General computer talk/advice

he he maybe you could attach it to some motion sensors, put these on your eyes and have a VR headset

 

Hopefully those extra shutdown options are there to stay. Nothing like having a noisy old hard drive updating when you're trying to sleep.
old pc. i have a good hdd in my main.

 

I read somewhere, mind you i dont know how true this is, that having 2 of those crts that close could cause some problems. Radiation i think from the pair of crt. Makes kinda sense.

 

yeah it was a joke you would need a seriously high refresh rate to stop motion sickness (like in the order or ~120hz)

 

Im seriously starting to hate windows 10 because i tried to install forza 6 apex from the windows store and everytime i was finished with downloading it windows defender deleted it again so now im trying to get rid of windows defender

 

I have a question for those of you that know computers well, I have been getting this error for the past week or two I have run a memory dianostic, a disk cleanup and a defrag and it keeps coming back, anyone know how I can fix it because this is the only computer I have that can run beam and if this dies I cannot finish the bronco

 

This happened about 5 minutes ago. My computer takes anywhere from 10-15 seconds from button push to boot, with the motherboard's splash screen. I'm perfectly fine with that, honestly.

 

You've got malware
--- Post updated ---

When does this error occur

 

How crappy is my PC?

it also has an AMD Radeon HD 5700 graphics card

 

I bluescreened a PC for the first time today yay?
It was an 6yr old Acer, I was on pirate bay, and even tho I had adblock a new tab opened and there were millions of popups. I smashed the keyboard...aaand there it went lol. Worked fine after it tho xD

just a short story I felt like sharing for some reason

 

Lynnfield is old, but not so bad (you could have a Core 2 Quad, after all). I have a friend that rocks a Bloomfield (even older than yours) i7 perfectly fine.

To rebuild my PC it'd be about $1,680, but honestly, I'd be more than happy to use yours.

 

Meh, I need a new power supply for my pc, the new gpu require two pci-e I've got none, I had an adaptor for my old one, and I've got only 2 molex connectors, so yeah...

If anyone have a cheap second hand power supply with at least :
-1 pci-e
-4 molex
-400w

... Pm me...

 

Been thinking for quite some time (more than a year) to convert my computer into a Hackintosh. I can't stand running Windows 10 and macOS on my laptop runs so much better.



I've heard that a Hackintosh can run on AMD (requires more steps when installing) so my computer can run it since everything else meets the requirements.

 

hmmm, still waiting for a nice gpu from AMD, the RX4 series and RX5 series are practically the same and the pricing is not that good in the UK to be honest. RX VEGA seems good but we can only speculate how much it will be (some say 1070 performance). really looking for a nice freesync monitor, I have seen one I like its a Viewsonic 144hz one, seems to have excellent contrast and brightness for a TN panel but I'm wondering if it will be a downgrade form my IPS monitor that is near enough bang on the colour spectrum (HP ZR24W with a downloaded colour icc thing

 

It can't run on AMD. Yes there are patched kernels but they're pretty damn broken and unstable and still fail to install 99% of the time. Hackintosh on a laptop is also a particularly unstable time as the Macbooks use nonstandard motherboard chipsets compared to their Intel windows laptop counterparts, AMD different again, and osx has no concept of how to utilise them in regards to power management and sleep modes.

Wouldn't even bother. Even a stable hackintosh is extremely unstable versus a real mac and the stability of a real mac is highly exaggerated. Mine for example gets wiped and reimaged at least once a month at the moment after apple updates brick it, or it arbitrarily just decides that usb doesn't have to work or it arbitrarily decides to go into reboot loops or that it doesn't have Ethernet.
--- Post updated ---

They aren't practically the same. They are almost exactly the same with the only difference being the bios. The 580 is a factory overclocked 480 and that's about it. You can even flash 580 firmware onto a 480.

 

when I played beam but it seems to have fixed itself with all the recent hotfixes

 

lol, my laptop is such a POS

Can't believe we payed almost £350 for this back in 2012.

 

Funny how something as little as glue can cause so many issues, my dad's mates computer was acting unstable, monitor going black randomly, and just in general "Going haywire" Ruled it out as the PSU and decided to crack it open to find out why, expected to find bad caps but I actually found lots and lots of glue, the kind of glue that's known for going conductive with age and this stuff was smothered over choke's connecting them to the heatsinks which are live at a couple of hundred volt's, under caps effectively turning them into resistors, cleaned all that crap out and it seems to be fine. Probably leave it for a few hours running a stress test but so far so good.

 

My point, exactly.. its no different really, just waiting for VEGA since like july of last year...
--- Post updated ---

that's not all that bad, id expect that it had better graphics than a competing intel atom solution, yes its dual core but its not all that bad, whats a bit more disappointing is that its a low power CPU but isn't low power, its 18w (or there abouts) its not bad for cheap 2012, not much else to be expected to be honest

 

waiting for vega too because i want a new graphics card because my 750ti isnt the best anymore but i dont want to spend alot of money for a graphics card thats then immediatly obsolete