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I was recently notice about this problem, and i don't use my PC in heavy load. anybody know about this problem and know how to fix it without formatting/reinstall my Windows? OS: Windows 10 22H2 SSD: Kingston NV1, SNVS250G (250GB) PCIe 3rg Gen

Hi, long ago when I was a freshman at university, there was this rumor around which said that you couldnt enter the USA, if you had a laptop on you which was encrypted. Now, in the years working in the Industry, I've come across different variations about that story, some would be that it only applies when you are suspicios, or some would be that it only affects people going to china or russia. Is there any thruth to this ? or is it really just a urban legend ?

who knows how to do it in the simplest way so i wont get sued by intel

I was looking around for a budget GoPro alternative, and I came across this: The SJCAM SJ400 It seems to have it all (within reason)-1080p video recording (albeit with 30FPS), wifi capabilities, 170 degree lens, built in lcd, a plethora of included accessories (as well as gopro accessory compatibility), all for a price of $80 USD All of the reviews I found pointed to it being a great camera, especially for the price So, the question still remains Is it a decent camera? I know that it won't be comparable to any gopro, except maybe the cheap Hero, but I want to have other opinions on whether this budget camera may actually be pretty awesome. Also, anyone who does have experience with this camera and its many knockoffs, is this one real? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQZ07VE?m=AG4ZXDXQD28H7&ref_=v_sp_detail_page

Is there a gaming laptop that's portable and has crazy amazing battery life ( for productivity ) ? Or am I being delusional ? edit: without it turning into a stove

I was wondering if this site is legit. It seems like it's a scam. Link: https://tivaxa.com/products/msi-gaming-geforce-gtx-1070-8gb-gddr5 Apperently its a canadian website but idk. plz answer as quick as possible tnx.

Hello LTT Forum ! My father let me help him solve a tech problem at his office. This is the current situation: One of his colleagues works as a 3D modeler and has this folder on his laptop where he keeps all of the company's 3D files for all their projects. On the same network with this laptop , is a QNAP TS 231 NAS that has an identical copy of my father's colleague's 3D models folder among other valuable folders which contain various company documents. All the folders on this NAS are shared folders to which everyone on the network has access. This is how the exact copy stored n the NAS is created/maintained : At the end of the working day, the 3D modeler goes in the folder on his computer, sorts by "Date Modified" and copies everything that was modified that day then goes in the shared folder on the NAS and he pastes and replaces the respective files. Not only is this an extraordinarily tedious job but it is also very dangerous thus I offered to find and set up a way for this task to be performed automatically in real time by the computer. What I am trying to do is find a way to configure the local computers on the network and the NAS in the following way: Certain designated local folders on each employee machine to be real time synced to the copy on the NAS. That means if the 3D modeler makes a modification on a file in the designated folder on his computer then as soon as he saves that modification in the file , the copy on the NAS is updated with the just modified version. While googling I found out this is called setting up " a sync job". The NAS is running something called QTS a QNAP proprietary OS which also has an appstore. I downloaded various utilities developed by QNAP for sync jobs however I couldn't figure out how to make them work. So far I tried: Qsync which as far as I could figure was more of a Dropbox type of service that would run on your NAS. You would have to manually drag and drop files into a Qsync folder for it to sync with the NAS or have them created there in the first place. Configuring it requires setting up accounts for each user and then installing a client on each user's machine. I was on a hurry last time I tried it , I will give it another go tomorrow. Netbak Replicator , another QNAP tool which states that it provides real time sync but is in fact a back up tool, not what I need. Hybrid Sync which seemed to be the only one out of the bunch that could actually work however I could not figure out how to properly set it up so tha tthe "pick up" folder would be a local folder on a machine and the "destination" would be on the server. If anyone has any idea on how to configure this app please walk me through a short tutorial below. So here is what I ask of you internet. Is there a feature in Windows that can work with the QNAP NAS OS ( it's called QTS, the server is running version 4.3. something ...I forgot) so that I pick the folder on the machine and then set it up in the NAS that it should constantly check that folder for modifications and bring it up to date in real time? I would be baffled if for all the complicated features Windows has it doesn't have something fit to my needs. If you have done this exact thing before please let me know exactly how you did it. Also if there are any third party apps that could solve my issue please let me know. It would be great if anyone could provide a tutorial . Thank you.

Hey guys can you find me some real GTX 760 on aliexpress apriciate that. Sam

I have been seeing this unknown file type called realdeal on some of my files. I know there is some bloat/malware called Real Deal that I had previous removed from my computer when I found it but all of these files seem like they actually belong. It seems like whenever I previously had the bloat/malware it changed a certain file type to be the name of realdeal. I have run many anti virus softwares on my computer include Anti-malware bytes and they all come up with there is no problem. I cannot find what the file extension is (.exe, .ppt, .doc) and when I go to folder settings and force it to always show the file extension, nothing pops up after the file name. If anyone has had this problem before or knows what these file types should be (by checking on your own computer if you have any of the games seen in the pictures) please let me know.

Its this Graphics card Fake or Real Pls tell me thx https://www.gearbest.com/graphics-video-cards/pp_1282644.html?wid=1433363 Sam

Amazon: NCIX: We all know that running a virtual machine on your hardware has the potential to add some overhead to performance tasks... But can we quantify that overhead?

Here's my review of the Lenovo X250. Be warned, it's fairly long. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HPt4AQBLEhy64PEYWVdZjonO8Hc0ALdGdlVzTA3nNRU/edit?usp=sharing I would really appreciate feedback. What's good? What's bad? What should I add in the future? SEE THE GOOGLE DOC FOR THE PROPERLY FORMATTED REVIEW w/ PICTURES and BENCHMARK IMAGES ilikemacandpc’s Lenovo Thinkpad X250 Review September 2015 Image from lenovo.com Introduction and Pertinent Notes Lenovo’s Broadwell based Thinkpads are here, and with the imminent launch of Skylake, I thought it may be a good idea to take a look at the X250, the smaller sibling of the T450s, to give us an idea of how the hypothetical X260 and T460s will go. Note 1: This is a personal computer that I bought for college. Let’s hope it lasts 4 years. Note 2: Parts of this review were originally intended to be part of a first impressions post, but the details quickly spiraled out of control. My apologies if it sounds a bit disjointed at times. tl;dr: The X250 is really good, and Skylake will only make it better. Wait for the X260. Specifications of My Unit Processor 12.5” IPS 1080p 400-nit display (non-touch) Display Intel Core i5 5200U with HD Graphics 5500 RAM Storage 8GB of RAM - DDR3L 1600 - Self Installed - Came with 4GB of RAM from the factory 250GB Samsung 850 Evo - Self Installed - Came with 500GB HDD from the factory Weight Battery A bit under 3.5lbs 3 Cell + 6 Cell Battery (~95 Wh) Size (WxDxH) 12.03" x 8.21" x 0.8" or 305.6 x 209 x 20 mm Software Clean Install of Windows 10 Price Approx 1100 USD including education discount and ALL upgrades both factory and aftermarket Hardware Analysis The Intel Core i5 5200U is a good processor, but Lenovo should have equipped a 5300U by default. As Linus pointed out in his review of the X1 Carbon, both the 5200U and the 5300U have the same retail customer price (RCP) and the 5300U has business features like vPro. Lenovo is shortchanging customers by charging another 100 USD for the upgrade to the 5300U. Shame on them. Prices from Intel ARK as of Sept. 2015 At the moment, 8GB of memory seems to be enough for me. If an upgrade is necessary, 16GB soDIMMs are available, so this laptop could be outfitted with double the current amount of RAM, which is insane considering its footprint. However, the main drawback is that the RAM is in single channel, causing a 15-25 percent dip compared to dual channel HD Graphics 5500. It’s roughly as fast as the last gen HD 4400 on Haswell processors with dual channel memory. Not terrible, but certainly not great. Then again, a gaming rig, this is not. SSD upgrades are quite expensive. I would like to see a PCIe M.2 option, so that we could put in drives like the Samsung SM951 series to have significantly better speeds. Getting touch capabilities on the monitor is really expensive, so the 1080p non-touch display is at the sweet spot. Considering how much more keyboard and mouse friendly Windows 10 is than Windows 8/8.1, the lack of a touch screen is not an issue at all. The Display Starting off with the display, it’s excellent. With a decently high quality IPS panel, viewing angles are great. I also don’t notice any color banding even with large gradients. There is the tiniest bit of backlight bleed at the lower right hand corner, but I only notice it when the screen is entirely pitch black. When watching a dark video in fullscreen, the bleeding is not noticeable. Only on a completely black frame is it noticeable. I’ll take this amount of backlight bleed over a TN panel every day of the week. Low brightness is rather low, and maximum brightness is headache-inducingly bright. You should be able to use this display outside due to the obscene amount of light coming through the panel and due to the anti-glare coating. My anecdotal experience supports this claim. Chassis, Ports, and Build Quality It’s a mixed bag, though mostly positive. It comes down to the battle of plastic versus aluminum and the pros and cons both materials afford. Lenovo claims to have a metal roll cage inside of the X250 to improve durability, and that the plastic is carbon-fiber infused, but for all intents and purposes, this is regular plastic, albeit high quality. Lenovo is sticking to the black rectangle, which is good. Instead of changing up the perception of what a laptop should be, Lenovo keeps the Thinkpad identity physically the same. As a result, this is not a particularly thin laptop, or curved, or majestic in any unique way. This is a business laptop, and it fulfills the job well. There is one advantage that this somewhat chunky build affords; in terms of ports, the X250 is loaded compared to the competition. Category Ports Commentary Inputs 2x USB 3.0 - one with sleep and charge Ethernet (YELL YEAH!) SD Card SIM Card Lenovo should have added a 3rd USB port for power like on some of its other laptops. Display Outputs VGA (in 2015 lol) mini DisplayPort Two connections is fine. mDP is preferred over HDMI Other Power Input Kensington Lock Thinkpad Docking Port Docking Accessories are quite expensive. Yet again, Lenovo displays a feature that makes it stand out compared to all of the competition. Not one other manufacturer comes close. In terms of weight, this is freaking magically light. I often get worried that I didn’t put my laptop in my backpack because my bag feels so darn light. Especially without the additional six cell battery, the laptop reaches a stupendously light weight. A single decently sized hardcover book is heavier than this laptop. However, being able to open this laptop up is a godsend. The end user (or I) could save a ton of money by buying an SSD and RAM upgrade outside of the Lenovo laptop configurator. The Trackpad and Keyboard The Trackpad not made from glass. Or at least it doesn’t feel like it’s made of glass. This year, Lenovo corrected the cardinal wrong from the Xx40 series - the lack of dedicated buttons for the trackpoint. The problem is that if your hands are even the slightest bit sweaty or oily, the trackpad gets very hard to use. There is a significant amount of friction between the hand and the trackpad, making it very uncomfortable to use. However, I do have to give high points to the Trackpoint (nub). It works well and is rather precise. I think that I’ll try and use it for a while because I just don’t like the trackpad. On the other hand, the keyboard is almost flawless. What needs to be mentioned is the huge amount of key travel on the X250, a major advantage over its competitors. Lenovo achieves this via a slightly chunky build and surprisingly thin keycaps. I hope it will not affect durability. The only thing I would change about the keyboard would be to add more granular control of the backlight. It only has 3 levels: off, bright, and super freaking bright. When it’s pitch black in the morning in my room and I’m trying to use the laptop without waking up my roommate, the keyboard backlight almost feels brighter than the screen itself at minimum brightness. This is one detail that Apple got right - giving many levels of brightness for their keyboards. Performance and Thermal Throttling It’s what you’ve all been waiting for: the benchmarks. The X250 performs as you would expect from a laptop of such specs. No thermal throttling was observed even after several runs of Cinebench R15 which is promising. Geekbench 32-bit and HTML5 Test : Cinebench R15 and Crystal Disk Mark: However, there is a big problem; This laptop cannot smoothly stream 4K video in Chrome, Firefox, IE (shudder), and Vivaldi. BUT, in Microsoft Edge, 4K streaming works beautifully. WTF Google?! YouTube doesn’t work well on your own browser? The higher quality playback at lower CPU usage is the only reason I (or anyone else for that matter) would use Edge. It is a shame that other browsers with more power user features lack the performance of Microsoft’s own browser. Even with the improvements in Chrome 45, Microsoft has the edge (pun intended). During a stress test in AIDA64 of CPU Integer performance alone, the laptop held steady at around 65 degrees Celsius in a 21.1 degrees Celsius room. Though the fans did spin up a bit, I would rather the notebook be a bit lounder than thermally throttle. Max all core turbo seems to be just shy of 2.5 GHz, in line with Intel’s specifications. Generally, under light to moderate load, the fans are unnoticeable. The Elephant in the Room - Windows 10 Scaling Ahh Microsoft. You make excellent products (most of the time) and you had a chance with Windows 10 to fix some serious errors that you had. Alas no. Display scaling, tested at 125 percent, is still bad, even on a laptop that doesn’t have a super high DPI display. Most installers I use seem to have scaling issues, showing blurry text. Normally, however, the application launches fine and crispy. However, I do HAVE to call out Skype for not only the installer being blurry, but the application itself. And it is a Microsoft owned application. Both the Google Chrome and Steam Installers are noticeably blurry. This is unacceptable. Also, Steam is blurry! That’s unacceptable to me. Maybe I have some settings configured incorrectly, but Steam, of all applications, should support high DPI displays properly. As of this moment, I’ve set the display to 100% scaling just to avoid these issues. Thankfully, my vision is good enough that seeing text isn’t hard, and the extra screen real estate is appreciated. At times though, small text can be tough to read. I’ve had to set the zoom in Chrome to 110% because below that is just annoying to read. Battery Life and an Important Note about Charging I have had some issues with the batteries not charging up to 100%. They’ll go to 97 or 99%. However, if I partially drain them, say to 50%, and then recharge them, they will go up to 100% full. Odd. Either way, the battery life on this laptop is tremendous and easily best-in-class. The X250 lasted hours under AIDA64 CPU stress testing. There is likely no way I’ll ever drain the entire battery in one day. At the end of a long day, the battery is at just under 60 percent full. Only long periods of gaming and other CPU/GPU intensive activities will kill this laptop. However, the target audience for this laptop likely will not be doing those things, so battery life shall remain excellent in all normal scenarios. Miscellaneous Thoughts Using the X250 over the past couple of weeks has really made me want to to see the proliferation of Thunderbolt. Every day, when I get back from class, I plug in 5 cables into my laptop (Power, mDP, USB, Ethernet, Audio). It’s hugely annoying. Plugging in just one cable every time would be a godsend. The fingerprint reader works 80 percent of the time the first time, 98 percent of the time the 2nd time, and 2 percent of the time it doesn’t work at all. It simply does not turn on at the lock screen which is strange. And despite my privacy concerns with Windows 10, the convenience of the fingerprint scanner cannot be overstated. Random Oddities By default, the auto-brightness is extremely aggressive and changes brightness even in constant light. Disabling adaptive brightness in the Intel HD graphics control center fixed the problem. Weird. The traditional inversion of the Fn and Ctrl key on Thinkpads continues. Key remapping software can fix that easily. Looking at the display housing, the panel seems to be the slightest bit crooked. Thankfully, no display is behind the bezel, but the gap is larger on the top than on the bottom. It does NOT affect the usability of the laptop, but the lack of fit and finish irks me. Windows isn’t great at calculating remaining battery time. It can say that I have 5 hours left on a fully charged battery, which is simply not true. Windows 10 still isn’t perfect. In one year, with a series of stability and glitch fixing updates, the OS will be much better. This is likely why Lenovo still only offers Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 from the factory. Conclusions This is a really good laptop. I really do wish I could have waited for Skylake to get the GPU gains, but I’m fine with this. If I wanted to game, a real desktop would do a significantly better job anyway. Though I could have chosen between this, the Dell XPS 13, the HP Spectre X360, and the MBPr 13”, I chose this due to being able to take this laptop apart and due to the insane lightness and price of this laptop. Using the educational discount available, this laptop rapidly becomes much cheaper than any of the other aforementioned, and it has a significantly better selection of ports. In the end, however, with the launch of the X260 almost here, any consumer should wait and see the benefits Lenovo will bring. Skylake will bring better battery life, more processing power, and better graphics, hopefully solving most of the issues with the X250. There are minor nitpicks, but no laptop is perfect, especially considering the price.

Hello! My name is Gerad and I would say I'm fairly new here, made one post about my CPU and that was it. I would like to ask help for overclocking my GPU so I can get like 60 fps at games like Fallout 4(40-50FPS), Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (I get around 10-30 FPS, I'm not joking why is it like this? Also I think I accidently capped the FPS on Black Flag to 30 FPS since it doesn't go up higher than that). My CPU is an i7-4790k at stock speed. Here are my GPU tweak numbers, can you guys recommend me if I should bring something up or bring it down? Thanks! https://gyazo.com/4ae97db6d128841d595b059d4b3825d3

so im thinking of getting these http://www.asus.com/nz/Gaming/STRIX_71/ anythoughts or suggestions?

So for the massive platform launch there was this many people online 24/7 today: This many people online For the vessel giveaway 99% of them where This proves that the One post wonders are real and one of them won the giveaway Linus we need a forum member only giveaway We need it bad!! we are the real fans!!

This video: Read through the youtube comments and as usual, youtube comments... (although this one is surprisingly better than random flame wars and insults, there's actually some discussions!) So I'd like to hear some thoughts from you guys. Does this mouse really have a better tweaked sensor than other mouse? Or is just cause it's much more lightweight than other mouse it feels snappier? Basically what I'm asking is your thoughts on this mouse. Like is this mouse just, I shall quote a youtube comment "a 5 dollar chinese mouse for $70"?

I'm looking to apply for university and am interested in computer engineering. I am looking at government funding to help pay for my tuition and partial living expenses and the application form for this looks for an action plan for what I am going to do with this education. I am looking for someone who may be in a feild relating to computer engineering to help me better understand just what it is I am committing to. As of right now I've chosen computer engineering as the course I want to take simply because the synopsis provided seemed like exactly what I would love to do, but that is all I know about it. I need to know what kind of job opportunity this education opens up and where to look for these jobs. What opportunities for advancements exist in these carreers. The kind of work environment I can expect, and what type of hours to be ready to work. Can I do some at home training by myself and if so how? What kind of equipment will I have to familiarize myself with? These types of questions so that I can be confident that this is actually what I want to do and am not just going to drop it realizing it's not what I wanted.

Hello, I am a big fan of Linus and his media group, so when I found out he had a website I just had to sign up. Now I am creating this post for your help. I need to get to the conclusion that CyberpowerPC is legit. One problem with that is I have heard so many bad things about their company and how they don't let you talk to the managers unless you are about to cancel your order. They look legit and I am hoping to buy from them but I don't want to spend alot of my money on people who might not comply. Nerd3( http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialNerdCubed ) made a video about them a couple of years ago now about how he ordered a PC from them and got what he asked for. But he is from the UK and I am from Canada. So there might be different people in charge of the building. So please tell me in reply about your experience and your opinion about them. Thank you for reading my rant and have a fantastic evening.

Google seems to be working on technology (as according to a recent paper that was published) that can in fact tell you whether OP is full of shit or not. Hopefully. It would be interesting to see how they would implement this into their services (maybe rank sites based off some obscure measure of how "truthful" they are, or whatever else. Certainly a neat idea, thats for sure. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/03/02/google-has-developed-a-technology-to-tell-whether-facts-on-the-internet-are-true/

Hey Guys I have an MSI laptop but Im not too sure if its the real deal, or if its some China fake (although they are made in Taiwan), is there a sticker or something on the laptops that tell us that it is original MSI product? Thanks in advance

I found this backpack on eBay, and I was really tempted to purchase it. But I did a bit of research for a Turion backpack and found absolutely nothing, and now I think this is just an Imago Karim backpack with the logo pressed onto it. Anyone know if this is real or bogus?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdKd_z2_ymQ Can anyone confirm? I do have my Windows 7 disk as I legitimately bought one when it came out, this apparently removes ALL metro (charms, EVERYTHING) and bring back the COMPLETELY ORIGINAL start menu/button on Windows 7. Too good to be true?

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There is alot going on when it comes to computer components these days. But what can we as consumers expect for the future of the PC component industry. Im going to go through the facts to show you what you can expect for the near and even not so near future. Let us first think of what the current state of the market is before we examine thee future. There are an estimates 76 million computer sales in the world quarterly (for those non-buissness folk a quarter are three month periods for companies to report their financial earnings), taking that out of context you would say that seems like alot of silicon, and when we consider that every computer was distributed by hundreds if not thousands of retailers worldwide, we begin to see the scope of the PC market. Now when I say that this 76 million computers is 14 percent down from previous years, that is something totally different. But what is happening here? It would be easy to say that, ohh everyone has a computer these days, thats why sales are down, nobody needs one anymore. But that's simply not true, especially if we consider that the rate in which computers are replaced. Crucial (yes the RAM company) did a survey which polled 1000 users age 16-70, over half said that a computer should last over 3 years, but on average computers are replaced ever 4.5 years. But if computers are being replaced regularly, than what is really causing a decline in sales. It would seem that there is another culprit: the tablet. The tablet has become extremely popular in the past few years causing the market for pc's to plummet, in fact tablet sales are coming ever closer to total pc sales at 45 million tablets sold in quarter three of last year. So what does this mean for the average linus tech tips forum member? It would be easy to simply say that because of tablet sales, companies wouldn't be willing to invest in the DIY community, but that isn't really the case. Component vendors certainly do earn a lot from the consumer market like Asus which reported 3 million tablet sales which they associate with their increase in total earning for the quarter. However there are many vendors such as intel, which, lets face it, is produces parts for everything, which still make enough profits through the DIY pc market that they see no end to the sale of socketed cpu sales in the future. If companies as large as intel can afford to supply the DIY community than we can assume that there are many other companies that also have this kind of support for our community. Because of this i can only see the component market growing as the demand of games and other applications increases and the consoles age to raise the need for high end pc's for gaming. So I think the future of the PC market looks bright although tablets decrease sales of pc's the market for components seems un-effected when we look at companies such as nvidia that have seen an increase in profits in the last year.