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

Do you guys know when the AMD Trinity APUs are coming out? Heard it was around June, but I'm not sure.

i want to get gold or a title before the boostar ends but i have no money oh well

don't get gold, it's shit

Looking for a new MoBo to go with a 3770K, RAM (8-12GB), and a new PSU. Budget 500€ (flexible), including the 3770K. Planning to buy them on Monday, when they start selling Ivy Bridge. Any suggestions?

Are their any SATA controllers for cheap that have like 8 or more ports? Doesn't have to be nice at all, cheap shit is fine. Just need connections.

Okay, so about 2 months ago I managed to spill some water on my laptop. This stopped the battery from being usable and charging so I though the water must have broken the battery. Last week I order a new battery which doesn't seem to be charging at all. I have left it on for 18.5 hours straight with the laptop off but plugged in and "charging" but it's not charging at all however it can run off of the battery (though not for long as it's on 7% and shuts itself down when that low) . The battery indicator which looks half full keeps blinking on and off and the full battery indicator is rapidly blinking every so often. These indicators are on the case not the screen. Is it possible the water has broken a transformer inside of the laptop and so it cannot utilize it to power the battery to charge it and can only take power instead?

Quick question, hopefully a quick answer. I change my stock 1333 (or 666) 9-9-9-24 (dual channel) ram to 800 (or 400) 6-6-6-16. Is this better in any way or would it be better go to back, or, is there something closer to what I'm at now that would further improve anything?

[QUOTE=Shadaez;35729024]just make a google doc with a form [editline]27th April 2012[/editline] oh my I have a title[/QUOTE] frequenters of sensationalist headlines don't really have their heads screwed on correctly, so be at peace knowing all ~70 of your dumbs were delivered by fish-brained idiots. [editline]27th April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=vexx21322;35739738]Quick question, hopefully a quick answer. I change my stock 1333 9-9-9-24 (dual channel) ram to 400 6-6-6-16. Is this better in any way or would it be better go to back, or, is there something closer to what I'm at now that would further improve anything?[/QUOTE] do you mean you went from 650 to 400 or do you mean you went from 650 to 200? [editline]27th April 2012[/editline] because if you did the latter then you have made a terrible mistake.

[QUOTE=:smugspike:;35739861]frequenters of sensationalist headlines don't really have their heads screwed on correctly, so be at peace knowing all ~70 of your dumbs were delivered by fish-brained idiots. [editline]27th April 2012[/editline] do you mean you went from 650 to 400 or do you mean you went from 650 to 200? [editline]27th April 2012[/editline] because if you did the latter then you have made a terrible mistake.[/QUOTE] Whoops, I meant I went from 1333 (dual channel) to 800 (dual channel)

so you went from 650 (actually 666.5, I am just rounding) to 400 that's alright I suppose, but I should have mentioned that you'd probably still get higher performance with the Frequency of 1333(666.5) than having a slightly lower latency. [editline]27th April 2012[/editline] don't quote me on that/correct me if I am wrong but I am relatively certain.

[QUOTE=:smugspike:;35740296]so you went from 650 (actually 666.5, I am just rounding) to 400 that's alright I suppose, but I should have mentioned that you'd probably still get higher performance with the Frequency of 1333(666.5) than having a slightly lower latency. [editline]27th April 2012[/editline] don't quote me on that/correct me if I am wrong but I am relatively certain.[/QUOTE] I know how to overclock a gpu and cpu fine, but I know barely anything about ram overclocking. From what I read, you want as tight of timings as possible, but I'm not sure of where the balance between fsb and timings comes in.

Question about overclocking my [url=http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3530]GTX 460[/url]. I can raise the core clock to 810MHz before artifacts start appearing in my games (BF3 mostly). Is there anything I can do about it?

Raise the voltage, keep an eye on the temperatures though.

[QUOTE=Akasori;35742769]Question about overclocking my [url=http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3530]GTX 460[/url]. I can raise the core clock to 810MHz before artifacts start appearing in my games (BF3 mostly). Is there anything I can do about it?[/QUOTE] Over-volting, but that gets dangerous and you run the risk of damaging your card.

[QUOTE=vexx21322;35739738]Quick question, hopefully a quick answer. I change my stock 1333 (or 666) 9-9-9-24 (dual channel) ram to 800 (or 400) 6-6-6-16. Is this better in any way or would it be better go to back, or, is there something closer to what I'm at now that would further improve anything?[/QUOTE] Actually, believe it or not, that *increased* your latencies. CAS latencies are listed in terms of clock cycles, so decreasing the clock speed makes each one larger. At 400 MHz, a latency of 6-6-6-16 is equal to a latency of 12-12-12-32 at 800MHz. In both cases, that's 15 nanoseconds of latency. At 666MHz, a 9-9-9 latency equates to 13.5 nanoseconds. Congratulations, you've managed to lower both your total bandwidth AND increase your latencies. If you think you actually need lower latency at the expense of nearly half your bandwidth, see if you can get it down to 5-5-5-15. That would actually be a net latency improvement (13.5ns -> 12.5ns). But you could also get that at 666MHz with 8-8-8 latencies (13.5ns -> 12.0ns), without sacrificing any bandwidth performance.

If I get random pixel artifacts on screen, stretched models in games misplaced and odd-coloured textures, is it 100% fucked up/roasted graphics card? :v:

how much do you think I can get for [url=http://www.sony.co.uk/product/vn-cw-series/vpccw1s1e-b]this[/url] laptop?

[QUOTE=Akasori;35742769]Question about overclocking my [url=http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3530]GTX 460[/url]. I can raise the core clock to 810MHz before artifacts start appearing in my games (BF3 mostly). Is there anything I can do about it?[/QUOTE] You have to be careful, but raising the voltage is how. Make sure there are heatsinks on the Mosfets, some manufacturers remove them. If there isn't, you're going to break the card at anything over 1.012v

im running a quadfire setup ( two 6990s) and in nearly every game i have been playing recently (crysis 2, crysis 1, and battlefield 3 for example) the msi afterburner OSD shows that GPU usage for all four cards never really goes above 60% and usually just sits at 30%. i have a 2600k @ 4.7 so i doubt bottlenecking is an issue and I'm thinking its the drivers ( 12.4 and 12.3 CAP 1). does anyone know if there any any drivers available that are better suited for quadfire ?

Windows install is being weird and taking a long time to do anything, and is usually stuck at preparing to uninstall or installing. What do

How much do you think this would sell for, to both a literate and non-literate. 1090T @ 4jiggas 6870 with icy vision cooler M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 8gb XM3 1333mhz Be Quiet! 630w modular H60 in push/pull with two silent Fractal 1600rpm fans Cooler master 690 II Lite Two three blue LED spectres Nesteq FanMax Windows 7 I was thinking, £500-600 to a literate, maybe a grand to an illiterate? Not too certain though.

[QUOTE=milktree;35748738]im running a quadfire setup ( two 6990s) and in nearly every game i have been playing recently (crysis 2, crysis 1, and battlefield 3 for example) the msi afterburner OSD shows that GPU usage for all four cards never really goes above 60% and usually just sits at 30%. i have a 2600k @ 4.7 so i doubt bottlenecking is an issue and I'm thinking its the drivers ( 12.4 and 12.3 CAP 1). does anyone know if there any any drivers available that are better suited for quadfire ?[/QUOTE] what FPS are you getting

[QUOTE=David Tennant;35749577]How much do you think this would sell for, to both a literate and non-literate. 1090T @ 4jiggas 6870 with icy vision cooler M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 8gb XM3 1333mhz Be Quiet! 630w modular H60 in push/pull with two silent Fractal 1600rpm fans Cooler master 690 II Lite Two three blue LED spectres Nesteq FanMax Windows 7 I was thinking, £500-600 to a literate, maybe a grand to an illiterate? Not too certain though.[/QUOTE] 1500 for illiterate, 800 for literate

Pounds? That seems a bit high to me.

for stuff that recent you can generally charge almost new prices for everything

[QUOTE=gman003-main;35744160]Actually, believe it or not, that *increased* your latencies. CAS latencies are listed in terms of clock cycles, so decreasing the clock speed makes each one larger. At 400 MHz, a latency of 6-6-6-16 is equal to a latency of 12-12-12-32 at 800MHz. In both cases, that's 15 nanoseconds of latency. At 666MHz, a 9-9-9 latency equates to 13.5 nanoseconds. Congratulations, you've managed to lower both your total bandwidth AND increase your latencies. If you think you actually need lower latency at the expense of nearly half your bandwidth, see if you can get it down to 5-5-5-15. That would actually be a net latency improvement (13.5ns -> 12.5ns). But you could also get that at 666MHz with 8-8-8 latencies (13.5ns -> 12.0ns), without sacrificing any bandwidth performance.[/QUOTE] I was running 666 @ 8-8-8-24 before, but then I started getting blue screens with access violations. I'm not sure if it was the timings or my fsb. I guess I can keep experimenting.

This is quite simple but if I connect my fan into the PSU molex connector instead of a 3pin motherboard connector. Will it run at full speed or is there a limit to it?

It will just run at full speed

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I don't know if this is a dumb question or not but [URL=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246327]the laptop I was keeping an eye on[/url] has been sold out. Will it get restocked? I'm a bit nervous because normally there's an auto-notify button below items that have sold out but this one has nothing.