Recent content by Dark54555

Think I'm going to go for the BenQ. Plenty of professional reviews on it, and it seems to be well liked. If I gamed more on PC, I'd probably go up to the alienware, but the BenQ seems like a better choice for "mostly work, occasional game." I'm more a console player for fast paced stuff.

https://www.viewsonic.com/us/vg3448.html#specs Says 100hz here: DISPLAY DISPLAY SIZE (IN.) 34 PANEL TYPE MVA RESOLUTION 3440 x 1440 RESOLUTION TYPE QHD (3440x1440) STATIC CONTRAST RATIO 3,000:1 DYNAMIC CONTRAST RATIO 50,000,000:1 LIGHT SOURCE WLED BRIGHTNESS 300 cd/m2 COLORS 1.07B COLOR SPACE...

Been looking at an ultrawide for work and occasional gaming (the only FPS I've played on PC is Destiny 2; I'm mostly a console person). I've found two monitors that seem to be basically the same price, but I can't figure out which would be better. They're both 34" 21:9 3440x1440 and 5 ms...

Can't even reformat the drives in Windows 10 (tried it with one, just to see what would happen). Sounds like this isn't an isolated issue: http://www.tenforums.com/drivers-hardware/11261-cannot-read-usb-drive-parameter-incorrect.html...

So, in seeing what other systems I had laying around, I found an old netbook running Win7 Starter; it can open the drive just fine, but Win7 starter can't undo bitlocker. Looks like I may be trying to put Windows 8 on something I have laying around just to undo the bitlocker, then re-do it in...

I have two external drives I rotate as backup drives. Both are encrypted with BitLocker, and both worked fine in Windows 8.1. Since the upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, I can't access either one. In "This PC," they both appear as a drive, they have the unlocked padlock and note as a "BitLocker"...

Working on helping my wife upgrade her business website. This is the current setup. Host A has business.com Host B has blog.business.com (self hosted wordpress based site) We're migrating her entire presence off Host A. The whole new site will be built off wordpress and be importing all...

I almost feel silly posting this, but there has to be an easy answer. My parents had a programmable doorbell. It died, they replaced with the iChime (see manual: http://www.ichime.com/iChimeManual.pdf for reference). It had two extra speakers (maybe three...there's one outside at the front...

It looks like one of the clips had come loose and didnt want to re-attach. That is one of the disadvantages of the cheap plastic clips on the intel stock cooler. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk which is probably the reason for the typos

Put a Cooler Master 212 Evo on it with a new coat of AS5, which seems to have solved it. Idle is 30-40C, and it's still in the cure period.

Ordered a new cooler, clips are definitely not as secure as they were.

Room is 75F. Case is an Antec 300. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk which is probably the reason for the typos

Thanks for the idea (to all who mentioned clips), and I will test/report back once I'm home this evening. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk which is probably the reason for the typos

Fans are working (CPU and case). No major moves or anything lately.

So, was working at my desktop the other night, and it BSODed with a warning about CPU heat. I've been monitoring since. To me, 60C idle and 100C max seems high...extremely high. This rig hasn't had a heat issue since it was built in 2008 (including before and after a case swap in...