On November 18 2011 08:37 Womwomwom wrote: For a new computer, you're probably want DDR3 which probably won't work with your current computer since you can't put DDR3 into a DDR2 motherboard and vice versa. However, I'd just hold from any purchases until you are going to buy the whole system. That way you can verify whether or not any of your parts are dead on arrival and still benefit from immediate warranty.
Thank you for the info. I guess that means nothing in my current computer seems worth changing at the moment. If so that's perfectly fine. I wish my computer was more capable since its components are mostly pretty old, but I'm not having any serious problems.
So im building my new computer right now and im just missing my ram to complete the setup.
I hit two difficulties after this process and id like some answers :
- How do you know you plugged the HDD light little case wire correctly (positive and negative on the good side ) the motherboard manual doesnt tell me it. My mobo is a biostar h61 and my case is a HAF912
- My graphics card HD6870 has 2 plugs for power, but my power supply only has 1 wire for PCI EXPRESS but has 2 connections on the wire, is it okay to plug the two connections of the same wire for the graphics card? My power supply is a NEO ANTEC 520 watt.
so i've been looking into what laptop to get and im stuck between a dell xps 17 with a quad core i7 and a hp dv7t with a quad core i 7, both of them have similar specs.
I've heard some bad stories about the dell laptop, about heat and noise issues. So if anyone has personal experience with the dell xps 17 i was wondering if I could get your opinion on it? thanks
not sure if anyone else has this problem or if anyone can help me out but sometimes my modem would just reset for 10 seconds and then go back to normal and this is really a problem when playing other games where a lag screen doesn't pop up to stop the game. contacted ISP and they said there was no problem so any help is useful.
On November 18 2011 15:09 HuskyBear wrote: not sure if anyone else has this problem or if anyone can help me out but sometimes my modem would just reset for 10 seconds and then go back to normal and this is really a problem when playing other games where a lag screen doesn't pop up to stop the game. contacted ISP and they said there was no problem so any help is useful.
If the modem is really acting as though it was power cycled, try plugging it straight into the wall if it's on a surge protector and see if that helps. Otherwise have your ISP replace the modem as defective and hope that solves the problem.
Could it be because I am running on XP 32-bit? or something else
now running on windows 7 64-bit and the score only improved to around 6500, still well below expectations. i am guessing either the passmark software is messed up or my cpu is not set up right.
i disabled speedstep, turboboost etc, and the cpu-z invariably shows my clock speed as 4ghz, but perhaps this doenst reflect reality completely.
wei score is 7.6 which seems reasonable but then my memory (4gb 1600mhz) has wei score of 5.9 -- something is wrong there also..
On November 18 2011 06:20 XXhkXX wrote: which graphics card is better? an NVIDIA 540M on 1GB of DDR3, or a 2GB Radeon HD 6770M GDDR5. I've tried searching it but no realistic answers come up for the higher RAM version of the 6770.
Also, would the Radeon one get bottlenecked by an i7-2670QM?
Eh...
540M is an entry-level card, 6770M is a mid-level card. 6770 is obviously better. Has nothing to do with the amount of memory, but the faster memory helps.
Stop looking at the amount of memory, every graphics card has enough memory for a laptop running below 1080p.
Also that's stupid that Intel doesn't have warranty for overclocking the K-suffix processors even on stock voltage -_-
On November 18 2011 12:35 XXhkXX wrote: so i've been looking into what laptop to get and im stuck between a dell xps 17 with a quad core i7 and a hp dv7t with a quad core i 7, both of them have similar specs.
I've heard some bad stories about the dell laptop, about heat and noise issues. So if anyone has personal experience with the dell xps 17 i was wondering if I could get your opinion on it? thanks
so over the last week or so, my computer's turned itself off of its own accord a few times. thinking that it might be a heat issue, i've used some compressed air to clean the thing. now i don't know if that's going to have solved that, but i'm now getting pretty severe artifacting/blurry images throughout whatever i'm using. thing is becoming unusable as a result. ideas?
On November 18 2011 22:58 sixfour wrote: so over the last week or so, my computer's turned itself off of its own accord a few times. thinking that it might be a heat issue, i've used some compressed air to clean the thing. now i don't know if that's going to have solved that, but i'm now getting pretty severe artifacting/blurry images throughout whatever i'm using. thing is becoming unusable as a result. ideas?
Check the temperatures (CPU and GPU) while running on high load (games and such). That should be a good indicator whether or not things are overheating.
Normally you see artifacts when GPU is going bad but I would check those temps before. HWmonitor software on backround and then furmark software to stress that GPU.
Hey guys, was planning on upgrading my 4GB of memory to an 8GB kit and was wondering if the kit I'm looking at is compatible with my motherboard. I know that it's dual channel DDR3 so it's compatible in that sense, but I've heard of issues with certain kits on certain motherboards not playing nice. If anyone has any information, I'd be happy to hear it. Thanks!
As you can see, that RAM kit is on sale quite cheap at NCIX right now which is why I'm considering the upgrade. If anyone has any problems with the HyperX line or wants to recommend something else, feel free.
EDIT: Only two minutes later, and I found the answer to my own question (sort of.) Gigabyte's website lists the KHX1600C9D3K2/4G kit as compatible with my motherboard. This leads me to believe the the 8GB kit of the same RAM should be compatible, too. Again, if anyone else can confirm or deny that, it'd be great. Thanks.
On November 18 2011 15:09 HuskyBear wrote: not sure if anyone else has this problem or if anyone can help me out but sometimes my modem would just reset for 10 seconds and then go back to normal and this is really a problem when playing other games where a lag screen doesn't pop up to stop the game. contacted ISP and they said there was no problem so any help is useful.
If the modem is really acting as though it was power cycled, try plugging it straight into the wall if it's on a surge protector and see if that helps. Otherwise have your ISP replace the modem as defective and hope that solves the problem.
Hey thanks for the reply this modem i just replaced my old modem and this new one also has the same problem so i doubt its a defective modem or I'm just really unlucky and its already plugged into the wall.
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