General computer talk/advice

Too bad my nearest Microcenter and BestBuy are in the same city... 4 hours away... If it was no traffic. Oh, same with the iKea..

 

I have bought today my new MSI GTX 960 Some pictures :

My old 7750 :


Bye Bye !!

Does not fit, I had to replace my HDD´s

Now it´s in and powered up with energy:

Hope you don´t have claustrophobia


FINISHED and it´s running !!

 

I once static killed a Quadro FX5600.

Or perhaps it was DOA, because it worked for a full 30 seconds. There's also the Radeon HD6770 I inherited. It still kinda works, atleast, if I stay away from GTA 4. It'll stutter and crash there, but nowhere else I've tested it.

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I'd also stop buying those things if they die every 4 and a half months or so.

 

Your GTX 970 died? O_O What are you doing to them Sam!!! I've never broken a computer part, I had my 750 ti for a year, never had a single issue, I've had my 960 for 4 -5 months now... still going like a champ! not a single issue so far! (Besides drivers crashing, but I think that was just the drivers crashing not the card, but that hasn't happened for a while.)

 

I've been running a used R9 270 GAMING in my main slot for about a year now. It's done great so far. I have another used one in the second slot which is also doing well.

 

Speaking about long lasting parts, my dads work PC (GTX 2 something, Athlon 2 something) has been working for I belive 5 and a half years now.

 

Currently running a HD 5770 as my backup card which has almost 4 years of daily use on it in my old rig, until I get my 7870 RMA'd,

As for records, my old family PC which my mum bought in 2000 and run until 2009 at which time the OS started failing and it was just put away. Still boots up like the day it was bought. AMD Duron, intergrated mobo GPU and 256mb of ram...

 

Speaking of non-long-lasting parts, my old Latitude D630 had a Quadro in it. Failed within like 5 months. (And that includes how long it survived after reflowing it before it was dead for good.)

 

My laptop was kinda overheating very badly. So I did a thing.

..It's better than nothing right?

 

Semi-Passive cooling is better than nothing.

Did it make a difference?

 

Ive ran a GTX660 fulltime for over 3 years, no problems.

 

my old GTX 260 ran 4 years without getting damaged. ok the fan said goodbye after that time but it worked

 

Actually... What power supply do you have? That's what killed mine, and a GTX 480... And a R9 290....

 

Yes, about 5/6C.

 

Eh, it's something.

 

Atlleast my CPU doesn't reach above 92 C when I play GTA
It used to reach until like 101 C usually. I also use a coolpad.

 

This sounds dumb but... today I overclocked my monitor. No, I'm not bullshitting you I have legit overclocked my monitor to a... *drumroll* 70hz! the colours change a bit, but when I'm in game it looks normal, I don't constantly have it on 70, only when I play CS:GO do I have it on 70

 

Well skylake was a bit of a dissapointment

 

How so? I haven't been paying attention to the Intel side of things.

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http://anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation

Oh, that's why.

It's ok, AMD's Zen launches soon, at least that'll be interesting.

 

my only question for amd about zen is single threaded performance, how good is it