General computer talk/advice

Mine's worse, trust me, prior to a few years ago we were still eatin' brontosaurus burgers here, and used teradactyl carrier pigeons to bring us downloads on slate thumb-drives for our coal-powered PC's...

 

Well... My ThinkPad dock and power supply arrived today. Now I need a ThinkPad.

 

will this
https://www.amazon.com/May-Flash-Controller-Adapter-Nintendo-64/dp/B002B9FIUU

work with this?

https://www.amazon.com/Analog-Steering-Wheel-Nintendo-64-Pedals/dp/B00001WRHW

no money for a newish one and i only have the wheel and pedals

 

yeah why not im using a gamecube controller but why not getting a used steering wheel?
edit scratch that didnt read probably but it should work

 

Our ISP provided router isn't too bad, anyway 55/5 is okay for the rest of my family and my phone. (I have ethernet wired around the house to my various devices, like my Xbox and the PC I'm on now)

 

I've never bothered with ISP equipment when I didn't have to. Own our own modem, gotten rid of cable TV, use our own wifi router. And the experience has been reliable with our own equipment.

 

I have been using Virgin, and recently getting about 210Mb/s on a 200mb/s plan (will do a speedtest when I get home). The only problems recently have been some downtimes (approx 1 hour), because they have started to connect up loads of the new housing estates that have just been built in the area.

 

We're paying for 30Mb/s, and getting upwards of 80Mb/s (10MB/s). The boost has been really nice...

 

I am thinking of upgrading from my 970. I am looking at a 1070, although I wanted to know, would I get better performance from upgrading from a 970 to a 1060, or should I go with the more expensive 1070?

 

Fairly sure a GTX 970 is slightly faster than the 1060.

 

The 1060 is almost equal to the 980, so it would be an upgrade but not that much. If you can I'd go with the 1070. it's $150 more than the 1060 but the difference in performance is definitely worth it. I'm very happy with my 1070, I can run all settings at max (including dynamic reflection) and still get over 60fps. I also have a 6700k.

 

OK, gonna start saving for it. (It will be almost a year until I can actually afford it though!)

 

So the new school PCs are perfectly capable of running light games, Skylake i5 vPro, except the way that they don't have the graphics drivers installed...whoops...

 

Can i have some help?
My pc sometimes restarts after shutdown and i know i shut it down

 

Could be the motherboard failing, could be the power supply or maybe even the power switch.

 

its pretty much still "new" i built it a couple months ago i also unplug it before i go to bed and shut of the psu could it also happen if new

edit* cold be a power switch it is a deepcool tesseract bf case

 

They can still be defective and just not failing right from the beginning. Could a button on your case be getting stuck?
EDIT: When building your computer could you have accidentally plugged the reset button into the power slot?

 

Sometimes components can suffer "infant mortality" where a part fails randomly during the early stages of its life, components are less prone to this if you let them "Burn in" running the component for long periods of time rather than on, off constantly for a few day's/ week's.

 

i play my pc like everyday

 

This has been proven time and time again to be completely false. Not only does it do nothing good, it can actually harm components, forcing them up to, and past their operating tolerances.