General computer talk/advice

My budget isn't very much. If it is a really nice keyboard that is recommended I will save up until Christmas doing odd jobs and have enough for a really nice keyboard, but in a month I could probably have £60-70, due to my birthday. I'm not really sure what I prefer, I need someone from the UK to recommend where I could go and test them, I have been with Membrane all my life and don't think that I have ever used one and if I have, if I knew enough to appreciate it.

 

I've got a Model M, it's awesome for typing and pretty nice for gaming too. The switches are some of the heaviest on mechanical keyboards, while I like heavy switches myself many people find them too heavy or slow for gaming.
If you want something similar to rubber domes, the Logitech G910's switches are supposed to be rubber like. It's also an awesome keyboard in every way, except for the awful keycaps.

 

So, instead of having 2 4GB sticks of RAM, my PC has one 8GB stick of RAM, meaning that there's still on slot left.
I still have a few 2 GB sticks laying around.
Would it be possible to upgrade my PC from 8 to 10 GB?
Can you use different types of RAM sticks at the same time?

Motherboard is a medion H81H3-EM2, in case it matters (wich it probably does)

 

Yes, as long as it is the same RAM, you shouldn't run into any problems. For example, mixing a DDR3 module with another DDR3 module is just fine. But you don't want to mix two different types of RAM.

 

Ah, ok.
Gonna have to look weather it's DDR3 or 2 tomorrow though, can't be bothered to search for the thing anymore. (It's like 11:20pm here)

 

Just so you know, having a pair of matching sticks enables dual channel which means faster RAM. (It's kinda overrated, but still.) So unless you were planning to upgrade to 16GB in the future 2x4GB > 1x8GB.

Not sure why you'd want to mix different sized ram just for an extra 2GB, but ok.

 

Speaking of Intellipower drives, what about one for random storage? Like game backups and raw video footage? They're cheap and really large, I can't find an issue for the intended non-gaming use.

Anyone with some input?

 

Not an issue. Slots are physically different.

 

Hey guys, I want to upgrade my 120gb ssd (Really only 80gb) to a much larger one, as I'm having more pain then pleasure with the space on my one, but how would I move all of the files over? I assume I can't cut and paste the windows folder while its running... would I need another computer to move all of the dirves? or is there a way to move the OS from one SSD to another on the one computer? pls help tank u vry much <3

 

MiniTool Partition Wizard will do it for you, while Windows is running. Although, a faster way to do this is by using the bootable disc. Both methods are free.

 

MiniTool it is, I don't have the disc.

 

You can download the ISO and burn a disc.

 

Can you just get a single 8GB stick that's that size somewhere or will I have to order one from Medion directly?

 

You can buy single sticks of 8gb from any decent parts supplier. But they must be matched on every single stat to run in dual channel mode.

 

So, I've either gotta find a stick that's basically the same, or I've gotta buy a 2x8GB pack if I want to run it in dual channel mode.
Hmm, gonna go to a store this weekend, and try and see if they have 8GB sticks. If not, than I've gotta live with 8GB for now.

 

For most purposes, 8gb is plenty as is.

 

It's probably more worth it to spend some money in an SSD anyways (for me atleast).
Windows 8 itself starts really quickly, but having to wait 5 minutes for GTA V to load is just to much for me, since I'm very impatient.

Than again, I'm gonna have to upgrade my graphics card by the end of this year.
The 750 is good, but 1GB of VRAM just won't be enough in 2016 anymore.

Processer seems good enough to last till the end of 2016 (4th Gen I 5 4460)


So many things to worry about. That's life, I guess.

 

Just ordered 8GB of ram for my Pentium G630 machine. G.SKILL Ripjaws X DDR3-1600.

 

I run 2x4 corsair vengeance low profile, 1600MHz with some wicked black heat spreaders (being low profile, doesnt have the silly fins on top, they'd hit my cooler anyway)

 

Managed to have a friend spend less money on an i5-4690k instead of getting an fx-9590. He had a pretty good build otherwise (16GB RAM, sli 960s) for "futureproofing".

He said he was gonna use it for lots of emulating, and while i'm not sure that his "native emulation needs up to 1000 times the original power to run" argument was true.

So glad he at least understood the point of how 8 cores and 5.2GHz would not guarantee better performance than 4 cores and 3.2GHz, based on just those numbers.