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thomasvice

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  1. I had an assignment for today at university, I had to solve a problem regarding a mechanical system. I did the math yesterday in around 20 minutes, simple stuff, the thing is, I spent 3 and a half hours dumping everything into a text file with MS word, it's always a painful experience, I have been using it for like 15 years and I've never been able to build a workflow around it, it is just a bad piece of software, you are always 1 click or space away from rearranging all the text, the equation system is medieval torture, etc. Are all text editors this bad? Do they all use the same basic structure as MS word?
  2. Hello everyone, I'm currently building a PC for a friend around a 500-600$ budget. For a GPU I went for a GTX 1660 and for the CPU I opted for either an i5 11400f or similar, at the time of putting together a to-buy list there were no AMD alternatives that could compete in price with the i5. Around a month ago AMD released a few budget oriented processors, among them the Ryzen 5 4500 (non U) caught my attention because it is similarly priced but can run on the much cheaper (at least in my country) AM4 based motherboards. However I cannot find anything about this CPU apart from the official AMD website, I have no Idea how it performs, all the benchmark sites take you to the 4500U which is a mobile chip. Has anybody had any contact with this chip? is it even real? Should I buy it? I appreciate any info you guys can give me, thanks a lot in advance.
  3. No I am interested in YT premium, that's why I'm getting the whole package, but YT music comes free with it so it could be a good substitute for premium spotify
  4. Hello everyone, lately i've been thinking of quitting spotify and getting YT Premium+Music, it's mostly because i'm tired of ads but also it seems like everyone and their mother has the family's spotify account. I'm not a huge audio elitist but I do realize that the audio quality in youtube videos is kinda bad most of the time, and if YT music has a similar quality I might just stick to spotify. What do you guys think?
  5. on a 100$ dollar CPU it still makes little sense, but hell it's not my money, if you want to buy it go ahead, it will look cool.
  6. I can only guess it will be cooler? I mean yeah that is exactly what is going to happen, but it won't run faster, and those things can get expensive.
  7. In 2017 I assembled a PC with value in mind, following that mindset, I bought the cheapest motherboard I could find, an ASUS H110-M, it works great and fits my needs just right, but the i5-7400 I'm using right now will probably start showing it's age sooner or later, so I started looking at upgrade paths and found some cheap used i7-7700k processors for sale. I know the socket and chipset are compatible, i'm just worried the VRMs won't be able to take the load, even with what I consider a good power supply, I'm also running 2 drives, 2 memory sticks and a GTX 1050 (might upgrade as well) with motherboard power. So bottom line, is the upgrade worth it and can the board take it?
  8. So I have a friend that has a slow computer with 4 gb RAM, he told me something about "virtual RAM" which to me was as true as downloadable RAM at first. Then I learned all he was doing was increasing the size of the swap "partition" if you can call it that. is there any performance advantage in increasing the swap space when the system has insufficent memory?
  9. I'm also running 2x8gb @2400mhz with a 1050, and I get around 80 fps on COD WZ with low graphics, sometimes it drops to 50 fps when loading but I'm happy with it. My CPU is an i5 7400 but I think a ryzen 1600 would be a good fit. The game has a VRAM usage meter and I use 1,6 GB out of the 2 that the 1050 has, anything lower than a base 1050 might have some issues.
  10. Doesn't the bios have options for what can and cannot input to your PC when it is asleep? I think it does, might be wrong.
  11. so i was dissassembling an old core-2 duo PC the other day and I noticed the cooler is not only bigger but also has a copper surface where it touches the CPU, following the general rule of more metal-more cooling, it seems like maybe older coolers might be better, which makes sense because older CPUs were not as thermally efficient as more modern ones.
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