General computer talk/advice

I love it when pre-built computer's PSUs die. And die as if they were overloaded. That's always fun.

I also enjoy the ones that don't POST with both a HDD and optical drive. But will POST when only one or the other is installed. HP/Compaq, I'm looking at you.

 

so im now in the hobby of flipping laptops for a profit. i have a place i get them cheap with minor issues, i fix them and then sell them for a profit. quite fun.

i have a inspiron m5040 that im fixing atm and a gatway ma8 for sale on craigslist. hopefully the gateway sells.

 

May I ask about the profit? Like, are you buying for $50 selling for $120? xD

 

spot on. you got the exact prices of the m5040. . 2spoopy4me. The gateway im selling for $90 though because dvd drive doesnt work and its a little older. plus im still making a pretty good profit.

 

Well, Frag-Box's days are numbered. I think all the cold has done that poor little system in, it's not healthy at all. So, meet Solindra.

Solindra sports an AMD FX-6100, an ASRock 970 Extreme 4 motherboard, a Delta 460W PSU of questionable integrity (and only a 4 pin CPU power, when the board has an 8 pin on it), no ram, no hard drive, a stock CPU cooler, and a 75% dead XFX Radeon HD 6770. It posts and gets into BIOS just fine, surprisingly. What a sketchy, sketchy setup.

 

have you tried overclocking that yet? i got mine to around 4.4 ghz stable with a 80 dollar motherboard and a ghetto heatsink. debating on buying a better board but idk if that would help it overclock.

 

I've gotten it to 4.4 ghz when it was my daily driver. But that was with a decent quality Cooler Master PSU and a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo. But the current setup runs on magic, hopes and dreams.

 

Sounds like my miracle machine. It's been retired now, the HDD and RAM is now in a generic-use machine, GPU isn't in use atm. CPU is worthless right now, I'm not going to bother reviving it. I do remember that the 8800GT was a trooper...

 

wow. windows 7 just installed onto my 10,000 rpm drive in less then 15 minutes

 

Linux installed on my 7500 RPM drive in less than 15 minutes. Linux wins.

 

i read about such a thing on r/talerfromtechsupport (there it ran faster) probbably the motherboard dying

 

i got a 970 should i get a 1440p screen or a 1080p G-sync screen???

i have a free choice and cant decide

 

1440p, G-sync only goes so far and on a 970 you will have no problems with tearing at the right settings and with V-sync enabled.

(Not that I even feel tearing is a big deal at all, I honestly never noticed until it was pointed out to me)

 

Installed Ubuntu on 7200 rpm drive in 5 minutes. On a Pentium Dual-Core. I win.

 

I installed dos on an SSD in 2 minutes.

YOU ALL LOSE.

 

the question is should i get a1440p 60hz screen or a 1080p 144hz G-sync screen i cant decide

and is a 1440p screen even drivable wit a Strix 970 above 60hz(/fps) so i can enable V-sync because i hate tearing

 

A 970 should be fine for 1440p, but don't expect to max out every game. If you hate tearing go for 1080p Gsync, Vsync is terrible and even if you can drive 1440p above 60fps you'll get drops to 45-50.

 

You need to buy a new SSD, because this one is absolute shit. DOS is only 2 MB, it shouldn't take more than a second to install.

 

ok i just wanted to know if some one had experiences on 1440p with a 970 in different games

 

except there is more to installing an OS than copying files. Same for booting an OS. My laptop doesnt get the full benefit of SSD boot times, mostly because crap HP bios plus 1.8ghz CPU = nearly 10 seconds lost in BIOS alone (then instantaneous booting of windows itself)