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  1. MentalIlness

    This guitar playing is fantastic.

    I think im going to tab this out. :)
  2. MentalIlness

    Upgraded to SSD. Problem with secondary Seagate hard drive.

    Ok, So I picked up a SSD to install Windows 7 Premium on. Here are the steps I took.... All steps before removing old HD. Installed SSD into hot swap bay / Installed Seagate 2TB drive Powered up Booted from rom Installed Windows 7 Installed "everything" else that was required PC ran fine...
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    AMD Ryzen with 12C/24T appears........Tweaktown

    http://www.tweaktown.com/news/56849/amd-ryzen-12c-24t-appears-excites-much/index.html AMD lit up the consumer CPU market with the Ryzen 7 1800X, offering 8T/16C of performance for only $499 - and now, there's a new 12C/24T processor being teased. This new 12C/24T chip will probably end up...
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    Calling all electricians. Got a ? concerning a 70 amp breaker being replaced with a 60 amp (SIEMENS.

    Ok, The breaker box in the house is Siemens, and our electric furnace...runs off of a 70 amp breaker. This is the breaker currently in the box. I hear some popping....then I seen it arc. So immediately shut it off. So...im heading out to grab one, but Ive been told, that the 70amp has been...
  5. MentalIlness

    Intel's PC division head quits

    http://www.fudzilla.com/news/42818-intels-pc-division-head-quits Stevenson rockets away from Intel trainwreck Chipzilla has lost the hi-profile executive in charge of Intel's PC business, mobile division and Internet of Things drones. Kim Stevenson headed the division with the sort of name...
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    Square Enix and Marvel Announce Multi-Year Deal, Starting with The Avengers Project

    http://www.vgchartz.com/article/267218/square-enix-and-marvel-announce-multi-year-deal-starting-with-the-avengers-project/ Square Enix and Marvel have announced a multi-year and multi-game partnership starting with The Avengers project. The game is in development at the Tomb Raider studio...
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    Increasing sales of Nvidia graphics cards to affect profitability of other suppliers

    http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/42710-nvidia-s-founders-chip-miffs-partners Killing partner’s profits Nvidia’s Founders Edition graphics cards have angered its own partners who are complaining that the range is gutting their own profits. For those who came in late Nvidia has been...
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    Gabe Newell: Valve is working on singleplayer games, open to revisiting Half-Life universe

    http://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-valve-is-using-source-2-for-unannounced-products/ During his Reddit AMA today, Valve president Gabe Newell stated that Valve is—drum roll—developing new videogames. When it came to the inevitable question about Half-Life 3, Newell joked that "the number 3 must...
  9. MentalIlness

    Older PC needs upgrades. Thoughts ?

    I have older PC that needs some upgrading. Now before anyone says to do a complete rebuild...I do plan on doing that, but it isn't to replace the Intel machine. Ill be upgrading the AMD machine once I see how Ryzen turns out. Whether that be AMD or Intel remains to be seen. Anyway....... The...
  10. MentalIlness

    Steam Bioshock Remastered fails to launch

    Ok, regardless of how I try to run Bioshock Remastered....I continuously get this error message that states.......... Could there be something wrong here, that could possible lead to Doom not wanting to launch as well ? I do in fact have SP1 installed.
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    DOOM fails to start.

    Ok, so I decided to pick up the new Doom...and while the download from Steam was huge, it did download after a few hours...and installed. But, when I go to launch the game...whether I use the Steam play button, desktop shortcut or the .exe in the install location...I get the same result. The...
  12. MentalIlness

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to be nearly 2x faster than the GTX 980 Ti

    http://www.tweaktown.com/news/51141/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-nearly-2x-faster-980/index.html NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to be nearly 2x faster than the GTX 980 Ti As we get closer to NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference in early April, we're finding out more details on the next-gen Pascal...
  13. MentalIlness

    Nvidia Pascal GPUs spotted en route to testing facilities (Fudzilla)

    Nvidia Pascal GPUs spotted en route to testing facilities http://fudzilla.com/news/40167-nvidia-pascal-gpus-spotted-en-route-to-testing-facilities Shipping values priced between $608 and $810 USD per unit Any time a new batch of GPUs are ready to be sent from a...
  14. MentalIlness

    Nintendo NX needs 'near-zero modification' to run Xbox One/PS4 games

    http://www.tweaktown.com/news/50740/nintendo-nx-needs-near-zero-modification-run-xbox-one-ps4-games/index.html Nintendo is going to get some huge attention this year at gaming-related events like Game Developers Conference next month, and E3 later on in the year in June. Their next-gen NX...
  15. MentalIlness

    Electric guitar players. Opinions on my next guitar...

    How would this guitar be for my next guitar purchase ? When I was in sixth grade, I had a guitar class. Loved it. Learned chords and whatever. Years and years pass....decide to get into it again. Picked up a cheap Ibanez RG450 to get back in the "groove" a year ago. I do not feel I am a beginner...
  16. MentalIlness

    In what order, would you play these titles ?

    Recently I have gotten back into PC gaming, after two fractured vertebrae in my neck. I decided to buy some games...some are on Steam and some are on Uplay and Origin. I also bought a few from the Humble Bundle. I have never played any of them. So in what order would it be best to play these ...
  17. MentalIlness

    Intel Skylake owners will need to upgrade to Windows 10 by July 2017

    http://www.tweaktown.com/news/49714/intel-skylake-owners-need-upgrade-windows-10-july-2017/index.html An interesting story has floated to the surface of the Internet over the weekend, where Microsoft has announced it will not support older operating systems on new platforms, in the very near...
  18. MentalIlness

    Attention guitar players. Advice needed. Amp / Effects

    Which of these two processors would you prefer ? The poll is for the affects only. As I feel this is a bigger decision than the amp choice. The music will be any style really, but mostly metal / rock from the 80's and 90's. Boss GT-100 http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i-BOS-GT100 Boss...
  19. MentalIlness

    DX12 GPU and CPU Performance Tested: Ashes of the Singularity Benchmark

    DX12 GPU and CPU Performance Tested: Ashes of the Singularity Benchmark http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/DX12-GPU-and-CPU-Performance-Tested-Ashes-Singularity-Benchmark
  20. MentalIlness

    Which game is better....Twilight Princess or Skyward Sword ?

    Ok, I recently decided to play Twilight Princess on the Wii, and I am almost completely done. Anyway, once done I would like to pick up Skyward Sword and give it a play through since I have never played it. I dont care about "toony" graphics or whatever as I am more about the gameplay and...
  21. MentalIlness

    Powercolor announces new Devil R9 390X

    http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/38465-powercolor-announces-new-devil-r9-390x-graphics-card With Hybrid Cooling System Powercolor has just unveiled its latest Devil series graphics card, the Powercolor Devil R9 390X. Based on AMD's well known...
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    Nintendo signs up for AMD in latest model - Fudzilla

    Now AMD has the full set The last of the console makers is ready to sign up to AMD chips, according to the latest rumour Some details are now coming to light on Nintendo's upcoming NX console. The console will be in the shops in a...
  23. MentalIlness

    Every Pit bull owner must hear these songs.

    Pit Bull Blues by John Shipe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtGT2apOlKw John Shipe - Pit Bull Rescue Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGR9bs5oBEs The Best Pit Bull Video Ever! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D24igQxIfIY
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    Rebuilding PC. Opinions on this build ? Advice..

    My main rig is below in the sig, the FX-8120 rig. Anyway, I am wondering if I should rebuild now, or after the new Intel cpus hit. So a few questions, 1-Will Skylake be that much better than a 4790k? 2-Will Skylake have a new socket ? 3-Will I be able to "upgrade" to Skylake on Socket 1150...
  25. MentalIlness

    What is a good upgrade from a 9800GTX ?

    My secondary rig below...currently has the E7200 cpu and a Gigabyte UD3P motherboard. Decided to give it to my son to may games on. It no longer has the HD 6870 since a year ago I traded it to my brother. Anyway, what would be a good pair for a Q5550, which is what I ordered to upgrade the cpu...
  26. MentalIlness

    What is the best upgrade to replace a Core 2 E7200?

    The motherboard is a Gigabyte UD3P Socket 775. This is strictly a backup PC and has been in storage a while, but I want to upgrade the CPU and add some more memory so my son can play games on it. It will have a 9800 GTX, but the games he likes, that I own actually will run on the card. I...
  27. MentalIlness

    Prey 2 ? Will it ever show up ?

    So what is the deal with this game? I for one have been looking forward to it, and now it seems they scrapped it, started over...didn't like what they had so far....started over from scratch "again"....or something to that effect. So any of you think it'll ever see the light of day? I loved the...
  28. MentalIlness

    FUD: AMD preparing Radeon R7 solid state drives

    http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/35439-amd-preparing-radeon-r7-solid-state-drives Sounds like rebranded OCZ drives AMD is definitely pushing its plan to have a hardware lineup for a complete system and after the introduction of AMD Radeon memory, a newly leaked slides suggest that the...
  29. MentalIlness

    FUD: AMD Tonga GPU comes as Radeon R9 285

    http://fudzilla.com/home/item/35382-amd-tonga-gpu-comes-as-radeon-r9-285 In late August or early September A fresh report suggest that we might see a first AMD Tonga GPU as soon as late August or early September and the first graphics card with the new GPU should be the Radeon R9 285. The...
  30. MentalIlness

    Kitguru : Nvidia to release three GeForce GTX 800 graphics cards this October

    http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/nvidia-to-release-three-geforce-gtx-800-graphics-cards-this-october/ July 29th, 2014 at 12:00 am - Author Anton Shilov While it was expected that Nvidia Corp. plans to launch two...
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    Windows Vista / Windows 7. AMD's latest drivers question.

    My brother has Windows Vista-64. I have Windows 7-64. I am giving him my ole HD6870 and going to put the drivers on a thumb drive for him. On the AMD site, it says that the latest drivers for Vista-64 is 13.12's and the latest for Windows 7-64 is the 14.4's. Can he still use the 14.4 drivers...
  32. MentalIlness

    Guitar guys! RG450 pickup upgrade. Recommendations?

    The RG has been here about a week now...sounds good...and all that "stuff" lol. Anyway, the INF3/4 pickups are fine...but want something with a little more. Gonna be going with a speaker cab and head in about a month, so which pickups would you "electric guitar players" recommend? I know...
  33. MentalIlness

    Gaming keyboard recommendation?

    I posted a while back about the EVGA Torq 10 mouse...and very recently picked up the standard version of that mouse, not the carbon fiber one. Anyway, I am now looking for a Gaming keyboard. The keyboard I am eyeing is the Corsair K70 MX Cherry Red Mechanical. I do however "want" a mechanical...
  34. MentalIlness

    The "realistic" Mario!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SXs3JZgZtk Although he hits blocks with his fist...and not his head. :)
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    Crysis 2 worth playing ? Screenshots added in OP. Modded

    I know, I am really late to be playing Crysis. But I just recently finished the first one, including Warhead. So finally decided to install Crysis 2. Is the 2Gb download to improve the graphics actually make the game better? Look better? Or is the differences minimal and not worth the time? I...
  36. MentalIlness

    The Division developer went from hardcore PC studio to consoles

    Massive Entertainment went from being a 'very, very hardcore PC gamer studio' to 'focusing on this generation of consoles like crazy We've been through a crazy week or so with Ubisoft, with the company deliberately gimping the PC version of Watch Dogs, claiming that the next-gen console...
  37. MentalIlness

    Ubisoft promises Far Cry 4 on PS4, Xbox One is equal to high-end PC

    http://www.tweaktown.com/news/38517/ubisoft-promises-far-cry-4-on-ps4-xbox-one-is-equal-to-high-end-pc/index.html Come on, Ubisoft - the Internet and PC community is still rabid about Watch Dogs being gimped on PC, but now promising something once again for your other big title coming soon -...
  38. MentalIlness

    USB mouse keeps losing signal...regardless of USB port

    This is really frustrating. My USB mouse will randomly just stop working. The optical red light will go off. If I change USB ports, it will come back on, for a few minutes, then go off again. Change USB port again, will work a few minutes, and off once again. Been doing this for two weeks now...