Random Technology Questions

[sivispacem]

You'd be better of running a Linux IRC bot, to be honest. Is there any particular reason you want to use mIRC over the myriad of other IRC clients?

[Sombra]

All the scripts are wrote for mIRC which uses it's own scripting language. I could probably adapt them to a Linux one but I have no idea of Linux clients and I'd like to set them up before I buy something I have experience with Linux though; mostly just Debian but I'm fairly competent with it. Speaking of Debian RIP Ian Murdock.

Edited December 31, 2015 by Blaze

[Ryan]

Pretty pleased with how it turned out apart from one thing- the bloody H100i leads. There's one for Corsair Link, one for the CPU fan header and a splitter for the Noctua fans and I've got literally no idea how best to hide them away. Anyone else with an H100i got any tips or bright ideas? Or anyone more generally?

Probably won't help since it's pretty specific to the Asus ROG Maximus Hero VIII but I managed to run all my wires through a tiny gap between the mosfet heatsinks which is covered by the plastic IO shroud and then out behind the motherboard tray via the 4-pin CPU power cut out. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't secretly impressed with my creativity

 

 

Edited December 31, 2015 by Ryan

[sivispacem]

Yeah, that's ROG specific. And f*cking sneaky.

Happy new year guys!

[Sombra]

That is some damn nice cable management; whole thing looks sleek as f*ck.

 

happy new year; here's to another year of bullsh*t tech problems and being the family it guy

 

hnggg

[Sombra]

Thinkcentre/IRCBot rig should arrive tomorrow, any suggestions on what I should do first? Was thinking boot it up, run Speccy and CPU-Z so I know exactly whats then run memtest. Once that's finished rip it open and remove the bullsh*t inside it ie PCI RS232 card, floppy/disk cables and do some cable management. Hoping there's a SATA connection but there's so many thinkcentre variants it was hard to find an accurate manual for one.

Edited January 4, 2016 by Blaze

[Flachbau]

Definitely open it up to see if it needs any cleaning. I did that with mine. Dust was everywhere..

[Sombra]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks to be in decent clean condition, that card thing is a PCI RS232 card so that'll get ripped out. I think the ribbon running from under the card to the mobo is a PCI extension card so I could throw a low power passive card in there but I'd like to get it open first and put a little more RAM in if possible since it may also act as a SAMP host on occasion.

[gajrajgchouhan]

I am running on windows 10.

 

On my main user account, the start menu doesn't open and there are some weird glitches.

 

So I created a new user account to see if the glitches are still there.There are no glitches !!

 

I.E. Windows 10 is not corrupted.

 

I was asking if there is a way to solve those glitches and start menu in my main account ?

[DEALUX]

Any drawbacks to using a UPS? How likely is one to burst into flames? (half joking)

 

I want to get one at some point this year (something between 1000-2000 VA) and I'm going to spend somewhere around $200 or more on one.

[Loch Dawg]

Any drawbacks to using a UPS? How likely is one to burst into flames? (half joking)

 

I want to get one at some point this year (something between 1000-2000 VA) and I'm going to spend somewhere around $200 or more on one.

 

Just make sure you've got adequate cooling for it and you should be fine, only issues I've had with UPS' is when they've overheated (air con failed in the comms room out in 35+ Celsius weather).

[Sombra]

okay whos good with networking

 

from my previous posts you probably already know i got my main rig and thinkcentre connected to a 10/100m switch and I started using the thinkcentre as a torrent/download machine but obviously with it being a 10/100m switch the transfer speed on the network from the thinkcentre to my main pc is a max of 12.5MB a second (i didnt plan on it being a torrent box until after i'd bought the switch)

 

i was thinking could i not just buy two cheap gigabit nics for each machine, connect them to eachother with a crossover cable and transfer files that way? just wondering how well it'd work since they're already on the same network via ethernet

 

 

update: im pretty sure i can give both nics their own IP that puts them on their own subnet, then share the drive again with the new IP and using that to transfer

Edited January 11, 2016 by Blaze

[Red Hat]

Is MSI good?

 

I'm thinking of getting a graphics card. Been searching on the internet and found Asus and MSI to be offering the dual fan variants. But the retailer who sells the Asus GTX 750Ti the cheapest has a history of sending a single fan Zotac GTX 750Ti. So, another retailer is selling the Asus Direct CU II, but is costing around $15 more than MSI Twin Frozr 750 Ti. $15 does make a difference in India. So ugh, is MSI good or should I go with Asus?

[sivispacem]

MSI are absolutely fine, all the OEMs are much of a muchness these days really.

[Andreaz1]

I'm partial to Asus but the big ones are all good with no big differences between them. I'd just get the cheapest one.

[Ryan]

I'd go with Asus over MSI but both are pretty reputable brands. Asus's RMA's policy is better than MSI's from what I hear.

[sivispacem]

That very much depends where you are in the world. Gigabyte and MSI seem to serve Europe a bit better in my experience but it's all much of a muchness.

 

The ASUS website is stuck in 1998 too.

[Andreaz1]

I'd go with Asus over MSI but both are pretty reputable brands. Asus's RMA's policy is better than MSI's from what I hear.

It's been great to me in that I have never had to use it for any of the motherboards or graphics cars that I've bought from them.

[Red Hat]

 

I'd go with Asus over MSI but both are pretty reputable brands. Asus's RMA's policy is better than MSI's from what I hear.

It's been great to me in that I have never had to use it for any of the motherboards or graphics cars that I've bought from them.

 

Same here, main reason why I'm more keen on getting the Asus. I'll wait for a week... see if the price of Asus go down. If it doesn't, MSI it is.

[Sombra]

I've only had Asus and MSI boards and the only time I've ever had a problem was a PCI port on the Asus dying. Got a replacement of the same board and it's fine.

[B7R]

Hopefully this is the right thread to post in, but I got woken up the other night by my Monitor (Seems to turn itself on when the computer is scheduled to do updates) Where would I specifically go in Windows 10 to change the schedule time if there is one?

I don't please myself getting woken up at 3 in the morning seeing everything else off but my Desktop monitor on a pitch black display. I only got this desktop 2 weeks ago and being windows 10 and how you can't shut off updates, I didn't

really ask the seller if he's set it to schedule itself / how to change it.

 

Monitor is a Samsung Syncmaster P2350 and there isn't a sleep function on it so I can't get it to automatically turn off when the Desktop is powered off / not in use.

 

I feel dumb with asking this question because I'm a tech guy myself (And still learning Windows 10 shortcuts) but I feel better getting this question answered so i'm not waking up to my monitor on a black screen all the time.

[yoječ]

You can turn off automatic updates in Win10. Hit Win+R, run services.msc and disable Windows Update service.

 

I'm pretty sure that you can change the time at which the updates are installed by going to Start -> Settings -> Update & security

Edited January 15, 2016 by yojc

[Ai®a©ob®a]

What do you know about VPNs? i'm having a little bit of an issue, Whenever i turn on a VPN i start getting connection errors whenever i try and go into a Chatzy Chatroom but don't have any issues on any other sites i tried it with two difference VPN and same result both time while it worked fine a few days ago is there something on my computer that could be blocking it?

 

Like i can use the VPN and come here, facebook ect but just issue with Chatzy

 

I've already tried turning off my firewall to no avail

Edited January 16, 2016 by AiraCobra

[Sombra]

any of you guys ever use a IDE to SATA adapter? any drawbacks?

[Crokey]

any of you guys ever use a IDE to SATA adapter? any drawbacks?

I've used a couple before when I was using a couple of old HDD as backups, apart from all the extra cables and them looking fugly in your rig, they do the job. Not sure about speed though as I was only using them as back ups, but then again they were old drives with low speeds, so it would have been hard to judge anyway.

[Sombra]

I got 6 or 7 old IDE drives I'd like to throw in a RAID0 file/media server but f*ck doing it with ribbon cables, may cost a little to get the adapters but still not as much as it would to get SATA drives.

[GIRR]

Hi. Can anyone recommend a site that can builds custom computers?

Edited January 22, 2016 by TheEroticCherry

[sivispacem]

It's really not that hard to do it yourself.

[Abel.]

There are plenty of people here who would be delighted to lend a hand.

 

 

Ryan's guide was decent:

 

 

http://gtaforums.com/topic/446714-how-to-build-your-own-desktop-pc/

 

 

 

Guru3D is a good resource:

 

 

http://www.guru3d.com/

Edited January 22, 2016 by Failure

[Flachbau]

Ryan's guide is still relevant, even though it could probably still using a bit of updating. I like to think of building a PC as like building a LEGO set. Each piece has to go somewhere. Just pay attention otherwise you'll make a mistake, and in the end your finished product wont look as advertised, and it wont serve it's purpose properly.