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On April 02 2015 10:36 Cyro wrote:Show nested quote +As an added question, i really see no reason to upgrade my I5-2500K to a newer model, they dont seem to offer much more in terms of performance and this 2500k running @ 4.2ghz does me perfectly fine. We're only one gen ahead of the 2500k atm. A 4690k at ~4.6ghz could be around ~20-25% faster than your CPU for CPU bound games. In around 5 months there is another major CPU gen though. If it's 1.15x faster than Haswell@4.6ghz, it would be a solid ~40% faster than your CPU, just from performance per clock and clock speed changes, so everything limited by the speed of 1 core (like sc2 and wildstar, actually quite a lot of other games) would get the full benefit The gap wouldn't be quite that big going from a quad core without hyperthreading to a quad core without hyperthreading - but you're at 4.2ghz which is low for 2500k's more cores aren't so useful yet if you're not doing video encoding, streaming etc (or really affordable either unless you put in a huge CPU budget, because you'd have to go to a 5820k, x99 and ddr4 to get an upgrade over intel's quads) movie on 2'nd screen is pretty much irrelevant for PC load these days. It's probably a notable load but not very big either, unless you're doing something heavy with it like interpolating 1080p24 to 1080p144. The simple act of having more monitors plugged in is no problem even for older GPU's - multi-monitor is relevant if you were running 5760x3240 for example across three 1080p monitors. If you're just playing on one monitor, it's fine :D
Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!
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On March 25 2015 00:48 Cyro wrote:Yes, but due to automatic memory management, the slower RAM might be used when you're actively using less than 16GB. Default behavior will have OS and programs caching stuff that they might want to use, or stuff that has been used in the past, so you might have 20GB of stuff in your memory when you only have 5GB worth of programs open. I'm not really sure how it acts with imbalanced memory channels. Done a bit of googling and if you have 4GB + 8GB paired with 4GB + 8GB you might actually be able to run dual channel on all of it. I'm not really sure, that scenario only comes up when adding memory amount that you didn't really plan for when buying the system some pics like this: ![[image loading]](http://www.avadirect.com/forum/uploads/3/art4-3.jpg) If so, then sorry for misinformation - but look it up or wait for someone else to reply :0
Ok, so I installed the RAM and everything is running fine so far.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/2FigHj9.png)
Seems like it's working.... I'll see if I can do some more tests tomorrow.
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United Kingdom20321 Posts
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Hi,
my new 6350 only shows 4 cores 4 threads in CPU Z and in other programs. I do have CPU Core Control on auto and already tried the other options in CPU Core Control. Do you have any idea why i do not have 6 cores 6 threads?
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/RdkWRBd.png)
Thanks
It s fixed!
"Go to msconfig > Boot > Advanced options
Is the no. of processors being restricted to 4? Uncheck that box if that is so."
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nvm figured it out myself. im proud of myself
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Does Windows 7 keep a list of all installed drivers and more importantly of their date of installation somewhere?
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You can see the drivers installed for a particular device through the Device Manager. You can show hidden devices to see more of them, but I don't think that shows the drivers for everything ever connected.
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Czech Republic12129 Posts
Not sure if it should be here, but I guess it qualifies>
With this new login option to Team Liquid I cannot get my old Opera(12.17) to "remember" the password. Anyone experienced with this to help me? Thanks! :-)
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TL remembers by default now (or should). Is it only a problem in Opera?
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Czech Republic12129 Posts
Oh, so the password manager doesn't have to remember the password because I will not be logged out now? That is awesome. I cannot confirm any problems so far except for the question about saving password not appearing. I will not use logout then and I see what happens on Monday when I return to my working computer.
Thanks for the response!
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Ah, I thought you meant you were being logged out randomly. It's true the new login form probably won't trigger browsers to offer to remember the password. I'll see if there's anything I can do to change that.
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Me too in Chrome. It doesnt remember my name and password If I want to login. I dont have any experience about random logout.
edit: I deleted my TL password from password management within chrome. After Login, chrome doesnt ask me about "save password?". Please do it again.
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8370e should be plenty for Witcher 3, games of the current generation are still generally not CPU bound due to the architectures of the consoles. Pair that with something like a 280 and you're probably set.
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You shouldn't buy FX new, not at that price. Nobody knows how Witcher 3 will run ATM, anyway.
If you wanna save money just get an fx6300.
Either way you're getting a CPU that has good multithreaded performance, bad singlethreaded performance and is generally cheap and disposable for the late 2015 and 2016 CPU generations if you want something better than 2012 FX.
That bundle is 329 euros which is excessive (probably because of the CPU sku, which means very little to you)
this setup:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (€99.90 @ Caseking)
Motherboard: MSI 970A-G43 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (€73.33 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€63.98 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €237.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-13 13:58 CEST+0200
is 237 euros with fx6300 (best IMO) or 280 euros with fx8320 (functionally as good as CPU you linked above)
I don't know anything about the 970A-G43 or other boards and what's suitable to run at stock settings, though.
You just shouldn't pay more for what is actually pretty bad hardware. If you only want to buy from AMD, i'd suggest the 6300 above and take a look at what they release next year.
Right now they're just not releasing anything at all on desktop between 2012 and 2016 because they wouldn't be able to price the CPU's competitively and they can't afford the research and development to even put their incremental architectural improvements on anything but mobile and servers. 2016 is their new architecture release though, which might make a splash in the midrange CPU area. Hopefully.
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Asus Nexus 7 tablet, bought in 2013...
It has been incredibly slow for the past months. I've tried a few tricks found on google but none were able to give me a lasting effect. What could slow down these tablets? What can I try to fix it?
Too much apps? I've tried to delete everything... but that thing is linked to your google account or something, because all the apps got reinstalled!
Or just getting "old"...
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United Kingdom20321 Posts
The vast majority of hardware doesn't slow down over time. There are a few exceptions for things like hard drives which can degrade in performance in a notable way, but even that's not usually the case.
It's almost always just software/OS bloat. Once you eliminate that or replace any hardware that's malfunctioning (though that's very unlikely) then it's functionally a brand new system. No such thing as "getting old" for computer hardware as most people generally think of it.
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On April 14 2015 02:30 Cyro wrote:
The vast majority of hardware doesn't slow down over time. There are a few exceptions for things like hard drives which can degrade in performance in a notable way, but even that's not usually the case.
It's almost always just software/OS bloat. Once you eliminate that or replace any hardware that's malfunctioning (though that's very unlikely) then it's functionally a brand new system. No such thing as "getting old" for computer hardware as most people generally think of it.
Any tips or tricks on how to get rid of the software/OS bloat? Reset the Tablet to factory default and deny all upgrades? Or is it always better to have the latest OS?
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EPT
) and my favorite local hardware seller has a nicely priced bundle (mainboard, processor, ram):
