The Computer Megathread

[tails]

My psu popped and died :(

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[Littledude]

My psu popped and died :(

PSUs aren't too hard to replace.

Hurry up and get one, for Skyrim.

[Ethan]

I re-did the steps you provided and now everything was back to normal. I'd save up for a desktop but I don't like the idea that someone could sneak up behind me watch me do stupid stuff on Gmod. How much would an extra 6 gig of ram cost by the way?

Why do you want an extra 6GB of RAM?
You already have what, 6GB? You only really need 4GB total TBH.

I looked at the alternative laptop options and decided to look at amazon.
Now i'm glad i did.
I might go with this laptop with that beautiful quad core processor. Video card can most likely run what i want. Is the video card equal or better then a ATI/amd/whateveritis radeon 4200?
If so, it does exactly what i want it to do and i'll most likely get that laptop and some headphones to go with it.

A 4200 is stuff. The 6470 is about, I'd say, 3 or so times as good, at least.

[Pepsidude]

Why do you want an extra 6GB of RAM?
You already have what, 6GB? You only really need 4GB total TBH.

Like everyone I know was saying I needed more, was curious if it would be remotely worth it. 6 seems fine to me, now that the drivers thing is fixed everything works fine.

[Ethan]

Like everyone I know was saying I needed more, was curious if it would be remotely worth it. 6 seems fine to me, now that the drivers thing is fixed everything works fine.

Everyone you know is handicapped.
Also you say it's a laptop? IDK if it would support 12gb TBH.

[aludane]

Installing Ubuntu 32-bit on my virtual box because I'm too lazy to enable hardware virtualization in the Bios to allow 64-bit.

True laziness achieved.

[Becquerel]

Whats hardware acceleration.

[Uncle Bengs]

Whats hardware acceleration.

ask yourself
what's hardware?
what's acceleration?
what could it mean?

i forgot to add, put some flashy arrows in the topic title, people just keep making computer topics all the and not using the megathread for their computer issues

[Dropshock]

Just curious, how well will this GPU be able to play Skyrim? (Other specs include i5 2500k OC @ 4.4 GHz w/ 8 GB of DDR3 1333 RAM)
I believe it meets the minimum requirements for GPU, but it's all I've got at the release until roughly Christmas when I might get some cash to be able to upgrade the gpu. I plan on getting a GTX 560 Ti or something around that.

[Uncle Bengs]

should i buy an ESD wristband? because this guy i knew changed motherboard, GPU and other stuff without using one and his stuff works fine

[Ethan]

Just curious, how well will this GPU be able to play Skyrim? (Other specs include i5 2500k OC @ 4.4 GHz w/ 8 GB of DDR3 1333 RAM)
I believe it meets the minimum requirements for GPU, but it's all I've got at the release until roughly Christmas when I might get some cash to be able to upgrade the gpu. I plan on getting a GTX 560 Ti or something around that.

You will be fine.

should i buy an ESD wristband? because this guy i knew changed motherboard, GPU and other stuff without using one and his stuff works fine

You don't *have* to, but I would recommend it unless you like keeping one hand on a grounded PSU or on a metal case to ground yourself.

[TwenteFreak]

Will I be able to play Skyrim on decent/high settings with these specs?

Windows 7 64 bits
Processor: i7-2600 3.40GHz
RAM: 8GB
ATI Radeon HD6750 1GB

[Ethan]

Will I be able to play Skyrim on decent/high settings with these specs?

I'd say medium settings.

[Littledude]

Just curious, how well will this GPU be able to play Skyrim? (Other specs include i5 2500k OC @ 4.4 GHz w/ 8 GB of DDR3 1333 RAM)
I believe it meets the minimum requirements for GPU, but it's all I've got at the release until roughly Christmas when I might get some cash to be able to upgrade the gpu. I plan on getting a GTX 560 Ti or something around that.

You should be good for Skyrim with a 5770. The recommended gpu as far as amd goes is a 4890.

And recommended was for high settings.

[TwenteFreak]

I don't get the ATI card naming thing.
Wouldn't it be more logical the higher numbers are the most powerfull?