TheMightyEthan Posted November 29, 2016 Report Share Posted November 29, 2016 I have a meter that I can plug into an outlet to see how much power something draws, and prior to the upgrade my computer would max out at like 500W. I'm not sure what it maxes at now, but I know each new component draws less power than its previous counterpart, so I'm making what I believe is a fairly safe assumption that the whole thing draws less power than it used to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 30, 2016 Report Share Posted November 30, 2016 It's the route moores law is being pushed into for commercial applications, since people want more portable non-mains devices. Most components years ago far surpassed what the average person needs to facebook, tweak a few photos n watch HD movies. I still prefer ATX. A thief is gonna struggle to take my PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted December 2, 2016 Report Share Posted December 2, 2016 I'm kind of missing the large power draws and inefficient power consumption... I know for a fact that my tower used to be able to heat my room. Now it can't. I used to open my window on nights like this to cool down my room. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 Been testing my PC out this past few days by playing Witcher 3 at mostly max. (RAM actually arrived on Thursday so I got to build it early). Runs pretty well. CPU temp at 50C max under load. GPU reached 85C but noticed my fan was only running around 50%. So I got Afterburner (whose UI needs to be cleaned up, seriously) and set a custom fan profile. Ended up running fan at 70% when temps at 60C, 75% at 75C and 85% at 80C to keep it down. Now I can keep it below 80, max was 77C so far. My PC is under my desk so I can hear it but I don't mind. I'm mostly going to be wearing headphones anyway, especially at night (gotta keep the neighbors happy). Running at around 220W while playing Witcher 3. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted December 18, 2016 Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 Anyone have a Raspberry Pi? I know sometime ago I saw a discussion about it. I'm getting my brother-in-law a power adapter, but also I figured I might look into Retropie. At this point the NES Classic pisses me off given that it might as well be a cryptic creature. Not to mention it could be a neat project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 Now that I can go 1440p at 144 fps, I've been running my computer through the paces and I manage to freeze up my computer like I did with Civilization 6 with DOOM. I guess I didn't resolve that problem with reseating my GPU cooler? Anyhow, for some reason pulling the first Gore Nest did my computer in. Prior I was somehow capped at 60 fps with screen tearing so I think I can see it coming but now that I got Riva and Afterburner on to monitor via graph log and on-screen display the CPU, GPU, RAM usage along with temps, no issues are turning up. CPU temp is 50-55C's and GPU is around 63-68C. Strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted February 19, 2017 Report Share Posted February 19, 2017 So I have a question. I partitioned a drive, and turned on bitlocker for the main partition, drive c. Now I want to combine both, and have bitlocker on the whole drive. How do I go about doing that? I'd rather not reinstall everything. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 20, 2017 Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 Strikes me as something better asked in a more technical place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted February 25, 2017 Report Share Posted February 25, 2017 I'm really confused. Every so often on Firefox a click and/drag will register as dropping an image or video I viewed some time during my session(s). Have you guys ever heard of or experienced such a thing before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted February 25, 2017 Report Share Posted February 25, 2017 I'm really confused. Every so often on Firefox a click and/drag will register as dropping an image or video I viewed some time during my session(s). Have you guys ever heard of or experienced such a thing before? Sorry, I've got no idea. I just wanted to say.. People still use Firefox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 I've got to use it for this academic site that still uses old plug-ins and etc. I don't use it enough to know what could be wrong with it now a days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 Recently, like the last week or so, my PC won't properly shutdown unless I remove my external drive. Otherwise it shuts down, then restarts back up. Any clues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 Did you do anything that would make the drive wake up your PC? Are you turning off the PC totally, or just making it sleep? Seems like something with USB devices being able to turn on the PC; maybe turn that off in your UEFI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 I am never going to get used to it being a UEFI, it's always going to be a BIOS to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 I always wanna call it UEFA, personally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 Yeah UEFI was the next step, though I've not changed anything in it since launch. Anywho as is often happens around most technical issues I have, as soon as I bring someone in to look at it, it goes and fixes itself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted May 10, 2017 Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 Anyone know of a good method of converting iTunes video files into a more friendly format? You know, something that can bypass the restrictions Apple loves to put on files so that only Apple devices can easily play them? I had leftover iTunes credit from years ago and so I got Samurai Jack Season 5 there. Wanted to show my father the new season since he and I would watch the old seasons together. It comes on pretty late here, so I got the Season Pass to get it all and watch it over the summer with him. Except there's really no easy method to stream or mirror the content unless you fork over cash for Apple TV. I would have gotten the season elsewhere normally, but I barely paid anything on iTunes and there's been trouble with the episodes on other platforms. He has a Samsung Smart TV that is amazing, and funnily enough he barely uses half the features. Samsung has a desktop app to mirror content, but you have to add the content to the program and play it like a media player. Windows Media Player also allows you to stream content to such smart devices, but WMP can't play these iTunes files. I'm not very trusting of all the converters out there, and I don't want to have to spend money. So, like I originally asked, anyone know a way to make this work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 10, 2017 Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 I would say if you've paid for it, then go n pirate a copy of it yourself. Probably your easiest bet. I could recommend stuff like Xvideo but I don't know if that deals with Apple DRM. Also it's not "xvideo" it turns out that's a porn site but Xilisoft Video Converter. I have a free license for it, and looking it's £25-35 so probably not worth it. There's Super (which tbh given I've a paid software I've not used for years) which is a bit clunky an interface but otherwise pretty dang powerful and robust for video conversion. Though does seem it funds itself now through "bundled" software, but I'd guess you can untick most of that during install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 10, 2017 Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 1 hour ago, deanbmmv said: I would say if you've paid for it, then go n pirate a copy of it yourself. Probably your easiest bet. That's what I'd do. Hypothetically. <.< >.> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted June 9, 2017 Report Share Posted June 9, 2017 About a month ago my rig started throwing up blue screen after blue screen. I tried to diagnose the problem and came up with it being due to bad RAM. So I bought shiny new RAM. Didn't fix the issue. So I kept troubleshooting and the tests all indicated my mobo was bad. So I bought a shiny new mobo (which I planned to do anyway to avail myself of the new Optane stuff). Still blue screen after blue screen. Finally, I replaced my CPU on a whim and, bingo, what is generally the most reliable part of my PC turned out to be just broken enough to cause blue screens. At least it wasn't my CPU. The sad part is that I bought my RAM, CPU, and mobo just last fall. Wasted so much money. I am RMA-ing the CPU, so if anyone wants a refurbished intel i5 6600 for like 75 bucks, let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted August 6, 2017 Report Share Posted August 6, 2017 Has anyone using Windows 10 had trouble waking their PC up before? Like where it technically turns on but it just stays on a black screen forever? I've been going through this. I can tell that something is happening in the background because I can hear notifications and if I scroll the mouse wheel it starts beeping, but the screen never actually shows the display and I have to restart the whole thing to get it to work again. I read some advice saying to turn off hybrid shutdown to fix it, so I did, but it will take a bit to know for sure if this actually fixes it. In the meantime, I'm just wondering if anyone here ever went through the same thing and how they handled it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 6, 2017 Report Share Posted August 6, 2017 That happened to me when I first put Windows 10 on my laptop. I couldn't find any solutions, so I ended up rolling back to 7, then like 9 months later I tried 10 again and it worked. I tried the hybrid sleep thing and it seemed to help but didn't fix the problem (it just did it less frequently). I know that's not really any help to you. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 6, 2017 Report Share Posted August 6, 2017 Hah, I've the opposite: I can't get my PC to go to Sleep. I think something somewhere is keeping it awake, or waking it up even, but following the instructions for getting cmd to list everything that's sending a "don't sleep" command to Windows turns up empty. So if it's something where I need my PC to be in the same spot some hours later I pretty much just lock it n leave it running. Unfortunately I built this PC so no OEM drivers to grab off a site somewhere with a fix on that front, or maybe I've plugged in my reset switch wrong and it's constantly running. Also I guess there was that time a while ago (and a couple times since) where it wouldn't even shut down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted August 7, 2017 Report Share Posted August 7, 2017 Well now it's waking up to a dark blue screen where I can move the mouse around but do nothing else...Guess I'll disable hibernate and see where that gets me. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted October 19, 2017 Report Share Posted October 19, 2017 On 1/31/2017 at 9:52 PM, Malloween said: Now that I can go 1440p at 144 fps, I've been running my computer through the paces and I manage to freeze up my computer like I did with Civilization 6 with DOOM. I guess I didn't resolve that problem with reseating my GPU cooler? Anyhow, for some reason pulling the first Gore Nest did my computer in. Prior I was somehow capped at 60 fps with screen tearing so I think I can see it coming but now that I got Riva and Afterburner on to monitor via graph log and on-screen display the CPU, GPU, RAM usage along with temps, no issues are turning up. CPU temp is 50-55C's and GPU is around 63-68C. Strange. I think I kicked this problem far enough since it's happening in Cold Steel and probably once during internet browsing within the last few weeks, and now I do have the money to fix. Someone here mentioned that it is probably the RAM which I agree with due to me crashing while using Firefox which, if I recall correctly, is a RAM hog. I have 16 GB of RAM so it takes a bit to use it all up. There's probably some sort of bad combination that throws my computer for a loop. Odd that GIS software isn't triggering it though... Of course there could be some other options. I doubt it's the CPU and GPU though since problems should manifest themselves far easier with those. No way it can be HDD related due to how long I have had this problem. The only other thing I can think of is the mobo itself. There could be some subtle issue with the mobo but like hell I can figure out what. So RAM it is for now but I am all ears for suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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