The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition

I would hold off on the HDD or buy a smaller one for now as they have almost doubled in price recently with Seagate's flooding issues in Thialand. My mom needs a new HDD or at least more HDD's but I threw a 80GB that I had laying around for now until prices drop back again at which point I'll buy her a 1T or higher drive. For RAM there are many you can go with but most of us here like G.Skill's Ripjaws as a decent performance inexpensive RAM. Here is a good value for the newer Quad kits;

G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9Q-16GBZL **Quad channel kit for Intel X79 LGA 2011, XMP ready**

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL7Q-8GBRM

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL7Q-8GBXM

Dual Kits;
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL7D-4GBXM

Mushkin Enhanced Radioactive 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model 997006

Mushkin Enhanced Redline 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model 996999

Mushkin Enhanced Redline 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model 997000

 

How in the world did I miss all these problems with FF8? I upgraded to FF8 a couple days after it was released and it performs exactly like my previous version. All my addons work the same, including adblockplus and noscript. It does tend to use a lot of ram, which I now know is not just because I never close FF like I originally thought, but that doesn't bother me enough to change. Can't say I'm looking forward to the day these problems catch up do me and force me to change to Comodo Dragon; if I'm lucky that day will never come lol.

#1-4,7 I've never experienced or had problems with
#5 never used realplayer so I wouldn't know
#4 never knew it was supposed to auto log me in lol

I use tabmixplus which might fix some of the tab problems, but I can't really say since I don't use FF without it much.

 

I'm not the only one who has had these problems, I know of others that do. I didn't list all of the issues with FF there are more those are only some of them. Chrome or alternatives do not have these issues but I must say I don't like the Favorites and it is not as full featured as FF unfortunately. So I use Iron, Avant Browser, and IE8 as my normal browsers, my friends and I will not use FF for the most part, at least since v3.5 and I've kept up with the later versions, in fact have v7.01 right now.

If Avant Browser would allow spell checker & ADBlock Plus plugin's that is the only browser I'd use.

"#4 never knew it was supposed to auto log me in lol" Yup it is suppose too, if you choose to save login credentials! but fails in comparison to other browsers.

If it works great for your usage than have fun with it, it's not good enough for me though.

 

Newegg has G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Laptop Memory Mode for $24.99.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231342

I forgot the link, sorry.

 

Mr-Movies,

I'm not so sure it's all the Browser. I had FF8 with XP and all the add-ons worked fine. When I installed Win 7 Pro, none of them worked. I reverted back to an older version of FF to 3.6.13, and everything works perfectly. ABP, YT Downloader, Redirect remover, and Weather Bug all work fine. I think the main problem is with Win 7. After all, Gates can't make money with the pop up adds blocked. They don't work with IE8 either.

I don't know about you, but I won't have Real Player on my computer, with it's ties to QuickTime, and all the other crap you have to install, even if you don't want it. It's also a PITA to uninstall, what with over 700 Registry entries, that I took out the first time manually. Never again! I bought Registry Crawler 4. It takes out all the junk! For Real Player, you have to run it, and then go back and reboot in safe mode to remove the rest of it. Much easier than manually doing it, and much faster too!

Best Regards,
Russ


I liked FF8, but I can live without it

 

russ, I'm on win7 64 on the latest ff, and all my ad blocking us working fine.

also I thought balmer was the ceo now, not gates?

 

No it has nothing to do with Microsoft's site(s), which I'm very well versed with, and it can be repeated across many of my friends PC's, it is always the same sites and situations. My dad was told to use FF by one of his friends that he thinks is super smart but he too found out that FF wasn't as good as it seemed or was presented. Even IE8, Avant Browser and Iron can have problems but nothing like FFx. This isn't something I've just briefly gone over.

No offense meant but I just am not impressed nor will I rely on FF for sometime.

Thanks though for your input Russ, Best Regards,
Stevo

 

Shaff,

There are things you can do to Win 7 that involve working in the registry that will make some things work, but I see now that ABP works with all Windows. It only used to work in Win 7, in FF 3.6. Redirect Remover and WeatherBug don't work in Win 7 unless you use an older Browser.

I took out Yontoo layers while I was in there. I have no need or use for Facebook or any other social network. I think they should be outlawed, as they all link directly to Homeland Security in the US. There isn't anything that you say on any of them that the Government's of the world don't know about! That includes texting as well. People who use them are stupid in their use of them. People get arrested every day for things they say on Twitter, Facebook, My Space, etc!

I don't care who the CEO is, Gates is the one holding all the money, and still wants more. He brings out an expensive OS in the middle of the deepest recession since the 1920s, when he could be doing a lot more to help people in these troubled economic times. How many billions does one person really need anyway? Do you think for one moment that Bill Gates cares how many millions of American children got to bed hungry every night? I guess he figures that it's the kids fault for being poor! Don't even get me started!

Russ

 

Or lose their job's as all employers pay people to monitor social networking.

We pay way too much for projects that are never complete i.e., Vista should be 7 and they still didn't get everything under the hood for 7. Yet we continue to pay big dollars for unfinished, less than stable products. This is the one area that Apple is much better at as their OS is very cheap to buy, but then they really make up for it by screwing you blind for their hardware.

Both Steve jobs and Bill Gates are pound scum, you can throw Donald Trump in there with them too.

Stevo

 

Dont forget the murdok family

 

Stevo,

Amen to that one! Pond Scum at the very least, but all 3 are control freaks, as well.

Russ

 

Fire Fox is no where near as good as it used to be, its riddled with security holes.

Just for shits in gigs, i have a virus catcher a computer that i use with the intention of getting viruses on. i was surprised that chrome held up better than firefox with more direct methods however both failed to prevent the viruses from executing within the browser itself.

if we could only Sandbox/virtual machine a browser that would eliminate most if not potential threats too a host system. it wouldn't be impossible as all new machines have VM support at the hardware level.

 

Sandboxing is the way to go I had a setup at one time but have gotten away from that, I need to return to VM'ing my browsers. Good point DXR88!

Stevo

 

I have some sad news to report. A member of AD and my good friend has died. Rick5446 AKA Rick Blackman. The details are shaky, but it appears that Rick was killed by Robbers who disabled him, stole a lot of stuff and left him to die by setting the house on fire. He passed away September 23, 2011. He died on the way to the hospital. 5 People have been arrested and charged with First Degree Murder.

I know that he could be an abrasive person at times, but ho was a good person, but very "Old School!" Very few here at AD knew that Rick was a dying man. We both used to joke about us having a "Race to the Grave!" You won that one, Old Friend. Just remember to save me that seat by the fire, as I'll be along one of these days, in the not too distant future. I'm just grateful that I found this out before it was my time to go, I already miss my Friend, but I know we will meet again!

Russ

 

People just got no respect for anyone anymore, break into your home fatally wound you and cant even grow the balls to do the right thing and finish the job. The worst part is those murdering bastards will get 3 square meals a day until there finally put under 50 years down the road.

 

I don't keep high-powered rifles around for nothing...

 

Here, Here, Jeff...

Sorry for the lose Russ what a shame...

Condolences,
Stevo

 

My condolence's to you and his family Russ.

 

On a more positive note, this has to be the most expensive keyboard I've ever seen! Sounds really interesting though The website has lots of cool stuff too!
Freak of a Keyboard!

 

The maximus has been around for ages, and was announced years ago. Problem is, to fit the display the keys are larger than usual and they're difficult to type with. A better compromise is a Logitech G19 really.