InSilentSeas

I'm sure you show them enough money and they'll be glad to help, but you can always install OSX onto some form of flash media and install it yourself.

My front panel audio is infinitely better than my motherboard audio, even with my amp. For now I just have to deal with ugly audio cables coming from the front of my case.

Only read the first page on here, seemed to deviate from constructive opinion to brain mush. I've had an Alienware M17X in the past. At the time, it was the fastest machine I'd had so I was very happy with it. Support was great. The hardware was good as far as laptops go, the LEDs were cool, and it was snappy compared to what I was used to (an AMD C-50!). It was a badass machine, but I could have gotten more for my money if I'd invested in a desktop. The only real complaints I had with it were how large and heavy is was. Not a laptop I could just sit in my lap. After it died, (battery leaked everywhere, sold it for scraps) I build a Pentium G3258 rig with no GPU for budget's sake. I had the ol' Xbox and PS4, didn't really wanna bomb out on a GPU and faster CPU. Then I built my current machine, and already looking to upgrade. TL;DR: Maybe not worth the money, but it was a great machine. If you're on a budget, look elsewhere.

Sweeet, thanks guys. I knew something looked a bit odd here. I'll turn it off and try again.

What does RAPID do? Why should I disable it?

Hey guys! I reinstalled Windows, added in some drives, partitioned my SSD, etc. Got my system running nice, as far as nice goes with my hardware, but I noticed that moving files from different locations on my SSD seemed to transfer a bit slower than the 550MB/s speeds that Samsung advertises for my 840 EVO. I didn't exactly want to settle on 200MB/s, so I did some testing with AS SSD benchmark, and my speeds were actually around the 450MB/s mark, faster than what I was getting with Windows transfers. Confusing. I downloaded the Samsung SSD software, and the benchmark within it said I was getting 550! What the hell. So I did the whole Samsung setup, OS optimizations that it has and stuff, and my benchmarks were around 4000MB/s. That doesn't seem right. I ran AS SSD and the benchmark also shows just over 3700MB/s read and write speeds. Very odd. I copied a 5GB file from my downloads folder onto my desktop, and it finished within seconds, but the read speeds only showed around 400MB/s in the small instance that it flashed by. Is there something I am missing or it this normal?

If you have the money now, I'd go for the new RX480, it's about $200. It's probably the best bang for your buck right now. If you don't mind the wait, you can save up for a higher end card at a later time, or in the future, buy another RX480. I've had just about zero problems (other than in The Division) running them in Crossfire.

Nice job on pushing that Pentium, I had mine at 4.8Ghz but I've since upgraded to an i7-4790k. As for your question, yes, your motherboard and RAM will both work with the Xeon just fine.

Hey guys. I'm making a banner for a website, and I've made the banner shape, but it has three sections divided by white lines. I need to fit a GIF into each section, and end up with thee GIFs next to each other separated by white lines. Here is my banner shape. My banner shape is below. Any ideas?

Dang, I was geeked out, I don't come across many of my brethren.

Sweet, I'll check it out. Also, side note, is your name actually Ryder by any chance?

Right, but I'd be open to the idea of downloading and installing the software through other means.

Why so? I've seen people on YouTube build these Hackintoshes from computer parts.

Hey guys. I've never used a Mac before, but I think for someone who considers themselves a tech geek, it would be fairly biased for me to judge one OS over the other before having tried one. Macbooks are frickin expensive, I don't have the cash to buy one. I have a sweet rig, I'd like to go the dual booting way. I have ran it for a good ten minutes in a VM, but was unable to get reasonable performance and graphical stability to make it worth learning. Heck, the resolution it ran in made it too small to function properly and there's no possible way to fix it. So here's my rig. -i7-4790k. -Asus Z97M Plus -Corsair Vengeance Pro 1866 -XFX 7970 First, is it possible, and second, is it practical? What are your experiences with this and what can I look out for? I'm not advocating piracy, nor admitting to it, but chances are I am not purchasing the software even if that means dropping the idea or obtaining it by other means. I'm pretty determined. Thanks.

I'll check him out for sure