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Linus did a video on it a while ago. Heard a few people did it with TVs but like I said it varies. If you can get even a few more hertz then it's worth it imo. Mine refuse to go above 66Hz but whatever. I want to replace them eventually anyways.

I have no idea why I never thought this was possible but it just never came to mind. I can't tell you how big the difference is between just 60Hz to 70Hz. I know there have been videos out there of it but it's not really talked about that much for some reason. If you're a competitive player then this is a must try thing, and even if you just do normal computing everything is smoother. The more I play 1080p at 60Hz the more it grosses me out, going up just even a little bit was a refresher. With all overclocking it can be random. You might have a panel that can hit 110Hz, worth a shot. Apparently GTX only? I have a 660 and some crappy Acer monitors.

I know. You can RAID 0 2 64GB SSDs together so why not theoretically RAID 0 1,024,000,000,000 single bit SSDs together? For the same amount of storage.

If you can use RAID arrays among drives then what's to keep the manufacturer from doing it between individual gigs, megs, bytes, or even bits? Could you not in theory write and read from each bit at the same time or is there a little thing that has to read and write between them individually? Could you make more of those so you could write terabytes of information to an empty drive in under a second? Don't know much about the science behind SSDs.

There's a point where you can get something so perfect that if you changed it in anyway you would only make it worse. If you changed the algorithms in a machine or the lubricant or hardware you'd only make it less efficient no matter what you did, what is this called? It's different than perfection but I've asked many people and Google doesn't yield an answer from how I've tried to phrase it.

I've learned a bunch of Python, the basic web dev stuff (HTML, CSS, JQuery, etc.), a TINY bit of C/C#/C++ but I don't know how to use any of this. I want to make a program; something I can launch that will draw on my desktop (not inclosed in a box). I can eventually figure out animations, gamma settings, color inversions, etc. by myself but no matter where I look I can't seem to find a way to just...start. I'd like to either use Java or C++ for the language but I'd be fine with whatever.

2x2 pixels (or whatever I hope to edit it later) centered on my screen which will invert every color behind it. I currently use a program where I can upload any image to it and it will overlay on my primary monitor so I can use that image as my crosshair in all my main games, but I'd like to figure out how to create a simple program to do that on my own which I could add inversion to. Minecraft has something similar to this, whatever you look at the crosshair will show a little of what's behind it and it's inverted color. Sorry if that was confusing

$130 7870 $140 660 Bought mine for $210 $140 270 These are all roughly the same performance and I know AMD said they fixed pricing after the mining craze so did nVidia also drop their prices a bunch? A $130 7870 is really tempting. Since it outperforms the 660 I paid over 200 for. https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#c=39,114,113,164,142,131,81,82,110,71,154,147&sort=a8

Got some helpful feedback on reddit but would still like some more from here. Something like this? [PCPartPicker part list](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3K5pp) / [Price breakdown by merchant](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3K5pp/by_merchant/) / [benchmarks](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3K5pp/benchmarks/) PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor ($114.99 @ Amazon) Motherboard: ASRock H81M-ITX Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg) Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($64.99 @ Micro Center) Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($79.99 @ Micro Center) Case: Antec ISK 110 VESA Mini ITX Desktop Case w/90W Power Supply ($72.98 @ SuperBiiz) Total: $392.94 (Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.) (Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-14 18:07 EDT-0400)

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/rosewill-case-legacyv3plusb http://pcpartpicker.com/part/cooler-master-case-rc110kkn2 http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-case-cc9011047ww http://pcpartpicker.com/part/silverstone-case-sg05bblite http://pcpartpicker.com/part/silverstone-case-ml05b http://pcpartpicker.com/part/silverstone-case-ml03b Were the main ones I considered and I feel the one I have on the current list is the best option. My step dad is big on machining however and the more I think about it the more I want to make my own case. It's only the mobo with everything on it, a small PSU, and an SSD which can all be stacked on top of each other. Could be a box with the W*H the same as the mobo and a height of the mobo+cooler+PSU. Would be cool but I'm sure more goes in to a case than I think.

I could always just buy a pre built computer that I know for the most part will work but I really would like to build it for her.

Needs to Be small (Would like to stay lower than 12inx12inx12in) Last a few years Be able to run 2 monitors, web applications, Word, etc. Be able to hold more than 90GB of storage (Her current one is at 80GB even though she's had it for years) Be quiet Be less than $500 (could do a lot more or a lot less but I think around $350-450 is good) Run Win7 and have all Word products (I would like to install OS with USB since I'm not getting an optical drive. What's the easiest way to do this? She's okay with spending a little more if it means getting safe/reliable purchases on these) PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks CPU: AMD A8-5500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($95.99 @ SuperBiiz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9a 57.5 CFM CPU Cooler ($31.97 @ NCIX US) Motherboard: ASRock FM2A78M-ITX+ Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard ($90.38 @ Newegg) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($41.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($59.99 @ Amazon) Case: Silverstone SG05BB-LITE Mini ITX Tower Case ($39.99 @ Amazon) Power Supply: Silverstone Strider Gold 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply ($86.99 @ NCIX US) Total: $447.30 I currently use !avast for security and scan every once and a while with Malware Bytes. What's the best solution to keep here PC protected? Should she back up via cloud or another drive and if so what's the best way to do either? Notes: I know some of it is overkill (APU) and some is underkill (only 4GB of RAM?) so I need a good way to even that out. I think the Mobo and PSU are a little pricey but the Mobo has both VGA, DVI, and a lot of other features and seems pretty reliable, and the PSU is fully modular, well rated, and used it many HTPC builds.

Sorry meant to say lossy*. Fixed it.

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If you take a random MP3 from your music and open it using Notepad++ (just like many programs that weren't meant to be opened this way) it'll open up displaying all of its ASCII. Is there a way for me to convert an MP3 file (or .wav since MP3 is lossy* where .wav isn't) into editable Hex or binary? I'd like to see how it's all done and maybe create some little sounds from scratch. See Modulation on this Wiki page. Although I know this is unconventional and not very efficient I'm doing this to see how things like a human voice can be represented in code. Creates a hit song by mashing 1 and 0 on his keyboard.