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I do have very "fond" memories of being in a GFWL loop with GTA IV. You can't save, you need to login. You can't login, you need to restart. You can't restart, saving doesn't work until you log in. Repeat. Something like that, oh boy I miss it :D

That would be quite the feat, considering it's very well documented to not run past the launcher.

Actually quite old signature. I've since moved on to a Ryzen 1800X PC, then gave that to my brother and bought a i7-8700K based setup, along with a 1080 ti. Might get around to update the sig. The problematic games are GTA: V, which doesn't run at all (and I also don't have the Steam version, so...

Only thing tying me to Windows is game performance. Most of my games work decent on Linux (Prefer XUbuntu or Mint), but some don't work at all. I wasn't actually talking about Windows as a Service :) More the fact that you have no control over your "own" operating system anymore. If I pay $199...

I had all my machines running 1607 LTSB, which is the perfect Windows 10 version imo. But I tried going from 1607 LTSB to 1803 Pro on all my Windows machines, because I wanted GPU% in Task Manager and FM Dark Mode eventually. I'm going back to LTSB soon, already re-installed all machines except...

Only valid point here is #3 to be honest. Linux pretty much supports both 32 and 64-bit extensively. Some Windows applications obviously don't work at all, which is fair. But I've never had an issue running any software on Linux, due to the arch of the software. 1: The SSD was meant to replace...

If it's just for school/office applications, simply getting a 30-50$ SSD will significantly speed up any old PC, even if it came with Vista at the time.

Not something I would set for sure. Even on brand new motherboards, there's always one sensor doing something erratic. On my Z370 board there's a temp sensor that either reads 0C or 128C, nothing in between. Obviously wrong, but could trigger a shutdown I assume.

SSDs are absolutely vital these days, and will breathe life back in to almost any old machine. If no SSD, get SSD.

Agree with Darren, 80-85C is the temperature I use as a worst case ceiling. Stress testing on a warm summer day, while in reality in games / heavy workloads it should be around 65-75C tops.

Your computer doesn't slow down when it's non-genuine. You just lose a few features, like a background, and the ability to run Windows Update.

You could try a more conservative overclock, with 1.25v and a 42 multiplier. But those temperatures seem very high regardless.

The built-in OC profile is honestly pretty garbage. As you can see it's using a BCLK of 102, which can cause system insabilities, and in total nets you 0.09GHz extra. For temps on a CPU, it's pretty much 99% down to the voltage, and not the frequency. A variation from core to core of 6C is...

You can see my i7-2600K in my signature. It's overclocked to 4.4GHz, and with synthetic stress tests (generates an unrealistic load) the max temp would be around 75-80C on a hot day. Are you using auto voltage? Can't see any images or info about that. IIRC built in auto-OC would do 4.3GHz at...

"slmgr -rearm" doesn't re-activate your PC, it resets the trial counter. So it's probably never been genuine, or you've removed the activation somehow, and you've kept re-initiating the trial period (30 days). You can only do this three times on an installation, which is why it doesn't work anymore.

I would equate your current CPU to the most popular quad core from 2008, the Q6600. It's pretty close in performance, however, your CPU uses like 80% less power. But any modern CPU would run laps around it in heavy workloads.

Well first of all those aren't 1.6GHz laptops, they're 3.4GHz. With newer CPUs they have tiered performance levels, 1.6GHz being to lowest they'll go to. These three laptops run at 3.4GHz when thermals allow it and applications are doing something. Your current CPU (Pentium N3540) doesn't always...

The "vi" in his example is a text editor, which instructs the text editor to open the file. So for example it could look like this: Where you edit the file inside the terminal. "open -a TextEdit ~/.inputrc" should open the file in the default Notepad variant, but I don't use Macs, so I...

I like how Intel states in 2011: What is AMD’s ACP? According to AMD documentation, ACP (Average CPU Power) is the average (Geometric Mean) power a processor was measured to dissipate while running a collection of 5 different benchmarks (Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC...

Intel announced them early july, so it's very new, only confirmed for Macbook and a Dell XPS to my knowledge.