General computer talk/advice

while I don't own one, I've never heard anything bad about them. I want to try one out

 

Currently i`m splitting between this and Zowie EC1a. I don`t wanna buy razer, ss or something like this cause of mechanical wheel (logi and zowie both have optical)

 

You do realize that the GT 710 is a Keplar based card, right? Nvidia is claiming 10x better performance than Integrated. The GT 730 is a GK208 based card (Which I believe is a GTX 650 cut down), the GT 710 is basically a GTX 750 cut down and nerfed a bit.

Hell, I've got money and time, I'm gonna buy one to see if Nvidia's claims are true.

 

710 on passmark is slower than the 730, understandable considering they're clocked lower.

Of course passmark isnt necessarily respective of realworld. Although again, passmark has the HD530 benching higher than the 730.

 

I have one. By far the best mouse I've ever used. Actually 10/10.
If you spend a bit more you can get the RGB version, it's pretty cool.

 

Sounds logic.

 

Don't waste your money. The 710 is even cheaper and lower end than the 730, it's pretty obvious it's gonna perform worse. Nvidia wouldn't sell a better card for less.

It might be 10x faster than G31 integrated graphics (which, for reference, can't run HL2). The iGPU in Haswell/Skylake CPUs is actually better, and those in Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge will be very close.
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I'm probably getting a laptop in the next few weeks (Thinkpad T420). I have no idea what to do with storage.
I'll be running Debian as my main OS, but I might need Windows for a few things, so I need to dual boot. I'm getting the Ultrabay HDD thing because who needs ODDs anyway. The laptop has a 320GB HDD, I don't really need more storage. Should I
a. Get another HDD and have an OS and data partition on both, one for Linux and one for Windows,
b. Get a 120GB SSD for Linux, keep a small Windows OS partition and a shared data partition on the HDD, or
c. Don't buy any new drives and just run Windows in a VM

Is an SSD worth it? It's a programming/general use PC, so I won't be running any games, editing software, or any other large programs that might take long to load, which makes me doubt the usefulness of fast storage. I don't care about boot time either, that happens once a day at most. I don't need the extra storage either, but I'd like to have an independent data drive for each OS. If Windows VM performance is good enough, I could just avoid buying a new drive entirely, at the cost of ~40GB of drive space which I most likely don't need. What should I do?

 

I'm planning on backing up my 2 drives:

1. 512 GB (477 GiB) SSD | 429 GiB used
2. 4 TB (3.63 TiB) SSHD | 952 GiB used

Can anyone recommenced a good, free, software I can back it up onto 3 * 1 TB external HDDs (I want to use 1 HDD exclusively for the SSD) and also have the option to add more drives when it gets more used up?

 

just throw a 40gb partition on the existing drive for windows, 40gb partitions for Linux. Rest shared data drive. You may even be able to get Linux to mount /home as the same file path as the windows home, I've managed it once in a dual drive machine but it was a fat32 data drive that I don't recommend

 

Well, this is how I'm starting my day. 720p animation rendering on a Quad-Core Pentium laptop.

 

these are my specs, BeamNG still lags at 30-40FPS WHY!

GeForce GTX 970 (not overclocked)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820k CPU @ 3.30GHz (not overclocked)
16.00 GB RAM
Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Triple Monitors

 

Lower your settings, Beam still has a graphical bottleneck that the devs are working on.

Also, 30-40 FPS is perfectly playable, how do you think the people who can't even run the game feel about you complaining about it?

 

a 970 wont run beamNG across triple displays

 

No.

If you're trying to play on 3 monitors with a single GTX 970, it's not gonna work. Play on a single screen and lower dynamic reflections a bit.

 

Yes.

I'm conditioned to play at 15 FPS. There's nothing like trying to game on a Single-Core Celeron laptop with Intel GMA 4500M graphics.

 

Have you tried swapping the PSU on your desktop? Could be that simple.

 

I don't run beamng on triple display, I just have a triple display
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I'm sorry I asked because I use to get a flat 60 FPS, then my frames went down for seemingly no reason. Thank you for telling me about the bottle neck, I was just worried.

 

I get 50-60 on most maps with the game maxed out, except for dynamic reflections. GTX 970 @1416MHz (100MHz OC)
Industrial site drops to 30-40 though, because T3D is apparently crap at rendering static meshes.

 

Oh, that single core laptop died. My sister overheated it a lot and the CPU is finished.

I found that a cable was being pinched, and a quick re-cable manage later fixed the power issue I was having. Normally, I'd be desperate for a modular PSU, but I use pretty much all the connections I have available on my current one, so a modular would be pretty much useless cable management wise.
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Yea, I'm sorry I was a bit salty. I had a render going in Blender and it kept defaulting my settings and I was slightly irritated.

 

Oh, thought you meant you were gaming on that right now since you had that PSU problem :/

Also, wtf are you doing with the quotes