2012 Off topic thread(basketball,movies,etc whatever)

[SPX]

Yeah I like to reformat with a fresh install at least once a year. Once I notice it start slowing down.

Yeah, I had been running the same installation for a while, like, longer than usual. It was time. I was able to get a Win 7 upgrade from school for . . . get this . . . FREE. Couldn't believe that shit. But if you're a student you get Win 7 and Office for $0.

How much did you pay for that Creative Suite?

$350 with my student discount.

It's not the Master Suite with everything, but it's got like 8 programs. The only one it doesn't have that I would like is Dreamweaver.

Yeah, basically it has a huge list of common programs. You just check off everything you want and it automatically downloads and installs everything for you in one shot. It's awesome.

Good looking out.

[zY|]

That's pretty cool. I got win 7 and photoshop for free, too, but not exactly the same way.

[SPX]

I got Magic Bullet for free.

[Ludo]

Don't forget to update your BIOS once you up the RAM.

[SPX]

I don't fuck with my BIOS unless there's a really good reason. If the flash goes wrong you'll brick your mobo.

I do have a good BIOS flash story from several years ago, though. I had bought a 40 GB (HUGE at the time!) hard drive and it wasn't showing up in my computer. Eventually I got around in my troubleshooting to flashing the BIOS and then BOOM! there it was. It was a great victory.

[SPX]

Anyone here use any of the torrent anonymizer services?

I just signed up for BTGuard.

[Ludo]

I don't fuck with my BIOS unless there's a really good reason. If the flash goes wrong you'll brick your mobo.

I do have a good BIOS flash story from several years ago, though. I had bought a 40 GB (HUGE at the time!) hard drive and it wasn't showing up in my computer. Eventually I got around in my troubleshooting to flashing the BIOS and then BOOM! there it was. It was a great victory.

Yeah memory of all kinds have made leaps and bounds both in capacity and in price over the last few years. It was only five years ago that a 160GB hard drive would run you $120 minimum. Now for $100 or less you can get a terabyte drive.

[SPX]

Oh yeah, for sure. It's crazy. Everything has gone down in price so much over the last decade while also going up in capacity. You used to couldn't even get a computer of any kind for less than $1,000.

I remember when the first 1 GB hard drives came out. People were like HOLY FUCKING SHIT! A THOUSAND megabytes?!

And I remember that the first laptop I ever had--a high school graduation present my mom got me in 2000--had 32 MB of RAM.

[SPX]

I hadn't even heard of this movie before today, but I went and check this out. Pretty decent. Good enough for a matinee.

[SPX]

So is there seriously just no UFC for the next 22 days? This is bullshit.

[zY|]

It is.

[SPX]

RAM. 12 gigs. Done.

I had pretty much resigned myself to ordering online because local places are way too expensive, but Best Buy had an 8 GB package for $58. I thought that was a pretty reasonable price for a brick-and-mortar store.

[zY|]

Take a picture of it next to your ninja sword.

Seriously, why do you need 12gb of ram?

[SPX]

Premiere Pro CS6. The minimum is 4 (which is what I had) but it doesn't run that great.

Some people are saying that if you want to be totally comfortable you need to be running 24 GB. But the most my mobo even supports is 16 GB.

For now, we're going to stick with 12 and see how it goes.

[Ludo]

Premiere Pro CS6. The minimum is 4 (which is what I had) but it doesn't run that great.

Some people are saying that if you want to be totally comfortable you need to be running 24 GB. But the most my mobo even supports is 16 GB.

For now, we're going to stick with 12 and see how it goes.

12GB of RAM should be enough for video editing and all that assuming the rest of it is up to snuff. Plus your shit will run ultra smooth when your not doing that. Ever looked into PC gaming? 12GB of ram is plenty to run multiple processes without any hiccups including high res games and whatnot. What kind of processor are you running?