Cy-Fox's Computer Command

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Cy-Fox's Computer Command; Now does (some) Apple products too
Tweet Topic Started: Dec 13 2012, 08:45 AM (4,245 Views)
Cy-Fox	Dec 13 2012, 08:45 AM Post #1
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	Not sure of the difference between a gigabyte and a gigawatt where your computer's concerned? Do you want to know why everything's running so slowly, even though you bought your rig for about $500 at a Best Buy? Did your iPhone go the way of the dodo? Well, now you have the ability to bend the ear of a professional in this thread. I started off as a certified PC and networking technician through my high school and college years, acquiring the CompTIA A+ certification in that time, but I also currently work for Apple in multiple technical support roles, primarily with a concentration on iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch and interfacing iOS with Windows/Mac OS X) and the non-iOS series of iPods (Classic/Shuffle/Nano and interfacing with Windows/Mac OS X). So drop what you have on me and I'll try to answer it same-day. It'd also be helpful if you could be as detailed as possible and also try to include some technical specs on your product (There is a difference between an iPod Touch 4th generation and a 1st generation after all).



Cy-Fox	Dec 14 2012, 11:06 AM Post #2
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	Pretty futureproof actually. I myself use an ASUS G74SX which I snagged for $1200 in late 2011. Not too far of a divergence, you have a newer graphics card (670 compared to my 560). You also have more RAM and the advantage of a solid state drive, which I'd use to actually boot your operating system, put your actual data files and games on the magnetic drive. My only complaint is that for what's loaded in there, I think the price should be down a small smidge. You'll definitely be able to play Battlefield 3, Crysis 3 and the like on max graphics.



Cy-Fox	Dec 15 2012, 03:49 PM Post #3
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	Naw, I buy old systems and try to retrofit them for their peak gaming configurations in their era.



Cy-Fox	Dec 24 2012, 11:04 AM Post #4
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	If you go to Control Panel, System and Device Manager, what type of graphics adapter do you have?



Cy-Fox	Dec 25 2012, 08:54 AM Post #5
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	You need to go into Device Manager: And tell me what you find here:



Cy-Fox	Dec 26 2012, 06:09 AM Post #6
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	Endevous Dec 25 2012, 07:28 PM Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family This isn't going to play much of anything, it's a basic economy graphics adapter built into the motherboard just so that they can say you have one, also supposed to be power efficient. Blech. As it's a laptop and soldered in, you won't be able to switch it out either.



Cy-Fox	Dec 26 2012, 08:36 PM Post #7
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	Check Newegg, you can actually get some GTX series like the 650 and the 460 for about $100. My GTX 560M is a pretty good workhorse for games like Battlefield 3 on Ultra difficulty.



Cy-Fox	Dec 27 2012, 08:29 AM Post #8
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	They generally follow the same case form factor which is ATX. Again, Newegg would be a good place to consider. Usually 450W is the minimum though for such cards. I'd probably look for 500 to 600 watt at max.



Cy-Fox	Mar 12 2014, 08:24 PM Post #9
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	Possible that your video card or RAM sticks may need to be reseated.



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