FireofDestruction

well guys, i'm going to lay it all out here i'm in tech school which is basically college in the military i have 3 months before i can get my desktop(at my first station) and i'm currently sitting with a i3 3110M 8GB of ram and like a 750GB hard drive this cannot game at all its 4 years old. My budget for a new laptop is 600-800 ish USD suggestions are welcome anything that's a bit better than this would be gr8.

Just now, typographie said:

Most programs that display common GPU info, such as clock speed, temperature, etc. will also display VRAM usage. MSI Afterburner, GPU-Z, HWMonitor, etc.

 

Typically being starved for VRAM doesn't look like a flat, consistent FPS drop but rather "hitching" and stuttering when you turn the camera quickly or enter new areas. But sure, that many mods could easily eat up nearly 4 GB, so it could be VRAM-related I suppose.

what was happening is when i would enter a city like say white run skyrim turned into a meme? and would loop the same image over and over but you could hear people like walking by saying things and i would alt tab out then back again and black screen twas strange indeed i'm not done trouble shooting it yet always open minded about bugs and what not

3 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

msi afterburner

thank you kind sir.

so i have 2 4GB cards and was recently playing skyrim which i modded a little, 30 ish mods then i added a few more (50 ish) and a few more (80) and out of the total 80 mods i'd say about 20-30 are textures ranging from 2k-4k resolution. Well since i have this many my game has not been running smoothly, and i pondered the question if it was well me using all of my vram since i know high res textures will chew through it like no other. is there a program that monitors vram usage? 

the only one i could think of doing this would be IBM for the CPU side since they did make the first 7nm CPU

reaching isnt a problem for the first one but sometimes during the summer i would pull out the second graphics card just cause it was too much heat i just used a screwdriver that was cut off so it was essentially a rod with a handle 

i have dual 290s and i have 40+ mods on skyrim 200+ mods on minecraft 30 mods on beamng.drive and while my cards are older still handle fine at 1080P not sure if your shooting for higher res though

personally here AMD because when i got my build i could get 2 r9 290's for the price of 1 780Ti

im guessing he will be flying planes so he is literally moving up 

actually if i get the job i want( probably not) ill be working on computers for the AF so yeah lol

congratulations and thank you for your service..

staying there at eglin or different base?

no clue yet hopefully somewhere else because FL gets really boring for 18 years

Tuesday I go to MEPS (for those who don't live in the states its basically a really long physical) to swear in with the USAF. super excited, waited a long time for this to finally be moving out of my parents house soon

you don't have to build a 2k pc you can build a one for $800- 10k but the ideal price to performance ratio is about 2000-2500. its really not hard trust me you wont break anything either i did my first one just over a year ago and it went fine take your time, follow some guides. i was in the same boat i wanted to play games on high settings and i couldn't because my laptop had a core i3 3110M and welcome to the PCMR

 

didnt see other posts.... about the mobility issue just build later mk?

corsair 750D best case hands down then again i might be a fanboy but oh well

The way you format your text is mildly infuriating 

better?

ok guys now settle down this is going to be a story about the time i replace the thermal paste and fan on a laptop. So a few days ago i get a message saying that

 

my laptop fan is basically dying i told my mother and went to amazon found a replacement fan and some nice arctic silver 5 to boot. My girlfriend said why don't you

 

just buy a new laptop...and i replied to her because i don't have another $700 dollars burninga hole in my pocket right this minute. so my mother buys the fan and

 

thermal compound it arrived around noon today (4 hours ago) i ate some lunch and got to work removing the battery then the back sidescrews,the hard drive,

 

wireless card and any other visible screws. Now i flipped it back over and started gently prying at the keyboard and then there were more screws to be removed

 

yay.... i actually broke theplastic piece that holds the keyboard but it still works fine. now i pried the plastic body of the laptop apart reviling the motherboard and i

 

could see the fan on the other side so i had to remove a few moreconnectors like the main power in and i scrub off that old compound after struggling to get the

 

board to come out and the back plate off mostly because hp decided to apply an adhesive to the back plate....likewhut why is that there. The fan was connected to

 

the single heatpipe by two screws and a bit of metal, so i unscrewed them and put the new fan in its place then applied the arctic silver to the cpu(i3 3110M) and

 

started to put the laptop back together which took me like 10 minutes and i managed to plug in every single connector execpt for the fan i just replaced so i got to

 

do  everything  above again just to plug in thefan and afterward man was it rewarding to see the temperatures unfortunately i don't have any pictures but before

 

when i was sitting doing nothing with the laptop it would sit at 40-44C now it it sits at 34-37cand no more overheating/ fan dying messages either... woot laptop

 

saved. sorry i felt like sharing this because i didn't have to send it back to HP(needed it for my flight in 1 week to my GF's house) and deal withtheir crappy

 

customer support and saved a bunch of money by doing so.

ok guys we just got a brand new printer, to replace our 7 year old one that kept going offline but now the new one is also going offline. we also just got a router last year when i was building my new computer. we

 

have 5 laptops, 4 phones, 2 desktops and 2 tablets. my questions are 1. is there a limit on the number of devices you can connect to a modem? and could this cause a printer to go offline if this limit is exceeded?

 

we have the default modem from cox which I know is....not the greatest.

i built as parts came in no worries buddy.

Umm don't first try to keep th within a max of 80% of the max amperage, if it does it can overheat the wall transformer, some good ones will have a thermal switch and automatically shut off, bad ones however can go sparky, sparky and end badly....

alrightly then...

Nope your good to wire it in parallel it will stay at 12V for bot fans, just make sure your fans aren't super high powered that exceed that 0.168Amp rating on the wall adapter.

. And if they do?

Wait why would you run fans in series, the are only suppose to be wired in parallel so it would only require 12V. Also just to mention proble the connector to see the voltage some wall adapters are no regualted 12V so it's higher than the acutal rating on them.

The wall adapter came from and old li ion battery charger for an rc car,I just removed the connector at the end, as with the fans I'm running. Didn't know about the parallel thing I'm just messing around (and using basic electrical safety ofc) just wasn't sure if the voltage would split to 6v and 6v but I'll run them parallel now thanks.

So I have an adapter, that takes the 110V from the wall and steps it down to 11.6V and 168ma. I've been playing around with some 12v old computer fans if I wanted to run 2 in series would I need 24 volts? Or 12v?

my system pulls 751W of power from the wall and i have an 850W psu and i have an OC'ed cpu you'll be fine mate. 100 watts extra is fine

This questions is aimed at people who are 20+ I think , since all of the teenagers on here hasn't done anything that seriously impacted their lives and if they did, they would not regret it for long... 

 

I wish I never find out about games,,, I wish the need for a new computer just dies inside me... 

don't think so, i wish i hadn't done so poorly in my 9th&10 grade years in high school i'm only 18 so.

you can. use something like carbon copy, or other cloning software to take everything off the HDD and put it on the SSD. the only issue, is the SSD has to be the same size as the amount of data on your harddrive.

time to get another copy of windows 600GB isnt going to fit on 250gb GG

Set your boot order in the BIOS to your Windows 7 Hard Drive at the top of your Storage Device list . Consider installing an OS on the SSD after to take advantage of it's speed.

Couldn't I just move the os from the HDD to the ssd?