General computer talk/advice

A DOS install is almost purely an image copy, but let's not make this a thread about the fictive qualities of fictive SSDs

 

But realistically, a 500mb write and read ssd should be able to handle 2mb a bit faster than 2 minutes xD

 

I was just given a GTX 285. I want to use it as a dedicated PhysX card (because why not?). 550W is enough, right?

 

Found some neat blower style fans, model ID is BG0903-B044-VTL

Any idea how I can use these?

 

a 7200rpm HDD should too

 

im doing the opposite of what most people do. im cloning my 250gb ssd to a mechanical so i can use the mechanical instead of ssd. Why? because i am out of laptop drives and i want the ssd for other things.

 

I've decided it's getting to be time for some hardware upgrades but my utter lack of knowledge or experience is becoming increasingly apparent. Here are the specs I know of:

AMD FX-6100 Six-Core 3300 Mhz
AMD Radeon R7 200 Series 4096 MB
8 GB Ram
ASUS Motherboard
Windows 7 64-bit

The video card is new(ish) so I'd rather not replace it quite yet but I know it's all pretty meh. I'm thinking that I should start with my CPU but I don't know what I should get. More importantly, is it just a case of swapping it out or is it more complicated? I wouldn't be particularly worried about it but I'm thinking of doing a bit of YouTubing (that's a word, I guess?) soon and the 20-30fps I'm getting obviously won't cut it. Anyway, some advice would be great. Thanks!

 

Thinking of upgrading my i5 4460 to an i5 4670K. Worth it or waste of money? The TDP is the same, which means it won't draw any more power when not oc'd, right? I'm not very informed on this topic, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

Unless you're planning to OC, not really worth it. The 4670K goes up to 3.8GHz, only .4 higher than a 4460.
If you do want to OC at some point then go for it, but get a 4690K instead. Slightly faster stock clocks and better cooling (IHS is soldered to the die).

 

OK, so my long term PC upgrade plan would be a 4690k, a mini itx 970,a better motherboard, and some other, smaller changes. Will be about 500-ish€, but it'll be worth it.

 

GPU is stuck at 405MHz, won't go above that for some reason. Will try restarting my PC when Fallout 4 is done pre-loading, that should fix it.

Still gets 40fps in Gridmap maxed out though :/

 

My K95 has brown switches.

 

My hybrid PhysX plan is working swimmingly. Is that GTX 285 overkill? Yes. Do I care? No.

 

Soo my ssd stopped booting windows 8. black screen with cursor. so instead of having a headache over that, i just installed windows 7 onto a 1tb drive and now im back up and running. That black screen was the last straw. I had been thinking of switching back to 7 anyways.

edit
ninite ftw. as well as gigabytes driver install disk.

 

Well, nevermind. This whole thing decided that it would be hella unstable.

PhysX is only a luxury, not an essential.

 

Nvidia disabled the ability to have a "physx card" a few years ago.

Its quite overrated anyway, its just sort of a particle spammer for the most part. These days most games are easy capable of having their own physics. Heck the only two physx games I have are Mafia 2 and Mirrors Edge and my 7870 could run the Physx maxed out on those as the hardware was good enough to deal with the tessellation spam.

 

http://www.kitguru.net/components/c...ion-lawsuit-over-bulldozer-core-count-claims/

The forum was right, 8 core AMD chips are truly only 4 cores.

 

For all purposes involving floating point math, 8-core AMD CPUs are effectively quad cores. Even if no floating point operations are involved the cache is shared.
About time, really. Nvidia had a massive shitstorm in their hands with the whole 970 VRAM thing, this is just as bad if not worse and AMD has been doing it for 4 years.

 

I know, I was just posting that because the world has finally opened their eyes regarding AMD chips, only several years late.

 

What?

I've known they aren't true 8 cores (they act more like 1 and a half cores) since launch. Its not like they hid it. Even windows reads it as a quad core. Its more of a lack of research on the consumers part. However I see how it could be an issue I suppose. The 970 vram thing was different as it was entirely hidden.