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Hi Sup Forumsentoo

I'm a bit new to this RAM business, but I want to upgrade my desktop from 1600MHz to 2133MHz DDR3, to try and make my OC'd i5 2500k last a bit longer.
My mobo is GA-P67A-UD3 and I've narrowed the ram down to these:
F3-2133C11D-16GXL
F3-2400C11D-16GAB

Both are pretty much the same price, but I am not sure which one would be better for me. Please advise

Why would a thread reaching a bump limit warrant a new thread?
Doesn't the thread allow for a lot more posts and images, even if it isn't getting bumped?

sqt already runs a high risk of have multiple concurrent threads going, letting it fall to higher page numbers would increase that risk, i'd imagine

One is faster and costs a dollar more
Your motherboard only supports up to 2133 so it doesn't really matter.

I should add that there is not really going to be a significant difference going from 1600 to 2133, you're better off just going for more total RAM.

Best method to rip Chaturbate live shows without the need to keep the broadcast open?

What systems do I need to learn to work for datacenters or anything server side? e.g. A couple of them are mysql, mssql (i imagine microsoft has a heavy presence here), powershell, python, perl, bash, debian and windows server. Anything else?

probably rtmpdump

Sometimes when my internet is acting dumb I lose a few segments due poor speeds. Irritating. Any possible way to avoid skipping segments ?

get to know iDRAC / ESXi / Managed switches

Each board has different specific limits, on Sup Forums if you get 300 'bumps' in the form of non-consecutive posts, the thread becomes un-bumpable and falls till it hits page 11 and dies

When will the defcon 24 talks be available?
Is there somewhere I can get them now?

Get a better connection or hack into their servers

You might be able to OC your existing ram

>480 Nitro+ OC 8192MB
>£249.95

>480 Nitro+ 8192MB
>£239.99

What's the difference, £10 for just extra 36MHz doesn't seem justifiable

Most likely a better binned chip and can OC further than that

It's normal for manufacturers to release slightly improved versions of cards. Sometimes they'll throw in other minor improvements, sometimes it's pretty much just the degree to which it's OC'd. There's a general assumption that the higher end cards are better binned and therefor might have more overclock potential, but there's no guarentee

Yea figured the 2400MHz will be under clocked

This (eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-is-it-finally-time-to-upgrade-your-core-i5-2500k) is why I'm wanting to spend like 100AUD to get better performance on my 2500k, rather then going and getting a new system.

From what I recall I have like budget Kingston ram, don't think it will OC that well to 2133MHz

How do "remember password" things work? Like for Steam and games and shit.

It just has to store the password in plaintext, doesn't it? Or is there something less retarded that I couldn't think of?

Browsers usually do plain text
I don't know what steam does

Do smartphone LCDs use PWM?

Dp doesnt work on my vg248qe monitor. My GPU is gtx980ti. DVI works fine. I also tried unplugging and replugging after waiting 1 minute.

What's the most expensive CPU there would ever be a reason to buy for strictly gaming purposes?

6700k

How else would you even do it though?

I think FF actually encrypts them like a password manager if you use a master key, but without making you put in a key it's got to just store it in plaintext, right?

How many cores should I have? I'm thinking 6 just because >2016

Plan on taking it with me to college in tandem with a thinkpad.

I want something for rendering video projects, not gaming shit, but actual footage. I will be using windows for this purpose, my thinkpad runs arch.

I don't want to spend too much because I will likely be getting some tech for free from the university to dabble with or my job, but not for personal use.

I need a half decent tablet for the folks to netflix screencast and watch football on. preferably not too expensive (

For such purpose, just get any tablet in that price range and you'll be good.

You just described several sub $200 tablets.

did i? great. which ones should i look at?

My pc with windows 8.1 it's fast and everything but when i look at the background processes i see a lot of stuff and i have no clue what it's doing. How do I go about cleaning it?
>inb4 install gentoo

Any of them.

thanks

If you're looking for a Facebook machine laptop for under $700, let me know.

i'm not. due to limitations of football streaming in 'straya, has to be a tablet. also shit like netflix/chromecast is easier for old people on a tablet.

Should I be worried if the stock cooler on an i5 4460 sounds like it's about to take off when playing some stuff like Doom?

thanks famalam

That's normal, you might want to check the temps though

CPU is reaching 65C, GPU is reaching 80.

Does gmail app for android not support push? I look at the settings and I can only find sync intervals.

CPU is good, GPU is at the high end of normal but still okay.

Should I be worried about the NSA stealing my fingerprints if I buy a new phone with a scanner? What new phones don't have scanners and aren't shit?

how could i possible sell this piece of shit... its supposedly worth something?

If you're worried about that, you should reconsider buying a brand new phone.
Get an old model and a newish battery

so im getting my pc next week told them to build it since it was free and didnt want to fuck up.
what other shit comes in the boxes other than the manual and the part itself? Like if they just give me the pc should i ask for anything extra that was in the box?

My old android is getting to the point where applications are saying they're incompatible because the version is so old.

You're paying someone to build a pc for you? Generally you have a few extra cables and screws, some stickers.

Hey guys,so i want to use my external HDD for my fileserver and im currently using Raspbian on my Raspberry Pi Revision 2 Modell B. Problem is my external hdd needs to much power. How do i solve this problem?

powered usb hub

Have you tried external power?

no im not i thought i was but it was free so why the hell not

I installed an anti-cheat that is generally intrusive (gives list of files in HDD, screenshots your PC when the game is open, etc) and it's a driver (you could even mistake this for a rootkit..)
Should I reinstall Windows? I've uninstalled it but I'm not 100% sure if there's anything left

Any good tutorial on encoding on h265?
Also any way to hardware accelerate it?

Have been out of web dev for a while. Is MySQL still the standard?

i'm trying to install fedora on fresh drives but i keep getting the error
>no valid boot loader target device found...
>you must include an efi system partition on a gpt formatted disk, mounted at /boot/efi

i made a fat32 partition labelled as efi in gparted and set the mount point on the installation but i always seem to get this error

can anyone help me out?

also i've tried ticking the reformat option for efi on fedora and also tried leaving it unticked
neither work

What's a better value right now? The RX 470 for about $250-300 Canadian, or the 1060 for $350-400.

Are AMD drivers still trash in Linux?

I'm guessing MSi/Saphire are the best brands for AMD and EVGA/Asus are the best of Nvidia. Is that correct?

Are Zotac and PNY trash?

i know a place where you can get free software for free

I get 144hz, I can see the 144hz.
This applies to in-game. (Sorry, it's a bit non tech, but still)

I'd touched my BIOS settings (like a big retard) for iGPU, after adding 2 monitors to my setup. I thought I knew what I was doing, but I guess I didn't.

Long story short, the default it was on (244mb or something) causes it to crash when I set it back. (to stock)
I have it on 1024, tried 512, but there's a very slightly unsettling issue. I'm unsure if it's related to me messing about with the iGPU.

My videos.
I record a lot of gameplay videos, and they've been at 60fps, smooth, (720p - but that doesn't matter) and I can TELL they're 60fps when I watch them back.
I watch a file from a while ago, and they look different. They've got a stutter-steppiness to them. Oh, not very blatant, just a subtle... un-gracefulness. I'm not sure if others would be able to tell, but it's pretty apparent to me after editing all my videos and all, and then re-watching them in this odd way. It's not pleasant, to say the least.

It happens with all videos - that are 60fps, I'm sure I've felt a bit of uneasiness watching regular 30fps, or any other videos on this machine since the BIOS touch.

As of right now, I've got only the single 144hz monitor hooked up. The other monitors aren't even anywhere near my computer right now. I checked all settings - and heck, would it really be that?
When I'm in-game: smooth, 144, crisp. On my desktop? My mouse looks smooth. The 144hz smoothness.

I just don't get it. Setting lower than 512mb iGPU crashes my display (sound keeps going, oddly) or I bluescreen.

Please help.

pretty much, though have a look into MariaDB as well

Is there any good music library management software out there, similar to how excellent Calibre is for ebooks?

How much would a 1080 be over an r9 290?
Would my 3570k become a bottleneck?
Please respond.

does the sapphire fury nitro fit in a corsair c70 case?

So I want to make a GPU passthrough to play muh games in a KVM. Since my CPU has onboard graphics I thought I wouldn't need a secondary GPU; but I have no idea how to enable intel HD graphics... Here's the output of lspci | grep VGA :
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cayman PRO [Radeon HD 6950]

around 150%, but it depends on what you compare.
bottlenecking depends on what you are running and how much of a cpu bottleneck it already is.
most of the time it won't.

I'm running a 3570k on a 980ti and the only CPU bottleneck is with MMOs in dense player areas

How do I make this stupid shit stop popping up?

In most browser the 4chinz website behaves a bit strange. When I press on post replies it just to that part of the thread I stead of just drawing the message right next to the reply link.

Does this make sense? It makes it harder to browse when it automatically scrolls throughout the whole thread.

what? I don't understand you.

The "No." part links to the post, the number should put it into the reply textarea.

No not the "No." part. I mean the links that are created when people reply to your post.

When I press on them the browser scrolls down to the response, instead of just drawing a box with the response right next to the link. I hope this makes more sense.

Pic related, that's how I always want it to behave.

okay I understand.
do you have "Inline quote links" enabled in the settings?
are you running 4chanx or just the default scripts?

in BIOS there is an option for primary VGA card, check if that works out for ya.

Thanks senpai that did the trick. I did mess around with the settings but must have missed that one.

Since yesterday I see an unknown new local drive in J:.
If I try to open it I get info that I do not have the rights to access it.
It is 300 mb big and has 250 mb free space.
I did not change anything significantly with my PC, what could be the reason for this?

go into disk management, does status say something about efi-system or recovery?
it might have gotten mounted by accident.
you can right click on it and remove the drive letter

Firefox just updated and it doesn't allow unsigned addons anymore and the about:config option is gone. Is there some super secret method I can use to make them work again?

no, they disabled all of those workarounds.
I had to signup on their addon page and sign all mine. you can do that without making it public and just get them signed.

It is not being shown in disk management.

anyone?
should i just go with debian instead?

do you have a card reader and changed into developer mode?
there's an option to hide/show unused drives like cardreaders without a card inside.

Can I increase UI size for vlc/mpc in winblows 10? Using touch screen and the seekbar is fucken tiny.

seems like gparted doesn't know GPT, try fdisk change the partition table to GPT.
unix.stackexchange.com/a/190145

What would be the best solution for consolidating, archiving, and allowing remote access to all of my reaction images? NAS and SSH tunneling?

anyone?

my pc whirrs loudly whenever I play WoW lately. is 120 celsius a lot? or am I just overreacting

trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.265

If your GPU supports encoding you can use that too with nvenc for example.
I think the GTX 960 was the first to ship with a h265 encoder.
trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro

I want to root my phone, what is the best way of doing so now? It's a Galaxy S6.

>is 120 celsius a lot?

What good relatively-cheap 500gb+ HDD would you recommend for storing media?

Need an android application that will let me record my phone calls. Any reccomendations?

I don't know user, is hotter than boiling water hot?

I have an X220 with an external mini PCIe slot.
I want to plug a dedicated GPU into there, I know I need an adapter but I don't know what to look for.
What do I buy?

Also, I need to be able to pass through the external GPU to a virtual machine, is that possible with mini PCI and an adaptor?

I got a corsair carbide 400r case. Should I get some extra fans or are the three fans included with the case sufficient ? (I bought an i7, a gtx1070, a HDD, a SSD and 8 go RAM)

How many watts idle does a 1060 gtx use?
And how many watts idle does a r9 470 use?

Is cheap speaker wire good enough or is there an appreciable difference with higher quality stuff?

whats the best way to back up my porn collection I was thinking make a script that encrypts and git pushes to a private github repo - or should I just dump them onto spankbang?

there's no 470, but it's probably around the same.

WD caviar green/blue?

>Backing up porn

I buy obscure shit off manyvid, I know I'm a cuck for paying for porn