Everything posted by Sbrideau
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Testing My Motherboard...
Why XP? It's such an old and primitive OS.
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new psu
Doesn't mean every card is bad, just that I've seen too many of them.
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Reveal Confessions, Secrets & Regrets...
No one ever showed me how to make capital letters in cursive and I'm too lazy to learn that by myself.
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R.A.T. 5 vs G9X?
Logitech Laser mice also works on any surface, I know I tried myself.
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Which GPS is better?
In my case, I know that where I live TomTom has a big reputationfor being good, but apparently the Garmins surpassed them. I own a Garmin nuvi and it's awesome. Even after owning it for 2 years I still found something that I didn't know was there, this week, which is the speed stats and stuff, I thought it only showed the speed we were currently going. I do have to say that the speed it shows is pretty accurate when I roll though.
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new psu
I've seen so many fried XFX graphics cards that I don't trust that brand as a whole.
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Connection Lost All The Time
Playing a game wirelessly is never a good idea. Did you try using a wire and seeing if the issue still persisted? Rs doesn't use much bandwith and usually wireless is enough but depending on the strenght of the connection this can occur.
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R.A.T. 5 vs G9X?
I have a lot of Logitech stuff and you can't go wrong with them. I have a Laser mouse, although it's at home and I can't give you the model, and can use it on any surface.
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Need a new screen
Not sure about what you say for HP. I remember buying an hp screen 6 year ago that only lasted 2.5 years, but the HP I replaced it with (wasn't my choice as it was a gift) still works like new after the 3.5 years I've used it. I wouldn't be stuck though if it died since I have it in dual screen setup with a 2 year old Acer screen.
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Testing My Motherboard...
Problem might be McAfee, it's one of the worst antiviruses and it's heavy as well. You should probably switch to something that won't slow down your computer like MSE, Avira or Avast.
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Call of Duty 7: Black OPs
Looks like you have a nice ping if you get hitmarkers at least with every single bullet. The reason I don't play with snipers (although I was very good in mw2 for quickscopes) is in black ops my bullets just go through the guy I'm shooting, and when it doesn't it's just a hitmarker that I get. Only the treyarch games have inconsistent hitmarker issues, and that is why black ops is my last treyarch game, even if I said the same thing in the WaW days.
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Where in the World is Tip.it?
^ I lol'd. I do think it's nice to see where the guys here in OT are, and now that we got a system that will prevent the kind of trolling we had we can have fun with it.
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Where in the World is Tip.it?
Can someone please add me to Saint John, New brunswick, Canada? I would appreciate it. Its in the south of the province.
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Choosing a Laptop
It really depends which games you will be playing with the laptop. The intel GMA HD will have trouble with even some light games.
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Reveal Confessions, Secrets & Regrets...
How can it be " creepy/disrespectful/romantic/threatening"? I thought it was the most respectful thing you could do?
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Power Supply Recommendations
I wouldn't go for any other brand than these named in the comment I quoted. My preference in there is the Corsair one.
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Choosing a Laptop
Defenitely the Asus one. Primarly because of the lower price, but also for their extreme quality. My almost 4 year old Asus laptop still works like new, does not have any problems either and the battery still lasts a few hours (compared to about 20 minutes on my friend's Acer of the same age). The only problem with it is the intel gma. If you want to play a game though you'll have to go with the MSI one as it has dedicated graphics. Even small games will run much better on it than the Asus you listed there.
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Reveal Confessions, Secrets & Regrets...
While on the twilight subject: Where I live there was quite a lot of talks about it, about the movie, so I decided to watch the first one. Never finished it as it was excessively boring and I don't understand how it can be so popular.
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Formatting my hard drive
Usually you should be able to get to the recovery by using F12 or another button. You will then have the option to format before installing, which you have to choose instead of the option that keeps the files.
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Where in the World is Tip.it?
I'm tired of this [cabbage] I'm not putting my marker back on that map..
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Where in the World is Tip.it?
What happened with all the markers? I can only see one now..
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Political Poll
Another Center-Left Canadian.
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R.A.T. 5 vs G9X?
I do not own the Deathadder but I do have a few friends that made very good comments about them. I have never seen anyone using the R.A.T.5.
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Lag, and external hard drives
I don't know about other brands, but Asus is even easier than the Mac notebooks as you just have to unscrew the 2 screws on the hard drive compartment. Don't even have to unscrew anything on the previous unibody Macs. :P Just made an observation, not trying to start anything though. I know, we won't start anything. I was just mentionning it because on the guide you posted it says to remove 10 screws.
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Lag, and external hard drives
I believe Western Digital is one of the best brands out there right now, if not the best. I don't know about other brands, but Asus is even easier than the Mac notebooks as you just have to unscrew the 2 screws on the hard drive compartment.