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I'm looking to upgrade my gaming PC, and I'm on a tight budget.. $300 absolute max. My current system isn't even worth mentioning for potential upgrades, so I'm looking for a good Motherboard/CPU/RAM config within my budget. I've always preferred AMD, though I'm reading that Intel pulls better numbers (for twice the price, though.. I'm not really concerned with benchmarks, I want actual performance. Anybody out there willing to help me find a good combo?
My friend actually recommended me this setup before:
CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 245 Regor 2.9GHz (very basic AMD core, it'll do what you need it to do) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103687 $59.99
MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H (looks good and steady, reviews are positive) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128394 $69.99
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue WD2500AAJS 250GB 7200 RPM (it's a western digital, good things) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136113 $42.99
MEM: CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (dual channel for better performance)
It's about $400, but we can retool it a bit for you.
In this answer I will attempt to outline what the different types of links in directory management are as well as why they are useful as well as when they could be used. When trying to achieve a certain organization on your file volumes, knowing the various different types as well as creating the...
@TomWijsman What I am seeing with the more free use of the complex linking , some of the ramifications of making an error are not well discussed prior to creation
Just reading at MS tech, which goes over my head, and seeing issues that people have had, "changing" the wrong thing, and the more complex linking causing problems. Also i noticed (again without comprehention) that there are many subtle differences in some of the deeper complex linkings between OS platforms.
Also It helps that i completly screwed up my whole system by messing with them more than once, while my system was still in diapers
on principal I generally dislike even crosslinking in registry, some of the doubling and messes i have seen there, that i have not recieved a understanding as to why they "needed" to do it. I see many nano seconds :-) being blown. Same thing with some of the link to junction to link passed to short, back and AUGGGG!
@TomWijsman (or reparsed) and what does that mean ? If a cluster has to be accessed to access another cluster, instead of accessing the cluster that you actually want, isnt 12ns lost ? If a registry entry has to be accessed, and the information processed , to shift the call to a different location, isnt there tiny ammounts of time lost, mabey even less than nanoseconds? Of course I am poorly grouping "links" of all kinds, and should try and comprehend 1 at a time.
But basically i do not understand how any redirections, do not require time and efforts?
@Psycogeek That is what happens with a shortcut, but doesn't happen with the other links. It accessed an object that is often already loaded in memory.
@TomWijsman " if a redirection was from memory to memory and everything was all in the memory, like say the registry cross linking , The time and effort is Small or completly non-existant? how does something happen without the computer doing it ?
So the benefits of using links in a way that makes your directory strucuture more organized out-weight the loss of a few nano seconds, or a single (page) fault because it wasn't read in memory yet.
Shortcut links are worse as they actually require the computer to go and read out a cluster.
@TomWijsman Ok, how about a peronal example. Say i am editing 2 large video files, using extensive memory and processing. have some soft link to get to the files, and a junction too. i need the 90% already of everything. if the system is going to be fooling around :-) instead of as direct as possible, it is going to make what is a difficult situation worse. And that is where i would need to know more of the process of processing .
@Psycogeek One memory call has barely any effect, once the handle has been made to the file any future I/O calls while the file is open are directly to the file.
Even when it happened on every I/O call, that few ns aren't going to affect the the few ms disk access require.
@Psycogeek Anything is stored on hardware, more specifically a disk.
@Psycogeek > Hard links are not NTFS file system objects, but they are instead a link to a file (in detail, they refer to the MFT entry as that stores extra information about the actual file). The MFT entry has a field that remembers the amounts of time a file is being hard linked to.
> The NTFS junction point is a soft link, which means that it just links to the name of the file. This means that whenever the link is deleted the original data stays intact; but, whenever the original data is deleted the original data will be gone.
@TomWijsman it is in the answer from a person who obviously now understands how it works :-) because i need a more rudimentary (see moran) explainations that follows paths and has pictures :-) System asks for file -- Some registry entry tells it to look here instead - - File is loaded . Then my brain goes, and what IF that file isnt there? then what is the path :-)
Perhaps it would make sense to make your swap the same size as the RAM disk you will create, so that in the end you have the same amount of available space.
@TomWijsman Pages and pages long. Trying to read it off the MS site was pages too, but it tends to fly over my head. and MS always Waits till after the User screws up, or has a slow computer, or has caused a infinate loop, before they toss in the warnings, or "user" explainations.
In both cases it really is based on monitoring how much ram disk and how much ram you use yourself, then you can figure out how much you could put on the ram disk as well as how much you need to assign for the swap.
You could probably leave something like the system monitor (or top) running in the background and then check it periodically or before you shutdown.
You are not aware of guidelines prescribing the swap size under these circumstances? Because they generally recommend 1.5x RAM size, but that's without RAM disks
@TomWijsman Still trying to think of a good formulation for the question. Do you think I should describe the whole long situation, or just ask about the normal amount of data expected to be written in these folders?
tmpfs sweet, with winders most of the ramdisk are not dynamic at all
this thing gets to grow and shrink based on what is tossed into it.
if there is a windows thing that works the same, it would solve my "ramdisk" problem of wanting to have enough ramdisk, but needing all the ram the rest of the time.
I have often wondered exactly what a Super User is, I heard it a lot at school, and so I googled it a few days ago. Now that I know what it is, how do I become a super user? I just want to be a super user in general not an OS based super user. I have toyed with Ubuntu before and mainly use Window...
@TomWijsman It really depends on the situation... you are told to put the handbrake on whenever you are going to stop for prolonged periods of time - traffic lights or traffic. The thinking behind is that if (hopefully not) you were taken ill, or something serious was to happen, you wouldn't release the (foot) brake. Whilst it wouldn't do much on a manual, could cause a small disaster on an automatic!
personally, if I am at a light just as it turns red, I will put it on... if it is red when I get there and/or I know it will change soon-ish, I won't do it.... I think it used to be law/highway code, but, it isn't any more.
let me just look... I actually have my highway code next to me as I was looking something up the other day!
I have HP Pavilion DV4T-2100 model running windows 7. Today when I turn it on I got black screen and it is not showing anything at all. Everything else is working. I can hear fan noise, LEDs lights are blinking and even I can hear window welcome tone when window starts and also as I know my first screen is password screen when that tone is played I type password and press enter and I can hear sound that is played when user login inside system. Only thing that is missing is display as screen is completely black all time. I have done removing battery and pressing power button for 30-60 second…
@studiohack two things... was it you that I was going to pay via Paypal for the extra pen? I forgot all about it... but, I can do it now... Also, I was wondering if you had a Steam account and could do me a favour?
@studiohack the birthday competition thing on this site... there was a pen that pushed me over by $3 or $4, I said I would pay for it... but, can't remember who I said it to :/
@WilliamHilsum oh, you got a gift certificate to the SE store? and the pen pushed you over? it wasn't me, I'm not sure who you said that to, I wonder... maybe @nhinkle or @IvoFlipse?
as for steam... there are a few things that are cheaper in USD, and the person who usually gets them is offline... if you have an American account (which I guess you do!), I was wondering if you could buy them and I will pay you in advance?
@studiohack Nope, they are good, it is GnomeSlice from Gaming.StackExchange, but, he said he may be busy over the weekend and there are a few items I don't want to miss out on... he does have about $20 still of my money, but, I am sure it's ok/I trust him.
they have announced todays deals... and yesterdays ones are available for 4 hours... I will just see if there are any others that are cheaper in USD... I have gone through the sales for the past few years without buying anything - now I have a steady income, they are just too hard to resist! I don't have the time to play, but, I am stockpiling for later use!
@WilliamHilsum haha, for when you retire, eh? ;) I tend to take lots of photos and then stockpile them, joking that when I retire, I'll go through them and frame them or print them, and sell them :P
well, just ping me whenever, or email me at my Super User address @WilliamHilsum - I've never bought stuff on Steam before, but shouldn't be too hard to figure out
@WilliamHilsum I don't game much, I even have some awesome games that I haven't gotten to play with, like Dirt3 and Civilization 4, but thanks for the offer, I'll keep it in mind! :)
well likewise, if there is anything that is cheaper in GBP in the future, I'll be happy to purchase for you... many things are almost equal (10p/c), but, there are so many things like GTA (£3 cheaper in GBP) or X the other day(£4 cheaper in USD) where it can really mount up.
yeah, interesting how that works, with different prices different places
@WilliamHilsum can you (either here and I delete or via email) your account details for Steam, so that we can be "friends" so that I know how to gift you?
... when you buy, you can choose "add to my inventory", then through the friends screen, right click my name and choose trade... then, you can trade the items to me
It is £10.15 in GBP (for Game of the year edition)... so $15.80
Personally, I know I am not going to have time to play these for ages, so, I am only buying games that (I hope) there won't be any more expansion packs and/or are at their cheapest... I want Civ 5, but, obviously it will come down more next year or similar
@studiohack but, it is missing a couple! maybe I just have OCD, but, I like everything! lol... if you want it, I can deduct that off of what I was going to give you and buy it in GBP... well, $15.80 is at the Google rate,... not sure how much exactly it will be until I do the paypal transfer for mine
in theory yes... which is why I love it (and why I have rebought some games I already own as they are cheap), but, some games have additional DRM
... you can download the majority of games on as many pcs as you want at the same time, but, you can only log on to your steam account from one at any one time
@studiohack really sorry this is taking longer than I thought... if you can't do it or anything, don't hang around for me... I will try to finish very soon
@WilliamHilsum Links is probably best, so that I get the exact game you want (so I don't have to worry about a variation, like Civ 5 Game of the Year versus the base Civ 5)
ok, then, I think you have to buy through the website rather than steam for links... of all things, my server is playing up today so I can't easily email... can you email me @ wilhil@gmail.com as I don't have you address, and I will give you all the links
