Random Question Thread: Tech

[Mikelee0351]

My CPU is a HP Pavilion p6230y which has a foxconn H-RS880-uATX (Aloe) mobo, all I can find on HP's site says, quad cores, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it hasn't been updated since 6x hit the market.... Also can't find jack, even that model on Foxconn's website.

also, would you do the cpu upgrade I mentioned first, or, go from an EVGA superclocked gtx260 to a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&Tpk=msi%20560 first?

[Arximiro]

So after a 2 month journey I finally settled on a graphics card, here she is.

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Yeah, the MSI 560ti OC version. My question is does anyone else have this card and know a good OC for it? Preferably a SS of their MSI afterburner settings would suffice, or just them written. I'm also curious if it is even worth OCing when my Win-Exp index looks like this. This is with my CPU already OCed from 2.4 to 3Ghz. It seems like my bottleneck is elsewhere than my GFX card and I'd hate to push it hard unless it's worth it because I'm going to use it down the road when I can finally afford to build me an i7.

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[Isiolia]

My CPU is a HP Pavilion p6230y which has a foxconn H-RS880-uATX (Aloe) mobo, all I can find on HP's site says, quad cores, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it hasn't been updated since 6x hit the market.... Also can't find jack, even that model on Foxconn's website.

also, would you do the cpu upgrade I mentioned first, or, go from an EVGA superclocked gtx260 to a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&Tpk=msi%20560 first?

Ah, yeah, that'd be trickier. Even if it were updated, I'm not sure that it'd support the CPUs you were interested in. This looks like it may be an updated version of your board, but it only supports a max TDP if 95W for the CPU. The ones you were looking at are 125W.

It's an OEM board, so you're not likely to find support for it outside of HP. Maybe consider swapping the board out too...a decent 880G board would be what, $60-70?


What to upgrade first would depend more on what's not cutting it now. Most likely you'd see a larger boost for gaming from a new GPU.

[Mikelee0351]

Hmm, website says it'll take 900 series AMD phenom 2 x4 chips, but makes no mention of wattage... Damn Best Buy specials.

I guess whichever I go with first, CPU or GPU, the other will end up being my bottleneck.

Also, switching out a MOBO is the only upgrade I've have no experience with and I'm a little hesitant.

[Senji]

Hmm, website says it'll take 900 series AMD phenom 2 x4 chips, but makes no mention of wattage... Damn Best Buy specials.

I guess whichever I go with first, CPU or GPU, the other will end up being my bottleneck.

Also, switching out a MOBO is the only upgrade I've have no experience with and I'm a little hesitant.

Think of more as upgrading everything at once, but not getting a bunch of new stuff.

[Mikelee0351]

Did a little looking, probably going to go with a mobo:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130293

[Metta]

Hey guys just a quick question, i have a G19 logitech keyboard and when ever i start up my computer it says "no keyboard deteced or plugged in" so i cant start up the computer unless i put another keyboard in, is there anyway to fix this?

[Ratatapa]

Try another USB port?

Or try going into the BIOS and make sure USB is activated before the boot

I had that problem once with my old PC, I had to boot up with a PS2 Keyboard because my USB wern't activated in the bios for POST

[Metta]

Try another USB port?

Or try going into the BIOS and make sure USB is activated before the boot

I had that problem once with my old PC, I had to boot up with a PS2 Keyboard because my USB wern't activated in the bios for POST

I´ve tried all the USB ports i had a quick look around google though, and it seems alot of people with the keyboard and the same motherboard as me have the same problem.

[chiyio]

see if you can turn off "halt on keyboard error" in the bios so it'll just keep booting into windows.

[D44kpunk]

Alright so I'm having a problem with the new computer I built and it's running some sort of graphic distortion problem.

http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/8484/lolololi.png

CPU: I7 960 3.2ghz
mobo: asus sabertooth x58
4gb ram
graphics: AMD Radeon™ HD 6870
OS: windows 7 professional 64 bit

i can't think of anything else to post, could this be a monitor problem? also it doesn't lock up or make the game lag, and it goes away after a while and then spurs up again. haven't been able to recreate it on ffxi and have no other games to test on atm. any ideas what this could be or how i could fix it?

edit: idk if this is related but it no longer will read my keyboard at all (tested keyboard on laptop and it worked fine)

[Purrrfect]

I had an old nvidia card do that shortly before it shit a brick.

[Not Kuno]

Anyone good with the M3 simply (for the DS)?

I got a new, larger card for it but it refuses to load, despite the fact I just copy/pasted everything from the old card. Any ideas? D:

[Boyiee]

@d44kpunk

gpu is either overheating, too high overclocked, both, going bad, etc. It's a gpu issue.

[Arximiro]

So no need to overclock my 560ti? cool

[Boyiee]

So no need to overclock my 560ti? cool

That depends on the user. If you want to overclock it, don't copy someone elses, you'll destroy your card. You'll want to bump it up in small increments until you get artifacting.

You don't overclock to increase your index score, nor does windows index provide reason to/not to overclock.

edit: maybe I worded that bad. Even if you have a 7.9 in graphics etc, there is still many reasons for some users to overclock. It depends on the users needs - what are you playing, what resolutions, how many monitors, folding, burning, benching, etc. Windows experience index is also a horrid tool to use to really gauge anything. I'm running 2x SSD's in RAID0, yet I have a 7.8 in primary harddisk, gg. Also, I have a 7.5 in graphics when I can guarantee that I shit on your systems and most systems on this forum lol.

[Callisto]

I was looking to ask about overclocking soon myself to get more out of the hardware I currently have, I don't really use my new PC for anything heavy-duty yet so I haven't had a real purpose to look into the overclocking though. Is there a decent guide to OC'ing that's relatively current(from what I understand OC'ing is now done by altering voltages instead of manually changing clock speeds?) that someone can recommend?

[Isiolia]

Overclocking will often mean tweaking voltages as things can wind up needing more power to operate at higher frequency, however, that alone isn't it.

Exactly what you need to do will depend on your hardware. The main difference now tends to be that it's not always as simple as one system bus speed + CPU multiplier as there are multiple bus speeds to consider. http://www.overclockers.com/3-step-g...core-i3-i5-i7/ is a nice place to start for pre-Sandy Bridge Intel. Not sure on AMD (though I believe they're a bit simpler).

[Arximiro]

That depends on the user. If you want to overclock it, don't copy someone elses, you'll destroy your card. You'll want to bump it up in small increments until you get artifacting.

You don't overclock to increase your index score, nor does windows index provide reason to/not to overclock.

edit: maybe I worded that bad. Even if you have a 7.9 in graphics etc, there is still many reasons for some users to overclock. It depends on the users needs - what are you playing, what resolutions, how many monitors, folding, burning, benching, etc. Windows experience index is also a horrid tool to use to really gauge anything. I'm running 2x SSD's in RAID0, yet I have a 7.8 in primary harddisk, gg. Also, I have a 7.5 in graphics when I can guarantee that I shit on your systems and most systems on this forum lol.

What cards are you running? I've heard only good things by misc. overclockers about using W.index as a benchmark for your system. I can see a problem when you get to the max of 7.9 having trouble knowing, but very few people sit at 7.9.

[Arximiro]

Random Question. Is there any reason to ever flash your MB bios unless your PC has a problem? I've never once done this on a PC but I'm curious if there is any reason to do so unless there is a problem.