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void_presence

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About void_presence

  • Birthday Jul 14, 1974

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Interests
    technology, science, gaming (video and board)
  • Occupation
    IT Support

System

  • CPU
    AMD Phenom II 955
  • Motherboard
    Gigabyte 870A-UD3
  • RAM
    16 GB
  • GPU
    EVGA Geforce 780 Classified
  • Case
    Thermaltake Level 10 GT
  • Storage
    2 TB
  • PSU
    850W
  • Display(s)
    Samsung 21"
  • Operating System
    Windows 10

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  1. I'd go for Android (though disclaimer: I have Android and I am very biased towards it): Development is (arguably) easier these days; there's both Android Studio and even Unity can build for Android (though I avoid this way). Getting an app on the stores is quite a bit easier for Android: you pay a ONE time fee of $25 and you can publish on the Play store for life. With Apple, your app first has to be approved by Apple and then you have to pay $99 per year.
  2. As mentioned already, it depends on what you want to do. But here are a few of my observations: C++: Generally better to learn as it is used for most main-stream applications. It's very powerful but development is usually for a single platform. Java: Excellent learning language but it shouldn't be your only language. Many devices/programs use it, but it is kind of losing foothold for various reasons (such as security issues). Development is pretty much for all platforms that support it. Ultimately, learn both. Start with Java then once you're comfortable with programming it's easy to transfer over--most programming concepts are universal.
  3. Python's still applicable. The program I mentioned previously I wrote and used on a Windows machine
  4. Not sure about the nature of the system you're on, but I found Python to be particularly good at parsing files and doing system commands. I used Python to go through any number of XML files and rename them according to their respective name tags in those files--not the same thing of course, but it did involve using system commands based on the contents of a file. If you're on a Linux/Unix system, you maybe able to use BASH scripts to do the same, but I'm not familiar enough on that to help you there.
  5. Ordered the WD Blue 3D SSD (500 GB)--Tom's Hardware had a good review for it. Planning on doing a clean install of Windows (10) on it (going to create the media for it when I get home today) and re-installing applications/games as needed. This will help me 'clean' my application space anyway, root out the stuff that I haven't used/played in a long time--this in itself will definitely speed up the system not to mention being on an SSD.
  6. I was afraid of that; I was trying to avoid a clean install of Windows (despite that being the best way for improved speed) because it would require re-installation of the huge amount of programs I use. But if that's the only way, that will be it.
  7. Greetings. So my current HDD is old and slow and the bottleneck of my system these days. I'm in the market for an SSD to become the boot drive before this one dies. I've been looking all over the Internet for ways to migrate just the OS (Windows 10) to the SSD--but everything else on the drive with it. All I can find is 'cloning', which copies everything from a drive (partition) to another--I do not want that (for one, my current drive is 2 TB, with over 1 TB being used...would not fit on an SSD). Is there anyway to move JUST the OS over (without breaking it of course)?
  8. i only payed $305 for the i7 :), and even at that, i'm now pretty much broke The other aspect of this upgrade that I forgot to mention was that this was a 'need it now' issue, as my current mobo/chip is in it's death throes.
  9. I'm sure I wouldn't be able to afford the new chip when it comes out, nor the (possible) new boards with the chipset required, in fact, I'm sure I could only afford the 7700k because the price had come down. And besides, if I was always waiting 'for the next one', I'd be waiting forever, it's the nature of the industry.
  10. Greetings! Found LinusTechTips via Youtube, I have to say the most hilarious and informative channel I've found; I was literally laughing out loud (yeah I know lol, but it's kinda lost its meaning). Anyways: I am years in need of an upgrade, as I'm currently running on a AMD Phenom II 955 (yeah, that old). I'm not really asking for recommendations, as I've already made the purchase of a new chip, motherboard, and memory. I'm keeping everything else (my graphics card--EVGA Geforce 780 Classified, hard drives, and case). Yep, I'm going right to an i7 7700k, and since it's years from my previous chip, not to mention Intel, this required a new mb and therefore memory--a MSI Sli Plus and 16gb of Corsair Vengeance LPX respectively. Couple of notes: I'm a gamer, but not 'hardcore' (partly because of my dated chip)--I don't do FPS's for example. I'm not an overclocker; I realize that's the main point of the K chips and the Z270 chipset on the aforementioned motherboard, but frankly, I like options, and I loved the feature set and price point of the board, despite only having 1 graphics card, which kinda defeats the point of the name of the board...but as I said, I like having options. The parts should be coming in tomorrow at which point (after I get home from work), I'll start the harrowing process of replacing the brain ...and nervous system of my pc. And yes, I've put my selected parts (and my existing carryovers) in pricepicker and no incompatibilities found -- -void Presence trust your technolust
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