Random Question Thread: Tech

[Eaglestrike]

USB ports are functional and it can play games and stuff, but no access to a flash drive.

[Isiolia]

Pull his HDD and put it in your machine, copy files over?

[Salodin]

In the market for a new HDD. I want to stay under 100 dollars, but want 1TB+. There's a deal on newegg for some HDD, but the reviews put me off a little bit...

Any one have any recommended HDDs?

[Isiolia]

WD Black series.

[orinthia]

What do you guys use to get out rounded screws? Friend has a laptop where he tried to unscrew a screw but was turning the wrong way and rounded the hell out of it while tightening it... I'm thinking of maybe trying a drill with a tiny bit or something but I wanted to know if any of y'all dealt with a similar problem. It's actually the screw holding the cd drive in place so there's just a smidge of room around it; don't have a dremel.

[Senji]

In the market for a new HDD. I want to stay under 100 dollars, but want 1TB+. There's a deal on newegg for some HDD, but the reviews put me off a little bit...

Any one have any recommended HDDs?

WD black, Seagate barracuda .12, Samsung spinpoint

What do you guys use to get out rounded screws? Friend has a laptop where he tried to unscrew a screw but was turning the wrong way and rounded the hell out of it while tightening it... I'm thinking of maybe trying a drill with a tiny bit or something but I wanted to know if any of y'all dealt with a similar problem. It's actually the screw holding the cd drive in place so there's just a smidge of room around it; don't have a dremel.

EZ Outs are what you use.

[Salodin]

Thanks, the spinpoint looks great.

Now for a video card. Looking to spend around 100 dollars, + or - a little bit if it means getting more bang for your buck. I obviously don't want any thing cutting edge, since the rest of my system will bottle cap it, and I'm not upgrading the rest of my system for quite some time so I don't wanna drop money on a vid card that will be out dated by the time I get around to it. I currently have an HD 2600xt for reference.

[Isiolia]

You can probably find a good deal on a 5770 now, $90 or so after rebate. AMD recently replaced it with the 6770, which other than a tweaked bios for blu-ray playback is the same card, only $20-30 more.

[Ragnell]

Looking for a new gaming headset that is NOT creative, I barely bent the thing and the fucking mic broke :/



Any suggestions?

I email them and they said the limited warranty isnt covered by this shit

[Zeb]

PC or console?

If it's PC then http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD5...7636948&sr=8-1 & http://www.amazon.com/Zalman-Microph..._bxgy_e_text_b

[Ragnell]

pc oh oh god thats expensive, anything under 70?

[Kerberoz]

You're not going to find a halfway decent pair cheaper than those Sennheisers.

And yeah, don't bother with headsets. Just get a cheap separate mic.

[Ragnell]

:< kk

[Caiyuo]

a) put a shirt on

b) while they're on topic, does the trick with the Senn 555s that always gets mentioned with removing the foam inside void the warranty? I was worried about that after Correction made a thread about his 595s taking a shit which are supposedly what the 555s are without the foam.

[Overburn]

Does anybody know a setting that would effect the speed at which my computer scrolls when using a mouse?

I ran a virus scanner tonight and it prompted me to delete two things and after I restarted my computer out of safe mode, the scroll speed on firefox, chrome and window's picture viewer (and I assume others, but I haven't tested too much) have been increased drastically. It's to the point that if I have an image at the standard (75%?) view and do one scroll with the wheel, the image is capped at the maximum zoom. All of my googling has found is the ability to change firefox's individual response, but that only really solved a part of the issue.

[Isiolia]

Does anybody know a setting that would effect the speed at which my computer scrolls when using a mouse?

I ran a virus scanner tonight and it prompted me to delete two things and after I restarted my computer out of safe mode, the scroll speed on firefox, chrome and window's picture viewer (and I assume others, but I haven't tested too much) have been increased drastically. It's to the point that if I have an image at the standard (75%?) view and do one scroll with the wheel, the image is capped at the maximum zoom. All of my googling has found is the ability to change firefox's individual response, but that only really solved a part of the issue.

Control Panel -> Mouse -> Wheel tab? Or is it not appearing for some reason, or not changing it?

[Overburn]

Control Panel -> Mouse -> Wheel tab? Or is it not appearing for some reason, or not changing it?

That wasn't working earlier, but it seems to have fixed itself randomly. Turned my computer back on and scrolling was back to normal.

[Fluid]

I could use some advice on picking a DLNA server app. I've tried Tversity, Allshare, Wild Media and a few others - but I've found that they usually take an eternity to index my media and I'd like something that has decent codec support and can pick up on new files relatively quickly without insisting on a full re-index of my 3TB every time.

Any suggestions?

[Callisto]

Posted a gaming graphics question in the Portal 2 thread but no bites, figured I'd give a shot here:

Firing up the PC version for the first time...this is pretty much the first 3D game that isn't 5+ years old I've played on this machine, and I'm kinda new to things like CSAA/filtering modes/vertical sync settings. Can anyone detail what would be considered 'max' settings for this game?

[Cephius]

Posted a gaming graphics question in the Portal 2 thread but no bites, figured I'd give a shot here:

If you click on the respective graphics settings the game will actually tell you what they do. But in short: 16XAA, Anisotropic 4x, Triple buffer, everything else set to enabled or v.high/high