General computer talk/advice

You guys should have seen my cable managment... I fixed it recently. I wanted to take before/after pictures, but couldn't find my camera at the time... There was a nest of cables. Couldn't even see the bottom of my case... Looks quite decent now.

 

In 36 minutes, I'm going to see how well build 10240 of Windows 10 will install.

I hope it'll just upgrade. If I have to do some fancyness with an optical drive to get this to work, I'm gonna be sad.

 

My sisters laptop puts some usb peripherals to sleep after about 6 seconds of being plugged in. Is there any way to disable this? Note that the mouse seems to be fine with this and just sleeps and wakes as needs be.

Trying to get her midi drum kit to work with her laptop. Ableton is up and running just fine on it, the drum kit works for a few seconds until the laptop kills the connection. The drum kit has its own dedicated power supply.

I also checked with my Mininova synth, it will turn of as well but it does not turn off when being played. The Mininova was being bus powered at the time.

I have been into windows power management settings and disabled the usb power saving features. I have also checked the laptops bundled software. I have also been into device manager and told it not to put the usb hubs to sleep. Perhaps a reboot might help it?

 

BIOS setting?

 

I improved my pointless Celery part list. Here it is! https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Funky7Monkey/saved/kJZCmG

 

Haven't posted this here today, but today is my laptop's 1st birthday! Wish for many more out of it.

 

I think my laptop is something like 4 years old now. I just bought it..

$200 for what was a near $4000 laptop and is still a pretty damn good performer. Not bad IMO. (I am spending a bit more to restore it to its former glory.) Quad core power sucking hyperthreaded CPU makes for sub-3 hour battery life at the very best. I wonder if I buy a dual core hyperthreaded i5 with an Intel GPU (The die of the 920XM is far too big for an iGPU to fit, so it doesn't have one) and stick it in if I could switch to the iGPU on it then I'd get probably 5+ hours out of it. We do have a laptop with an i5 that should fit around here.. My ultrabook has a (soldered) i5 560m and it can get over 5 hours max on a smaller cheapo China battery, so..

Anyway, I did order a 120GB Kingston V300 to replace the 50GB OCZ Vertex 2 in it. The Vertex is slow, full, and power hungry compared to newer SSDs. Also my server needs a new boot drive since the cheapo 64GB SSD in it keeps corrupting Windows. Never buy a refurb Corsair SSD.

 

No, if you want something bad, look at my other rig, the case has zero cable management support, I very much regret buying the case like 3 years ago..

Oh boy, time to remember how all this works, used to use the RoR forums, lurked on this since 2013, and I am a active user on LTT. (If you know what forum that is. )

Pretty bad... Now onto my main rig.

 

Sorry i am not use to talking on forms but i need help i am building a pc and i need a cheap and slim but good cpu fan ( for a AMD cpu if that matters ) here is the build i have most of the parts but the hdd, sdd, cpu fan, windows 10 (link https://pcpartpicker.com/user/DasCreeper/saved/#view=mccv6h )

 

What size? What heatsink? Give some info.

 

Sorry i forgot to add stuff. I posted a link for people see and i am a noob at pc building so i really don't know

 

That heatsink already comes with a fan, why do you need one?

 

is that heatsink any good ?

 

I have one of those CPUs (It's an FX-8320. Same thing, minus .5GHz at stock.) The heatsink that comes in the box is perfectly fine for non-overclocked gaming and stuff. It's one of the best stock coolers out there.

Just be warned, that CPU does have a lot of cores but the single core performance really isn't that great at all. Spring for a nice Intel if you can.

 

Thank you, i thought the cpu did not have a heatsink and i wish i could get a intel the one i was looking at was too high in price that's why i went with AMD and also the motherboard i got only supports AMD i wish i saw it before i bought it but oh well

 

#5starthread

 

Well, GTX 970 Strix died, so here's another one.

This marks my 3rd GPU this year.

 

How do you people keep killing your GPUs. I've only killed two, one was physical damage and the other was a laptop with a GPU known for dying..

 

If you bought that one, do me a favor, and please return it... I had one for 6 months, it died, asus refused to rma, now stuck with a dead one, so I went out and bought a EVGA GTX 970 FTW+ since I do a lot of benching and overclocking. EVGA is really good with rmas, I know two people from a different forum, one at 660s, one failed, they told him to return both, he got 760s, another had a regular 780 randomly die, they replaced it with a classified verison.

 

I took it back to the shop I bought it from, they replaced it without question. Probably an advantage to not directly buying from Asus, I'd rather the retailer handle the RMA.