The Computer Megathread

[Blastdown]

The GPU in the 560 SE is practically a rebranded 460 SE, which can actually be brought up to the speeds of a 460 with proper overclocking, will give you a noticable difference in most modern games compared to the 550 Ti. This pages shows that the 560 SE ranks a higher G3D mark compared to the 550 Ti (224 marks difference and 10 ranks.) Barely noticeable, but still better for the price.

Overclocking is one thing I'm not very familiar with in terms of use, always afraid I'm going to fry something. I have the general idea of what it does, but no experience with it at all.
Otherwise, from the information you've given (I really appreciate it too) it sounds like the better deal.

edit: Interestingly, a few reviews of the product mention the details you've previously said too.

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[HellsSpot]

Overclocking is one thing I'm not very familiar with in terms of use, always afraid I'm going to fry something. I have the general idea of what it does, but no experience with it at all.
Otherwise, from the information you've given (I really appreciate it too) it sounds like the better deal.

edit: Interestingly, a few reviews of the product mention the details you've previously said too.

I always just look up on the internet what people overclock their card to if they have the same one. If you do what they did, you should have no problems.

EDIT: NEVER overclock factory overclocked cards.

[Marcem]

So I got Ubuntu up and running, but I've run into a problem: the network card, a netgear wn311b, can't connect to the Internet.  When I try connecting to my network, it prompts me to enter the password.  After I do that, it tries to connect for about a minute and prompts me again.  Anyone know how how to fix this?

[HerpaDerp]

@Koopa, the guy should eat a 6870, because he has the money, its cheap, and performs really well over The 460, let alone the 560 se
Honestly for midrange cards Id go with AMD and with higher range go for nvidia

[SpreadsPlague]

I always just look up on the internet what people overclock their card to if they have the same one. If you do what they did, you should have no problems.

this is not true, every card is different. also different people have different airflow/cooling systems

EDIT: NEVER overclock factory overclocked cards.

why the hell not

[Blastdown]

Two other cards, this 550 Ti, which is $126 on a particular website (only $7 more than the 560 SE). The difference from the previous is 1GB instead of 2GB memory size. The various clocks/cores/memory things are higher in number from the other 550 Ti, if that makes a difference.

The other is this HD 7770 which is $109. (also, a quick search came up with this HD 6870 for $160)

[KoopaScooper]

@Koopa, the guy should eat a 6870, because he has the money, its cheap, and performs really well over The 460, let alone the 560 se
Honestly for midrange cards Id go with AMD and with higher range go for nvidia

He was only asking about the card, I pointed out it was on sale.
I was considering getting it myself because my motherboard doesn't support PCIe 2.1

[Blastdown]

my motherboard doesn't support PCIe 2.1

stuff, i had forgotten about pci such
i'm stuck with "PCI Express 2.0 x16", i'm not sure if such things are compatible with 2.1/3.0 but i assumed not

edit: i have been informed otherwise

[Nickelob Ultra]

bah the strains of choosing a gaming laptop ugh

[HerpaDerp]

bah the strains of choosing a gaming laptop ugh

how much money

[Marcem]

So I got Ubuntu up and running, but I've run into a problem: the network card, a netgear wn311b, can't connect to the Internet.  When I try connecting to my network, it prompts me to enter the password.  After I do that, it tries to connect for about a minute and prompts me again.  Anyone know how how to fix this?

Anyone have any clue?  Am I just magical and have problems that no other loving person on the planet has ever had or heard of?

[Trymos]

Anyone have any clue?  Am I just magical and have problems that no other loving person on the planet has ever had or heard of?

are you sure you're typing it correctly.
my version of ubuntu (11.04) says jack stuff and reprompts when i get it wrong.

[Snaffle J. Bean]

Anyone have any clue?  Am I just magical and have problems that no other loving person on the planet has ever had or heard of?

That's usually what happens when I enter in an invalid network password.

[Marcem]

The network password is perfectly okay.

[Wedge]

Is your wireless network using the n band by any chance? If so you might need to disable n-band in the driver because the driver sucks right now and certain cards can't get online or have limited/slowed connectivity.

EDIT: I had this issue on my laptop but it appears to be related to the iwlagn driver used for some intel cards. You can try looking up your network card here to see if it's supported:

http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices