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Off Topic / Re: The Computer Megathread

« on: March 24, 2012, 05:22:35 PM »

CURSE YOU OLD DELL COMPUTER THAT I HAVE TO RESORT TO FOR BREAKING THE POWER CORD!!!

GPU?
Start > Run > dxdiag
display tab

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Off Topic / Re: [MEGATHREAD] Android - An open, brilliant OS for Smartphones

« on: March 24, 2012, 05:18:22 PM »

HOT love, BITCH

N9 > lumia 800 :P

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Off Topic / Re: [MEGATHREAD] Android - An open, brilliant OS for Smartphones

« on: March 23, 2012, 11:43:51 PM »

Nokia N9 here.
Waiting for the version of ICS that I can dual-boot with MeeGo on my N9. Will be epic.

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Off Topic / Re: Post Cars

« on: March 23, 2012, 11:12:57 PM »

Last night me and some friend were hanging out looking for things to do. Without me knowing one of my friends took this picture of my car with his cell phone and edited it. I like the way it came out. I assume he nicknamed it "The Project" because I'm constantly doing things with it.

Wow, a project over there is a lot different from a project over here.
Over here, a project consists of usually buying a beaten up car, stripping it totally (interior, panels, motor etc), cleaning up panels and bodywork, painting, inserting a reconditioned motor/new motor, modifying the interior and putting it all back together, with bodykits/aftermarket springs/aftermarket exhausts etc.

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Off Topic / Re: Almost my 1000th post! Yay!

« on: March 23, 2012, 11:06:06 PM »

1000 posts used to be an accomplishment, until certain people came along and post for the sake of posting.

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Off Topic / Re: I was alone at my house 15 minutes ago, when...

« on: March 23, 2012, 11:03:20 PM »

Bear-footed

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Off Topic / Re: I was alone at my house 15 minutes ago, when...

« on: March 23, 2012, 11:02:11 PM »

You're handicapped. Your the kind of idiot who put people in danger everytime you get behind the wheel.

Old people cause about twice as many accidents as young people do.
Also, you've obviously never driven in your life. Speed is addicting :P

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Off Topic / Re: Almost my 1000th post! Yay!

« on: March 23, 2012, 08:05:33 PM »

Gratz.

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Off Topic / Re: Elmo and Cookie Monster have some Adult Fun

« on: March 23, 2012, 05:29:29 PM »

well there goes my childhood

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Off Topic / Re: The Computer Megathread

« on: March 23, 2012, 07:35:18 AM »

You can upgrade a laptops GPU? I really like this chasis desing and it's big screen. The reviews for it are all 5/5. This is the best one I could find acording to my tastes :I

No, I mean, the only thing you could really improve in that price range is the GPU. But not by much.

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Off Topic / Re: The Computer Megathread

« on: March 23, 2012, 02:57:55 AM »

Page loss

Decent for the price. You could upgrade in the GPU department if you wanted.

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Off Topic / Re: The Computer Megathread

« on: March 23, 2012, 02:20:33 AM »

FYI it says "1000 MB" because it shares with your system's RAM.  It has 256MB dedicated though but will use your system's if necessary.


also came buckets for the 680.  Anyone want to buy my 460 768MB when I can get a 680?  Only $100 and it works great still.  I also have a 1.5TB HDD that works too, goes for $100 as well.

Oh stuff PCI E 3.0?  Will that work with 2.0 and will I notice a difference?

Yes, all PCI frameworks are backwards-compatible.
No card can really fully take advantage of PCI-E 3.0 yet, and it does double the bandwidth from PCI-E 2.0, however as shown in a PCI-E lane scaling test, downgrading from a 16x to a 8x (halving bandwidth) or even to a 4x (quartering bandwidth) doesn't affect performance that much at all.
So in conclusion to that somewhat distracted sentence, no, it will not be affected.
Something to note is that we currently can't use PCI-E 3.0 anyway, we need Ivy Bridge CPUs to do so.

I want to upgrade my computer. I have a decent CPU (I think), but a stuffty GPU. Here's my specs:

Operating System:Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
System Manufacturer: eMachines
Model: EL 1352G
AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 220 Processor (2 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
Memory: 2048MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
GPU Name: NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
Approximate Total Memory: 889MB

I'm unsure how to upgrade it because of how small the tower is. I just want a setup that can run games decently. Nothing too expensive.

Might need a low profile card. Depending on how small the case REALLY is.
I definitely wouldn't go about buying new CPUs for it, as it is obviously a relatively low-end, small system, and isn't worth doing that for. The current CPU isn't too bad, and I expect you could at least get a HD5770 with no bottlenecks, although it might be a mission getting something that powerful to fit in the case, lol.

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Off Topic / Re: So I messed up today...

« on: March 22, 2012, 07:13:13 PM »

Just download this and double click it.

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Off Topic / Re: The Computer Megathread

« on: March 22, 2012, 05:48:20 PM »

It doesn't mean that you can't manually overclock it. I'm pretty sure you can. Also its about $50 cheaper than the current standing 7970.
So all in all, its better price to performance, and its drivers are still fresh. Wait till the drivers start updating and then we will see a larger difference.

Yes you can manually overclock it. That's what I was saying, with overclocked matching clock speeds, the cards are about equal. However most of the current reviews are out-of-the-box, where the 680 is superior due to it's auto OC thing that dynamically changed clock speeds.

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Off Topic / Re: The Computer Megathread

« on: March 22, 2012, 05:47:48 PM »

Are you saying that you're getting better price/performance with NVidia with the 680? :o

At the moment, yes. But, AMD has yet to react with their prices