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Gravemind

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  1. Informative
    Gravemind got a reaction from benga in I'll take this as a sign to get an SSD   
    I don't have an SSD, that was a Seagate 500gb. And that program was HD Tune, awesome little tool for measuring drive health.
  2. Informative
    Gravemind reacted to scottyseng in How do I tell if my rig uses SATA 2 or SATA 3?   
    Yeah, Sata 3 is backwards compatible with Sata 2. It just runs at Sata 2 rates.
  3. Informative
    Gravemind reacted to Laucien in How do I tell if my rig uses SATA 2 or SATA 3?   
    As far as I know all SATA devices are backwards compatible so plugging in a SATA3 SSD into a SATA2 port will just reduce the speed to SATA2's max. 
  4. Funny
    Gravemind got a reaction from RahulR in Experiences with non-techies   
    When my mother or grandparents ask how big a terabyte, or any hard drive is.
     
    Me: "It's 1k gigabytes."
    Them: "But how big is that?"
    Me: "Well 1 gig is 1000 megabytes."
    Them: "And how big are those."
    Me: "Anyways... It's pretty big, can hold a heck of a lot of music and pictures and games."
    Them: "Yeah but how many?"
    Me: "How many of what?"
    Them :"How many of them all can it hold?"
     
     
    (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)
  5. Funny
    Gravemind got a reaction from cummerou1 in Experiences with non-techies   
    When my mother or grandparents ask how big a terabyte, or any hard drive is.
     
    Me: "It's 1k gigabytes."
    Them: "But how big is that?"
    Me: "Well 1 gig is 1000 megabytes."
    Them: "And how big are those."
    Me: "Anyways... It's pretty big, can hold a heck of a lot of music and pictures and games."
    Them: "Yeah but how many?"
    Me: "How many of what?"
    Them :"How many of them all can it hold?"
     
     
    (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)
  6. Funny
    Gravemind got a reaction from GirlFromYonder in Experiences with non-techies   
    When my mother or grandparents ask how big a terabyte, or any hard drive is.
     
    Me: "It's 1k gigabytes."
    Them: "But how big is that?"
    Me: "Well 1 gig is 1000 megabytes."
    Them: "And how big are those."
    Me: "Anyways... It's pretty big, can hold a heck of a lot of music and pictures and games."
    Them: "Yeah but how many?"
    Me: "How many of what?"
    Them :"How many of them all can it hold?"
     
     
    (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)
  7. Funny
    Gravemind got a reaction from DocSwag in Experiences with non-techies   
    When my mother or grandparents ask how big a terabyte, or any hard drive is.
     
    Me: "It's 1k gigabytes."
    Them: "But how big is that?"
    Me: "Well 1 gig is 1000 megabytes."
    Them: "And how big are those."
    Me: "Anyways... It's pretty big, can hold a heck of a lot of music and pictures and games."
    Them: "Yeah but how many?"
    Me: "How many of what?"
    Them :"How many of them all can it hold?"
     
     
    (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)
  8. Funny
    Gravemind got a reaction from Belgarathian in Experiences with non-techies   
    When my mother or grandparents ask how big a terabyte, or any hard drive is.
     
    Me: "It's 1k gigabytes."
    Them: "But how big is that?"
    Me: "Well 1 gig is 1000 megabytes."
    Them: "And how big are those."
    Me: "Anyways... It's pretty big, can hold a heck of a lot of music and pictures and games."
    Them: "Yeah but how many?"
    Me: "How many of what?"
    Them :"How many of them all can it hold?"
     
     
    (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)
  9. Agree
    Gravemind reacted to SSL in Major Audio Upgrades (Guidance Needed)   
    Worst advice I've seen in awhile.
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    Gravemind reacted to Mug in Pascal for Laptops Announcement   
    Clickbait title much
  11. Like
    Gravemind reacted to HKZeroFive in psu for a build   
    Where's the PSU?
  12. Funny
    Gravemind got a reaction from rhyseyness in The Elusive Yellow Lithium Cell   
    Probably racism.
  13. Funny
    Gravemind got a reaction from Halo Spartan128 in What is your hardware quirk?   
    On an older laptop that's no longer with me, the power switch broke and was literally impossible to replace (Thanks Toshiba for having everything be soldered together (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)) and just left an exposed wire. To turn the laptop on, you has to touch the wire with your fingers, sometimes getting a little jolt.
  14. Agree
    Gravemind reacted to TheRandomness in Water Cooling Conflict Plz Help   
    You get the H60 and mount the radiator in a different spot..?
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    Gravemind got a reaction from Jon Jon in Is Alienware good?   
    They're overpriced bling rigs that are the most shoddily put together computers I've ever seen.
     
    My friend in Virginia had an Alienware Desktop, and they shipped it with only a 300w power supply despite it having an i7 and a GTS 660 for christs' sake. And he had to have his motherboard replaced 3 times because Alienware thinks that just swapping a mobo will solve everything. And one of the times they did, they didn't even put thermal paste back on the cpu, so that burned up and died too.
     
    My friend in Texas, he has an Alienware gaming laptop, and he gets blue-screens every day and most of them don't even give him an error code. He's had everything swapped out at least twice, and the case is made of—admittedly pretty—but shitty plastic like you'd get from a $1 toy from a drug store.
     
     
    More or less, if you just want some bulky—but flashy and shiny n00b bling to showoff, and don't mind having a system cost 3x the cost of its actual parts, and customer service that would make the DMV look like saints, then go for it.
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    Gravemind reacted to Litargirio in Is Alienware good?   
    Who are we talking about again? I thought it was Alienware, not Acer.
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    Gravemind reacted to colonel_mortis in Bronze and Silver Badge pricing reverced   
    One is a weekly price, and one is a monthly price. It's not a bug, just a strange way of displaying it.
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