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Blaec
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia4289 Posts
March 08 2013 05:55 GMT
#5681
On March 08 2013 14:22 Swordland wrote:
thanks a lot mate....oh so my sgs3 cannot watch tl streams? ....sigh......

well, i might try the flash you mentioned..but im worried if it is not safe.

but, are you sure watching from twitch directly works?


Just use the twitch app.
MassHysteria
Profile Joined October 2010
United States3678 Posts
March 08 2013 05:56 GMT
#5682
twitch has a phone app, which I think is what he means. At first, their streams were not great quality but last time I checked, they have improved them.
"Just ban all the J's...even jinklejoes" --unnamed source
shadow_orc
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada52 Posts
March 08 2013 05:57 GMT
#5683
So I have been wanting to try to overclock my comp, so is my computer capable of overclocking with an i5-2300 2.8ghz cpu and a 300 watt psu
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't re
Myrmidon
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States9452 Posts
March 08 2013 06:33 GMT
#5684
On March 08 2013 14:57 shadow_orc wrote:
So I have been wanting to try to overclock my comp, so is my computer capable of overclocking with an i5-2300 2.8ghz cpu and a 300 watt psu

OEM motherboard won't let you overclock the CPU. Even if it did, there's a ~400 MHz limit to overclocking the i5-2300 anyway.

You could overclock the GT 420 a bit, but that's kind of pathetic. It's worse than integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20285 Posts
March 08 2013 07:07 GMT
#5685
On March 08 2013 14:57 shadow_orc wrote:
So I have been wanting to try to overclock my comp, so is my computer capable of overclocking with an i5-2300 2.8ghz cpu and a 300 watt psu


Thats a pretty awful setup for $460 (and a joke for $650) but most prebuilts from sites/shops like this are
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Myrmidon
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States9452 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-08 07:20:04
March 08 2013 07:19 GMT
#5686
It comes with Windows, so if you need to pay full retail (~$100) for that, and also for a hard drive and so on, it's hard to even get a Core i5 on $360 hardware costs.

Then again, you can get new Ivy Bridge i5 systems with OS for around $500 new, sometimes a bit less, so $460 for a refurb Sandy Bridge system isn't a steal or anything.


And most people asking here are better served by a better video card and a lower-end processor anyway, unless they don't plan on running any modern 3D games on it.

edit: sounds like the computer is already bought though?
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20285 Posts
March 08 2013 08:42 GMT
#5687
Yea, just wanted to point out that being stuck with a gt620 was awful. Im a dick, sorry
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Gihi
Profile Joined September 2011
384 Posts
March 08 2013 11:17 GMT
#5688
I've been doing some research but can't find a conclusive answer via Google.
I'm in the process of buying a new monitor and I've been pondering over buying a 120hz one.
Now, my computer only has 1 DVI port, 1 HDMI port and 1 DisplayPort.
Can I utilize 120hz with some sort of dual link DVIxHDMI cable?
If so, can I also handle a 1920x1200 120hz monitor?
Thanks in advance!
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-08 11:50:28
March 08 2013 11:44 GMT
#5689
Look at this, Gihi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvi#Connector

It's one cable on one connector of the graphics card.

EDIT: Looked up DisplayPort: it apparently can have up to four "lanes" for one connector, and each lane is slightly higher bandwidth than single link DVI-D.
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
Gihi
Profile Joined September 2011
384 Posts
March 08 2013 11:58 GMT
#5690
On March 08 2013 20:44 Ropid wrote:
Look at this, Gihi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvi#Connector

It's one cable on one connector of the graphics card.

EDIT: Looked up DisplayPort: it apparently can have up to four "lanes" for one connector, and each lane is slightly higher bandwidth than single link DVI-D.

Oooooh. ^^ Silly me. I actually thought I needed 2 DVI ports. Well, My DVI port is a DVI-I Dual Link so either that or the DisplayPort should be fine! Thanks man!
dicedicerevolution
Profile Joined October 2009
United States245 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-08 12:15:35
March 08 2013 12:15 GMT
#5691
Is this laptop a good deal to only play SC2/LoL and watch streams? Will I have any issues with having too many programs open at once? I recognize that 4GB ram is a bit low, but I'm not sure if I'll run into trouble if I have say, SC2 or LoL running while having a stream/Grooveshark open in the background via Chrome.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834312434
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
March 08 2013 12:28 GMT
#5692
It says "4GBx1" in the specification. I bet you can upgrade later if needed. (no idea about the CPU's performance etc., I feel it could be a very good deal, except stupid SC2 and its reliance on beefy single thread performance of the CPU)
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20285 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-08 13:30:35
March 08 2013 13:25 GMT
#5693
AMD A-Series A8-4500M(1.90GHz)


Not going to run sc2 well at all - im not sure how much better options are available at $550 though.

Its a piledriver APU, Ivy bridge (core ix 3xxxM) will give you something like 50% better performance at the same clock speed and they sure as hell dont come at 1.9ghz any more. More expensive to get a quad core intel CPU but its better to have a decent dual core than a really awful quad core
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Myrmidon
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States9452 Posts
March 08 2013 19:02 GMT
#5694
For SC2 you really want to stay away from laptop AMD processors.

It's open box, but $490 gets you a roughly-equivalent IdeaPad Z580 with an Ivy Bridge Core i5 and 6GB of RAM instead:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834310630R

It's got a GT 635M, which like the HD 7670 is a last-gen 40nm part. Those two are about comparable in performance though.
dicedicerevolution
Profile Joined October 2009
United States245 Posts
March 09 2013 00:45 GMT
#5695
Unfortunately both laptops are out of stock:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834312434
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834310630R

A quick follow-up question, is the ~$500 range (give or take $50) really ideal for my uses? Would it simply be better to increase my budget by say $100? I would prefer to have the performance fit the budget but if there are issues with cooling and reliability then those would warrant paying extra to me.
57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
March 09 2013 02:20 GMT
#5696
I have no idea what this means, and my router logs are being spammed by it. Can anyone help me understand what is going on?

[image loading]
Survival is winning, everything else is bullshit.
Myrmidon
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States9452 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-09 02:36:38
March 09 2013 02:35 GMT
#5697
On March 09 2013 09:45 dicedicerevolution wrote:
Unfortunately both laptops are out of stock:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834312434
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834310630R

A quick follow-up question, is the ~$500 range (give or take $50) really ideal for my uses? Would it simply be better to increase my budget by say $100? I would prefer to have the performance fit the budget but if there are issues with cooling and reliability then those would warrant paying extra to me.

~$500 is too low to get anything with decent capabilities, but you're not going to find good build quality at $600 either (aside from a reasonable but low-performance Ultrabook here or there).

IMHO for your use, either forget about discrete graphics and use something with HD 4000, or move up to around $600 for something with better performance.

Here's the Z580 again, here using the integrated graphics:
http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/859489/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Z580-59350984-Laptop-Computer/?859489

Samsung Series 3 for $600 with Core i5 and HD 7730M (current-gen 28nm part, so better performance/power):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834131394
broz0rs
Profile Joined July 2008
United States2294 Posts
March 09 2013 04:35 GMT
#5698
I want to ask a simple question before I create a thread if I'm unable to get it answered.

I recently added a secondary HDD to my computer. It worked for about two days and I'm hit with a problem.

My computer boots up, but does not get anything to appear, no BIOS option, and no Windows loading screen. It's definitely not my monitor and I tried booting the computer without the new secondary HDD and nothing shows up on the monitor.

Any suggestions?
bluegarfield
Profile Joined December 2010
Singapore1128 Posts
March 09 2013 06:36 GMT
#5699
hi, i'm thinking of buying a new laptop, and since i already have my mind set on a model, i just want to know if it is worth buying at all (no need recommendation or anything so i don't think i need a new thread)

this is the one i'm considering:
http://sg.asus.com/Notebooks/Versatile_Performance/A45VS/#specifications
price should be around 950USD (~1200SGD)

use for daily multitasking, sc2, dota2, and occasionally adobe after effects, adobe premiere pro.
nothing much here, just wonder if the spec and all justify the price point.

some background: my current DELL is
intel core 2duo P8600 @2.40GHz
4GB RAM
ATi Radeon HD4570
350GB HDD
rest not very important i think

any advice?
thanks

ELqQQT_T
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20285 Posts
March 09 2013 07:22 GMT
#5700
and since i already have my mind set on a model


You shouldnt make up your mind on a model beforehand if you have to ask for advice about it, or you are not 100% sure what all of the specs mean etc.

It looks ok but you might be able to get a better graphics card or better hard drive, or a lowish capacity SSD and all of those are a pretty big deal
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
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