Posts by fadedorca66

So, what should I pick up in Banja Luka versus what I can just grab here?

Can a manufacturer just slap any TDP rating they want on a cooler? 😁

Looks like the AMD crowd is starting to revolt now that temps are creeping up a bit. Everyone's losing their minds.

Clean the dust out of your Graphics card; obviously, temps are going to spike when you're actually gaming since the thing is finally doing some work 😁 80 degrees is nothing for that card, honestly—it can probably handle up to 110. As for those BSODs, you've gotta tell us what the actual error message says, because 0x00000116 doesn't really tell us anything

Pick them both up and see which one feels heavier 😁 Honestly, they’re both low-quality junk. Whichever one you go with, make sure you crack it open to blow out the dust and check that the capacitors aren't bulging. That HD4830 pulls a decent amount of juice, so I wouldn't recommend pairing it with some cheap, ancient power supply, but hey, if you really have to...

8GB is plenty for Grand Theft Auto V, honestly. I recently ran some tests on an AMD FX-6300 paired with an AMD Radeon HD 7850 using just 4GB of RAM. With 4GB, you definitely notice those stutters whenever textures are loading, but once I bumped it up to 8GB, that issue pretty much vanished. Since I'm running an old, slow hard drive, the system has to constantly swap data into the RAM, which is probably why it hitches...

I guess I'll start with this, then maybe move on to a new motherboard and CPU later.

If you want to be 100% sure, maybe try testing the GPU in a different PC

It doesn't really matter; even coming from the future, this setup is more than solid enough to crush basically any game you throw at it. I guess it could have been a little more balanced, but whatever. People have bought way, way worse builds than this 😁

Pick the lesser of two evils, which means going with the Future build. That Autronic one was put together by someone who clearly wasn't thinking—pairing an overclocking motherboard with a CPU that can't even be overclocked... I mean, seriously? It makes zero sense to pick a board like that if you aren't even using a chip that supports it 😁.

It’s honestly always better to just spec out your own rig from scratch, but hey, if you need a hand, we're here

New software probably won't fix much if the PC can't even talk to the Microsoft drive (Device Descriptor Request Failed). If it's acting up on another machine too, I guess that's just a sign the drive is totally dead.

darkowl72 makes some good points, honestly there isn't much you can do about this at home. I guess there’s no magic DIY recipe for when things just stop working and you're wondering what needs soldering. You probably need a pro to actually look at it and figure out where the fault lies. Besides, you can't really do much to a USB with a basic soldering iron; you'd likely need way more heavy-duty gear for that...

Adam Moore3 said:Seriously? I'd rather not have 10 FPS just so my character's hair looks slightly more realistic. No thanks.

It feels like every time I play something, I'm thinking, "Man, the hair and fur look so bad... maybe they could just sacrifice 10 FPS so it actually looks decent."

If I were you, I’d grab that Workstation; honestly, it sounds like a pretty solid deal. What kind of software are you planning to run? You might not even need those extra 4GB of RAM, I guess.

Don't even bother with a DDR3 card. You really need at least DDR5 if you want anything to work.

There’s an Intel option at a similar price point where you get a dual-core processor, but you'll have way more room to upgrade later on. The catch is that some games don't even support dual-cores anymore, and most of the newer stuff just runs better on modern hardware.

Sam Robinson3 said:Thanks.. I guess what kind of games could this actually run?

It’d probably run anything, really. Just depends on the resolution and settings you're aiming for, I suppose.

1 x Intel Core i3 (3.2GHz, 4MB, 65W, LGA 1150) box
1 x Micro Center case, no PSU
1 x MSI A68HM-P33 (LGA 1150, DDR3, SATA III, USB3.0/USB2.0, GLAN, VGA, DVI) mATX Retail
1 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260X OC, 1GB GDDR5, DVI, DP, HDMI
1 x Crucial 4GB DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3-12800) CL11
Total: $782

Best Buy

I guess it’s probably worth just swapping out the motherboard and the CPU at the same time, since you're already in there opening everything up anyway.

Just keep in mind it’s fine if they aren't trying to run the newest AAA titles, but if they want to, that i5 upgrade probably needs to happen pretty soon.

For example, look at GTA 5:
http://pclab.pl/zdjecia/artykuly/cha..._vhigh_cpu.png

Check out those dual-core setups struggling down there... I guess it's fine for WoW or League, but if they're planning on playing GTA 5, they should probably just grab a quad-core instead.

With an AM3 socket, you could look into a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P + FX4300 or maybe an fx6***, or even just an FM2 Athlon x4 740 or 750...
On AM3, there's actually room to upgrade later, whereas FM2 pretty much hits a dead end.

Maybe take these kinds of threads to other forums since they're pretty childish and don't really make much sense.