Thanks for all the advice, everyone. I think I'll spring for the 1660. A tad more than I was going to spend, but it seems to more than make up for it in terms of futureproof-ness.
I'm specifically eyeing this cute little thing: https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/PH-GTX1660-O6G
Current card has 3GB GDDR5 and runs at 862 MHz.
Other specs:
ASUS H87-Plus
Intel i5-4670 @ 3.8 GHz
2x4GB Corsair DDR3 PC3-10700H (667 MHz)
I play games, but only in 1080p and I don't require top visual detail. Not looking for an upgrade as such, just something with similar power is fine. It...
The HDD Windows is on is definitely on its way out, that's part of the reason for the new SSD. When I first ran chkdsk, it fixed tons of errors, which apparently resulted in a bunch of orphaned files as well. I suspect some system files got mangled in the process, but I can't run sfc /scannow to...
Quick rundown of the situation:
- Oldish PC with 2 HDDs, one of them has been showing signs of failure recently
- Earlier today it still worked, then I went to shut it off and got a BSOD (something about videoport.sys, doesn't sound relevant because there are no video problems otherwise)
- I...
The real issue in this whole situation is really not what Zoe Quinn did, it's what the gaming "journalists" did.
Zoe Quinn cheating on her bf is entirely her business, and not much of a story.
Zoe Quinn cheating on her bf with influential members of the industry who can further her career...
One motherboard change later...
So apparently if you go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Setup, there's a value called "Upgrade". Delete that, and sysprep will run fine.
I did have a small hickup during first boot where at the "Starting services" stage it would put up a messagebox saying "Windows...
This is not an option, I'm afraid. The tutorial says sysprep won't work on an upgraded version of Windows, and I'm pretty sure that mine was upgraded from Vista back in the day. Even if not, it also says that sysprep will erase all activation information, and I seem to have misplaced my...
Ok, let me see if I got this straight.
Here's the manufacturer's specs on my motherboard's storage:
It seems the motherboard has 3 different storage controllers. However, if I go to Device Manager, under "Storage Controllers" I only see "Marvell 61xx RAID Controller". From this, I...
A bit more technical explanation: stream processors are very good at embarrassingly parallel processing, where you have a large amount of data, and you need to perform the same operations on each element. However, as different cores start branching to different execution paths, the parallel...
I'm with mfenn on this one. Compare the specs: Hyperthreading, a .1 GHz max turbo frequency and 2 MBs of extra cache are literally the only thing going for the i7-4770. In benchmarks, they're neck and neck as far as gaming goes, it's only at highly parallel/non-GPU intensive tasks that the i7...
I recently got a GTX 780 as a present, but the rest of my machine is 6 years old (see sig). So, time for a big upgrade. I'd like to get at least another 5 years out of this rig, with a possible graphics card/RAM upgrade somewhere down the line. I'm probably not going to overclock, so that's not...
I'm due for a motherboard upgrade, and after a quick round of googling, it seems that a lot of times people can upgrade their mobo without having to reinstall Windows. What exactly determines whether or not you'll need a clean install? Is there anything I can do to improve the chances of the...
So what kind of CPU would be strong enough for that card? More importantly, is there anything with an LGA775 socket that won't bottleneck it, or am I looking to upgrade my motherboard as well?
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