General computer talk/advice

Someone cleans up really well, amazing what throwing the caps in some warm water for an hour will do. Keys look to be in flawless condition and are barely worn if at all, must have been in pretty light usage over the last few decades. Will need to grab an alt and a right arrow cover at some point too.

 

Did I read that correctly as 99°C before cleaning???

 

Woooooot! Dude, change your thermal paste more!

And also this.

Don't judge me for buying Sapphire, please.

 

Alright! The 2GB of VRAM might just be too little for certain games, but in 1080p it should be okay for the next few years (3, maybe 4 before you notice performance drops?).

Asked before, will ask again: How do I save screenshots? I'm obviously too dumb to do it.

 

Sapphire is fine from what I've owned and they seem to run cool, although their customer support is a bit useless if you don't speak German

I'm still not sure if I want to go MSI or Sapphire for the 390 either, since the Sapphire one apparently has better cooling having triple fans an all.

 

It's all about if you can fit the Sapphire in your case. If not, definitely go for the MSI.

 

My 380 is the MSI Twin Frozer variant, and it cools like no other. I regularly see GPU temps in the high 50's to mid 60's depending on GPU load. I highly recommend.

 

Well the Sapphire will fit in my case just fine I'd imagine but I have heard more good about the MSI, it depends on who you ask. I think I may just go with the MSI to see how it goes, the red and black design also matches my case pretty well anyway.

 

Just a question I got a HP Elitebook 8570p and will this thing be able to run Beamng well?

 

if you have it, why not just try it?
it will put up a valiant effort if it doesn't thermal throttle.

 

ok ill try but i don´t think it does it well because of the hd4000 graphics card
edit: it runs but not at high fps because it only gets 18 fps on a normal map and 40fps on gridmap also is there a way to change the graphics card on this thing because all problems hinge on that i think

 

erm, mind sending your specs then, I only got one list of specs for that model but it turns out there's many variations of that laptop with different specs.

either way, you own the game already, nothing stopping you from just trying it

 

it has a i5 3320m cu with 16gb of ram and a intel graphics hd 4000

 

you want lowest graphics on hd4000. But it will physically run ok otherwise. Dunno how well a t series would go though. Also assumes no thermal throttling

 

just tried the t-series on gridmap runs astonashingly well. I would love to put in my 750TI because it would run alot bettter but sadly i can´t because its a laptop

 

We got this Radeon HD6850 laying around for quite some time now. Is there anything to use it for?

 

Apparently Nvidia dropped some info on Pascal today. Pretty cool stuff, though I'm mostly interested in the HBM and 16nm process.

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-pascal/

 

Still no dedicated Async Compute engines it seems - in fact, it looks very much like a bigger Maxwell with HBM support and better DP performance. We'll have to see how that affects gaming performance and how it compares to GCN/Polaris on DX12 and Vulkan.

 

Probably a bit worse. I don't understand much about Async engines if at all, but I don't think Nvidia will really outrun AMD like that.
EDIT: See my post a few centimeters up.