I have finally managed to totally dump windows and Linux mint was the key . I can run games on it thru steam , UT 2004, serious sam and a few other older titles . Supports my printer just fine
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looks like people are starting to get wise and are leaving the Democrats , well it is about time ! ...

I don't know laptops well but I do know a little about linux and IMO your going to have better luck with Intel 7th or 8th gen CPU running on older kernels . AMD and newer Intel run best with kernel...

ok you have several questions so lets start with running a 7th gen cpu on windows 7 , yes you could do that , I personaly have using that patch you refer to , but it is not all rosey , it causes...

well got windows 7 running on another 470x motherboard dumped the asrock and went with asus rog 470x and wow major difference I have managed to get windows 7 stable with some tweaks , but the...

just for the fun of it I setup windows 7 on my 2600+ 470x motherboard , wow what a pain but I got it in windows 7 will not see ANY usb drivers period ! I used a ps2 keyboard and a dvdrw drive , then...

if anyone is interested here is the you tube vid I learned from
https://youtu.be/OktfmfDdviI

I ran into a issue with my remote just today , what I had to do was do a complete reset ( just like you would a phone ) then I re paired the remote in the shield settings manager so in essence it was...

my idea did work except for one minor issue , the power draw for the hard drive and enclosure was just too much , shield would freeze up
fixed that by buying a little, made for laptop, powered ...

you might want to boot it up and see , their was a very recient system software upgrade for shield and the controler , shoot cant hurt to try

Well I use a logiteck wireless keyboard that has a trackpad built in and it works great rarley use the little remote . You do know that You can kinda hack these to run any app that a phone will run ?...

oh cool I was wondering if sheild would work with a SSD
Here is my idea would apreciate any feedback...

Hello ,
I Have a nvidia shield 16gb I use for tv , I had it all set up with the apps on a 32gb flash drive workok till the flash drive died so I need a new drive .
Here is the question , would...

you might want to take a look at this vid it helped me get my ram to 14-14-14-34 at 1T at 2933mhz
here it is https://youtu.be/vZgpHTaQ10k
very informative

Hello,
I have not built a AMD system for years , always went intel so I am really out of touch . But anyway trying to get a little overclock going , and seeing I just bought some Gskill Flair X...

Me I just dumped windows for the new Linux Mint 19 Cinnimon edition and it is rocking a MSI Procarbon 470 , AMD 2600+ , 2x 8gc DDR 24000, Evga GTX1060 6gb, and get this a samsung 960 nvme drive ....

here is something that I learned , did you know that MS has even set up the old IE 11 with tracking ? believe it or not I was going thru gpedit.msc and their it was "disable keystoke logging . (...

here is a nice little safe something that you can do that will reduce HDD disk space and it is direct from microsoft

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shut off cortana ? that is easy here I will link you you how https://www.howtogeek.com/265027/how-to-disable-cortana-in-windows-10/
and if you will search google their are ways to keep cortana from...

I can respect that :)
(warning rant)
But here is what Get me , I went to my Microsoft account and took a look at what they were trackin' they had my web history for months EVEN though I opted out...

well after spending 3 days gutting windows 10 pro I finally
have arrived . I made windows 10 basically windows 7
umm lets see got rid of apps including the windows store (warning if you uninstall...

well been a few days and lovin' my AMD system smokin' fast once I ironed out some memory timings . running my memory from my old board DDR4 2400.

something that blew Me away and I wish I could...

I never could login from the home page of PcPer either , only the forums .
The 2600x is a fast cpu . I am very happy with My build but if I realy do not multitask much so six cores are not realy...

might want to wait a little bit and see if a 2500x might be your cup of tea
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/272978-specs-leak-on-upcoming-ryzen-5-2500x-ryzen-3-2300x

But if it were me and...

new system just got up and running a few hours ago still kicking the tires but not bad . still tweaking windows , you know uninstall all the crapware , ohh candy crush ! Just what I need ,, NOT !! lol