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    Question Latest Windows Update Breaks Many Antivirus Programs

    Actually since the latest update Kapersky Internet Security 2019 works fine, but now when I reboot my pc Windows Defender Security Center does not load correctly so have to reboot the pc a few times to get it to load correctly at windows start up, using Windows 10 pro. So not only has Microsoft...
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    News Ray Tracing On Nvidia’s Pascal Architecture, Benchmarked

    Raytracing as a far as I understand it requires DirectX 12 which requires Windows 10. As far as I know only Blizzard's game World of Warcraft supports DirectX 12 on Windows 7.
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    Video Shows Radeon RX 580 2048SP Outperform GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

    This is an unfair test since the XFX Radeon RX 580 8G 2048SP has a clear advantage over the stock GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. The test would have been much more fair and accurate had they used a stock GeForce GTX 1060 6GB card. The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB card does not enough ram to run games at ultra...
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    HP's Wild Claim: New Spectre x360 Has 22-Hour Battery Life

    When I first read this New Spectre x360 Has 22-Hour Battery Life, my first thought was HP found a new specter bug. So they may want to rethink the name and how they advertise it. I know after reading the whole news article there advertising a new product not a new spectre bug, still this was...
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    GeForce RTX 2070, 2080, or 2080 Ti: Which Nvidia Turing Card Is Right for You?

    I plan to buy a geforce rtx 2080 end of January 2019, since it costs the same price as the geforce gtx 1080 ti here in Canada. Makes more sense to me to buy the geforce rtx 2080 considering they both cost the same price and this way I get the new features as well.
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    How to Get the Windows 10 October 2018 Update Right Now

    Warning, this update reset all my Microsoft settings! So I had to go change all my settings again and treat this update as a brand new Windows Installation setting up Windows the way I like it all over again. Every thing went went great for me other wise, I had no problems installing the update.
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    Firefox Monitor Tells You When Your Online Accounts Were Hacked

    When I enter my email address it just loads a white blank page and I am using the latest version of Mozilla Firefox browser. Hopefully they will fix it soon.
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    US Gaming Spend Is On Track for a Record Year

    I spend lots each year on new games, additional content I usually only buy in special pc game bundle deals that include all the add on content for one low great price only.
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    GPU Prices Plunge: GTX 1080 Ti Now $526

    While a gtx 1080 would be over kill for my current pc I may just pick one up for this Christmas any way to replace the ZOTAC GeForce® GTX 1060 AMP Edition I'm using now, as $700 Canadian is not a bad price for a ZOTAC GeForce® GTX 1080 AMP Edition card. Once the 20xx series cards actually start...
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    GOG Gets Vulgar in Fight for Gamers' Rights

    Some times drm can even trigger a persons anti virus software, as I recently bought Y's Memories of Celceta from Steam. After playing for an hour Kapersky Internet security 2018 suddenly detected what ever drm is used for this game as a trojan and uninstalled and removed all traces of the game...
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    Power User Profiles: A YouTuber's DIY Dream PC With Matthew Perks

    I prefer written guides with really good quality pictures included to show me what to do my self. The last place I look for help is places like you tube, I all ways look for written help first when I look on the internet for help with a problem as I find this way of learning to work much better...
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    Understanding how to correctly boot from usb drive

    Hello I am installing Windows 10 Pro tomorrow on a brand new 250gb ssd. I tried Asus support they were not much help they just sent me to a web page that was very general and told me how set up the bios for a completely different motherboard then the one I have, so it was not much help. My...
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    Should I upgrade to Ryzen 2 Zen+?

    I need to build a new pc to replace my A10 7800, how ever I need a cpu that is both strong in single as well as multi threaded tasks so I'm still thinking my next pc will be a i7 8700k as the prices are very reasonable here in Canada right now for this cpu. I'm just waiting for the z390...
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    Intel Threat Detection Technology Uses GPU To Speed Up Antivirus

    My computer is all ways in use when I'm at home so the cpu is rarely idle, how ever since installing a Geforce 1060 in my pc I do have the R7 grapgics in my A10 7800 sitting idle as it never gets used. So would be great if the R7 graphics in this system could be used for some thing like this...
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    Intel Threat Detection Technology Uses GPU To Speed Up Antivirus

    I use Kapersky Internet Security which is good and just moving my games library over to a 1 terabyte ssd has all ready gained me a big performance boost as my virus scanner all runs much faster now. Will be moving my operating system over to a 250 gigabyte ssd on April 25 to replace the hard...