Re: General discussion chat Im driving my main monitor with display port. They gave me the cable for it in the monitor box so may as well use it. My last Gigabyte card had stability issues most its life so i decided not to go with them again this time around, as far as i can tell their new cards are solid though. I went with the MSI because it they all seem to go just as fast as each other meaning that i dont really need 3 fans + the noise that comes with that, the Asus Strix card is much more expensive so i ruled it out completely, it cost about £40 ($60) more when i got the MSI. We have an MSI GTX770 in the office computer and it is very quiet. Turns out this one is even quieter even turning fans off if they are not required. The reason i got the Gigabyte card last time is because it was clocked the highest and had the best features. The reality is that the card probably shouldn't have passed quality control, so i am somewhat cautious when it comes to Gigabyte products because they promised a lot on my card but it turned out to be a POS. I do have the card functioning now though which is nice since it makes for a good cuda card. Read more by looking at reviews here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125369
Re: General discussion chat My current GPU is EVGA and normally I like them, but coil whine on the 9xx series :/ sounds like they cocked up this time. I suppose they are just using a below average switching frequency in the power supply (which does increase energy efficiency at the cost of bringing the frequency of the vibrations of the coil into the audible range).
Re: General discussion chat I havent heard any coil whine in my card other than certain games when vsync is turned off. But those games did the same thing with my old GPU as well. Then again i also have tinnitus so maybe its just me being deaf.
Re: General discussion chat That's one hell of an office computer - - - Updated - - - I'll ask this once again since Google isn't helping much. Does anyone know how to take space from a disk partition and use it to expand another already existing partition? It shows as 'unallocated' space but isn't really unallocated since you can only create a new partition from it or put it back in the partition it came from.
Re: General discussion chat Yeah, its kinda sad to be honest. My Dad got me to sort out the specs for his office computer because he wanted it to be fast as well as running any game he wants it too. But he refuses to install Steam or Origin etc, and wont let anyone else install them on their own accounts and also refuses to pay for games. So it gets used fro playing ms flight sim 2006 and world of tanks. That is literally it. My sister got the Sims 3 for christmas and he wont let her install it because of Origin, so i have now been tasked with finding a £400 laptop for her to play the Sims on. That graphics card never gets used, it just sits there doing naff all. The intel integrated would run flight sim no problems and for worl of tanks he may as well be using my GTX 560ti. Then i could make use of his 770 for as the second GPU in my machine... But its his PC so that argument is not really worth making. He also refuses to install flash player on the main web browser on that computer meaning my mum and sister have to switch between Opera for everything and IE for using flash content. Its no wonder that my Mum just uses her work laptop for most of her needs and my sister uses her nexus 7 for pretty much all her needs. But yeah, its running an I5 3690k has a 120gb samsung evo ssd and an MSI GTX 770. Inside a fractal Core 3000. No hard disk installed, i guess he doesn't need it with the computer running as it is. Shame no one can do much of anything on it. I need to reset my tablet since my uncle didn't get the code properly for MS Office and i uninstalled the application. Currently backing all my stuff up onto the SD card. At least this is forcing me to transfer my steam games that i want to keep on there onto the SD card so the device has space internally.
Re: General discussion chat Great, now I have a completely unusable 150 GB of my hard drive. - - - Updated - - - 3690K? You mean either 4690K or 3570K.
Re: General discussion chat i just got accepted into the beta for a thing called Liquid Sky ITS FREAKING AMAZING they need a better plugin though, this one sucks
Re: General discussion chat Fuck the Windows partition system. Now I have 150GB of an extended partition I can't put back into any of the two partitions, not my game partition that needs it nor my main partition. Well, now I have a 150GB backup partition until I get around to reinstalling Windows and resetting my hard drive completely, which won't be until I get an SSD.
Re: General discussion chat Pretty sure someone gave the solution a few pages back... Anyway. Just boot up a linux USB and use GParted.
Re: General discussion chat you could always use some 3rd party partitioning software although the ones with paid versions are usually really slow at moving data and partitioning if you get the free version
Re: General discussion chat Windows 10 is out in April or something right? I'll wait for it to get an SSD and reinstall Windows, I don't want Win8.
Re: General discussion chat gparted is probably the #1 best partitioning tool, its just it runs on linux only. Not that it matters. Partitions arent an operating system feature so windows wont give a fuck whether OSX or linux created/edited the partition.
Re: General discussion chat Windows can't allocate space taken from one partition to another, so if I want to extend my games partition I'll have to A. Delete all my games, merge everything into the main partition and re-partition EVERYTHING. Then download 150GB of games again while losing all GTA/Fallout NV/Bioshock progress, Gmod saves, screenshots etc. B. Backup 150GB of data into my main partition, then do A. Won't lose saved games and it's faster than downloading everything. I think I'll leave the whole thing copying while I go to sleep, then I'll delete my games partition and the other one, make a 500GB games partition, since I've barely used 150GB of my main drive and at least 50 of that is Windows which is going into my SSD when I get it, so that would leave SSD for OS and some programs and HDD for data/games 500/500. I'll just format the data partition once I've installed Windows on the SSD. Backing up 150GB and no games for tomorrow, woo, this is gonna be fun. The worst part is I have to wait to get a 970 so I can sell my card in order to buy the SSD + a new case. If I buy an SSD now, which I can actually afford, I'll delay the purchase of the 970 by a lot, and I really want a 970. God dammit. I need more money, faster. Can't we have christmas every day please? - - - Updated - - - After some googling, it seems the inability to move space from partition A to partition B in some cases comes from hard drive limitations rather than software ones. So gparted won't help, I'll have to back everything up and merge it into the main drive again, then create a new bigger games partition.
Re: General discussion chat Windows 10 is horrid. Used it, preferred 8. http://www.mightycarmods.com/blogs/news/11796969-moog-on-car-culture this is too true.
