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I am wondering what monitor I should get. I am looking for something not to expensive that is 1080p or 1440p. I would like an IPS display and I am looking for a monitor that would have low input lag and response time for games like csgo. I currently have a small DYNEX tv for my build as I do not yet have any other monitors. Also, how good of a response time do you need for playing csgo comfortably with out any issues? All help is appreciated, thanks. My build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gKjF23

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So I've been looking at monitors today, and I'm kinda torn. I want the low refresh time, but I really love having the IPS for the colors. I am going to be playing some CSGO as well as other games, which is why I want the low response time. A lot of monitors are around 21-23 inches, have a 5ms and response time, and IPS. How much of a difference does the IPS make? Is it worth it for games like CSGO to have the 5ms repsonse time and IPS, or should I sacrifice the IPS and go for a lower response time like 4ms and below? Thank you for any recommendations, all help is appreciated. My build:http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3PDPpg

I am thinking of buying and build a PC for the first time. I am coming from a console background. These are the parts I am thinking of getting: Case: NZXT Source 210 Processor:AMD FX-6300 (3.2 GHz) GPU: MSI Gtx n750 TF 2GB Memory:Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600 MHz DDR3 (2X4GB) Motherboard: MSI 970 Gaming-R Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 1tb Windows 10 Is there anything I should change? P.S. I have some friends that can help me build and setup the PC.

Soundcloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/thewanshow/the-wan-show-omg-our-new-set-is-done-september-25-2015 Main News Topics Pebble introduces its first round smartwatch Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455128-pebble OP: insmefurqan Source 2: https://blog.getpebble.com/2015/09/23/timeround/ Source 3: http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/23/pebble Source 4: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/09/pebble- Pebble Announcement Video 7.5mm thin, 28 grams, lightest smartwatch in the world Leather band for $249, metal band for $299 Band sizes, 14mm or 20mm Two day batt life Same processor and memory at the “Pebble Steel” SDK for developers to shift apps to round watchface Quick charge feature, can add 1 day of battery life in 15 minutes Aiming to ship Nov 10th, 2015 Volkswagen ordered to recall 500,000 cars, faces $18 Billion fine over emissions defeating software Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/452500-volkswagen OP: ThePointblank Source 2: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/business/volkswagen Source 3: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34345210 Source 4: http://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2015/sep/24/volkswagen Volkswagen illegally installed software in its diesel-power cars to evade standards for reducing smog caused certain emissions control systems to only turn on during emissions tests during normal driving situations the controls are turned off this causes the cars to spew as much as 40 times the pollution allowed under the Clean Air Act recall involves 4-cylinder Volkswagen and Audi vehicles from 2009-2015 in the US affected models are certain model years of the Volkswagen Jetta, Beetle, Golf, Passat, and Audi A3 Shares dropped approximately 35% CEO Martin Winterkorn resigns amid emissions scandal Was meeting with board before scandal to discuss his future US E.P.A’s (Environmental Protection Agency) assistant called the automaker’s actions “a threat to public health” US Justice Department could impose fines as much as $37,500 for each recalled vehicle, with the overall penalty totaling as much as $18 billion one German media report has suggested that this expands beyond the US and beyond VW reported that the BMW X3 Xdrive 20d exceeds European emissions standards by a shocking 11 times, according to Auto Bild BMW issued a denial of any manipulation, saying “There is no difference in the treatment of exhaust emissions whether they are on (test) rollers or on the road.” European managing editor of the International Council on Clean Transportation, Peter Mock, told Auto Bild “all measured data suggest that this is not a VW-specific issue.” BMW shares also dropped 7% on September 24 the reason the impact on BMW’s shares may not have been as severe as the impact on VW’s shares is that this issue is not as pervasive in their product line West Virginia University and EPA specifically looked at a BMW X5 as part of investigations into the issue the X5 passed their testing important to note that almost every car has higher real-world emissions than their laboratory results this alone is not a breach of regulation due to there being an acceptable margin of error the UK government has stated that today they will be launching their own vehicle emissions testing following the US’s findings UK Transport Secretary Patrick Mcloughlin said the move was to ensure the issue of emissions cheating was not industry-wide this is very much an emerging story, and we expect more information will become available over the coming days and weeks Apple to Release New “D Jack” Headphone Jack Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454300-apple-reinvents OP: jos Source 2: http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/09/22/apple-prepares Source 3: http://www.latinpost.com/articles/81300/20150923/apple-release- Diagram of D Jack Apple applied for a patent for their headphone jack called the “D Jack” Is 2mm, smaller than the 3.5mm and 2.5mm versions Done by reshaping the plug Eliminates use of standard headphones for Iphone Sign that latest lines of smartphones will soon be obsolete May mean disposing of current headphones and purchasing some that will fit new jack Hoping for an adapter, not yet confirmed North America is out of IPv4 addresses - For Real Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455919-north-america OP: TopWargamer Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/09/north-america Source 3: http://www.wired.com/2015/09/north-america-just-ran-old-school-internet-addresses/ Internet running out of most common IP addresses, IPv4 American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) stated Sep 24 that they have run out of freely available IPv4 addresses Won’t affect users, but will put more pressure on service providers, software companies and large organizations to migrate to IPv6 IPv4 limited to almost 4 billion addresses IPv6 will provide 340 undecillion addresses (undecillion = 1 followed by 36 zeroes, 8.5x10^28 more addresses than IPv4) Already supported by all major OS’s IPv4 and IPv6 aren’t entirely compatible If on a IPv6 network, you can’t browse a site running IPv4 Service providers have done well to support both standards already Most smartphones already run IPv6 ASETEK - Court confirms judgement, increases damages award and issues injunction Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455546-asetek- OP: RazrLeaf Source 2: http://news.cision.com/asetek/r/asetek---court-confirms-judgement Original Patent In late 2014 Asetek won a patent infringement case against CMI USA patent is for water blocks that inCMI demanded a judgement as aclude pumps could impact Fury X since that is cooled by a CM solution Court Sep 22/15 denied CMI’s demands, and issued a permanent injunction barring CMI and its parent Cooler Master from selling infringing products into the US awarded 14.5% royalty rate matter of law and a new trial demand was denied, court followed Asetek’s requests and issued a permanent injunction barring CMI and parent company Cooler master from selling certain infringing products in the US Asetek awarded enhanced damages of a 25.375% royalty rate on CMI’s revenues for sales of infringing products in the US starting January 1 2015 the matter is currently appealable by CMI Xiaomi launched the Mi 4c for less than $240 USD Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454464-xiaomi-launched OP: TopWargamer Source 2: http://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-mi-4c-announced-643816/ Source 3: http://en.miui.com/thread-163193-1-1.html Snapdragon 808, 2/3GB of RAM, 3080 mAh battery, 13mp sensor, wide angle 5mp camera on the front, USB Type-C, support for Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 2.0 technology Launching in China Between $200 and $240 USD RED Raven Announced - Brings Dragon Sensor Mainstream Source 1: https://www.cinema5d.com/red-raven-brings-dragon-sensor-mainstream/ Source 2: http://nofilmschool.com/2015/09/red-raven-camera-6000-shoot First sub-$10,000 RED camera Starts at $5950, body only Accepting orders today Will begin shipping in Feb 2016 Red Raven Specs: 4K Dragon Sensor= 4096x2160 Super 35mm 4K sensor, 20.48mm in width “Promises” to deliver 4k (4096x2160) at 120fps, 3K (3072x1620) at 160fps, 2K (2048x1080) at up to 240fps REDcode RAW, most efficient, fastest and most workflow friendly RAW codec in existence. Simultaneous ProRes Recording, R3D, 2K Apple ProRes (422HQ, 422, 422 LT) Compact and Lightweight, 3.5lbs. Same body shape as Weapon and is compatible with the Weapon modules Rapid Fire Valve: DirectX 12 does not make a lot of sense, Vulkan does Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455001-valve-vulkan OP: HKZeroFive Source 2: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/47646/valve-excited- Source 3: http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton 1:40:59 in Video Valve’s Dan Ginsberg states that Valve has been working with Vulkan since inception said there's “Not much reason to ever create a DX12 back end for your game” with Vulkan Reason: Vulkan will cover you on Windows 10 on the same class of hardware and so much more from all these other platforms and IHV’s that we have heard from. Vulkan will support: Win 7, 8, 10 + Linux Microsoft to use Baidu instead of Bing on Windows 10 in China Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455570-microsoft OP: GoodBytes Source 2: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2015/09/24/microsoft-baidu/1 Source 3: http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/24/technology/microsoft-baidu-xiaomi-china-deal/ Microsoft has been pushing Bing, to rival Google on Windows 10 machines Win 10’s default search engine is Bing Changing to Baidu in China, as it has a near-monopoly there AMD Preparing Dual-GPU Radeon R9 Fury XT Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454884-amd- OP: Icecube26 Source 2: http://www.game-debate.com/news/?news=18136&graphics=Radeon Source 3: http://wccftech.com/amd-hbm-fury-x-fastest-world/ AMD claiming dual Fiji GPU’s as the “world's fastest” Name has yet to be clarified by AMD Significantly smaller than other dual gpu cards like the R9 295X2 Because they are using HBM, which is smaller than GDDR5 Speculation cost between $1100-1400 Seagate: SSDs will never match per-gigabyte costs of HDDs Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/448841-seagate OP: Rohith_Kumar_Sp Source 2: http://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/ Source 3: http://technologygrip.com/seagate-ssds-will-never-match-per-gigabyte-costs-of-hdds/ Seagate: No matter how cheap NAND flash memory gets, it won’t be able to match per-gigabyte price of HDDs Cheap 3TB HDD costs $100 (.03 per gig) 120GB SSD costs $70 (.58 per gig) Expected by 2020 to have drives selling for less than half a penny per gig Lenovo collects usage data on ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455131-lenovo OP: Daring Source 2: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2984889/windows Source 3: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/news/lenovo Installing program on refurbished Lenovo laptops named “Lenovo Customer Feedback Program 64” Supposed to upload customer feedback program data to Lenovo… File name found “lenovo.tvt.customerfeedback.omnituresitecatalyst.dll” “Omniture” is a third-party marketing and web analytics firm Oculus VR is getting Twitch streaming soon, Netflix Today (Sep 24) Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455805-oculus OP: TopWargamer Source 2: http://gizmodo.com/streaming-apps Source 3: http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/24/oculus-vr Announced at Oculus Connect 2 event Launching Netflix Sep 24/15, Twitch, Hulu, Vimeo next Apple Watch Site Gets RickRolled Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454557-apple OP: Renegade7369 Source 2: http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-watch-support-page-is-never-gonna-give-you-up/ Picture Updated the “Use Digital Touch” page, includes section stating how to add a friend to their watch Picture associated spells out “Never gonna give yu up” Samsung hoping to bring stronger glass to smartphones, known as “Turtle” Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454221-turtle-glass OP: fade2green514 Source 2: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com Source 3: http://www.alphr.com/samsung/1001580/samsung- Speculation that this glass can bend 4chan sold to creator of 2channel Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic OP: TopWargamer Source 2: http://kotaku.com/4chan-has-been-sold-to-the-creator- Source 3: http://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/chris-poole-why-i-sold-4chan.html Chris Poole, sold 4chan to Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel Inspiration for 4chan in the first place 4chan struggled to be profitable, even though Poole tried with a subscription offering and minor advertising *Nvidia changes roadmap, confirms Volta to succeed Pascal in 2018 Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454412-nvidia- OP: TwistedDictator Source 2: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-volta-succeed-pascal-2018/ Source 3: http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/ New roadmap showcased at tech conference in Japan Volta will use NVLINK 5-12 times faster than traditional PCIE 3.0 Uses 3x less energy to do so Nintendo Joins Khronos Group Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455411-nintendo-joins-khronos- OP: GoodBytes Source 2: http://mynintendonews.com/2015/09/22/nintendo-has-joined-khronos Source 3: http://www.develop-online.net/news/nintendo-joins-vulkan-api-creator Khronos Group, organization behind upcoming Vulkan API, has welcomed Nintendo Group manages open-standard graphics API’s, including Vulkan and predecessor OpenGL Nintendo has voting rights, but doesn’t have a seat on the board Digital Storm Aventum III Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454498-news-the-new-digital-storm Source 2: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984991/hardware/must-see-pc-digital- Source 3: http://www.pcgamer.com/digital-storms-aventum-3-has-liquid- Picture Ready to ship now Lowest price is starting at $4930 DSA III system with Intel Core I7 5960X, 32GB RAM, and 3x SLI Nvidia Titan X 12GB = $10,496 6th Gen AMD APU Cuts Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 50% Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454409-6th-gen OP: fade2green514 Source 2: http://www.tweaktown.com/pressrelease/9809/study-shows-6th Source 3: http://techraptor.net/content/amd-reduces-carbon- 6th gen “Carrizo” A-series processors shown to reduce carbon emissions by 50% over last generation APU further proof that AMD is making progress in its commitment to a cleaner planet and lower energy bills Set a “25x20” goal (improving the energy efficiency of mobile APUs by 25 times by 2020, from a 2014 baseline) energy efficiency improvements needed to achieve this goal outpace the predicted Moore’s Law efficiency trend by at least 70 percent This means in 2020 a computer could accomplish a task in one fifth the time of a computer in 2014, while consuming on average less than one fifth of power Study states: if a business upgraded 100,000 computers from previous processor to the new one. They would save roughly 4.9 million kilowatt hours/$495,000 over three years Oregon couple trying to resolve mistaken $2 million Verizon cell bill Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455695-2-million OP: Trik’Stari Source 2: http://www.wflx.com/story/30106176/oregon Source 3: http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/09/24/2-million Outstanding bill of $2,156,593.64 Couple cancelled phone contract after one month November 2014 Cancelled because of discrepancies in their bill Received several collections notices demanding payment Scheduled to close on a purchase of a home next Monday, but couldn’t due to bill Has been resolved on Verizon’s end. Turing’s ‘Dark Wyvern” up for preorder, comes with case enabling 60GHz data transfers Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/455709-turing OP: jos Source 2: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/88022/20150924/turing Source 3: http://www.androidauthority.com/turing-dark-wyvern-turing-armor-case-643447/ Turing Robotic Industries (TRI) announced second series smartphone: Dark Wyvern Case called ‘Turing Armor’ Case includes 3000mAh battery, microUSB, 3.5mm jack Case also equipped with TRI’s Wind Tunnel 60 GHz data transfer technology Transfers 3.2GB data in under 25 seconds Can backup 64GB in less than eight minutes Phone retails with case for $999 Pre-orders start Sep 24 Hackers using Imgur to launch attacks on 4chan Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454308-malicious OP: Xyllon Source 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3lw2g6/imgur Source 3: http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/22/hackers-are-using-imgur One user from Reddit states “when an imgur image is loaded from /r/r4chan, imgur loads a bunch of images from 4chan’s content delivery network, causing a DDoS to those sites If someone clicks a imgur link on /r/4chan, it opens up 500 links from 4chan.org/8chan EA Games may have a Gaming Subscription for PC Soon? (Rumor) Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454203-ea OP: fade2green514 Source 2: https://www.vg247.com/2015/09/24/ea-survey Source 3: http://www.ibtimes.com.au/electronic Survey Screenshot Bidness Etc. spotted a survey from EA asking if customers want a subscription service for pc games Some questions mimic existing EA Access service for Xbox One Survey asking if users would sign up early as next year Iphone 6S put through its paces via Geekbench Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/454532-worlds-first-iphone-6s OP: asim1999 Source 2: http://bgr.com/2015/09/23/iphone-6s-galaxy-s6-note-5-android/ Source 3: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/22/iphone-6s-reviews-performance/ Android Geekbench Scores Scored 2292 single-core on geekbench, 4293 multi-core Better single-core rating than competitors Austin Evans showed some graphics performance testing in his video released today, has the same graphics results as the Macbook 12” base model “hands down the most powerful phone you can buy today” - Austin Evans

i have a pentium 3258 cpu, i want to upgrade cpu and keep the stock mobo, can i switch it out for an i5? i want a bit better gaming, thank you guys, and the reason im not switching my mobo out was because i dont know how to install windows, i was going to get a fx-8350 with a Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0, thank you guys

Hello everyone, I'm kinda new to the whole "forums" thing. With that, I was exploring time capsules today (the kind your bury). I did a bit of research about how you had to keep your capsule airtight, waterproof, etc. Even with that research I still had questions about time capsules that would approve or disapprove of my time capsule strategy. So, my idea is to build a large metal box (air and water tight) and store things in it like a computer, ssd(s) with information on it, technology of the day, articles of advancement, money, books, and maybe so memorabilia. I want to have a time capsule that lasts anywhere from 50 to 200 years. The main issues I have with this decision is: Will an SSD (or SSDs) last that long even if they aren't rewritten? Will a computer and it's components last that long? Should I bury it in a place or keep it above ground in case I (or my future family) move? Well... Those are my question and this is my first post on this forum (and forums in general). Thank you to anyone who answers my questions or contributes to the conversation. -Octaviothefirst / Max (Also, I don't know if this should go in a tech discussion since this post talks about SSDs and other tech)

Ok so I just posted something a couple mins ago asking about a HDD warning in Defraggler and someone told me to download Crystal Disk Info to see whats going on. (Thanks for that) Anyway, Crystal Disk Info says the following: Health Status: Caution Everything is fine exept for the Reallocated Sectors Count: ID: 5 Attribute Name: Reallocated Sectors Count Current: 86 Worst: 86 Threshold: 5 Raw Values: 000000000194 What does this mean? <---- (Not Double Rainbow Reference) How long will my drive last? Which HDD's would you recommend? <--- (I've heared Seagates have high failure rates) What temp should my drive be at? I'm running a Hitachi HUA721010KLA330 with 1 TB of storage. Anyway, this is my Steam drive so I'm not THAT worried about backing anything up but I'd still like to know if I should be prepared for a soiled HDD. All help is appreaciated! Thanks!

As my title says I am a first time pc builder and I'm trying to get the best bang for a buck PC for around 1000$ (preferably under) I already have a mouse, keyboard, and monitor so i don't need any of that. I did some researching and throw this build together (http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jBCxJx) I was wondering if this build would work and should i just get a GTX 970 is it worth the hundred dollars more? Thank you in advance for help.

Last night my dad threw out the idea of water cooling my system for Christmas. I like the idea of water cooling my system, because hopefully it'll be quieter and I'll also need a new case. I'm a little nervous about the idea of water cooling it, because I've never water cooled a system before. I've never used an AIO water cooler, and my dad wants to jump right in to custom water cooling. The case I was thinking of getting was a Phanteks Enthoo Pro. I'd mount a radiator in the top and in the front. I'm not sure what size to put in the top, but minimum a 240 rad. I'm also not sure if I'll be able to get 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs in the case and still put a rad up front? Here's my list of unsure-ness: What size rad in the top? I need a 5.25" slot for a DVD-ROM. What size (if any) rad in the front? What fans to use? What res to use? What pump to use? The pump would ideally mount directly under the res. They should both ideally be able the fit the res mount in the rear of the case. Tubing? Fittings? Compression fittings are ideal, please. Is the case good? Other cases should be around $100 US. CPU Waterblock? It should include hardware for both AMD and Intel, so future CPU upgrades are possible with the same block. GPU Waterblock? I have the Sapphire R9 280. I'm not sure if it's a custom PCB. A universal block is ok. I'm willing to use a Swiftech AIO and expand it to the GPU, as long as the pump had enough pressure. EDIT: I'll probably repost this in the future, I just want to get a general idea.

There are just so many series I want to watch! But also a ton of daily uploading YouTubers I watch, school stuff to do, sleep, etc., etc.... I can't watch anime at school and since I go to school by bike I can't use that time either. I also hate dubbed anime and thus can't play games and watch anime at the same. Buying manga to read at school would be way too expensive and most of them don't have an official English/German release. Please help me! (╥︣﹏᷅╥᷅)

Hello community of LinusTechTips! It's been quite awhile since I've been on here, 6 months to be precise. Anyway, in a few weeks my PC will be about a year old and I think it's about time I overclock my GPU to wear it out until I save enough for a better card which will be most likely the 900 series. I opened up MSI Afterburner and Core Temp and I have no idea were to go from here... Excuse me if I'm a noob at overclocking but we all got to start somewhere. Providing the specifications below, I need some suggestions on what to increase in MSI Afterburner. These are my current settings for MSI Afterburner and my PC temperature running at idle. (Yes I know I need to upgrade my cooler, and GPU eventually): http://i.imgur.com/GznDhcw.png Specifications CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor MOBO: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB TWIN FROZR PSU: EVGA 850W ATX12V / EPS12V Cooler: Stock (Since my Hyper 212 EVO Broke) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower I'd appreciate it if no one here trolls, I just need a little extra "UMPH!" from my PC currently. Thanks for the help guys, I looked at some guides and I am completely lost already - including the database...

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So when i boot up my PC from a cold boot to desktop the system flies right through post taking around 10-15s before the windows login screen is displayed. But strangely my POST times take longer upon restarts for no apparent reason. This happens even when there is nothing scheduled or requiring a restart of windows. So when i restart the POST times take 20-30 seconds before finally reaching the windows login screen. This didn't happen until i clean reinstalled windows 8.1 and i'll be doing an clean reinstall with windows 10 sometime soon in hopes it might fix this but i doubt that will solve the problem. I'm guessing it might have something to do with the BIOS or even perhaps some piece of hardware. My motherboard is an ASUS Maximus Hero VI and other details of my system are in my signature. Thanks for anyone who can offer me some help to this strange problem!

Hi, I have recently been having trouble with my PC's clock, when i shut down my computer and turn it back on the next day or whatever, the clock is still on the time when i shut down my PC. I have looked this up and replaced the CMOS battery and it has made no difference, i have also been through my BIOS and no luck, Any help appreciated, i5 4670k ASUS maximus Hero VI 8Gb corsair vengeance 1886mhz 500gb Samsung 850 Evo WD 2TB hdd EVGA 760 SC ACX Windows 8.1

Alright men & ladies I have officialy sold my AMD Cpu & Motherboard and now need you're opinions on what Intel Cpu to get! Intel Core i5 4590 Intel Core i5 4690K Or Intel Core i7 4790 + A motherboard! Budget is $420 or less! So let me know what you guys think!

Pebble Time Review Couple of weeks ago I received my Pebble time. While the shipping process was relatively painless it how ever was not cheap. To give context this is my first smartwatch that I have ever used. None of the other smartwatches in the market didn't really excite me because all of them lacked in one major aspect. either its the battery life or performance or design. For me the most important thing a smartwatch should excel at is delivering the notifications and messages from my phone to my wrist. And just like the original pebble and the pebble steel, pebble time does this extraordinarily. Just having the option to glance at a notification and deciding to dismiss it or react to it on the watch itself or to pull out the phone is such a paradigm shift that I never thought I would enjoy that much. Speaking of watches, how good is it at showing the time?. If you never connected the pebble time to a phone and just have it on your wrist it would function admirably as a regular watch. With the pebble times color E-paper display you can always see the time without having to do any flicking motion or pressing buttons. Where most other smartwatch screens fail when there is an abundance of ambient light, Pebble time screen shines during the day time. Literally. The light reflects off of the E-paper display and shows you the information. but not to worry there is a backlight that comes on when you press any button that can also be set to turn on with motion. although I have that feature turned off. While the screen is very good at displaying what ever its supposed to, How good it looks is somewhat debatable. Here is what i think.because of its low contrast and probably low refresh rate it's not good for displaying pictures or watching videos. That is certain. But for what the color e-paper display is used, I think it's perfect for this use case. Where most people would knock some points off for a lackluster display I applaude Pebble for making a conscious decision to go with a E-paper display rather than a OLED hence not compromising on one of the best things about this smart watch. its battery life. Since I have been using the Pebble time I have realised that it has been designed from the ground up to be the best in class when it comes to its fuel economy. Technical specs aside Pebble Time lasts for just over seven days for me. I’m not the person that gets hundreds of notifications a day, but from my experiance with it I can tell that it should last for at least four days for the most heavy user. That is double the time that you can get from a android wear smartwatch at best. That’s impressive. So what can you do with seven days for battery life on the Pebble time? Time smartwatch sports the latest operating system that uses the all new “Timeline UI”. Essentially it will show you agenda in three categories namely Past activities, Present, and Future. Using the Up and Down you can see the past and Future respectively. For me calendar appointments showed up on the timeline and that was all I needed. Im sure there are many more apps you can get that hooks in to this function. When a notification or a text message is received to the pebble time, you are greeted with the usual set of options to interact with it. For example it gives you the option to reply to a text message with a preset message or with voice. which i will talk about soon. For IMs like Facebook messenger you also get to “LIKE” that message. Oh and it can also reply with emojis as well. This also brings up a gripe that i have with the notification system on both the pebble side and android in general. there is no way to get back to notifications that you have dismissed. Also once a notification is dismissed on the phone the pebble time has no way of knowing that it has happened so it continues to display it and gives the user to interact with it that eventually leads to a fail. I wish someone would find the solution for this already. As I mentioned earlier pebble time has a built in mic that allows you to dictate replies for text and IMs. If you have ever used s-voice and thought that it's worse that crap, fear not its actually good. while i'm not sure what kind of a back end service it uses to do the voice recognition I know that it works surprisingly good. It was able to consistently and accurately pickup my words even in a noisy environment. I think it speaks to the quality of the mic and the voice recognition service that pebble is using. Though keep in mind that just like Google now Voice will not work without a live internet connection to your phone. All is well up till now, but there are some shortcomings to this well rounded smartwatch that I have to talk about. For starters the built quality is between the original pebble and the pebble steel. which is to say that it was a lot better than i thought it would be knowing that it was not a steel version. But the buttons was a big disappointment for me. Button placement did bother me at all. It was the tactile response or the lack thereof. the only worse buttons that I have used is on my nexus 7 2013 tablet. Also I wish there was a way to feel which button I was about to press with a small bump on the middle button. I can't believe they missed that. This pissed me off a lot. The plastic/rubber coating on the metal bezel seems to easily scratched off. I had a huge gash at the end of the first day. and after that I gave up hope on trying to keep it unscratched. But there are some good news. The Glass screen is holding up very well despite me bumping it on to metal surfaces quite a few time. Since I have been using this product I have been asking myself “who is this for?’. Well I think there are two types of people that will be satisfied with this. People that want something that will last for days on battery and deliver notifications to their wrist without looking too bad. And then there's the iPhone users that don't want pay a the price of a decent Android phone to get a Apple Watch. I you are in one or both of those categories then the Pebble TIme is for you.

Hey Guys You have probably seen millions of these but I really need help with this PC First Time Build. I have no experience from building but I know the specs of things and if they are compatible but I can't figure out what to do. I am putting together a parts list at a price range of ~1000-1200. I need to have all the basics in the build (WiFi,Bluetooth) but seriously need performance as I will be participating in online tournaments and don't want to rock up looking like a total schmuck with a scrubby HP Pavilion G6. Another few things if can be put in the budget is LED's or other things that make it look cool(Green,Black and Blue Theme gonna spray paint the graphics card. Really like Team Red so stick to that if possible but willing to go Intel for higher FPS. I intend to play games like Chivalry and PayDay 2 in Highish settings with a solid 50-60 fps. I do have a relatively large Steam collection. Really want recommendations from people who have these parts or people who have better similarly priced components The Specs so far are as follows: AMD FX 8350 4.0 Ghz 8 Core Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Asus M5A97 AM3+ Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB DDR3-1866 Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr Thermaltake Chaser MK-1 Full Tower (Really like this case) Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified LG CD Player Thanks So Much Nicholas Meyer

Is it a good time to buy parts for a build? I heard Intel's new Skylake line is coming, should I care enough for that?

Guys is it worth waiting for Radeon 390x with the new thing called "HBM Stacked Memory" that is up to 9X Faster than GDDR5 memory OR Going for Titan X. Will 390x be 9x better than Titan X ? I dont know when 390X will be available on my contry so .... hmm

My notifications and time/clock disappeared like magic! I KNOW I haven't changed anything this past year, I have my taskbar at auto hide, small icons, and nothing more.

My third post hear discussing the Salladtron 5000 and its variations. (Click here and here for the other two!) I am a graduating high school student looking to build an affordable, but long living and beast of a gaming rig. This is my first build and I have learned quite a lot! The help in these forums has been more than I expected and I am quite thrilled to be about ready to pull the trigger. After many variations I have come up with this! PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($279.98 @ DirectCanada) Motherboard: Asus Z87-Pro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($114.99 @ NCIX) Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($124.99 @ Newegg Canada) Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($119.99 @ Canada Computers) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($62.95 @ DirectCanada) Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($412.40 @ Newegg Canada) Case: Thermaltake Versa H22 ATX Mid Tower Case ($42.46 @ DirectCanada) Power Supply: Thermaltake SMART 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($43.95 @ Vuugo) Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter ($39.98 @ DirectCanada) Total: $1241.69 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-26 19:19 EDT-0400 What do you guys think? Any changes? At this point my budget cant go any higher so the price I am at now is more or less my limit! Thanks for reading! P.S Any advice on when to buy? The 970 two free games deal seems awesome...

As my Windows 7 installation is getting older, I have noticed that my boot screen (the one with the 4 colorful blobs becoming a logo) has increasingly been taking longer and longer. I have already done the obvious optimizations: SSD, remove unused services, fix BIOS... I also have a RAMDisk that is designed to function as a TEMP location, this RAMDisk doesn't save/load, it starts fresh every time. Now the issue is this: I have a second, slower SSD in my exact same PC, and it's done with the blobs before the blobs can even touch eachother. My main SSD, the faster one, managed to do this too but has increased overtime: as the blobs have touched eachother, it takes atleast 5-10 more seconds! Main SSD speed: http://puu.sh/hNeNc.png Second SSD speed: http://puu.sh/hNf2L.png As you can see, the second SSD is about half the speed of my primary SSD, how can it be booting Windows 7 quicker? I'm obviously not looking for the fresh reinstall solution...

im looking for games with massive maps (doesn't matter if they are land based or space based), and that i can move around free do whatever i want and i'm not looking for just new games any game qualifies here i want something to spend tons of hours playing it. p.s. it can be any type of game rpg, fps, racing, crafting or even survival any game is ok examples: just cause 2, assassins creed black flag, the elders scrolls skyrim, minecraft and gta 5 thanks a lot

I want to take a bunch of screenshots on my Android phone but I want all the screenshots to display the same time in the header. Instead of having to go into date and time settings every time the time changes I would prefer if there was a way to install an app that in a way, "freezes" the time on the phone so that it never changes, or maybe just have it listen to the time and every time it changes, change it back to the time desired. I know this may sound like a stupid idea, but I would really like to know if any resident developers here think it's possible to do, especially given the many added APIs for lollipop. Thanks.