General computer talk/advice

Finally restored my setup. I now have 6 monitors again. I could only use 3 for a while beause windows wouldnt let me extend my desktop beyond 3 monitors. i would have to either duplicate a desktop to another one, or leave another one without signal.

 

I'm about to re-install Windows 7 on my T420. Hopefully everything goes well...

 

I am running an i5 6400, gtx 960 2gb ddr5 and 8gb of gddr5, and yet I struggle to retain a stable 30 fps in forza apex (it is locked at 30, and at medium settings). My question is: is this normal? I have seen a video on YouTube which claims to have similar specs, except a weaker variation of the cpu, and they manage a stable 60 fps at medium settings. I am currently away from my computer, but will check cpu usage when I get back. But for now, any predictions as to what is happening, or what I can do to fix it.

 

Your CPU is actually quite wimpy. And from reading your signature if it's only clocking up to 2.7GHz you might want to check that CPU turbo boost is enabled in your bios, that chip should boost up to 3.3GHz.

 

An i5 6400 is not at all "wimpy". It's easily comparable to a i5 4460 which is a great mid-spec processor. Although at 2.7 GHz, the clock speed is a little low; gotta be on boost at all times if you want good performance.

 

Sorry for my lack of knowledge, but how would I go about boosting my clock speed (the ceiling is 3.3 ghz according to Intel, but I am not sure whether that is too much) It says in Intel boost faq, that by factory settings, turbo boost is activated, so I assume that by "boost" you mean to over clock it [http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/processors/000005641.html Even with turbo enabled, should my chip be at 2.7 ghz? Also I have read that the clock speed will boost to 3.3 ghz when under load, but I do not think this is the case with my PC.

 

your CPU should be at 3.3 on turbo, 2.7 off turbo.

 

I will take a look at my BIOS and see if turbo is on. I am sceptical however, as Intel says that, by factory settings turbo is on. I also read that the clock boosts to 3.3 ghz when under load, but this does not happen
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2814600/intel-core-6400-clocked-7ghz.html

 

is your PC set to power saving mode, it wont ever engage turbo in power saving.

Turbo isnt a BIOS setting usually.

 

Honestly...my cousin has completely messed up his laptop battery... Unplugged a minute ago from 100%
It's only 3 months old as well.

 

A lot of laptops don't let the battery charge above like 95% because using that last few % makes the battery life a lot shorter.

 

Yeah, maybe because my laptop used to do that, when the battery still worked Also the battery life is terrible even if you put it power saving mode and lowest screen brightness. He legit never unplugs it. He should've bought a desktop...

 

Yey. dual nas. I bought some WD Red drives a while back for one and will be using that one as my third copy of files, then i used two 500gb and a 1tb drive i had laying around for another one.


now to get my 8 core xeon workstation running so i can put my files into .zip for the archive.

 

Will this be worth using in a external caddy? Came from the broken Dell. I'm pretty sure it was replaced a few years ago.

Someone gave me this motherboard today. I really have no use for it and certainly don't have a big enough case for it.

 

Yeah that will make a pretty decent external drive, the internal I use as an external is only 5400rpm and it copies over pretty fast on USB 3.

 

Didn't think this was worth it's own thread but I need help. Having these dope artifacts and can't get rid of them. Tried both current and hot fix drivers and have already reformatted. The artifacts move around and as you can see images get broken up. It happened while I was playing KSP. comp crashed and on reboot I saw this. Dosent happen in safe mode. It's cool but I'm not feeling it. Blown vram chip?

 

I'm sorry to say but I think your graphics card just died.

 

That's one for cooked gpu. Worse it's a valuable vote but it confirms my suspicions. Anyone else?

 

Is it still under warranty? What card is it?

 

290x. Got it 6 months ago or so. Power color pcs whatever.