EPTSimple Questions Simple Answers - Page 333
| Forum Index > Tech Support |
|
Cyro
United Kingdom20326 Posts
| ||
|
iokke
United States1179 Posts
I can't risk this fucker crashing again, figured with memorial day coming it may be a good time get a good deal on a new one. Hoping u guys can point me in the right direction (again:D) Budget: $1000-$1500 (can pay more if it would make a big difference but figured 15 would be enough) Uses: DJing, Gaming, possible office work later. Display: 15 or 17, (15 more convenient for work) Saw this one so far from this thread, $870 + tax id assume around 940. Seems to fit and my #1 choice now, but I can spend a bit more for long-term use, plus it will ship late=/ http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/builder.workflow:Enter?sb=:000001C9:0000C50D: So far my other choice is msi gx60, can get that one for $1000 or $880 refurbished. Any thoughts? thanks in advance edit - bought the lenovo one after all | ||
|
Arctyrus
Denmark77 Posts
 I've been looking to buy a new laptop designed with portability in mind, but with enough power to run SC2 in decent graphics. (Preferably ultra, but that might not be feasible). And so I stumbled across this laptop: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Samsung-Series-7-Chronos-770Z5E-S01DE-Notebook.91341.0.html It seems to suit my purpose very well, and in the test they record a battery time of 10h 42m with WLAN (!!), which to me seems ridiculous compared to other laptops on the market. So my questions are these: 1) Is there any reason to believe Samsung has struck gold on batterylife, or is it a fluke, and I should expect batterylife around 5-6 hours or even lower? 2) How is Samsungs reputation concerning laptops? I've never heard much about them in that field 3) Is there anything about the Samsung model that could turn into a problem? (Like the Enduro switching which I've heard mixed reviews of.) 4) Speaking of graphics how is the reputation for AMD, in particular AMD Radeon HD 8870M? 5) Is it worth waiting for the upcoming Haswell processors from intel, and possibly combine it with a newer 700 generation geforce graphics card? Thanks in advance, if you can answer any of my questions, it'd really help me out a great deal deciding which laptop to buy | ||
|
Wabbit
United States1028 Posts
On May 24 2013 06:46 Arctyrus wrote: + Show Spoiler + Hello awesome tech gurus of TL I've been looking to buy a new laptop designed with portability in mind, but with enough power to run SC2 in decent graphics. (Preferably ultra, but that might not be feasible). And so I stumbled across this laptop: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Samsung-Series-7-Chronos-770Z5E-S01DE-Notebook.91341.0.html It seems to suit my purpose very well, and in the test they record a battery time of 10h 42m with WLAN (!!), which to me seems ridiculous compared to other laptops on the market. So my questions are these: 1) Is there any reason to believe Samsung has struck gold on batterylife, or is it a fluke, and I should expect batterylife around 5-6 hours or even lower? 2) How is Samsungs reputation concerning laptops? I've never heard much about them in that field 3) Is there anything about the Samsung model that could turn into a problem? (Like the Enduro switching which I've heard mixed reviews of.) 4) Speaking of graphics how is the reputation for AMD, in particular AMD Radeon HD 8870M? 5) Is it worth waiting for the upcoming Haswell processors from intel, and possibly combine it with a newer 700 generation geforce graphics card? Thanks in advance, if you can answer any of my questions, it'd really help me out a great deal deciding which laptop to buy 1. It's got a humongous 91Wh battery so it's not too surprising. Ivy Bridge is really efficient at idle with periods of low load. To possibly get even a bit more, I'd disable HyperThreading and use a custom power profile with a CPU speed limit of 50% - not noticeable when just web surfing. 2. - 3. - 4. Should be fine, nothing noteworthy. It's a pretty high-end mobile video card. It's more than enough for SC2 [Edit: probably medium/high settings @ 1080p, definitely without AA], but there are other things about the laptop that make it stand out. 5. I'd like to know also One very important thing about this model is that the display is exemplary. 1400:1 contrast with that sRGB coverage and decent gamma curves (just a slight blue tint) is very rare in the mobile space, but the price tag reflects that. It's still a TN screen so viewing angles aren't good but it will look great viewed head-on. | ||
|
Arctyrus
Denmark77 Posts
On May 24 2013 07:39 Wabbit wrote: + Show Spoiler + 1. It's got a humongous 91Wh battery so it's not too surprising. Ivy Bridge is really efficient at idle with periods of low load. To possibly get even a bit more, I'd disable HyperThreading and use a custom power profile with a CPU speed limit of 50% - not noticeable when just web surfing. 2. - 3. - 4. Should be fine, nothing noteworthy. It's a pretty high-end mobile video card. It's more than enough for SC2, but there are other things about the laptop that make it stand out. 5. I'd like to know also One very important thing about this model is that the display is exemplary. 1400:1 contrast with that sRGB coverage and decent gamma curves (just a slight blue tint) is very rare in the mobile space, but the price tag reflects that. It's still a TN screen so viewing angles aren't good but it will look great viewed head-on. Thanks for the reply, I wasn't aware that it had a particularly good display. Heh. I suppose predicting the future can be very hard, regarding upcoming processors and graphics. So I'll rephrase the question then, do you think the HD8870M is a decent choice compared to the geforce G750M, I can see the AMD has slightly better benchmarks but most internet communities are full with comments about AMD graphic cards not working properly due to drivers etc. | ||
|
Rollin
Australia1552 Posts
On May 24 2013 07:39 Wabbit wrote: I'd disable HyperThreading and use a custom power profile with a CPU speed limit of 50% - not noticeable when just web surfing. Disabling hyperthreading won't do anything, unless you're running a huge load, in which case the decreased performance will of course lead to slightly less power draw, but why would you ever do that? | ||
|
Wabbit
United States1028 Posts
On May 24 2013 08:24 Rollin wrote: + Show Spoiler + Disabling hyperthreading won't do anything, unless you're running a huge load, in which case the decreased performance will of course lead to slightly less power draw, but why would you ever do that? Anecdotally, it seemed to me that even at idle + low load the CPU would draw a bit more with HT enabled (watching power consumption via HWMonitor). Of course this is nowhere near a proper methodology and I have no concrete proof. I was also thinking that anything extra enabled = probably slightly extra power draw, even if unused. I'm probably horribly wrong | ||
|
yaeger
Norway98 Posts
| ||
|
Rollin
Australia1552 Posts
On May 24 2013 23:59 yaeger wrote: What kind of CPU Should I get to have good quality 1080p streaming ? Atm i got i5 3570k and have overclocked it. What are you having problems with? Ingame fps or your stream looking shit/dropping frames. If it's the game speed, nothing is better. If it's the latter you have bad settings or too low of a bitrate for 1080p. 720p looks a lot better anyway until you chug in like 2.5Mbits+, which a lot of people can't even watch anyway (sad I know) | ||
|
yaeger
Norway98 Posts
| ||
|
iokke
United States1179 Posts
| ||
|
Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
On May 25 2013 02:16 yaeger wrote: Hmm, I guess its my ingame sc2 performance(fps dropping quite a bit) I have 70/10 inet(dont know what settings i should have it on when doing 1080p) There's nothing you can do about that. If you already overclocked, you pretty much have the fastest CPU that exists for SC2 fps. You should see if you use the best way for capturing the screen in OBS, compare your settings to other people. Perhaps you overlooked some tweaking you can do and fps drop more than they have to for you. You might want to look into those capture cards. I don't know how they work exactly and if you can use them with just one PC. | ||
|
Emnjay808
United States10665 Posts
Everytime I play a game, Civ5/csgo/Osu/FTL/etc. It always crashes 5-10 min into me playing. The monitor just goes blank and the sound starting "brrring". I try to restart my comp right after but it wont let me, the power button lights up, but the PC wont boot. Id have to wait at least 5 min before I can start up the comp again. I came to the conclusion that its my gfx, but want a second opinion before I hop on newegg to order a new one. Thanks in advance. | ||
|
Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
Something might look suspicious on those lists, for example a new graphics card driver being installed around the time your problems started. | ||
|
Crowned
United States368 Posts
| ||
|
Puph
Canada635 Posts
My computer crashes or restarts itself sometimes and I want to test my integrated graphics and also run in safe mode to eliminate some variables. Unfortunately, neither safe more NOR my integrated ivy bridge integrated graphics work. I tried looking in bios and there is simply no option for Onboard/Integrated within the Northbus section. This is where it should be  There is also nothing in my device manager that suggests I have Intel HD graphics installed. I tried installing it and it says I do not have the requirements.I'm thinking of formatting and trying both of these again; when this undoubtedly fails to solve my crashing/restarting problems I am thinking of reseating things, testing ram sticks and trying some other parts. Any other options? Seriously dumbfounded. | ||
|
z0rz
United States350 Posts
On May 25 2013 06:58 Crowned wrote: Is there any way to choose which games show up on the user streams sidebar on the right like you could in the old TL layout? At the top left there's a section that says "Filter: SC2 | BW | Dota 2 | Other " Just click on the game(s) you want to add/remove from your TL layout. | ||
Womwomwom
5930 Posts
On May 24 2013 07:48 Arctyrus wrote: Thanks for the reply, I wasn't aware that it had a particularly good display. Heh. I suppose predicting the future can be very hard, regarding upcoming processors and graphics. So I'll rephrase the question then, do you think the HD8870M is a decent choice compared to the geforce G750M, I can see the AMD has slightly better benchmarks but most internet communities are full with comments about AMD graphic cards not working properly due to drivers etc. The problem with AMD mobile GPUs has been Enduro. Enduro will always be worse than Optimus because of how it works (IGP + dGPU drivers active, proxy driver allocating tasks) and how unreliable display drivers can be. Updating drivers can be a problem too because of this but AMD's been trying to separate their drivers from the manufacturer. I have no idea if Samsung's GPU implementation is good or bad but I expect it to be decent enough that AMD's hotfixes and reference drivers work. So performance-wise, there shouldn't be any problem with the AMD option provided Samsung lets you use AMD hot-fixes and reference drivers. Still, waiting for the Haswell revision might not be a bad idea since all signs point to it being specifically designed for mobile usage. | ||
|
Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
That said, improvements with Haswell wouldn't exactly be unwelcome. btw if you can't wait, you can find the Y500 elsewhere. e.g. $1000 for a similar config but with SLI (uh, yeah...) GT 650M. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834312439 | ||
|
ronpaul012
United States769 Posts
Currently I'm using this 6850. I also have an i7 2600k as my processor, and 16gb of ram. If there are other important specs needed I can provide them, but thats the general information. Do you think that an upgrade from the 6850 to a newer card would improve performance a lot, or would the upgrade by minuscule? I'm not looking to get an amazing card, but more along the lines of $150-$200 card. Before I really proceed on buying one, I just wanted to get some opinions from those who know more than me to see if it would help. | ||
| ||
