• The "Quick Questions that does not Deserve a Thread"...Thread. V4
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[QUOTE=RoboChimp;41150000]Can you mix a 2GB GTX680 with a 4GB 680 in SLI?[/QUOTE] Yes but it will work as a 2x2. Not a 2x4.
I've got an aging i7 920 and I was thinking about Overclocking it. I jumped into my BIOS to have a look and jesus christ there's a lot of settings! Is there any sort of overclocking guide that I can read that will explain everything? I know I could just google them and I have been doing but a lot of them say conflicting things, so I want to know if somebody who knows their shit can perhaps show me one. I've been running Prime95 for about 15 minutes and the average temperature is 70 degrees C. Seems a bit high considering I have what I thought was a quite good cooler in, but then again I've heard you can go to about 80 before you need to start worrying. Would disabling HyperThreading be of any use, somebody told me that HyperThreading is useless.
[QUOTE=ChaosUnleash;41152493]I've got an aging i7 920 and I was thinking about Overclocking it. I jumped into my BIOS to have a look and jesus christ there's a lot of settings! Is there any sort of overclocking guide that I can read that will explain everything? I know I could just google them and I have been doing but a lot of them say conflicting things, so I want to know if somebody who knows their shit can perhaps show me one. I've been running Prime95 for about 15 minutes and the average temperature is 70 degrees C. Seems a bit high considering I have what I thought was a quite good cooler in, but then again I've heard you can go to about 80 before you need to start worrying. Would disabling HyperThreading be of any use, somebody told me that HyperThreading is useless.[/QUOTE] Prime95 puts a far higher load on your CPU than it would ever get in practice. If you're getting 70C, you would probably only get 60-65C in games, which is absolutely fine. HyperThreading helps - it's usually a 20-30% performance boost. I wouldn't disable it.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;41152588]Prime95 puts a far higher load on your CPU than it would ever get in practice. If you're getting 70C, you would probably only get 60-65C in games, which is absolutely fine. HyperThreading helps - it's usually a 20-30% performance boost. I wouldn't disable it.[/QUOTE] So it might be safe to have a go at overclocking? The friend who told me that HyperThreading was useless also told me that provided I didn't change the voltage I couldn't do any permanent damage to the chip and it was fine to play about. I'm not sure I trust him, but is there any simple easy way to get a quick boost (I'd be happy going from 2.6 to 3.4 or even 3.6, don't care much for 4Ghz+)?
[QUOTE=ChaosUnleash;41152651]So it might be safe to have a go at overclocking? The friend who told me that HyperThreading was useless also told me that provided I didn't change the voltage I couldn't do any permanent damage to the chip and it was fine to play about. I'm not sure I trust him, but is there any simple easy way to get a quick boost (I'd be happy going from 2.6 to 3.4 or even 3.6, don't care much for 4Ghz+)?[/QUOTE] It's not useless :).
Hi Guys, I'm in the process of getting a new keyboard, however, Paypal is faking me over once again... My g15 stopped working around a week ago when I was playing Minecraft. I pressed alt + cntrl + del and all of the sudden windows was stuck in a minimize / maximize loop. Non of my keys currently work unless I spam one or multiple keys, which then results in a key virtually being held down until I plug out my keyboard. I'm using an old Saitek keyboard at the moment which has enter spanned across two rows so my "\" is on the most retarted position which is difficult for coding.
I would recommend a mechanical if you can afford that. Logitech ones or Corsair K70/90
[QUOTE=SweFox*;41152924]I would recommend a mechanical if you can afford that. Logitech ones or Corsair K70/90[/QUOTE] I'll definitely be getting a mechanical keyboard, I'm deciding between the Ducky Shine Zero or the Das Keyboard - not sure which way to go! I'm looking to fix my current keyboard in the meantime
[QUOTE=kragmars102;41152970]I'll definitely be getting a mechanical keyboard, I'm deciding between the Ducky Shine Zero or the Das Keyboard - not sure which way to go! I'm looking to fix my current keyboard in the meantime[/QUOTE] I have 2 Corsair K90 :v: Friggin love them.
Is upgrading my i7 970 system to a 3930K system worth the money?
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;41153260]Is upgrading my i7 970 system to a 3930K system worth the money?[/QUOTE] Wait for Haswell-E in a couple months?
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;41153260]Is upgrading my i7 970 system to a 3930K system worth the money?[/QUOTE] What's your reason for upgrading? In other words, do you experience bad performance that could be better in an application that you use?
So, I have this laptop that I bought last summer. It came with Windows 7 and worked great, but when Windows 8 came out, I bought it for super cheap and installed it on my laptop since I heard it was somewhat better for laptops (better battery life, etc...) But lately my laptop has been running extremely slow and it didn't used to and certain features don't work correctly with Windows 8 even though I've downloaded all the recent updates specifically for Windows 8 from the manufacturer. For one, I absolutely loved my fingerprint scanner. It worked to log into my computer at startup, and the program allowed me to scan a fingerprint for a particular password for every site I got into. It was absolutely wonderful and worked everytime. With Windows 8 though, it is really sketchy and doesn't work at all for websites anymore. Anyway, to my question, I'm debating on rolling back to Windows 7, mainly because of the sluggishness of the laptop in question. I've tried cleaning it up and all the works, but it randomly will freeze for a bit, a couple times it just sits there frozen whilst logging into my user. I'm deciding on whether I want to rollback using the system recovery that was built into the laptop, or if I should rollback by reinstalling Windows 7. Any suggestions? Perhaps, maybe, something to fix Windows 8 as well so I don't have to go through any of that trouble would be great too.
That sounds really annoying. Have you tried to do a fresh reinstall with Windows 8 again? If that doesn't help, just install Windows 7.
[QUOTE=SweFox*;41153880]That sounds really annoying. Have you tried to do a fresh reinstall with Windows 8 again? If that doesn't help, just install Windows 7.[/QUOTE] I haven't tried the fresh install of Windows 8 yet. I came here first before I do anything. Not sure if someone has had this issue before. I don't have Windows 8 on my desktop, but my parents do and they haven't had any of those freezing issues. I checked what was draining my system's resources and there wasn't anything particularly standing out. I did a virus scan which came with nothing, removed Avast and put on AVG, which made it run a little faster, and then did another scan. I think Windows 8 might just be a little too resource intensive perhaps? Oh, and then Google Chrome started to freeze again. When I first installed, Chrome wouldn't run correctly, after a month it ran perfect. Perhaps some sort of update. But now it's running like it did at first again.
[QUOTE=Zareox7;41154099]I haven't tried the fresh install of Windows 8 yet. I came here first before I do anything. Not sure if someone has had this issue before. I don't have Windows 8 on my desktop, but my parents do and they haven't had any of those freezing issues. I checked what was draining my system's resources and there wasn't anything particularly standing out. I did a virus scan which came with nothing, removed Avast and put on AVG, which made it run a little faster, and then did another scan. I think Windows 8 might just be a little too resource intensive perhaps? Oh, and then Google Chrome started to freeze again. When I first installed, Chrome wouldn't run correctly, after a month it ran perfect. Perhaps some sort of update. But now it's running like it did at first again.[/QUOTE] How did you install Windows 8? Fresh or upgrading over 7? it shouldn't create problems but that could be the issue if the upgrading failed somehow. If you did a fresh one thats weird. Windows 8 works much better on my moms laptop that runs Windows 7 flawlessly.
[QUOTE=SweFox*;41154138]How did you install Windows 8? Fresh or upgrading over 7? it shouldn't create problems but that could be the issue if the upgrading failed somehow. If you did a fresh one thats weird. Windows 8 works much better on my moms laptop that runs Windows 7 flawlessly.[/QUOTE] You know what, it was an upgrade. You'd suggest reinstalling a fresh Windows 8 first?
[QUOTE=Zareox7;41154162]You know what, it was an upgrade. You'd suggest reinstalling a fresh Windows 8 first?[/QUOTE] I would recommend that yes. I'm pretty sure you will have a better experience with a fresh install.
[QUOTE=SweFox*;41152924]I would recommend a mechanical if you can afford that. Logitech ones or Corsair K70/90[/QUOTE] I've owned a K90 for quite a few months. I definitely recommend it. BUT BE SUPER CAREFUL WITH FIRMWARE UPDATES.
Why would a keyboard need firmware updates.
[QUOTE=IpHa;41154286]Why would a keyboard need firmware updates.[/QUOTE] For the features on the keyboard.
[QUOTE=IpHa;41154286]Why would a keyboard need firmware updates.[/QUOTE] Sometimes bringing in some stability fixes for macros and controls with some applications like the media keys and stuff. In the past K90's would have a problem where after every like 5,000 letters you type, the key would digitally stick until you hit it again. Fixes like that.
Oh my god, reinstalling Windows 8 is turning into the biggest piece of shit I've worked with in a while. Lol, so at first, I can't find my order history in my email, and Microsoft apparently has no record of my purchase. So I find my bank statement, figure out exactly what day, find it in my email, so I can find my product key. Grab the product key, enter it into the program they gave me, and it says it can't download the files correctly. Gah, why does every Microsoft product have to give me issues... [editline]23rd June 2013[/editline] So now I'm apparently downloading another Microsoft program, to fix the Windows 8 Installer so I can download the files correctly... I'm betting that it won't find any issues.
[QUOTE=SweFox*;41154257]I would recommend that yes. I'm pretty sure you will have a better experience with a fresh install.[/QUOTE] Alright. Finally got the setup working and got a fresh install on the laptop. Now I'm doing the painstaking process of updating Windows and downloading drivers. I think the fresh install will work great, thanks for the advice. My guess is the upgrade caused issues with my original HP programs, but it didn't get bad until it tried updating itself, then I think it started to break.
[QUOTE=SweFox*;41153404]Wait for Haswell-E in a couple months?[/QUOTE]Haswell-E isn't coming out until sometime next year, do you mean Ivy-bridge-e? [editline]24th June 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=ArgvCompany;41153684]What's your reason for upgrading? In other words, do you experience bad performance that could be better in an application that you use?[/QUOTE]The i7 970 only renders at half the speed of my Xeon machine.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;41158029]Haswell-E isn't coming out until sometime next year, do you mean Ivy-bridge-e? [editline]24th June 2013[/editline] The i7 970 only renders at half the speed of my Xeon machine.[/QUOTE] Yea. Sorry.
Are the old, pre-nVidia PhysX cards any good? Do drivers/games still support those? I'm considering getting one - they're cheap, and for various reasons I can't use a GeForce card in my desktop.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;41161909]Are the old, pre-nVidia PhysX cards any good? Do drivers/games still support those? I'm considering getting one - they're cheap, and for various reasons I can't use a GeForce card in my desktop.[/QUOTE] Not really, they're not supported by newer games and slow compared to modern graphics cards.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;41161909]Are the old, pre-nVidia PhysX cards any good? Do drivers/games still support those? I'm considering getting one - they're cheap, and for various reasons I can't use a GeForce card in my desktop.[/QUOTE] Wait, you can't use a geforce, so you're going to use something before the Geforce name? That's pretty damn old.
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