General computer talk/advice

Lol my two $25 dollar processors kick butt XD.

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so, been using CM12.1 on my GS3 for about a month now, and i can safely say that i'd rather use ios this this piece of crap OS (and i hate apple intensely, i outright refuse to buy/use ANY of their products under any circumstances)

seriously, fuck this piece of crap, i'm going back to touchwiz

 

My new WD Red 2TB drive arrived today. Its replacing my 5 year old 1TB seagate drive that is dying now, has over 16000 hours of use, so I suppose its not too bad.

So far so good


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Hmm... I think there is something wrong with my 4770k (stock clocks atm)

 

Thermal throttling maybe? Check temps.

 

This is infuriating.

Windows wont load the damn main folders. Any of the quick access folders take ages to load and the "This PC" page just doesnt :|


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Running on an SSD that is benchmarking at the high 500MBps. All the files are accessible directly and load instantly but the folders them selves don't show thumbnails they are that slow. No idea why.

 

I would restart the PC and then go into explorer again and let it load all the way. I had a similar issue when I first upgraded to 10 from 8.1 but it's full speed now. I remember 7 wanted me to index my c: drive, maybe it's something like that.

 

Yeah, I've restarted a few times now. The main problem is that it wont load all the way, for My Computer at least. The downloads and other files load but the thumbnails don't appear.

Everything works fine minus the "This PC" and Quick Access folders.

 

If that's Windows 8.1, happened to me, twice, only fix I found was a refresh, second time I'd had enough and installed 7.
Or, open PowerShell, taskkill -f -im explorer.exe, you're now using Windows in hax0rz mode. I do this with 10 when Explorer crashes and I'm too lazy/have too many stuff open to restart.

 

If I'm correct that "my PC" icon is windows 10.

 

Yeah its windows 10. Its OS related I'm pretty sure since its happening across all 4 of my drives.

 

Nope stays at around 50c, running the latest bios version and power settings are set to performance mode. My 4770k has always felt a little underwhelming, perhaps I got a bad chip, I mean I can't get anything stable over 4Ghz when overclocking and my CPU draws 1.2v Vcore at stock clocks.

 

Yep, probably a Windows bug. A refresh fixed a similar problem for me in Windows 8.1, but it might be a different issue.

That's really strange. Unstable over 4GHz does sound like you lost the silicon lottery, but it should perform just fine at stock. Has it always been like this?

 

Pretty much, I was originally going to get a 3770k but I got my 4770k on sale, it could just be cpuz I guess i'll try different bench marking software and see what those results are.

 

I want to buy Cities Skylines but I also want to know if I even should bother to install it on my laptop. So I have about a week old Acer Aspire V3-371 13,3" laptop (too lazy to write down the specs here) and you can see the game's specs from Steam obviously. I don't know much about laptops yet because my friend recommended me to buy this one.

Yea, I have a desktop too but I'm starting to run out of space and I want to move some of smaller games to the laptop.

 

I'm running a 1.8ghz dual core i3 rather than your 1.7 and 6gb of ram rather than your 4gb in my laptop.

It runs. Barely. Barely. Definitely just barely.

 

My desktop does decently, but slows down when the city gets big.

 

Guess my model is bit different than what you found because I have 8Gb ram.

Specs sticker;

 

hence why you should have posted specs in the first place

 

Even my i7 3770 and GTX 580 (1536 MB) can't run the game in 1080p60 on high settings playing a city with over 100'000 inhabitants.
There is some stutter now and then. It is the limited amount of VRAM, I suspect.