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Craton
United States17233 Posts
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TheRabidDeer
United States3806 Posts
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
On August 02 2013 08:50 TheRabidDeer wrote: Is it possible to get a decent 4th gen (or even 3rd gen) i7 laptop with a 15.6" screen for under $600? 768 and no GPU is fine. I'm assuming you mean quad-core i7 and not the dual-core mobile i7 variant or the dual-core low-power i7 variant? If it were the latter two, an i5 is fairly close to that, and you probably wouldn't have made the distinction. $600 is pretty tough. At the moment, all I see is $650 with a quick search (Lenovo IdeaPad Z580 using 3rd-gen): here edit: depending on which parts you need, if you must get it cheaper and can scrounge around used and assemble a barebones laptop shell (given the size and all, this is supposedly much more annoying than assembling desktops), some kind of cheapest 15.6" barebones supporting socket G2 (mobile Sandy/Ivy) and a used processor off of eBay could do the trick. http://rjtech.com/shop/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=30122 (note all the components like RAM and hard drive not included) http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-CORE-I7-3612QM2-1-GHZ-QUAD-CORE-AW8063801130504-SR0MQ-SOCKET-G2-TESTED-/321164949220 Note that the 35W TDP models are a bit more constrained under heavy CPU load. The 45W TDP models need to may need to back off of Turbo Boost speeds (3.0 GHz+) here and there when running 8 threads heavily, so the 35W models are probably running nominal clocks on such a load even with marginal IGP activity. | ||
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XenOmega
Canada2822 Posts
First, thanks for the suggestion of switching the wireless signal to N only. It improved the overall quality of my entire network!!! The PCs downstair are now getting 100mbps! (it can go as high as 200, but it fluctuates alot. What can I do to stabilize it?) are they any other tricks I can try with the router config? Also, how do I make use of 5ghz wireless? Second : When I transfer files from lan computer to wireless computer, I'm getting a transfer rate of about 6mb/s. Is that good? Can it be higher? From wireless computer to wireless, though, the transfer is about 1.6, which is kind of slow... Third : QOS. It'd be really great if I could configure it! Setting it on doesn't seem to change much. When I'm using torrents, the entire network is slowed down | ||
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Craton
United States17233 Posts
You could consider some kind of a wireless repeater/access point for bolstering signal in areas of your house, but it will vary substantially as to how much of an effect it has. No need to get one if your signal is good enough already. My QoS (or maybe it my the last router) did it based on IP and port. You'd basically say "treat traffic coming from this person (IP) on this port as better/worse than other traffic." So, for instance, you'd drop your torrents to absolute lowest priority, while putting OBS/XSplit traffic on highest priority (i.e. things that need real-time priority go at the top, things that have no time-sensitivity go at the bottom). Example: Your IP is 192.168.1.1 and you want torrent traffic lowest (lets say port 10000) and streaming traffic highest (port 9000). You'd have an entry that looked like: IP - Port - Priority 192.168.1.1 - Port 10000 - Very Low 192.168.1.1 - Port 9000 - Very High You'll probably have the option of selecting UDP, TCP, TCP/UDP. Which to use depends solely on the application (you can frankly choose both since you probably won't be sharing the higher ports). | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
Fluctuating link rates is to be expected. It's how the system works. The wireless channel changes as things move around the house. If there's a 6 Mbps and 1.6 Mbps (bits) seems way too slow for what you're describing. 6 MBps and 1.6 MBps (bytes) don't seem out of the ordinary. I think you're talking about bytes, as that's the way it's reported in most programs. I don't really trust QoS provisioning on consumer-grade gear, but maybe it works and some people are happy with it. To get it to work, you need to set upload and download speed limits and essentially throttle some connections so that others can pass through quicker. The mechanism of how this happens and implementation may be different for different systems. Anyway, any time you have torrents on a home network, expect to see worse performance. You might be able to mitigate it somewhat by adjusting torrent programs, throttling speeds and connections, etc., and maybe some router-side QoS settings, but you can't expect too much. | ||
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Craton
United States17233 Posts
The best option is, of course, to shell out the $50 a month for your own personal internet connection. (: | ||
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Alabasern
United States4005 Posts
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scott31337
United States2979 Posts
MB/Windows version/etc? I live in the US, If you want to call me, PM me. I've done this work since 1984. | ||
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TheRabidDeer
United States3806 Posts
On August 02 2013 09:54 Myrmidon wrote: I'm assuming you mean quad-core i7 and not the dual-core mobile i7 variant or the dual-core low-power i7 variant? If it were the latter two, an i5 is fairly close to that, and you probably wouldn't have made the distinction. $600 is pretty tough. At the moment, all I see is $650 with a quick search (Lenovo IdeaPad Z580 using 3rd-gen): here edit: depending on which parts you need, if you must get it cheaper and can scrounge around used and assemble a barebones laptop shell (given the size and all, this is supposedly much more annoying than assembling desktops), some kind of cheapest 15.6" barebones supporting socket G2 (mobile Sandy/Ivy) and a used processor off of eBay could do the trick. http://rjtech.com/shop/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=30122 (note all the components like RAM and hard drive not included) http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-CORE-I7-3612QM2-1-GHZ-QUAD-CORE-AW8063801130504-SR0MQ-SOCKET-G2-TESTED-/321164949220 Note that the 35W TDP models are a bit more constrained under heavy CPU load. The 45W TDP models need to may need to back off of Turbo Boost speeds (3.0 GHz+) here and there when running 8 threads heavily, so the 35W models are probably running nominal clocks on such a load even with marginal IGP activity. Yea, I did indeed mean the quad-core i7 (wasnt even aware there was a dual-core i7 version). That lenovo was what I was looking at too. I am not sure if I really feel up to the task of building a laptop, so I will probably just keep an eye on lenovo's site and look for a refurbished ivy. Thanks  | ||
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z0rz
United States350 Posts
Newegg usually has a bunch of open box and refurbished quad-core i7 laptops whenever I check. Examples: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834231029 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834231170 Refurb is probably the only way to keep it under $600. Just make sure you understand and are comfortable with what you're buying. | ||
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HuALaRiOuS
United States10 Posts
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Assuton
United States28 Posts
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
On August 04 2013 02:22 Assuton wrote: Is there anywhere that sells decent pre-built desktops for gaming? Im looking at buying one from Best Buy, I know I probably wont get the best bang for my buck though. Ive thought about building my own many times but have never done it before, so I am a bit intimidated. If you get a list what you should buy, if you order all parts in one place, there's shops that have a service where they'll assemble and maybe test the PC for a service fee. You might want to ask in the "computer build resource thread" where you should look for something like that in the US. If you already have a Windows license and won't have to also buy that, it will surely beat any pre-built desktop PC in price and performance. | ||
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Assuton
United States28 Posts
On August 04 2013 02:31 Ropid wrote: If you get a list what you should buy, if you order all parts in one place, there's shops that have a service where they'll assemble and maybe test the PC for a service fee. You might want to ask in the "computer build resource thread" where you should look for something like that in the US. If you already have a Windows license and won't have to also buy that, it will surely beat any pre-built desktop PC in price and performance. Thanks for the reply, thats something I will look in to. | ||
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{ToT}ColmA
Japan3260 Posts
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saaaa
Germany419 Posts
i just want to play some sc2 today and noticed that i need to update but i always get the error: ERROR: The file "C:\Program Files\StarcraftII\Updates\s2-0-26585-Win-final.MPQ" appears to be corrupt. Does anyone know this problems and how to solve it? thx in advance | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20275 Posts
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Goldfish
2230 Posts
On July 25 2013 03:47 OsaX Nymloth wrote: Check if your graphic card isn't overheating - this got something to do with GPU, for sure. I believe they're few options, one of them: card is dying. But it can be something different too. So, check temperatures, you may also browse system logs (maybe you will find something useful in there), if you overclocked, then return to "default" values. Fresh driver reinstall could also be ok I guess. Hope that helps a bit. Thanks for the response ! I found out something, that it could be malware but the malware causes the video card to work hard and overheat but my temps for video card while idle are 40 C (while playing, it's just 50 C). So, I assume it's not overheating right ? I ran malware bytes, super anti spyware, avast to check if there any malware. They all found none but of course since it was a long time ago, I could still be at risk of a newer version but since my temps for GPU are low and I had problems with it before, I assume it's not the case. Here's the link to the topic at the geforce forums. Besides that, recently my desktop has been showing video artifacts too. (Before, my game would occasionally display blocks of multicolor artifacts, on the screen, it doesn't move when I move the camera when it's happening, then display driver would crash and restart and also take firefox down with it too.) And also, I manage to be able to take a screenshot (via print screen) of artifacts on my desktop (if I am able to take screen shots of the artifact, does it help deduce what the problem may be?). Basically it's multicolor lines on the boxes of my windows. Sometimes, my mouse cursor has it too. Worse case scenario, my computer occasionally freezes and locks up for 5-10 seconds when it happens. I tried three different driver versions (one of them which I used and it worked before). I hope it's just the video card and not malware (mainly because I'd hate trying to figure this out, fresh install of windows >.<). The main odd thing is again, it only happened after my fresh install. And the malware that causes these sort of problems seem to hit fresh installs the most. (I didn't visit any websites or do anything after I reinstalled, I just installed the bare basics.) Again my temps are 40C while idle and 50C while playing games, so that doesn't seem to be the case. This is a fresh install of windows on a fresh harddrive and it started happening after that "but" my video card did show signs of problems before (before I had a BSOD related to the display driver, way back a year ago. Though it only happened once fortunately). Anyone have any ideas? Also again, does being able to take a screenshot (via print screen) of the video artifacts that show up on the desktop help? When I restart my computer, the artifacts are gone and usually don't return for at least 5-8 hours of me doing stuff like playing games. Video temps are 40-50 C at all times. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
You can try downclocking the clocks and see if the problem goes away. You should also reseat the card as you mentioned you moved the computer around but didn't mention reseating it. | ||
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