Do you need a soundbar or speakers:?:

Currently I use Divoom Iris-02 on my HDD recorder to playback music at about 50% and find them plenty loud enough, with quality sound.

I bought mine from JB Hifi for $11 years ago... I dunno if they are still available or not...

I've been considering the Panasonic RP-HC31 Noise Canceling In Ear Headphones $68 on Ebay

problem one could be a flat bios battery, I've had that in an old system and until i replaced the battery... every-time at boot it'd ask for which drive

Yeah - learnt my lesson there - full sized ATX next time :P The ASRock Z77 Extreme4 was advertised as ATX but is actually cut down and misses the front-most lugs so you have to be careful to support the board and not apply too much force when inserting and removing the 24 pin motherboard power conn...

I decided to make a thread to pose the age old question....

$165 512GB Intel 545 SSD

Part of their opened-box sale, presumably stuff that got sent back or something

Well the system I am currently on is an ASUS 9 years old with solid caps, it has outlasted 8 Asrock motherboards, 1 MSI and 1 Gigabyte board thus far... you ask what problem I had with the Asrock boards is that they all cooked themselves specifically around the north/south bridges, no idea why. Seve...

Yeah you gotta be sure you get one that has solid caps and pcie 3.0, some of the boards use electrolytic caps and have only pcie 2.0, I looked up some reviews on your current motherboard which is why I am suggesting to replace it, that and the fact I've grown to loathe Asrock... Now is not a really ...

Apparently, alot of the newer CPU's on the market of late are not supported natively by the motherboards you can buy, unless you flash the BIOS. AMD at least offers a Short Term Processor Loan "Boot Kit" if you get caught out, but with Intel boards I think you need to buy CPU/RAM/Motherboard from a ...

I was reading something the other day about modem's needing to meet some sort of certification to be used, apparently you can buy modem's that are not the standard per say and your ISP may cut you off. I cannot find my way back to the article in question... do you guys know anything about it

I am considering to get a fritzbox! getting ready for NBN which supposedly gets to me in October, I wish 5G would get here 1st as I may be more likely to go to it depending on the cost of the plans.

I just had a uni assignment to do and it was on you guess it 5G

Well NBN is probably going to suck for me cause according to the Telstra plans I've gotten my phone currently connects to a node 600m away, instead of the closer node.

I can get as far as "Then put in your street and search for it" and then the website locks up and I can go no further, tried several different browser and its the same.

EDIT: Okay I think I eventually got it to work, now we'll wait and see what I receive in my email. Thx for the help

Okay I made an account and still cannot find my way to it

Speeds doesn't worry me too much, I want better latency and reduced packetloss if at all possible.

It's a Billion 7800N

Internode used to be really good with my ping and no packetloss, but of late it's been bad for dropped connections...

Which one you connect to will depend where your phone line runs, you can get a Telstra cable map for your area via https://www.1100.com.au/ (pick excavation/manual excavation and it'll be free), and with some reading of those you should be able to trace your phone line to work out which pillar you ...

Well according to the roll-out plan NBN gets to me Oct-Dec of this year (2018), it will be FTTN according to NBNCo. My question is, can we choose the node we connect to :?: Near to me are 2 nodes, one is 300 meters away and one is 600 meters away... according to the node map the node that is further...

Are these bad

A relative of mine had a quirky system that had grounding issues, where if I put the system into 1 case it would not run, but in another case would. How is your motherboard mounted in it's case :?: Have you tried running the system on an antistatic bag out of the case :?: (turn the system on with a ...

Was gonna say did you try Safe mode, it'd been a sure issue it was drivers

Is hyper-threading really that much of a performance boost

Is there much improvement to be had from a 6 core cpu over a quad

What wattage is your PSU :?: What are your systems specs :?: Could be pointed out to make sure you had a powerful enough PSU in there in the first place. Simply a 400W PSU doesn't put out 400W to your system, it puts out about 360W as most PSU are 80% efficient and lose the other 20% to heat. Not to...

Or even just a good dusting with a can of compressed air - mine was doing something similar recently, and a good clean out, and reseating RAM/GFX card did the trick. This too is a good idea, but invert the can so your spraying inert propellant on your equipment and not compressed air with moisture ...

What's best :?: I've heard these run hot and get thermally throttled, I decided to ask here as I am having difficulty finding reviews that mention temperature/performance instead of just performance... What heat-sink is recommended :?: Also, does it matter which way you attach one to your PC, via th...

Could be your PSU, did it do this from when you put the PC together or only just start doing it recently :?: I've personally had a situation on more than one occasion when the PSU after several years degraded to the point it wasn't producing enough power to run the system under load. Simply put I'd ...

I keep getting errors for it and the occasional BSOD 4e

Is it okay to stop the service and disable it

I've read that SSD don't use it even if enabled and HDD do, but what about hybrid HDD

What are the for and against for having or not having this service running