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Re: Group Policy: Troubleshooting

imog — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:09:50 -0000

In Phase 1 - Refresh Intervals, the course states that we'll address refresh intervals for users, computers, domain controllers and review GPUpdate. We then proceed to skip straight to running GPUpdate, making no acknowledgement of refresh intervals for users/computers/DCs.

Re: HD 5870 BIOS Flashing

imog — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:30:29 -0000

For those who missed it earlier in the week, we ran this user review on this same model card:
http://www.overclockers.com...

Re: Setting Up OS RAID With Windows 7 Ultimate

imog — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:29:28 -0000

You'll need the professional or ultimate versions of Windows 7 for mirroring. From what I'm reading, Home Premium does not support dynamic disks, thus does not support mirroring. You may want to confirm this for yourself - I couldn't find a source to confirm this information direct from Microsoft.

Re: Out of the Loop?

imog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:51:11 -0000

Good point, bad attention to detail on my part.

My sentiment still stands in regards to most power users and overclockers. I have a hard time thinking there are many people in these groups who would find 4GB limiting.

Even those with more than 4GB, I'd expect they'd welcomely admit they find its overkill a majority of the time.

Re: Out of the Loop?

imog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:17:49 -0000

I would disagree with bumping ram up to 6GB for most users, and even most overclockers. The only justification I can see for that is because RAM is so cheap right now, but still there are more crucial places you can put your money that you want to invest in computer parts... I'd personally stick it away in an SSD fund.

On linux, I'm running an XP virtual machine over 75% of the time I'm running this T400 with 2GB, and I never run low on RAM. Most users wouldn't be running a virtual machine. I don't know what most users could be doing on a desktop machine to require more than 4GB.

Seems it could only be a wise choice in very edge cases for users with very demanding, non-average application requirements.

Re: Review and Overclocking results of the Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R Motherboard

imog — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:22:26 -0000

I'd recommend asking that question in this forum thread, as it has more details also:
http://www.ocforums.com/sho...

Re: MSI Mega Stick1 - Faulty Connector, Cheap Fix

imog — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:22:51 -0000

Mike, thank you for bringing this article to our attention. Overclockers.com went thru a migration from a static site to a Joomla powered site, and some articles didn't migrate fully. Since you mentioned this article, I went ahead and fixed the article so the rest of the information your looking for is now included.

In the near future, we're migrating to wordpress - so hopefully as a side effect that will also fix semi-broken articles like this one.

Thanks again!

Re: Using Your Old Socket 775 Mounting Hardware On Your Brand New P55 Setup

imog — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:39:44 -0000

sno.lcn from the forum wrote this article, he is listed very clearly as the author. I gave the final say that the article was ready to be published.

There are no pictures of "the modded heat sink" because the heatsink wasn't modified in any way - only the mounting hardware was custom done to make the heatsink work on a platform it wasn't designed for. There are 4 pictures of this custom mounting hardware which sno.lcn designed himself. Also, you refer to a link to the original article that is locked - there is no link to any locked thread. There is a link to sno.lcn's forum user profile, where you can contact him if you'd like to. The forums require you to sign up, as forums always do.

As for your other comments, this is a community site - if you want to improve things or contribute, contact me at spamisyummy@gmail.com and you can get involved. You can also clarify your feedback at that address and it will be taken under better consideration. Otherwise, your just griping idly and I disagree with your summation - we run 4 or 5 good articles a week and most have been getting good feedback.

Re: Setting Up OS RAID With Windows 7 Ultimate

imog — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:21:52 -0000

I'm not sure what the authors and content editors have in store, but they are always looking to cover topics more completely. If any readers would like to request a storage topic of interest, make your article requests here:
http://www.ocforums.com/sho...

As always, we also accept conributions from readers, and you can get involved by posting in the forums there!

Re: Mouse Clicking Troubles? DIY Repair

imog — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:52:10 -0000

Thanks for posting your comment. When overclockers.com moved off the old grey site, they migrated all material into the current Joomla site using an automated process. That process worked great, tho not %100.

Since you brought this to our attention, I went in and fixed it manually - you should see the whole content now.

Re: My Favorite Freeware for Windows

imog — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:23:42 -0000

I'd also add PDFCreator. It's open source, free, and allows PDF creation from any application by printing to a special "PDF Creator" print queue which prompts you for where to save the file. The created PDF's are standards compliant and completely inter-operable with Adobe's products.

Re: My ATI Radion 4870 X2 Makes My Room Baking!

imog — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:35:34 -0000

The added resistance in the length of tubing and extra exchanger would be non-trivial, so your pump would need to be up to the task. You'd want to observe results and gauge which performs better to determine if its worth it.

Re: X1800XT Cooling Mod

imog — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:16:40 -0000

If your doing this, just keep in mind to support it properly - the card and the socket aren't made to have a giant cooler hanging off. The stress on the PCB and socket could lead to problems down the road - I've seen people on the forums address this by also doing mods to support the card better.

Re: The Importance of Northbridge Overclocking with the Phenom II

imog — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:28:06 -0000

There's more great stuff in the pipeline from Dolk, so you've got more to look forward to. If you'd like to write anything similar, or contribute to the frontage in any way, contact me through the forums.

Re: Leisure Links

imog — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:05:33 -0000

Contact me thru the forums via private message. A bi-weekly or monthly commitment is good... a regular, consistent schedule that you can stick to still contributes.

You don't need to know HTML, we are on Joomla currently and it has a WYSIWYG editor (plain text essentially). Wordpress will be different when we switch over to that (month or 2, hopefully), but also won't require HTML knowledge. Additionally, most submissions come in currently thru .DOC or .ODT format - we'll work with what you can provide.

Re: Leisure Links

imog — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:46:30 -0000

ozzlo, armedzagi - would you be interested in writing these "best of forums" articles?

Re: Intel i7 920 - Finding The Sweet Spot

imog — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:42:06 -0000

Thanks for the feedback. A lot of effort is underway in the forum to gather and promote good forum content and members like this.

If your interested in getting involved in any way, contact me thru the forum!

@Ozzlo: Nice addition!

Re: iNET Interactive Acquires Overclockers

imog — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:48:03 -0000

Further forum discussion about the changes and what the forum is doing to support this effort:
http://www.ocforums.com/sho...

Re: Windows 7 - Two Thoughts

imog — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:27:52 -0000

While Grub could do it, since your only talking about windows systems EasyBCD would be the way to go.

Here is an involved guide with all the details you could possibly need:
http://apcmag.com/how_to_du...

Here's a quick and dirty guide which may be more straightforward for you to understand:
http://www.techspot.com/gui...

Re: Two Articles Worth Reading

imog — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:18:24 -0000

How do you know it's virus/malware free if you aren't running software which detects an infection? Your window of vulnerability is inordinately high, considering your running a platform thats inordinately vulnerable.

Writing a trojan which activates a keylogger that activates when you visit certain banking websites it monitors then uploads that captured keylogging back over the internet... Isn't hard.

This is one example, from 2004:
http://www.viruslist.com/en...

Any virus doing the same thing today is far more advanced, tho they commonly use similar tactics. Without a virus application, it'd be pure chance by which you'd realize you were infected - a good trojan doesn't cause any problems and does its job quietly.

Other than that, I agree an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Problem is that attacks are so sophisticated now you can literally get drive-by exploited without performing any questionable activities and while being a responsible user.

I still run windows in a VM, and I use antivirus on that installation, but I rarely if ever access the internet from it - Not a chance I'm doing any online banking or sensitive/"secure" transactions from it.

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition

imog — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:44:02 -0000

PII overclocking results thread in the forum:
http://www.ocforums.com/sho...

PII comparison with i7 in the forum:
http://www.ocforums.com/sho...

Re: Windows 7 Upgrade Chart

imog — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:31:37 -0000

I think you mean it's generally pretty foolish to upgrade a WINDOWS install from one major version to the next.

Linux upgrades are typically more incremental in nature due to the way updates are handled with their development cycles - if you keep up with the updates on a regular basis, it's nowhere near as monolithic of a change as it is on a Windows Environment switching between major releases. That's because linux distros typically do annual, bi-annual, or rolling release schedules - they aren't going years between major versions because they don't operate under the same financial axioms which Microsoft is constrained by.

For your friend, you should have him stop by the Alt OS forum at OC Forums - doing a clean install likely isn't necessary... Even if the system isn't bootable, you can boot from a LiveCD and chroot into your linux environment to recover from the issue. From there, he can pull the relevant log files and we can determine what went wrong and correct it. (chrooting isn't even necessary to get the log files, just a liveCD - chroot may be used to ultimately resolve his problem tho, depending on the current state of his system.)

Re: Desktops Dead?

imog — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:17:14 -0000

Are we coming full circle Joe?

When I joined the forums in 2002 after a couple years of reading the frontpage, there was a lot of talk about struggling with the new size of the forums. The activity was much higher than when it launched, and many of the original folks felt as tho their close knit community had changed - it had, it was bigger and less personal on average.

Reading slashdot today, I saw this quote in reference to wikipedia and the nature of growing communities, which I believe applies somewhat to our topic at hand:
"As you run out of food, people start competing for that food, and that results in a slowdown in population growth and means that the stronger, more well-adapted part of the population starts to have more power."

While the overclocking community may be shrinking compared to what we perceive as its peak some years ago, going forward the more fit and well adapted online presences will carry on with more influence across the community than ever before. It could also mean we get back to a tighter knit group of friends who share more closely in our challenges and triumphs.

I'm not entirely convinced our enthusiast community is getting any smaller, or that the DIY build crowd is shrinking, but even if it were... I see positives that come along with that also. Those of us who enjoy the fundamental items which initially got us into this hobby, will keep doing it and sharing our results and advice.

Re: Windows 7 Upgrade Chart

imog — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:44:48 -0000

I'd read an article on running fiber or a wireless ISP. Get it to Joe and I bet he'd post it within a week.

It's hard producing interesting content on your own every day of the week, and I'm sure a break would be welcome.

Re: Windows 7 Upgrade Chart

imog — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:46:43 -0000

I'll side-step the vitriol, which you seem to have recognized on your own thru hindsight.

How can you be part of the solution? Develop and submit articles, or gather content and get it submitted.

If you don't have the time or resources to develop and submit articles, I see you mentioned the forums - there are plenty of people doing interesting things there which I haven't seen on the frontpage. Joe doesn't have time to scour the forums for golden nuggets. Contact the people who are doing great stuff, and ask them if they'd be interested in submitting their stuff to Joe as an article - if not, ask if you can write an article or summary about what they are doing for the frontpage.

The highest points this site ever hit were due to community involvement - we made it into the major tech rags when the cpudatabase was hot, before it was overshadowed by hwbot (but we were doing it first). The most interesting technical articles I've ever read here were user contributed also.