What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)
- Thread starter tlowr4
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- funkyDucks
Got gifted an old Pacard Bell. All I know about it is, that it is running windows 98.
What should I do with it?
What should I do with it?
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- Dubai
- the-spike-125
- killerdag125
Print server or paper weight ;P
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- funkyDucks
tlowr4
Point taken. Don't know why I said I would take it.
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- Vic, Australia
- gundalini
^^ OMG Has he got another one!?
Gotta pay $200+ for mine >_<. Curiosity question, what was your old chip?
Yep lucked out twice.
First here.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=7002809#post7002809
Anyway it's all above board, after I got the card I asked my mate from work if he had anything else that may interest me. After he told me about the i5 and he only wanted $40 for it I asked were he got it from.
He said he himself lucked out at a swap meet and got the cpu and graphics card for what I ended up paying him for it. He had intended to build another system but never got around to it, hence my luck.
I have no reason to not believe him, sometimes luck just falls your way.
Oh and if your wondering, he has nothing left of any interest. I've already asked.
To answer your question on my previous cpu it wasn't an i3 as I initially thought. My brother in law put my computer together for me when my previous one died and I assumed he had used an i3 as we discussed it at the time. Looking at the box in my hand now with the old cpu in it I can confirm it is in fact a G620.
Honestly I never bothered to check or ask him as at the time I gave him a budget to work to (which was small) and do the best he could.
Cheers Shaun.
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- Vic, Australia
- gundalini
As they say right time right place.
Anyway I got Railworks 3 which is a train simulator for my son. With the new cpu and graphics card it runs great but it has showed up how poor my moniter is. It's an Acer 22 inch 1080P which is truly atrocious to look at unless you are looking straight on at the right angle. Even then the corners of the picture look bad, it's viewing angle is truly horrendous.
Normal text and what not is ok but any graphics are shocking.
Looks like I'll have to search around for something suitable at retail price.
Cheers Shaun.
Anyway I got Railworks 3 which is a train simulator for my son. With the new cpu and graphics card it runs great but it has showed up how poor my moniter is. It's an Acer 22 inch 1080P which is truly atrocious to look at unless you are looking straight on at the right angle. Even then the corners of the picture look bad, it's viewing angle is truly horrendous.
Normal text and what not is ok but any graphics are shocking.
Looks like I'll have to search around for something suitable at retail price.
Cheers Shaun.
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Swapped out the thermal grease/compound/paste on my desktop for some brand new Artic Silver 5(Processor was showing temps of 70c while at 50% load[85c is TJMax]), and worked on converting my laptop over to Windows 8 Consumer Preview. As it turns out, it is really difficult to get Ubuntu, Chromium, and Windows 8 on the same computer. I tried for a few hours and it just wouldn't let me.
- 2,587
Sorry for the bump, but it's been a few days.
Bought one of these:
It's a CoolerMaster Turbine Master Mach 1.8. I bought it to replace the the Thermaltake ISGC 12 fan that I had purchased for the intake of my PC. Coupled with the new Artic Silver 5 on the CPU, my PC is showing idle temps of 35-40c and load temps of around 55-65c for anywhere in between 50-70% CPU load's. Overall. I'm very satisfied with the fan, and A.S.5. The noise on the fan actually isn't too bad either. Especially for the high rate of airflow it's pretty well designed I'd say.
Also, bought an HP x4000 Wireless Laser mouse for my laptop.
It's pretty comfy and supposedly the battery will last 30 month's.. So at least I have that to look forward to.
Bought one of these:
Also, bought an HP x4000 Wireless Laser mouse for my laptop.
It's pretty comfy and supposedly the battery will last 30 month's.. So at least I have that to look forward to.
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That fan looks gorgeous. Way better than Noctua fans.
- 2,587
It's apparently designed to pull in more air. I can only assume it works via the numbers on the box in came in. 80.3CFM @30.5dBA.
It produces a really low.. buzz/hum type noise which isn't unpleasant so far. Most of the time if you're watching a video or playing a game you wont even notice it... Or assuming you don't have to rely on a wireless card like me[My case sits on my desk with the back end facing me], you can shove your case somewhere far enough away, or sound dampened enough that it won't sound like much of anything.
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- the-spike-125
- killerdag125
The Coolermaster is nice, has some what the same values as my 25mm silenX fans.
But imo nothing beats the Noiseblocker blacksilent pro. Have 9 of them running on my radiator with no sound at all at 900 and minimal at 1400 RPM.
But imo nothing beats the Noiseblocker blacksilent pro. Have 9 of them running on my radiator with no sound at all at 900 and minimal at 1400 RPM.
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Except the Noiseblocker comes in louder than my rear exhaust fan on my desktop, and provides the exact same airflow.
If I could have found one locally, I'd probably have gone for one of these: http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/product.php?product_id=2965&product_name=Excalibur (R4-EXBB-20PK-R0)
nick09
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- NY
- nlck09
Put my laptop in this case.
Whole thing weighs nearly 24 pounds but it's so worth it. I got basically everything I need in this case to do on-site work(Well no Ethernet cable making tools but I don't plan on doing anything networking in a while). If you are interested what case it is, it's the Pelican Storm iM2600, a bit cheaper than the pelican case line. Can't beat a lifetime warranty that covers about everything(I like it when a company gives good support for their products).
Whole thing weighs nearly 24 pounds but it's so worth it. I got basically everything I need in this case to do on-site work(Well no Ethernet cable making tools but I don't plan on doing anything networking in a while). If you are interested what case it is, it's the Pelican Storm iM2600, a bit cheaper than the pelican case line. Can't beat a lifetime warranty that covers about everything(I like it when a company gives good support for their products).
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- actionjeans
Using Linux Mint on my Thinkpad T410, but the battery life was about an hour short of Windows 7 - 2.5 vs 3.5 - so I investigated a little on improving this:
Powertop - configurable to enable tons of power options when the system loads
Jupiter - Same, but different - can set the OS into low power, on-demand, and performance modes
Both can be installed via apt, and virtually know knowledge needed to get running.
But wait, there's more:
Added this to /etc/default/grub:
pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1
Which allows some serious power management with the intel chipset (don't try this on any laptop, make sure you can uses the settings - i5 or above should be fine - some folks have complained about stability issues, but I've had none)
Run update-grub after this change and reboot.
Also using Jupiter to do the heavy lifting, I have a couple of scripts called nvidiaon and nvidiaoff - this has two graphics cards, an Intel HD, and an Nvidia 410M - obviously nvidiaoff powers off the 410M card, and gives another full HOUR of battery life.
Smash cut to results? 5.5 hours vs 2.5 hours on the stock 6 cell battery.
Suck it, Microsoft.
Powertop - configurable to enable tons of power options when the system loads
Jupiter - Same, but different - can set the OS into low power, on-demand, and performance modes
Both can be installed via apt, and virtually know knowledge needed to get running.
But wait, there's more:
Added this to /etc/default/grub:
pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1
Which allows some serious power management with the intel chipset (don't try this on any laptop, make sure you can uses the settings - i5 or above should be fine - some folks have complained about stability issues, but I've had none)
Run update-grub after this change and reboot.
Also using Jupiter to do the heavy lifting, I have a couple of scripts called nvidiaon and nvidiaoff - this has two graphics cards, an Intel HD, and an Nvidia 410M - obviously nvidiaoff powers off the 410M card, and gives another full HOUR of battery life.
Smash cut to results? 5.5 hours vs 2.5 hours on the stock 6 cell battery.
Suck it, Microsoft.
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- Australia
- I_Grayson_Fox_I
Since you said 1.8 I can assume you have the 1800RPM one, and by the stats it must be noisy
I would have used Arctic Cooling MX-4 T.I.M as it is a little bit better than AS-5.
I have one of those fans on my old Corsair H50 water cooling radiator.
It is nice and quite and blades pop off for cleaning which I did last week.
My PC is just about done, I am only waiting on the out of stock everywhere EVGA GTX680 Hydro copper videocard.
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- Paris
Built my new computer today, minus SSDs and graphics card. SSDs will be installed tomorrow (need to get better frames for them first) and the card should arrive on Monday, at the latest. If I'm lucky (and I'm never lucky) it'll be here by tomorrow afternoon.
(I'll sort the cables out once everything is in there.)
(I'll sort the cables out once everything is in there.)
nick09
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- NY
- nlck09
Just set a virtual wireless access point in my wireless router for clients who visit my business(keep clients away from the computers here. Plus when I work on a client's laptop for virus removal it will keep the bad viruses away from the computers). DD-WRT is just so amazing when you can do this stuff and isolate the connection from the physical wireless access point.
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Since you said 1.8 I can assume you have the 1800RPM one, and by the stats it must be noisy
I would have used Arctic Cooling MX-4 T.I.M as it is a little bit better than AS-5.
I have one of those fans on my old Corsair H50 water cooling radiator.
It is nice and quite and blades pop off for cleaning which I did last week.
My PC is just about done, I am only waiting on the out of stock everywhere EVGA GTX680 Hydro copper videocard.
It's an intake fan that is roughly 6 inches inside of a very thick case, It actually doesn't make too much noise. As for thermal compound, I'm limited to the one local store that sells PC components. They don't even sell the stuff to clean off the processor so I had to use rubbing alcohol.
