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Raptor_Fawr

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  1. Hello everyone. My mouse scrolls on it's own on some applications, like every time i hover over youtube volume it turns down, windows settings app is unusable because I can't scroll down and every time I hover over some setting that can be tuned with the wheel it goes up or down on it's own. I've tried to reinstall drivers and all that stuff to no avail. Should I try to disassemble it and see if it is a hardware issue like dust etc or should I buy a new one? Edit: windows issue not mouse releated. It didn't stopped but it happens with any mouse
  2. I've settled for a different model because the e14 costs too much in my country but I've gone ryzen after reading some reviews and after I understood that low cost laptops run on intel integrated graphics unless you go amd. Intel graphics sucks on laptops, sorry big blue
  3. Hello to all, I am in need for a laptop that have good battery life and I don't really care much about performance. I already have an asus with i5 and a mobile gtx card, but unfortunately it has some issues when on battery and I have no intention to fix it, i'd rather buy a new one. I'm scared of downgrading tho, because my previous laptop had an intel atom as a CPU and the experience was horrible. I don't want to waste money on low end intel cpus like celeron, but at the same time I recognize my opinion on laptops might be biased. The most intensive task I will ask this computer will be netflix. On my asus I also played some games but I won't do that anytime soon, office work mostly What do you think?
  4. I'd suggest you to wait and buy a board after the cpus will be released. The board you are going to buy may not be compatible enough to push the CPU you are going to buy, so it's safer to wait post-release
  5. Thank you guys in the end and a couple of tests later I decided to settle 3,6 ghz even if the CPU was able to do more, just because it seemed the most stable option and thermals are good. The same games on another computer with an Athlon 3000G were able to perform a lot better although the latter is only a dual core, so I suggested him to buy asap an AM4 platform rather than upgrade the board I gave him
  6. Hello everyone Trough Bios settings alone I was able to get up to 4ghz without any issue whatsoever on this cpu, but I was wondering if it's worth it. Most people set it to 3,6 ghz and apparently after that there are diminished returns. Also I was worried about overheating, I want this board to last at least one more year, better if two. The purpose is gaming, of course. A friend with no money that has a core 2 duo and 4gb ddr2 system will benefit from this board until he can buy ryzen
  7. I second the cooler master solution, but if you sill want one of the two above, the nzxt is aestethically more pleasing but the deepcool have slightly better features. It's all up to you
  8. Thanks to all of you, I feel relieved then. TofuHaroto asked for the specific model but I am not aware right now, it's from be quiet and it's pretty recent I bought it on amazon this year because I needed a spare psu for component testing
  9. Yesterday I've tested an old motherboard that I want to borrow to a friend because his computer sucks. I've hooked up a be-quiet 600w psu to an overclocked i5-750 @ 3,6ghz and I tested some games with 8gb ram (4x2gb) and my old r9 290x Everything worked and I was ready to tell him that everything worked fine, until I used some "psu wattage calculators" online. Apparently 600w is not enough for this system configuration to run properly, I should go for a 650w power supply. Now, those parts would be given for free to him so he can't really complain, but I don't want his computer to die mid gaming session because the psu is weak. What do you guys think?
  10. It is very fast, it takes one second or two. The game freeze and the pc powers off, like it was unplugged with no battery left. At restart windows doesn't detect any issue, when my desktop had the same behaviour it told me that "some error occurred" but with the laptop there is no warning nor error messages at reboot
  11. no unfortunately the whole computer shuts down. Maybe it's a overheating issue but I don't think it's the case, temps are not really that much different. It appears that the monitor inputs (HDMI and VGA) are only available for the CPU to use, I can't force the NVIDIA card to use them exclusively. I thought that the issue was connected to that, but PhysiX panel shows that the default display is also connected the same way so idk Is it possible that laptop performance is so bad that it cannot carry GPU power over HDMI?
  12. As title say. This happens very frequently when gaming, once happened while watching netflix and never happens when surfing the web. It has a gtx 940m I've just updated the drivers but the issue persist, no matter the resolution. I'm now going to test it with a monitor I scavenged from another laptop (13" inches same resolution) and with VGA just to see if it is the hdmi port or something else. I can game with the included display with no issues whatsoever (except low graphic settings because laptop and old gpu) Edit no matter what it's the external display
  13. this is true, unfortunately this is not really an option for me but I'll try to check out where can I go
  14. Hey guys I am literally 3 hours into this research and I think I'm not qualified enough to make a choice. I want to change my monitor which is a quite old LCD monitor 1920x1080 (Philips 273V5LHSB) and now I'm trying to understand what should work best for me. My budget is around 250-300$ but my country prices may differ from yours so feel free to suggest something over this budget if you think it's worth it. I'm looking for a 27' 1440p 16:9 monitor because price, but I am really intrigued by 34' 21:9 I don't care about refresh rates since I think 60hz is enough for me, Ithe monitor will occasionally be used for productivity and content creation but in the last 3 months I've just gamed, so I still don't know if I should buy an IPS for colour accuracy or a VA for better contrast. I would use the monitor from 1 meter distance average, sometimes closer sometimes further. Philips 272B8Q looks like a decent upgrade but most competitors sell similar monitors for much more money so idk, Linus suggested AOC CQ27G2U in one of his videos and it's on the pricier side of my budget but I could still choose that one instead. I would buy the flat panel version rather than the curved one tho What do you guys think?
  15. So this has been asked a couple of times already in the forum but all the threads are 2years old or so I have an i7 3770k system, I cannot change the cpu this is a sabertooth p67 motherboard with 32gb ddr3 memory. Currently I'm sporting a radeon r9 290x I am planning to upgrade the entire machine in two years and I would go for a Ryzen processor, but I'm waiting for zen3 and possibly am5 socket if they are going to release it anytime soon. For now I can only change my graphics card and I want it to be future proof enough to perform well on this machine and the newer I'll be doing as above mentioned. I was thinking about a GTX 1070 or 1080ti but those are hard to find and as expensive as the newer RTX GPUs so I'm unsure wheter to buy those instead What do you guys think?
  16. I still have to get a new HDD because the old one is probably faulty, but I'm now covinced that the best OS for the system will be an old microsoft release (I'm unsure wheter to go for 98SE or XP) because the machine will indeed be too slow for internet browsing anyway. At least she will be able to play some DOS games or pinball, since it's preloaded on both oses
  17. As title say, what is the most effective way to install a lightweight distro directly on HDD without having to rely on usb ports? My girlfriend wants to revive an old laptop which only has floppy disk and old COM ports for printers, the HDD is PATA not sata and for this purpose we can use another computer and connect the hard drive with a pata to usb converter. I just don't want it to be recognized by the laptop as a live installation
  18. If you are planning to buy a high end ryzen like the one you mentioned you should check for a b550 motherboard, it's not required but it could be a good idea to keep an eye on those
  19. I too would go for a ryzen processor, they cost less tha intel counterpart and they sometimes outperform greatly the compared product. As for the 5 years from now games, my main machine is still running an i7 3770 non k and I can play any game I want (1080p high to ultra, some newer games at medium to high settings), so I wouldn't bother much about it. Just make sure that the cpu you are gonna buy doesn't bottleneck the best GPU you could ever afford, like a 2080 for instance. Even if you don't buy an RTX now you might want to upgrade your rig in the future, maybe in 3 years they come up with a GPU you feel like buying and if you have the correct motherboard and cpu combo now you will not need to change anything else
  20. Honestly unless you need macos applications (mostly creative stuff such as logic pro x that are not available on windows for some reason) I'd suggest you not to buy apple laptops. Some problems you are mad about are mostly common laptop issues, such as the 4 hours battery thing when using it and some usb ports not working properly) others are exclusively apple releated (the lack of 32bit support for instance still is an issue for some people, who chose not to install catalina update because it lead to instability on their mac exclusive applications such as logic pro x as mentioned above). For that price you should better buy a windows10 laptop and you might consider to learn about hackintoshing it, altho you might also want to see if the law in your country permits such things.
  21. It's easy to test this, swap back your old cpu and try to post. If you still have problems your 450w psu could be not sufficient to power the new system and you might need a 500 or 550w psu. Or ram is not seated well, or you need a bios update. I also want to add that you might want to change motherboard as well, if you buy it on amazon it should work with your cpu without the need to update the bios EDIT also make sure to do a cmos reset, sometimes motherboards don't like when you change components and removing the battery power for a couple minutes it might help a lot
  22. This is true, mainly because console games are designed to take all the resources from the machine and make them work, unlike pc gaming where usually you have also other tasks in the background (coff coff windows coff coff). This kind of well designed performance from the software side can be seen in asic machines, where you don't need powerful components to make things work. It's not the same thing but think about crypto mining computers, the most buyed cpu for those is intel celeron and I would never buy a celeron for anything else honestly
  23. My desktop computer is lacking bluetooth support and I want to implement it in the best way possible. I aim at mostly gaming, so it should be able to connect to a controller like the dualshock4 wireless. I've seen that usually bluetooth pcie cards comes with wifi modules and I was wondering if I could loose any performance over wifi if I buy one of those. Windows 10 currently sporting an old Tp-Link TL-WN881ND 300 Mbps and I'm 3 meters away from my router
  24. For the sake of the argument, this is totally true and that's basically the reason why console games don't have a "graphic setting" option while pc games do: in order to make the game more sellable you need to make it more accessible to the players while keeping up with new technology. You must satisfy both the 2080 user and the 750 user if you want to sell
  25. Cannot agree more. Also I love the fact that you put 1080ti and 2080 in the same category, some people think that newer is automatically better. I'd still buy a 2080 rather than a 1080 Ti just because it's newer and probably it will do better in the long run, but if I had a 1080Ti I would not upgrade it at all with the current market
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