Useful websites

[Matt]

They recently went under, caused a lot of people a whole lot of grief by accepting orders until the last minute.

Wow, thats disgraceful. I presume those who paid by credit cards were ok though.

 

[Drunken Monkey]

The most useful website in the world >.< Zamzar Its a free tool, that converts your files from one format to another...

>.< was searching for it for ages... had to convert a pdf into a doc. file >.<

real time saver

The only flaw though is its used by alot of people, so downloading your converted file takes years and a few grey hairs.

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Rock Paper Shotgun the best pc gaming news website... they've been at it since 1873

 

[Narcotics]

Game deals
http://www.billybargain.co.uk/
HUKD
http://www.hotukdeals.com/

 

[Pinstripe]

Nice Idea bookmarked for when I get time to look through it. Got a few for when I was checking my PC temps
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ - PCU temp
http://www.gputemp.com/- GPU temp
http://www.cpuid.com/ -CPUZ For detailed Specs/HW Monitor for temps on all(not sure if this is greatly accurate)
Another one I found good
http://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER - Cleaning up PC from clutter

 

[overthehill]

Impartial reviews & information about electrical items

Not able to post links yet , but digitalversus .com , is the site

 

[Blackdog]

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/283-free-google-chrome-extension-add-in-app.html

Some awesome little extensions for Chrome enthusiasts. Adblock is mandatory but also "Awesome New Tab" is a great tiled interface that replaces your old most visited websites and includes direct shortcuts to steam games etc. Mine looks like this

 

[Jimmm]

Engadget

My tech dose is incomplete without the homepage of engadget!

 

[mgsolidus]

Never cpubenchmark for scores, always AnandTech.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/2

 

[Nemesis]

Thanks for all the contributions. All have been added and I have hopefully improved the formatting by finishing it off using Word. More to follow!

 

[Yamikotai]

I get all my tech+security news and updates from RSS feeds kept in Google Reader. Here they are:

 

[overthehill]

The best PC testing site I've tried so far UserBenchmark . Took more than the minute advertised more like two , ended up in battleship categorie 70% let down by graphics card .

http://www.userbenchmark.com

 

[Oussebon]

Userbenchmark is a fun website (I've used it and enjoyed it), but not a very useful one at all. Doesn't the results for a given CPU/GPU include overclocked results too?

I'd stick to Cinebench for CPU performance and Futuremark for GPU, where at least you can work out whether the results you're comparing it to are overclocked and they have a reference scores page, or something like Unigine Valley.

 

[JSanderson99]

another website I find useful is called https://ninite.com/
this site allows you to choose multiple programs such as browsers, anti viruses and other programs in one big download at once without any adware built into it.

 

[JSanderson99]

i posted my website earlier that I found useful, why was my comment removed?

 

[Rakk]

i posted my website earlier that I found useful, why was my comment removed?

It wasn't removed, it was in the moderation queue (the auto-moderation thing got it) and it was waiting to be approved.

Though do note, I certainly wouldn't use a tool like that, its generally a lot safer to download and update stuff from the place that makes said software/updates.

 

[SpyderTracks]

another website I find useful is called https://ninite.com/
this site allows you to choose multiple programs such as browsers, anti viruses and other programs in one big download at once without any adware built into it.

I wouldn't recommend this tool, it's a little on the dodgy side to say the least. Always go to the source.

 

[Shepard]

A good website, not only for laptops, but all kinds of manuals:
https://www.manualslib.com/

 

[Stephen M]

This is aimed at Linux users but is probably worth looking at by any computer user: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=home