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Coswar

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    Coswar reacted to Dietrichw in Treecko H440 Build   
    I have the decal ready to be cut, will probably do that tomorrow. My used R9 290 arrived from Michigan today and got it installed, the only sacrifice was the front USB 3.0 header, I will look for a low profile adapter that will make the front USB 3 header fit behind the video card. I am also running the computer with the front off to help airflow as it is getting hotter here. 

     
     
     

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    Coswar reacted to BonBon Scott in Project Ghetto Rig   
    Now I want a light switch
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    Coswar reacted to Askew in Project Ghetto Rig   
    It looks so ridiculous that it has to stay please don't remove it seeing that has made my day.
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    Coswar reacted to Askew in Project Ghetto Rig   
    I CANNOT GET OVER THE LIGHT SWITCH ON IT that's fucking mind blowingly amazing 10/10 for that alone.
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    Coswar reacted to dalekphalm in Best Antivirus for Windows XP   
    @Coswar this seems to be an issue in any forum, but lately it's been getting bad. Some people read the Thread Title and just post seemingly without reading the actual post (Since if they did, they wouldn't have posted their completely useless posts). It's nice to see awesome and valid suggestions though to counter balance this.
     
    I fully agree with Avast and Malwarebytes. Both are still fully compatible with XP, even with the latest versions. Avast is my favourite free anti-virus, and Malwarebytes is a great backup/emergency scanner.
     
    AVG is another free one. We use it at work on our Windows XP machines (Well, former work, just quit and starting a new job). I prefer Avast over AVG, but the boss is EXCEPTIONALLY STUBBORN AND IRRATIONAL when it comes to computer and IT things. He barely tolerates any Antivirus on the machines at all, and will ONLY let us install AVG.
     
    He's under the incredibly bad/foolish impression that Windows XP will be totally fine without A/V because "not many people use it anymore". I'm glad I left as his IT tech, because I don't want to be there when they finally get a major virus outbreak and it wrecks havoc through his network.
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    Coswar got a reaction from helping in Project Ghetto Rig   
    So here I have a completed Ghetto Rig made up of spare parts and slightly damaged parts that I had around the house or had taken out of my main Rig. I took the motherboard, CPU and one PSU from an old Dell Inspiron 530 and the GPU was an overheating one taken from my main Rig. The second PSU was in my box of spares, not sure where from and the Antec 300 was from my old rig.
     

     
    So having these parts disused was annoying me, and I decided to see what I could create from them. I knew the Dell's PSU (305w) wouldn't be enough to power the 6970, so I looked into dual power supplies, and came out with what you see below.
     

     
    One PSU for the Mobo/CPU and accessories and one for the Graphics card. There were a couple of methods to setting up dual PSUs, such as splicing them together so that the one switch would turn on both, but I wanted to be able to easily dismantle this machine if I had other/better uses for the parts. Instead I used a light switch mounted to a 5 1/4 " cover at the front, with the cables plugged into the relevant plugs on the 24 pin adapter.
     

     

     
     
    I drew on the symbols to remind myself
     

     
    The whole build only cost me around €5 for the switch and cable, the rest of the parts were free, and I now have a pretty decent spare rig, but I'm not sure how long the HDD will last, it's nearly dead.
     

     
    List of specs are as follows:
     
    Intel Core 2 Duo E6650 @ 2.33Ghz
    2GB 800Mhz DDR2
    Dell Inspiron Motherboard(P35)
    HIS Radeon HD 6970 2GB (Reference)
    2x 305w Generic PSU
    Antec 300 Mid Tower( All 4 fans filled)
    750GB Generic HDD
    1x Lightswitch
     
     
    Here are some screenshots of CPU Z etc ( I know that everyone hates Windows Experience Index - But I don't )
     

     

     

     

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    Coswar reacted to TechCIDLC in Best Antivirus for Windows XP   
    According to AV-TEST.org, the antivirus program that has the most protection, performance and usability for Windows XP is: Kaspersky Internet Security 2014.
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    Coswar reacted to Hoppa in Best Antivirus for Windows XP   
    Malwarebytes and avast?
    I assume they work on XP
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    Coswar reacted to flibberdipper in Best Antivirus for Windows XP   
    I've been using Avast Free and then once a month I do a full scan with Malwarebytes. Haven't gotten a single virus over the past 3 months (other than false positives).
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    Coswar got a reaction from Askew in What has happened to youtube?   
    I use a Chrome Extension Called "MAgic Actions for Youtube" Lets you decide what color you want the page to be using the switch (see my previous post) and hsa many other really useful settings such as Auto 1080p and Auto Wide
    - And TBH apart from the stupid sub list, I prefer the new Layout- everything is there without clicking
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    Coswar reacted to helping in What has happened to youtube?   
    Had this for months as well, didn't like it at first, but once you get used to it, it works alright.
     
    Kinda clunky going through a long list of subs, but it's alright.
     
    I'm on Firefox as well, but it looks the same in Chrome so I think it's a by-account type of thing.
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    Coswar got a reaction from otobot9 in What has happened to youtube?   
    Been like that for me for months
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    Coswar reacted to Kyuubixchidori in How ghetto is your testing?   
    now i have to find the picture of 2 Pcs sprawled out on carpet running. they are both old, and was curious about how serious static electricity was. both ran just fine.
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    Coswar got a reaction from mvitkun in What has happened to youtube?   
    Been like that for me for months
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    Coswar reacted to Hans Christian | Teri in What has happened to youtube?   
    They changed it. The drop down menu isn't unintuitive, you just haven't gotten used to it yet. In reality it's a slightly different style of displaying exactly the same information. I would actually go as far as saying that it's more intuitive than the old solution. I rarely get behind Google's useless changes, but there is absolutely no reason to hate on them for this one.
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    Coswar got a reaction from MbV93 in What has happened to youtube?   
    Been like that for me for months
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    Coswar reacted to chesleywan in How ghetto is your testing?   
    Apparently the testing setup isn't the only thing that's ghetto.
     

     
    I have 2x2GB of Patriot DDR3 RAM installed. Not sure if I should blame HP or Patriot. =/
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    Coswar reacted to chesleywan in How ghetto is your testing?   
    Is the wall okay?
     
    Sad thing is that this board is at least AM3 with an Athlon II X4. Didn't have USB 3.0, but hey... there wasn't USB 1.1 either.
     
    I demand photographs.
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    Coswar reacted to flibberdipper in How ghetto is your testing?   
    For the first year of my old computer's life, the power supply and hard drive were hanging off my desk, the motherboard was on the desk, and the optical drive was sitting on the PCI slots. Not to mention that I had an AM3 cooler on a Socket 478 CPU.
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    Coswar reacted to chesleywan in How ghetto is your testing?   
    I pulled a motherboard out of an HP desktop with a defective chipset (or something) which rendered all the onboard SATA connections undetectable by the BIOS. Without really looking into the capabilities of the motherboard, I tried to see if I could bypass this issue by using a SATA PCI-E card. I scrounged together a bunch of parts and the result is what you see below. How many ghetto things can you find? Can you reach a new level of ghetto?
     

     
    By the way, it didn't work. Motherboard is rubbish, unless I use a USB-bootable OS.

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    Coswar reacted to Shaqo_Wyn in Modis called me   
    I thought rule #1 was don't use internet explorer. Have I been deceived?
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    Coswar reacted to MG2R in Guides & Tutorials Catalog   
    The Guides and Tutorials Catalog
     
    In order to simplify the search for guides and tutorials which might be tagged
    badly, and to help you look for specific things by subject without having to fight
    the broken IP.Board search function, we'll be tracking complete tutorials about a
    specifc subject here.
     
    The idea is to have a nice catalog people can browse by subject. The tutorials
    linked to here are of decent quality, meaning that they cover the subject in a
    reasonably complete, understandable, and properly formatted way.
     
    If you feel we've missed a quality tutorial, feel free to PM a mod or reply to this
    thread. Also check this post.
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    Coswar reacted to ultimatemythbuster in What's the best Virtual Desktop software?   
    OP should have said virtual workspaces, not virtual desktops.  Sorry.
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    Coswar reacted to ohJey in What's the best Virtual Desktop software?   
    Linux has workspaces but I haven't really tried programs on windows.  I've heard of dexpot though.
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    Coswar reacted to JamGorby in What's the best Virtual Desktop software?   
    I'd imagine it's not nearly as funny for you. Sorry bro. 
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