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Why is my wifi slow?

1nf3rn0x — Sun, 19 May 2013 02:31:09 GMT

I'm just wondering why my wifi connection has slowed down all of a sudden?

My internet is 100-110Mb/ps and I could get a fast connection over wifi. 7-9MB ps

But now, I can barely get over 1Mb per second. Everything seems fine though.

Power Supply Board

EpicShweetness — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:23:37 GMT

I'm Looking for a small circuit board to provided power to a 12v DC to a Pump (18 watt .69amp), and 4 3pin fans. This is to provided power to a external water cooling rack.
I'm in the process of brainstorming, and would appreciate, ideas, alternatives, etc. As it stands I've found things close, or things I'm unsure would work. I'll keep looking.
Thanks all.

Asus z87 is ugly!!!

ueutyi — Sat, 18 May 2013 23:39:47 GMT

Why asus just cannot use their blue+black design?

Monitor technology discussion

itsakjt — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:15:12 GMT

Today I was thinking that LCD monitors- TN, IPS and VA all have advantages and disadvantages over one another. No matter how much we pay, no monitor is absolutely perfect. However I have no idea why AMOLED technology is not implemented in monitors. Also now-a-days, smartphones and tablets display are much more looked upon than monitors. We see smartphones with ppi over 260 and with infinite contrast ratio also with absolute blacks and absolute whites. But we never bother to check the ppi of a monitor which is very low. My question is why are the new technologies especially AMOLED not implemented in today's monitors? I was searching the internet and it seems even IPS panels have backlight leakage viewable at a certain angle. Your opinions please....

VTX HD 7870 Tahiti 032 bios requests?

rhythmeister — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:09:08 GMT

I see there's only 2 up here at the mo and my 2nd replacement card from the useless folk at Aria has a bios that seems to work well for me so I'll get it up on the site if anyone wants to give it a whirl!

[Case Gallery] The Dark Shining Star (COSMOS 2 inside)

Sassanou — Sat, 18 May 2013 19:52:20 GMT

To view this case mod, go here.

Specs:
I7 3820
Rampage 4 extreme
64go DDR3 Kingtson beast 1833
SLI GTX680 DCU2
Cooler master Silent Pro M2 1500w
Raid0 Kingston HyperX 3K
Cooler master Cosmos2

Mods:
Add PSU in the hard drive bay
Add 480 phobya rad in the bottom
Make full fairing with aluminium and vinyl cover
Full rigig tubbing

Hello !

I would like to present my Mod based on the Cosmos 2 :)

The goal was to make a very clean and stylish thing, hope you will find that it is ;)

If you want to see more, go there : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Watermod/173971259406152

Swap 3570k > FX 8350?

NdMk2o1o — Sat, 18 May 2013 19:50:35 GMT

Just bought an i5 3570k though am having 2nd thoughts and maybe looking to trade for an 8350, I was debating about the 8350 when I bought this though was put off by my last AMD build which was a PII and just went with what I know.

Plus I like to play with my new stuff when I buy it, I have had a core i7 920, 860, 760, 2x 2500k and now a 3570k and I know Intel processors through and through (to an extent) and going to AMD would present me with a new learning curve again and give me that "new" feeling again.

Do you think it would be worth it for or against?

[FS] AMD FX-4170 4.2 GHz (4.3 GHz Turbo) Quad-Core (FD4170FRGUBOX) Processor

Ravenas — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:36:22 GMT

I purchased this AMD FX-4170 4.2 GHz (4.3 GHz Turbo) Quad-Core (FD4170FRGUBOX) Processor from Newegg on 4-23-12. It has worked perfectly however I have recently upgraded to a different processor. This processor is very fast and I am selling it at less than half of what I bought it for. It is socket AM3+ so be sure you have a motherboard which supports this. Buyer receives the following items: processor and factory heatsink/fan.

$65 shipped

EBAY SELLER FEEDBACK:

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAP...ab=AllFeedback

PAYPAL ONLY PLEASE. PM and I will supply PayPal info. Will be shipped upon payment.

Heatware: http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=87947

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Help! Windows Loads Too Slow.

rheged — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:23:12 GMT

Hi,

I've recently built a desktop PC for my home to the following specs (same as in the drop down menu to the left under my name)

CPU: AMD Piledriver FX6 3.6GHz
MOBO: Gigabyte G8-7LMT-S2P
RAM: Corsair 2 x 2GB of 1333MHz DDR3
Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 6450
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 500Gb
PSU: Novatech 750W

O/S: Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit

Ever since I first built the machine, the boot time (from power on to desktop appearing and all startup programs like firewall etc being ready) has been around 1m30s. From what I've heard - perhaps wrongly - is that with these specs I should be expecting things to be a little faster than that. So, I set out and started removing programs from the start up section of msconfig with no significant change to the boot time. I turned off all the extra shiny bits in windows, like the aero theme - no change still. I've updated the BIOS, run malware/spyware/virus scans and still nothing. I've defragged the HDD and still no change. Can anyone suggest something I might have missed? I don't know if its relevant or not but I do NOT have a user account setup in Windows. Could this be causing a problem? I should point out I've not tried overclocking as I only have an out-of-the-box cooler at present.

Any ideas would be great. :banghead:

In advance, thanks :-)

A tremendous tweak for Firefox based browsers

natr0n — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:41:16 GMT

I discovered this tweak recently it does what it says basically and caches everything into ram.Cookies still sit on your drive so no worries there. I tested this for about 2 weeks now works great the best test is on youtube videos play better/smoother loading. So here it is.

type... about:config in the browser url area hit enter
paste this... set browser.cache.disk.enable <---( change this to false by double clicking it.
next paste this... set browser.cache.memory.enable change it to true. <---might be pre enabled already

Now close off and reopen browser should be more snappy.

Note I use Palemoon 64 which is firefox based and some tweaks are pre applied on some browser this one isn't though afaik.

:toast:

Is it time for me to smack some more RAM in???

Dan2312 — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:39:57 GMT

Im currently running on Corsair XMS3 1600MHz 6GB kit, 3x2 gb sticks,

im a member on steam and happen to notice it recommends 8Gb for Total war rome 2 game, And Arma 3 seems to run better when I set the launch options to allow it to use all my ram, so I believe games are starting to need more than 4-6gb RAM,

so I was looking at getting identical RAM but 3x 4GB sticks so it would make a total of 18gb and future proof it until the intel skylake architecture is out, around 2015 I believe
I do convert videos on a regular basis so the extra ram would benefit me all round.

Collapsing space before content?

OnePostWonder — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:32:52 GMT

The only immediate example I could pull is over at Slickdeals:

Slickdeals

When you start to shrink the browser window, the margins (space) collapse before the content does. Once the window reaches the content, then the content begins to collapse. Is there any way to do this without media queries?

Fans with 4 pins

Tintai — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:04:04 GMT

Hey guys

I looking for three fans with 4 pins.
My mobo have only 4 pins connector.

Hmm, or three adapter from 3 pins to 4 pins. By is good?

Thanks

~Tintai

What company would you choose it when it comes to new motherboard?

saarxee — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:00:00 GMT

ASUS
GIGABYTE
MSI

I know usually customary to compare by model board, but now I'm talking in general - which company do you think is the best in terms of quality and reliability?
This is a discussion ...

What video cables work and what doesnt...

Geofrancis — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:11:22 GMT

with the number if people on ebay and elsewhere selling junk cables that can never work. i thought i should put together a list. im sure i have missed a few so post them and i will add to the list

*WORKS*

mini/micro versions of HDMI/VGA/DVI/display port are electricity compatible with the normal size version so an adapter cable will work.

DVI-I/D - DVI
DVI-I/D - HDMI
DVI-I/D - Display port
DVI-I/A - VGA

Display port - HDMI
Display port - DVI
Display port - VGA (with active adapter)
Display port - Display port

HDMI - DVI
HDMI - Display port
HDMI - HDMI

VGA - VGA
VGA - DVI-A

S-video - SCART
S-video - composite
S-video - component (graphics cards only)
S-video - S-video

Component - Component

SCART- S-video
SCART - SCART
SCART - Composite

**WILL NEVER WORK WITHOUT A CONVERTER**

HDMI to VGA cable
HDMI to Composite cable
HDMI to component cable
HDMI to S-video cable
HDMI to SCART cable

VGA to component cable
VGA to composite cable
VGA to S-video cable
VGA to HDMI cable
VGA to DVI-D/I cable

Component to VGA cable
Component to Composite cable
Component to DVI cable
Component to HDMI cable
Component to display port cable

if you need to connect 2 incompatible connectors then you will need an active adapter these are little boxes that have a chip inside that converts from one display technology to another. this allows you to connect your VGA laptop to an HDMI port etc