I'm looking to buy a slim laptop, budget $1k-1.5k CAD, for school not gaming.

The lenovo on the go series look interesting, the only thing I'm not a fan of is that the processors used by these machines are either the i7-3667U or the i7-5600U.

My question is, am I forced to get a weak processor like this on such thin laptops? If so, how will this hold up to dealing with the massive adobe programs such as photoshop/illustrator/perhaps even dreamweaver?

edit: also screw laptop tablet hybrids.

Cyro

United Kingdom20344 Posts

March 13 2015 00:24 GMT

#10543

Those are dual cores with ~15w max power budgets, often the graphics power is taken from that 15w too (when it's using integrated graphics) so the CPU only gets a fraction of that. If you're buying ultrabook class stuff that's pretty much all that's available i guess

DaHui2

United States25 Posts

March 13 2015 06:55 GMT

#10544

How many amps would a standard 120mm 4pin fan draw?

Cyro

United Kingdom20344 Posts

March 13 2015 08:20 GMT

#10545

~0.05 - 0.1 if it's around 1000-1500rpm i'd imagine. Probably depends a lot on the fan

Dingodile

4139 Posts

March 14 2015 12:43 GMT

#10546

I cant watch twitch on chrome since yesterday, loading screen forever. I can watch twitch streams flawless on IE.

Cyro

United Kingdom20344 Posts

March 15 2015 13:43 GMT

#10547

Fan question

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I have two of these fans (stock with case)
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there is a LOT of vibration with them running at high speed.

Gonna buy some SP120's, they have corners like this:
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is that actually much better for anti-vibration? Is there stuff i can do to improve the other fans, other than just replacing them?

I have my sp120's now and they don't really vibrate at all (thanks to the crazy rubber mounts that takes 2 hours to gets the screws into properly)~ still wondering if there's a fix for those two other fans, or if i should replace them

ragz_gt

9172 Posts

March 19 2015 20:29 GMT

#10548

mmm this can't be right can it....

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Yes it's WinXP... work comp what can I say. Not sure what they did to it.

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

March 20 2015 18:15 GMT

#10549

What can't be right?

One is for integrated graphics, one is for the ethernet, one is for managing wireless, and one is for managing storage.

Cyro

United Kingdom20344 Posts

March 20 2015 18:33 GMT

#10550

~1.2GB is huge for a network driver AFAIK, but maybe you can just reinstall it

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

March 20 2015 19:17 GMT

#10551

The size display is often meaningless / inaccurate. Especially for things like driver which install to the system.

kiryah

Korea (South)65 Posts

March 21 2015 06:57 GMT

#10552

Will SLIing this setup give me at least 5% boost in FPS in games that were GPU bottlenecked?

ASUSTeK P8B75-V (LGA1155)
Intel CPU G2120 3.10 GHz 2 Core
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz
1023MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST

Thanks!

Cyro

United Kingdom20344 Posts

March 21 2015 12:15 GMT

#10553

You should get like 80% FPS gains when GPU bound, though you have the problems of multi-GPU.

With a GPU that weak, you should try to sell it and buy a single r9 280 or gtx960 IMO.

Craton

United States17303 Posts

March 22 2015 01:25 GMT

#10554

I'm looking to get/put together a small PC for living room TV use -- something able to watch Bluray quality video or an hd flash stream. I don't really need anything more capable than that. For media storage I already have a networked NAS and external HDD/flash drives.

Since it's a living room PC, something small and quiet is ideal (something that'd sit on the tv stand/shelf would be a plus). Fanless isn't a requirement, but if it works out that way that's a plus (though if it has a fan it needs to be a quiet one).

I've looked into some of the mini cube looking PCs (e.g. Gigabyte Brix), but it seems they all come without things like an OS/RAM/SSD. The price seems like it'd end up getting too high (for what I need it to do) after adding all that in. I'd like to just get something that'll more or less work out of the box (especially something with an OS, since I don't really have any more available).

I don't really have a set budget; I'm basically just looking to achieve those original goals cheaply.

Where should I go from here?

wptlzkwjd

Canada1240 Posts

March 23 2015 02:54 GMT

#10555

I have an Asus 144hz monitor and a laptop with HDMI, mini displayport, and VGA. How would I go about using the monitor at 144hz?

Which adapter(s) do I need?

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

March 23 2015 03:15 GMT

#10556

mDP to DP or mDP to dual link DVI

z0rz

United States350 Posts

March 23 2015 04:21 GMT

#10557

Edit: Bleh, pretty sure I'm wrong so I'll nuke this. I'd stick with mDP to DP adapters since they're a hell of a lot cheaper, though.

wptlzkwjd

Canada1240 Posts

March 23 2015 14:44 GMT

#10558

Okay thanks. I'll stick with the mDP to DP since mDP to DL DVI is over 100 dollars at my local electronics store o.o

Darkened

Bulgaria105 Posts

March 23 2015 17:27 GMT

#10559

Is it normal for a AMD Phenom 955 CPU to heat up to 67-68C when I'm playing Heroes of the Storm? I changed the thermal paste recently and it's possible I've messed that up. Is this enough of an indicator?

EDIT: The system is obviously not recently built. :D

Cyro

United Kingdom20344 Posts

March 23 2015 20:26 GMT

#10560

No, that's too hot and you should remount the cooler (and use a good amount of thermal paste, not too much)

if your CPU temperatures alone are going up, then that's all that you should need to do - but if the air temperature inside your case is rising a lot, maybe a fan or two for case airflow would help. That might be the case if you have a graphics card that uses lots of power in there