Recent content by cah8429

I've concluded there is no good wireless mouse for my requirements. They either are good quality and have an awful 24-50 hour battery life, or they have a good battery life but have parts that break quickly. So I'm going to return to my old trusty G502 until Logitech or somebody else makes a...

I've been using a Logitech G305 for a year and a half now, and with the quality of its sensor and battery life, I have a hard time considering anything else. It seems in terms of long battery life mice Logitech has this and the G603 (along with replaceable batteries). Sadly, I've been affected...

Keep an eye on temps like Jwpanz said, also look and see if there are background tasks hogging system resources and disable them. Another issue could be Windows updates. I actually had a game recently tank in performance by about 5fps after an update

The thing about laptops is this: either nothing can be replaced and what you get is what you get, or at the most you can only replace the memory or storage device. Only a VERY limited number of boutique laptops offer the ability to replace CPUs. Your only bet with that laptop is to continue to...

I'd look more into CyberTronPC and see if they're reputable. If so, get that one. Upgrading from 8GB of RAM to 16GB is much cheaper than going from a GTX 1060 to a GTX 1080. Otherwise, I'd go for the second option. If you're just gaming then the i5 is completely sufficient and an i7 is kind of a...

What skittle said. Always use apt-get first, or if Elementary has a software manager GUI, use that too. Also don't use open office as it is pretty much a dead project that is reaching its end of life. LibreOffice is being very actively developed and supports tons of features that open office doesn't

So can you get to the grub screen to select Windows/Ubuntu? If so, what happens when you select one of the two? Can you see the Ubuntu/Windows splash screen before it resets? Have you also tried the grub repair tool? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

Hi there! I have been doing a Windows/Linux dual boot for the last 4 years now, and haven't regretted it. I like what other people say, which is try a live USB image of Linux, give Linux Mint or Ubuntu MATE 16.04 a try. If you think you can get comfortable with the UI, I encourage installing...

I have the MSI B350M Mortar motherboard and after getting the latest BIOS update (for AGESA 1.0.0.6) I have found my CPU fan to be pegged at 100%. I have tried this both with/without an overclock (OC to 3.7GHz at 1.25V) as well as trying to enable/disable AMD Cool N Quiet. I have also tried...

Thank you for the information guys! :) I see an HP Proliant DL380 G5 for sale for a good price (refurbished, 3 year warranty, x2 E5410 Xeons) at $80 a pop. Does that sound fishy at all? It'd be pretty neat to grab something like this and set it up as a family Nextcloud and Plex server

I'm poking around and looking at a lot of these older rackmount servers (like the HP Proliant) and I'm wondering why some of these have 2.5" drives only? Are they intended to use SSDs only, or are 2.5" HDDs actually used in these things? I thought it'd be pretty cool to get one of these refurbed...

Solved the issue. I took a harder look at my power supply and realized I had WAY too many cables hanging out on a single rail, and I think that big load not being distributed well enough caused the whine. So, solved!

Starting with my specs: Mobo: Asus Z97 Pro CPU: Intel 4690K at 4.3GHz Memory: 16GB DDR3 1866MHz from GSkill PSU: Seasonic X650 GPU: Zotac GTX 1070 1 480GB SSD, 2 7200 RPM HDDs I've been trying to track down the cause of my coil whine for a while. Putting my ear up to my computer, the buzz is...

I would go with an AMD RX 460 or 470. I always hear good things about the Sapphire cards, but I have had great success with my MSI cards too

Thank you for the information! Yeah I have experience doing this at the enterprise level with cisco hardware/software and it's easy doing this stuff with inter VLAN routing, but I've never tackled this with consumer-grade solutions. And staying on a budget makes it harder as well. I imagine the...