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what is the best technology to catch flies with?

Hows this for a mITX build? Anything to change?

Get an Rx 480 instead, it's shitting on nvidia cards in DX12 and 8GB version is only $239 and VR ready (async compute).

Don't do this.

Agreed. I'm buying an RX480 but fuck, it does not replace a GTX980.

Also,
>DX12
For the what, 3 games that use it? By the time DX12 is relevant the RX480 will be irrelevant.
>VR Ready
Somehow I don't think this really helps anyone.

Spray sugar on a puddle of glue. How you make that happen is up to you.

Go for a 600W minimum if you're running a 980.

Otherwise, hey, pretty good. I give it a thumbs up, though I'm iffy on the HDD.

Don't do this.
A 980 for $250 is a fucking steal, and comfortably beats the 480 in everything but the one DX12 game.

Why are you buying a Z170 MoBo when your processor isn't unlocked? Go for H170 instead and save some money. Also the stock CPU cooler should be fine and comes with thermal paste anyway.

You can also save money and go for 2133MHz DDR4.

You can spend the money you've saved on a 250GB SSD.

Nvidia shill in full force today huh?

>For the what, 3 games that use it? By the time DX12 is relevant the RX480 will be irrelevant.
It will be more relevant than ever, that async compute is the reason why nvidia cards are so dogshit in DX12, they don't have it.

>>VR Ready
>Somehow I don't think this really helps anyone.
You don't want to be able to go into a virtual world with flopping tiddies in your face or be a fucking spaceship fighter pilot? Why even own a graphics card at all mr.nofun?

>A 980 for $250 is a fucking steal, and comfortably beats the 480 in everything but the one DX12 game.
A.) most likely only 4GB of vRAM which is shit for VR
B.) has no async compute support which matters in VR and DX12 which are fast becoming popular
C.) It's actually $250, used, and $20 nore expensive than the 8GB vRAM Rx 480.
D.) Holy shit, how much is nvidia paying you?

thanks for the input rajeesh

decent free software for making .webm ?

a) No it isn't.
b) Who cares about DX12, if he cared about DX12 he'd wait for the 490.
c) So? It's more than $20 better.
d) I bought a 480 myself.

NO-ONE CARES ABOUT DX12

YET

At least a new rx 480 has a warranty, also wait for aftermarket ones

FFmpeg

You missed the point entirely. By the time DX12 is a regular thing in video games, the RX480's performance will get you, at best, high or medium-high settings.

VR is great and all but just like 3D, most people aren't terribly interested in it. And if they are, an RX480 is probably the baseline and it'd be wiser to wait for an RX490.

What's the recommended anti virus software these days?

I'm using Win10.

VR is a gimmick. Quit pretending that people care about it.

I hate nvidia and cannot think of a circumstance that would cause me to buy one of their cards, but if VR is your only argument you need to stop.

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VR is a meme.

It's literally going to turn out the same as 3D tv. Stop trying to make it happen.

why do gpu fags have to hijack this thread? 50% of the catalogue is already amd vs nvidia, why take over the sqt?

So you're gonna ignore the fact that 2 Rx 480 cards in crossfire shit on the 1080 in many DX12 games and VR games for less than 1080. And the fact that drivers have improved greatly for crossfire?

k

>Recommending crossfire ever

Microstutter. Incompatible games. Poor scaling.

Also you seem pretty dead set on DX12 and VR like they actually matter. How many of the top 100 games on Steam are VR or DX12 ready? Of the games at E3 2016?

Are XFX videocards better than Gigabyte's windforce ones? I am planning to get a 390 since they are currently on sale where I live and cheaper than the 970s.

How should I go about organizing and tagging the thousands of images I've downloaded from god knows how many places?

Why in god's name would do you consider VR to be a meme? This shit is the fucking future. I know it's still gimmiky right bow but it's getting better and cheaper.

If it was just a gimmick then why would phone and console manufacturers jump on the hype bandwagon?

The only real thing holding PC VR is the price tag but every year it becomes cheaper. I mean right now the headset and and a i5 + Rx 480 PC build only cost ~$1,200 altogether.

I estimate the Oculus rift will go on sale for ~$300 on black friday or christmas. Will you still believe VR to be a meme when millions of units are bought then?

All those issues have either been fixed or heavily suppressed with recent drivers.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_12_support

So i want a new graphics card.

I currently have a GTX 760 and an i5-4670K.
Would i be ok just upgrading the card to say a RX 480 or would my processor be too much of a bottle neck?

>Why in god's name would do you consider VR to be a meme?
Because it's being hyped to shit with a very low adoption rate in the consumer market.

>This shit is the fucking future. I know its still gimmiky right bow but its getting better and cheaper.
That's what they said about 3D.

>If it was just a gimmick then why would phone and console manufacturers jump on the hype bandwagon?
Because memes move products. They have the mistaken belief that being "VR ready" is the most important thing.

>The only real thing holding PC VR is the price tag
No, the thing holding it back is how little of a shit people give. Look at all the people buying 1080s and 1070s instead of an RX480 and VR set. Its not that people can't afford it, it's that they don't /care/ to afford it.

>Will you still believe VR to be a meme when millions of units are bought then?
Will I still believe VR to be a meme when 15,000 units are sold on a massive sale?

Yes. Yes I will. And so will everyone else on this board.

Go back to jacking off to your waifu in VR.

Fixing some old tablet, there is no launcher installed whatsoever so only thing I can enter is setting menu.
How can I install launcher if I can't open browser, playstore or any app?

Upgrade to Rx 480 is perfect, no the i5 will not bottleneck it.

Your processor wouldn't bottleneck a pair of 1080s in SLI. You're fine.

So let's go through that list, yeah?

>Games with DX12 support
Probably 5 worthwhile ones, tops.
>Games upcoming with DX12 support
3-5.

So, of those ten games, which are going to be a realistic selling point?
>Battlefield 1
>Dude Sex
>Maybe Watch Dogs 2, but probably not
>TW: Warhammer

Those are the games that realistically might convince people "DX12 will help"

So now we're down to 4 games, as opposed to the literally tens of thousands of other games that the 980 will outperform the RX480 in. The Witcher 3, Fallout 4, Overwatch, and a few other popular games are going to be what most people judge a card's performance off of, regardless of whether or not it's a good indicator of performance and a fair benchmark.

I'm all for the RX480 - I'm getting one once the non-reference cards are out - but fuck man, it's not for everyone.

Can you load up TWRP Recovery on it? If so, you can sideload the APK.

Is it possible to install Arch onto a partition. I'm fairly certain you can from what I've read, but I really don't want to fuck up my 2 TB drive. I've set aside a 100 gb partition on my D drive for Arch that I was going to install it onto. Can I install it there, or will I have to go buy another hard drive?

thank you, I forgot that I can simply adb install NAME.apk
I am just dumb

Alternatively, factory restore from the settings menu.

Yeah, of course. Just make sure to install GRUB or another boot manager so you can select between boot OSes. Worst comes to worst, you'll have to restore the Windows boot manager.

fixed it now but I tried that and it did nothing, my guess is that nova was installed and stock launcher was deleted, and for some reason stock launcher apk wasn't saved in memory.. chink tablets am I right

I'm looking for a router that costs around $50 and will be better than my current crappy wireless G router. I'm also wondering how easy it will be to install, as I have frontier Internet. Will there need to be anything else done besides connecting and setting it up to work? I don't want to spend 10 years on the phone with my ISP

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S7 and when I put an 02 (network provider) shortcut on my homescreen for some reason it deletes itself every time I restart the phone. Anyone know how I can stop that please?

I was testing my power supply and mucking around in my PC and I unplugged my HDD. When I went to reboot, I got into the computer and realized I forgot to plug my HDD back in (I boot off a small SSD)

So I turned off the PC and plugged my HDD back in, and hit the power button, but nothing happened. Literally nothing, does not even make a sound or show any lights.

When I unplugged it again, it booted fine. But at the log in screen, it bluescreened. So I rebooted, went into BIOS, selected the SSD, and now it's working fine again.

But I need that hard drive. Anyone know what my problem might be? The HDD has no OS on it so idk why my computer wont boot with it plugged in. Maybe it thinks it's the boot drive?

when I power on my supermicro x8dtl board, it takes about 10-15 seconds before the video comes on and the board starts POSTing. is this normal, or can I fix it with a BIOS update?

So I accidently disconnected my facebook account from my Spotify, but now I can't log in and google tells me I have to reactivate spotify on facebook. How do I do that?

Is Gigabyte good for gfx cards?

Update: Had to make a new account with that facebook, but now my playlists and subscription is gone.

Take this as a warning (I know you guys have warned me about spotify before but I was dumb), fellow Sup Forumseeks

can pcie mini power a gt610 ?
obviously using an adapter, but i have no idea if a pcie mini bus has enough power for the gpu

So my mom unplugged the USB Key while deleting files because it was "Stuck in a unending loop" Here's the result.

Anyone got any idea if it's recoverable? Or should I just Microwave it.

Deciding between GTX 970 and RX 480.
I'm in Sweden where the GTX 970 is about 50$ cheaper. Also based on past experience i prefer Nvidia (especially the drivers)
Which should i buy?

it's dead, sorry. never ever remove flash storage while data is being transferred. tell your mom to use the safe eject feature next time.

yes.

Went looking for a qtddtot and this appears to be it. How do I go about getting a "totally legit" copy of windows for free? I have bootcamp on my mac but i have a few games i also like that are pc exclusive.

Your data might be gone, but try running fsck on it anyway. The drive is unlikely to be dead though, you can almost certainly write a new partition table on it and it should be good to go.

If it helps I'm from /k/ so I'm more mechanically literate than computer literate.

I don't have Linux.

Well damn.

I dont understand Software-defined networking. Tried reading wiki, still nothing. please explain SDN. Thx

Is there any way to make my GPU stop prioritizing HDMI output over DVI during boot up, short of disconnecting it

run testdisk/photorec

What vpn does Sup Forums usually use?

Intel i5-4570 X4 3.2GHz
AMD 7950 3GB
12GB Mixed RAM
750W Corsair PSU

Should I upgrade my GPU or sell this computer and build a new one?

If I do the former, thinking of getting a 970 (or 1070) if available). If I do the latter, I'd upgrade the cpu to an i7. I do lots of video editing and gaymen and want to switch to Nvdia for shadowplay.

inb4
>just use amd's shadow equivalent!
It's fucking trash. OBS works well but not for every game.

kek im sitting on intel i3 & hd 6870, im neither complaining nor upgrading shit

I care.

Which media streaming?

Roku 3 is basically dead, now force to look at replacement for non-techy parents. They like Netflix, Amazon and dad has now found the wonders of YouTube (God help me).

I like the simple UI of Roku as it keeps them from messing things up, but we just lost our second one and replace a hundred dollar units every 3 years is very upsetting given it is a glorified data relay computer. Mom no longer trusts Roku as the first only lasted a few years and the second was glitchy for the years it worked, but trust my judgement if I push it. Dad is a big Apple fan, as he still sadly thinks they can't get viruses. So Apple TV seems like a sensible option, but I haven't gotten to do much research and am on a tight schedule to figure this out. Not really wanting to mess with the "smart" features the TV and Blu-ray player have given how lost my parents are with these matters.

>It's fucking trash
Will AMD never stop lagging on the software side of things
Like, their hardware is always capable enough but drivers and shit like this are always an issue

What resources are there to learn about AI or ML, with regards to Python?

I have very basic knowledge of python, and programming languages in general.

What's the best graphics card that can serve as both a good platform for PC gaming and as a space heater?

390X

Unlike nvidia who seems to be ontop of their software game making sure their latest gen gets gimped out the ass by "accident"

Since skylake-e is supposed to come in Q2 shouldn't it be anounced soon? Kind of holding out on buying a pc since 2011-3 is old as dirt.

Which one would you recommend if I'm doing both Win10 and Arch? Or does it not really matter?

Okay so I have this physics program for a class im taking, but it only opens up in full screen. You cant alt tab out of it or anything. Is their anyway to move it too a second monitor and make it so it always opens up there? I know you usually can drag windows to the other monitor but there is no option to put it in anything but full screen so I cant do that.

Q3*

I want to pick up a mouse mat, what the fuck am I looking for?

Material, thickness and size mainly.
Keep in mind that some mice do possess surface calibration.

I need a GPU, I guess...

I have 270x right now, and I wanted to upgrade it. I was waiting patiently for rx 480 but its not THAT great, sadly I have only 1500 shekels in my currency, its around 370USD // 340EUR // 280Pound.

Which GPU should I get, is the only option 480?

New monitor.

What's the absolute cheapest 144hz monitor I can get? I have 60hz one and I want to upgrade but Im short on cash. After some googling I found these 3 models that might be good enough for not that much.

From cheapest:
AOC G2460PF
ASUS LED VG248QE
BenQ XL2411Z

Any ideas?

run it in a VM

I don't know if this goes here, but do anyone of you fellow anons know a good way to make a discardable and mostly untraceable e-mail address?

also most mouse pads are composed of two layers, make sure you get something that's not gonna separate on you

mailinator
hushmail

Neither of these responses were helpful.

Is it alright if the USB 3.0 connector isn't exactly perpendicular to the motherboard header? Would it hurt anything? My motherboard has a 90° header but I have to do some cable gymnastics through the drive bay to get that in.

anybody?

what's a good console monospace font that supports vaporwave filenames and also has clear O/0/o and I/l/1 differentiation?

Trying to install windows in uefi system but cannot boot because it cannot find efi bootloader. What do?

You mean if it isn't plugged in all the way? Worst case is that the contact on the power pins is bad causing it to overheat, melt, and cause a short.

>Why in god's name would do you consider VR to be a meme? This shit is the fucking future.

VR is completely unnecessary. For people who neither play videos games nor watch VR porn, it's a worthless gimmick.

>nor watch VR porn
Now I haven't watched VR porn but I sure as hell wouldn't mind

Get one from a r T c o w they are like a dollar

Its an entertainment device, saying its a gimmick if you don't play video games is like calling a television a gimmick if you don't watch tv shows.

It's plugged in all the way, just the connector leans over to where I routed it behind the motherboard tray.

UHD worth it? Something between 23-26 inches. My ass is no more than a meter away.
I've heard there's still not much 4k content around and i doubt my 3.5 meme will handle gayms of that magnitude. Not that i play much anyway.

Fresh install or you're trying to dual boot? Did you install and it doesn't boot or you can't even get the installer to run?

HOLY SHIT. I was just going to ask this question myself, out of desperation (thought there would be no one else having this problem in Sup Forums, since I assume everyone else lives in civilized countries and not out there in the countryside).

I've had this problem for years, flies keep pestering me / my computer screen. At this point, I just fucking lost my mind already and I just smash them on the computer screen with my bare fingers.

Does anyone know something that I could use that can distract flies from my computer screen? Like they can even live for all I care, as long as they're all buzzin and flying somewhere else in the room.

FYI, I already have a net on my window yet they keep getting through that somehow (no holes in it) and I constantly fill my room with anti-bug spray, hoping that they all choke to death if they fly in there (I breath it in too, I don't care, I might as well die from cancer as long as I'm taking the flies with me).

So its putting extra stress on the port, that may cause an issue at some point in the future but it depends on how bad it is.

At that size and with a 970, no.

get this anti-fly device

It's maximum 3°-5°.

This thing maybe? I've seen fly traps you can hang from a ceiling, look like strip of cellotape, attracted flies stick to them.

Can you just take a hard drive (boot drive) out of a computer and stick it in another one and it work fine? My computer is from 2006 and I'd like to build a new one but I don't want to have to transfer over ~3TB worth of stuff.