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Hello all. Having recently decided to build a new pc because mine that I have now is about 8 years old. I don't really need help with specifics and all, but I wanted to know if I should way 'till the new generation of consoles comes out to fully make a new one ? Because someone, I think Flappy, told me that their would be a new kind of architecture released on the RAM cards (probably DDR 4 ? :/).Anarchemitis said:
Okayyy, here's what you get:Frosty676 said:
CPUIntel i7 core. (not extreme) (Overclock it to 4.0 ghz) Quad core maybe?
RAM8Gb Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz RAM It looks pretty cheap, get 12GB maybe.
HDD or SSDTo have more space, 1.5TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive - $99 on Amazon
To have higher transfer speed, 128GB SSD (for the same price as HDD above)
Motherboard idk find something xD I don't know motherboards, not anything cheap that stands out.
GPU GeForce GTX 560 - $180
OS Win 7 Ultimate.
Where to buy? Well, I found a few online for a good price, the rest you'll have to find yourself. Avoid AMD and ATi. Look at more than one site.
HDD (Not SSD): http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST1000DM003/dp/B005T3GRNW
GPU: Nvidia Geforce 560 [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121466&nm_mc=OTC-Channel&cm_mmc=OTC-channel-_-Video+Cards-_-ASUS-_-14121466&srccode=cii_7240466&cpncode=32-14303356&DEPA=0&refer=channel&CMP=OTC-]
RAM (12GB): From $71 [http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&safe=off&q=12GB+RAM&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&biw=1280&bih=909&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=17283597127077236192&sa=X&ei=tMdEUPDfNcGgyAHZoIGwCw&ved=0CJwBEOUNMAA]
From $140, a bit better. [http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&safe=off&q=12GB+RAM&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&biw=1280&bih=909&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=6995023313574768461&sa=X&ei=tMdEUPDfNcGgyAHZoIGwCw&ved=0CKsBEOUNMAE]
Everything should be under $1000. Unless it wasn't a typo and you have $30,000. Or it was a typo for $3000. If it was the latter, disregard my advice, because you can get much better.
That's all I got. Good luck with your PC!
You can install other Operating systems on a Mac with virtualisation software like Boot Camp, the one I use is virtual box and I am sure there is others.
Cross posting this here, haven't gotten any hits so far.
So, when I play Guild Wars 2, sometimes the display driver stops responding. The screen goes black and unresponsive for a few seconds. Very, very annoying. My drivers are up to date according to AMD, I'm running Windows 7 and the card is a ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series.
Anyone got any suggestions on how to fix this? The game runs well most of the time, though there are occasional graphics irregularities. Overall though, it should run pretty smoothly on moderate settings on my PC.
So, when I play Guild Wars 2, sometimes the display driver stops responding. The screen goes black and unresponsive for a few seconds. Very, very annoying. My drivers are up to date according to AMD, I'm running Windows 7 and the card is a ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series.
Anyone got any suggestions on how to fix this? The game runs well most of the time, though there are occasional graphics irregularities. Overall though, it should run pretty smoothly on moderate settings on my PC.
It seems to me that most problems here are caused by people using Dell or HP computers. That should be added to the list that if you own a Dell or HP you will have a problem down the line.
My hard drive is filling up at an absurd speed. Seriously, it's insane and I have just deleted all of my music files to free up space. Another person uses it to touch up his photos and I mainly use it for internet surfing. I don't see how the drive can be filling up this quickly - help?
2 immediate possibilities come to mind:Terratina. said:
1 - the photos being touched up are massive and use an uncompressed file format
2 - you haven't run disk clean-up in a long while, if ever... which can eat up a shit ton of space if left undone for several months.
I'm having issue with Doom 3 BFG Edition.
It's a CD Key issue so I'm not sure how relevant it is for this but I've tried everything, I've made 0's into O's and V's into Y's and U's and I's into L's and 1's and I still can't get anywhere...
Any advise?
It's a CD Key issue so I'm not sure how relevant it is for this but I've tried everything, I've made 0's into O's and V's into Y's and U's and I's into L's and 1's and I still can't get anywhere...
Any advise?
I recently downloaded an anime which came with english subtitles. As I wished to put the episodes into my iTunes library I had to convert them to mp4 format so I import the episodes into Handbrake, my video convertor of choice, and left them to run. Later when I looked at the now fully converted episodes I found that the subtitles had somehow been deleted, see the link for a picture which should give you the idea...
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I have come to the advice forums hoping that someone knows what has happened and may have a solution to the problem. Thanks in advance.
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I have come to the advice forums hoping that someone knows what has happened and may have a solution to the problem. Thanks in advance.
At first I had an issue where my PC suddenly stated crashing and restarting when I tried to wake it up from sleep mode. Once or twice it would just freeze and the screen would go black. Not long after that it refused to boot up at all and gave me a 6 beeps code and there is an orange light on the motherboard that is visible through the side grill.
I've been told/read that it is likely the motherboard or my vid card that is having the issue, and I've opened it up and cleaned out the fans etc. in case it was simply overheating.
The thing is, it boots up randomly (such as right now) and runs perfectly for as long as I'm using it. I know that when I power it off it will likely not power on again that day, or for several days, but then it does and it runs fine aside from the orange light still being on.
Now the light may just be normal, and I hadn't noticed it as I generally prefer looking at my screen when its powered on, but I doubt it.
Observing the power light on the top of the case I notice it comes on, cuts off a nano second, and stays on when it DOES boot. When it doesn't it stays orange and the beeping repeats obviously.
It just irritates me as if the motherboard WAS going bad then it would be getting progressively worse and not, if anything, be booting up more successfully. If it was the video card, then I would assume that I would have a performance issue playing videos/games or at the very least it might pop an error message when I run diagnostics etc.
If its an overheat, that seems unlikely as the fans are operational, clean, and my room is neutral temp if not cooler due to the season.
The power supply seems likely, but then why does it boot up fine sometimes and remain fully functional?
It is a Dell Studio XPS desktop that I got about 4 years ago and I've never had ANY problems with it whatsoever.
That it is a hardware issue is pretty irritating as I take excellent care of all my stuff, and software issues are generally easier and free to fix.
I don't really want to take my rig to a "repair" place or use Geek Squad for several reasons.
I have a lot of things on the HD that are private, such as pictures, writing, inventions etc.
Also a lot of files I received at a "severely reduced price" and sooooooo much porn.
Nothing that would make it on the local news or anything, but I'd rather not roll the dice on that. If need be I could probably remove my HD and then take it in. I also have almost all my files backed up on flash drives because I'm not an idiot.
And as for Geek Squad, I have heard nothing but bad things about them. They prey on your ignorance and take you for all they can squeeze out of you, going as far as flat out making shit up/misdiagnosing simple problems are major ones etc. and stealing your files. At least according to about 30 reviews I have read so far of GS. Zero were in anyway positive.
So can anyone help me with this?
I already posted a thread about my HDTV that crapped out literally 3 days before my PC messed up and got no help there. I posted it on off topic, so I'm hoping that posting this here will yield at least SOME result. Thanks.
I've been told/read that it is likely the motherboard or my vid card that is having the issue, and I've opened it up and cleaned out the fans etc. in case it was simply overheating.
The thing is, it boots up randomly (such as right now) and runs perfectly for as long as I'm using it. I know that when I power it off it will likely not power on again that day, or for several days, but then it does and it runs fine aside from the orange light still being on.
Now the light may just be normal, and I hadn't noticed it as I generally prefer looking at my screen when its powered on, but I doubt it.
Observing the power light on the top of the case I notice it comes on, cuts off a nano second, and stays on when it DOES boot. When it doesn't it stays orange and the beeping repeats obviously.
It just irritates me as if the motherboard WAS going bad then it would be getting progressively worse and not, if anything, be booting up more successfully. If it was the video card, then I would assume that I would have a performance issue playing videos/games or at the very least it might pop an error message when I run diagnostics etc.
If its an overheat, that seems unlikely as the fans are operational, clean, and my room is neutral temp if not cooler due to the season.
The power supply seems likely, but then why does it boot up fine sometimes and remain fully functional?
It is a Dell Studio XPS desktop that I got about 4 years ago and I've never had ANY problems with it whatsoever.
That it is a hardware issue is pretty irritating as I take excellent care of all my stuff, and software issues are generally easier and free to fix.
I don't really want to take my rig to a "repair" place or use Geek Squad for several reasons.
I have a lot of things on the HD that are private, such as pictures, writing, inventions etc.
Also a lot of files I received at a "severely reduced price" and sooooooo much porn.
Nothing that would make it on the local news or anything, but I'd rather not roll the dice on that. If need be I could probably remove my HD and then take it in. I also have almost all my files backed up on flash drives because I'm not an idiot.
And as for Geek Squad, I have heard nothing but bad things about them. They prey on your ignorance and take you for all they can squeeze out of you, going as far as flat out making shit up/misdiagnosing simple problems are major ones etc. and stealing your files. At least according to about 30 reviews I have read so far of GS. Zero were in anyway positive.
So can anyone help me with this?
I already posted a thread about my HDTV that crapped out literally 3 days before my PC messed up and got no help there. I posted it on off topic, so I'm hoping that posting this here will yield at least SOME result. Thanks.
I'm looking to install Windows on my Mac, and learned that I'd need to partition my hard drive. Well when I go to do that, it looks like this.
I'm worried that I don't have enough memory to run the Windows software, and if I don't, how would I optimize my memory?
I'm worried that I don't have enough memory to run the Windows software, and if I don't, how would I optimize my memory?
From what you've said it definitely sounds as if your PSU has worn out and has developed a number of faults as a result.KoudelkaMorgan said:
I'd recommend immediate replacement as while the most obvious problem with dying PSUs is Undervolting (not supply enough power), they can also Overvolt and short circuit, often causing minor accumulative damage to your system. There's also the chance of a catastrophic failure on boot up causing a powersurge that fries your entire system, which is not only no fun but fried electronics fucking stink.
Hi, I've been having serious issues with my laptop. I always check on various 'can I run it' style websites before purchasing games for my laptop, and they always say I have easily above the recommended specs, but often games that you'd think would be very easy to run (Mass Effect, GTA IV, etc.) run extremely badly, while games that are supposed to be difficult to run like Battlefield 3 and Crysis 2 run just fine. Anyone got an idea of what the problem might be, especially since it seems to only be affecting some games, and unlikely ones at that? Like I've said, I always check on several websites whether I'll be able to run it before getting a game, so it's really annoying when I get them and they turn out not to work for no reason I can see. I'd assume it was just that these websites were inaccurate and my laptop was actually shit, if it weren't for the fact that apparently more demanding games work just fine.
My guess is that your laptop has both a integrated graphics card and a discrete graphics card. It is properly switching to your proper graphics card when it launches Battlefield 3 and Crysis 2. In your graphics card settings or maybe somewhere in the right click menu of a game shortcut, you should be able to tell it which GPU to use when running that game. I think Nvidia's two GPU setup like that is called Optimus. Look that up and find out how to set which GPU to use. I'm betting Mass Effect runs badly because it's not using the full-on discrete card, and is instead using your laptop's crappy integrated card.In Search of Username said:
GTA IV is kind of a crap shoot. Even if it uses the correct GPU, it could run terribly. It's kind of luck whether that game runs well or not. And turning all the settings all the way up is not designed to run on a high end PC, it's designed to run on future hardware. At least that's what I heard somewhere. I think I ran that game with everything at half or something. Basically it was a bad PC port with a strange idea that its graphics settings should cater to theoretical future computers.
Thanks so much! Apparently my laptop was defaulting to the graphics card that was unsupported by Mass Effect 2 whenever I played Mass Effect 2. -_- So I've just set it to stick with the good card now.Inconspicuous Trenchcoat said:
Yeah I see what you mean, even with the better card running I can only get GTA onto medium settings. Still, better than it was before, and all my other games work wayyyyy better than before.
Maybe now I'll have the confidence to actually get Far Cry 3 on PC without expecting it to be completely broken.
Hi, I don't know if you've resolved this problem yet, but the problem is mainly that the screen you posted shows that you're using the Disk Utility. This program has nothing to do with installing Windows. What you want to be using is Boot Camp Assistant. This can also be found in the utilities folder. Start that up and it's pretty straight forward. You just use a slider to decide how much disk space you want to give Windows (minimum is 5GB). Then follow the instructions to create the partition. Pop in your Windows installation disk and select the partition as the install disk. Your computer should restart to start the installation. So, a few things.Urgh76 said:I'm looking to install Windows on my Mac, and learned that I'd need to partition my hard drive. Well when I go to do that, it looks like this.
I'm worried that I don't have enough memory to run the Windows software, and if I don't, how would I optimize my memory?
1. You're computer is now recognizing the Windows partition as a completely separate hard drive. You can still copy files between them, but obviously you can't run Mac OS programs on the Windows partition and vice-versa. Also, things like music and browser bookmarks will not be on the new partition.
2. When running the install disk you might get a notice that the partition is not correctly formatted for Windows. Just let the install disk do the reformat and you should be good.
3. To access Windows, restart your computer while holding down the option key, a screen will come up allowing you to select which partition to boot up. You can also choose which is the default, meaning you can have it automatically boot to Windows. Generally Mac OS is the default.
Well, I hope this helped, if you didn't already get this.
Thank you so much for replying, but I did get this resolved. Just had to talk to my brother who had already done so. Would've earlier if I had better contact with him.TheMann said:Hi, I don't know if you've resolved this problem yet, but the problem is mainly that the screen you posted shows that you're using the Disk Utility. This program has nothing to do with installing Windows. What you want to be using is Boot Camp Assistant. This can also be found in the utilities folder. Start that up and it's pretty straight forward. You just use a slider to decide how much disk space you want to give Windows (minimum is 5GB). Then follow the instructions to create the partition. Pop in your Windows installation disk and select the partition as the install disk. Your computer should restart to start the installation. So, a few things.Urgh76 said:I'm looking to install Windows on my Mac, and learned that I'd need to partition my hard drive. Well when I go to do that, it looks like this.
I'm worried that I don't have enough memory to run the Windows software, and if I don't, how would I optimize my memory?
1. You're computer is now recognizing the Windows partition as a completely separate hard drive. You can still copy files between them, but obviously you can't run Mac OS programs on the Windows partition and vice-versa. Also, things like music and browser bookmarks will not be on the new partition.
2. When running the install disk you might get a notice that the partition is not correctly formatted for Windows. Just let the install disk do the reformat and you should be good.
3. To access Windows, restart your computer while holding down the option key, a screen will come up allowing you to select which partition to boot up. You can also choose which is the default, meaning you can have it automatically boot to Windows. Generally Mac OS is the default.
Well, I hope this helped, if you didn't already get this.
Thanks again though, I do appreciate it