Speaking of thermal paste, what's the top-dog stuff right now? As in the best, don't need the top 100.
Speaking of thermal paste, what's the top-dog stuff right now? As in the best, don't need the top 100.
Literally, first line of OP.
Network card - probably need a wireless PCI, but cheap so not really calculating it.
Anything amiss, suggestions, etc?
Here is a cool rundown of fans.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/331629-28-cooling-roundup-2012
I am working through finding fans for my case and came across it. Not that it helped yet! Stupid indecision.
I've always heard that RAID 1 is not a substitute for a true backup (would it even work correctly with such mismatched drives?), so I'd just figure out a way to schedule an automatic backup. I don't have any recommendations for that, though, since I've always backed up stuff manually.Most of my parts came in today, and while I was thumbing through the motherboard manual, I had a few questions:
- I have three hard-drives. A 64 GB SSD, a new 500 GB HDD, and an old (6 years, off and on) 500 GB hard drive. I wanted to use the old drive as a backup for the new drive, in case of some sort of hardware failure, and was wondering if I should use a RAID 1 array, a Master+Recovery setup, or something else entirely.
So I'm playing SC2 and WoW and here's my GPU temperature... is this normal? It's barely "spiking" at all and it's worrying me that my GPU is dying
Now I'm really getting worried
http://i.imgur.com/UXV8x.png
^It's not even moving at all now :_: (green one)
Now I'm really getting worried
^It's not even moving at all now :_: (green one)
Geforce GTX 560tiWhat kind of videocard do you have?
Will do it tomorrow :3 Check this thread out tomorrow!I have the same card and use MSI Afterburner to monitor.
Install the software so we can compare our hardware with each other!
Damn that sounded wrong.
My CPU Usage is around 35-50% for some reason. I checked the bios settings and reset it to default.
I have no idea what's wrong with my PC now. I'll try to restart the motherboard bios... after I finish downloading Diablo.
EDIT: so the temperature is actually normal until I boot windows, then CPU usage goes all crazy and temperatures go up.
So I just received an older tower that I'm going to use for the time being and upgrade over time. The system currently has Windows XP, but I intend to get Windows 7 as soon as possible. Is Newegg the cheapest place to get it? I see they have it for $99 while Microsoft themselves sell it for $199. Does anyone besides Microsoft sell it as a download? And does anyone else sell it for $99? Like any brick and mortar chains? Thanks!
Any PCI-E SATA card should do fine. Longer it has been out with more reviews the better.Hmm... so I was having problems accessing one of my hard drives, and hoping that it was just a cable problem, I checked them. Well, that fixed that problem alright... but one of the SATA connectors came off of my motherboard. That's not good, when I use all four...
So basically, my options are either to take the motherboard out of the computer case -- and would be a complete pain and I do think it'll require that to get that thing back on -- or buy a PCI card with SATA ports on it. Hmm, I'm not sure which to do... but if I did do the latter, what one should I get? I see lots of them online.
Hey PC-GAF, couple of questions.
1) For the Hyper 212 EVO, does it make a noticeable difference on temperatures using a push/pull fan system?
Click the start menu, then right-click "Computer" and choose "Manage". On the screen that comes up, in the left column click on "Disk Management" (it's under the "Storage" menu). It should come up with a screen that looks similar to this (click & hold to embiggen):I have 2 1 TB HDD's, one of which has Windows on it as stated for reasons above..the other is completely clean and working fine in the new rig. However, the one that has Windows on it, Windows see's the HDD, but shows it only has 100mb of storage when it is a 1 TB drive. Formatting it under Windows does nothing. Reseated the cables and same result, C drive is the SSD, D Drive is the Optical Disk, E drive is the weird HDD that shows only 100mb available and F Drive is the other HDD showing the full 990 or so Gigs free. Not sure what is causing that...tried the different sata ports and no matter what it still reports the samething.
Can you post a screen of yours? It sounds like it can't see a partition of the disk, and this will show your partitions. If it is that we can advise you on how to fix it
Do you happen to be going to college right now? I was able to get a free digital copy of Windows 7 a bit back through my school store, and it also had a physical version at an extreme discount. I think most schools have software deals like this so it's worth a look or finding a friend enrolled that wouldn't use their copy.
Unfortunately, I do not. Just looking for the cheapest and quickest way to get W7.
Got mine at Microcenter the other day for $107. If you have one of those near you go there. I got the parts for my recent build around $200 cheaper by buying there.
This is an expensive hobby, especially if you don't do some research first.
I have some disturbingly low fps with my new rig.
Specs are:
EVGA GTX 680 2GB (with 301.10 drivers)
Intel Core i5 2500k 3.3GHZ
Asus P8Z68-V LX Motherboard
Corsair 2x4gb DDR3 1333MHz
Super Flower Golden Green Modular 600W
I did some testing and with Just Cause 2 everything maxed out but AA=8x and AF=16x I got an average of 27.2 fps with built-in benchmark.
Heaven 3.0:
http://i.minus.com/ipsJZDqzqnyjs.png
I played the opening sequence on Skyrim with everything maxed out and I don't think I never exceeded 40 fps mark.
So is there anything I could try? These numbers cannot be normal, right?
Sendou, compare to these: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18386056
It does look off to me?
Look at his settings. He has maxed them out versus the stock (i.e. when you first launch the program). That's why he's getting "disappointing" results.
I'd worry more about playing games and how they seem to you. I would imagine at 1080p you can run anything you like at 60fps.
The think is I can't. Like I said even maxed out (@1920x1200) vanilla Skyrim won't go above 40fps. And with Just Cause 2 that is 3 years old game I get fps around 20-25 with everything maxed out.
I got 720 points @ 1920x1080 using their settings... It does seem low comparing when to those.
The think is I can't. Like I said even maxed out (@1920x1200) vanilla Skyrim won't go above 40fps. And with Just Cause 2 that is 3 years old game I get fps around 20-25 with everything maxed out.
I got 720 points @ 1920x1080 using their settings... It does seem low comparing when to those.
Maybe try reinstalling your video drivers?The think is I can't. Like I said even maxed out (@1920x1200) vanilla Skyrim won't go above 40fps. And with Just Cause 2 that is 3 years old game I get fps around 20-25 with everything maxed out.
I got 720 points @ 1920x1080 using their settings... It does seem low comparing when to those.
Need some help with an SSD purchase. I want to get one for my laptop and I think I'll need around 200gb+.
I've got an X-25 M (G2) in my desktop and that's pretty rapid so ideally I guess I'll want something as quick or quicker if possible. Not sure how much of a difference there is between them, but I suppose ideally I want it to run cool with high energy efficiency too.
Thanks in advance.
What's your budget? A ~256GB SSD will be kind of expensive (~$300) but modern ones will blow the X-25M away.
That doesn't sound too bad. As long as I'm not paying megamoney for server level hardware.
It all moves too quick though, I have no idea what's good and what's not now.