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Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 19th 21, 01:12 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 9
Views: 2,973
Posted By Bill[_41_]
Fry's Electronic Out of Business!!!

Ant wrote:
Bill wrote:
Xanadu99 wrote:
Fry is out of business. Before online shop popularity, Fry was the icon of computer and technology carrying suppliers. Shopping...
Forum: General March 17th 21, 08:13 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 39
Views: 9,960
Posted By Bill[_41_]
Why is this HDD so small?

Andy Burns wrote:
Ken Blake wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, Amazon is completely reputable. I buy many
things from them

From amazon, or from resellers using amazon...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 17th 21, 08:11 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 9
Views: 2,973
Posted By Bill[_41_]
Fry's Electronic Out of Business!!!

Xanadu99 wrote:
Fry is out of business. Before online shop popularity, Fry was the icon of computer and technology carrying suppliers. Shopping at Fry is like in giant techie mall. I bought...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 16th 21, 10:05 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 25
Views: 6,252
Posted By Bill[_41_]
Monitor question

Paul wrote:
Bill wrote:
Bill wrote:

Here is an attempt to clarify my question:Â* Can I use DisplayPort and
the output audio jacks on my GPU at the same time?


It occurs to me...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 16th 21, 01:55 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 25
Views: 6,252
Posted By Bill[_41_]
Monitor question

Bill wrote:

Here is an attempt to clarify my question:Â* Can I use DisplayPort and
the output audio jacks on my GPU at the same time?


It occurs to me now that the audio jacks are on the...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 16th 21, 12:11 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 25
Views: 6,252
Posted By Bill[_41_]
Monitor question

Bill wrote:

Larc, When you used the DisplayPort, did you have to switch to using the
audio via the monitor (aux?) or were you able to still get audio (5.1 in
my case)Â* directly using the...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 15th 21, 09:05 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 25
Views: 6,252
Posted By Bill[_41_]
Monitor question

Larc wrote:

| Any comments or suggestions based upon your experience is welcome!

I had a 27" 4K monitor plugged into the display port on an EVGA GTX 750ti for a few
weeks while I was...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 15th 21, 08:27 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 25
Views: 6,252
Posted By Bill[_41_]
Monitor question

Larc wrote:
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:25:57 -0400, Bill wrote:

| I have a Asus Strix 750ti GPU. It has 2GB of onboard video memory and
| uses 8GB of shared system memory. ...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 15th 21, 08:22 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 25
Views: 6,252
Posted By Bill[_41_]
Monitor question

Paul wrote:
Bill wrote:
Bill wrote:
I have a Asus Strix 750ti GPU.Â* It has 2GB of onboard video memory
and uses 8GB of shared system memory.Â* According to its
specifications, it...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 15th 21, 04:37 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 25
Views: 6,252
Posted By Bill[_41_]
Monitor question

Bill wrote:
I have a Asus Strix 750ti GPU.Â* It has 2GB of onboard video memory and
uses 8GB of shared system memory.Â* According to its specifications, it
can apparently handle 3840x2160...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 15th 21, 04:25 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 25
Views: 6,252
Posted By Bill[_41_]
Monitor question

I have a Asus Strix 750ti GPU. It has 2GB of onboard video memory and
uses 8GB of shared system memory. According to its specifications, it
can apparently handle 3840x2160 resolution.

I have...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 3rd 21, 11:55 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 35
Views: 2,035
Posted By Bill[_41_]
New Build - Followup

Top-posting.

Paul, Thank you for explaining some of the details.
It will be "fun" to see what NVME and PCIe version 5 brings!

Bill
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 3rd 21, 06:50 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 35
Views: 2,035
Posted By Bill[_41_]
New Build - Followup

"Bob F" wrote in message

Stepping to NVME makes a similar difference.

How about the difference between NVMe and SATA3.

Does the NVMe run on a faster bus, or are these...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 21st 20, 11:53 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 11
Views: 1,295
Posted By Bill[_41_]
What hardware to best speed up processing large Word file?

Paul wrote:
Bill wrote:
Paul wrote:
Â*THe (T) part measures Hyperthreading,
which helps 7ZIP a bit. But it's the C number that bears most
of the weight when doing 7ZIP (or RAR)...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 21st 20, 06:26 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 11
Views: 1,295
Posted By Bill[_41_]
What hardware to best speed up processing large Word file?

Paul wrote:
THe (T) part measures Hyperthreading,
which helps 7ZIP a bit. But it's the C number that bears most
of the weight when doing 7ZIP (or RAR) compression.
Do all of the newer CPUs...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 21st 20, 02:32 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 35
Views: 2,035
Posted By Bill[_41_]
New Build - Followup

SC Tom wrote:


"SC Tom" wrote in message ...
snip

As suggested by Bill and Larc, I got an SSD (Samsung 860 EVO 1GB) and
replaced my...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 19th 20, 01:45 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 22
Views: 1,620
Posted By Bill[_41_]
What's a good new 24"+ monitor or even a TV (smart & 4K R OK)?

Paul wrote:


And I thought that was pretty funny.

It was funny. It was probably in the manual! ; )
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 18th 20, 07:20 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 22
Views: 1,620
Posted By Bill[_41_]
What's a good new 24"+ monitor or even a TV (smart & 4K R OK)?

Paul wrote:

When you buy the monitor, don't forget to buy a cable.
Some cheapskates don't put cables in the box for you.
Maybe an HDMI and no DP. Or vice versa.
Since you brought it up: Is...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 18th 20, 06:03 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 35
Views: 2,035
Posted By Bill[_41_]
New Build

Paul wrote:

This is the available diagram for Hyper-V, but it does not
incorporate what VirtualBox and a Guest would look like, added
to the picture. I presume the driver calls travel through...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 18th 20, 05:32 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 22
Views: 1,620
Posted By Bill[_41_]
What's a good new 24"+ monitor or even a TV (smart & 4K R OK)?

Ant wrote:
What's a good new 24"+ monitor or even a TV (smart and 4K are OK, but please no Roku since their RCs are awful without numbers for cable & OTA inputs) for mostly computers (Internet,...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 18th 20, 04:07 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 35
Views: 2,035
Posted By Bill[_41_]
New Build

Paul wrote:
Bill wrote:
Of
course, somehow MS made changes to Windows 10 which prevented me from
using the (nice) "trim" application that came with the Intel drive,
but I don't blame...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 17th 20, 04:36 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 35
Views: 2,035
Posted By Bill[_41_]
New Build

SC Tom wrote:


The only reason I haven't gone to an SSD yet is that I'm still a little
leery of the technology :-) Old habits die hard . . .
I may just do that, though- buy an SSD and move...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 17th 20, 05:04 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 35
Views: 2,035
Posted By Bill[_41_]
New Build

SC Tom wrote:
I've put together this build as a possible upgrade of my current AMD
Athlon(tm) X4 845 Quad Core Processor 3.50 GHz w/16GB of RAM:

AMD RYZEN 5 3600 6-Core 3.6 GHz (4.2 GHz Max...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 9th 20, 03:54 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 3
Views: 724
Posted By Bill[_41_]
AMD Eyzen cpus and ram speed

Peter Johnson wrote:
An item in a recent issue of a UK PC magazine said, in essence, that
using ram with the right speed was essential to get the best out of
AMD Ryzen cpus, which wasn't...
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