The "Quick Questions that does not Deserve a Thread"...Thread. V3 - Hardware & Software

Also- Have someone made batteries for your tower yet? It'd be great if the power went out so you could save everything and exit.

[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;38419038]So, with the coming of winter, and where I live, winter means power outages and general power screweyness. I really want to make sure nothing happens to my rig, but i'm not sure what to buy to do this.[/QUOTE]Uninterruptible Power Supply

[url]http://www.inet.se/produkt/5322017/cooler-master-hyper-212-evo[/url] This is the one right? The name at NewEgg is long as shit, but this looks like it.

[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;38419073][url]http://www.inet.se/produkt/5322017/cooler-master-hyper-212-evo[/url] This is the one right? The name at NewEgg is long as shit, but this looks like it.[/QUOTE] Yes [editline]12th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=TehWhale;38419065]Uninterruptible Power Supply[/QUOTE] You don't eevn need a UPS for that. A surge supressor is more than enough for the job.

Whenever I scroll over any youtube video, Firefox freezes and usually crashes. how do I fix this?

[QUOTE=The Decoy;38420456]Whenever I scroll over any youtube video, Firefox freezes and usually crashes. how do I fix this?[/QUOTE] Reinstall Flash, I suppose. Flash is pretty much terrible and there isn't too much you can do to fix it.

I'm wondering if I should get a Hybrid HDD/SSD drive or just get a SSD for my laptop. The issue right now is size capacity since I only have one slot to have one or the other. I could manage with just 256 GB SSD but it may be tough to manage keeping the size around that in the future. While the hybrid gives the best of both worlds, I'm not sure if the speed for that drive is worth to get.

Hybrids are a waste of time.

[QUOTE=SataniX;38421630]Hybrids are a waste of time.[/QUOTE] Because of reasons, yes?

[QUOTE=SataniX;38421630]Hybrids are a waste of time.[/QUOTE] Very informative.

Going to order a new PC this week. How does this look? [IMG]http://puu.sh/1prUm.jpg[/IMG] Should I upgrade or change anything? It is pretty much maximum budget as it is so Id have to downgrade one thing to upgrade another. I am buying it from CyberPower PC, And before everybody gang rapes me with "BUILD YOUR OWN!!!" There is a reason for it. I can get it on a 9 month finance payment with 0% interest. So I pay £80 ish a month for 9 months. Because I cant afford to buy it all it once. Otherwise I would build my own. ALSO: it has a corsair h60 water cooling system. Not sure why it doesn't state that on the image.

Looks good enough considering what you've said.

You can get 0% and build your own too. Hell, I have two credit cards right now and both are at 0%.

[QUOTE=QuikKill;38423366]You can get 0% and build your own too. Hell, I have two credit cards right now and both are at 0%.[/QUOTE] It doesn't work out much cheaper anyway so I don't mind having them build it. [editline]12th November 2012[/editline] Im really unsure about getting the G43 as the mobo but I just cant afford to upgrade to the asus V pro. I feel that the components wont work so well on the g43.

[QUOTE=imMonkeyGOD;38421443]I'm wondering if I should get a Hybrid HDD/SSD drive or just get a SSD for my laptop. The issue right now is size capacity since I only have one slot to have one or the other. I could manage with just 256 GB SSD but it may be tough to manage keeping the size around that in the future. While the hybrid gives the best of both worlds, I'm not sure if the speed for that drive is worth to get.[/QUOTE] Do you have an optical drive in the laptop? On some, you can buy a thing that fits into the optical drive bay and holds a 2.5" drive. So if you don't need CD/DVDs, you can swap for an SSD or something. Hybrid drives aren't really worth it. None of them have enough capacity (4GB seems common), and they rely on generally-shitty algorithms to decide what to keep in flash, and what to put on disc.

Is this a good desktop build? [img]http://puu.sh/1pwyk[/img] Except with this power supply [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371030&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3349309&SID=skim33330X911647X3a9b676a29e25a631c695d991cb48617[/url]

[QUOTE=gman003-main;38423934]Do you have an optical drive in the laptop? On some, you can buy a thing that fits into the optical drive bay and holds a 2.5" drive. So if you don't need CD/DVDs, you can swap for an SSD or something. Hybrid drives aren't really worth it. None of them have enough capacity (4GB seems common), and they rely on generally-shitty algorithms to decide what to keep in flash, and what to put on disc.[/QUOTE] I do but I want to keep it to watch my blurays. I might just get the SSD if the Hybrid isn't even worth it.

[QUOTE=Niven;38425685]Is this a good desktop build? [img]http://puu.sh/1pwyk[/img] Except with this power supply [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371030&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3349309&SID=skim33330X911647X3a9b676a29e25a631c695d991cb48617[/url][/QUOTE] It's kinda pointless to buy a CPU designed for OC and not have a better cooling system.

Recently my computer has been randomly locking up and becoming fully unresponsive...it has happened ever since the power shut off while it was running. It was connected to a surge protector. I downloaded a hotfix from Microsoft but that did nothing. I also ran Memtest and nothing came up, but it did freeze near the end of the test...could it be the RAM? I'm on Win7

[QUOTE=imMonkeyGOD;38421443]I'm wondering if I should get a Hybrid HDD/SSD drive or just get a SSD for my laptop. The issue right now is size capacity since I only have one slot to have one or the other. I could manage with just 256 GB SSD but it may be tough to manage keeping the size around that in the future. While the hybrid gives the best of both worlds, I'm not sure if the speed for that drive is worth to get.[/QUOTE] What laptop? Maybe you could get a mSata SSD? [editline]12th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Angry Pineapple;38426131]Recently my computer has been randomly locking up and becoming fully unresponsive...it has happened ever since the power shut off while it was running. It was connected to a surge protector. I downloaded a hotfix from Microsoft but that did nothing. I also ran Memtest and nothing came up, but it did freeze near the end of the test...could it be the RAM? I'm on Win7[/QUOTE] Was the memtest the one you boot from? If there were no errors before it froze, I doubt that it's the RAM. I don't think bad RAM would cause memtest to break like that (unless it's spitting out tons of errors prior, at least)

[QUOTE=Shadaez;38426750]Was the memtest the one you boot from? If there were no errors before it froze, I doubt that it's the RAM. I don't think bad RAM would cause memtest to break like that (unless it's spitting out tons of errors prior, at least)[/QUOTE] Yeah I booted from it. There weren't any errors and it just locked up ~5 minutes in like Windows does...

That would happen to me when my CPU overclock was unstable. What CPU and motherboard do you have, and do you OC at all? If you do, it's unstable. If you don't, try setting your BIOS to default maybe. Try running Prime 95 and see if it throws errors or makes you instantly freeze.

[QUOTE=Shadaez;38428717]That would happen to me when my CPU overclock was unstable. What CPU and motherboard do you have, and do you OC at all? If you do, it's unstable. If you don't, try setting your BIOS to default maybe. Try running Prime 95 and see if it throws errors or makes you instantly freeze.[/QUOTE] 2500k @ 4.5 and a MSI P67A-GD55. I'll set the clocks and voltage back to normal and see if that helps. It'd be weird for it to be messing up now as it has been stable for the past year or so.

[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;38419061]Also- Have someone made batteries for your tower yet? It'd be great if the power went out so you could save everything and exit.[/QUOTE] Uninterruptible power supplies have been around since the computer was invented.

[QUOTE=Niven;38425685]Is this a good desktop build? [img]http://puu.sh/1pwyk[/img] Except with this power supply [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371030&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3349309&SID=skim33330X911647X3a9b676a29e25a631c695d991cb48617[/url][/QUOTE] Depends, what are you going to be doing that justifies the i7 over the i5?

[QUOTE=Niven;38425685]Is this a good desktop build? [img]http://puu.sh/1pwyk[/img] Except with this power supply [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371030&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3349309&SID=skim33330X911647X3a9b676a29e25a631c695d991cb48617[/url][/QUOTE] it's a good build but the motherboard's a bit of a waste, I'm really against those stupid overpriced motherboards that do basically the exact same things as your general budget board but have a cool logo on them (and some other features that really aren't that useful). You'd also probably get better performance in games if you knocked your CPU down to a 3570k and bumped the GPU up to a 680.

[QUOTE=Shadaez;38431166]it's a good build but the motherboard's a bit of a waste, I'm really against those stupid overpriced motherboards that do basically the exact same things as your general budget board but have a cool logo on them (and some other features that really aren't that useful). You'd also probably get better performance in games if you knocked your CPU down to a 3570k and bumped the GPU up to a 680.[/QUOTE] The sabertooth is sexy as hell though. I was skeptic about it too but the look of the thermal armor ( in some cases like a black C70 ) just looks amazing.

well, it's a good thing when you're using your computer you don't stare at the motherboard all day

[QUOTE=Shadaez;38431670]well, it's a good thing when you're using your computer you don't stare at the motherboard all day[/QUOTE] except for those people that have a clear side and keep their computer on their desk, sideways they're very sad people

[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;38431705]except for those people that have a clear side and keep their computer on their desk, sideways they're very sad people[/QUOTE] Who added LEDs to their fans.