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My New System

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Dark Infernape, Jun 6, 2014.

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  1. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    about 3% faster than a 3rd gen. Haswell isn't all its cracked up to be, especially considering how much more the decent motherboards cost compared to 3rd gen.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 9, 2014
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  2. Dark Infernape

    Dark Infernape Raiden 雷電

    Really? Only 3%?
     
    Dark Infernape, Jun 9, 2014
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  3. Dark Infernape

    Dark Infernape Raiden 雷電

    Then does that mean its only as good as an i5?
     
    Dark Infernape, Jun 9, 2014
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  4. Prectorian

    Prectorian . Staff Member

    Not trying to sound more stupid than already am. What's the difference between i5, i7, etc.?
    I got 1 computer on i5 which I barely touch, and I don't even feel it's any better than this computer I'm using running Celeron, or should I say jogging.
     
    Prectorian, Jun 9, 2014
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  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    no it means its only 3% improvement on the previous generation of i7 running at the same clock.

    they're different processors. i7 are the most powerful, i5 are the midrange and i3 are the low end cheap processors. Not sure if celerons are still made or if they're previous generation. If they're still made they're less powerful and cheaper than i3s.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 9, 2014
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  6. jackass@lala

    jackass@lala Well-Known Member

    the current 4th gen laptop processors are capable of using the low voltage rams which is 1.35v , while the 3rd gen uses the 1.5v . i think this is the most advantage of the latest 4th gen system hence it's 3% more powerful.
     
    jackass@lala, Jun 9, 2014
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  7. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    that won't make it more powerful, will just make the battery last a tiny bit longer.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 9, 2014
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  8. Neon32

    Neon32 Neo-Noir

    celerons till B480 were included under sandy bridge with the best of these able to give 1.9GHz and intel stopped making these from 2011. butt he interesting thing is that i3's 2377M were worse than the celeron with clock rate of 1.5Ghz and graphics rate of 300Mhz.

    @Loonylion
    the 4702MQ which Dark Infernape has got here is an Mobile processor , can you tell the difference between Mobile and desktop processors .
     
    Neon32, Jun 9, 2014
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  9. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    mobile processors are less powerful. they consume less power and create less heat than their desktop counterparts, but are capable of less as a result. Also you typically can't buy them as a standalone package.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 9, 2014
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  10. Dark Infernape

    Dark Infernape Raiden 雷電

    Yesterday i updated my nvidia drivers to 337.88.

    Oh and i ran and tested a few ISO's on Pcsx2, and everything i tried ran fine, at constant 60 fps even with the "Enable Speedhack" check box disabled.
    I tried Dirge of Cerebrus, Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 etc
    Even then i could see the fps rise to 62 and 64 sometimes.
    And on the Balanced power setting, i could get stable 60 fps at 3x Res Scaling and dropped by about 2-5 fps each time for the rest.
     
    Dark Infernape, Jun 10, 2014
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  11. Neon32

    Neon32 Neo-Noir

    just another question , this might be not releated to the topic but still
    when we but the motherboard and HDD separately , are the jumpers pre arranged or do we have to do that in the HDD and motherboard.
     
    Neon32, Jun 10, 2014
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  12. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    jumpers are not used anymore. (I assume you mean the caps you had to put on pins to choose master/slave/cable select). If you meant something else, please elaborate.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 10, 2014
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  13. Neon32

    Neon32 Neo-Noir

    yes i meant the caps .
     
    Neon32, Jun 10, 2014
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  14. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    sata is one device per channel so theres no such thing as master/slave.

    some SATA HDDs can have a jumper set to limit the speed, but it wont come set by default and its very rare that you'd need to set it.

    About the only jumper found on motherboards these days is the one to clear the cmos.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 10, 2014
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  15. Neon32

    Neon32 Neo-Noir

    i had seen these jumpers on a motherboard last week when i had gone to the computer shop so i thought that these things are still used, i guess that motherboard was old and thanks for the info :)
     
    Neon32, Jun 11, 2014
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  16. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    some motherboards might have a couple for setting pci-e link speed or something, but it's quite unusual. Most of the stuff that used to be set with jumpers is now done in the bios or uefi setup.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 11, 2014
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  17. Dark Infernape

    Dark Infernape Raiden 雷電

    I want a good CPU/GPU Temperature detection software.
    I Use Core temp on my win 7 desktop. But i want something else of my lap.

    Cause Core Temp makes win explorer in win 8 to crash and restart sometimes, and i tried using Speed Fan, it gives me a BSOD in win 8.1.
    A lot of other users has also had this problem.

    So any good Alternatives to Core Temp and Speed Fan??
     
    Dark Infernape, Jun 12, 2014
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  18. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    msi afterburner?

    Bear in mind that not all laptops have cpu and/or gpu temperature sensors.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 12, 2014
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  19. Dark Infernape

    Dark Infernape Raiden 雷電

    Yep I know that. My system has the necessary sensors as Both Core Temp and Speed Fan detected the Temps.

    I should add this, it should be possible to minimize the software to the notification area ( bottom right hand side of win 7), just like with core temp and speed fan, so I don't have to open the app each time.
    Loonylion Can I do that in msi afterburner?
     
    Dark Infernape, Jun 12, 2014
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  20. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    yes, afterburner can be minimised to tray. It only does GPU temp though as far as I can see.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 12, 2014
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