The PC Snobbery Thread

[twonunpackmule]

And I thought I had badmouthed Apple long enough. Lol.

Just don't blow my cover Troy, will you?

It's all an elaborate hoax. You bad mouth Apple to make it look like your not secretly working for them. You then proceed to post countless problems that you've faced with PCs.


It genius. But I got you figured out.

Justin Long.

[CorruptedDragon]

Jeez, we certainly get a lot of celebrities in this thread! First Gabe Newell now Justin Long!

[Badger3920]

Anyone have any experience with wireless access points/repeaters? I need to extend my home wireless range by about 50 feet and I'm not sure how to best go about it.

Hey favelle,

I went with this guy because it was $60. I have a house where there is a building in the backyard that is detached and actually has my garage, then a furnished office, and then my theater in it. The owners before us actually had it zoned for commercial work lol. Unfortunately, what this meant for me, was that I could either have cable internet in my office, or in my house - and as you can imagine, I wanted BOTH. The cable company said they couldnt do anything, and even a decent Wireless N router couldnt get signal from the front room in the house (where the TV and wifi laptops are used) to the office (where internet is obviously needed).

So the answer was this thing. You just set it up once, then it can sit in any plug on the wall. Put it somewhere in your house toward the edge of your wireless coverage - but where there is still pretty decent coverage. It will extend your range without adding any real latency or loss; I'd say mine more than doubled my range but YMMV. I havent tried gaming on that extended range, but netflix streams perfectly, we can skype on it; most the essentials work great etc.

$60

[Favelle]

Hey favelle,

I went with this guy because it was $60. I have a house where there is a building in the backyard that is detached and actually has my garage, then a furnished office, and then my theater in it. The owners before us actually had it zoned for commercial work lol. Unfortunately, what this meant for me, was that I could either have cable internet in my office, or in my house - and as you can imagine, I wanted BOTH. The cable company said they couldnt do anything, and even a decent Wireless N router couldnt get signal from the front room in the house (where the TV and wifi laptops are used) to the office (where internet is obviously needed).

So the answer was this thing. You just set it up once, then it can sit in any plug on the wall. Put it somewhere in your house toward the edge of your wireless coverage - but where there is still pretty decent coverage. It will extend your range without adding any real latency or loss; I'd say mine more than doubled my range but YMMV. I havent tried gaming on that extended range, but netflix streams perfectly, we can skype on it; most the essentials work great etc.

$60

So after I decide on a range extender....what do I have to do? Allow WDS on my existing wireless router?

[twonunpackmule]

Jeez, we certainly get a lot of celebrities in this thread! First Gabe Newell now Justin Long!

If only I was Newell. I'd get all the ladies.

[Badger3920]

So after I decide on a range extender....what do I have to do? Allow WDS on my existing wireless router?

I dont recall the exact steps. It took me like 10 minutes and it mostly does the work for you. If I recall (and this is a stretch) I didnt have to change any of my router configurations. This thing simply logs into your wireless connection and repeats back and forth.

[Favelle]

I dont recall the exact steps. It took me like 10 minutes and it mostly does the work for you. If I recall (and this is a stretch) I didnt have to change any of my router configurations. This thing simply logs into your wireless connection and repeats back and forth.

Beauty. That sounds ridiculously simple!

[Badger3920]

I hope my recollection is correct lol, but it's a snap

[MA16v3]

Save money on cooling systems. Go to Kroger.
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[Badger3920]

I'm currently spraying down all my parts with PAM

[MA16v3]

One of my friends wants me to do this so he can cook some crab rangoon while I game/render video. I like his thinking.

[Tnecniv]

Well, to add to the 3D Mark 11 nerdiness, erm coolness, ran the test again just now. For some reason, I remember getting lower score last time I ran it. I scored higher here with same configuration as last time, except for driver version of course. Last time, IIRC, I think I ran it with nvidia whql 275, this time beta 301.24.

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3328618;jses...3extr9hewex79o

For those too lazy to click, P5577 with 2600k@4.5ghz/gtx570 stock.

[UnbiddenKarma]

Well, to add to the 3D Mark 11 nerdiness, erm coolness, ran the test again just now. For some reason, I remember getting lower score last time I ran it. I scored higher here with same configuration as last time, except for driver version of course. Last time, IIRC, I think I ran it with nvidia whql 275, this time beta 301.24.

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3328618;jses...3extr9hewex79o

For those too lazy to click, P5577 with 2600k@4.5ghz/gtx570 stock.

Very nice physics score! I know it's just e-peen wagging and in games there is close to no noticeable difference between the 2500k and the 2600k but for some reason on these benchmarks it really does benefit from the hyperthreading. I bet you also have a 7.9 WEI.... mine is stuck at 7.7

[Tnecniv]

Haha yeah, totally fine w/2500k for gaming, if I could go back, I'd go for the 2500 instead and save some money.

For WEI, my disk data transfer is bottlenecking score at 5.9. I've got a healthy 7200rpm spinner, but am guessing SSD is required to get a 7+ for wei? All my other scores range between 7.4 for graphics - 7.8 for processor and RAM.

[UnbiddenKarma]

Raid drives where you stripe the data (0 or 5 for example) may be able to break the 5.9 mark but don't take my word on it.