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On May 02 2014 03:48 Incognoto wrote:
If you let your laptop fall and it's suddenly not working well, then it's almost certainly an HDD problem. HDDs have physically moving parts which are much more vulnerable to shock damage (especially if they're in use) than something like a CPU.
Do what ropid said but it quite honestly sounds like you're in the need of a new HDD. Laptop HDDs can be bought on amazon or something. After that it's about flipping over the laptop, taking out the battery, undoing some screws, finding the HDD and taking it out, then putting in the new one. You'll have to reinstall Windows (which can be done from a USB stick) and you'll lose all the data on the old HDD, obviously. Might not be a bad idea to back up that data now while the damaged HDD is still alive.
Of course, if you have a laptop as old as mine, you may have issues finding a HDD. (Mine is so old it's an IDE 2.5" HDD.)
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Well the HDD is in there somewhere!
Not sure if it's possible to get IDE HDDs. At that point though if the HDDs dies you might be better off with something new. :p
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On May 02 2014 04:38 Incognoto wrote:
Well the HDD is in there somewhere!
Not sure if it's possible to get IDE HDDs. At that point though if the HDDs dies you might be better off with something new. :p
I assure you, I am thinking in that direction. I still have a number of IDE HDDs laying around, but I also have old boxes that can use them. No laptop drives, though.
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I converted all my IDE HDDs into externals. Still working np.
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Would I be able to livestream using this kind of setup:
CPU: Haswell i3-4130 3.4 x2
GPU: Nvidia Geforce 630 2 GB
RAM: 4GB
I would love to livestream even on low quality! :D
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On May 03 2014 07:01 Magreidis wrote:
Would I be able to livestream using this kind of setup:
CPU: Haswell i3-4130 3.4 x2
GPU: Nvidia Geforce 630 2 GB
RAM: 4GB
I would love to livestream even on low quality! :D
Yes, but that's a pretty terrible GPU that's not really appropriate for even graphically light games
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On May 03 2014 07:08 Cyro wrote:Show nested quote +On May 03 2014 07:01 Magreidis wrote:
Would I be able to livestream using this kind of setup:
CPU: Haswell i3-4130 3.4 x2
GPU: Nvidia Geforce 630 2 GB
RAM: 4GB
I would love to livestream even on low quality! :D Yes, but that's a pretty terrible GPU that's not really appropriate for even graphically light games
Another question, what if I would buy a pc with same specs and with Intel HD 4400 (It's obvious but still I want to say that I would use Intel HD4400) and would I be able to livestream then? + I am not just a casual user who doesn't understand nothing about pcs. I would optimize every single bit of Windows 7 + I would optimize StarCraft II and I think I would play StarCraft II on 800x600 windowed resolution if needed :D
Later on I would buy a better gpu.
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GT630 is better and it's fine for Starcraft II, DotA 2, CS, League, etc on low settings and low resolution.
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On May 03 2014 15:39 skyR wrote:
GT630 is better and it's fine for Starcraft II, DotA 2, CS, League, etc on low settings and low resolution.
But would I be able to livestream with it or could I livestream with Intel HD 4400?
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Are you buying a prebuilt? What's your total budget? It might be possible to buy such a prebuilt and then slap in a GTX 750 (~#(~€100) or a low-end AMD card (~€70).
Not sure how well an i3 could stream while using its integrated graphics. I imagine it to be possible but ugly.
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On May 03 2014 16:02 Incognoto wrote:
Are you buying a prebuilt? What's your total budget? It might be possible to buy such a prebuilt and then slap in a GTX 750 (~#(~€100) or a low-end AMD card (~€70).
Not sure how well an i3 could stream while using its integrated graphics. I imagine it to be possible but ugly.
I am going to buy a prebuilt but with no dedicated video card, later I will add one and of course better! My total budget is 450$ or ~320€.
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How much does the prebuilt cost compared to your total budget?
This is my suggestion: buy the prebuilt and see how it runs. See if you can stream at the settings you want with the i3's integrated graphics. If you can then, then work with that. If you can't then get the graphics card, which you'll be getting anyway. There's nothing in that prebuilt which you won't be getting anyway.
I think the cheapest graphics card I would get in your position would be the R7 250X, which is a rebranded HD 7770. It performs much better than the R7 250: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r7-250x-graphics-card-review,3747-3.html
^That's a minimum of 30% better performance than the R7 250, most often hitting 50% better performance (there's just way more hardware in the card, as well as more power to work with). The price is something like 15% higher, so it's really a good idea to get this card over the crappier cards like an R7 250 or 240. Not sure about the GT cards but they're more than likely just as bad. Good enough for SC2 at ugly settings, not good enough to be called a graphics card for gaming.
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Well, I would play with ugly settings anyways, there is no need to have max graphics for StarCraft. Anyways my budget now would be 64 Euros, but I could save up some money for R7 250x. What are the psu requirements for R7 250x
his is my suggestion: buy the prebuilt and see how it runs. See if you can stream at the settings you want with the i3's integrated graphics. If you can then, then work with that. If you can't then get the graphics card, which you'll be getting anyway. There's nothing in that prebuilt which you won't be getting anyway.
That's what I am going to do first! 
Oh and I am really grateful, that you are helping me out! I really appreciate that!
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It shouldn't be very high. Even if it's an AMD card which is considered power-hungry, we're talking about an i3 at stock clocks and an entry-level graphics card (only one 6 pin pci-e connector). So the PSU that comes with the prebuilt should be enough. I would be much more worried if you wanted to throw in an R9 290 but since you aren't, you >should< be fine. I doubt you'll go over 150W of power consumption, maybe 200W but that's stretching it. An overclocked Haswell and an enthusiast graphics card is 250-300W ish.
Don't use that PSU to upgrade to high-end parts in the future though.
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On May 03 2014 15:48 Magreidis wrote:Show nested quote +On May 03 2014 15:39 skyR wrote:
GT630 is better and it's fine for Starcraft II, DotA 2, CS, League, etc on low settings and low resolution. But would I be able to livestream with it or could I livestream with Intel HD 4400?
To be honest, i have no experience with streaming and such low end graphical hardware. My biggest concern would be just somehow making sure that the power supply + case + motherboard was something that could be worked with to allow for a GPU upgrade etc
I doubt you'll go over 150W of power consumption, maybe 200W but that's stretching it.
A guy on OCN got his hands on a 750 (or 750ti?) like a day or two before release because a microcenter stocked them IIRC - and was posting sub-100w numbers while in games with a haswell dual core and the GPU at full load. Was quite fun to read :D
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Yeah that would make the GTX 750 a good card for this guy to upgrade too, it's a bit expensive though. It's €108 minimum (on amazon.fr anyway) compared to the R7 250X which is like at €90 here.
I'm pretty sure that even a somewhat bad PSU could cope with an R7 250X and an i3 at stock clocks, anything higher than that I'm not sure I would be comfortable with. Case and motherboard should also work out, might get a bit warm but I highly doubt you would run into serious problems simply adding a 250X into a prebuilt.
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On May 04 2014 00:06 Incognoto wrote:
Yeah that would make the GTX 750 a good card for this guy to upgrade too, it's a bit expensive though. It's €108 minimum (on amazon.fr anyway) compared to the R7 250X which is like at €90 here.
I'm pretty sure that even a somewhat bad PSU could cope with an R7 250X and an i3 at stock clocks, anything higher than that I'm not sure I would be comfortable with. Case and motherboard should also work out, might get a bit warm but I highly doubt you would run into serious problems simply adding a 250X into a prebuilt.
It is stronger though (750)
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Help!
My PC failed to install an IGPU driver correctly and now it BSODs trying to log into windows or safe mode. I ran the system restore point through the safe mode command line and it completed, but immediately at "shutting down" it BSODed again.
I'm in command prompt looking for the offending driver in wmic but I can't find it. I'm pretty sure there are too many items and it's not displaying them all, but I don't know how to filter it or show some at a time (tried product where but can't get clause right)
What do I do?
Can't even get into command line safe mode anymore :/. Can use the one through the w7 disc.
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Perhaps you could try to reinstall windows from the BIOS.
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If you can use the command line from the installation disc, that one is on a graphical desktop and in a window, right? If that's the case, you can then increase the buffer size for that window to be able to scroll through that output that you mentioned is too large for the screen. You get to those settings through the menu you get when clicking on the icon on the left in the title bar. Go Properties -> Layout -> Screen buffer size -> Height and change that number to something like 2000.
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