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divided_throwaway

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  1. IDK. I'd probably miss it more if Windows 7 came out a bit earlier, because reasons. Vista had the same look, but it was buggy and bloated af.
  2. It seems like they're a bit late to the party since the "It Gets Better" thing was going around back in the early 2010s:
  3. Wow, AMD are a bit late: It is quite relevant though because of the Trump presidency.
  4. YT these days is about advertising and copyright takedowns. Oh, and comments that have much weaker moderation than on Twitter.
  5. I'm worried about his anti-net neutrality stance. There are too few companies out there that can compete with each other, and many of them are not very well received by their customers.
  6. If you can play the games you love on console on a PC (inc. with emulators) and know how to work a PC for gaming, you pretty much qualify in my eyes. As for minimum specs: Intel i3 processor, Athlon X4 860K, FX 6300 (if you don't mind not having ITX motherboards and cases), GTX 1050 or RX 460. It should work for most games as long as you're wililng to play some of them on medium or even low. You may be stuffed if you want to play multiplayer on the same PC since most PC games are singleplayer, but they have LAN parties for both PC and console.
  7. They should just change it to op eds instead. All news is just that these days.
  8. I spotted a sex toy in the other video... they kind of didn't deliver here.
  9. Just took a look at userbenchmark. Apparently, it is, but you need an appropriate power supply (there's the hidden costs to such a cheap card), and the spread of benches on the website is a bit wider; to be fair, the GTX 1050 Ti came out recently. Still, it'd leave you with enough money for a future upgrade later on, especially if you spent enough money on a decent psu.
  10. Sorry about the inactivity, but here's some images: PlanetSide 2 the beautiful
  11. There are certain popular games that can only be played on the PS3, and I guess the sellers are banking on it.
  12. Most of my computers remind me of AMD's progression for all their CPUs this decade so far minus their FX CPUs and the upcoming Zen microarchitecture. The fastet computer we have right now is my brother's laptop, which has an i5-5200U in it. The rest all run CPUs that are Ivy Bridge or older, not counting phones.
  13. why the hell did amd have to endorse saints row iv on their tweet?! agh
  14. When Brits squat, they no have heels on ground. They do not listen to hardbass. They no eat semechki and shashlik. No cheeki breeki gopnik award points for them. Sorry, couldn't resist.
  15. Blue only runs at 5800 RPM, and I have a broken WD Scorpio Blue laptop hard drive (from improper shutting down, since some Linux distros take a long time to shut down). If I want to game on it, I need a bit more reliability and speed than what's offered on standard hard drives. Still, they're cheaper per gigabyte than the external hard drives that my uni offers. I got a 4 TB HDD from eBay for £110, they sell 2 TB hard drives at uni for £99. Granted, I've got a Seagate brand, and they're notorious for their unreliability for anything outside average consumer use.
  16. I'll check my bank statement in a while, since it'll take time to record all the transactions that have gone through. I know the i5 is more practical, but a) Intel's integrated graphics are useless for all but office workers and average consumers and b) why not a Xeon? I just wanna be a little crazy here. The only barriers for me are cost and availability, and then the i5 will be the only option for me.
  17. Thing is, I might consider making YT videos, but I don't consider myself a creative professional (yet). At the very least, Chrome and Firefox have some multithreading, and because of my currently entry-level system requirements, I use those very often.
  18. I know that Xeons are not really designed for consumers, but I thought that I might get it for a possible rig, if I can afford it. It might be somewhat likely, since I spent £700 on a rig that I'm going to return, and I might get £100 later on; granted, I don't think I've been refunded when my order of a monitor through Amazon got cancelled, I haven't yet been paid for the work I done to get the £100 and I'm a bit worried I'll not get the money at all as a result, even though I might not need the system at all. The CPU's cheaper and slower than the Skylake i7s, but unlike the i5s, it has extra threads, and is a bit more expensive than the i5s IIRC. I might be able to benefit from the extra threads during game development, since I noticed that in Task Manager that all the threads on the i7s in the computers in college are being used in heavy rendering tasks. I read from this website that 3D rendering is mostly GPU bound, but the bottom comment was saying it was CPU bound (and the thread got closed from some necroposter): http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2202924/xeon-rendering.html I insist on using Skylake CPUs for a better upgrade path (i.e. no need to swap out RAM as well) and that sweet USB 3.0 that two of my hard drives are already using unlike my current laptop, but I feel like it's easier to upgrade the GPU than the CPU despite that. If I do get pissed with the Xeon, I could always replace it with a Kaby Lake i7 later on. I've only seen one or two benchmark pages between these two CPUs, and I'm curious to know a bit more about it if possible: http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-E3-1230V5-vs-Intel-Core-i5-6600 Here's my build log: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/7Nx2bj
  19. I've heard that Hitachi are a good drive company, but they don't really target consumers when I browsed their website. That said, I'm using a WD mobile internal drive from a different laptop (since that laptop's mobo or something died), and I doubt it's been used as much since that other laptop was newer.
  20. I bought a new 2.5" 4 TB Seagate external USB HDD on eBay for around £110, and since I've done some research regretfully after my purchase, I found out that people have been having issues with that brand, with many of them reporting reliability issues. I do, however, have a broken Western Digital laptop HDD, but it was caused from improper shutdown and the hard drive head to crash onto the platter; nevertheless, I managed to get data recovered from it. I don't intend to use my Seagate hard drive very much, more to just store data in it and access it very occasionally, so I believe that any issues with the drive might be minimised. I've already moved lots of files into it. Will the purchase be justified for my use case, or will I have to find something else?
  21. Tried cancelling my order, they're still making it. I can wait and accept the finished order and then choose to cancel it afterwards, I just pretty much want something to latch on to when I get reimbursed.

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