General computer talk/advice

AMD has been mostly stale in the high end laptop market since they have been making mostly main stream APU's for a few years now. Plus other than apple no other companies have really made use of the higher end AMD laptop gpus and of course there is no point getting a macbook if you want to play games or anything like that anyway.

AMD Polaris is coming out in the next few months for laptops though and that will be a pretty great architecture from what is being said and will be something to compete on the high end gaming laptop market, but it will be a while coming.

 

Quick question: I got a lot of old gpus and other expansions cards for free, I want to clean them up, especially a 3dfx card, and a ATI rage 128 ultra. However, the heatsinks are not attatched to the card in any way, such as screws or clips, they just are stuck on the gpu itself by some means.. Is there thermal adhesive pads underneath there, or just thermal paste, which would be easy to replace? I don't want to destroy the thermal pads if they are present.

 

It's thermal adhesive, a glue/ thermal paste, don't try to remove the heatsinks, you will damage the cards, you could fracture the solder joint's holding the chip to the card itself or worst case rip the whole chip right off the card. If you insist on getting the heatsinks off, I'd suggest heating the heatsink with a blow dryer or preferably a heat gun, then just gently prise it off. Honestly though, I'd just clean the dust out the sink and call it a day.

 

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Thanks. I will leave the heat sinks on, I will just give the cards a good alcohol wipe-down.

 

Im reinstalling windows for the 2nd time this year. this time its because none of my usb ports work in my windows installation. Drivers are installed too. plugging into a different port doenst work either.

so my question is, is a m.2 drive worth it? i was just gonna get a $100 250 gb from samsung.

 

is it a pcie m.2 or sata m.2? At that price likely sata in which case probably not worth it except for packaging reasons. If its pcie or better still true nvme, then it should be faster.

 

well crap. my usb ports dont work in windows 10 or 8. only windows 7. but i cant use windows 7 b/c my file drive doesnt show up in it(shows as raw data)

so it cant be a motherboard issue, because they still work in bios. It cant be psu, because 1) its exactly the same as before power wise, 2) ps/2 ports work and finally it not hte usb devices as they work fine through ps/2 and in bios. Anyone got any idea?

 

Bought a Hard drive for my PS/2, it's a ESDI type drive and they're pretty hard to come by, especially the kind for the Model 30's having this weird card edge connector type design which incorporates power delivery and data transfer onto one ribbon cable.

 

wow thats really old. That connector is MASSIVE. i have a few seagates with card edge connectors, but they are not that type.

 

Either your motherboard is slightly broken, causing some error that isn't fatal in BIOS and Win7, but is in the newer versions of Windows, or you are somehow missing drivers in Windows 8/10. I would recommend getting drivers for the motherboard from the mfg website.

 

already reinstalled drivers. didnt work. i have a new mobo coming. hopefully that fixes it

 

just a question will a iris 550 gpu be able to run beamng on normal? because where i live there is Currently a sale for a laptop with that gpu and a intel skylake 6267i5 cpu will beam run on normal or high settings there

 

I'm not positive, but I think it'll run BeamNG on low to medium graphics settings at an acceptable FPS. Just make sure it can stay cool.

 

that hopefully isnt a problem but are 600€ much for that thing or is it a bad price

 

It's equivalent to a GTX 930M, so it'll have trouble with the game. At low settings on a vegetated map at 1080p, I'd think you could get around 25FPS. Lowest settings could be near 50FPS. On more simplistic maps, you'd get near 60 at normal settings.

 

awww yissss. beamng runs nice with my new gpu. 45-55 fps on utah and 55ish on ECA. Also i have usb working with the new board.

 

A clean battlestation is a happy battlestation.

 

i need help. so my computer locks up randomly and artifacts, happened 3 times between this afternoon, and now. The artificacts appear on my intel hd graphics screen, not on the monitors attached to the new amd gpu.
i have removed the gpu and am running on intel hd graphics, and no lockups/artifacts yet. So im thinking this is either a power supply issue(relativly new evga supernova 750w) or its my new radeon r9 390.

 

Try fresh drivers, I had that happen to me with my 380 and a fresh install of Intel and AMD drivers fixed it.

 

Whoa, sick guitars. They Fender's?