Recent content by RandomFlux

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    [The motherboard got replaced]Gigabyte Motherboards and new 'App Center' and 'SIV' issues

    Interesting. It's probably best to add the apps one by one and wait for a couple of days to see if there are any negative interactions. Since removing most of them yesterday my system has been rock solid again.
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    [The motherboard got replaced]Gigabyte Motherboards and new 'App Center' and 'SIV' issues

    I'd like to confirm these problems and add my own cautionary story: I have a GA-7170X Gaming 7 with a Core i7 processor and it started freezing up after restarting. It would only start correctly if I unplugged the power for around a minute after shutting down and before restarting. Because of...
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    Good card for snappy Aero, no gaming

    Thanks -- there are not really any "issues", everything is OK in terms of performance, the UI is just not as snappy as I'd like it to be. I just thought that Windows 7 used the 3D engine of the card for rendering the UI and that there might be some cards that delivered better performance for...
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    Good card for snappy Aero, no gaming

    My work PC currently has a Phenom II X4 / 945, 4GB of RAM on an AMD785G chipset motherboard with a passively cooled GeForce 8400 graphics card and Windows 7/64 Ultimate (because it's free in my MSDN sub). Overall performance is fine but screen updates are a little sluggish and I'd like to...