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Read this first! Threads that may help you!
This sticky has links to threads that fellow forum members have constructed and other members feel should receive special attention for their good informational content. As new threads are deemed to be “sticky-worthy” they will be added. Feel free to post in any of the threads below that others have spent a lot of time crafting to help others.
Hardware-specific threads: AMD Bulldozer Reviews, News and Views Watt’s up Doc? Power Supply Basics Benchmarking your computer Post the crazy mistakes you've made with computer parts and possibly win a build-it-yourself PSU kit! Keeping your computer temperatures low: Water Cooling How to set variable video card fan speed. Complete [Guide] Operating system and other informative threads related to protecting/tweaking/troubleshooting your computer: Windows 8 Discussion thread *ALL THREADS MERGE HERE* Security software member's poll for Windows Tutorial on examining BSODs Windows 7 Information Considering Linux? Look here! qUiCkSiLvEr's Toolkit Overclocking threads: CPU overclocking guide Post your CPU overclocking results Show off your computer for others to see: Steam Members' Computer Database with specifications Rate my computer Show off your computer’s wire management Show us your computer with pictures If you like a thread that a fellow forum member creates, please make sure to use the "rate this thread" feature. Last edited by rotNdude: 03-02-2012 at 09:51 AM. Reason: added Win8 thread |
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12-01-2007, 10:10 AM
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Hardware Resources
Originally posted by treverp Daily Reviews Do your computer some good and get firefox a good alternative to ff is Opera Also download CCleaner because it really cleans stuff off of your comp that you don't need... i saved like 5 gigs off of my 1st clean A great place to download patches and demos from is Gamers Hell - it has fast dl Hardware Reviews and News: Anandtech Xbit Labs Hardocp Hardware Zone Legit Reviews Dev Hardware Tom's Hardware (i know but i put it there for kicks  )cnet Hardware Analysis Overclockers Club Extreme Overclocking Overclock Ocia Overclockers UK Dabs Gideon Tech Overclockers Silent Pc Review Twisted Mods Hexus Pc Perspective Extreme Mhz Extreme Tech Pimp Rig Gpu review Daily Tech The Inquirer Cyber Wizard Pit Oz Case Mods Other Good Forums: Xtreme Systems Hard Forums Anandtech Forums Bleedine Edge Bit Tech Guru3d Guides: Pc Stats Beginners Guides Buying a PC Tweak Guides Benchmarking/Stability Tools: OCCT (GPU/CPU Stability Test) Intel Burn Test (CPU Stability Test) Furmark (GPU Stress Test) KomBuster/Afterburner (GPU overclocking and stress test) Cpuz PC wizard Speed Fan Super Pi Prime95 HWMonitor GPU-Z RealTemp (Intel CPU's Only) FliudMark Speedtest test your Internet speed A good place to get skins for pc games is FPS Banana If all else fails Google It!! Please Check your spelling Diskeeper is Amazing! i have diskeeper pro and its 10x better than windows.. a lot faster defragging and does a lot better job.. Highly Recommended!! And for Spyware/Virus Help go tohere, here and here good apps for spyware/anti virus/firewall are Adaware SE personal Spybot search and destroy Windows Defender Spyware Blaster Zone Alarm - firewall Avast Microsoft Security Essentials AVG Malwarebytes Last edited by rotNdude: 05-06-2013 at 09:11 AM. Reason: added speed test for Internet |
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09-18-2009, 09:37 AM
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Purge avoidance.
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02-19-2010, 09:38 AM
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Hey rotNdude i'm having trouble visiting 3 of the links (there may be more) in the above selection. Says they don't exist and it told me to tell an admin... which took me to the support site but i thought that would be a long and convoluted process (like this message ha) so here i am.
they are: Ultimate Air Cooling The RAM guide Newer generation video cards and performance comparison Sorry if you already knew this, im just trying to learn stuff and this is the best place to do so. and its so cozy. |
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02-19-2010, 10:32 AM
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Thank you, I'll edit them out.
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06-05-2010, 06:09 AM
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Hey rotNdude, I've found a set of sites which have data taken from thousands of benchmarks of GPUs, CPUs and Hard drives which I reckon could settle a fair amount of disputes in this forum. Links underneath.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/index.php http://www.cpubenchmark.net/index.php http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/index.php Thought they might be able to be used in this thread. |
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06-19-2010, 04:59 PM
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07-14-2010, 04:36 PM
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RotNdude, you should remove www.coolprices.nl from the internet computer list as the company went bust just yesterday.
As an alternative for that there is http://www.informatique.nl/ This shop is very good in my opinion. Thanks. |
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07-14-2010, 06:30 PM
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09-25-2010, 07:03 AM
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There are some dead links. I clicked the OB fix and it loads to a thread that is missing. You should give this a once over and click all the threads and see which ones are dead.
Only 2 of the first links actually worked. |
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10-06-2010, 01:10 PM
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Rot, you should add BestDirect in the line of Canadian retailers. They have the lowest prices with free shipping on large orders. It's a really useful site with REALLY fast shipping.
A Gigabyte 5850 is $252 on BestDirect, whereas it is $280+ everywhere else (Canadian sites, and even then, a lot of them have it for over $300). Highly recommended. Last edited by Fsta-Atls: 10-06-2010 at 01:31 PM. |
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A big question is whether Steam will support storing games in different folders on different drives. Is there any word on this happening?
SSD owners are having to use a crazy workaround to play their steam games so maybe until Steam fixes the system we could get that posted in here. |
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