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    jaffacakes reacted to Kawaii Koneko in Removing bad smells from cables?   
    Okay, as a cat owner who has had a few problem cats, I think I can help you with this one.
     
    Go to the store and buy the wild cherry or strawberry scented Suave Essentials shampoo. Mix it in a bowl or bucket with hot water and agitate it really well. Then soak a rag in it and really give the cable a rub down... a very thorough rub down. Make sure to rinse the cable well afterwards.
     
    My human nose usually can't smell any cat urine smell after doing this. If you can still smell it, wash it again. This also seems to help prevent other cats from spraying the cable because they smell another cat's scent. It seems to mask it from them, although I may have just gotten lucky.
     
    Hope that helps!
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    jaffacakes reacted to Simon771 in 4690k stable OC?   
    If you push any more voltage or increase frequency, your temps will go pretty fast from 70 to 80°C, and that's a point where I wouldn't feel 100% sure about temps anymore.
    So if that is realy stable, you should stick with it.
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    jaffacakes reacted to Simon771 in 4690k stable OC?   
    You have Intel Xtreme Utility or something like that. It does have stress testing embeded in it.
    And well it's from Intel for Intel CPU, so it should be good  
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    jaffacakes reacted to The Sloth in SkyTech Supremacy   
    BUILD YPUR OWN PC dude its easy and we are here to help thousands of tutorials and 1700 usd is a lot of money for a pc. 
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    jaffacakes reacted to flibberdipper in Time-Proofing Worries - Intel Core i7 4790k   
    4790K's are still proper badasses. Hell, even the 2600K or 2700K is a monster. And since really everything since the 2xxx lineup is still fast as a pyrotechnic with his ass on fire, I don't think you'll have to worry, unless there's some revelation in gaming where they get massively better looking and murder CPUs.
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    jaffacakes reacted to AlwaysFSX in Time-Proofing Worries - Intel Core i7 4790k   
    Most of the improvements with newer chipsets is just added features that most people don't use, for example USB Type-C. You're not going to be hurting on performance for several more years at least so unless a new motherboard has a feature you want (M.2 slots galore?) there's no reason to upgrade.
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    jaffacakes reacted to Inception9269 in Time-Proofing Worries - Intel Core i7 4790k   
    You really have nothing to worry about. I had my 4790k for about 2 years before selling it recently, and it was a really good cpu. And the truth of things, like the other guy said, since the i7 2xxx things haven't changed much. The difference between a 4790k, 6700k, and 7700k is all within 10% of each other. only difference is the new ones use ddr4 which still in most applications isn't much of an improvement
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    jaffacakes reacted to spellmanuk in Switching phone charger   
    you should be fine however, there may be some effect on the battery over time yes but not much more than would happen anyway
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    jaffacakes reacted to Aniallation in Switching phone charger   
    The phone will only draw as much as it can and/or needs to. If it's capable of drawing 2.4A it will. I believe it should at least be capable of charging at 1.5A to 2.0A, so you'll be getting faster charging out of the new brick than the old one, even if you're not using it to it's full potential. 
     
    You should not notice any major damage to the battery for the usable life of the phone by doing 2A charging, but it will still degrade quicker. If you only charge your phone overnight, I'd still stick with a 1A charger, it'll be full by the time you wake up anyways.
     
    Quick Charge and stuff like that I'm still wary about. Even though my phone (Axon 7) comes with a Quick Charge 3.0 charger, I still charge it with a 5V/2A Samsung charger when I charge every night overnight. I only use the quick charger when I need to top-up mid day after doing something intensive. Heat kills batteries, and the difference between how hot the phone gets from just charging is HUGE between the two. Hence why I'm still not comfortable with using a quick charger daily.
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    jaffacakes reacted to Narnash in Switching phone charger   
    A bit btw background info:
    At how  much the battery get charged is regualated by the charging circuit and not the PSU. The PSUs "A" rating just say which Amparage the PSU is max. capable of, to run on a lower A is fine.
    BTW the Voltage on the otherhand when using a 3rd party PSU on any device should be roughly the same (my rule of thumb is for not critical circuits max +/- 10% of rated voltage for complexer stuff not more than +/- 5% of the rated voltage), otherwise it my fry your device  
     
    Since the charging rate of the battery is not ragulated by the psu but by the phones internal regulating circuit a "bigger" psu doesn't have to result in faster charging time for all phones. How ever modern phones more or less all allow more than a standard USB power delivery on the PC for example (USB 2.0 it's 0,5A, USB 3.0 0,9A). USB for charging is rated at 1A/1,5A/2,0A/2,4A/3A most of the time ... sometimes (depending on charging technique) even 1A-4,8A but these are device specific techniques which likly only work on specific devici with thier original or special charger.
     
    Back to: "It doesn't have to charge at 2,4A if the PSU say so, since the phones circuit regulate it."
    But after a bit research I found that the P8 lite is capable to charge at a higher amparage than 1A so the 2,4A PSU you have will charge it way faster than the original one.
     
     
     
    And to answer your questions, batteries are consume items they degrade over time and kinda wear out while there are in use. So even if you use your original 1A charger you wear out your battery.
    Charging batteries faster results in a bigger wear out than a slow charge, a charging rate as a rule of thumb for batteries is to charge a battery at <1C (C=overall capacity of the battery, for the P8 lite a total capacity of 8,4Wh) for a long life time and decent charging speed, however smartphones get replaced by most people maybe all 2-3 years (OK, OK every year ... or for some dump people even every quarter)  which is the reason why smartphone chargeing most of the time is rated faster than that (results in a shorter life time of the batterie, sometimes also the charging circuit and a hot(er) phone while charging > but faster charge, yay)  
     
    ... so charging the P8 lite at 2,4A*5V (=12Wh =>1,43C>1C) will work and that way faster than with the normal one, but it may be not ideal.
     
    Make sure to keep -more or less- an eye on the phone while you fast charge it and if it gets really hot (it will get hoter than normal) you should consider to get maybe a 1,5A Charger instead.(you know of "exploding" or "bending" phones while charging?)
    It will wear the battery faster out and if you want to use this smartphone  >5 years you will most likly have to replace the build in battery of this phone in that time (which is not a big deal if you're into DIY stuff, repairing your own stuff like I do, a new P8 lite battery is maybe 10$)
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    jaffacakes reacted to soundlogic in 1050 (Ti) vs r9 270X   
    I managed to fit a better CPU and GPU into the build. DVD drives are obsolete. Instead of a used 270x, get a 7970. It's a much better card and usually goes for around the same price.
     
    PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
    CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (€120.99 @ Amazon Italia) 
    Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (€58.09 @ Amazon Italia) 
    Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (€36.74 @ Amazon Italia) 
    Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€20.47 @ Amazon Italia) 
    Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Mini Video Card  (€166.46 @ Amazon Italia) 
    Case: BitFenix Nova ATX Mid Tower Case  (€29.90 @ Amazon Italia) 
    Power Supply: SeaSonic ECO 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€45.82 @ Amazon Italia) 
    Total: €478.47
    Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
    Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-05 13:43 CET+0100
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    jaffacakes reacted to soundlogic in 1050 (Ti) vs r9 270X   
    I believe the first set is due to launch on the 7th of this month, right after the CES reveal. However, I have reason to suspect that this will consist of higher-end Zen CPUs like the 8-core 16-thread chip showcased at the Ryzen event. I'm sure they'll detail upon the market release of several (if not all) Zen processors during CES.
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    jaffacakes reacted to Herman Mcpootis in Budget gaming rig   
    if you're willing to spend 10 euros more:
    PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
    CPU: AMD Athlon X4 845 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€67.49 @ Amazon Italia) ignore what the guy above says, this performs almost the same as the 860k for cheaper.
    Motherboard: Asus A68HM-K Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  (€43.34 @ Amazon Italia) 
    Memory: G.Skill NS Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  (€40.36 @ Amazon Italia) 
    Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€20.47 @ Amazon Italia) 
    Video Card: Palit GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB StormX Video Card  (€164.95 @ Amazon Italia) 
    Case: Nanoxia DS1WIB ATX Mid Tower Case  (€29.07 @ Amazon Italia) 
    Power Supply: XFX XT 400W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€45.99 @ Amazon Italia) 
    Total: €411.67
    Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
    Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-01 01:26 CET+0100
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    jaffacakes reacted to Herman Mcpootis in Budget gaming rig   
    not really, 1333 should be fast enough.
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    jaffacakes reacted to Herman Mcpootis in Budget gaming rig   
    tier 4 is not a bad tier, what is it with you crazy people and your 'tier 4 is crap' bullshit? tier 4 power supplies are fine for budget gaming pcs, the issues arise when people put them in very high-end/power hungry gaming rigs with gtx 980Tis and i7 6950Xs. @STRMfrmXMN can back me up here. also, the pentium's 2 cores will cause frame drops and stuttering, no point preparing for future upgrades when you can't even play your games smoothly now. look up dual core stuttering in gta5 on youtube and you'll see exactly what i'm talking about.
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    jaffacakes reacted to iRileyx in Budget gaming rig   
    At that price point a tier 4 PSU is absolutely fine, don't need to blow 100 of a 400 budget on a tier 1 PSU.
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    jaffacakes got a reaction from jbeach1 in Is this a good first Gaming PC build + any tips?   
    PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
    CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($113.38 @ Amazon) 
    Motherboard: MSI H110M PRO-VD PLUS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($39.99 @ Newegg) 
    Memory: GeIL EVO POTENZA 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($46.99 @ Newegg) 
    Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 
    Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Mini Video Card  ($239.98 @ SuperBiiz) 
    Case: Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 
    Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ B&H) 
    Total: $595.31
    Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
    Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-11-20 17:02 EST-0500
     
    Here's a slightly modified version of yours.
    What I switched:
    GPU - the 6GB version will give you bit of a boost with games
    PSU - the one you chose isn't particularly good
    Case - you chose an ATX case, but your motherboard is mATX (meaning it's of a smaller form factor) -it would work, but it would also look kind of odd.
    MoBo - went for a cheaper one to save some money, as you probably won't need the extra features the other one had (this has the standard essentials).
     
    You can buy Win10 off of kinguin.net, that'll save you $70-80 (buy off of highly rated sellers).
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    jaffacakes reacted to Electronics Wizardy in Office rig   
    I have ran i7's and xeon i3's on stock and there quiet and cool. It will be fine.
     
    For programs like autocad, all the realtime interface is done on the gpu. A 1050 would be worth it.
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    jaffacakes reacted to Brennan Price in First build- Any ideas?   
    Sorry, I mean just go with the Pentium (I changed what I was writing half way through my last quote and forgot to get rid of i3) as you will save almost half of what you were previously going to spend on the i3 6100. Maybe Pentium G4400 for the time being? or even Celeron for gods sake. I would do that until I upgrade if I was in your situation. Just as long as I had a working PC until then and to save my money. (Im 15 going on 16 soon)
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    jaffacakes got a reaction from Brennan Price in First build- Any ideas?   
    as @Brennan_Price said, go for a much cheaper CPU, it'll act as a placeholder until you've got the money to upgrade.

    And why not wait now a little more? I saved up 2 years (take or give a few months) for the rig in my signature.
     
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    jaffacakes reacted to 79wjd in Dell XPS 13 4GB or 8GB?   
    8gb please, it's almost 2017.
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    jaffacakes reacted to Crowes in Dell XPS 13 4GB or 8GB?   
    I absolutely love my XPS 13 9360 (i7/8GB). 4GB wouldnt do it justce, but it's not worth too much of a price jump either. Light gaming on an XPS 13's iGPU means nothing the average gamer considers "light". We're talking Prison Architect/Game Dev Tycoon/Mobile Port-style games, not a quick sesh of Sims 3 -- so, in other words 4GB will be fine. 
     
    Then again, if you're only doing light gaming and web browsing, why the hell spend so much on an XPS 13? Go buy a decent gaming laptop for the money, imo.
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    jaffacakes got a reaction from Cla55ifi3xd in Parts list any thoughts?   
    Oops, didn't even notice that...
     
    @Cla55ifi3xd as he said, get the Z board with whatever option you choose.
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    jaffacakes got a reaction from Buffalo in My First Build   
    Seems good.
     
    You could buy your win10 key off of kinguin.net, it'll cost $30 or so.
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    jaffacakes reacted to rphawks in Want advice on my revamped 1st planned build   
    Ahem. They matter. They do. Makes life easier. And "getting max fps and res instead of increased boottimes". What's that supposed to mean? You don't get any less performance with an SSD. If anything, you sometimes get more.
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