Odur32

I have a pair of the HE-4XX by HiFiMAN that we're part of an exclusive Massdrop based on the HE-400i Model and I can wear those for 12+ hours with no comfort issues (with Stock Leather/Velour Composite Earpads). I have a semi big and irregular shaped head so its much harder for me to find comfortable headphones.

Same here.

I've had this email for the better part of 14 years. It's mostly just for spam but I still keep a few things going there that aren't.

Woke up, and opened my browser to check email this morning and found this.... How we collect and use data. We’ve updated some of the ways we collect and analyze user data in order to deliver services, content, relevant advertising and abuse protection. This includes: analyzing content and information when you use our services (including emails, instant messages, posts, photos, attachments, and other communications), linking your activity on other sites and apps with information we have about you, and providing anonymized and/or aggregated reports to other parties regarding user trends. Sharing Data with Verizon. Oath and its affiliates may share the information we receive with Verizon. Learn more about Verizon’s privacy practices. So not only would I be agreeing to let them read my emails but also to allow them to share it with people like Ajit Pai over at Verizon?

Sadly many of the mainstream games still take CPU into account for performance. Q6600 might work if you can find a non jenk way to cool it with something like a Noctua and Overclock it to the max.

I would say if you can afford it, you really need to upgrade, Intel isn't really the best option right now imo, coming from a former Intel user for the last 15 years. Ryzen with a good Mobo preferably 370x Chipset or better idk what the current best is but I'm using a Taichi Mobo.

Q6600 wow that feels like an ancient relic of a processor =-D Core 2 Duo Quad Core pre-Hyperthreading iirc, I have that processor in the Computer I bought in 2007.

I think it all depends on the game your playing, some games use CPU more heavily than GPU. Sadly most games favor higher IPC even if they have decent multi-core support. So your probably looking at least a coffee lake for games, If you have any room with your current hardware to overlock, I'd do that as a stopgap measure. No clue if the i5 6600 can be overclocked on that Mobo though. I can get 144 FPS in some games on a Ryzen 1700x with stock speeds, using 1080Tix2 in SLI. But this machine isn't just for gaming, It is primarily for multi-threaded 3D Render workloads.

Linus cites the regular hardware upgrade cycles as a reason for cheap server hardware on websites like eBay. I also personally know of many companies who also upgrade to the new versions of windows about once every 2-4 years. 3M Unitek is one.

I don't know if this is relevant in your case, but for me, it actually mattered. Those ASMEDIA SATA ports on my mobo have a slower transfer speed than the ports on the main controller. This kneecapped my Samsung 850 Evo to under 300mb a second transfer speed until I moved them to the harder to get to (GPU Overhang) SATA ports.

If you could get more widespread adoption of a product simply by dressing it up as something else that would essentially be profitable in and of itself. Provided the amount of work to do said dress up was less than you made from selling the product to the new adopters. Companies do it all the time, they essentially rework existing products to fit the appeal of a wider audience.

You could make Windows 10 almost identical to Windows 7 just by changing the UI, there shouldn't be any need to screw around with the base code to alter functionality. Sure, some features have been added changed or removed, but that can happen during the life cycle of any software.

You'd be very surprised, how many home users, especially older people, who still use windows 7. Actually, there are many companies who do regular hardware/software upgrade cycles. However, some schools do not, I am not sure about hospitals.

I think you'd find that it could work, I don't think using a more classic UI would hold any functionality back. I'm actually almost sure of it. You can dress anything up to look classic if you really want to, without loss of functionality.

imo the biggest reason that I keep windows 10 has nothing to do with the look or many features. It is the Direct X 12 Support.