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How to get the best performance of an AMD

Posted on2018/07/172018/07/18AuthorTips Of TechLeave a comment

I have always been for the underdog. The guy no one likes, the team no one supports, the processor that everyone thinks is no longer in the game.
I have also always been a little under the funds and great with overclocking, cooling and mods.
I have only once owned an Intel, but have had probably 10-15 AMD computers in my time.
These computers always under performed, but got me a good, strong enough computer for the money I spent.
So I always spent about $400 on my computers total. Cheap motherboard and processor combo and wait for upgrades or low cost motherboard paired with a mid cost AMD processor.
Well, I found out AMD has been making awesome processors all along. I was just doing it wrong. I found the fix that makes your AMD run just as well as the Intel in the same class.

I ran an AMD FX8320 on a MSI 970A G46 for a couple years and came into a deal for an FX9590. So I got it. I forget what I paid, but I did okay. The problem was, the FX8320’s default watts is 125W while the FX9590’s default watts is 220W. Big difference. So I bought liquid cooling because that beast gets hot. Super hot. And, what I never expected, the 970A G46 caps at 200 watts – which explained the sudden crashes. So I go buy a Sabertooth 990 motherboard and slap the FX9590 on it and I’m good to go. I also grabbed some more RAM and a hard drive because now I have two computers; one that runs like a tank and one that gives the spank. What I saw in performance in the short time the FX9590 was on the G46 board, was outrageous difference. My girlfriend used to borrow my G46 computer to edit videos and it would take forever to render them in Camtasia. Meanwhile, her i7 2600K would do it in no time. What would take my FX8320 1.25 hours to render, her i7 2600K would do in 15 minutes or less. Often less. The FX9590 on the G46 motherboard would render the videos in just under an hour. Now the FX9590 on the Sabertooth motherboard was showing great progress. It would render the videos in just under 22 minutes. Not as wonderful as her i7, but sure was a huge difference from the G46. Well, I got curious. I pulled the FX8320 from the G46 motherboard and put it on the Sabertooth and used the same last video to render. Under 18 minutes. So, I launched my AutoCAD, opened the last drawings, grabbed the nearest PDF I could find and dragged and dropped it into AutoCAD. No problem. Faster than I have ever worked in AutoCAD with an Xref PDF in my life.

It’s the motherboard.

The whole trick is the motherboard.
Everyone thinks AMD is for cheap builds. As if you can just buy everything cheap in the same class as Intel. So they buy cheap on everything. You can’t. You have to have a solid motherboard.

Match the Intel processor price range with your motherboard. What I mean is, if you want a high, strong, mid-grade running computer, look at the i5 cost, find the nearest motherboard to that cost, turn to AMD and grab a mid-grade processor. You will perform close enough to the Intel processor that it won’t make a bit of difference. Other than that, the biggest difference is the Intel guy making the same machine will have to eat the cost of his Intel motherboard.

By the way, I sold the FX9590 on eBay and the customer loved it. I made a fair amount back for what little use I had with the FX9590.
There is good chance that I could have and should have done more with the FX9590, but I was beyond happy with the FX8320 after the motherboard upgrade.
It is still running strong, right next to my latest build…which will be in another post at another time.

The main message here is don’t skimp on the motherboard. You can save money on everything you feel safe saving money on, but you will, without a doubt, see the best performance of a processor if you do not skimp on the motherboard.
And the gf now has an i7 7700K liquid cooled I put together for her so her computer would at least be from this decade. But she still uses the 2600K. It literally is just as strong as the 7700K.
Anyhow, later post about the Ryzen machine in the works. I may do benches of all 4. Let’s see if she wants to cooperate on this.

How to Tell the Quality of Your Computer Hardware

Posted on2017/04/062017/04/06AuthorTips Of TechLeave a comment

You want to know if you got a good deal on your processor and you want to know how to understand the classifications and how old your processor is. We all go through this.
Don’t worry, it’s a pretty easy, quick study to find and there isn’t a whole lot to it. All of the gobbly goop stuff you hear people talking about is much easier to follow when you get the basics down. So…let’s do this. Let’s find out how fast your processor or video card is and which processors are faster or slower than yours.
I will explain this in a plain simple manor without using tech jargon. Don’t freak out.
You can click on any of the images in this post if you are having trouble seeing or reading them.

Age of your hardware
The first digit from the left tells how recent the technology is. Let’s say you bought an Intel CPU. That processor is a 7700K. If you look online and you see nothing higher at all, such as an 8700 or a 9700, then you are in the latest tech group. If you bought an i7 5500 and you see online there are i7 7700 CPUs available, then you likely have bought a two year old processor.

Power class of your hardware
The second digit from the left tells you how strong your hardware is for it’s class.
If you have an i7 7700 and compare it to an i7 7600, the 7700 will be stronger.

Newer does not mean faster
If you have a 7600 and compare it to the 6700, the 6700 will be faster but incapable of doing some of the more recent tech tricks that have come out since the 6xxx models.

Is it clocked faster?
The last two digits tell you this.
All CPU makers (and video card makers) do a final push of their most recent (but soon closing out) product by shoveling out a hand full of overclocked processors. Intel, for example, ended their last batch of 6th generation i7 processors with the 6900 rebadged and overclocked as 6950. The 6950 is the overclocked 6900. AMD did this with their FX processors, and shipped out the FX8300 rebadged as a 9590. Rightfully too. They made a beast of that processor. It sucked out more than twice the wattage the 8300 processors pushed, so you had to buy a special motherboard (of only like 5 available) that could handle so much wattage. It was a hot fickle beast, so water cooling was a must. 4.7 GHz out of the box. 5.0 GHz with turbo turned on – on 8 cores.

Now comes the last space. The lettering.
If you buy the i7 7700K, you have bought pretty much the flagship processor of 2017 Intel, but the more expensive, harder to locate and much faster processor is the X model – the i7 7700X.

AMD processors follow the same format

AMD Ryzen Classes

This is good. So we can all understand what we have without having to learn more formats.

Video cards now follow the same format.

Except, now you have to read right to left. That’s only because video cards go through the numbers faster and when they get done with the 1000’s spot, they start back over with a 3 digit identification (usually, who knows, this year may be different). What I am saying is read right to left to see what version. GT, GTX, TI, etc. Then, if it is overclocked, it will be identied by the first number from the right. Strength will be the second number from the right. The last 1 or 2 numbers (the 950GT having one number and the 1050GT having two numbers) will tell you how recent it is. Note that this number does not represent a year. It identifies a series.

Questions or complaints? Questions go at the bottom. Complaints…email those to the manufacturers.

How To Get Your Canon Pixma MG3620 Onto Your Network

Posted on2017/02/072017/02/07AuthorTips Of TechLeave a comment

Bought the Canon Pixma MG3620 printer. Installed all of the software and followed what I thought was instructions to install the Canon Pixma MG3620 printer to my network. After 4 hours of frustration trying to find some program “ij network scan”, I did what worked back at the office. Used the cell phone.
No I didn’t call someone who knows more. I connected through my phone to see what options I could utilize. on the plus side, I never had to do all of that. Set up for the phone did it all for me.
Don’t use a USB cable to set up your printer. You’ll be stubbornly clicking through all of the settings to find where you can type in your router passkey information.
Don’t bother plugging the USB cable into your Comcast modem. Doesn’t work.
That Canon Pixma MG3620 printer just won’t do any of that

The trick is to use your android or apple device. Install the canon Print Inkjet Selphy app.
Click through the setup to the point where it asks if you want to set up directly or through your router.
Select “Connect Via Wireless Router”.

after that it will ask you the password to your router.

Once the password is accepted you are done.

You can do the same by using a wireless pc,tablet,laptop.
Don’t bother using a usb cable. that just makes things more complicated. and that IJ network scan tool is useless once your

The disk is offline because it has a signature collision with another drive that is online

Posted on2014/11/03AuthorTips Of TechLeave a comment

I figured out how to resolve the issue in Disk Management in computer management.

So you went to computer management and then to disk management and see your disk listed but there is no drive letter. but there is a disk number and an exclamation point next to it and under the drive number you see “offline”.
you wave your mouse over the exclamation and see this little tip bubble
“the disk is offline because it has a signature collision with another drive that is online”
How do you fix that?
You can try Microsoft’s tip to use cmd and :

In Disk Management, right-click the disk marked Missing or Offline.

Click Reactivate Disk. The disk should be marked Online after the disk is reactivated.

To reactivate a dynamic disk by using a command line

Open a command prompt and type diskpart.

At the DISKPART prompt, type list disk. Make note of the disk number of the missing or offline disk that you want to bring online. Missing disks are numbered M0, M1, M2, and so on, and offline disks are numbered 0, 1, 2, and so on.

At the DISKPART prompt, type select disk .

At the DISKPART prompt, type online.

This did not work for me at all.
What I did find however is if you put your mouse over the disk number (Disk 0,Disk1,Disk 2, etc.) and right click, you have the option to turn the drive to “online”.

and that resolved the issue.
After many failed attampts to search forums fo rthe help, this came as total accident while looking for more text and deeper search terms to help find how to turn the hard drive back online.

How to Import Thunderbird Contacts into Outlook

Posted on2014/06/122014/06/12AuthorTips Of TechLeave a comment

This “How to” I will be using outlook 2010.
Some details in this import do not need to be said. Most of this you can handle with just looking at the pictures and seeing what is highlighted in the images to help you identify the links and buttons I am talking about.
Before any of this, you need to go to Thunderbird and export your contacts. Save the file as a .csv file (comma separated value), with a name you will remember and identify easily. I select to name the file “contacts” and saved the file to desktop so I can find it later.
Here are the steps for exporting Thunderbird contacts to a format that outlook can read

Open Thunderbird, then go to Tools and then Address Book
In the Address Book window, select Tools again and then Export…
In the dropdown menu for Save as type…, choose Comma Separated
Type in a file name (e.g. contacts or addresses), and then click Save.

Not so bad. was it?

Step 1: is pretty easy. Click the image here and see what is highlighted.
On the left hand side of your screen click on the top left where you see “File”. Then Click “Open” just to the right of that and down. Then to the right a tad more and down click on “Import”.
On Outlook 2010 you will see two arrow pointing in opposite directs. Pretty easy to see.
If not, please look at the image I posted here, again.

Step 2: A little window will pop open and have a few choices of your next step. For me and most likely for you the choice should be “import from another program or file”. Should be about midway in the list.
Now click “Next”.
What this means is that the CSV (Comma Separated Value) file you exported from Thunderbird is not a file that is directly out of the outlook “typical” file types. But Outlook will work with the file. You just have a couple steps to take to make outlook understand. These are coming up ahead.

Step 3: Now is where you select “Comma Separated Value (CSV). Click that Should be Third down in the choices. Now click “Next”. Hopefully you save the contact exported csv file under name you can identify and in a location where you can find it. For me the file looks like an Excel file with a big letter X in the left corner and a large capitol A in the middle of it.
I keep thinking this is a Font installer. but it is not.
If you need to got to where you saved the file and open it. It should look just like an excel file with lots of names and email addresses inside of it.

Step 4: is the one that is kind of multiple choice and sort of up to you. Do you want to allow duplicate contacts? because you could have more than one George Bush in your contacts.
If you are uncertain, may I recommend that you allow and then later go through your contacts and remove the duplicates that you feel are unnecessary?
But if you currently have no contacts in your Outlook, then go ahead and select not to allow duplicate contacts.
Seems like the safest bet that way.
Press “Next”

Step 5: is asking you where you want to import this information. Go ahead and select “contacts and press the “Next” button.
This will transfer a copy of the contacts in the CSV file you exported from Thunderbird, into something that outlook can read.
Almost as if you are uploading and translating the file from opensource format to proprietary format.
Almost…

Step 6: this one you have to slow your stroll.
Now you have to work.
It’s not hard work but you do have to work a bit here.
Select ” Map Custom Fields” on the right hand side of the small window. This is about to pop open a window , you just have to match things . Don’t freak out.
Click “Next”

Step 7: You select the fields on the left one by one and match them with the fields on the right.
Choices that are on the left that are not on the right, you either have to improvise or do without.
Like First Name, you have to click the plus symbol (+) next to the word “Name” and when it opens to more choices, select “First Name”.
Do the same with last name. and phone number and email address. and another contact information you can think of that you actually use. If there are choices on the left that you never use, then you don’t have to worry about the. If you are uncertain, open the file you backed up from Thunderbird and scroll through the columns and you will see what choices are used and what choices are not used and what information is in them. The columns are the same items as what’s in the left hand screen on the “map custom fields” window. The right hand side of that window is how windows sees contacts. You have to make them match. Wikipedia has an Equivalence chart to show you what each mean.

Click next and you are done with this. Your Thunderbird contacts have now been imported into Outlook .

The rest is pretty simple to do and something you can do repeatedly
Also if you are in an office environment, and want all of your employees to start off with the same contacts, may I suggest that you complete these steps with the first computer, then export the contacts in a microsoft format and save it to a portable media storage device of your choice and walk from desk to desk and set them each up?

Trying Siri Like Assistant for android

Posted on2013/06/072013/06/08AuthorTips Of TechLeave a comment

I have been trying sms readers and text to speech apps for days now. and have not found a single tts program yet that works all that well. So I took a break from the few I installed.
Motorola Droid Bionic
With Android version:Ice Cream Sandwich

Here are the text to speech apps I liked the most

SMS Reader This one worked for a while, then I opened settings, and exited and it never read my messages again. Also wouldn’t do speech to text.

DriveSafe.ly®

This one I didn’t like so much. everything was trial.

Now to the Assistant.
So far, the only one worth messing with is called
Assistant from Speaktoit.

Pros
You can change the way your Avatar looks. you can tell her/him she/he has a new name and change her/his name. You can send messages to your Twitter account and Facebook account.Your assistant will offer you the chance to have your responses to your Facebook status update read to you when someone replies. You can search for anything nearby. You can search for answers to most questions and you can schedule plans using your Google calendar.

Cons
Uses it’s own selection of search engine which could be a Google affiliated program, but not sure. The “search for nearest” isn’t the most correct for any of the searches I did. I even searched for a taco bell right up the street less than a mile away, it showed me one that is ten miles away and said it was three miles away. twitter portion does not use twitter app. Neither does the Facebook status updates. So this thing is constantly running . Which means it sucks your battery down fast.If you tell the assistant to open Facebook app, it tries to post a status to Facebook. Not sure how comfortable I am with giving away so many passwords. With the app open while phone was on charger, my battery dropped to 80%. Normally I can watch youtube videos and post to Facebook and never drop a percent while on charger. When responding to a text message, the other person never gets it.

Tried for a while to locate more voices while going through all of the tts and text to speech searches (yes type it both ways different results). None for free and most apps have their own voices. Surely all of this should come free with the dang phone.

Foxit Reader How To Disable start Tab

Posted on2013/06/062015/09/03AuthorTips Of Tech22 Comments

Foxit Reader How to Disable start Tab

You get this? Right? Every time you open Foxit Reader. It opens some extra tab labeled “start” you ignore that tab so you can read your pdf. Then you close Foxit Reader and get this notice “Hey… you have another tab open dummy, do you really want to close both tabs?” as if you will lose everything… It’s a fricken pdf, you won’t lose anything.
Anyway, after about 10 or so times telling yourself “I can deal with it , it’s better than Adobe any day” you kind of get sick of that stupid little notice.
So you want to disable the start up tab in Foxit right?
The fix is pretty simple.

Open any PDF file with Foxit Reader. Once that opens, click on “File” in top left of your screen. When the menu comes up look near bottom of that menu and click on “preferences” should have two gears next to it, click that button.

Once you click that button, you will get a pop up window called “Preferences” should be in the middle of your screen. Look to the left side of that small window and you will see a rectangle with a menu inside of it. Accessibility at the top, updater at the bottom. Now look near dead center, Says “General” click that word. The “open page now” changed to the “General interface”. Look at the bottom of that small window at “Application Start up” and you will see “Show start page” Uncheck that option. Click “Ok”, and you are done.

Now close Foxit and open a PDF and test it out. Foxit should be fixed now.
Why in the heck was this a good idea?

On another note, i found where you can edit that page and make it say whatever you want to.

Want me to tell you how? Comment below so I know it’s worth writing it up.

Which celebrity you look alike, facebook exploit

Posted on2012/08/082014/10/18AuthorTips Of Tech

UPDATE
This page is coming down because I will not help Facebook if Facebook doesn’t help you.
and it is in your best interest to leave that place. It is everything myspace was becoming when we all left.
Facebook banned me because I will not send them a picture of my driver’s license.
UPDATE

Latest exploit to facebook is the “Awesome, Which celebrity you look alike? : http://www.facebook.com/CelebslikeYou/app_XXXXXXXXXXXXX”

Looks like Facebook has allowed an ap in their network that is exploited. or extremely stupid. I just had 5 female friends fall for that dang thing, and there seems to be only three pictures that the ap uses to tell people they look like. There is no logic to the ap at all. Long face looks like round face, brown hair looks like blond, curly hair looks like straight. Wide eyes look like tiny eyes.

I am not sure if the ap has a virus in it or not, but it looks like it’s bogus and the ap is just used to get you to willingly give up your personal information.
One thing for certain, this is an Exploit in your gullibility.
Here’s how you remove all personal information access that this ap has tricked you out of.

look to the top right of your facebook page
Next to the word “Home” is a triangle pointing down. Click that and select “Privacy settings”.

Now move your mouse to where you see “edit settings” to the right of

Ads, Apps and Websites
Manage your settings for ads, apps, games and websites.

Click on edit settings.

Next you will see a small window section that says “Apps you use” on the right of that you will see “edit settings”

Click the edit settings button and delete everything you no longer care for, including the ap you just installed

Now would be a great time to change your Facebook password also.

Internet Explorer (No Add-ons) – How to

Posted on2012/04/052012/04/05AuthorTips Of Tech

How to use Internet Explorer with No Add-ons
If you have been wondering how to surf the intenet with most of everything turned off, to prevent exploits to each of your typical add-ons. Here you go.

right click desktop and select “create new” and then select “shortcut”.
The command you need that shortcut to run is
“C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” -extoff

Then name your shortcut
Internet Explorer (No Add-ons)

Then again right click the file, select “properties” now change the icon to something that looks nothing like internet explorer. I select the padlock. To distinguish the difference between the stripped internet explorer and regular internet explorer.

What the Future will Say about Today’s Technology

Posted on2012/03/172013/07/01AuthorTips Of Tech

As we find that theories change due to altering factors, we may find one day that these things that work today, may be so archaic in the future the people in the future will have no idea how we made this old junk actually function, or could wonder why we even bothered with such self destructive uselessness.

“They carried little radioactive devices in their pocket as a status of wealth and importance, but justified the expensive costs with a need to communicate RIGHT NOW?”.

I worry about the credibility one could hold if they go on record saying that some past theory is worthless because of some new findings. In most cases the new findings are based on findings that started from the original stated theory. In the future when it is explained would ruin the credibility of the current scientists.

Yes the past means old ways, but you wouldn’t have your current knowledge if it wasn’t based on original theories. Meaning a 25 year old theory isn’t wrong just because of new findings, Those new findings are just different outcomes and new circumstances that you might be looking at from some made up rules that you are pulling from another test. Yes, sometimes logic and rational knowledge would lead you to believe both have the same rules or one is the standard of rules of the other, but you can’t 100% verify that your previous finding is 100% the only outcome, but if you look at them both under the same rules you have a definable answer, until someone has the time to try a different but similar test with differing rules to get a whole different outcome. You can then come to acknowledge a whole new standard in science. Main factor is time, altering factor is funds. Your results are based on your funds, and your time to invest in the study.

200-2000 years from now, everything you think is the be all end all rule, will most likely be taught in the lowest grade of education and might be passed off as disoriented mythology.

Look back just 25 years ago. The people of that time dreamed of computers that were not even 1/100th the processing power of today’s computers. And those people thought that type of “futuristic” computer could power a flying car and solve diseases (much like what is proposed to be the purpose of tumbling), work artificial intelligence robots. We now know better. It will never work with that type of power. but at that time, the most intelligent minds of that era considered it possible. Can you truly think that 200 years from now, what our current highest held Scientific finding, will even be a drop in the bucket of ideas and logic?

One day or over a bit of time, some one (one representing thousands) will stand up and say “Oh heck, they have been looking at this completely wrong, all of that is useless”. And suddenly some weird or overlooked factor is brought into the picture and all previous findings are dismissed for a true result that proves 100% correctness from that point forward.