[Carl CJ Johnsons Brother Brian]

QUOTE (Ryan @ Saturday, Sep 15 2012, 22:31)

EVGA GTX 650 [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mh1X1.png[IMG]

Lol, yeah, that's even a lot smaller than my Gigabyte GeForce GTX460 OC 1GB.

[Ferocious Banger]

How to connect PS3 to my monitor. How do I know whether my monitor has a HDMI port or not?

[Carl CJ Johnsons Brother Brian]

QUOTE (Ferocious Banger @ Saturday, Sep 22 2012, 11:15)

How to connect PS3 to my monitor. How do I know whether my monitor has a HDMI port or not?

Look behind your monitor and look if it has an interface that looks similar to this:


If yes then that's HDMI.

[Ferocious Banger]

QUOTE (Carl CJ Johnsons Brother Brian @ Saturday, Sep 22 2012, 16:50)

QUOTE (Ferocious Banger @ Saturday, Sep 22 2012, 11:15) How to connect PS3 to my monitor. How do I know whether my monitor has a HDMI port or not? Look behind your monitor and look if it has an interface that looks similar to this: If yes then that's HDMI.

Is this the thing place where we screw the two 'screw-like' things?

[PrometheusX]

QUOTE (Ferocious Banger @ Saturday, Sep 22 2012, 11:38)

QUOTE (Carl CJ Johnsons Brother Brian @ Saturday, Sep 22 2012, 16:50) QUOTE (Ferocious Banger @ Saturday, Sep 22 2012, 11:15) How to connect PS3 to my monitor. How do I know whether my monitor has a HDMI port or not? Look behind your monitor and look if it has an interface that looks similar to this: [IMG]http://www.optimization-world.com/img/prod/hdmi_hdmi_coupler.jpg[IMG] If yes then that's HDMI. Is this the thing place where we screw the two 'screw-like' things?

That's a VGA cable, the HDMI one doesn't have any screws.

Comparision

[Ferocious Banger]

Feck it. I'm going to do it in the normal way. But I have one problem. I only have a SDTV. How will ps3 games look on it? Ugly? Hope not.

[finn4life]

QUOTE (Ferocious Banger @ Sunday, Sep 23 2012, 02:45)

Feck it. I'm going to do it in the normal way. But I have one problem. I only have a SDTV. How will ps3 games look on it? Ugly? Hope not.

No they look fine dude, the difference between 720p and 1080p is pretty minimal, don't even worry about it.
However do use the HDMI cable even if it's Standard Definition, it's a little easier just having one plug.

[illegal_luggage]

QUOTE (finn4life @ Sunday, Sep 23 2012, 01:28)

the difference between 720p and 1080p is pretty minimal, don't even worry about it.

1280x720 = 927,600 pixels
1920x1080 = 2,073,600 pixels

That's quite a difference although consoles only play games at 720p and upscale it so it may say 1080p on the TV but it's not proper 1080p.
Speaking of TV's it really annoys me that most of them have that stupid overscan setting on by default. Every TV in my house had absolutely rubbish settings; some had the contrast set to 100 and black stretch was on so you couldn't see anything. The person whos job it was to set the default settings for Toshiba needs to be sacked as I could setup a TV better than them.

[Pico]

QUOTE (illegal_luggage @ Saturday, Sep 29 2012, 12:53)

QUOTE (finn4life @ Sunday, Sep 23 2012, 01:28) the difference between 720p and 1080p is pretty minimal, don't even worry about it. 1280x720 = 927,600 pixels 1920x1080 = 2,073,600 pixels That's quite a difference although consoles only play games at 720p and upscale it so it may say 1080p on the TV but it's not proper 1080p. Speaking of TV's it really annoys me that most of them have that stupid overscan setting on by default. Every TV in my house had absolutely rubbish settings; some had the contrast set to 100 and black stretch was on so you couldn't see anything. The person whos job it was to set the default settings for Toshiba needs to be sacked as I could setup a TV better than them.

On top of that, an SDTV isn't 720, it's 480x640. The numbers correspond with the vertical pixel count, so 1080 is that many pixels tall... 720, and 480. So SD is quite a substantial difference. The image below shows the three. Decreasing the pixel count from 1080 (which I believe is what the PS3 outputs) will be a drastic decrease in clarity. You likely won't be able to read any text, such as in captions when characters are speaking. For example, say a letter on a 1080 image is 12 pixels tall, it will need to be reduces to about 5 pixels. You'll lose more than half the clarity of it.

Conversely, displaying a 480 image on 1080 has similar drawbacks in that a 12 pixel letter will be stretched to fill about 27 pixels. These extra pixels are just being duplicated in proportion (1 black pixel now becomes 2 or 3), generally resulting in blurry lines. Some TVs have additional hardware/software to compensate by running filters to minimize the negative effect but it's never perfect.



This post has been edited by Pico on Sunday, Sep 30 2012, 07:28

[Stinky12]

Just got my SSD and decided to find out if hardware configuration will affect how long it will take to install Windows 7?
On 3 different socket 1155 boards, with the exact same CPU, 4GB (4x1GB) DDR3 1333MHz and SATA set to ACHI in bios.
Install Windows 7 Professional 64bit with Service Pack 1 on a clean SSD, here are the following times it took to complete

-Intel board on Intel H61 chipset (SATA 3Gb/s) = 10min:30sec
-Gigabyte board on Intel B75 chipset (SATA 3Gb/s) = 14min:57sec, on SATA 6Gb/s = 14min:53sec
-MSI board on Intel H61 chipset (SATA 3Gb/s) = DNC (did not complete) as I purposely stopped it, since it's already 15minutes into the
installation and "expanding Windows files" is still at 50%. If the install did complete, then estimated time would be at least 20 minutes.
After tested on all 3 boards, I attach the SSD back on the Intel board, thinking if a brand new SSD out of the package will a have any performance difference compared to a SSD with its partition wiped out. And on the Intel board it still took the exact same time of 10min:30sec.
So SSD out of package compare to SSD with partition wiped out = no difference it takes to install the OS


This post has been edited by Stinky12 on Monday, Oct 1 2012, 22:35

[gtamann123]

My Ipod keeps crashing for no obvious reason. It happens about 95% of the time on safari but has occured on some apps as well and used to happen a lot when i was using a private browser but i stopped using it. It just crashes back to the home screen and i have to reopen safari or whatever app i was using at the time. Its really annoying and seems to happen most often when i'm loading a page or a google search and when it crashes i have to wait for the page to load again. An example is that I was trying to write this very question and it crashed about 4 times until I finally gave up and fired up my moms PC. So does anyone out there know what could cause this?

[Stinky12]

QUOTE (gtamann123 @ Monday, Oct 1 2012, 22:52)

My Ipod keeps crashing for no obvious reason. It happens about 95% of the time on safari but has occured on some apps as well and used to happen a lot when i was using a private browser but i stopped using it. It just crashes back to the home screen and i have to reopen safari or whatever app i was using at the time. Its really annoying and seems to happen most often when i'm loading a page or a google search and when it crashes i have to wait for the page to load again. An example is that I was trying to write this very question and it crashed about 4 times until I finally gave up and fired up my moms PC. So does anyone out there know what could cause this?

Make sure your iPod is up to date. Another is to reboot the device or turn off anything that's still running.

[gtamann123]

QUOTE (Stinky12 @ Tuesday, Oct 2 2012, 01:56)

QUOTE (gtamann123 @ Monday, Oct 1 2012, 22:52) My Ipod keeps crashing for no obvious reason. It happens about 95% of the time on safari but has occured on some apps as well and used to happen a lot when i was using a private browser but i stopped using it. It just crashes back to the home screen and i have to reopen safari or whatever app i was using at the time. Its really annoying and seems to happen most often when i'm loading a page or a google search and when it crashes i have to wait for the page to load again. An example is that I was trying to write this very question and it crashed about 4 times until I finally gave up and fired up my moms PC. So does anyone out there know what could cause this? Make sure your iPod is up to date. Another is to reboot the device or turn off anything that's still running.

I don't have the new update so you may he eight. How do I get it? Donibhave to plug it into the computer?

[finn4life]

QUOTE (illegal_luggage @ Sunday, Sep 30 2012, 06:53)

QUOTE (finn4life @ Sunday, Sep 23 2012, 01:28) the difference between 720p and 1080p is pretty minimal, don't even worry about it. 1280x720 = 927,600 pixels 1920x1080 = 2,073,600 pixels That's quite a difference although consoles only play games at 720p and upscale it so it may say 1080p on the TV but it's not proper 1080p. Speaking of TV's it really annoys me that most of them have that stupid overscan setting on by default. Every TV in my house had absolutely rubbish settings; some had the contrast set to 100 and black stretch was on so you couldn't see anything. The person whos job it was to set the default settings for Toshiba needs to be sacked as I could setup a TV better than them.

Thanks for explaining how pixels work, I was speaking in the context of consoles though and I can't tell the difference between the two on my 42 inch, but I sit a moderate distanceaway, also I was trying to make it clear that games look fine on 720 , but a 1080 would would be better.
There are however some native 1080p console games, but there aren't many.

Thanks pico for reminding me (seriously this time) about the SD correction, lately I have been referring to SD as 720, so if ferocious meant 480, well yeah games will look kinda ugly in comparison to 720 or 1080.

This post has been edited by finn4life on Wednesday, Oct 3 2012, 23:17

[Stinky12]

QUOTE (gtamann123 @ Tuesday, Oct 2 2012, 03:20)

QUOTE (Stinky12 @ Tuesday, Oct 2 2012, 01:56) QUOTE (gtamann123 @ Monday, Oct 1 2012, 22:52) My Ipod keeps crashing for no obvious reason. It happens about 95% of the time on safari but has occured on some apps as well and used to happen a lot when i was using a private browser but i stopped using it. It just crashes back to the home screen and i have to reopen safari or whatever app i was using at the time. Its really annoying and seems to happen most often when i'm loading a page or a google search and when it crashes i have to wait for the page to load again. An example is that I was trying to write this very question and it crashed about 4 times until I finally gave up and fired up my moms PC. So does anyone out there know what could cause this? Make sure your iPod is up to date. Another is to reboot the device or turn off anything that's still running. I don't have the new update so you may he eight. How do I get it? Donibhave to plug it into the computer?

Connect your ipod to itunes and check for updates. If there is, itunes will automatically download them and update to your ipod.

[illegal_luggage]

According to this review, these new AMD processors are a bit of a let down. Even when the FX-8350 is overclocked to 4.8GHz it is still beaten by a stock i5 3570k. One problem in the review they encountered was that they couldn't overclock the ram past 1600MHz without blue screens and other problems. Perhaps there was an issue with the ram, mobo or chip?

[Stinky12]

Japan gets a special edition of Windows 8
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012...-hits-akihabara
http://vr-zone.com/articles/madobe-yuu-and...ws-8/17605.html

This post has been edited by Stinky12 on Monday, Nov 5 2012, 19:29

[finn4life]

^Haha weird ass Japanese windows.

So i bought a new HDD enclosure for my 2.5" portable drive which busted the plug.
Only now after receiving it i realize that there are two types of 2.5" drive. The difference between the two is thickness. There is the standard-ish 9mm (I think 9) drive, and the fairly rare 12.5mm drive. Well mine was the latter while my case was for the former.

Sure it's only a $5 loss and i can still use the connector thing to plug it into my computer which will be useful in the meantime, but it's just a little annoying that i have to go find another one on Ebay which will probably cost like $15-20 because it's rarer and then have to wait for shipping again.

The current enclosure i can use for my old PS3 HDD i suppose, it's only a 40Gb though.

EDIT: So i looked all over ebay, nobody wants to put the depth of their cases, all they say is "2.5" HDD enclosure/case". Grr, f*ck you Seagate and you're weird ass drives.

This post has been edited by finn4life on Wednesday, Nov 7 2012, 08:52

[Ryan]

So I installed Windows 8 on my laptop today to see what all the fuss was about. 20 minutes later I had the Windows 7 installer running. Absolutely hated Windows 8. Mind you I wasn't using a touch screen, but I still hated it. Everything was pretty simplistic in Windows 7 and Microsoft just over-complicated things with Windows 8.

[yojo2]

As far as the looks go, there's one thing I absolutely hate about Windows 8... they removed Aero Glass. Not _disabled_ it, but _removed_ completely. Why? WHy not give an option?
What's even worse, there was a modification that would restore Aero Glass support, but MS blocked the release.

Personally, I can see what they were going for: Windows 8 basically looks like a modern rendition of Whistler (XP beta). It doesn't look too bad (or maybe I just got used to it), though it would look much better with Aero Glass.