When people have clearance issues with the Noctua its because they're going vertical instead of horizontal right?
Both. It's quite big, and some cheaply made motherboards have northbridge heatsinks that get in the way, and some RAM heat spreaders get in the way as well. Although it is elevated so any motherboard manufacturer with the slightest brains should be fine.
Whats better? More Cores or faster clock speed?
And Ethan, how many custom built computers do you have in your house.
Well, to be honest, neither.
Architecture is key. My laptop has a 2.1GHz dual core, newest architecture Sandy Bridge.
One of my desktops has a 3GHz quad core Phenom first gen. Terrible architecture.
The Sandy Bridge blows it away, even though they aren't that far apart in architecture. Hell, it even blows a Phenom II (second generation) away. Yes, it does have hyperthreading (2 physical cores, 4 logical cores) but still, it's not as good as having the real deal.
Also,
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=175043.msg4504819#msg4504819That will show all my custom builds.
Couple things to note from there:
Since then I have gotten a laptop. Basic specs of the laptop:
Intel Core i3-2310m, quad core (not really but it likes to think it is :D) 2.1GHz
AMD HD6770m 1GB
6GB RAM
Also, since then, system 5 has been reformatted and Windows 7 Ultimate has been installed. It runs it perfectly, which was a surprise.
Well, my dad ordered the Dell laptop. Even after all of my convincing.
Can't tell some people.
My father knows that I'm quite knowledgeable in the area of computers. Yet, he went and bought a laptop behind my back from some small town computer shop.
It has an old Intel Celeron dual core at about 1.X GHz, and has Intel HD graphics (not the good SB ones, the older ones).
It cost him $1200.
When he told me, I was quite angry. I got my laptop for $1000, plus it came with a free $200 camera! Look up in the post to find the specs, and how it totally stomps his.
I was disappointed. He went in to some small town computer shop, and the guy there said it was the best of the best these days. And he also sold him some really bad antivirus for like $100.
This was his first computer. He got an email attachment through that had a link to a page that required flash player. He clicked on it, and was confused. Instead of just calling me and asking, he somehow managed to buy $70 worth of... uh... what's that software called where it advertises that you have problems with your computer in an advert, and you must fix them now as they are all really bad, and it somehow knows all this in a picture on a webpage? Lol.
Oh well. Some people.
Rainmeter?
Yes. Thanks.
I think my GPU that I got last April may be failing already, I saw dead pixils on the screen when I started up. I've lowered my graphics settings to put less strain on it, but is there anything else I could do?
edit:
It's an EVGA GeForce GTS 450 if that helps.
Dead pixels is your monitor.
A dying GPU will give artifacts.
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/6000/restartyartefakty.pnghttp://img12.imageshack.us/img12/594/artifactsi.jpgOr something even as simple as a color change artifact or a colorful sprite in a game:
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5750/quake4greenai6.jpgI can't find a picture of a particular artifact, but if you overclock your GPU too far and play games, especially source games, then you'll see some small areas of textures have become fluorescent colors, almost as if lit up with a colored light. I almost want to OC my GPU too far just to show you, lol.
