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Akujin

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About Akujin

  • Birthday 01/13/1989

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Louisiana
  • Interests
    Guitar

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  • Computer Specs
    Pentium G2120
    nVidia GTX 660 ti
    8gb G. Skill Ares

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  1. My ivy bridge pentium g2120 is on par with the i3s for gaming, that's why I was looking at some higher core alternatives. I mainly play gw2 which is optimized for 4 cores. I get bad stutter in large encounters with 100% load on my processor.
  2. I should also note that money isn't really an issue. I'll upgrade to a 3570k if the performance gain would be optimal. I'm just trying to circumvent rebuilding my system again in a 2 month period.
  3. So about a month ago, I updated my very old Athlon 64 6000+ and GTX 460 to a H61 chipset mobo with a Pentium G2120 and a GTX 660 ti. Now at the time, I wasn't aware of intel chipsets and how my motherboard would be unable to overclock. Had I known that, I would have made a different decision. Anyway, without being able to overclock, what would be a cheap (can be used or new) viable upgrade from my pentium. It is bottlenecking my gfx pretty badly. I have been looking on ebay and have seen some i7 920's for around $100 which sounds good if it would be a decent upgrade for gaming. So let's say I want to spend up to $150 what would be my best option?
  4. I find the TI-89 extremely useful in vector calculus. In my book, a problem that may take two pages of work can be reduced to a few button presses and a few graph traces. Not to mention if you get bored of Stokes Theorem, there is always handy Final Fantasy 7: Cloud's Quest.
  5. I use WAMP which sets up everything for you, and is pretty easy to maintain.
  6. I can think of a few ways: 1. Set up one of the machines (the one with the internet connection) as a proxy server, and have the others use it for internet connection. (Will require downloading of 3rd party proxy server software.) or 2. Enable internet connection sharing across your LAN. (Easiest way.)
  7. That all depends on what you want to use C++ for. General DOS or MFC application tutorials can be found everywhere. Google is your friend. If you are interested in programming games or physics engines, nehe.gamedev.net is where you want to go.
  8. I've had bad experiences with corsair. 2x 1GB sticks went bad.
  9. The style xp themes work with that patch. Just put them in C:\windows\resources\themes\ The .theme files you are looking at are just theme files, not the ui itself. They aren't needed.
  10. My HS is lukewarm, which is what it used to feel like before things went crazy. I'm pretty sure the HS is seated correctly, as I've reseated it 8 times now; none making a difference in the temp it was reaching when it was at 1.7v. The old default voltage that it ran at was 1.45, but apparently my computer thinks default needs to be higher than that, so I'm manually setting it for now. 1.25v is running stable with my overclock (2.20GHz) at ~45c idle, ~53c load. This is all stock cooling. It was getting mildly hot when the bios said it was ~100c, but not burn my finger kind of hot; however, it will only stay over 100c for a second or two, so I'm not certain if it would have gotten any hotter.
  11. I solved the problem. Apparently my motherboard recently decided that overvolting my processor would be good fun, so I lowered the cpu voltage to 1.25, and literally watched the temp drop from 100c to 45c.
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