iamthedoctor Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Im thinking about upgrading my pc within a week or two and wondered if there are any decent places to get one.Local shop has a 2.7ghz one with 3 gig of ram on xp which is good for me as the games I want to play wont run on 7. Think the guy said its a AMD 6800+ however hes asking 150 and wondered if this is a fair price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 My PC is similar spec to that (but with a worse graphics card), and I bought it for about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 My PC is similar spec to that (but with a worse graphics card), and I bought it for about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 But why would it have just started happening? Has Firefox just had a really intensive update? I've actually got 4GB of RAM, but I'm clinging to 32-bit XP so it only recognises 3. I might finally bite the bullet and load Windows 7 on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 But why would it have just started happening? Has Firefox just had a really intensive update? I've actually got 4GB of RAM, but I'm clinging to 32-bit XP so it only recognises 3. I might finally bite the bullet and load Windows 7 on.That I cant answer but seeing as sites and software get more intensive all the time and my virtual memory was being completely hammered all the time all of a sudden, yet isnt now, then it may be worth looking into? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 It happens on Google. Whatever web page I'm on doesn't seem to be making any odds to the CPU usage, unless every page on the Internet has updated and become more memory-intensive this week. Firefox actually crashes if I try to reply to emails on the Outlook site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Boy Mendoza Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 I am after a bit of advice...for the last year or so I have been watching films and TV shows by downloading them from torrent sites. Now that these places are coming harder to access (even with a proxy I can no longer access Kick Ass Torrents). I have resigned myself to shelling out for something like Netflix but have a few questions:. Which is the best site to sign up with ? Netflix ? Love Film ? Or something else ? I watch a lot of American shows so which is the best one to get for that sort of thing ?. Do any of the sites allow you to download the films ? I currently download films/shows onto a USB pen and then plug into my TV or Blu Ray Player and play the files from there. If I can only stream the files to my laptop then that is going to be a pain. Is there a decent set top box on the market that I can plug into my Broadband Router and my TV and get Netflix (or similar) on there ?Any help would be much appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 You can't download stuff from Netflix, FBM. But there are set-top boxes such as the Roku (and probably much cheaper alternatives) that you can buy to use it. I'd say Netflix is better than Lovefilm, but you can get the free trials for both and see which you prefer. Are you running a load of extensions in Firefox? If so does it still hammer the CPU if you start it with them all disabled?Edit: It's Avast WebRep that's causing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SiMania Posted June 14, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted June 14, 2013 If you still want to use torrents and don't mind a bit of fiddling about to get it working at first, try a seedbox. They usually have a linux box you can vnc to that lets you browse any torrent site and has a torrent client with 10Mbps connection. You then download the files from the seedbox to your pc or mac or mobile device via ftp or http Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members John Matrix Posted June 14, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted June 14, 2013 Anyone here been to the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square? Headed to London either next weekend or the weekend after. I saw that next Saturday, they are showing Alien and Predator back to back and not sure i can bring myself not to go and watch Predator on the big screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted June 14, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted June 14, 2013 You can't download stuff from Netflix.Is this right? I watched Season 4 of AD a couple days after it went out on Netflix not on Netflix. I guess maybe that was some sort of capturing rather then downloading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Yeah, that'd be capturing streams. There are definitely ways of doing it, but not legally and it'd be rigmarole converting video from this format to that format etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted June 14, 2013 Moderators Share Posted June 14, 2013 Anyone here been to the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square? Headed to London either next weekend or the weekend after. I saw that next Saturday, they are showing Alien and Predator back to back and not sure i can bring myself not to go and watch Predator on the big screen.The patrons of the PCC are film-ruining knobs. Somerset House are doing an outdoor screening of Predator in August, I'm going to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members John Matrix Posted June 14, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted June 14, 2013 That was my suspicion to be honest, that it'd either be great to watch it in a small theatre full of like minded people, or that it'd be fucking murder watching it in a small theatre full of people trying to be the person who likes it the most.Yeah, i heard about that somewhere. Geography is terrible though, so i've no idea if that's feasible for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelEdge Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Anyone know a quick and easy way to download all my music on my iPod Touch onto my laptop? It died last week so sent it away for repairs. Got it back today and they've had to put a new hard drive in, so I've lost all my music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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