General computer talk/advice

So is the performance gain not that big over a 6700K? Also I heard there is a 6800K I7 in the works maybe that would be a idea

 

Yeah, we'll have to see. I think it'll probably be like a 6700K with 6 cores/12 threads, but we'll see.
Btw, you know that you'll need a GTX 1080 and overclock it to not bottleneck this CPU?

 

I know i may do two 1080 OR a amd wich hopefully will be better

 

ive finally put my old HP laptop out of its misery, it has a broken screen and to buy a new one costs more than the laptop is worth, so im letting it collect dust until i find a purpose for it, i needed the hard drive that was in that machine, so it is now sadly out of order, until i need a server or secondary headless pc , problem is tho, are A/C adaptors safe to be left keeping it on all the time, i have a cheap chinese one and that has lasted me a long while, its a 90w psu and using HWinfo ive measured that at idle it draws around 20W on battery, so ive used the same settings plugged in and so it should be drawing approximately that, it is probably a different story at the wall as i dont have a wall power meter yet though. Am i safe to have this on all the time, or could i set a USB fan on the powersupply, i do have a failing hard drive, but that wont last long though (original Fujitsu drive, 100gb 5400rpm) the overall pc is good for a server though, as it has a 1gb NIC and a core 2 duo mobile one that has speedstep, so its rather energy efficient

 

Probably not, actually.

 

The X-99 CPUs are good for heavily threaded workloads. Otherwise, a 6700K would be better.

 

uh wat. i broke task manager.

 

I took Solindra out of service today. Found out that my sister had *drumroll* 334 viruses on it, along with a Windows 10 deactivation.

She uses Frag-Box now. Solindra will remain out of service until I can find a use for it's poor, 5 year old Bulldozer CPU and GTX 285. Hot-box, jet engine media center PC, maybe? All it needs is a 3D compatible Blu-Ray drive, and those are pretty cheap-ish.

 

Got one for 35€, they're good. And check that it can burn some as well, because it might come in handy later.

 

See if you can spot whats wrong here...



Spoiler: I'm using Chrome.

 

I see you are using Chrome to get Chrome, because Google forgot what Chrome was like.

 

In addition to two bad ram slots, warping, a bad USB 3.0 header, AND a bad audio jack, this stupid ASRock 970 Extreme 4 motherboard in Solindra just dropped an x4 PCI-e slot.

Never. Again. No more ASRock. I'm surprised it still boots, to be honest.

 

Building a dedicated Linux box purely for learning Linux, a while back I was given two PC's to try and fix as you may recall, well one of them had a dead motherboard, blown capacitors galore, it's a old Emachines so the owner said keep it and was thrilled that I managed to fix one. So now that I've finnaly gotten around to doing something with this PC, first order of business stripping and cleaning the stench of nicotine out of the case. Took it out to my yard with a bottle of flash tile cleaner and went to town spraying, scrubbing and hosing it down, looks much nicer now and smells even better, wish I grabbed a before pic but I assure you it was nasty and stank even worse. Looking at motherboards on eBay and I've found a seller selling motherboards with a Sempron LE-1300 and 2 gig's of ram, more than enough for most if not all Linux distros, so I've sent them a offer of what I think it's all worth. I'll update on the progress of this build with plenty of pic's. Anyone got some distros for a beginner from Windows?



Looks like new huh?

 

Arch linux! Jk don't. I would say something like Ubuntu or mint.

 

I would recommend Mint. I use it all the time on my laptop all I really do is general browsing and movie watching. Runs super fast and really nothing tricky to do to get started.

Works quite well on low specs too since its pretty lightweight.

 

+1 support for Linux Mint

I have mint on my ThinkPad, it works great. I have no complaints, in many ways it's better than Windows except for the fact that it isn't Windows.

 

Another +1 to Mint. It's very easy to use, and runs quite well, as well as being able to run most of the software available to Linux, with a significant amount within easily accessed repositories.

 

OK, I am confused now. When I set Nvidia to run the computer at 1080p in the native resolution, the wifi card stops working. When I set it back to 1080i, the wifi card starts working again. wat?

 

Mint it is then. The seller just accepted my offer for the motherboard, Ram and CPU which is awesome. £15 trying to keep this as low budget as possible, so far it's a single core Sempron LE-1300 with 2 gigs of ram and a MSI K9NGM4 motherboard with a Akasa AK861CU cooler. I might have a Athlon x2 laying around here somewhere.

 

Like, getting signal? Or does it stop working altogether? If it stops working altogether and the PC "loses" it, then it could be something really funky, like having an issue with power consumption. If it stops getting signal, it is likely (as weird as it sounds) EMI causing the problem. If it's EMI, moving the WiFi antenna and/or the display cables may resolve the issue.