New computer, is it decent?

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Wed 16 Aug, 2006 10:04 pm

Yeah CPUs are almost never the bottleneck in modern gaming rigs.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Thu 17 Aug, 2006 12:31 am

CompWiz wrote:a p4 laptop? So, what's the battery life, 5 minutes?

More like 1.5 hours....ish XD, It heats my room up quickly >.<....yeah

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Thu 17 Aug, 2006 12:36 am

you can't really put those on your lap, either...unless you enjoy 3rd degree burns all over your legs.

Post by **kv83** » Thu 17 Aug, 2006 8:38 am

anykey wrote:you can't really put those on your lap, either...unless you enjoy 3rd degree burns all over your legs.

and not able to getting kids is another not-so-nice side-effect... ah well, it's warm in those cold winter nights

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Thu 17 Aug, 2006 11:00 pm

Sometimes it seems like they should change the name from "laptop" to "really small but harmful on your lap computer"
I'd rather buy a desktop, especially since the battery life is only about an hour...yikes!

Arcane WIzard · Post by **Arcane WIzard** » Thu 17 Aug, 2006 11:17 pm

I wouldn't buy a new laptop with a battery life of less than 4-5 hours of normal use (not gaming).

KevinJB · Post by **KevinJB** » Thu 17 Aug, 2006 11:46 pm

My laptop gets about five hours battery life, had it for over a year.

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Fri 18 Aug, 2006 8:33 am

my computer has approx 1min when you turn the power off.. (the best weapon against parents who turn off the power and offcourse 'real' power lags)
oh and my RAM isn't JUST slower then my CPU, its almost as slow as the pagefile, so that's slow.. slow enough to think about buying new RAM.
and trying to run windows vista seems to make it worse (so microsoft scrwed up - again) it takes around 30% CPU when I'm doing absolutely nothing at all.
and is it possible to put AA's in a TI 84+ ? IN it?

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Fri 18 Aug, 2006 3:44 pm

I really doubt that it's your ram that's taking up 30% of your cpu. You probably have some spyware or adware on your computer.

Here's the battery expansion page, but I don't think the batteries are completely enclosed in the calc.
http://richfiles.solarbotics.net/BatteryExpander.html

Arcane WIzard · Post by **Arcane WIzard** » Fri 18 Aug, 2006 7:01 pm

Or he didn't look at the recommended requirements before running a next generation OS that is still in beta.

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Fri 18 Aug, 2006 7:54 pm

yeah. What specs does your computer have, King Harold?

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Sat 19 Aug, 2006 1:03 pm

(the advisor program said i could run vista)
why would spyware infect vista from the first day i had it and NOT xp
I didnt say my ram takes 30%, im blaming vista (XP isnt taking 30%)

AMD athlon 64 2,21 GHz
512 Mb RAM
200 GB harddisk
geForece 6800 LE (but softhacked for the locked pipes)
and overclocked to ~850 Mhz (mem speed ~450 Mhz)
need more specs?

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Sat 19 Aug, 2006 1:19 pm

hmm, that should work fine. It would be a good idea to add another 512 of ram though. It really helps. I'm running 2 gigs right now, and it's great, but 1 gig should give you a nice speed boost.

Post by **Patori** » Sat 19 Aug, 2006 1:34 pm

before I was thrown out of my house... my computer had 2 gigs... Unfortunately, I'm back down to 512.... my dad stole the ram chips :'(

Shadow Phoenix · Post by **Shadow Phoenix** » Sat 19 Aug, 2006 2:31 pm

512 stick costs a mere $30....