• The "Quick Questions that does not Deserve a Thread"...Thread. V4
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Did you try the usual "my steam game broke" fixes? Verify files, etc?
[QUOTE=lavacano;40797316]Did you try the usual "my steam game broke" fixes? Verify files, etc?[/QUOTE] Not yet - I posted that like five minutes after it happened. Trying that now. Edit: That didn't do anything, but I went ahead and tweaked my Speedfan configs so it will ramp up to a higher fanspeed faster, hitting 100% fans at 76C. If it *is* a heat issue, that should help.
[QUOTE=BRM;40793325]I really like the idea of a 'sleeper' pc so to speak, and I don't mind putting some effort in modding the case for better cooling if possible. Also i'm not planning on overclocking it, so with some good fans it shouldn't get too hot in there i think (?) figured it would be a good idea too get some opinions here first :p[/QUOTE] When i built my old neighbors their new PC i re-used their HP Compaq case from 2002. Had to cut some stuff with a dremel but it fit. Was only a basic Athlon II + HD4650 build however
Have you change drivers yet? It certainly could be a driver problem. The recent Nvidia 320.18 caused huge glitches for people in BF3 so I'm sure it would be similar for AMD. Try running furmark or something and see if it reports artifacts.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;40799770]Have you change drivers yet? It certainly could be a driver problem. The recent Nvidia 320.18 caused huge glitches for people in BF3 so I'm sure it would be similar for AMD. Try running furmark or something and see if it reports artifacts.[/QUOTE] I'm not even sure which driver version I'm on. 9.012, I think. Would it kill AMD to have one version number shown instead of six? I think I'm just overreacting. I'll keep running stuff on it, see if any other games act up.
I haven't really figured this out what the advantage the quad channel memory has over dual channel memory? and vice versa? Im still waiting for the LGA 1150 as well with haswell to come out. But I would like to know will two sticks do better or 4 sticks, if it makes a difference I'm doing 3monitor setup.
[QUOTE=CorporalRoss;40802305]I haven't really figured this out what the advantage the quad channel memory has over dual channel memory? and vice versa? Im still waiting for the LGA 1150 as well with haswell to come out. But I would like to know will two sticks do better or 4 sticks, if it makes a difference I'm doing 3monitor setup.[/QUOTE] Quad channel will have twice the bandwidth of dual channel, but the only platform that uses quad channel right now is LGA 2011. With Haswell both 2 and 4 sticks should preform the same.
[QUOTE=CorporalRoss;40802305]I haven't really figured this out what the advantage the quad channel memory has over dual channel memory? and vice versa?[/QUOTE] Bandwidth. With a single memory channel, you can only access 64 bits of information from RAM in one transfer cycle (RAM clock speed * 2 for DDR memory). With two, you can access 128 bits, with three, 192 bits and with quad-channel, 256 bits. Now, that doesn't sound like a lot, especially when RAM clock speeds are so low, but your CPU has a significant amount of cache to help with that. But dual-channel is still pretty common, and higher is becoming less rare.
Thanks for the post explaining But it seems like LGA 1155 like ASROCK z77 extreme4 for example has 4 memory slots or is there something I'm missing?
[QUOTE=CorporalRoss;40802518]Thanks for the post explaining But it seems like LGA 1155 like ASROCK z77 extreme4 for example has 4 memory slots or is there something I'm missing?[/QUOTE] slots 1 and 3 are channel 1, slots 2 and 4 are channel 2.
I see Thanks for the clarification.
the channels might be the other way around but w/e.
The easiest way to tell is the color of the plastic on the RAM slots. The same channel will be the same color (usually).
Does it matter whether I get a PCI Wifi adapter or a USB one?
How do I go about transferring everything other than the OS such as steam games, music, and movies from my 500gb hard drive over to my 1tb, and then transferring them over again to my new 1tb hard drive? Basically I want my 500gb to only have the OS left over on it, so I can just use it until I put it in my parents computer and then get a new 1tb hard drive to reinstall windows and transfer the files back. That probably sounds confusing but any help?
[QUOTE=HolyCrapAWalrus;40807871]How do I go about transferring everything other than the OS such as steam games, music, and movies from my 500gb hard drive over to my 1tb, and then transferring them over again to my new 1tb hard drive? Basically I want my 500gb to only have the OS left over on it, so I can just use it until I put it in my parents computer and then get a new 1tb hard drive to reinstall windows and transfer the files back. That probably sounds confusing but any help?[/QUOTE] Copy....paste..?
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;40807902]Copy....paste..?[/QUOTE] Well I know there's a program that someone linked before I just have no clue what it was, it's almost 350gb of stuff though.
Just a question I have. I have an HD 5770 from 3 years ago and its served me well. Recently it's been not functioning correctly (black screens and etc, ruled everything else out), so I decided to contact Visiontek about it and get a warranty replacement. I haven't gotten an email back from them yet. Has anyone here have experience with warranties and such? I'm not sure if I should go with it and wait up to two weeks to receive a replacement, mostly because I don't have a spare video card and my motherboard doesn't have a video output (rendering this PC unusable while I wait). I'm also not sure if I want to upgrade to something newer. What do you think, FP? Warranty replacement or upgrade?
[QUOTE=HolyCrapAWalrus;40807992]Well I know there's a program that someone linked before I just have no clue what it was, it's almost 350gb of stuff though.[/QUOTE] I mean whatever you do is going to be limited by your transfer speed, you may as start now. Yeah there's some different methods you can do but ultimately if you're not going to preserve your registry or anything since you're reinstalling the OS you may as well just transfer the files manually. Can't be all that hard unless you're really unorganized. Alternatively, why don't you just clone your current system on the 1TB you have now, so you don't even have to bother with all the reinstalling with the 1TB you plan to get? Basically, create image of what you have now, put the image on the 1TB, delete everything but the OS on the 500GB and give it to your parents, then have the second 1TB whenever you get it for data.
[QUOTE=HighdefGE;40808118]Just a question I have. I have an HD 5770 from 3 years ago and its served me well. Recently it's been not functioning correctly (black screens and etc, ruled everything else out), so I decided to contact Visiontek about it and get a warranty replacement. I haven't gotten an email back from them yet. Has anyone here have experience with warranties and such? I'm not sure if I should go with it and wait up to two weeks to receive a replacement, mostly because I don't have a spare video card and my motherboard doesn't have a video output (rendering this PC unusable while I wait). I'm also not sure if I want to upgrade to something newer. What do you think, FP? Warranty replacement or upgrade?[/QUOTE] I'd upgrade, depends on what else you are rocking in your system though.
[QUOTE=HighdefGE;40808118]Just a question I have. I have an HD 5770 from 3 years ago and its served me well. Recently it's been not functioning correctly (black screens and etc, ruled everything else out), so I decided to contact Visiontek about it and get a warranty replacement. I haven't gotten an email back from them yet. Has anyone here have experience with warranties and such? I'm not sure if I should go with it and wait up to two weeks to receive a replacement, mostly because I don't have a spare video card and my motherboard doesn't have a video output (rendering this PC unusable while I wait). I'm also not sure if I want to upgrade to something newer. What do you think, FP? Warranty replacement or upgrade?[/QUOTE] Unless you want to be out of a computer for up to two weeks, you can easily go pick up a 7770 or something similar and just use that. It'll be better over what you have, your warranty will be new, and I've found 7770s for less than 130 bucks.
Is the Radeon 7790 worth the extra over the 7770, or should I just go for a 7850 if I'm already spending more?
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;40808183]Unless you want to be out of a computer for up to two weeks, you can easily go pick up a 7770 or something similar and just use that. It'll be better over what you have, your warranty will be new, and I've found 7770s for less than 130 bucks.[/QUOTE] I visited my local Microcenter today and found 7770's from several different manufacturers at 100 bucks. I don't know how long that sale is going to last though. I'll still wait to see if I get a response back from Visiontek. By the chance that I do upgrade, would a 7770 be worth upgrading from a 5770? I'm not really looking for a way high end card, just something that's cheap and worth it. I'm more worried about it's compatibility with the rest of the hardware. I have an i5 760 from 3 years ago and I'm concerned about it bottle-necking the 7770. I think most likely it won't but you never know. Most of all, I'm afraid if my motherboard will reject it. It's an ASUS P7P55D and PCI 2.0. The 7770 is PCI 3.0. I think it's backwards compatible but I don't know by how much it will be limited.
7770 ought to be fine on the motherboard and there won't be any performance hit at all.
[t]http://i42.tinypic.com/1572pm9.png[/t] So these two windows are popping up randomly while I'm playing games and bringing me back to the desktop. Everything I could find on Google says I should be seeing the error when dealing with printers, however, I've never had a printer hooked up to this computer. Anyone know why this is happening and how to get it to stop?
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;40804860]Does it matter whether I get a PCI Wifi adapter or a USB one?[/QUOTE] a lot of usb adapters can randomly feel like they want to break down
[QUOTE=4444;40810569][t]http://i42.tinypic.com/1572pm9.png[/t] So these two windows are popping up randomly while I'm playing games and bringing me back to the desktop. Everything I could find on Google says I should be seeing the error when dealing with printers, however, I've never had a printer hooked up to this computer. Anyone know why this is happening and how to get it to stop?[/QUOTE] If it's printer related, you could try going into services.msc and disabling the Print Spooler service
so my monitor died and I really need a new one. I'm looking at 23-24 inch monitors under $150 (and preferably not right under $150 either) I think I have it narrowed down to these two $130 24 inch AOC monitor from newegg [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824160166"]link[/URL] $130 24 inch Hanns-G monitor from TigerDirect thats on sale from $170 [URL="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=7585070&sku=H94-2401"]link[/URL] Which of these two would be better?
I have an 22'' AOC 1080p monitor, I can say that colors look nice, but it doesn't do black well. It can also take a beating (I've dropped it and hit it a few times)
Try to find an IPS monitor, I think they're starting to make them in your price range.
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