Recent content by Cythas

Well, after hours of frustration and annoyance, it would seem that Avast Free Antivirus 2015 has a new feature called "HTTPS Scanning" which apparently translates to "disable HTTPS URLs". So if you just installed Avast 2015, and find yourself in a similar situation, go to Avast's settings, and...

I recently built my first PC, but for some reason, I am unable to establish a secure connection with any websites on both Firefox and Internet Explorer. If I remove the "s" in https, they work fine. I have already verified that the date and time is set correctly. Internet explorer states that...

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($169.99 @ Amazon) Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($81.98 @ Newegg) Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($79.98 @ OutletPC)...

PCPartPicker List: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/yKF2zy Type|Item|Price :----|:----|:---- **CPU** | [AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor](http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-cpu-fd8320frhkbox) | $149.99 @ Newegg **Motherboard** | [Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+...

I'm currently looking at building a budget gaming PC, and the intel i5-4440 is just $3 more than the i5-4430 on Amazon. Is there any reason not to get the i5-4440 (apart from the $3)? CPUBoss says that the i5-4440 is slightly better across the board unless I intend to overclock, which I don't.

I've never built a PC before, and despite spending many hours trying to wrap my head around the many well-written but ultimately too complex for a complete newb guides, I am going to need help with figuring this out. Anyways, here's that template: Approximate Purchase Date: whenever I get this...