Hardware Discussion Thread

[AnyOldName3]

The early dev kits for the XBone dual booted into Windows 7 because it's much more useful to be able to program on the dev box as well as test. The hardware used was way more powerful and expensive than what ended up in the final console, so it's likely that there was something going on in software other than running the actual game code. (Why would MS make the dev kits unnecessarily expensive to produce?) It's not going to be as simple as just installing something trivial onto your existing PC and then being able to play XBone games.

[KHg8m3r]

Consoles still have one thing that the glorious master PC doesn't: the console exclusives

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Give me Kingdom Hearts 3 already, dammit

For cross platform games PC is the best, however the console exclusives that never make it over are the key selling points

[AnyOldName3]

There's also the plug-and-play capability. It'd be a better idea to buy an idiot or 10-year-old a console.

[lamedude]

Firmware updates, required installs (but don't install the play disc), and huge day1 patches (looking at you Wolfenstein) != plug'n'play
Plug'n'pray you don't have wait an hour before you can play the game (looking at you day1 WiiU update).⁂
Pentium Anniversary Edition is as gimped as its brethren.

[kinkinkijkin]

Look at it this way: It's far better than the guy over here with an Athlon II X2 220 in every single aspect.

[Xtreme2damax]

Currently I have a Gigabyte G41MT and an E7500, is it possible to go past 333Mhz fsb and/or reach 3.8Ghz or 4Ghz stable? What's the highest safe voltage I can go up to and what voltage should I start with to post? Once I can get the system to post I can tweak for stability but I don't want to end up frying something so I'm seeking assistance on the subject. Is there anything else I would have to tweak to achieve an overclock that high with this board and processor if it's at all possible?

I also asked the following elsewhere:

Quote:is there any way to repair my Sabertooth X58's? One of them had an electrical problem that would make the system lose power and randomly shut down or reboot. I tried to resolder the power connections but couldn't get the solder to set in right and just got blobs, not sure if I ruined the board. The other one just failed for no reason, stopped posting and only the cpu/dram lights light up without beeps or posting.

If it's something I shouldn't attempt myself is there anyone here or elsewhere I can ship the boards to be looked at and repaired for a reasonable price providing they can be repaired?

[Xtreme2damax]

Does anyone have any idea why the Nvidia website is bugged in Chrome/IE? I want to download the new driver but when I select a gpu, os and certified or any combination no results show. It's done this before but magically corrected itself so I'm not sure what is going on.

[NaturalViolence]

It's your computer. It's working fine on chrome on my system.

[Xtreme2damax]

Alright I guess I better find out what's going on. So far I haven't found anything amiss, tried disabling extensions and deleting cookies. Not sure why I posted that here now since it's not hardware but more software related.

Regarding my other inquires do you think my i7 boards are repairable? I did terrible with attempting to solder the once and ended up with blobs, not sure if I wrecked that board completely. The other board stopped posting shortly after I moved and doesn't even beep. The cpu/dram leds remain lit but power is going through the board and to other components.

Onto my E7500 and LGA775 board, I managed to get it up to 3.66 Ghz but anything past 333Mhz fsb and the board doesn't post and am unsure if solely tweaking voltage is sufficient or if I have to tweak anything else. I'm hoping to get it up to at least 3.8Ghz and 4Ghz at most to give me a slight boost with Dolphin and other emulators/games.

[Xtreme2damax]

It was bugged on the Geforce.com website. It wouldn't load results for anything other than Geforce 7xx gpus and only for the GTX 780. So I'm downloading from Nvidia.com instead which worked fine.