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Re: How many computers do you own?

Posted on 2017-08-28, 22:38

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I more or less have the same five PCs I have had for many years now: 1. Windows 10/XP box for [10] main office/business usage, legacy WoW, GOG, and [XP] old XP games. Phenom X4 and GTX560Ti 2. Windows Vista 64/XP box for my photos and video processing. Phenom X6, HD4850 3. Windows 98 box with an …

Re: What was the first game you played (and on what system?)

Posted on 2017-08-28, 22:18

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Pretty sure it would be Space Invaders in a Taito coin-operated cabinet in my college common room. 1979? Followed shortly after by Asteroids, Defender, Pleiades, Phoenix and a side-scrolling game with a rocket going through tunnels that I cannot remember the name of. All coin-operated machines in …

Re: Casing a heat sink mount.

Posted on 2017-08-09, 16:36

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What is the function of the mount in this case? A place for bolts to go through? A face for the gpu chip [in which case: are there fine tolerances here]? A spacer betwwen heat sink and pcb? Is it just one side needed or both? Would be interested to sdee how you do it.

Re: How reliable compact flash is?

Posted on 2017-07-23, 08:48

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not had a problem with CF but then I don't use my cards much, photography or otherwise. With SD I think I've only had problems with corrupted files using a Sigma camera which produces 46mb files and takes ages to clear the buffer [writing to disk]. Pretty sure my corrupted files are down to me not …

Re: What is a 'physical' CPU?

Posted on 2017-07-11, 08:42

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Maybe the marketing team wanted the message simplified so people got the gist of the argument ; not everything needs to be taken absolutely literally all of the time; ought to be reasonably obvious what they mean.

Re: A lesson to any would be game devs

Posted on 2017-05-25, 10:41

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I gave up on Fallen London because of this kind of thing. You play for free, but only up to a point beyond which you more or less have to pay for tokens to progress in any sensible timeframe. IIRC anyway. Not worth it for such a casual game.

Re: Windows 10 and Windows 7

Posted on 2017-05-21, 09:42

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It seems to me like I keep hearing stories about disastrous Windows 10 updates (the "Anniversary Update" is the big one that comes to mind) that turn up unexpectedly and take ages to install before breaking everything. I had to do a fresh install on one box to get Win10 updates working; it was 1607 …

Re: Windows 10 and Windows 7

Posted on 2017-05-19, 21:35

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Windows 10 to my mind is much cleaner and simpler, much easier to use; in some respects it feels somewhat like a return to XP, whereas 7 was in retrospect a bit of a clunky aberration. I don't see why you'd want both 7 and 10 unless you have some specific reason to do so [in which case you'd already …

Re: AMD drops the mic

Posted on 2017-05-18, 08:37

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Sure, and i question whether all that many new servers will be required for VMs running 32 bit let alone 16 bit operating systems. Btw i dont have an info source, i make it up as i go along.

Re: AMD drops the mic

Posted on 2017-05-18, 06:57

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Backwards compatibility to 32 bit OS [when there seems an easy workaround anyway] doesn't sound like a deal-breaker for power users which are presumably where the money mostly lies.

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