Recent content by mbreslin

Rhonda, there is, it's the fourth or fifth option down after clicking on the three-bar settings button at the upper right. The item to click on says "Relaunch Chrome on the Desktop". Got it first from Tom's Hardware Forum, but I'm sure you would have had it to me as soon as you got to your PC...

Helping a friend with their new Windows 8 laptop. This 70-year-old woman hates it, initially wanted me to install Windows 7 on it, but instead I installed Start8 and that mitigated most of her issues. Except for Chrome. It insisted on opening full screen, with no minimize button. I believe it...

Good point. That's a lot of money to spend for a little improvement, unless the 3450 could be sold to help pay for the new one.

Yeah, your memory sounds fine. The main thing that will shorten your encode times are more cores/threads.

I think Intel's doing fine. They still have to continue going after what the market wants. I think they see ARM as their real competition now, with AMD back a ways but still a potential threat. They need to keep ahead of AMD, which doesn't seem too hard nowadays, while pursuing ARM for the...

You didn't mention memory. How much of available (physical) memory is being used? Task Manager should be able to tell you this. From what you've found so far, it sounds like you could another four logical cores, like an i7-3770 could give you. I know it helps me a lot with Handbrake.

I agree! If it wasn't for the Athlon/K7, we would probably still have the Netburst architecture Pentium 4 on offer from Intel. We have AMD to thank for Intel getting off their butts and getting into both 64-bit CPUs and the core architecture.

I run an Ivy Bridge i7-3770 (3.4 GHz) on my home server, which has hyperthreading and gives me four cores/eight threads. I do my Handbrake encoding on this machine, and when Handbrake is running all eight logical cores are running between 93% and 100%. I've noticed that when I do the same file...

Windows 8 is Microsoft's attempt to force desktop and laptop users to use a tablet/phone interface. Dumb.

I'm sure this doesn't matter to most people, but one thing I like about Server 2012 is that AES New Instructions (on-chip encryption/decryption) are now available in Hyper-V, to both the host OS and VMs. In Server 2008 R2 even the Host OS cannot make use of AES.