General computer talk/advice

It's all set to auto on the BIOS

 

There should be somehing like the "Eco Mode" or so. Turn that off.

 

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Nope didn't work

 

Then I have no idea.

 

Set Windows to performance in the power settings, but really that clock speed fluctuation is normal.

 

Windows != Performance.
JK.

 

i have a iiyama B2409HDS and this has actually quite nice speakers

 

If you have an Intel CPU, the feature is called Speedstep. It reduces power draw when the computer is idle. Leave it turned on unless you have having problems with it "stepping" to the full clock speed, which it doesn't appear to be happening. Also, you may need to turn it off if you have instability when overclocking.

 

All setup in it's own little corner with it's own monitor and keyboard.

 

It costs almost 100€ more though. Also, I made a mistake there. I have the HDS, not the HS. Wasn't sitting on my PC writing that.

 

Thanks, ill have to move it to another case. Its a sff PC, with a special psu with only the 24 pin, and 2 sata power plugs. It fits like a glove, and the DVD drive slots in a notch in the CPU cooler.

 

I did a dumb thing, I have a 2500K that was stable at 4.8GHZ and I lost my motherboard testing a higher BCLK(104->108) If we're just considering BeamNG performance how do newer CPUs measure up with an OCed Sandy or Ivy Bridge? Is there still performance to be had OCing new CPUs with Beam(in game, not just banana bench?) I can say from my experience in building a Skylake computer for my cousin that a stock 6500 feels smoother than my CPU did below 4.6GHZ I'm debating if its worth cutting deals with friends and sacrificing my well overclocking chip for new hardware. I think I can pull it off with minimal $ out of pocket(even if only because 1155 boards still go for new prices.) And would Beam benefit from faster RAM(tempting to nab a DDR3 Skylake board.) I'm running a R9 270 & planning on grabbing a 1080p Ultrawide this year. The difference in smoothness I mentioned prior was most noticeable when testing my cousin's R9 390 an it came up on the larger maps when braking(steering became less responsive, 60FPS dropped into low 40s.)

 

If you look at benchmarks from all the the Core i5 generations, there is a big jump from Nahalem to Sandy. The jump from Sandy to Ivy is much smaller, but there is one, and the jump from Ivy to Haswell is even smaller. Haswell to Broadwell to Skylake will all perform about the same with minor variations of about 7-10% here or there. Now, Sandy and Ivy will work in the same socket (LGA 1155), on the same chipsets (Z77, for example). A CPU upgrade from a 2500K to a 3570K will yield you about 10% better performance, while using about 20% less power.

However, it is important to remember that Beam is built on top of Torque 3D, which has a hideous graphics bottleneck still. An R9 270 performs about the same an an HD 7850, and I had an HD 7850, and I can tell you that it struggled. If you want Beam performance, try a slightly faster GPU, like a 280X or something. But if you want a quick and easy (and relatively cheap) CPU upgrade for 10% faster performance everywhere (perhaps even including Beam), go for that 3570k.

Or, if you want to build an entirely new platform, I'd actually recommend the i5-4690k. They can be had for cheaper than their Skylake successors, and don't perform all that much slower. I can say from personal experience that my 4690k is a beast at 4.5 GHz (when it's not overheating, I have a thermal bottleneck currently). I could probably clock it even higher if I can get some water cooling on it.

 

ive just started to work in a new firm and now im travelling alot and they said they give me 500€ if i buy a laptop so what would be a good one in the 2000€ range where i can game stuff like beamng and so on?

 

Seems like this is pretty good:

Also available in differnet other variants. http://www.acer.com/ac/de/DE/content/predator-models/laptops

 

this thing looks to be really good im interrested in that 17" model just a question are there gaming notebooks with amd cards or is that nvida territory

 

Way back when, there used to be gaming laptops with AMD GPUs. I'm sure that those still exist now, I just can't name any off the top of my head.

MacBook Pros spring to mind, but I highly doubt you want one.

 

no i dont want a mac book because i dont like apple

 

Yup, you're one of those people...

Anyway, the only gaming laptop I could find with an AMD GPU is from Alienware, and please god don't buy one of those.

I'm sure if you look around you'll find one, but unfortunately for us AMD guys, the pickings are slim to none at all.

 

i really hope that we get some in the future