more win10 stuff

[Pentium4]

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Though i do agree (anything other than FreeBSD or WinXP on a preshott, are you shitting me) it still proves the issues go beyond custom builds or added on cards.

Dimension E510 isn't that bad...Put 4GB RAM in there with any video card and use it as a HTPC.

Tons of old equipment is still usable. A lot of us here even have pre-P4 equipment in use.

Netburst is inefficient, but still plenty usable, especially the Xeon ones.

Sure, a Kia is somewhat reliable and efficient, but I think they're for people who don't care about cars/trucks and don't enjoy driving. For us, it's more of a big deal. Me myself, I want to drive something that I love. Trucks>Cars.
Honestly, I think I have the perfect of both worlds. 96 F150 300 i6, 5 speed, 8 foot bed. It's a full sized truck with a long bed, so I get paid to do dump runs and move people out of their houses. It gets good fuel mileage for a truck. Pure downtown Seattle (About the worst case scenario) I got an average of 15mpg. I just took a 130 mile road trip, and while driving a little bit slower than usual, I got 22.3 mpg with the A/C running the whole time. As for reliability, it's a straight 6. Who needs a car?

TC, love your Dodge dually. Those things are absolute beasts.

[shovenose]

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Dimension E510 isn't that bad...Put 4GB RAM in there with any video card and use it as a HTPC.

Tons of old equipment is still usable. A lot of us here even have pre-P4 equipment in use.

Netburst is inefficient, but still plenty usable, especially the Xeon ones.

Sure, a Kia is somewhat reliable and efficient, but I think they're for people who don't care about cars/trucks and don't enjoy driving. For us, it's more of a big deal. Me myself, I want to drive something that I love. Trucks>Cars.
Honestly, I think I have the perfect of both worlds. 96 F150 300 i6, 5 speed, 8 foot bed. It's a full sized truck with a long bed, so I get paid to do dump runs and move people out of their houses. It gets good fuel mileage for a truck. Pure downtown Seattle (About the worst case scenario) I got an average of 15mpg. I just took a 130 mile road trip, and while driving a little bit slower than usual, I got 22.3 mpg with the A/C running the whole time. As for reliability, it's a straight 6. Who needs a car?

TC, love your Dodge dually. Those things are absolute beasts.

I never got more than 11 with my 300 straight-6 1989 Ford E-150.

[Topcat]

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I never got more than 11 with my 300 straight-6 1989 Ford E-150.

I get a consistent 17.5 unloaded. with a loaded car hauler, I get about 13~14mpg.

[ratdude747]

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With the ranger, I got 21 before the topper and 20.5 after.

[Agent24]

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I assume nothing. But having the option to turn off and on suggests it can be turned off.

That, or turning it off just means they want to know why and thus collect even more data...

[Pentium4]

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I never got more than 11 with my 300 straight-6 1989 Ford E-150.

The van is heavier, yours probably had a carb, auto tranny, higher gear ratio, and other issues going on.

I get a consistent 17.5 unloaded. with a loaded car hauler, I get about 13~14mpg.

Diesel FTW

With the ranger, I got 21 before the topper and 20.5 after.

Cruising at what speed?

[shovenose]

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The van is heavier, yours probably had a carb, auto tranny, higher gear ratio, and other issues going on.

Diesel FTW

Cruising at what speed?

89 is efi but yeah it was running in base timing mode always running rich it had a defective tfi module that i didnt bother replacing and the head gasket failed too

btw i still have some random parts for that thing. do you want them? i have the new tfi module, spark plugs, and some other random shit

[ratdude747]

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Cruising at what speed?

Mixed driving. On the freeways I usually aim for 70-73mph (for fuel economy mainly) but I will speed up if I need to (passing, etc.).

[stj]

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temporarily back on topic, because this surprised even me!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonke...s-10-charging/

[stj]

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http://www.techrepublic.com/article/...-10-downloads/

[Uranium-235]

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/29573...-in-costs.html

[ratdude747]

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Screw that shit. I'll stick to win 7 and linux. I'd rather not use windows phone: desktop edition.

[c_hegge]

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Mixed driving. On the freeways I usually aim for 70-73mph (for fuel economy mainly) but I will speed up if I need to (passing, etc.).

Wow! You're fast. 110KM/H (68mph) is as high as speed limits get on the highways here in this part of the world, and 80km/h (50mph) is where the economy usually peaks (depending on the vehicle).

[stj]

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that's slow by european standards, we do an average of 80mph.
not legally, but if you didnt there would be a tailback!

[diif]

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that's slow by european standards, we do an average of 80mph.
not legally, but if you didnt there would be a tailback!

Not if you exclude the Audi and BMW drivers. They are normally the idiots speeding down the overtaking lane.

[stj]

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some of those are police.
found that out the hard way once trying to race one!!

the u.k. police have a lot of unmarked BMW 7series, Audi and some Volvo estates.

[SpectrHz]

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Whew! It's been a while since I've been here, and came over to see what people thought of win 10, and knew people would have problems with it ( i mean, we are talking about microshaft here,) but didn't expect this level of vehement hatred I actually quite like windows 10, as its much faster and takes better advantage of my computer (overclocked Pentium g3258, MSI z97m-g43, 16 GB RAM) the issue I had with win 7 was that a certain set of updates from micropeni-soft would destroy my boot partition and render win7 unbootable, combined with my performance issues with win7 made me want 10 badly. As unfortunately , I use cad cam packages that only work in windows. ( I would swith to Linux in a heartbeat if I could)

I actually had to get a bios update to keep win7 from killing itself every time it tried to install updates...
Win 10 in comparison I have no issues with, it screams on my machine, you can turn off the dumb tile thingies, and runs all my cad programs without error. I also have no boot issues anymore.

I understand peoples issues with security, its a hot button topic indeed, but seriously, what are you people trying to hide? There's nothing I do on my main machine that I wouldn't want someone seeing. If I'm ever uo to nefarious things like torrenting shit, I'll use my dedicated Linux machine and transfer the files.
Keep in mind as well, I'm totally on everyone's side here, I hate microsoft and would be Linux only all day if I could. But I can't. I don't want to spend the time dicking around with Linux to get things to work, I've tried wine/etc but it just doesn't compare in the ease of using a shitty windows install, unfortunately.

[stj]

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windows 10 takes advantage of my computer.

shortened it for you!

[shovenose]

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Wow! You're fast. 110KM/H (68mph) is as high as speed limits get on the highways here in this part of the world, and 80km/h (50mph) is where the economy usually peaks (depending on the vehicle).

I usually aim for 70-75mph but have gone 90+ once or twice.

[SteveNielsen]

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I don't hate Windows, but there are many things I don't like about it, security topping the list. For many people Windows is the best choice. Not me. I only use it when I have to. Linux is not any more difficult to set up and maintain than Windows, you just have to go about it differently and learn some new things. Support for Linux now far surpasses what you can get for Windows, IMO.