Some CPUs are better overclockers than others, and there's no way to tell without testing them. When you buy a CPU, you might get a good overclocker or a bad one. This is often called the "silicon lottery". You're a winner if your chip overclocks well, you've lost if you can barely get past stock clocks. These guys buy a bunch of CPUs and manually test them to see how far they can go while staying stable and cool. Then they sell the good overclockers for very high prices, and the bad ones for slightly cheaper than the base price. If you buy, say, a 4690K rated for 4.8 GHz, you can be sure it will be stable at that clock speed. It will probably cost you somewhere around $400 which is a whole lot more to pay, so IMO it's not worth it unless you're very serious on overclocking. And hey, who knows, you might get a great overclocker straight from Intel for the base price.
* looks them up * I never knew these existed.. - - - Updated - - - Check this out.. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/power-supply-oem-manufacturer,2913-5.html According to that, Channel Well made the Corsair CX600M I have. - - - Updated - - - It could be too late by then. - - - Updated - - - I think it's his power supply too. I'm wondering the same thing..
If he opens event viewer in windows it will tell him what caused the crash if it knows. But i have a feeling the best it will be able to tell him is that the system lost power unexpectedly, possibly the power supply but no one can say with any certainty without more information.
T420 is 15e more, but who gives a fuck about the price, it's a Thinkpad with a full metal chassis. Also, how capable is the HD3000, and how does it compare to a HD4000.
Go for the T420. Metal laptops suck. Also the HD 3000 is pretty shit, still should be able to run CS:GO on mid settings 1366x768
My current Pc has still got warrenty till the end of 2016. Would it be a good idea to just buy a new PC or try to upgrade this one. Specs (in case it matters) :GTX 750,Gen 4 i5 4460@3.2GHZ, 8GB RAM, crappy motherborad that's made by the people that build this PC (Medion (German Company, you probably don't know it))
I know that the HD4000 is capable of really lowend gaming firsthand, I was capable of playing CS:GO on 768p on midish settings while getting 40FPS (due laptop battery save mode) - - - Updated - - - Note I said chassis, not exterior. If everything goes by plan, I should be getting it around late May, when school finishes.
not much of an achievement, even my intel hd 2500 can run source engine games with decent settings at 720p while still being over 30 fps, in fact i usually get around 45-60 fps, sometimes even around 120 fps (haven't tested 1080p, i don't have a 1080p monitor to do so)
True but with Intel Integrated graphics anything is an achievement I know that on my Intel Atom powered tablet i can play track mania² stadium at a very smooth frame rate. Its also fine with many 2d games depending on how well made they are. Geometry wars 3 is fantastic on it too. So even with fairly low end Intel Integrated graphics there are still games available that play fairly well at 1280x768.
You could buy a new graphics card, everything else is not really worth upgrading yet. You could go for a GTX 970 which would be a huge upgrade, but they're insanely expensive in Germany.
Bit of a bump, but I'd like some advice/experience Speaking of the GTX 970, is a 960 worth it, or is a 970 the only way to go? I'm hoping to run 60 FPS at normal settings, no AA 1080p WITH SSAO on any map. I'd love to get a GTX 970, but by the time it's on my doorstep, it's $550 dollars, and the 960 is only $280.
as long as you only plan on doing 1080p and nothing fancy, a 960 should be fine, but don't expect to do much anything else due to max 2gb vram you might just get a gtx 760 4gb, and then overclock it (depending on prices of course) as the only thing the 960 really has over an overclocked 760 4gb is the maxwell power and temperature improvements or if you can go AMD, an r9-280 (once again depending on prices) would be an even better choice, as better performance, more vram, and (at least where i live) cheaper then a 960
The 960 is pretty good, but the 970 is a huge performance bump. You could also go for a 280X if your PSU can handle it.
I've had what might be a dumb idea. So, since BeamNG needs single core performance mostly, would it be worth it to get a space heater (pentium 4)? It's got all the single core performance you could want, 4GHZ of it to be exact.
Asked my teacher if he had any spare Core 2 Duos since I broke the 2.4 in my HP by accident. Told me to take one of the HPs he had lying around. It's about a year newer than the one I had, has a 2.9GHz C2D, etc. I put in two 160GB HDDs, a DVD writer, and a 4GB DDR3 stick. Best part is that it's overclockable. (Bonus is that it has a PSU that's even smaller and is 80+. Still 240w though.) - - - Updated - - - Nope. P4 single core performance is terrible. These days 2 cores is pretty much the absolute minimum for gaming/multitasking.
