Johnny3Time

I was once an AMD sucker ..Phenom...FX Ryzen does not in any way make up for it, esp at the minimal differences in price / performance. No mention of specs on GPU or Mobos as already mentioned makes the benchmark video to be taken with a grain of salt. I also noticed in the AMD half the player is mostly looking downward while the Intel side the viewpoint is more upward keeping more detail in view... For example my i7 6700k will do GTA V around 158-164fps @1080p everything on ultra/ high as it goes with a 1080 GTx and around 170-180 fps if I look at the ground.... I have looked at Ryzen specs/ actual benchmarks for various real world applications, for multi monitor 4k+ gaming it is worth looking at. For proven longevity and stability I'll stick with Intel even if it costs me a few bucks more. The Ryzen platform looks much better than their previous ones, at least now they can compete with Intel which is a good thing for everyone. If they don't put up good numbers financially with Ryzen it may be the end for AMD and that would be bad for everyone.

You can externally mount a full size card IF and only IF you have USB 3.1 and it needs to have full USB 3.1 spec compliance. The thing about laptops, they are not very upgradeable and they are usually limited by a bios whitelist to what you can use to upgrade. They want you to buy their parts and their parts only. You can sometimes find a Bios update that will open the whitelist (if it has one) on older laptops allowing you a better upgrade path. That being said I would reccomend you upgrade the RAM to 16gb and go with the 980m you should see a performance increase. Does that lappy have a SSD or just the 1tb 7200rpm drive? I would suggest an SSD for the main operating system and the games you play the most The best advice I can give you is get a new laptop or build a PC

I would share my one night stands with you, after all I was a founding member of the St Louis Sluts club in 1996 and we met on Mon Wed Fri and Sat nights. I think it would need a it's own forum section.

2 words: Monitor Wall

Get a Power supply tester if you don't have one, About $30 US & worth having. If it isn't the PSU you probably blew a Capacitor on the motherboard.

Happy B-fday !!!!

Unless your multi monitor 4k gaming Ryzen = waste of time. But Marley when the drivers get better it will GREAT!!! Heard that when Phenom was released, Heard that when FX was released....

HDMI as far as I know does not support power on to a monitor, be it TV or standard Monitor. If it is off it needs to be switched on either manually or by remote. Most conventional TV's will auto shut off if there is no signal. Example being if Computer goes to sleep or sends signal for the monitor to shut off after say 30 min, the TV will shut down after a few minutes of no signal. This is not the same as blank screen. You will need to set your power settings to turn monitor off: Never if you do not wish your TV to shut off. Instead set it to blank screen screen saver this will black the screen with out turning the TV off and it will wake/unblank when you bring the PC out of standby/sleep. PC monitors will go to low power mode and shut the screen off without physically shutting the monitor off, that is how they wake when the PC wakes

No I will not, absolutely WILL NOT hold still for you while you shoot at me.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3176100/computers/amd-ryzen-7-1700-vs-a-5-year-old-gaming-pc-or-why-you-should-never-preorder.html?page=2 People who preordered Ryzen 7 CPUs to replace an aging gaming PC—like the venerable Core i5-2600K and 3570K parts so many gamers still cling to, —may have very well purchased a $300-plus processor that actually delivers equal or significantly worse performance in some common gaming scenarios.

Happy Fu J3st3r!! Birthday!!

Amd flip-flopping? hmm say it ain't so

I use cheap SSD's for my game drives and save the expensive one for the OS and back it all up on my 20tb array 256gb m.2 os drive $72 250gb & Free with a combo 120gb ssd's for games 3tb, 2tb & 500gb general storage platter drives 4 5tb jbod platters on external DAS

Here's an example of your privacy, no matter which OS, Browser, AV or hardware used. Just by simply typing/entering a "keyword" such as: "Explosive" Everyone here is now on a "list" at the NSA Idiots file. p.s. Most assuredly to the NSA PRANK CALL!!! PRANK CALL! PRANK CALL!!

If I knew where to link the article I read I would, but it was in 2015 and I forget where I read this on the MS site after the Win 10 upgrade campaign started . Those Security updates include what MS deems to be security fixes to keep the OS inline with the win 10 update process. Some updates will be forced unless you have disabled the win 7 update module completely and illusions of privacy will be just that.

No securirty updates ? Good luck

Congrats!!!

Congrats!!!

All of you that think you are somehow "safe" on windows 7, I hope you realize MS is slowly integrating all the same things into 7 that scare you so much in 10.

I agree with the article on paid AV products as far as the products mentioned. I would never trust my comp to Nortons McAffee Trend Micro Commodo etc... all bloated junkware. Eset and Malwarebytes.....never a worry

Congrats!!!

That looks more like Hilary setting up a 2020 run Everybody hedges their bets, if this is real they probably did a ceremoy for every religion, ever...just in case.

Satan exists only in the mind of man, without man there is no Satan, no God. For one man's Satan is another's God even though they may be one and the same, for here as well one does not exist without the other.

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Congrats!!!