I kinda accidentally upgraded my PC the other day, second hand bits. 16GB of 2400 Mhz DDR3. i7-4770k, Asus Maximus VI Formula motherboard. It all looks like spaceship technology, don't really know what I'm doing anymore

Probably need to upgrade the graphics card now, a 560Ti seems a bit Fiesta-in-a-Ferrari. And sort out a better cooler than the stock one for the CPU so I can try clocking it up a bit perhaps.

Overclocking, I'm still surprised people can be bothered doing it these days.

I have on the other-hand underclocked in the past to save electric and keep fan noise down.

Yeah, that's a bit unbalanced.. hope you have an SSD in there, at least as the system drive - it's by far the best upgrade you can do to almost any system.

I also need to "accidentally" upgrade my stuff, (un?)fortunately nothing in there is anywhere near dying, and I can't fully justify it otherwise. Bah!

Bragging rights... Plus, it can make a difference if you game on three display or 4K resolution or something, depending on what's limiting performance (CPU or GPU). Other than that, there really isn't much point - even the Intel G3258 system I built for my parents about a month ago has plenty of juice for most things, and it'd keep up with most games too if it had a decent graphics card.

It's got an SSD already for the system drive, yup.


For overclocking, it's more or less 'because I can', that processor and board is designed to make it very easy. I think I'd see how far I could take it without bothering to up the voltage though, no real desire to eat all the electricity here. I just want it to make Elite look pretty I think, and the new IL-2 game probably. This thing's also driving a 30" 2560x1600 display and I have half an idea about Oculus Rift one day.

I used that argument ttto get a graphics card upgrade from my dad years ago. I told him the new K6-2 400 with aa Voodoo 3D card was like runninrunnrunninrurunninrunnrunninrunnrunninrurunninrurunninrunnrunninrurunninrunninrunnrunninrurunnrunninrunnrunninrururunninrunnrunninrurunninrunnrunninrunninrunnrunnrunninrunnrunn

What the /hell/ is my phone keyboard suddsuddenly doing Trying to delete words and its making them /BIGGER/

Anyway, yeyes, like having a Ferrari with my mum's Fiesta engine in it.

God I love your typing. Never change whatever it is that makes this happen!

What happens if you try to write bananananananana?

HahaHahhHahaHaHahHahaHahhHahaHaHHahaHahhHahaHaH. Hmm, not going well so far. Banananananananana? That looks about right to me .

I'm not sure if it's usually my phone of the keyboard I use or just the fact that I don't check spellings on my phone well enough. Today it is acting very strangely and even after a reboot. If I try and delete a word it jumps back and forth sometimes deleting and sometimes adding the letters back from the start of the word. Longer words are then jmlosiblimpossible to delete and just keep gettgettingettgettgettgegetgettgettingettgettgettgeggettgettingettgettgettggettgettingettgettgett bigger.

Is it a laptop? That happens with daughter's laptop keyboard. It had a liquid event (not water, a putrid type) though I cleaned it right away and dried it out with compressed air, can't get rid of the mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm problem.

Well, I'd bet you always perform proper backups, but I don't often. Never anything mission critical on my box so I haven't mush been bothered by it.

I did however find out the hard way what happens when SSDs go tits up. You can't recover any data from them. At least not at my level on my SSDs. Perhaps newer ones have the ability, but I lost everything. Luckily, nowt but the OSes lived on my 2 SSDs, I had a mag for data. Something to consider.

The Adata drives I bought were fast but didn't last. They were warrantied for three years and didn't make it quite that far. Probably should have purchased better quality, but at the time I thought they were fine, were reviewed well.

NNo, on mmy mobile.

It's like your phone has a stutter. You should get it some speech therapy.

back...ups? What are they?

I don't use the SSD for the Documents folder or anything like that. It's the system drive and a few programs. I dunno, normal hard drives that actually break are probably quite hard to recover data from too I'd have thought, at least without paying a lot of money. 

Ha! How I missed this I do not know.

There are certain HDD failures that one can quite easily recover backups from, but SSDs (at least ones from a couple of years ago) did not have that capability.