General computer talk/advice

6677 is right, RAM usage on space engineers is fairly low. I'd go for the cheapest 8GB of DDR3 you can find right now if you're upgrading to a DDR4 mobo/CPU soon-ish. If you're moving to another DDR3 platform I recommend this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233280

It's what I'm using right now. The FURY posted above is also quite nice though.

 

Uhhhh... Pretty sure this isn't normal.

 

I have officially renamed my gaming rig "Magni" after the Norse god of strength. It now follows the Norse mythology nomenclature that I have been using for a while.

So far, I've got Odin, Thor, Loki, Freyja, and now Magni. Odin, Thor, and Freyja are Core i5-2300 machines, with Odin and Loki running Windows Server 2012 and Freyja running CentOS. All three are at my vocational school. Thor is my friend's dual dual-core (HT) Xeon machine running Arch. The specs of Magni are in my signature.

 

Is this price justified? https://www.amazon.de/Acer-Predator...7616&sr=1-2-spell&keywords=predato+15+gtx980m

 

Polaris news is out. Performance, not even remotely impressive, just the usual gen to gen steps, none of this massive pascal leap. TDP and price though, yeah no, I am sold.

 

Yup, although pascal was pretty much just the standard leap gen to gen too, its just all the hype and being stuck on 28nm made it feel so much better. Being such a high end card helped make it seem even more impressive but the % performance increase is probably rather similar.

Also, does anybody know what could be causing my monitors to flicker? It only happens when using dual monitors and its basically just a random line here and there usually quite rarely, but now that I've noticed it I wont forget it so easy. I'm thinking it could be just the DVI-D to VGA active adaptor I'm using as my much older HD 5770 didnt do it. Happens with busy websites but not when its under load.

 

I have a cheap VGA cable that's gone a bit iffy, it ghosts the screen but in a weird way, everything looks stretched out towards the right, could be your cable. Have you tried different cables? If it's not the cable or the adapter your card might be starting to die.

 

Its a brand new 390 so I doubt its that considering its fine under heavy load, the flickering seems to only happen when I'm on a busy webpage that is just enough to put a couple of % load on the GPU and even then its only a millisecond flash which is usually just a line or quick black flicker. The adapter is only a couple of days old but its a weird active adapter so thats probably the cause. I'll put up a video if i can find a way to recreate it over and over.

 

Rumoured that NVidia are no longer producing M parts, there will not be a 1080M or 1070M etc.

 

makes sense to me, they don't really need to do that anymore now that they've gotten desktop cards into laptops with the 980, with a new generation they can make it part of the actual design so that it should theoretically be even better, and allow for all the cards to work in both desktops and laptops instead of just the 980

 

It does make sense, especially if they redo the low end. A GT 1010 built on pascal or maxwell with a minimal amount of shaders would only use ~10w and be an option for ultra low power. Anything less than that and you might as well go integrated.

 

modern integrated hits above gt610's easy, kinda pushing on gt730 territory even. A gt1010 would be a highly pointless product serving only as a dedicated frame buffer, media decoder and cuda processor, which still can be a valid thing to have I suppose

 

I could see a use for a GT1030/1040. If you look at a card like the GT740, it can kinda make sense in some aspects (but not all, please god buy a used GPU in any other case). The GT740 eats a 730 for breakfast, is lower power compared to it's 750(Ti) sister, and is great if your prebuilt is something along the lines of some Dell Vostro your dad bought you because he was sad about how the recent divorce between him and your mom was treating you.

 

Got a clip of the problem, was able to reproduce it by refreshing the page quickly over and over. Again its quite rare that it happens but its pretty distracting.

 

Wow, that's really strange. I doubt it has something to do with cables or the adapter since it happens on both monitors. Maybe it's something to do with the drivers?

 

Yeah it probably is then, I don't quite understand why it only happens with two monitors (I used single for a week or more while the adapter came) but it probably is something monitor related in the drivers, ill try reinstalling them from fresh to see if it works.

 

to be fair a gt1030 probably would exceed integrated.

In all honesty I could see a full blown GTX1050 working in a laptop as a more than adequate GPU
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hypothetically, all the current cards can work in a laptop, there is nothing special about the 980, its just the technology now exists for VRMs driving such a card to fit into a laptop while keeping it cool, both thanks to improvements in cooling and decreases in card TDP

 

aww yis. 24gb of ram. thats as high as im going though. i dont need more.

 

Decided to install WindowsXP POS ready 09' on my FrankenPad T41/43 POS stands for "point of service" just a fyi.

 

POS is also commonly used for "point of sale" (and at least from what i've seen, is more commonly used then point of service)