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On August 22 2012 15:03 darkness wrote:Show nested quote +On August 22 2012 11:36 MisterFred wrote:On August 22 2012 09:49 Vestrel wrote:
What games use more than 2 cores and benefit significantly from quad core CPUs? Battlefield 3 large multiplayer maps, the Total War series of games... um... I'm sure there's others, but they're not coming to mind immediately. What about this? http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_games_use_more_than_2_cores_on_a_processorShow nested quote +On August 22 2012 09:49 Vestrel wrote:
What games use more than 2 cores and benefit significantly from quad core CPUs? Probably: Alan Wake Bioshock Company of Heroes Crysis Far Cry 2 Half-life 2: Episode 2 Hellgate: London Lost Planet Microsft Flight Sim X Portal Rainbow Six Vegas Source Engine Splinter Cell Double Agent STALKER Stranglehold Supreme Commander Unreal Engine 3 Unreal Tournament 3 According to: http://www.valvetime.net/threads/games-and-dual-quad-core-support.130262/
Yes, but most of those games will run fine on a dual-core. It's the "benefits significantly" part that's hard to judge.
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On August 20 2012 14:13 darkness wrote:
Is it possible to enhance cooling of a laptop? I already have a cooling pad, but I'm wondering if a stronger fan replacement is possible.
No idea about a 'stronger' fan, apart from it probably going to be noisy.
However, what helps greatly with overheating and noise levels of laptops is a good old de-dusting. Mine was constantly going full throttle on the fan, until I opened it up, scraped about 2 mms of dust out of the heat pipe and off the fan blades. What you might want to do, however is to hold down the fan if you are using a vacuum, as spinning it fast via suction can create some currents that might not be too terribly good for the well-being of your laptop.
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how to install linux without creating a new partition?
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That answer is basically wrong and misleading. I'll try to keep it simple:
- all programs will run 1 or more concurrent "threads" - this is based on how the program is written and has nothing to do with the operating system *
- the operating system schedules the thread(s) on the CPU cores that it sees.
- the operating system sees logical cores, not physical cores **
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Thread = some unit of work. So if a program is well-threaded, it will have its work split into multiple concurrent threads. This is obviosly both good (because a task can be finished sooner if it's broken down into multiple parts that can be done at the same time) and difficult (mostly due to threads having to share data, and the synchronization issues that are inherent to this)
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Things like HyperThreading (showing 2 logical cores when there's actually 1 physical core) and the Bulldozer microarchitecture (1 module, but actually 2 cores with some shared resources) are theoretically transparent to an Operating System. In practice, Windows has been patched to be able to distinguish between a real core and a HyperThreaded core so that it can maximize performance by cheduling tasks to all available real cores first. Same idea applies to Buldozer, but it's a little more complicated, since sometimes you want 2 threads on the 2 cores of the same module, and sometimes you want them on 2 cores of different modules
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google and read up on the limitations of 32 bit operating systems. and possibly about swap files.
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On August 23 2012 00:35 Rimstalker wrote:google and read up on the limitations of 32 bit operating systems. and possibly about swap files.
Right. Well, my PC uses 3.25 GB out of 4 GB, while my laptop's RAM is greatly reduced. I guess it's because of GPU and what not. Would you recommend using 64 bit OS? Does SC2 support 64 bit Win 7?
Also, thanks. 
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On August 23 2012 00:44 darkness wrote:Show nested quote +On August 23 2012 00:35 Rimstalker wrote:google and read up on the limitations of 32 bit operating systems. and possibly about swap files. Right. Well, my PC uses 3.25 GB out of 4 GB, while my laptop's RAM is greatly reduced. I guess it's because of GPU and what not. Would you recommend using 64 bit OS? Does SC2 support 64 bit Win 7? Also, thanks.
Ah yes, i completely forgot about shared memory for laptop graphics card, always enjoyable .
If you want to use more Ram, there will be no way around the 64 bit OS, and I would be very surprised if SC2 wouldn't support it.
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On August 22 2012 23:08 myRZeth wrote:
how to install linux without creating a new partition?
Use VMware to create a virtual machine. > Google Results
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Anyone know of any 120mm fans with brackets already installed (for use with a heat sink) sold individually? I want to go for push pull config but the heatsink I bought only came with one (though it did have an extra pair of brackets).
I bought some 120 mm fans and it came with screws I think but the screws were really difficult (seemed nearly impossible) to screw in.
Actually, anyone have experience with any 120 mm fans with (included) screws that were able to be screwed in with no little difficulty?
I'm not sure if it's the case with all fans but the ones I bought had included screws that were really difficult (it felt like forcing the screws in).
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On August 23 2012 02:09 Goldfish wrote:
Anyone know of any 120mm fans with brackets already installed (for use with a heat sink) sold individually? I want to go for push pull config but the heatsink I bought only came with one (though it did have an extra pair of brackets).
I bought some 120 mm fans and it came with screws I think but the screws were really difficult (seemed nearly impossible) to screw in.
Actually, anyone have experience with any 120 mm fans with (included) screws that were able to be screwed in with no little difficulty?
I'm not sure if it's the case with all fans but the ones I bought had included screws that were really difficult (it felt like forcing the screws in).
It's a fairly normal thing with cheapish fans. The correct solution is to get a screwdriver that properly fits the screw head. Unless you have shitty screws, at which point the correct solution is to get a fan that doesn't come with shitty screws, as the ones that do are shitty fans anyways.
Also possible (read, actually more effort but might not seem like it) is to use a combination of a cut piece of paper clip and RTV Silicon to fill around the paper clip. The paper clip reinforces, the silicon does the rest of the mounting, and it cuts down on vibration noise.
And it's a pain in the ass, takes a day to set, and if you do it wrong the fan can fall off. But it seems like it's easier when you're actually doing it!
This is one of those things where you should really just do it right to begin with. Also, if you're going push/pull on a CPU cooler, using two random ass different fans can end up not contributing a whole lot to your rig, aside from noise, due to turbulence in the cooler from differences in speed and static pressure.
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Jinglehell why can't EVGA make AMD cards? XFX is 0 for 3 right now.
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On August 23 2012 02:24 Medrea wrote:
Jinglehell why can't EVGA make AMD cards? XFX is 0 for 3 right now.
<3
If I had to guess (and this is a wild ass guess, it may be wrong, and should never be referenced), I'd say they probably did an exclusivity deal with nVidia in exchange for great binning at competitive prices. That's purely based off their amazing track record and ability to sustain their amazing customer service at what is, (for what you get), an amazingly low premium.
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I don't think EVGA has that much design staff, engineers. Headquarters is in Cali, which is inconvenient for actually getting stuff done in terms of being close to the SMT lines, factories, the ones actually making the stuff. Even with the Nvidia cards, you mostly see reference or fairly conservative cooler designs (not bad ones, but nothing flashy), often times reference PCBs. Their other products like motherboards always seem really late to market, limited in number of models.
It would take more effort and staff to be an AIB partner for AMD as well.
That would be my guess. Maybe there are business-related reasons and some history I don't know about.
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Either way.
Now I need an equalizer to tweak my sound. But the multi band equalizer on my onboard sound is disabled, or gone, i dunno.
I asked about this before and no one knew. All of the free programs dont seem to work (slide everything down, no alteration).
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I tweeted Jacob Freeman to find out, since I'm curious now, Medrea. I'll let you know what he tells me. He's one of their public face type guys.
Bah, getting marketing speech. I'm starting to think it's the exclusivity deal.
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Hello, if I download a windows 7 .iso file from microsoft ,and I burn it onto a disk and run it into my laptop that already has windows 7 on it, would it would install?
I want to re-install windows because when I first bought my laptop it came preinstalled with a lot of junk that hogs half of my ram 3/6gb. so re-installing should help with ram management a lot. Also, some programs wont run (Steelseries Engine and Intel turbo boost monitor.)
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I somehow got the equalizer in realtek working again, no idea how that happened I was literally just pushing buttons all over the place.
And it doesnt do anything when I adjust the sliders >.<
What the fuck lol.
EDIT: I got it working. See this is an example of drivers done wrong. All I did was set, reset, default, set random settings over and over and eventually it caved in and let me make a difference.
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On August 23 2012 03:59 Strafe578 wrote:
Hello, if I download a windows 7 .iso file from microsoft ,and I burn it onto a disk and run it into my laptop that already has windows 7 on it, would it would install?
I want to re-install windows because when I first bought my laptop it came preinstalled with a lot of junk that hogs half of my ram 3/6gb. so re-installing should help with ram management a lot. Also, some programs wont run (Steelseries Engine and Intel turbo boost monitor.)
Anyone? =/
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