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    badreg got a reaction from jaslion in I'm overwhelmed   
    If you don't already have an Ivy Bridge board, unfortunately, the best thing to do is to donate the chip forward, or list it on eBay and hope to get $50 out of it. It's not worth investing money into an eight year old platform.
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    badreg got a reaction from kirashi in If you could make any app, what would it be? What’s a good app ideas to make a good 3k per month?   
    What % royalty would I receive for my idea?
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    badreg got a reaction from kelvinhall05 in VLC - how can I pause the video by simply clicking on the video   
    If there's no native option to enable this, a two line AHK script should do the trick.
     
    #IfWinActive, ahk_exe vlc.exe
    ~LButton::Send {Space}
     
    Edit: Or just download the correct version of the plugin: https://github.com/nurupo/vlc-pause-click-plugin
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    badreg got a reaction from svmlegacy in Will 16+8 ram work together and in dual channel?   
    The first 16GB should run in dual channel, and the remaining 8GB will be single channel.
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    badreg reacted to colonel_mortis in Detecting child windows of a browser window   
    No, a website can only know/find out about tabs/popups that it opened itself, so it has no way to detect windows that you created using the win32 API.
     
    (This assumes that the site doesn't use flash or java applets, which have more privileges and may allow that, but I believe neither are supported in Firefox any more anyway.)
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    badreg got a reaction from LogicalDrm in Can placement fractal r6 - dusty   
    Why are you expecting to have positive pressure with two intake fans and four exhaust fans? I am running just the stock fans in my R6 and I have essentially zero dust inside after two years. You want at least a 3:2 or 2:1 intake to exhaust ratio to maintain positive pressure.
     
    On a side note, the front top exhaust is unnecessary at best, and is very likely to be simply exhausting fresh air.
     
    My best recommendation for your current fans is to move two fans from the top to the bottom as intakes.
  7. Informative
    badreg got a reaction from Salv8 (sam) in Don't understand how website host domain names work   
    You can buy a domain without also buying hosting. To point a domain to your own server, simply change the DNS settings to your static IP address. If you have a dynamic IP address, there are services like NOIP that updates the DNS records for you when your IP changes.
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    badreg got a reaction from NotABigGamer in Would it be safe to ship?   
    CPU HSF should be fine to transport without disassembly, but I would remove the 2060 as a precaution. Also, lay the box on its side with the motherboard on the bottom.
  9. Informative
    badreg got a reaction from Aaralli in Two monitors with different refresh rates?   
    You can mix and match displays with different refresh rates, so nothing to worry about.
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    badreg got a reaction from giusgius in Playing FHD video on FHD monitor vs 4K monitor   
    Actually, the opposite is true in most cases on computer displays. Unless the 1080p video is upscaled using a nearest neighbor algorithm to 2160p before being sent to the display, it will look worse on a 2160p display than it would on an otherwise identical 1080p display, due to interpolation. Many people believe that, since 2160p is a perfect integer multiple of 1080p, there is no interpolation happening when the image is scaled, but that is not how it works under the hood. Displays use a bilinear algorithm to scale non-native resolutions, not a nearest neighbor algorithm, which is what is required for pixel perfect scaling.
     
    Until recently, playing games at 1080p on a 2160p display resulted in worse visual quality than on a native 1080p display. Recent drivers have introduced integer scaling, which creates a perfect 1080p->2160p or 720p->1440p upscale. However, I don't think that this applies to video, unless you use a video decoder that uses Direct3D in full screen exclusive mode.
  11. Funny
    badreg got a reaction from Letgomyleghoe in Linus said on WAN show that 30fps is preferred over 60fps among LTT viewers. Is that true?   
    There's no 24fps option so I can't even vote.
  12. Funny
    badreg got a reaction from TechyBen in Linus said on WAN show that 30fps is preferred over 60fps among LTT viewers. Is that true?   
    There's no 24fps option so I can't even vote.
  13. Informative
    badreg got a reaction from aBattleBorn in can't open ports:solved   
    Two things:
    1. Don't turn on DMZ unless you have a very specific reason to do so. It's dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.
    2. The ports are forwarded, but do you actually have a running server listening on those ports? If not, incoming requests are rejected and will appear as if they're closed.
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    badreg got a reaction from Jacques Cartier in How to make a toggle switch in batch file ?   
    Read the current priority and use a conditional statement to switch to the other condition.
     
    set processName=ScpService.exe set "WMIC_CMD=wmic process where name^='%processName%' get /format:list ^| findstr Priority" for /f "tokens=1* delims==" %%A in ('%WMIC_CMD%') do set priority=%%B if %priority% == 8 ( wmic process where name^="%processName%" CALL setpriority "high priority" ) else ( wmic process where name^="%processName%" CALL setpriority "normal" )  
  15. Informative
    badreg got a reaction from kirashi in How much wall power does a speaker system draw?   
    At normal listening volumes, the amp will be drawing approximately 10W max. 200W RMS is the maximum that the amp can output, which is with everything cranked to max.
     
    Power usage is halved with every 3dB reduction in volume, so by the time that you are 10dB down from max output, your power draw is 10% of the max output (or 20W). ±10dB is roughly half or double the perceived loudness, so it's highly unlikely that you are normally listening at 10dB from max. Typically, 1W per speaker is more than sufficient in a smallish room.
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    badreg reacted to Derkoli in How much wall power does a speaker system draw?   
    TBH, I highly doubt that amp will do 200 watts RMS
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    badreg got a reaction from Derkoli in How much wall power does a speaker system draw?   
    At normal listening volumes, the amp will be drawing approximately 10W max. 200W RMS is the maximum that the amp can output, which is with everything cranked to max.
     
    Power usage is halved with every 3dB reduction in volume, so by the time that you are 10dB down from max output, your power draw is 10% of the max output (or 20W). ±10dB is roughly half or double the perceived loudness, so it's highly unlikely that you are normally listening at 10dB from max. Typically, 1W per speaker is more than sufficient in a smallish room.
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    badreg got a reaction from dizmo in How much wall power does a speaker system draw?   
    At normal listening volumes, the amp will be drawing approximately 10W max. 200W RMS is the maximum that the amp can output, which is with everything cranked to max.
     
    Power usage is halved with every 3dB reduction in volume, so by the time that you are 10dB down from max output, your power draw is 10% of the max output (or 20W). ±10dB is roughly half or double the perceived loudness, so it's highly unlikely that you are normally listening at 10dB from max. Typically, 1W per speaker is more than sufficient in a smallish room.
  19. Informative
    badreg got a reaction from Mister Woof in How much wall power does a speaker system draw?   
    At normal listening volumes, the amp will be drawing approximately 10W max. 200W RMS is the maximum that the amp can output, which is with everything cranked to max.
     
    Power usage is halved with every 3dB reduction in volume, so by the time that you are 10dB down from max output, your power draw is 10% of the max output (or 20W). ±10dB is roughly half or double the perceived loudness, so it's highly unlikely that you are normally listening at 10dB from max. Typically, 1W per speaker is more than sufficient in a smallish room.
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    badreg got a reaction from Mateyyy in Is gaming at 1080p on a 4K display a good idea, in 2019?   
    Unfortunately, no monitor uses nearest neighbor scaling, so it doesn't matter that 2160p is a perfect integer multiple of 1080p. Due to bilinear interpolation, 1080p content on a 4K display will look worse than it would on a native 1080p display.
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    badreg got a reaction from Umeshwarnath in Is gaming at 1080p on a 4K display a good idea, in 2019?   
    Unfortunately, no monitor uses nearest neighbor scaling, so it doesn't matter that 2160p is a perfect integer multiple of 1080p. Due to bilinear interpolation, 1080p content on a 4K display will look worse than it would on a native 1080p display.
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    badreg got a reaction from Envit0 in Is gaming at 1080p on a 4K display a good idea, in 2019?   
    Unfortunately, no monitor uses nearest neighbor scaling, so it doesn't matter that 2160p is a perfect integer multiple of 1080p. Due to bilinear interpolation, 1080p content on a 4K display will look worse than it would on a native 1080p display.
  23. Informative
    badreg got a reaction from Ben17 in Blue RGB led....."breaks the fastest?   
    It actually does. Blue LEDs were not commercially viable until the early 1990's, while red LEDs were available well before then. This is due to the much shorter wavelength of blue light, and requires a different manufacturing process. Whether this has a significant impact on the lifespan on modern LEDs is unknown to me, but there is a scientific basis for this claim.
     
    https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/optoelectronics/the-leds-dark-secret
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    badreg got a reaction from porina in When will Intel's 10th gen i9 be available for purchase?   
    I never said that Intel is not a viable choice. I own an 8700k myself and it works perfectly fine for me now and for the foreseeable future.
     
    However, if I was making a purchasing decision now, I wouldn't be blindly ignoring the alternatives. And in OP's case, I certainly wouldn't be locked on to an option that is objectively inferior to its competition for the vast majority of use cases.
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    badreg got a reaction from agentguin in Is this a good deal?   
    A 2080 and an 8700k is $850 by themselves, so $875 for the entire computer is a smashing deal (assuming new with full warranty). Sounds a bit too good to be true, so do your due diligence.
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