Hardware Discussion Thread

[Xtreme2damax]

(08-28-2015, 08:17 AM)admin89 Wrote: GTX 750 costs $100 , 3times lower power consumption (max temp on load = 65 degrees celsius) and it's faster than GTX 460 . Why would you need to buy a heatgun ?

Why? For practice, the experience and not needing to spend money I really don't need to. It's nice to learn for a skill if I get into hardware repair and want to run a small scale backyard tech/mechanic operation. If I am to upgrade it would be to a GTX 970 just that I don't have that kind of money to throw away right now. Also, I would rather upgrade everything at once.

[AnyOldName3]

(08-28-2015, 10:37 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: You have never burned hair.

I have. It definitely wasn't as bad as evaporated circuit board. The room it was in had an extractor fan on, and I opened all the windows (of which there were several) and it was hard to breath in there without gagging for nearly a full day.

In retrospect, I should probably have stopped heating the circuit board once it started bubbling.

[DacoTaco]

(08-26-2015, 03:23 AM)kirbypuff Wrote:

(08-26-2015, 02:27 AM)DacoTaco Wrote: still, 70 bucks sounds a bit... low. whats the drawback?

The only drawbacks are the lack of AVX support and a crappy iGPU.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Pentium-G3258-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4690K

ye, something tells me there is more to it

[piccolo289]

Why are u comparing a 250$ CPU to a 70$ CPU?

[DacoTaco]

(08-28-2015, 08:55 PM)piccolo289 Wrote: Why are u comparing a 250$ CPU to a 70$ CPU?

they were saying the pentium was a beast and didn't answer me when i asked what the drawback was. had to lookup performance myself then

[Anti-Ultimate]

It's not a beast, it simply offers pretty much the same performance in applications that only use 2 cores.

[DacoTaco]

(08-29-2015, 12:24 AM)Anti-Ultimate Wrote: It's not a beast, it simply offers pretty much the same performance in applications that only use 2 cores.

true, but what if im a major multi-tasker?
agreed its a good budget cpu but not for me sadly

[DacoTaco]

well, my system is now as good as dead

constant I/O issues, windows not booting thanks to them, drives corrupting etc etc.

so bye bye to this system

http://valid.x86.fr/yfss2w

and hallo
i5 4690 , ASUS Z97-K & 2x4GB 1600Mhz

sadly limited deu to budget but thats one hell of an upgrade me thinks XD
im moving the GPU & Sound card from my system to this. Drives will get replaced over time.


personally, i wanted to wait for skylake but my computer said no...

[admin89]

Why did you pair a locked multiplier CPU with an expensive mobo for overclocker ?
It should be either i5 4690k + Z97 or i5 4460 + H81

[Anti-Ultimate]

(09-01-2015, 05:06 PM)DacoTaco Wrote: personally, i wanted to wait for skylake but my computer said no...

It's out already!?