Recent content by BigFeet13

Speed Linux Mint is a great place to start. It has a huge community, very easy to use, and very well supported. As far as software.... 1. GIMP 2. Kdenlive 3. Chrome (technically not open source, but it's what I use on Windows, so it's easy to sync bookmarks and settings)

I just upgraded my mom's old acer from Windows 7 OEM to Windows 10 Home with the Media Creation Tool. It activated with digital entitlement. No issue whatsoever.

AMD will recover. It never really was a big deal. I guess it's more of a PR nightmare.

Thanks. That is a different model, but PSU was my first thought. I haven't had issues with other hardware, but I know the PSU isn't top quality, to say the least. It is 7 years old now, and has worked fine. I've been suspecting the graphics card just pulls too many amps. Unfortunately, I can't...

Occasionally on boot my sata drive will slowly beep a number of times before it gets to the splash screen. It's definitely the hdd (the mobo doesn't have a speaker), and it's not the first one to do it on this PC. It passes SMART, and I've run a surface scan and an extended self test using hard...

Depending on what games you are trying to play, your cpu will be a bottleneck. Maybe go with an fx8350 or overclock the one you have a bit. I'd replace the PSU also. Never skimp on a power supply. Other than that, you're good.

I run a 100 ft. cable to my room. I get good speed wireless, but be prepared for interference and dropped packets.

I don't have a story. I enjoyed GTA IV, eating in the diner, then watching Republican Space Rangers on TV. :)

Need some opinions. I'm thinking of upgrading to the hd7850 from the gtx460se. Using HWiNFO64, my cpu usage playing bf3 averages 83% while my gpu averages 63% (my frames are capped at 59 fps). On low/med settings I run an almost constant 59 fps. My question, do you think the cpu will bottleneck...