General computer talk/advice

are you using high settings?

 

Probably not, my 270 struggles to run most proper maps at 60 FPS in high settings. Gets 40-50.

 

okay Intel® Pentium® processor G3220 with a GTX 750 1gb

 

The 750 is similar to the 260X in terms of performance. Get a 2GB card, 1GB is not enough for new games with rather large textures.
The Pentium is fine if you buy a proper (Z97) board and replace it with a 4690K or other high end CPU when you can afford. I'd recommend the G3258 though since it can be overclocked.

 

nvm, it was 2gb

 

Is Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X compatible with i5 4590? And is it a great Video Card to play beamng? (Drowsy Sam suggest it to me)

 

yes it's compatible and yes it will run beamng perfectly fine

 

I currently use firefox. I dont want to use chrome because i already use a ton of google products and im not comfortable using a web browser that is made by a company that serves adverts etc. I use the latest version of opera as my web browser for school work, the latest version of opera is chromium based. My favorite web browser that i have ever used is the old proper opera while my least favorite is probably safari but i haven't used it in a long time. Currently i am fairly happy with firefox, Opera is a pain to use at the moment because it sends my computers page file insane. I have a computer with 8gb of RAM and it actually causes disk threshing, i have no idea how they achieve that, especially when there is still plenty of actual ram available.

I have currently got my eye on Vivaldi, its made by the people who made the Opera that i loved and has the same feature set but in a more modern engine. I have a copy of it installed and use it as a tertiary browser and it does a good job. It has crashed once or twice but its a tech preview so that is to be expected i guess. I really hope it fills the space that the old version of opera used to fill. Maybe i can even ditch opera mail and use it as my email client just how i used to.

One of the best features of Firefox is tab grouping. It means i can organize my tabs nicely. I will need to do a clear out soon to remove all the epq stuff once i get that 100% done.


btw, i have way less tabs open in chromium opera. I think it would die if tried to open that many, of course firefox only loads web pages in groups you have opened since you launched the browser. Tab Grouping is actually smooth, screencast-o-matic on the other hand is not, afterburner didn't want to work...

 

Tab grouping is a really cool feature... That I'm way too lazy to use. Might as well open several windows and alt-tab between them.
I've just switched to Chrome again (64-bit) and noticed it's quite a lot faster, especially on my second PC where Firefox easily tops off 1GB of RAM.

Something really cool if you have Firefox is this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tile-tabs/?src=ss

Great for split view if you don't need full width for a website. Very useful to have several MSDN pages open at once, I already have enough switching between VS and browser (need another monitor).

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Added FAQ to the first post. I'll add any questions that I see very often asked in here.

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I'm thinking of writing a little PC building guide (as in which components you should choose when building a gaming PC). Might help some people.

 

Turns out the replacement for the gecko rendering engine from Firefox is microthreaded (multithreading with swarms of tiny threads), great and all, but you're still running every tab on 1 thread, hopefully they'll come to their senses and fix that.

 

okay what about an intel i3 4150 and a Nvidia GTX 750 2GB
how would this preform on beamng?

 

Well enough. However, I'd recommend you stretch the budget a little bit and go for a 750 Ti.
I gave some advice on CPUs in my PC building guide (Computer-building-guide). It's still a WIP but the part on CPUs and graphics cards is done.
^shameless self promotion right there

 

The 750 doesn't come in a 2GB version, except the Ti version. He probably meant the Ti one. Unless I'm wrong, then I'm just going to look extremely stupid.

 

Pretty sure it does.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125510&cm_re=gtx_750-_-14-125-510-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127801&cm_re=gtx_750-_-14-127-801-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487094&cm_re=gtx_750-_-14-487-094-_-Product

 

I hate that opera switched directions to trying to beat chrome at its own game, by using the chromium engine.

Old opera already had most of the cool features.

Tab grouping, you dragged one tab on top of another and then you had groups of tabs. It was awesome in that it was super easy to do and manage.

Viewing multiple pages at once inside one window


Email in a tab just like web pages (not my image)


Speed dial (that i totally did not abuse to get this screenshot)


Bit torrent built in (not my image)


A sidebar for doing email, writing notes, setting reminders and finding new extensions in (not my image)


But noooo, they put all this functionality in the bin and launched a new version. The new version didn't even support bookmarks for many months. No wonder the original creators of opera ditched ship and started a new browser, which is vivaldi. It looks like they are trying to re create what the old opera was but using a new and more modern engine that they are writing (they are not using chromium or webkit). Which is why i am looking forward to see how it progresses, hopefully it ends up being as awesome as opera once was.

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yup, I just made it a 750 Ti 2gb

 

If you've gone over your budget you can downgrade the CPU to an i3-4130, .2 GHz won't make much of a difference.

 

nope, I haven't gone over my budget at all.

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what is the difference between USB 2.0 and 3.0?

 

Can google not answer that...


USB 3.0 is full duplex with much higher bandwidths possible than 2.0. Of course that requires both device and host to be USB 3.0 to take advantage of. However USB is back and forward compatible so a 2.0 device will work in a 3.0 port (as if in a 2.0 port, won't be any faster) and a 3.0 device can act as a 2.0 device when connected to a 2.0 port.

 

3.0 is faster than 2.0. Only 3.0 supported devices will work at 3.0 speeds when plugged into a 3.0 port. (If you plug a 2.0 device such as an old flash drive or a keyboard into a 3.0 plug it'll work just the same as if it were plugged into a normal 2.0 plug.)

It's not really necessary, it just makes for faster speeds on USB 3.0 devices.