General computer talk/advice

Not surprised at all that the drive is dying, look at the frickin manufacturer date.

As usual in an OEM machine, the term "Cable-Managment" doesn't exist.

Speaking of OEM PCs, here's my Grandma's old Sempron machine.

Unlike large desktops, the cable management is pretty good. Also, it's like 8 years old and it has NO dust at all. HOW?!?!

 

6 Years old is that all? This hard drive is nearly 30 years old and it still clunks away nicely.

 

The PC did suffer a fall from the back of a Mercedes Sprinter when we were moving house, while it was inside a box with not too much padding or anything. It was used every day for 6 years, and didn't really have too much of a good life.
Turns out it's a 7200rpm drive. Still doesn't stop it sucking.

 

Pretty bad idea yeah. Kde and unity are slow as all hell, not what you want on atom. Everything else is non touch friendly. Drivers on these tablets are typically bad too

 

If it can handle windows 10 chances are it could handle KDE though?
On the forum for my specific device there are people who say Linux works on it.

 

Nah, windows 8 and 10 are both far less resource demanding than ubuntu unity. KDE is even worse. KDE is known to be quite heavy, its eye candy mainly. its also not entirely touch friendly.

 

I present to you the No F**ks Given Chromebook.



The backlight problem(wouldnt turn on sometimes) was due to incorrect placement of the screen cable. Sadly that was also the correct way. so i duct taped it where it works. the vertical lines? i dont mind those. getting a new screen would be more than i got it for. Cant put on hinge filler piece, because of cable.

 

Managed to break the caps lock etc indicator lights on a Dell keyboard somehow... Idek how I managed that.

 

This was yesterday but I was too lazy to type then,

Anyway I got my new ASRock Fatal1ty 970 motherboard and after a bit of testing its all running good. I am finally able to overclock properly and using the default "easy" overclocking options in the bios I got a stable 4.4ghz pretty much right away which I've put through prime95 and a days use. Only issue is that it caused windows to want activation but I got a key for £7 on ebay (superlegit) then after I had activated it the listing was removed and I got a refund..soo free windows.

Going to try to push it a bit further when I get around to it as the cooling is more than capable and seeing as it only took one try to get stable at 4.4 it can probably go higher. Looks cool too

Pictures and stuffs:

 

Replaced my aging GTX460 with a GTX1070 making the most hilariously badly balanced pc on the forum, there are better balanced rip off pre builts.


An old AM3+ motherboard with "directx10"marked as a major feature for its iGPU, no USB 3 no SATA 6gbs and only 95W VRMs so won't take any processor with a higher tdp (so any of the fx line really). AMD athlon II X3 460, itself just a 3 core 3.4ghz Athlon 2 rereleased from am2 to am3+. 8gb of 1600mhz ddr3 running at 1333mhz because mobo doesn't support 1600.
And a gtx1070....

GPU was my bigger issue, on the 768p lounge tv I struggled to get 30fps minimum settings, yet was on 70%or so cpu, and it was freaking out with moments where would refuse to run at over 100mhz so was clearly dying. Both CPU and GPU needed replacing. But with gpu bottlenecking me the most it made most logical sense to do that first. I will be switching motherboard and CPU in January I think. I just can't see the point in buying a cheap gpu that would be an upgrade but wouldn't bottleneck and then replacing it in a few months time with a 1070 versus just getting a 1070 now, accepting cpu bottleneck for awhile and then upgrading that too to match
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My case is inverted micro atx hence upside down card text. I removed optical drive after the shot as I don't need it, cables were yet to be hooked up.

It all powered on and was working fine for the limited test time I had last night

 

B*tch is you drunk?

 

I am sober

 

what have i done. i mean it works. so i got that correct at least. 7tb of storage and 3 nvidia gpu and one amd gpu. works great.

 

The Austin Evans is strong with this one.

 

i did dual psu before him . but yea i guess thats true.

 

Um, so I bought an iMac.

Its apparently an A1312 with an i7 and upgraded to 12gb of RAM so I think (really hope) thats a good price for just under £140. Highly unlikely that I'm going to keep it but should be fun to play with for a couple of weeks.

 

That's the i7-860, right?

That's a pretty good mac for 140 pounds. iMacs seem to hold their resale value fairly well, my late-2007 Core 2 Duo is still worth $200 according to similar craigslist posts.

 

Yeah I would assume so, the seller wasn't a computer person so there aren't any other details other than that its an "i7" and the model number. I see the Core 2 Duo models selling for £200 here easily and I've seen the lower end i5 A1312's go as high as £650 with only 4GB of RAM so I've got pretty high hopes for it.

 

Are you ok? Any other symptoms(excessive spending, buying things that are "high end" but you dont really need)? Have you been hanging out with any apple fanboys that you may have gotten the apple disease from? Pretty sure if you even come in contact with one your risk of being infected skyrockets.

seriously tho.
thats actually not a bad deal. have fun with it!

 

Oh god, did I rub off on you? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to spread the disease.

...it better be a 27"...