What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)

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nick09
Doing what? It's not overheating temperatures though. Just monitor it for a while.
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Browsing..

The highest it has gotten is now 64. But as I use my laptop almost only for browsing, I really don't care what the temp will be when I should use it for something heavy on the hardware.

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It didn't work. My laptop locked up again with a black screen, when it came back online, Windows told me my Graphics driver stopped working and restored it, so it working again now.

So, that would be a new graphics card for me. Can anyone tell me if this one : nVidia 8400M GS 256MB MXM would work instead of my old one : nVidia 8400M G 256MB MXM..
 
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You need a better computer.. My laptop is a piece of garbage and it idles around 45 and kicks up to 70-80 for a quick gaming session. But it ALWAYS goes back down.
 
Well, I have a proper desktop, but I want a laptop for when I am being a couch potato. And as a new laptop would set me back at least 400 euro, and a graphics card I can get for a tenth of that, the choice is pretty obvious.
 
From what I have seen laptops with Nvidia chips overheat like nothing I've ever seen before, the gpu on my laptop (Nvidia 9300m g) idled at about 80 degrees and went up to 100 at which point it would slow down. This was on a solid surface with all the vents completely clean and dustless.
 
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From what I have seen laptops with Nvidia chips overheat like nothing I've ever seen before, the gpu on my laptop (Nvidia 9300m g) idled at about 80 degrees and went up to 100 at which point it would slow down. This was on a solid surface with all the vents completely clean and dustless.
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My GPU idles at 60.

But I am posting this from my laptop, it has been running for an hour now, and it hasn't locked up on me yet.

Oh, and I found a new graphics card, the same as I have now, with a year warranty. So when that comes in, I will stresstest the hell out of it. Just to be sure.
 
I've got a Macbook which has the crappiest airflow known to man. CPU diles at 35 - 45, maxes out at around 75. GPU idles in the 20's (9400M) and maxes out at 65. When both are running flat out things get VERY hot VERY quickly, the gpu will hit 80 and the cpu at 100 if it's allowed, but I userally watch it.

nVidia chips really don't heat up that much, I think it's just a case of a bad model in your particular laptop or bad voltage regulation. I could be wrong though.
 
tlowr4
I've got a Macbook which has the crappiest airflow known to man. CPU diles at 35 - 45, maxes out at around 75. GPU idles in the 20's (9400M) and maxes out at 65. When both are running flat out things get VERY hot VERY quickly, the gpu will hit 80 and the cpu at 100 if it's allowed, but I userally watch it.

nVidia chips really don't heat up that much, I think it's just a case of a bad model in your particular laptop or bad voltage regulation. I could be wrong though.
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Yeah.. That's normal. Not weird temperatures.
 
I know now that it isn't a case of overheating, it stopped working twice yesterday, at 60° c. for the gpu and the cpu was in the 40's. But I ordered a new card. Fingers crossed it will solve my problem...
 
Today I noticed my 2TB drive was full. Last time I checked it had about 700GB left on it, so I was immediately suspicious. Started checking the folders to see if anything was abnormally large... My Afterburner screen caps folder was about 700GB. Opened it up, sorted the files by size, and guess what? I had a recording of my desktop that was 668GB in size! I must've accidentally hit the key a few days back before I had my tonsils out because I haven't touched my PC since then until now. Phew, may the downloading of an obscene amount of (entirely legally purchased, by the way) games continue!
 
Built my friend's first gaming PC for him:

Core i7 3570K
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
ASRock Z77 Pro4-M
2x4GB Corsair Vengeance 1.35V
MSI N480GTX Twin Frozr II
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
LG GH24NS90 DVD-RW
PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III 600W
Fractal Design Define Mini

The GTX 480 is used part from an early-adopting friend, but everything else is new thanks to diligent bargain shopping. Total cost is a shade over $800 including Windows 7 Home Premium x64. It's a nice machine! Speedy and relatively quiet.
 
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I installed a second display to my system (Fujitsu Siemens Scaleoview C17-7). Very helpful with music softwares/plugins and looking at videos while browsing websites. :)
 
Using my old PC while sleeving my current one. Mad O/C with stock cooler. Case panel is open, don't worry.
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^ Pfft, I've had a stable 4.4GHz from a 2.93GHz Celeron D on the stock cooler and the case panels on. :D
 
After four straight days of coming into work and having it be locked up, I've disabled hibernate. I'm on day two and she's still running good.

Bonus, the 12Gb hibernate file is gone.
 
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^ Pfft, I've had a stable 4.4GHz from a 2.93GHz Celeron D on the stock cooler and the case panels on. :D
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Beat this: I've got 3.2GHz stable out of an old 1.8GHz Sempron (on the socket before AM2). Required soldering things to the board though.

EDIT: @TB Question: Exactly what is hibernate? I've never actually used it, never been game since a friend of ours told us that he enabled it and couldn't get his pc working for a week. And I won't be offended if you link me a lmgtfy.com link either, or if you ignore me completely because it is just a Google away, even though I cba/my Google results userally bring up everything but what I'm searching for..
 
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EDIT: @TB Question: Exactly what is hibernate? I've never actually used it, never been game since a friend of ours told us that he enabled it and couldn't get his pc working for a week. And I won't be offended if you link me a lmgtfy.com link either, or if you ignore me completely because it is just a Google away, even though I cba/my Google results userally bring up everything but what I'm searching for..
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Puts the entire computer to sleep in the hard drive. It will hold a running standby state until you press the power button. I personally like to use the "Sleep" option for my laptop. That puts everything into the memory and into a standby state that does not run the fans.
 
^ Yeah, we just always used sleep. My laptop hasn't been shut down for a good 3 weeks or so, i just sleep it. I restart it about once every month, just helps performance catch up a bit.
 
Sleep on my laptop I have no issues with. Hibernate on my desktop at work didn't work for crap. I suppose with 16Gb of RAM I could try sleep on it but honestly I don't really care. I just want it to work in the morning when I get there and now it does. :lol:
 
Set about overclocking my GTX 670, haven't touched the memory yet but it only took +114 on the core for 1094MHz core/1173 boost. Memory overclocking next :) Got a bit of 2D mouse hitching to iron out too, I suspect it may be caused by the PCI-E 3.0 slot switching between 3.0 and 1.1 to save power.
 
Don't have any pictures of this build, but I just finished building this today for a friend of mine. http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=20753206

I do have all the boxes for recycling though.. :lol:

128GB SSD boot drive and 2TB LTS drive.

I have to say though.. The Corsair H80 is a terrible design. I had it running WITHOUT the pump on for a while[was only clocking about 60c which is well within the thermal specs(Just barely)], because it didn't say anywhere in the little booklet that you had to plug in the Molex adapter as well as the fan pin. The H60 isn't like that. Way to have consistency Corsair. It really really does not show anywhere in the install manual that you have plug in that Molex though. How stupid.

Anyways, it's beautiful, it runs smooth, turns on in an instant, and it should last my friend a good couple years. This year was a great year for building new rigs in general. Lots of new tech coming out.

As of today, that computer is the most powerful one I've built yet. I'm very proud of it. I'll have to go back into it in a while and clean up the interior though, lack of zipties makes for a messy interior.
 
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EDIT: @TB Question: Exactly what is hibernate? I've never actually used it, never been game since a friend of ours told us that he enabled it and couldn't get his pc working for a week.
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Well first I best tell you about the ACPI power states.

S0:The system is running fully but the monitor is off
S1:CPU stops processing data but remains powered, RAM is also has power, devices like HDD may get powered down
S2: CPU is turned off, HDD are off, RAM still has power
S3: This is also known as sleep mode. All data is kept in RAM, all hardware except RAM has no power
S4 This is also known as hibernation. All data in RAM is saved to the HDD and the PC is shut down, when powered back on data is reloaded from the HDD back into RAM.
S5:: This is a typical shutdown. All devices are powered down and it is safe to shut the PC down.
S6: This is a hard off. This is only done by switching the power switch to off on the PSU or pulling the plug.

As read in S4 hibernation is where all the data in RAM is saved to the HDD(in windows's case it is in the hiberfil.sys file.
If you have a SSD it is best keept off as the hiberfil.sys will be same size as your physical RAM size, so if you have 16GB of ram in an SSD machine the hiberfil.sys will be 16GB.

Besides hibernation is useless in an SSD bases system due to fast boot times or you could put the system into S3 mode and it will be back to where you left in seconds.
 
Installed a case fan I found while tidying mine and my brothers room in my pc, the problem was I didn't have the nuts and bolts to fix it to the case properly so I had to go MacGyver on it with 4 paper clips which did the job quite nicely and helped to tidy the cables too :dopey:. I also installed the fan from my brothers old heatsink as an intake fan but had to remove it as it was unbearably loud, 4000rpm :scared:
I've also installed one of my brothers old monitor's as a second monitor.
 
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Submerged
Updated Opera.

It seemed to have fixed the issue of the weird text thing for the moment. Back to using it for now.
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Does anyone know why Opera sometimes moves the text to the address bar when you are typing in a text box for a forum?

Also, I had some worrying signs, that whenever I page down on Opera recently, it goes straight to the address bar and flashes super fast. I have to use the Escape button for it to stop. Initially I assume my keyboard was dying. But its working rather well. So it seems that I have to re-install Opera. Would I be correct in my assumption?

I like Opera, mainly because to me, it is quick at loading and it seems to be rather user-friendly to me.

Currently using Google web browser. I got Firefox here, but it did get infected some time ago (since been clean) but decided to avoid it anyhow, as it was a bit too common to use for attackers.
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Turns out it was because the battery on the keyboard (wireless keyboard and mouse) was running rather low and required changing. Now everything is working fine and dandy.

It did give a moment of confusion why it was a bit intermittent.
 
Had yesterday a live built session with my boss and his son.
Gave them a list of parts for a good gaming pc and built it together with them.
I must say Thermaltake cases are really great to work on.
 
Spike125
Had yesterday a live built session with my boss and his son.
Gave them a list of parts for a good gaming pc and built it together with them.
I must say Thermaltake cases are really great to work on.
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That's how I've built all of my friends computers. It's fun answering questions for them and explaining why I chose part X over part Y, I'm very well acquainted with what they all do with their computers so I picked out everything according to what they need[the exception being my friend with the 1500$ build, that was just him not wanting to upgrade anything for a few years after building it].

It also gives you a chance to explain the maintenance procedures and where everything will be on the computer.
 

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