General computer talk/advice

Beamng shouldnt be a problem then because the 750ti could manage that almost without reflections so now i have to save a bit and get the old 480 nvidia in

 

Yeah that whole one game one thread thing is a joke. Having just recently fried my 290x I got an emergency rx480 8gb. I've down clocked it and it absolutely sips power. Almost 3 times less power and plenty of kick. If you can manage a 480 and an i5 your far from roughing it. I run beam on med settings regardless to help with input lag and with beam It looks fine I sure don't play for the eye candy. I took an un advertised 5 month break from the game and coming I remember why I love it so much. Other racing games feel so canned.

 

Would I be better off with an i5 6200cu with that gpu, or a system with an i7 with integrated graphics? My use of the laptop is just some basic photoshop, cad and moderate gaming (perhaps some gta and maybe beam)

 

Neither is suitable

 

The R5 GPU is not capable of playing GTA and/or BeamNG. I've got an R7 240 in my workstation, and that is capable of 35-40 fps on GTA V (lowest). 60 fps with one vehicle on GridMap, all other maps ~30 fps. And it's overclocked to like 940 MHz...
The stock R7 240 is around 40% faster than the R5, so that R5 is not capable of achieving playable framerates at all.
Not to mention BeamNG and GTA V won't run well at all on a dual-core i5 ULV CPU.

--> Even the latest integrated Intel GPU's are more powerful than the R5!

Want to game? Get a laptop with at least a quad-core i5 (e.g. 6300HQ) and GTX950m or faster. But that will be an expensive one if you also want to have that specific pen/stylus input

 

Well I don't see how any laptop without an RX470/RX480 strapped on via Firewire and a top-of-the-line-i7-laptop-CPU would run Beam anyhow.

 

Yeah, im not even going to entertain the idea of being able to run gta on a 2 in 1 laptop anymore. I was not so familiar with AMD micro GPUs, and I owe it to you(s) for helping me to avoid that. I think I will try an external tablet. Thanks for all the help guys!

 

Actually, the HD Graphics 520 found in most mobile Intel chips these days aren't entirely useless like years passed. If you look up some videos on YouTube, you'll find them playing many modern titles adequately. But really, you should spring for an HQ-sku processor. And that come with a dedicated GPU most of the time, and like has already been said before, comes with a larger price tag.

 

lol, had some madd artifacting on the bus today

 

Had to.

 

The HDD in my old PC is definitely dying, well it is a 5 year old OEM seagate 1tb 5400rpm drive, but I don't care because soon I'm ordering a 240gb SSD, but I haven't decided which brand to choose yet.

It boots up so slow, even on the original OS the PC was designed for, on a clean install with only Chrome installed.The results weren't too bad, but it's just soooo slow in general.

 

SanDisk Ultra II. Consider a 480GB, might have benefits though expensive.

 

Don't really need large storage, this PC will only really be used for media streaming from our plex server. Maybe some streaming from Steam. It has a decent GPU for running the visual elements in Windows smoothly, and for Flash games which my brother will play. It's only a Pentium and 4gb of ram.

 

Ah, well then just scrap it and get a Raspi.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=141885

 

It's not quite up to the task he wants. I've got 4 Pi's.

 

Recently I got a Model M and while I was researching it and its spring mechanism I realized how seemingly simple the mechanism is as well as how easily it is to take apart and that got me thinking, are there any major differences between the buckling springs they use and a normal coil spring like perhaps uneven stiffness to cause it to buckle or if they are just normal coil springs that buckle with the way they are setup, if they are just normal coil springs as they appear to be then would I be able to get springs either slightly softer or stiffer and still get the buckling effect needed for the keyboard to work to get the keyboard a bit more to my liking?

 

Just scored a cheapo untested chromebook. Asus c300m. Good news? it works! bad news? its finicky. The power jack has to have the plug angled and the screen is kinda bad(has vertical lines). Nothing i really care about. Not even gonna bother with a new screen as it would cost more than what i got the thing for.

 

They are normal coil springs, though if you go too soft they won't buckle properly

 

Good to know, that should make finding replacement springs a lot easier and hopefully I will find some and all will go well.

 

Would it be a good or bad idea to convert my Windows tablet over to being a Linux tablet?

Tempted by the idea of Kubuntu with snapseed for notetaking