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On May 07 2012 11:16 TheToast wrote:Show nested quote +On May 07 2012 11:10 JingleHell wrote:
I was trying to go off the second paragraph, where he tried to explain what he was asking in more uncertain terms, and it looked like he wanted a RAMdisk without the dangers of using one on a lappy.
Volatile storage + installed software + battery = a new thread waiting to happen.
Oh, and let's not forget that even without that, it wouldn't actually help with the issue he wanted to avoid, since at shutdown all that data has to goto the SSD anyways.
Unless RAMdisk works a lot better than I think it does, it wouldn't really do what he was wanting. His second paragraph was asking the exact same question as the first: "I was wondering whether for games like Diablo 3 the OS would attempt to move as many game files as possible into the RAM for faster level loading times?" The answer to that is exactly the same: yes. No where did he ask about a RAM disk, that was SkyR who brought it up. And if anything, the fact that a laptop has a built in battery backup actually makes is a safer platform for using a RAMdisk as a power outage won't result in instant data loss.
Ok, so clearly you've pwned me at understanding that question. Am I supposed to butter you up now?
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On May 07 2012 11:12 boon2537 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 07 2012 10:06 Myrmidon wrote:
Why not just keep running Windows off of the old hard drive?
Do you need a laptop now? If you can wait a month or two, it may be worth waiting for laptops with a 3rd-gen (Ivy Bridge) Core i5 or i3. Those would be great for gaming on low and at a decent price, size, and weight. Well, the old hard drive is about 4 years old, so I'm a bit afraid that it might die someday. Thanks for the head up on the Ivy Bridge. Those laptops sure look sexy. But from what I've seen they're mostly above $1000. Is there any specific model I should look forward to?
I'd consider just a cheaper smaller 7200 rpm drive now and more storage later in several months or whenever necessary, hopefully after prices have dropped back down again. Though really, 2TB 7200 rpm drives aren't that much more expensive than 2TB Caviar Greens.
Ivy Bridge laptops should be around the same price points as current Intel laptops. The issue now is that only expensive Core i7 model laptops are currently available. I'd look for any kind of reasonably-sturdy small-business type of laptop (e.g. Thinkpad Edge?), so it hopefully won't fall apart immediately.
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I have PII X3 3.2 Ghz (B50, 555 with 3 cores unlocked) and Ati 5770. There's good deal for me to buy 560 Ti 448. Would my CPU be a huge bottleneck or would I still get the most performance out of the GPU?
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On May 07 2012 19:28 Leetley wrote:
I have PII X3 3.2 Ghz (B50, 555 with 3 cores unlocked) and Ati 5770. There's good deal for me to buy 560 Ti 448. Would my CPU be a huge bottleneck or would I still get the most performance out of the GPU?
Take notice everyone else, this question is asked properly.
Yes, you will get most of the performance out of that GPU upgrade in most games. There are, of course, exceptions (like SC2 and Skyrim), but even in games like Skyrim it would be a noticeable upgrade (in SC2 not really at all but that's more the exception rather than the norm). Phenom II x3 is still fine for gaming.
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So uhm, I hope this is simple. Last night I defragged my PC like normal with defragger, http://www.piriform.com/defraggler. Has worked fine for me untill now. When I returned I had an error, but stupidly enough I didn't really pay attention and just closed it and turned off my pc.
Now when I turn my pc on it says my Hard drive disk is failling and that I should back up my files right now and get a new hard disk. I assume this is bad.
The strange thing is, my pc works 100% fine.
Any tips / help?
Edit: might be important to note: I do not have a back up, don't own a large enough extrenal hard drive to save it on :/
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On May 08 2012 03:02 Amestir wrote:So uhm, I hope this is simple. Last night I defragged my PC like normal with defragger, http://www.piriform.com/defraggler. Has worked fine for me untill now. When I returned I had an error, but stupidly enough I didn't really pay attention and just closed it and turned off my pc. Now when I turn my pc on it says my Hard drive disk is failling and that I should back up my files right now and get a new hard disk. I assume this is bad. The strange thing is, my pc works 100% fine. Any tips / help? Edit: might be important to note: I do not have a back up, don't own a large enough extrenal hard drive to save it on :/
This may be a virus, with the defragger from earlier being just a coincidence. This happened to my friend, it looks like real errors and all, but it's just a virus. Can you take a screenshot of the actual errors that appear to confirm this?
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On May 08 2012 03:18 Nabutso wrote:Show nested quote +On May 08 2012 03:02 Amestir wrote:So uhm, I hope this is simple. Last night I defragged my PC like normal with defragger, http://www.piriform.com/defraggler. Has worked fine for me untill now. When I returned I had an error, but stupidly enough I didn't really pay attention and just closed it and turned off my pc. Now when I turn my pc on it says my Hard drive disk is failling and that I should back up my files right now and get a new hard disk. I assume this is bad. The strange thing is, my pc works 100% fine. Any tips / help? Edit: might be important to note: I do not have a back up, don't own a large enough extrenal hard drive to save it on :/ This may be a virus, with the defragger from earlier being just a coincidence. This happened to my friend, it looks like real errors and all, but it's just a virus. Can you take a screenshot of the actual errors that appear to confirm this?
Tyvm for your reply, Printscreen wouldn't help since the errors are in dutch  However they are very basic. As soon as I put my pc on I get a screen which says some details about my system with hard drive status: bad, then it goes to motherboard screen and loads as normal. As soon as I log in on my account it says "hard disk failing, back up your files and get a new hard disk"
Edit: Added an image just in case.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/E1u7W.png)
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So, pc just froze. Turned it off :/
I'm scared :o
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If it only happened once, it usually isn't a big deal
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Screen freezes have been happening more then once, for quite sometime. Have called a friend with an external hdd to make a back up. Hdd is probably dead :/
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Yeah that looks like a real error message, sounds like the defrag uncovered some issues and your HDD is slowly dieing, sorry.
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On May 07 2012 10:50 TheToast wrote:Show nested quote +On May 06 2012 08:50 JingleHell wrote:On May 06 2012 08:42 moltenlead wrote:
I have a pretty noobish question.
Does the OS attempt to store entire programs into the RAM to access the files more quickly if there was sufficient space free in the RAM?
The more specific scenario that I'm looking at: I have just ordered a laptop with 16gb of RAM (It was a $20 upgrade over the 8gb, so I decided to grab it since I wouldn't find it cheaper elsewhere) and I was wondering whether for games like Diablo 3 the OS would attempt to move as many game files as possible into the RAM for faster level loading times? I don't want to put it on my SSD because a 128gb drive gets eaten up very quickly with 12gb installs, but I would still like some decent loading times. Your initial question and your final question are almost unrelated. To a point, yes, the PC can load more to RAM once you start the program. You can NOT, however, install things to RAM. Which I think is what you were asking towards the end? 16GB RAM is likely to massively exceed your ability to gain any increased load times. You are completely and totally wrong here. Yes, windows does pre-load applications into memory when there is sufficient free RAM to do so, it's called Superfetch. Wikipedia that shit. I don't know how much of an improvement in application start-up times would be seen with 16 versus 8 GB of RAM. Though it is entirely possible that he would see an improvement. Also, you can install things to RAM, as SkyR pointed out, so you're wrong again. Superfetch may decrease the time it takes to actually launch the game itself (altho I doubt anyone has issues with Blizz games starting up as they all are very barebone until you actually enter the game world (WoW) or you're past the loading screens (SC). Same applies to Diablo of course.
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I'm annoyed by my friends overclock, I have no problem getting it to 4.3, but the voltage keeps being on auto, and I can't find the voltage control in his BIOS. Its a P67LE, and I found it earlier but I must have hit something to get rid of voltage. It is always running a bit high - right now the voltage is at like 1.32 and I would like to lower it, but I can't find the setting. Any help? I can find out a way to post basic pictures if need be, but does anybody know if there's a setting that I stupidly toggled off? Only voltage controls I saw were the VCCIO voltage and PLL voltage I think. (Second one might be wrong, but they are both set at 1.05V) and DRAM, but that's not important.
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Voltage control on ASUS's 8 series boards are all under AI Tweaker.
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I swear I looked under there already, I feel like I must have disabled something? I will reboot one more time and doublecheck. To clarify, the "manual voltage" setting appears to be missing.
I've been seeing a couple threads around the internetz that say it's missing a manual Vcore setting, which sounds stupid... is there anything to that? (specifically the p8p67le)
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Only offset is available for LE.
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Is there any way to get around being stuck on auto voltage then? Or is it stuck? And as far as I know, at least 1.328 (max I've seen it at) should still be plenty safe for the processor correct?
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You're stuck with offset, 1.328 is fine.
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Will an SSD increase framerate in Starcraft2?
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