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It's the penguin Tawa, it's hard to take a penguin seriously unless it is a wizard, has killed somebody, has some sort of weapon, is cool, or has done something awesome.

((No offense to our resident penguins of course, you all have done something sufficiently awesome from what I have seen I think.))

RedHats assemble

Quote from: Tellemurius on July 15, 2014, 05:53:05 pm

They are cheap quality, my old one the front panel broke when i tried to remove it first time, the window was easily scratched and didn't had much room for cable management, paint scratches off like nothing. I go for a Corsair or a Cooler Master case.

How about a Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus, or Corsair SPEC-02?

Both are great brands I lean with the Cooler Master for the rebate but those are good enough. Just be forewarned those glass windows scratch easily so don't lay the computers down on that side.

Quote from: Thief^ on July 14, 2014, 03:54:11 am

That said, there are numerous third-party programs (e.g. Stardock Start8 that put a real start menu back.

I'd personally recommend Classic Shell. It's completely free, unlike Stardock, and highly configurable. You can even have the old XP-style start menu.

Its a 5 dollar software with a UI design matching Metro, you aren't breaking the bank with it.

Be aware of the tradeoffs with tablets, smaller you go the less processing power you have. I dunno if your dad complains with computer speed but even with the new Atom processors, combined with the lack of storage space and it can go downhill. Also check if he would be ok with the form factor, companies are still churning out netbooks so if the tablet is bust you can still get a decent netbook nowadays.

Oh god Thermaltake cases, their fans are quiet but the cases are complete junk >__>

Netgear gigabit card is old and expensive, advised going with the cheaper PCIE compatible Intel NIC cards.

As for your CPU upgrade theres no point going to the extreme models if you are not going for a Hexacore cpu, advise staying with at most a i7-4790K with corresponding Z97 motherboard.

Isn't it also odd that the transfer student always comes in partway through class, when everyone is already sitting down and then gets assigned a seat? Does it actually happen like this in real life?

If they are late sure, usually though the teacher will have them stand in the front and introduce their self after morning greetings.

I dunno, pirate mode seemed alot more fun than linear assassin dude.

Even with the fabrication issues, AMD pushed in Vishera with Piledriver which did fix up some of the pipeline issues but still couldn't match 32nm Sandy and their final answer was releasing those ridiculous FX-9000s that pushed their clocks upto 5Ghz with a 200w+ TDP, my brother had a 8320 and that was a space heater in his room.

For Kaveri,the 28nm fab is not core efficient. Yes the density increased but the tradeoff was that AMD kept the TDPs down, they couldn't cram another computation unit to boost the GPU or increase the clock speeds over from Richland. At least they pushed their memory controllers to run at high clocks so the GPU didn't choked much from the memory bottleneck.
Honestly, I can't wait for a Kaveri laptop, AMD can definitely kill if they can get some manufacturers behind them. It may not match up against a full i7 and dedicated graphics but definitely cheaper for the inbetween as i don't want the stupid gutted ULVs or the pricey full processors+dedicated graphics.

Ever since Intel jumped to 22nm OCing spits out alot more heat and didn't help that they used a cheap TPM that made it very hard to push over 4GHz with the Ivys and Haswell (Devils Canyon doesn't count cause it was catered to the OC people). With Broadwell and the future Intel is just going to continue working on the graphics and small improvements. AMD will continue with the APU for the graphics and security along with hopefully a vastly better architecture reveal for next year.