Okay, the most common I'm seeing here is an i5-5200U 2.2(2.7), still skeptical though, it's just the low tdp issues, If I start emulating, it's usually for several hours, not sure how far thermal pastes and cooling pads can help though.
I wish a merry Christmas to everyone
@Zee530 - The 5200U is a very solid ULV CPU. 2.2GHz is a lot for the absolute minimum it will run. Speaking from experience, any Ivy Bridge CPU (yes, even ULV variants) at 1.6GHz will do anything up to and including PS1 + N64 emulation with ease. With more modern microarchitectures, you'll do even better.
I imagine you'll be able enjoy PPSSPP on the 5200U as well. I ran it on my 2500K at like 2.4GHz, multiple games with no issue, so you should be fine in most cases. Dolphin is iffy though. I don't think heat should be a problem (unless you have high ambient heat, but eveb then it won't matter). These CPUs are generally good at running not-so-hot even with heavy usage
jesus, GPUs are expensive. I have $148 here and I'm struggling to find a GPU that I could cover with shipping to replace my 5770 that would actually be an upgrade.
I must try harder.
EDIT: The second I started looking at community classifieds in some tech community I found a 6870 for $60USD, which is $82CAD. Plus probably $10-20 of borders costs, that should be $90-100, which is perfect.
Why does borderlands 2 physX hate windows 10? Cant play with physX on anything above low
my laptop (lenovo y40-80) is royally screwed.
windows 7 x64
speakers crackle
static charge on case, electric shock + wake up when I touch it = possibly causes damage to laptop or person
defective build quality, corners crack very easily and are now falling apart, case cannot be removed according to service manual
touchpad is slightly difficult to press. I pushed too hard, now it doesn't click (but still activates)
keyboard ctrl key requires more pressure to activate, even after tactile bump.
operating system woes:
crashes when Firefox dies, I reboot, or I open Maxima program
After driver updates, opengl is nonfunctional. after further driver updates, Intel iGPU is nonfunctional.
Whenever I try to update drivers in devmgmt.msc, it says "driver installed", but remains as "standard vga graphics adapter". newly installed files show up in "devmgmt -> properties -> driver details", but lost after closing devmgmt or rebooting (not sure). "display driver uninstaller" doesn't fix.
autochk.exe and termsrv.dll are corrupt and cannot be "sfc /scannow"ed or sfcfix'd.
windows update is not working properly, I spent hours rebooting repeatedly. it's now in a semi-stable state.
I'm doing a repair install of Windows 7 SP1... let's see...
probably need to RMA to fix hardware issues.
(Is warranty repair called RMA?)
(12-26-2015, 02:29 PM)MaJoR Wrote: [ -> ]I had a merry Christmas!
Wouldn't you say it is a Mira Christmas?