Tiff's New Build

[Honemi]

Nope. If you go through the same File Explorer, the settings for individual folders will be persistent. However, if you say, want to use Search, then that particular session will be displayed using the default settings (unless you also change the folder settings during the search File Explorer window/session).

If you want persistent settings between the different File Explorer windows/sessions without applying the settings during each window/session, then you're going want to use Templates. However, I have only seen the difference (different windows/sessions?) between File Explorer launch from the taskbar and the one launched from Search.

Another thing to note, libraries are just permanently fucked. They don't care about individual settings even when using templates apparently, so keep that in mind if you're using libraries for everything.

Am I explaining this well at all?

edit: Also, I found this for Windows Vista. I'll check around for Windows 8.x.

edit2: Let me elaborate on Libraries. My statement may have given the wrong idea. Libraries (each individual library) uses its on folder settings when you view things through them. Video library will have a different folder setting than Document library. These settings will override the folders you're in when you navigate through them. They don't touch the settings of the folders themselves, so no worries on that front.

(is it me or does folder not look like a real word when the F is capitalized)

[Tiffanys]

So I pretty much need to go to This PC/Pictures instead of Libraries/Pictures?

Done. That works. Classic Shell just had them set to libraries by default but it had the options for the normal ones so I just changed them and now it does it fine as far as I can tell so far.

edit: Whoaaa... being able to set favorite folders is extremely useful! 

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edit: Hm. Okay new problem... I have my old C in an anti-static bag and in bubble wrap in my fire safe (that sucker's not going anywhere), and I have my 3 old 1TB drives installed. I noticed I have like 50GB unallocated on one of them and I want to join it but it says "the volume requires contiguous disk extents" - what do I do?

I'm guessing use a disk management program better than Windows, but uh... suggestions for doing that?

[kitamesume]

edit: Hm. Okay new problem... I have my old C in an anti-static bag and in bubble wrap in my fire safe (that sucker's not going anywhere), and I have my 3 old 1TB drives installed. I noticed I have like 50GB unallocated on one of them and I want to join it but it says "the volume requires contiguous disk extents" - what do I do?

I'm guessing use a disk management program better than Windows, but uh... suggestions for doing that?

try this application.

(click to show/hide)

you can resize the main partition to swallow up the unallocated space.

[Tiffanys]

edit: Hm. Okay new problem... I have my old C in an anti-static bag and in bubble wrap in my fire safe (that sucker's not going anywhere), and I have my 3 old 1TB drives installed. I noticed I have like 50GB unallocated on one of them and I want to join it but it says "the volume requires contiguous disk extents" - what do I do?

I'm guessing use a disk management program better than Windows, but uh... suggestions for doing that?

try this application.

(click to show/hide)

you can resize the main partition to swallow up the unallocated space.

That worked, thanks.

btw, sheesh... everything nowadays tries to install so much adware crap. If you aren't careful you could end up infested.

[Gh0st93]

Very nice build!

[Honemi]

Uh. Sorry, Tiffanys. Apparently there is an overheating issue with the RM750 and RM850 model power supplies from Corsair. [H]ardOCP found this to be a significant problem during their benchmark. If you're experience any problem, you may want to contact Corsair. I should have pushed towards a more established unit.

[kureshii]

As another update to my earlier post below, Puget Systems just benchmarked PCIE 2.0 vs 3.0, x8 vs 16 in a 4-way comparison, average FPS. Only 3 titles (1 of them a synthetic benchmark), which are a little dated by now, but 4-way PCIe comparisons are rare enough that I thought it's worth mentioning.

It doesn’t. What it does show, however, is that PCIe 3.0 does provide up to 5% performance increase in certain cases (Battlefield 3 with 3× 1080p). Which means that more than likely the bottleneck is elsewhere and not PCIe bandwidth. It would be interesting to see benchmarks of frame-time percentiles though, and how that might be affected by PCIe 3.0. >60 avg FPS numbers are boring and don’t say very much about actual game experience (useful epeen number though!)

That slight performance suggests that perhaps in a small % of the benchmark runtime there is enough data being transferred to fully saturate PCIe 2.0, and these segments (again, very likely only a small %) benefit from the increased bandwidth. This seems to happen only at high resolutions, particularly >2560×1440. Otherwise this kind of performance increase is hardly anything to write home about; 100% more bandwidth for 5% more performance?

With the possible advent of multiple 4K displays in gaming, a case could be made for that kind of bandwidth. But with current monitor resolutions, nope.

[Pentium100]

Uh. Sorry, Tiffanys. Apparently there is an overheating issue with the RM750 and RM850 model power supplies from Corsair. [H]ardOCP found this to be a significant problem during their benchmark. If you're experience any problem, you may want to contact Corsair. I should have pushed towards a more established unit.

Just hot glue a 8cm fan on the exhaust side of the PSU.

I don't particularly like the fact that my HX750 completely stops the fan at low loads. This guarantees that the power supply is always hot and so is part of the PC. OTOH, Corsair gave it 7 year warranty, so maybe it will go those 7 years without problems (and accumulating a lot of dust inside).

[kitamesume]

Uh. Sorry, Tiffanys. Apparently there is an overheating issue with the RM750 and RM850 model power supplies from Corsair. [H]ardOCP found this to be a significant problem during their benchmark. If you're experience any problem, you may want to contact Corsair. I should have pushed towards a more established unit.

Just hot glue a 8cm fan on the exhaust side of the PSU.

I don't particularly like the fact that my HX750 completely stops the fan at low loads. This guarantees that the power supply is always hot and so is part of the PC. OTOH, Corsair gave it 7 year warranty, so maybe it will go those 7 years without problems (and accumulating a lot of dust inside).

this makes me wonder, although with proper designs(both circuit efficiency and heatsink efficiency) the PSU could go passive at low loads, didn't they know that keeping the temps low for the PSU does make efficiency higher?

[Osmo]

Wow that build is awesome, I remember using this forum to help me build my pc,  and especially thanks to kitamesume who helped me alot.

[kitamesume]

Wow that build is awesome, I remember using this forum to help me build my pc,  and especially thanks to kitamesume who helped me alot.

expect next year's build-me thread to be a lot more sweeter, theres quite a lot of up coming massive improvements on all camps.

to be more precise:
news on AMD's steamroller just came out on the APU side, kaveri's CPU bench-leaks showed IPC reaching sandy-bridge levels, expect an FX 8core variant to exceed intel's ivy-bridge Hexacores on pure performance.

intel's broadwell will shave off yet another huge chunk in both heat and wattage, while adding a bit more tuning with the architecture.

Nvidia's Maxwell will need a lot less PCB surface area due to DRAM stacking, meaning smaller cards could become common, on top of maxwell's performance improvements, you could expect versatile HSF designs.

AMD's mantle will hit maturity by mid 2014, if what they state about performance gains are true, you can expect a lot of the current GPUs performing at least 20% better.

SSD's will drop price yet again, vertical NAND, or V-NAND should be out by mid 2014, promising less costs per GB on top of capacities reaching over 1TB per drive.

DDR4 will have a prime release by late 2014, reviews should show what progress it would make, but on the APU's side of story it would always be a win-win situation.

PS: i've already relayed all these points on the computer parts thread.

[Tatsujin]

I'm waiting for Skylake-E, DDR4 and stacking DRAM GPUs. That's my next Behemoth build!

[Tiffanys]

You're doing a new build that soon..?

[kitamesume]

I'm waiting for Skylake-E, DDR4 and stacking DRAM GPUs. That's my next Behemoth build!

lol, switching builds in roughly two years, thats so ballsy, wish i had that much money to waste.

edit: speaking of switching builds, why can't AMD just release a 6core APU t.t
i'm finding my sandy-bridge i3 already kind of sluggish, i don't really want to go with AM3+ where all their MATX boards just out-right sucks.
well theres intel, but shame on the prices, the decent quads costs twice as much as a hexacore piledriver.

[Tatsujin]

You're doing a new build that soon..?

No, that's my next behemoth build! That's like 3 or 4 years from now?

At the moment, I'm thinking of a 600 USD build, no GPU involved with Haswell i5-K. The price drop on my bill is really huge and I like it. But rather the computer outside will give out in another 2 years, might as well get a system together now. 16GB, good mobo - probably same one as mine.

I'm waiting for Skylake-E, DDR4 and stacking DRAM GPUs. That's my next Behemoth build!

lol, switching builds in less than two years, thats so ballsy, wish i had that much money to waste.

Huh? I thought Skylake-E will be in like 2016ish? It can't be that soon. We still have Broadwell, then Haswell-E, then Skylake, then Broadwell-E, then ... no idea what's the next mainstream processor then Skylake-E.

[kitamesume]

theoretically skylake-E should be out by early 2016, which is roughly 28months or so from now.

although, theres been quite a number of rumors that broadwell will be skipped, forwarding skylake to an earlier date.

[Tiffanys]

Hey is there a way to make alt+tab not make windows disappear? It's kinda annoying.

[kitamesume]

what do you mean?

with classic shell - whenever i press alt tab those multi-selection apps pops up where you can choose from.
essentially classic shell's alt+tab is the same as windows 7's.

[Honemi]

Don't even need Classic Shell for that.

Please elaborate, Tiffanys.

[Tiffanys]

Okay let's say I have up Firefox, notepad, and SC2. I'm on Firefox. I hit alt+tab without releasing, the little thing moves over to having notepad selected and my firefox window vanishes revealing my desktop, then if I let off alt+tab then it reappears with notepad as the in focus window.