Recent content by Nick_50

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    Do CPUs overheat due to thermal paste?

    Thermal paste can dry out but I wouldn't expect a laptop only 7-8 months old to have this problem. There is a chance that there was not enough or too much applied but you have no way of knowing without taking everything apart which I wouldn't do on a 2 day old laptop. I think you would be able...
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    Recovered TV recordings but I can't open the files.

    No way are they video files, the file size is too small.
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    convert picture from Cr2 to JPEG in canon 650D

    In the menus you can change to make the camera save to raw, raw and jpg then the different qualities of jpg.
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    how many hrs of video will be stored in 6 GB

    It depends on the quality of the video. Standard definition, 1080P, 4K?
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    Handbrake HEVC/H265 encoding blu ray in 25 hours??

    Maybe, but you have to take the encoding time into consideration. I would think its a challenge to get a bluray down to 4gb or less, even some DVDs have files bigger than that. In handbrake you can set a small section of the file to be encoded, just play about with some different settings and...
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    Handbrake HEVC/H265 encoding blu ray in 25 hours??

    Why don't you try to encode to h264 instead of h265?
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    Ways to keep a new PC running fast?

    Don't defragment if you have an SSD, that is only required on mechanical drives.
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    Any recommendations for a good free folder sync program?

    I use syncback free, its pretty good, you can set up which folders synchronise, mirror or copy and set up a schedule.