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920xm is an old one is all I know.
 
@Gofspar knows a lot more than I would.

Ok, I have a dell Inspiron n5110 with 6gb of ddr3l ram, it has a quad core i7 2630qm (if i recall correctly) with hyperthreading at 2.0ghz (non OC) and an Nvidia GT 525m with 1gb of vram (not sure wich)
I have been trying to sell it for $5000 pesos (im selling it in mexico) roughly 300USD, havent gottwn a resopnse an people want me to drop it to 3500 pesos. 200 USD!!! Thats what I think only the i7 is worth. What do you think?

True. Just putting in my 2 cents.

It all starts with the framerates. Lets say you have a GTX 950 and a Pentium G3258, you play games at Geforce Experience sertings and always get 60fps in games even if its at lower setting. But one day, one day, you start playing a AAA game, like Witcher 3, you cant get 60fps for some kind of reason, so you start OverClocking your GPU and CPU, but discover that you GPU brand (Asus for example) OverClocks like shit. So you get a GTX 970 to play AAA games at 60fps lock. But now your CPU is bottlenecking your GTX 970 and you get an i7 4790k. Now you are getting above 60fps on all AAA titles on you 60hz monitor, but for some reason, you discovered G-Sync. Now you have a 144hz monitor with G-Sync and 1440p resolution. To match the 1440p/144hz combo, you OC your i7 and your GTX 970 to max clocks. Now you are all fine and dandy. But now you have overheating problems and your CPU/GPU are throttling, so you get a custom watercooling loop with 2x 360mm rads.
Now you want 4k resolution and textures, so you get 2x 980Ti s and an i7 5960x all OCd to max.
And thats how you go from an entry level build, to Enthusiast grade PC in less than 3 years.
Welcome to the master race.

PC gaming a hobby is a STEAL compared to car, guns, audio etc. It's frankly pretty cheap to be an enthusiast in the PC world compared to a lot of other hobbies, you need what, 2000 for a super good rig? Now go and get into custom cars and see how long that lasts

It all starts with the framerates. Lets say you have a GTX 950 and a Pentium G3258, you play games at Geforce Experience sertings and always get 60fps in games even if its at lower setting. But one day, one day, you start playing a AAA game, like Witcher 3, you cant get 60fps for some kind of reason, so you start OverClocking your GPU and CPU, but discover that you GPU brand (Asus for example) OverClocks like shit. So you get a GTX 970 to play AAA games at 60fps lock. But now your CPU is bottlenecking your GTX 970 and you get an i7 4790k. Now you are getting above 60fps on all AAA titles on you 60hz monitor, but for some reason, you discovered G-Sync. Now you have a 144hz monitor with G-Sync and 1440p resolution. To match the 1440p/144hz combo, you OC your i7 and your GTX 970 to max clocks. Now you are all fine and dandy. But now you have overheating problems and your CPU/GPU are throttling, so you get a custom watercooling loop with 2x 360mm rads.
Now you want 4k resolution and textures, so you get 2x 980Ti s and an i7 5960x all OCd to max.
And thats how you go from an entry level build, to Enthusiast grade PC in less than 3 years.
Welcome to the master race.

It all starts with the framerates. Lets say you have a GTX 950 and a Pentium G3258, you play games at Geforce Experience sertings and always get 60fps in games even if its at lower setting. But one day, one day, you start playing a AAA game, like Witcher 3, you cant get 60fps for some kind of reason, so you start OverClocking your GPU and CPU, but discover that you GPU brand (Asus for example) OverClocks like shit. So you get a GTX 970 to play AAA games at 60fps lock. But now your CPU is bottlenecking your GTX 970 and you get an i7 4790k. Now you are getting above 60fps on all AAA titles on you 60hz monitor, but for some reason, you discovered G-Sync. Now you have a 144hz monitor with G-Sync and 1440p resolution. To match the 1440p/144hz combo, you OC your i7 and your GTX 970 to max clocks. Now you are all fine and dandy. But now you have overheating problems and your CPU/GPU are throttling, so you get a custom watercooling loop with 2x 360mm rads.
Now you want 4k resolution and textures, so you get 2x 980Ti s and an i7 5960x all OCd to max.
And thats how you go from an entry level build, to Enthusiast grade PC in less than 3 years.
Welcome to the master race.

better hope thats without drives.
 
but at that price point you may be better off getting a prebuilt nas. 

If you build one yourself you can build it to your needs, upgrade it in the future and expand if you need more storage. It can also be more reliable that some of those prebuilt nas that only come with one drive. I think custom is better

Actually I ordered the 240 through amazon and arrived leaked. It had some rusted screws too.

Ty

Hey everyone. So I wanted to design a Small Form Factor m-itx CPU Liquid Cooler. I saw theH5 from Corsair but I think they could have done better. BTW this isnt intended for maximum performance.
I was thinking of going for a CPU Block + Pump / Reservoir Combo.
For the Radiator I was thinking in a 27.5mm or slimer, 120mm rad or less. I think 90mm would be ideal.
For the fan I would go for something like the Cooler Master Ultra Slim (15mm) Xtra Flow fan that is 120mm for the 120mm Rad. Can you link some slim 90mm fans?
To make this hole thing have sense. I was thinking in mounitng the fan to the rad and House it all in a small cube with the CPU block and have the tubing hidden away with just an opening for the fan.
PICS INCOMING

Haha you are hillarious. If increasing the voltage doesn't work its not possible. BTW you only have 4 cores and that is just enough for gaming a dual core i5 at 5ghz isn't worth it

no delid the cpu, get a dice pot. insulate the mobo board then you will get 5ghz. 

I would recommend to change the case if your budget allows for it the S340 unless modded isn't the best for rad space, as for just a single CPU loop try looking into the EKWB kits they are a good foundation to build on:
https://shop.ekwb.com/kits

Running a 970 @1567/3557MHz, a 3770k @4.8FHz and 16GB ram @1886MHz on ultra 1080p (all maxed but no frame scaling) I get ~48 fps but quickly go over the 3.5gb and my fps drops below 30, with slight tweaking I get almost maxed settings and 60fps average with the 3.5gb never filling up.

GTX 970.

hey so my strix gets 1554 or 1556 not sure either way its something like that, its stock voltage, stock bios, stock power limit, do i have the fastest strix 970 ? cant find any higher oc on the strix 
mem is at 7800

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The Nvidia Logo detracts from the interest of the Lego.
Showing the subtleness of the heart of lego with the flames of the proportionate hydrocarbons that contribute to its structure, against the plainess of white that is the organics of natures great carbon collectors.
Andy Warhol eat yer heart out! 

Seriously though, somebody out there will make a personal connection to this that baffles the rest of us.

I got an A in art for "something original" which was actually a port I was making for a model railway set on a board. Put a wall mounting on it, handed it in.
When I eventually got it back it went on to serve lots of little coal trucks.
 

This was my art class exam. (Ignore my shitty drawing and excess green glue)

I was totally expecting plot spoilers in here

I wouldn't worry about overall scores.  Just watch the graphics scores and compare those.  They're the only thing that really matters when comparing GPUs anyway.  970s with a custom bios and a good overclock should be pulling 14k+ graphics scores.  My highest is 14880 in test runs, and 14760 during a scoring run.  Those scores with 1633 on the core and 2176 on the memory.