EPTIt's oversized without being a tablecloth like FPS mousepads, but more importantly it's thick and provides cushion for the heel of my hand.
I think the QCK Heavy is the same mousepad but a little bigger.
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Craton
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It's oversized without being a tablecloth like FPS mousepads, but more importantly it's thick and provides cushion for the heel of my hand. I think the QCK Heavy is the same mousepad but a little bigger. | ||
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Introvert
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bluegarfield
Singapore1128 Posts
Was putting together my friend's pc http://pcpartpicker.com/p/cPWzQ7. turn on the power, it boots for 5 sec then auto shutdown and auto reboot again. Didnt even reach bios logo (or may be it's because HDMI to TV instead of normal monitor). Anyway, remove everything, only CPU+cooler and 1 stick of ram, still same issue. Suspecting mobo fail, will have to bring everything to the shop for them to check, because I dont have any spare parts to test myself. emo now | ||
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Craton
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bluegarfield
Singapore1128 Posts
If not dead, I guess taking the mobo out of the case to test is the last thing I didn't try. Or rather, I should have tested everything before putting into the case instead of being too rushed. | ||
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Capresis
United States518 Posts
On November 27 2015 22:23 bluegarfield wrote: not sure how integrated GPU in skylake handles those game, it might be able to get low setting 30fps but driver and game optimization might be painful. So best is just stay away if you have other option. Of HP and Acer, those 2 can and should deliver those games at at least low-medium setting 60fps. Acer is slightly stronger, but more expensive. The HP one is big though, 17inches can be quite a hassle if you plan to carry it around, but bigger screen is more pleasant for movies and stuff if your laptop just sit on your table. I would pick either the HP and Acer depending on size and cost. Other than that I am not very familiar with laptop market anymore to recommend any other options. cheers + Show Spoiler + EDIT EDIT: And 5400 vs 7200 rpm hard drive. Lots faster? What kind of a difference will having a 2gb cache compared to 4gb on my video card make? Thank you very much! I would have chosen the HP thanks to you but I've looked at a lot more things since then that may be significantly better, so I need more help deciding! Here's a google spreadsheet of all the stuff I'm looking at now. And I have some questions about all this: And I'm looking at cpubenchmark.net's laptop processor chart and see some with processors that have a score of ~8000 compared to ~4000 on others. Does that mean the 8000 processor is twice as powerful? And how do people feel about refurbished laptops? EDIT: I'm also looking at this laptop gpu chart and don't really know what to look for in it. I'm assuming the higher up the list it is, the better it is, but is there anything else I should look at on that chart? EDIT EDIT: Down to six. They all look the same to me. Reading reviews and it's not helping me decide either. Anyone have any insight on these? ha. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20341 Posts
That GPU info page mixes a bunch of things together. It's much simpler to look at pages like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_900M_.289xxM.29_Series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_900_Series where you don't have core counts listed for kepler, maxwell and GCN side by side as if they're equivelant (they're not at all) + Show Spoiler + from above links you can see for example a 980ti has 22smm (clusters of 128 cores and some other resources) which are probably running at 1250-1550mhz (out of the box factory OC or manual OC) as it's a desktop part. It also has 336GB/s of memory bandwidth. 960m has 5smm at ~1100mhz and 80GB/s, so it's roughly about 1/5'th performance ^not particularly easy to understand i guess. Same applies for CPU's, within the same CPU architecture you're mainly looking at actual core count, clock speeds/turbo and how restrictive the power limit is. IMO buying decent laptop hardware is a big pain for tech enthusiasts and way worse for others if you don't know how to figure out exactly what you want | ||
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bluegarfield
Singapore1128 Posts
my question is is it ok to use the mobo with only 3 stand off? feel a bit risky as the broken standoff is at the bottom below the gpu. eidt: can i use blu-tack or some silicon thing to stand off instead? | ||
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Craton
United States17294 Posts
You can also buy packs of them from Amazon or Newegg for $3-5: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Description=motherboard standoffs While we're on the topic, they also sell standoff removers. It basically looks like the back of a thumb screw and sits overtop a standoff, allowing you to screw it off more easily with your fingers and to use a screwdriver for the more stubborn ones. Don't know what it's called, though. I can't really answer if 3 is enough. My ATX motherboards usually use 8-10 iirc. I've been known to leave off one or two if the location was too hard to work with, but that's still a lot more than just 3. | ||
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bluegarfield
Singapore1128 Posts
 fractal arc mini case gives a lot of stand off, just that it happened to have a bad oneedit: I tried leaving it for now. the motherboard is mounted vertically, so the bottom right stand off is missing. Doesnt seem to affect anything so far, but not sure about long term effect. May add some fishing line or zip tie to hold up the gpu as well XD Thanks Craton, your guess was spot on with the mobo being shorted. at least everything works now, barring the missing standoff. | ||
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Divine-Sneaker
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Hwotk
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 I need to get a 2nd pc for My GF (mostly to play LOL, Wow) Would this be enough ?? i have around 400-500 £ budget for it dont need operating system or other paripherals www.overclockers.co.uk I will change the hdd to SSD and add 3200 mhz ram but unsure about the processor and Graphics card in there. THx for help in advance | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20341 Posts
Nvidia works better for WoW (allows for more FPS when CPU limited on any given CPU), other than that it looks mostly fine. Mobo choice is a little weird in there (don't need z170 for i3! It's maybe better to get either a cheaper non-z170 board, rather than one of the cheap z170's) | ||
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Hwotk
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i'll swap GFX to geforce 950 | ||
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Cyro
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Hwotk
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what would be the cheapest cpu that would run it well ? | ||
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Cyro
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Hwotk
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www.overclockers.co.uk but it doesnt seem to be cheaper at all Except its oc'able so i'm confused between the 2 | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20341 Posts
the appeal for a g3258 or cheap amd CPU (like a piledriver/steamroller 2m4t CPU) is undercutting i3 by a lot and probably overclocking at the same time. i3 pricing and performance isn't bad at all this gen though, it's a pretty great option vs competition | ||
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Capresis
United States518 Posts
On November 29 2015 12:55 Cyro wrote: That CPU benchmark is not great, there are better ones to look at (or you can figure out performance roughly from knowledge of how higher and unrestricted models perform) That GPU info page mixes a bunch of things together. It's much simpler to look at pages like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_900M_.289xxM.29_Series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_900_Series where you don't have core counts listed for kepler, maxwell and GCN side by side as if they're equivelant (they're not at all) + Show Spoiler + from above links you can see for example a 980ti has 22smm (clusters of 128 cores and some other resources) which are probably running at 1250-1550mhz (out of the box factory OC or manual OC) as it's a desktop part. It also has 336GB/s of memory bandwidth. 960m has 5smm at ~1100mhz and 80GB/s, so it's roughly about 1/5'th performance ^not particularly easy to understand i guess. Same applies for CPU's, within the same CPU architecture you're mainly looking at actual core count, clock speeds/turbo and how restrictive the power limit is. IMO buying decent laptop hardware is a big pain for tech enthusiasts and way worse for others if you don't know how to figure out exactly what you want Hey. Thanks for the response. I greatly appreciate the advise but I must confess it was a bit too much for my layman ears... I have decided I'm going to buy a Lenovo Y700-15 and I have one final question. Should I get warranty? Laptop total cost $1049. Base Warranty +Accidental Damage I also have the option of buying about the same extended protection from Newegg. I'll be using this thing daily for hopefully the next 3 years, so seems like a good bet to me to even get the 3 year base + accidental, but I don't know much about warranties from either company. I also note that it seems low cost compared to the total price of the laptop. EDIT: Bought it from Lenovo, 3yr base + accidental. $1255.14 tax and all. Thanks TL. | ||
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