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ok, we talking overclocking. the conversation is beyond my grasp now
 
Its a way of forcing your Processor to work faster then it is supposed to. Kinda like going into a cars computer and making it run a little faster.
 
Was it a Tandy from Radio Shack?

Actually, that was my second computer. A TRS-80. First was a Texas Instruments TI-994/a

Cassette tape data drive (no disc drives then). A whopping 16k of memory. LOL

When I look at how we have come from that to smart phones, I am just amazed.
 
16k,,,,yes it is amazing. By the way my Mom worked for TI in Dallas when i was a very young man. I remember her bringing me a Calculator. I thought it was the most awesome thing. Man have we come along way.
By the way,,remember the floppy drives? I havent used one in yrs,,but i have a ton of them with programs and such on them,,,,,,Yehaaaaaaaaaaaa
 
One of the best things I have ever done for my Computer is switch my Main drive with my Operating System (Windows 10) from a regular drive to a Solid State Drive.
I have this one. It is 250GB. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147372

For my other drive where I actually download everything else I have a 2TB Drive.

The SSD allows my Computer to boot up in only 15 seconds or so. Compared to over a minute with the old drive.

Just my 2 cents.
 
Yeah Hammy i am going to get me an SSD pretty soon. Right now i have 2 SATA Drives. One with my OS,the second for Imaging my 1st drive and backing up files and such. That way i wont loose any of my stuff if my 1st drive goes down. Those SSD are fast,,,Yehaaaaaaaaaaaa
By the way that Samsung is a very good SSD and has very good reviews.
Hammy,,they also have Hybrid Drives.
 
Yeah Hammy i am going to get me an SSD pretty soon. Right now i have 2 SATA Drives. One with my OS,the second for Imaging my 1st drive and backing up files and such. That way i wont loose any of my stuff if my 1st drive goes down. Those SSD are fast,,,Yehaaaaaaaaaaaa
By the way that Samsung is a very good SSD and has very good reviews.

I have had it for over a year and it has never had a problem. Fires up super quick. The hardest part was remembering to not save files on that drive because 250GB goes quickly.
 
A Hybrid drive is a logical or physical storage device that combines a fast storage medium such as NAND flash solid-state drive (SSD) with a hard disk drive (HDD), with the intent of adding some of the speed of flash storage to the cost-effective storage capacity of traditional HDDs. The purpose of the SSD in a hybrid drive is to act as a cache for the data stored on the HDD, improving the overall performance by keeping copies of the most frequently used data on the faster SSD.

There are two main configurations for implementing hybrid drives: dual-drive hybrid systems and solid-state hybrid drives. In dual-drive hybrid systems, physically separate SSD and HDD devices are installed in the same computer, having the data placement optimization performed either manually by the end user, or automatically by the operating system through the creation of a "hybrid" logical device. In solid-state hybrid drives, SSD and HDD functionalities are built into a single piece of hardware, where data placement optimization is performed either entirely by the device (self-optimized mode), or through placement "hints" supplied by the operating system (host-hinted mode)
 
I have had it for over a year and it has never had a problem. Fires up super quick. The hardest part was remembering to not save files on that drive because 250GB goes quickly.

Yes and every GB is expensive on a SSD. Ouch
 
I may try the Hybrid just to see what i think of it. Love the idea of having both type on one HD.
 
Got the Microsoft Scam phone call yesterday. I let the Idian Idiot talk till he was done,,even made him think i was doing to my computer what he ask me too. Then i told him whata lying thieving Moron he was and laughed my *** off. Hope the assshat falls off a building in India. By the way,,,do not fall for that crap. Microsoft will NOT EVER call you. Lots of ppl have gotten screwed by this scam. If they get into your computer they take over some of your log files and even lock your screen up with thier telephone number on it telling you to call them and they will fix your problem. Its all total crap. If they get into your computer,,just restart in Safe mode or use your Recovery Disk and do a system restore and then turn off your remote services and leave it disabled. That way they cant get into your computer, ,unless you fall for the phone call scam and turn on remote access to your computer. Eather way be carefull or you will lose some money and give them control of your desktop,,,and believe me,,they are not MICROSOFT, ,,LOL

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...icrosoft/aefc50a4-d7a4-4c79-8db5-2fafcd6ad196
 
My buddy just got hit with this last week and he fell for it. He called them and let them in but he stopped and called me when they said he had to pay $399 to fix his computer.

He brought it over to me and I fixed it in about 2 minutes.............. and, I only charged him $299. LMAO Wow, what a pal, eh? LOL j/k

It's had to believe that this stuff is as common as it really is. I guess we have new users every day. So, they have new victims.
 
Yep,,they will get your *** ifen ya dont know yur dealing with the devil,,,lol
 
By the way Hackerman,,,299 to fix your friends computer,,,thats cold blooded,,,next time send him to me,,i will only charge 289.00,,,:rofl:
 
Yep,,,much easier to hide and no viruses. Lol
On more serious side,,believe it or not I've never been much on porn. Always liked real un-airbrushed women. Lol
Besides my Wife would cut me. :bolt:

And, in a pinch, a SEAR catalogue (you don't even have to hide those)
Kicked her out 6 years ago so I've been down that road...Oh man, today's porn ain't like "Playboy" days, WH.
Very difficult to find anything erotic, let alone air-brushed, arrggh, TOO real sometimes, I could throw up, really,
I actually prefer literature now, I'll paint my own pictures thanks.
 
Actually, that was my second computer. A TRS-80. First was a Texas Instruments TI-994/a

Cassette tape data drive (no disc drives then). A whopping 16k of memory. LOL

When I look at how we have come from that to smart phones, I am just amazed.

omigawd, cassette tapes, I remember that, arrggh
and then we built them... apple clones, IBM clones,
entry level always seemed to be around 1k
(probably half that for you amuricans)
I just don't get the smartphones, pagers on steroids, who wants a pager?
 
I found one of my old Business cards today,,,it had a Pager number on it, ,,no phone. Lol
 
So I have this thing, and it goes into this whatyamacallit, and its supposed to be apart of of a thingmajig, only this slot A does quite fit into tab B. So I shot it. All fixed now.
 
Very good Umbra,,thats exactly what i would have suggested. Lol
 

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