General computer talk/advice

The Ubuntu disc I have is a bootable disc and my drives do not show up in it but they all appear in BIOS... Somehow the windows update windows 10 install made my drive invisible to everything but bios

 

I'm talking about Microsoft's new Surface laptop, I'm not planning on ripping my GPU out of my desktop. You can see the GPU in the announcement they did. (Which I did watch)

 

Yes, I know, the GPU is in the keyboard part. I was just pointing out that GPU hotswap is not generally a thing (MS surface is the first time I've heard of it).

 

Sort of similar is the alienware 13 w/ graphics amplifier and the msi GS30

 

Jesus Christ windows 10 is messed up. Even dban couldn't find my hdd to wipe it. Luckily it was seen by my brother's pc and is being formated by it so hopefully that gets it working again and I can get my pc back up and running

 

Windows 10 *physically* cannot cause such a thing to occur. It really cant.

 

TIL there is an xbox360 emulator for pc. It requires a newish GPU, sandybridge or newer CPU (much better with AVX2 on Haswell) and Windows 8.1

 

Got two Corsair SP120's (HP, PWM) for my 212 Evo. They are great, and they look really good with my MSI 970. Despite being the performance edition that goes up to 2300RPM, the two are just as loud as the 212's single stock fan at full speed, and quieter at normal idle or load speeds.

The stock fan is going to the bottom of the case to help with GPU airflow too.

 

I'm trying to justify replacing my 212 Evo with an AIO liquid cooler. I'd end up having so many left over fans, not that I'm complaining.

I would really like a 4.7 GHz OC, and I'm sure that's out of the realm for a 212.

 

The dust part isn't a big deal, I have to clean the thing out fairly regularly as it is. I've heard so much good about the front filter on the 600T but in my experience it's awful.

The card is a Visontek 7870. It's not a bad card (or wasn't a bad card anyway), but I REALLY want to replace it with an Nvidia unit, preferably a GTX 970.
I'm pretty happy with a max load temp of around 80C or less. If it gets up to around 83-84C it starts artifacting like crazy. It never used to show artifacts at that temperature until one day I caught the thing at 102C, must've done some permanent damage, now I have to keep an eye on my temps constantly while gaming.

 

with 110w running through my 212, I've never seen temps exceed 45-50c at load for prolonged periods. In a case with a good airflow design (which can sometimes mean not big and empty) the 212 is damn surprisingly competent. Although twin sp120's still tempt me, if they are quieter than the stock fan (near inaudible as is) then that could be awesome

 

Overclocked a Pentium E5700 to 4.5Ghz, 1.5Ghz over stock and the bios had a mental breakdown.



Motherboard is a Asus P5N32-E SLI plus for those wondering.

 

I found another random Western Digital Scorpio Black HDD in my desk today. Yup, that's the same model that died a couple weeks ago in my mom's laptop. This one still works, but it, too, had 2 bad sectors. That's fine, I shoved it in my rig anyways for some extra storage. It gets console emulation duty.

 

a simple question: why people say Intel is better than amd and nvidia is too?
please dont kill me...

 

When it comes to video cards, it's a matter of preference and situation of use. That is to say, Nvidia cards are to AMD cards what Hondas are to Toyotas: competitors, but both are very good, viable options.

When it comes to CPUs, fact is AMD hasn't made a decent CPU since 2011, and their technology is older, more inefficient and therefore slower and hotter. AMD's top end consumer CPU (aside from 9000 series), which is the FX 8350, cannot compete with a Sandy Bridge i5 (like, for example the i5 2500k) when it comes to single threaded performance. However, AMD is still competitive by putting as many cores as they can on the CPU (the previously mentioned 8350 sports eight cores) and selling for around half the price of a top end Intel CPU. In this manner, although each core is weaker than a typical intel core, there's more of them and they're cheaper, so for some they are a very good option.

For a game like BeamNG, having an Intel CPU gives you a vast benefit over AMD users because each vehicle is simulated on its own core (thread, more precisely) and therefore an Intel CPU can handle much larger vehicles without lag compared to an AMD CPU.

Essentially: they're both good options, it's foolish to pick favourites without at least understanding why others like the other side, and it's asinine to argue over which one is better.

 

thanks for no hate

 

I've got a Dell OptiPlex GX280. Bought it for $4. It had a dead 80GB WD400, which is why I was able to get it so cheap. I've put a 160GB HDD and an 8400GS in it. It has a P4 540 3.2GHz and 1GB RAM. When it was new in 2004, it sold for ~$1700. I'm not sure what to do with it, but I will be installing Linux.

 

Could use some advice: I'm able to buy an Sapphire R9 280X from a friend. Question is: is it a good upgrade over my GTX 580?
My GTX 580 bottlenecks in BeamNG and other games because it only has 1536 MB memory
However, the Passmark score of the R9 280X is just 400 points higher.

 

@Zorin-Ind. performs like a GTX 680 / GTX 770 / GTX 960 (960 isn't the same chip though, so might vary) Some games the 280X is 10% faster, in some slower.

 

Thanks, I think I'll do it.