact run a little slower due to other concerns (shared cache and pipeline bubbles).
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    A.T reacted to Lurick in First time builder just a quick question   
    It's a sata power cable so it will only take 15 pin sata, although there are 15-pin to 4-pin molex adapters.
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    A.T reacted to Thony in Core vs thread   
    Physical cores always peform bettter tha. Logical cores. 
     
    A core with HT basically splits itself and instead of one task it can work on two.
     
    Thats the simpliest explanation i think. Correct me if im wrong.
     
    Full power of one core for one task gives the best possible performance and thats why i5 is so much more expensive than i3.
     
    Edit: AMD uses its own HT on FX chips but their architecture is different so they dont directly compare to intel. We are waiting for AMD to catch up a little bit with Zen CPU line because their latest FX8000 is over 4 generstions behind Intel.
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    A.T reacted to Mark77 in Core vs thread   
    Well, think of going to a concert.  There are 4 entry gates (ie: 4 cores in a CPU) where someone validates tickets.
     
    If everyone is well behaved and in line, the 4 entry gates are utilized very efficiently and lots of people are admitted to the concert.
     
    But we know that's not often the case.  Sometimes people take time to find their tickets (ie: it takes extra time to decode instructions in a CPU).  Sometimes there are data items that have to come out of main RAM (sometimes people need to dump their water bottles and other prohibited items). 
     
    The whole idea of hyperthreading is that basically you split things into 8 lines that go to the 4 entry gates.  With someone monitoring those lines to make sure everything is in order.  As a result, those 4 gates are used very efficiently. 
     
    Intuitively this is why there are some workloads which are multi-threaded/multi-processor capable, but don't benefit much, if at all from hyperthreading.  Video rendering comes to mind, as video rendering calculations are very highly structured and repetitive. 
     
    There are workloads that are very chaotic, which highly benefit from hyperthreading.  Heavy multitasking, virtualization, etc. comes to mind. 
     
    So the answer to your question heavily depends upon workload, although core for core, its usually better to have real cores, than hyperthreads.  But real cores cost a lot more silicon and consume a lot more power.  Hyperthreads are a great, relatively low cost compromise to leverage existing resources which may not be optimally utilized.  Hyperthreading adds, at best, a few more percent to a CPU in terms of die space and can double some workloads' performance.  Doubling the core count doubles the required silicon. 
     
     
     
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    A.T reacted to Naeaes in Am I right or (quick question)   
    That'd be a crude simplification, yeah. Or you could say your cooler will be half as loud in achieving it's maximum cooling performance with this CPU. Albeit, especially the CPU will vary widely from the TDP. It's only intended to operate at that TDP, but it can be cooler or even hotter in cases.
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    A.T got a reaction from GirlFromYonder in Am I right or (quick question)   
    If my cpu got tdp at 91 and my cooler 190 does that mean that my cooler can cool twice as much as I need??
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    A.T reacted to Jack Longman in Am I right or (quick question)   
    Yes. The tdp of the cooler specifies what the maximum tdp cpu it could theoretically cool sufficiently. That is more than double your needed specification cooler 
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    A.T got a reaction from Enderman in Corsair Hydro wich one   
    Thx man
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    A.T got a reaction from Jack Dvorak in Double your Cpu performence huh??¿¿   
    Well I'll assume that this is fake to 
     
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    A.T got a reaction from NoRomanBatmansAllowed in Double your Cpu performence huh??¿¿   
    Well I'll assume that this is fake to 
     
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    A.T reacted to MoonlightSylv in Should I worry about compatability   
    No problem  
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