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Cyro
United Kingdom20323 Posts
If you have more funds you can get desktop CPUs in "laptops" You wont get anything like this + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i316.photobucket.com/albums/mm355/CHEWYYFFXI/IMG_1848.jpg) but you're not going to get more than 3.2-3.3 GHz on the CPU, which is not good enough for smooth SC2 Nothing's good enough for a smooth sc2, you have to remember 3.3ghz ivy will beat 4ghz nehalem by a decent margin (i7 920-960 stock 2.66-3.2ghz oc'd to 4) which was the best we had just a couple years ago | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
Lots of people play and have played SC2 on Core 2, Nehalem, Phenom II, Athlon II, FX, etc. and those are not better than 3.2 GHz Ivy Bridge (at least not without heavy OC). I'm sure with enough effort, one could mod a suitable cooling system for a laptop.  Actually, on a practical matter, nobody said that temperatures under 8 threads prime95 needs to be reasonable. And definitely not IntelBurnTest or similar. If you were to hypothetically overclock a i7-3940XM for gaming, you could turn off hyperthreading and possibly make the OC turbo bins for 4 cores active lower than the bins for fewer cores. So long as it's not exploding doing what you ask of it, it could be okay. Anyway, point is, compared to what's available and all that cost, it's really not ideal. You can throw money at a problem, but here that just means the money's been funneled to RAID0 SSDs and a GK104 GPU in a laptop (configured like a downclocked desktop GTX 670), not that SC2 performance will be amazing. | ||
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Iranon
United States983 Posts
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Craton
United States17274 Posts
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Hwotk
32 Posts
also if not this laptop what would u recommend getting atm. | ||
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Craton
United States17274 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20323 Posts
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Craton
United States17274 Posts
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Amestir
Netherlands2126 Posts
just started playing on the new SC2 patch. Every game at some point the screen just gets black, tabs to desktop and sometimes tabs back in to SC2, sometimes crashes completely. Anyone know how to fix this? | ||
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PhOeniX[MinD]
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phagga
Switzerland2194 Posts
I have an old system that I want to upgrade, it's mainly used for gaming. Currently sports an Intel Quad Core, 4 Gig RAM and an NVidia 285 GTX. The new components that I would like to get: - Intel Core i5 3570 (3400) Quad Core - ASRock Z77 Performance - ASUS Nvidia GeForce GTX650Ti - Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB 2-Kit XMP DDR3 1600MHz CL9 I already have an SSD that I will keep. My Questions: - Do these components fit together? (I was specifically unsure with the RAM, are they a good choice and is the speed correct?) - What is the rough power consumption of these components with heavy load? | ||
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Infernal_dream
United States2359 Posts
Probably 300-400watts under load. Maybe 400 under an artificial 100% load of everything. | ||
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phagga
Switzerland2194 Posts
On March 03 2013 08:07 Infernal_dream wrote: The components are fine. Why 16 gigs of ram though? Probably 300-400watts under load. Maybe 400 under an artificial 100% load of everything. Because it's cheap :D you think 8GB is gonna be enough for a longer time? | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
If it's mainly used for gaming than why waste money on memory that won't be used? You need a core i5 3570k to overclock. If you're not overclocking than getting a high end Z77 over a H77 or B75 is a huge waste of money. Those components won't come close to 400w under full load, both the core i5 3570 and GTX 650 Ti use under 100w. | ||
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phagga
Switzerland2194 Posts
- Intel Core i5 3570K (3400) Quad - ASRock Z77 Performance - ASUS Nvidia GeForce GTX650Ti - Corsair Vengeance 8GB 2-Kit XMP DDR3 1600MHz CL8 Which is, in fact, about 40 dollars cheaper. | ||
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Craton
United States17274 Posts
On March 03 2013 08:10 phagga wrote: Because it's cheap :D you think 8GB is gonna be enough for a longer time? At the very least, it should last you until your next upgrade cycle. Most probably it will be fine well past that mark. Worst case you can always add another 8GB in, but you don't really use large amounts of RAM outside of graphical / multimedia work. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20323 Posts
On March 03 2013 08:18 phagga wrote: Ok, so I adjust it to this: - Intel Core i5 3570K (3400) Quad - ASRock Z77 Performance - ASUS Nvidia GeForce GTX650Ti - Corsair Vengeance 8GB 2-Kit XMP DDR3 1600MHz CL8 Which is, in fact, about 40 dollars cheaper. So you're overclocking? | ||
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phagga
Switzerland2194 Posts
I will, then, yes. I read that I can go up to about 4.2 Ghz without trouble. I'll also add a Hyper 212 Evo cooler. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20323 Posts
I wouldnt reccomend asrock boards personally after all of the drama with wrong voltages being used on CPU etc, but im pretty sure thats only a couple of boards and not at all relevant for average consumer. It sucks to be one of those using ~1.5v on delidded ivy bridge and having the board overvolt to 1.65~ under load though and kill the CPU from an otherwise ok voltage. This | ||
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phagga
Switzerland2194 Posts
On March 03 2013 08:54 Cyro wrote: Yea you can, and thats good (cooler) I wouldnt reccomend asrock boards personally after all of the drama with wrong voltages being used on CPU etc, but im pretty sure thats only a couple of boards and not at all relevant for average consumer hmm, I picked an ASRock because I made good experiences in the past with them, but it's about 4 years that I last bought a Mainboard from them. What would you recommend instead? | ||
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