Its 2am and I am Installing Windows 7 service pack 1, which is showing no continued evidence of progress, for the last half hour...
My last PSU was a Cooler Master brand and like I said within 14 months it literally shit itself and took out the motherboard when it went. Nice smoky smell and all. I had a different set of ram and GPU at the time but for caution's sake I didn't reuse any of those parts because they might have been damaged.
I've got a Cooler Master PSU that has done almost 4 years runs 24/7/365, it is used in our mail server, Cooler Master is NOT the OEM for the PSU, it buys PSU's from about every manufacturer there is and sells them under their name, they have several series from low budget to high end, guess you just bought a lemon, also Corsair is also NOT an OEM, it does the same as Cooler Master and others, it is like a big lottery, you just lost.
no idea who the OEM but Supermicro branded PSU in my server has maybe 3 weeks total down time in 6 years.
Like so much it comes down to what you pay and what brand you get.
I've got a 430w Corsair PSU in my main PC and it hasn't missed a beat (on about 18 hours day).
Update: I now have a new ssd drive and double ram and it works great. Yay!
That reminds me of my previous motherboard. Ran it into the ground. Abused the thing to the point that it went out with a smoky smell of electronics frying. It was amazing that it worked as long as it had in its condition, because the capacitor was swollen.
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My plan is to eventually upgrade my 6300 to an 8350, and the HDD to an SSD. Of course, that's a year or so in the offing. In the meantime, she's plenty powerful and fast as it is. Shoot, by next year, the price will have come down so far I should be able to pick up both for a song. Of course course, I want a 1 TB SSD, which is why it will take so long to raise capital.
I’m glad to hear. Everything went smoothly?Update: I now have a new ssd drive and double ram and it works great. Yay!
Oh I'm well aware of that. They are just a brand name and other manufacturers make their hardware and slap their badge on it. You are right though it's a lottery with what you get even an 80+ gold can be a lemon.
I'm a bit jealous haha. I originally wanted an 8350 but they are no longer available here in Australia and buying from overseas is a pain because shipping costs. Even for small items like this the shipping is the killer when you order online. I had to settle for the 6300 which worked out OK in the long run.
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It's a great chip, it really is. The 6300 is more than capable, and if you're a gamer, it's perfect unless you're trying for 4K gaming. I play my 1080p games on high settings and get framerates anywhere from 28-50fps with my GTX 1050 2 GB card. Sure, there are people who want higher framerates, but if they want that, they'll need to pay out.
or they want to run high frame rates at very high resolutions.
and speaking of high resolutions.
how the hell are people managing with 4K resolutions on 13 and 14" laptop screens? Must have pretty good eyesight to be able to read anything.
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True, but if you want that, you're not going to get a budget chip anyway, or at least I'd hope not. As for the 4K resolutions on small screens, I have no idea. I have a 24" monitor, and I think 1080p is pushing it for me and my eyes.
With some of the latest games even high end cards can struggle pushing high frame rate at 4K and now we're getting 5 and 8K monitors coming through.
I'm running running a 27" 1080p monitor and I've got the zoom in Firefox set for 120% so what does that say about my eyes?
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Sounds like you and I have the same optometrist.With some of the latest games even high end cards can struggle pushing high frame rate at 4K and now we're getting 5 and 8K monitors coming through.
I'm running running a 27" 1080p monitor and I've got the zoom in Firefox set for 120% so what does that say about my eyes?
23 inch samsung screen here 1920x1080. I have stuff zoomed in here using the ctrl+scroll wheel method in firefox. The default setting makes webpages tiny as hell and impossible to read.
I'm running running a 27" 1080p monitor and I've got the zoom in Firefox set for 120% so what does that say about my eyes?
You're sat too far away
I have a 23 inch monitor set at 1080p both at home and work and usually run at 100%.- My work laptop defaults to the same res on a 14 inch screen and that's just way too much (at least for my eyes)
Going from HDD to SSD is an enormous performance difference, where disk access is concerned. Also heat reduction in smaller platforms. Plus, it's a very portable upgrade. I'd go for this first.
I use 15" laptops predominantly and I'm thinking about getting a nice 20 to 24" monitor. Seems like there's so many choices now that prices have come down even further. Are there any particular monitors that are in the sweet spot of desirable specs for very reasonable money?
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I heard my HDD start grumbling a bit today, so yeah. It was one of the few parts that I didn't buy, as it was something I had from a few years ago and I needed to save about $60 to get under the budget I had set, and of course a 7200 RPM 2 TB HDD isn't a bad thing, but this one's already complaining.
I found a really nice Western Digital Blue 1 TB SSD for about $139. I cannot believe how fast prices on SSDs have dropped. Anyway, that's what I'll be upgrading to here in the next handful of months, probably.
The firmware and O/S will attempt dancing around read errors as best as possible, when you start hearing audible changes. But basically the clock is ticking. I had that happen to my Toshiba HDD. Thankfully the corruption happened mostly in the zone of system files, so I lost very little user data. But it was a bear to recover. I had to futz with a variety of tools to fix / step over broken sectors so that I could get it to boot the O/S. Once that was done, it made it easier to run diagnostics and fix things enough so I could transfer the remaining user data.I heard my HDD start grumbling a bit today, so yeah. It was one of the few parts that I didn't buy, as it was something I had from a few years ago and I needed to save about $60 to get under the budget I had set, and of course a 7200 RPM 2 TB HDD isn't a bad thing, but this one's already complaining.
I found a really nice Western Digital Blue 1 TB SSD for about $139. I cannot believe how fast prices on SSDs have dropped. Anyway, that's what I'll be upgrading to here in the next handful of months, probably.
Yeah, it's amazing how much SSD's have dropped in price this past year. I bought 2 of them, one for each laptop. And now HDD prices for backup storage has dropped a lot too. On Black Friday or Cyber Monday I'm going to pick up the best deal I can find on one of those. Reliability from tried and true brands like Western Digital and Seagate are good enough that SSD is still nutty pricing for something like backup storage.
