If I were to change to a 1155 motherboard which was 4 slots of dual channel would there be any compatibility issues? I would think the RAM itself couldn't care less.
It doesn't care. Well, actually, for the sake of the integrated memory controller on the CPU, the proper operating voltage for the RAM should be 1.5V or so (1.65V is okay in the sense that overvolting and overclocking the CPU is kinda okay).
Though if you have a socket 1366 system, I'd recommend waiting until at least Haswell to upgrade, unless there's something in particular you can't really do now that an upgrade would help for. Bloomfield i7 to Haswell is already not a staggeringly huge upgrade—to Ivy Bridge would be even less. It's just a few more months away.
On December 22 2012 08:42 ssi.bal-listic wrote: This is driving me crazy. I have an alienware m17 r1 laptop and there is this noise coming from either fan or HD (probably fan). It sounds like scrolling the mouse wheel REALLY fast and x100 sound
I opened the laptop and cleaned it out pretty well but it doesn't help. I'm pretty sure it's the fan but I don't know how to make it stop. Is my only option to tear the fan out and possibly replace it? Can I just command it to stop? This noise is driving me insane.
Disconnecting the fan sounds like a terrible idea, that's all you got cooling everything in the laptop. You should check a hw monitor like hwinfo to make sure things aren't overheating or doing long term damage. A fan running on low can be responsible for over 20*C+ in cooling, just on idle. I would strongly advise against disconnecting the fan and then continuing to use the laptop unless you REALLY know what you are doing.
Did the fan incrementally get like this over time, or was it all of the sudden like this?
There could be a couple reasons why your fan is doing what it's doing - bad power control (anything from damaged motherboard, power supply, fan modulator chip, software even), ran out of lube (how old is the computer/fan? although can happen with fresh fans too...), dirt/objects in fan well, bad connection or shorted wire (anywhere)...
If you have a desktop (or a psu if you're savvy enough), I'd plug in the fan to rule out the laptop being the problem, and that the fan is the problem. If it runs smoothly when connected to something else, then you have a more serious problem.
Since the fan is broken, you have nothing to lose by lubing up the fan.
Remove the fan head like such:
If you 'cant' remove it:
Then, lube it up: http://www.overclock.net/t/773256/prepping-a-sleeve-bearing-fan-for-work Very straightforward, just drop some mineral oil/machine oil/engine oil/fan lubruicant (anything works, mineral oil is very standard and you probably have laying around, whatever) into the fan well, put it back together, and see if it works.
You got nothing to lose, for all intents and purposes the fan is already broken so I'd recommend you lube it up, as that's most commonly the source of a loud fan, even like what is happening with your fan. If that doesn't work, then simply order another fan that's the same size with the same power connector (you could even upgrade/downgrade/buy stock, whatever).
Thanks for the response. I have another fan next to the one I disconnected in the laptop so it's running on 1 fan instead of 2 now. This laptop's probably about 3-4 years old. I have a heatsink that kinda works so I'm hoping I won't overheat it too much?
It kind of happened suddenly. I tried cleaning the fans out because it was all dusty but that wasn't the problem. I'll try lubing it up when I have extra time. I'm not too good with dealing with computers so
Hello guys! My first post here so please answer <3! I want to make myself a present for Christmas :D. And I wanted to upgrade my PC: DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6750, 2666 MHz (8 x 333) NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 (1024 MB) 5 GB RAM (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM) OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition In the beggining (in sc2) I get like 140-160 fps (on low) 10th min 80-90 fps and late game around 25-30 fps.. Is it worth replacing my video card? Will I get lets say +50-60 fps at least? I want to buy GTX 460. Because I dont want to spend like 200 euro for + 20 fps :D Thanks!
I suppose the question becomes whether you're CPU or GPU limited. Your GPU is definitely a really low end card, but your CPU is also pretty old, though it seems better than the GPU comparatively.
I'd lean toward yes, but I'd also wait for someone who keeps up with them more to sound off.
On December 24 2012 17:01 TheLastNagual wrote: Hello guys! My first post here so please answer <3! I want to make myself a present for Christmas :D. And I wanted to upgrade my PC: DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6750, 2666 MHz (8 x 333) NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 (1024 MB) 5 GB RAM (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM) OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition In the beggining (in sc2) I get like 140-160 fps (on low) 10th min 80-90 fps and late game around 25-30 fps.. Is it worth replacing my video card? Will I get lets say +50-60 fps at least? I want to buy GTX 460. Because I dont want to spend like 200 euro for + 20 fps :D Thanks!
The reason why fps is dropping as the game progresses is because of the CPU. Upgrading the GPU won't fix that. That said, if you want to play on higher graphics settings, upgrading the GPU would allow for that.
GTX 460 is two generations old, really only one past the GT 220, though of course much much faster. 300 series was more or less just a 200 series rebrand and skipped.
On December 24 2012 20:20 Rachnar wrote: Is it possible to use my laptop's wifi to internet on my desktop?
I'm assuming the laptop and desktop both have Ethernet (and you have an Ethernet crossover cable IIRC?), or some similar setup. So yeah, at a high level, that's just asking the laptop to forward packets received on one interface out another. No problem.
Even in Windows you can just select the interfaces and bridge the connections or whatever they call it.
On December 24 2012 23:21 n0ise wrote: For streaming -
- i5 3570k + decent Mobo for OC + decent RAM for OC + a good cooler OR - i7 3770 non-k, with a worse mobo and stock cooler
I figure these would be roughly around the same price
If you're streaming something CPU-intensive especially, overclocked i5-3570k would be better.
Note that these platforms don't really do any BCLK-based overclocking, i5-3570k multiplier is unlocked, so overclocking the RAM is not necessary. Decent RAM for overclocking won't make much difference (a few percentage points tops after extreme OC, usually less) in terms of performance, but if you feel like doing that anyway, you can get those low-profile Samsung low-voltage 1600 MHz RAM for pretty cheap (definitely within $5-10 of the cheapest stuff), and they're supposed to overclock like champs.
Also more importantly, note that a Xeon E3-1230 V2 costs just slightly more than an i5-3570k, but it's essentially a i7-3770 non-k. It's Ivy Bridge socket 1155 (and works on consumer motherboards; AsRock's whole lineup officially supports them, and probably so do many others) 4 cores / 8 threads. So the second option is effectively cheaper than you might think.
[ QUOTE]On December 24 2012 20:20 Rachnar wrote: Is it possible to use my laptop's wifi to internet on my desktop?
I'm assuming the laptop and desktop both have Ethernet (and you have an Ethernet crossover cable IIRC?), or some similar setup. So yeah, at a high level, that's just asking the laptop to forward packets received on one interface out another. No problem. /QUOTE]
Ok thanks, how exactly do i do that? I supose it's not just plug'n'play?
On laptop, Control Panel -> ... -> Network Connections -> highlight both interfaces -> right click -> select Bridge Connections
Actually, I think I'm living way in the past and these days a special crossover cable between laptop and desktop is not necessary. Just try a normal Ethernet cable.
I've never actually tried it in Windows before, but it's simple enough and should work. There should be a gajillion results if you search for this kind of thing.
Looking for a program that can temporarily re-map hotkeys that are recognized by a game Specifically, for some reason this game I'm playing will not let you bind ctrl+<key>. I figured I could map them in-game to something out of the way like <uiop> then set the program to map ctrl+<key> to the respective keys I mapped ingame, thus circumventing the issue.
Problem is I have no idea what I'm looking for. T_T
On December 25 2012 05:16 rd wrote: Looking for a program that can temporarily re-map hotkeys that are recognized by a game Specifically, for some reason this game I'm playing will not let you bind ctrl+<key>. I figured I could map them in-game to something out of the way like <uiop> then set the program to map ctrl+<key> to the respective keys I mapped ingame, thus circumventing the issue.
Problem is I have no idea what I'm looking for. T_T
On December 25 2012 05:11 Myrmidon wrote: On laptop, Control Panel -> ... -> Network Connections -> highlight both interfaces -> right click -> select Bridge Connections
Actually, I think I'm living way in the past and these days a special crossover cable between laptop and desktop is not necessary. Just try a normal Ethernet cable.
I've never actually tried it in Windows before, but it's simple enough and should work. There should be a gajillion results if you search for this kind of thing.
Exactly that and done with an ethernet cable, Thanks a lot
On December 25 2012 07:50 n.DieJokes wrote: Can I uninstall sc2 beta without it affect sc2 proper. It's like 2 gigs sitting there and I'm not sure if I need it
If you uninstall the Hots beta it will have no effect on Wings of Liberty, if that is what you mean.
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