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    Crazy load cycle counts on WD Reds?

    I started getting SMART alerts today because one of my 2.5 year old 4TB WD Red drives exceeded 600,000 load cycles. I checked and all 4 in the pool are nearing this threshold. Back of the envelope calculations tell me this means there is a load cycle every 2-3 minutes? This seems crazy to me...
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    Win 10 upgrade or downgrade for media center users

    Almost..... They don't have copy protected channels working with the hack yet, and a lot of people report problems getting extenders to work. Support for older tuners is very iffy.
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    WMC officially dead for Windows 10 and beyond

    That article is so full of crap. The stuff about 2-way is FAR BEYOND misleading. Tru-2Way is essentially a spec for the cable box to hand over control to Java applets that know the protocol for sending back to the cable company. So it would require (a) running the same Java apps on your...
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    Silicon Dust attempt at a DVR capable of recording protected content?

    Is there a .wtv to .ts converter that doesn't lose any metadata (and preferably even keeps closed captions?) Actually according to Wikipedia, .ts doesn't support metadata tags, so I guess those are in a separate XML file or something?
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    Windows Media CENTER users, what do you use it for?

    It doesn't support blu-rays... At least not without some 3rd party add-on like TMT...
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    Windows Media CENTER users, what do you use it for?

    Is it an unrepresentative sample? Probably, I'll grant that. But the idea it is used primarily for DVDs is preposterous. In fact, when MS mentioned the low usage (6% launching it at least once in July 2011), they specifically said TV was the most used feature, and that physical media use was...
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    Windows Media CENTER users, what do you use it for?

    For me it is at least 3 of the above. (And DVD is NOT one of the 3). But the polls only allow 10 choices, so I phrased it as what do you *primarily* use it for. Ideal would be a poll that lets you check multiple boxes.
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    Windows Media CENTER users, what do you use it for?

    According to @GabeAul, people primarily use WMC for DVD Playback. Let's just say this seems a bit implausible. Created a poll here to see what you guys primarily use it for. https://twitter.com/GabeAul/status/595326865205817346
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    Raw Read Error Rate value buggy on Corsair Neutron?

    My 512GB Neutron has a raw read error rate value of "1" (raw value 0x00008104) after 2-3 weeks uptime. This is at least the 3rd time this has happened, if I COLD boot, the counter will reset to near 200 with a raw value near 0. Windows restart does not reset it. CrystalDiskInfo, Stablebit...
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    Forums are extremely slow

    I am only seeing it load ridiculously slow when at home. I found it is actually loading dramatically faster right now on my cell phone which is barely connected since I'm in the basement than it is on my 35Mbps FIOS. Traceroute shows FIOS is reaching the forums through cogent.... so maybe...
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    Is there such a thing as a 4+4 to 8 pin 12V ATX adapter?

    My PSU has a 4+4 pin ATX 12V arrangement (Rosewill Capstone 550-M) Motherboard has an 8-pin connector (Asus Z87-Pro). The part of the motherboard connector that is thicker for the cable to clip on to is at the center of the 8 pin connector. The clips on the 4+4 cable are at the center of...
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    Is today's xbox 360 update an April Fools Prank?

    Seriously I've never seen it update near this slow. And the only new feature we are told about is switching the overpriced XBOX Live Videos between devices?
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    Windows Symbolic Link Question

    Not automated, but this will make your life a lot easier than creating the links from command line: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html
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    CHKDSK errors even after boot time checkdisk

    There are no event log messages about the drives, at all. One thing I noticed checking the drives from safe mode so drivepool isn't started up using them, is that on one of the drives the # of bytes it is checking of the USN journal goes to 4GB, then like -220 MB. in the last second. Maybe...
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    CHKDSK errors even after boot time checkdisk

    One drive has clean SMART info, the other has 6 pending sectors (which read fine on a surface scan, it has had them a few weeks now, but apparently there is a bit error getting corrected on them by ECC so the drive is waiting for them to be explicitly rewritten).
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    Windows XP market share climbs again as customers dig their heels in

    One way to get rid of the nag screen will be to run Windows 2000, which is basically XP without the stupid screen space wasting skin. Or run Windows 98 with NTFSDOS for supporting modern disk sizes sanely. With fewer background services it might in fact be safer than XP.
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    Have you ever met anyone at all who uses 32-Bit Windows 7 or 8 on their home PC?

    I have yet to meet a single one of my wifes friends or family using a 64-bit OS.
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    CHKDSK errors even after boot time checkdisk

    The monthly scan from Stablebit Scanner told me I had 2 drives with corrupt filesystems. Not too big a surprise, as I have had several unclean reboots in the past month when I had some UI (including explorer) freezes after enabling WiFi and playing around with a bunch of network sniffers to try...
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    Is Microsoft playing a dangeous game of chicken with the internet? (XP)

    And in some ways, even that was a huge step backwards. The best version of MS Word for a VERY long time was Word 4.0a for the Mac. Oddly, version 4.0a was written before the first Mac was actually sold (the splash screen says copyright April 10, 1983). It fit on a single-sided 400KB floppy...
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    Is MS ever going to fix the "defects in workmanship" in Windows 7?

    The Windows 7 defrag works fine for me, automatically running nightly on everything except my C: drive which is an SSD. Sure it lacks a GUI when running it manually, but I don't really see a problem there. If you want a more fine grained defrag control there is always Sysinternals Contig or...
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    2x ssHd's in RAID - twice or half as effective SSD?

    I wouldn't say "twice" as effective, but probably significantly better in most cases than the single drive. You are basically paying $50 extra for a SSHD vs. a regular HDD, plus paying another $50-100 to have your data split into 2 drives instead of 1. You can get a 120GB SSD for boot/apps for...
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    The curious case of footprints in the snow.

    The compressed snow gets hit by less wind since it is closer to the ground. Especially while the surrounding snow is blocking wind as well, so the parts of the snow pushed down will be the last to start melting. Also, sunlight hitting the compressed snow is more likely to make it to the...
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    Free XBOX stuff including XBL Gold memberships?

    McDonald's has a promo where you get game tickets with a lot of the items. You can also get tickets without buying anything by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to them with the instructions at http://onehotholiday.com/ EVERY ticket wins something. 1 in 10,001 wins an XBOX One. Edit...
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    Which would you buy? Win 7 or Win 8.1?

    But are you running the 64-bit edition? The x64 version of 8.1 won't run on the original single core Athlon 64's or the first gen of X2s or the first few generations of Opterons because they don't have a 128-bit compare exchange instruction. As a general rule, if the 64-bit CPU is old enough...
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    PSA: If you upgrade to IE11/DX11.1 with ATI, you probably also want new GPU drivers

    Well no, but updating it helps to stop Windows Update from nagging you. And some apps might use it as a COM object embedded in a form.
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    PSA: If you upgrade to IE11/DX11.1 with ATI, you probably also want new GPU drivers

    I noticed I had 1-2 logical cores pegged at all times by MMLoadDrv.exe and looked this up to find it was ATI HDMI audio drivers. Looking through the event log also revealed about a dozen various error messages per second from ACEEventLogSource. It definitely wasn't doing this before a few...
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    Any low priced power efficient quad cores matching Jaguar?

    Pure CPU wise, any Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge or Haswell will blow away Jaguar, including an i3. Graphics wise, pretty much all the modern integrated GPUs are limited by memory bandwidth. XBOX One uses only 2133MHz DDR3. You can do much better than this on Haswell. Of course its best to...
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    my idle temps are lolz in the winter (i love my babies)

    Nope. Around this time I discovered the convenience of being able to just leave the groceries on the counter after shopping instead of going through them. Protip: egg whites freeze long before the yolks, which is cool because then you can crack the whites to make yolk omeletes...
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    Microsoft may bring back windows 7 style start menu in "Windows 8.2"

    Nope. There are 64 bit versions of XP, Vista, Windows 7, and even Windows NT (if you count the DEC Alpha). And there is a 32 bit version of Windows 8. Which oddly enough the first couple generations of x64 processors are restricted to because of new instructions used by the 64-bit version...
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    Microsoft may bring back windows 7 style start menu in "Windows 8.2"

    Don't know who made these lists but they are mostly BS. Virtual Memory Non-Determinism was introduced in Vista (so of course Win7 has it as well). It still only applies on a per-app basis (the app must be built with a flag to allow it). There is no reason for x64 bit applications built using...
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    my idle temps are lolz in the winter (i love my babies)

    About the same as mine. Good to see I'm not the only one sleeping with the window open. I once had a temp alarm go off on motherboard monitor because it assumed the sensor was broken when it read -1C.
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    Silicon Alternatives

    If HP & Samsung's memristor claims pan out, we'll be migrating to Titanium dioxide.
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    Haswell "K" people - What is your VID and best stable overclock?

    I think the multiplier is locked for a max of 3.9GHz with normal bus speed. But the AiSuite increases BCLK, and defaulted to 39x115.3 or something like that.
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    Haswell "K" people - What is your VID and best stable overclock?

    I have to laugh at this a bit. I have a 4770S, not K. VID is 0.825. It stays at 0.825 when under load and turboed to 3.9GHz. Yes that's right, 0.825. Before I uninstalled the Asus AiSuite crap that came with the motherboard CD since I don't actually want my whole-home DVR to be overclocked...
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    [H] Disable Intel Speedstep etc.

    When dual core CPUs were first introduced, there was an issue with the QueryPerformanceCounter API getting a count that would sometimes move backwards if your thread switched from one core to another and the counters on the cores weren't in sync, resulting in about what you are seeing. Add...
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    i7 870 throttling?

    Ah, yeah. You will need to get to the back of the motherboard to install it. Which is the case with all the decent LGA115x heatsinks unfortunately. So its probably best to just wait until you build your new system. And if this is going to be a spare, rarely used system, what you might try...
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    i7 870 throttling?

    What about something like this? It's going to be hard to do worse than the stock Intel heatsink.
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    [Ocaholic] Interesting Findings - 2500k/3570k/4670k Comparison

    Heat sink is not mentioned in their test setup. While they are probably the easiest to install and remove to go from testing one CPU to the next, Intel stock heatsinks are garbage, and the defective by-design plastic pins will stretch a bit more and get even worse-performing with each...
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    I can't create restore points?

    Did you do any hardware upgrades that may have made windows think it is a new machine? RAM or CPU upgrade can trigger it. When this happens, it breaks DRM and system restore. Easy test is to try Netflix, if that is the problem you won't be able to stream anything in it. I don't remember...
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    USB3 Hubs which actually power drives, run at full speed?

    I have an Anker 7 port hub, and can confirm I routinely get 100-150MB/s on it.
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