What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)

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I've had a laptop in my possession at work since the day I started but the battery is dead and I had no charger. Someone just received their new desktop on Friday and brought me their laptop for re-imaging/shipping off to surplus (whichever I deem necessary). I looked at the model number of the power supply and then checked the laptop. Had a match! :dopey: I fired up the laptop and went to windows update only to be greeted by this:

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A few hours later when that had all finished and been restarted, I checked again. Another 4 updates, so I did those, too. Restarted again and this:

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It's a damn good thing that short of a few clicks and a restart here and there that updates aren't overly time consuming! :scared:
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Iwould cry
 
I think I got rid of that unpleasant and frustrating Windows 7 animation freezing issue, I just enabled some wake up events for PCI-E and PCI devices in BIOS and disabled quick+quiet boot. After I saved settings it booted just fine. :scared::P

I feel very relieved now and a bit stupid too, as the fix seemed to be quite simple. At least I don't have to waste my precious cash on new RAM sticks or a AM3 motherboard, which were the prime suspects in this case (pun intended). :)
 
I have started thinking hard about my system. It is feeling a bit sluggish as of late and it is three years old, looking at a little update. I would like to replace the motherboard, ram, and processor, but both money and time are a major factor. I have two water loops at the moment that are cooling my current x58 motherboard and processor as well as my two video cards on the second loop. Really, my only upgrade path at this point is the processor. I think I can get a good deal on a i7-990x hex core processor that would drop right in. It should provide better OC'ing than my current 965 as well that has been a bit of a disappointment. I will only do this upgrade if I can find a good deal on a 990x, otherwise, I am better off waiting until I can do a completely new build.

So what have I done to my system today? I have thought about it, and that is a scary thing..... :)
 
Pako
I have started thinking hard about my system. It is feeling a bit sluggish as of late and it is three years old, looking at a little update. I would like to replace the motherboard, ram, and processor, but both money and time are a major factor. I have two water loops at the moment that are cooling my current x58 motherboard and processor as well as my two video cards on the second loop. Really, my only upgrade path at this point is the processor. I think I can get a good deal on a i7-990x hex core processor that would drop right in. It should provide better OC'ing than my current 965 as well that has been a bit of a disappointment. I will only do this upgrade if I can find a good deal on a 990x, otherwise, I am better off waiting until I can do a completely new build.

So what have I done to my system today? I have thought about it, and that is a scary thing..... :)
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I was playing with the same idea as well. I could pop a 990 instead of my 975 in my board, but the question is, is it worth it to invest this money for an outdated generation.
I don't think you'll get one under 800$, so imo i would say wait for the generation after sandy bridge or try to get a cheap 980, at least that is what I'll do ;)
 
Spike125
I was playing with the same idea as well. I could pop a 990 instead of my 975 in my board, but the question is, is it worth it to invest this money for an outdated generation.
I don't think you'll get one under 800$, so imo i would say wait for the generation after sandy bridge or try to get a cheap 980, at least that is what I'll do ;)
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I think I found one for $350, private seller, non-oc'er. If I can get it for that, it might be justified. :indiff:
 
350 is a great prize but you never know the full history until you test the CPU.
But good luck anyways ;)
 
I forgot to mention that I also uninstalled a bunch of unnecessary Acer software/games (I should've done that over a year ago really) and I cleaned the CPU heatsink, it had some dust bunnies but I don't see any improvement in CoreTemp (35-38°C idle).
 
Currently trying to figure out how the hell to get those text to speech voices. I have this hilarious (and probably terrible) idea I'd like to use them for.
 
Cleaned out the heatsink and cpu fan from the Dell yesterday. I also replaced the thermal paste and the old paste was a brown paste. It give the cpu and the copper plate from the heatsink a horrible brown tint that was hard to remove with 91% rubbing alcohol. Today I'm working on expanding my working space from my desk to my bed. Currently getting some practice on small pieces of plywood and heavy cotton cloth. Using 3M Super 77 Adhesive to glue both pieces together.
 
Submerged
Pako, do you have a SSD in your system?

That might breathe some life in the system, in terms of response time.
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Yes, three of them. What I could do is reinstall windoze and raid two of the SSD's......hummmmmm.
 
As part of my electronic engineering course they had us strip down PCs and rebuild them, format then reinstall software on them. The PC I was given was a Pentium 3 1.1GHz, it had no RAM, the PSU didn't fit the case, the hard drive was a massive 3.2GB and the motherboard had USB headers that were backwards (the missing pin was on the wrong side) so you couldn't use the front USB ports. Also the CPU cooler was hilariously loose, the drive bays only had screws on one side that went through long slots in the case rather than holes (so they move around quite freely) and the case was missing the front disc drive blanking plates and rear PCI plates.

I managed to get it working (scrounged some RAM from a CPU-less motherboard and swapped the HDD to a 40GB) to discover that the graphics card had 8MB of VRAM and one of the two USB 1.1 ports doesn't work. After about an hour and a half to two hours I'd managed to format the drive, install and configure Windows XP and then discovered the motherboard manufacturer's website no longer had the drivers for that board, but seeing as the thing ran it didn't really matter. Next week I get to install and test CAD software... That VRAM just won't cut it.
 
Pako
I have started thinking hard about my system. It is feeling a bit sluggish as of late and it is three years old, looking at a little update. I would like to replace the motherboard, ram, and processor, but both money and time are a major factor. I have two water loops at the moment that are cooling my current x58 motherboard and processor as well as my two video cards on the second loop. Really, my only upgrade path at this point is the processor. I think I can get a good deal on a i7-990x hex core processor that would drop right in. It should provide better OC'ing than my current 965 as well that has been a bit of a disappointment. I will only do this upgrade if I can find a good deal on a 990x, otherwise, I am better off waiting until I can do a completely new build.

So what have I done to my system today? I have thought about it, and that is a scary thing..... :)
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So let me get this straight... you have an i7-965, 6GB of RAM, 3 SSD's and FOUR GTX 590's in Quad SLI and it feels sluggish???? :scared:

Did you trade in a Dodge Viper because you wanted "a bit more torque"???
 
DQuaN
So let me get this straight... you have an i7-965, 6GB of RAM, 3 SSD's and FOUR GTX 590's in Quad SLI and it feels sluggish???? :scared:

Did you trade in a Dodge Viper because you wanted "a bit more torque"???
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:lol: Well...that does bring things a bit into perspective. I guess I'm just pissed that I spend that kind of money on the 965 to end up with a overclocking slug. I mean, the whole point in getting a unlocked multiplier and to invest in water cooling is to be able to throw voltage at it, keep it cool, and get some extreme overclocks on it. I have seen i7-920's consistently get 4.4ghz+, even on air and I am stuck at 3990mhz? Errrrr....

You are right though and in looking at some of the things I could do, I will just sit back and get another three years out of this system before I move on to something more....adequate. In game frames are still excellent. No problems there. I think I should just do a clean format and re-install. I know I have installed some junk along the way and it has been since Feb. of 2009 that I installed this OS.

For what it's worth, I only have x2 590's but each 590 has the equivalent of x2 580 gpu's for a total of x4 GPU's and 6gb of video ram. But again, these 590's are OC'ing slugs as well. They didn't use the right components to allow for safe over voltage and OC'ing at stock voltages yields pretty poor results.

I guess it goes to show that a person should let the products mature a bit before jumping on the bleeding edge of technology releases....

Grayfox
2 GTX690s will fix Pakos PC up.
The 690 is basiclly 2 680s on a single card.
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I think I am done with dual gpu cards at this time. With my experience with the 590's, I am a little gun shy to go that route again. The next build will be a block of x4 680's or what ever flavor is out at that time. I may have to have dual PSU's but the next build will be a bit of a monster so I plan on having the room.

:cheers:
 
livemusic
Mostly Minesweeper.
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That and Hi Def solitaire, FTW! :lol:

*ibo* S3 Racer
That's a noob card. Take the Asus mars III (3 680 on a single board) 8GB :crazy:

;););)

german use google translate
http://www.chip.de/news/Asus-Mars-III-8-GByte-Grafikkarte-mit-Kepler_56199624.html
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Nah, it's still basically a GTX690,

ASUS is showing off a graphics card at Computex that is sure to be of interest to enthusiasts everywhere. The successor to their elusive Mars II (which we reviewed here), the new ASUS Mars III is a dual GPU graphics card utilizing two NVIDIA GTX 680 GPUs and a total of 8GB of GDDR5 memory on a single PCB. The dual slot card is cooled by three fans on an aluminum and heatpipe aided fin array. Around the back of the card are three eight pin PCI-E power connectors for up to 525watts of power! There is also a red button to the left of the connectors that spins the fans up to 100% for maximum overclocking. Towards the front is a single SLI connector (for up to 4-way SLI) along with three DVI ports and a mini-DisplayPort for video output.
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Quoted from this site.
 
This morning, my computer gone crazy. I tried to turn it on as well my screen was blank, then my CPU fan is gone to jet noise, and DVD driver and keyboard light flash continuous looped. I tried to figure it out for 4 hours. I was unplug and reset everything in my PC. After 4 hours, I finally fixed it... It's back to almost normally.
 
I removed a filter mat made out of cat hair from my laptop. It was getting a bit warm underneath my handpalms. :P
 
I removed a virus that caused the black screen of death on my Win 7 PC. Explorer.exe kept crashing and Task Manager didnt work.
 
Done nothing but maul about with Windows 8 settings, quite possibly in love with this OS!

Oh and cleaned & removed some fans as my PC was sounding like a jet fighter with 5 fans :lol: :lol:
 

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