Kevin_Walter

Has nothing to do with heat. The times these things have happened, the GPU has practically been idle. Well I don't see where I said I agreed it could be the hard drive. All of the hardware in this rig is the same age. I'm just using a 500GB WD Blue 7200RPM drive.

Yes. The mouse still "worked"... the problem was entirely with the on-screen display of the mouse cursor. I could still move it around and click on things normally, but the cursor itself was distorted to the point of being unrecognizable as a mouse cursor.

I'm 99.9% certain it's not a hardware issue with the mouse.

Yes. But it's the same pad I've always used and the mouse is 10 months old. I never had that problem before, and as I said, the cursor disappeared entirely when I tried changing it, requiring a reboot to fix.

I forgot to mention that I only started noticing the odd flickering on my laptop after the display died and I purchased this monitor, so that could very well be the case there. It still doesn't explain the corrupted mouse cursor though.

So over the last several days, I'm noticed a random, and extremely brief (less than a frame or two) "static" flashes... kind of what you would experience on an old tube TV is you smacked the side of it. I had this problem every once in a while on my old laptop running an nVidia 9800m, but that was the only error I ever saw, and I figured it was an overheating issue, if anything. But this same thing has happened several times now in the past few days on my new desktop. Three times that I can remember. The first shortly after exiting a fullscreen youtube video, once while playing Don't Starve, and a while ago while watching Futurama on Netflix. That last one also seemed to cause artifacts to appear on my mouse cursor once I exited full screen mode. The cursor look glitched, with sections missing and strange blobs around it. Kind of like a corrupted image. I tried to switch the cursor appearance under mouse settings, but that just caused it to not draw the cursor at all. There were no other issues that I could find, and the problem was fixed with a reboot. I would hate to have to RMA my GPU though, as I literally just bought it 3 weeks ago. I'm running an FX-6300 with an XFX R9 270X on Windows 7 x64 with a Razer Deathadder. Everything is practically new, nothing is overclocked, and all drivers are up to date.

I don't know what you're talking about, that was badass...

Yes, those would just be for the motherboard. The manufacturer of your GPU would have the drivers you need. So if it's an nVidia card then yes, GeForce Experience should cover it. Though I believe that's an app that installs drivers, and not necessarily the driver itself... but I could be wrong on that.

I honestly can't remember.... too many years ago, and I played too many games as a kid.

I'm not sure what your question is... Do you not want to install drivers for some reason? Some things won't work without proper drivers. In fact, I just built a PC with a Gigabyte MB a couple weeks ago and couldn't download drivers because Windows didn't recognize the ethernet port of the motherboard. So I had to download the drivers for the motherboard on another computer and bring it over with a USB stick, as I didn't purchase an optical drive for this build. Most components come with a driver disk that will make sure everything works. But as WoodenMarker said, it's always best to have the latest drivers installed for all of your components.

Settle down, Sir Spammalot... Also, I don't know either. I've never purchased from them.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat That shot was taken with the Misery mod installed.

Yep. Same reason I didn't buy Noctuas. Well, that and I think they're ugly as hell... I'd say I'll post what I think about my Spectre Pros when they get her, but they aren't scheduled for delivery until the 7th. <_<

If you can get either/or 120/140... then go for 140. Lower RPM = less noise = comparable air flow. There's really no question when it comes to size. Bigger is usually better. As for WHICH specific brand of fans to get... I honestly couldn't tell you. I just recently purchased some BitFenix Spectre Pros from Newegg, but I'm still waiting for them to arrive (I don't quite understand how 4-7 day shipping translates into 14 days... but whatever). I know a lot of people like the Corsair AF series, though. Of course, there are always the people who would tell you to spend the extra cash on Noctuas...

I don't know a single "Biblical Literalist". The closest I would say is a friend of the family's named Carl... he believed the earth is 2000 years old. (Yeah, one of THOSE people). But hey, he can believe whatever he wants. As I said before, my original post was specifically based on the argument of whether or not an omnipresent, omniscient ruler of the universe exists. Not whether or not one religious ideology or another is correct, nor the specific beliefs held by the followers of them.

They were probably sent from different warehouses. Or it took longer to retrieve them for shipping and they couldn't ship them on the same day.

Actually, it doesn't. It attributes creation to 6 days. 1000/1 ratio exists in a different book entirely. The very first biblical verse is that "In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth". So if God created Heaven and Earth at the same time (heavens here meaning the universe, and Earth meaning all planets in it), then how do you measure the time required to do that? God isn't explained as existing within the universe he's creating. So yes, he must exist outside of what we consider "existence", which is limited to our universe. You couldn't apply the 1000/1 ratio to that particular event anymore... it's an inaccurate measurement. And yes, I'm the one who brought up the 1000/1 ratio, but it was meant as an example. As I said originally, there are scriptures that support the idea that the time difference of 6 days in relation to creation and 6 days on our planet are much, much larger. As I said, the conversation is a debate over something that may or may not even be measurable. Even the possible existence of God is said to be beyond the scope of our understanding. If that's true, then we'll never make sense of it. Hell, most people don't even understand how tiny and insignificant we really are. I would even say none of us truly understand how big the universe is.

The site's been around for a while. My favorite part is how absolutely horrible it is.

You know you can just... shut them off, right? Unless you bought some garbage brand controller...

It's almost worth the $20 for me to check it out. I'm mostly curious about whether or not Synapse 2.0 even recognizes it.

Precisely. Except that we don't actually know when "existence" began. This is where the conversation gets fun...

Please tell you did that on purpose...

No time that we can measure before expansion. Time is not a physical entity. It doesn't exist. It's a measurement applied to life, and it's built entirely from the limited perspective of our own planet. That's the problem... you're attempting to use hard math to determine something that can't be determined with math. You can't determine what Z x Y = without understanding what neither Z nor Y represent. And I'm not reaching. Science is nothing but hypothesis until such hypothesis is tested and either proven true or false. You said that "science never believed the earth was flat". This statement is untrue. It was simply never proven that the earth was flat, it was still a widely accepted theory. Would you consider the theory of the tenth dimension to be un-scientific?

The problem with measuring time in hours and days, as that our perspective on that subject is extremely limited. I went on to say that the differences could be/likely are larger, but you chose to ignore that part. All you have to do is research the time dilation effect between someone standing on Earth, and someone who spends an extended period of time in space. And to answer your other question, you're the one who stated that "Also science didn't think the world was flat.' ... 'The flat Earth theory hasn't been in practice since before 6th century BC Greece." Implying that "science" didn't exist then. Science has existed in one form or another since Homo Erectus discovered his ability to alter the physical presence of his food with fire.

Two sides of the same coin. The argument stems from what belongs to whom, and which path leads to salvation, and which to ruin. If you study them enough, they're actually written from two very different perspectives. Which I find interesting.