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[Bohandas]

Are there any file search programs that can search for text within .mht and/or .maff files?

[BigD145]

Are there any file search programs that can search for text within .mht and/or .maff files?

Notepad++ perhaps?

[Sonlirain]

Right. So i was expermineting with the HDD and installed a fan.

Looks like my HDD is damaged and has some bad sectors after only 3 years of use.
Additionally current temperature oscilates at around 42 degrees when idle.

The high temperature seems to be a typical thing among this generation of seagate HDDs (mostly a guess i jsut saw some benchmarks showing another ST3750640NS and it's temp oscilated around 43 deg.

With a fan the temperature problem is somewhat diminished (it does not explode to 55 deg after a 30 second benchmark) but after playing 50 minutes of Shadow of mordor in high settings the HDD temp rose up to 51 degs and the PC reset soon afterwards.

So yeah. Looks like i will be replacing the HDD as well then?
Sigh...

[Thief^]

Get an SSD if you can afford it!

[RoguelikeRazuka]

Hey guys, the thing is that I'm building a budget (under 1000-1200$) PC for gaming now, so could some give me a piece of advice on that matter?

Currently I imagine my new pc as something like this:

Motherboard -- ASUS z170 PRO GAMING
CPU -- Intel Core i5 6600k
RAM -- Corsair Vengeance LPX CMK86X4M2A2400C14 DDR4 2x4GB
Power supply unit -- Thermaltake RX 650 W
CPU cooler -- Zalman CNPS10X Optima
HDD - Western Digital Black 1TB
Computer case -- ZALMAN Z3 PLUS

Which is the graphical card going to be is not decided yet, I think I'll buy one some later (maybe simply get a used HD 7970).

The hindrance that prevents me from rushing for those parts immediately is that I'm not quite sure if it's really necessary to buy an i5 6600k (and thus more expensive RAM and motherboard) instead of i5 4690k (with a z97 and some relatively cheap DDR3 RAM), people say were I just upgrading my old pc, it'd be wiser to get Haswell, but since I'm buying an entirely new one, it's better to pay more for better performance, newer technologies, lesser power consuming and all. On the other hand, the tests keep telling that there's quite little difference in terms of performance between Haswell and Skylake (just like it's for even i5 2500k processors). What would you say on that guys?

One more thing: I'm going to play in past-gen 1080p@60fps (at least I hope for that), the games I prefer to get my hands on are the following: Dwarf Fortress 2 (no doubt), Watch_Dogs, Dying Light, Witcher 3, Rome: Total War 2, Arma III, GTA V, Civilization V, Fallout 4, the new XCOM maybe.

Thank you in advance. 

[Thief^]

I'd get DDR3 personally. DDR4 isn't appreciably faster, the reduced power use is all but irrelevant next to the use of your CPU/GPU and it costs more.

The DDR4 spec can theoretically grow to faster speeds than DDR3 in the future, but you'll still need a new motherboard and CPU to use it, so getting DDR4 now isn't future proof at all.

Also seriously, get an SSD.

[Sonlirain]

Also seriously, get an SSD.

I'll second that. Even if its only a tiny 120 GB SSD you'd only use for Windows. It's just worth it because from my experience HDDs tend to slow down massively after a few years.
My current HDD might not be the best example (it developed bad sectors in only 3 years and will likely break completely in a few months) but nowdays i can boot the PC and go make coffee because booting up takes around 10 minutes now despite there being plenty of space on the system partition.

The difference in DDR3 and 4 is minimal at best for now anjd i mean literally fractions altho slower CPUs tend to get a larger benefit from them Other than that it's still around 1-5 fps difference at best..

Personally if you'd ask me i'd wait for AMD to make a move.

[BigD145]

Don't bother with a gaming motherboard unless you're hitting high end i7's. i5's do DF pretty well. Even then, "gaming" just means "costs more for having 'gaming' in the name". 16GB RAM minimum. Enough games are x64 only. A Corsair closed system liquid cooler is under $90 US. Cases just need to be roomy, not fancy, and I'm too busy staring at my screen to care what a case looks like.

[RoguelikeRazuka]

Then what about this:

i5 4690k OR i5 6600k
MSI z97 GAMING 5 OR ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING
CORSAIR Vengeance Pro CMY16GX3M2A1600C9 DDR3 2x8GB OR CORSAIR Vengeance LPX CMK16GX4M2A2400C14 DDR4 2x8GB
ZALMAN CNPS10X Performa (120 mm)
Wester Digital Black 1 TB
Thermaltake TR2 RX 650W
ZALMAN Z3 PLUS

it's 818$ vs 865$ (still under 1k$). Worth it?

As for which motherboard to get -- what are your suggestions?

And hey, is 650W enough for HD 7970 and either of those configs above?

[itisnotlogical]

I quite like Firefox, but there's something that annoys me after switching from Chrome: When it goes to full screen on Youtube, there's an annoying "fade through black" transition, whereas Chrome would just instantly pop the video up. Is there any way to disable this transition? I've looked in the options menu and can't find anything.

[Sonlirain]

And hey, is 650W enough for HD 7970 and either of those configs above?

Can'\t suggest a mobo because i don't consider myself informed well enough but i can drop you this.
http://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator

I made a test and from the looks of it a 550W PSU should handle it but it all depends on the GPU you pick.
Nvidia GPUs have worse power/price ratio but are more energy efficient while AMD both gives and takes more power (at least when compared with a card from the same class.

Basically from what i could gather:
Your setup + GTX 980 + SSD (barely worth mentioning but i will anyway) = 407 Watt usage.
Same but with a R9 380 = 442W

Long story short. 650W is more than enough and if you want a Nvidia card you can safely even get a 550W PSU.
Also as a sidenote. AMD CPU + AMD GPU will eat so much power it's not funny.

[Bohandas]

I quite like Firefox, but there's something that annoys me after switching from Chrome: When it goes to full screen on Youtube, there's an annoying "fade through black" transition, whereas Chrome would just instantly pop the video up. Is there any way to disable this transition? I've looked in the options menu and can't find anything.

Not sure offhand. You could try entering "about:config" into your address bar (this brings up the super-advanced settings page) and skimming through the available options.

Turning off themes might help too, but it'll make he rest of the page look like crap.

[RoguelikeRazuka]

Hey GTX 970 needs a 8 pin + 6 pin power supply, but the PSU I've chosen has 2x (6 pin + 2 pin) and 2x 8 pin connectors. Is everything allright if I plug the 6 and 8 pin connectors in the videocard, so the other ones will just hang down loosely?

[BigD145]

Extra connectors are nice to have and don't matter at all if you don't use them. Just tie them back out of the way in the case. Just make sure you have all the connectors you might need and they have enough amps on the line. I tend to go with multiple hard drives and an optical drive, so those connectors are a must for me. For all the "ratings" out there on PSU's, go with a Silver or higher. That's just general advice for anyone.

[gimlet]

Yea looks like firefox fairly recently changed their fullscreen transition - there's some discussion about it and how the transition time is too long - some of them have config settings to try - https://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+fade+to+black+fullscreen.  I'd copy/paste some but I'm too lazy today