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| DJRYAN� |
Alright my HP g7 just fizzled out. I've had it a little over a year and in April my warranty expired. Last night I started getting an all white screen. I can still run my laptap through my 50" flat-screen via HDMI but its obviously broken so Im going to need a new computer within the next few weeks.
The one I'm running now has Win 7 with an AMD A6-Series Processor with 8gb of RAM and on "almost completed" projects I'm getting Ableton to 70-80% of my processing power. So I'd like to consider upgrading.
Based on what you know (besides Mac's) because all my VST's are Windows, what should I get that's less than a grand and that will goes balls to the walls in music production? |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| i would assume your right wing political convictions make you somewhat part of the higher income earner group, IF you have money to burn , buy a mac. All your VSTs have AU analogs except maybe a few FLS stuff. But the point i'm really making is pointing out the fact that you don't own a mac and your vsts that seem to only work for windows are actually cracked copies which makes me beileve you are actually rather poor making it somewhat funny that you favour an economic party that wants to you over. Like a prom queen thanking the black guy that just raped her for wearing a condom and not telling anyone about it. HE could also be arab. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
to answer your question.
Buy parts. Buy medium range parts that are cheap because they arent new rather than cheap because they are cheap. There is no such thing as a deal in computer parts. You either pay for quality or performance. If something is less expensive, there is a reason. And parts tend to have a longer warranty than buying a dell which use the same parts. Kinda ed up.
the process is easy,
chose mother board. Do a search with your sound card and DAW and find out which ones to avoid.
Same with video card.
EVerything else is hard to up
Just don't buy new stuff. Or cheap stuff. Don't get a good video card, don't try to get computer that will play games and don't do what robby would do and use Newegg stats or what not to judge how it will work for audio. And don't buy a cheap power supply. That is oddly the most important part of your computer. |
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| Storyteller |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN�
Alright my HP g7 just fizzled out. I've had it a little over a year and in April my warranty expired. Last night I started getting an all white screen. I can still run my laptap through my 50" flat-screen via HDMI but its obviously broken so Im going to need a new computer within the next few weeks. |
I had a similar problem with a Samsung Netbook I owned several years ago. It was just a matter of replacing the internal video cable going from the mainboard to the screen.
For less than 1K you can get a great pc (externals such as screen, mouse, keyboard excluded). Key would be to buy the parts that where top of the line about 6 months ago. Those have mostly gone down in price quite a lot since they've been surpassed, yet they're still good enough to last you several years. |
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| tehlord |
Build it and you will come.
Sage advice about the PSU too, buy cheap and it will fail. 100%
Without a silly gaming card in your case you can get away with a 500-600W one anyway from somebody like Antec. |
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| dj_alfi |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN�
Last night I started getting an all white screen.n? |
Does it come in from one side and spread throughout the screen, or does it just go boom white? I had it happen to me on one of my monitors a couple of years ago, but I think it was just due to overheating as turning it promptly off and a quick vacuum through the ribs on the back
seemed to solve the problem. |
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| DJRYAN� |
| Its definitely the screen temp. After inactivity (with the monitor on) the screen will come back and I can use it regularily until something process intensive occurs and then it heats back up and goes out again. So I"m assuming to repair something like that will be at least a couple of hundred dollars. The same cpu I have now is only $429 and I get paid on Tuesday so I can just swap it out, but I'd rather drop a few more dollars on "hardware" and get something a little better (in a laptop). I'm not sure though on which processor (which is really what I'm concentrating on) will handle my cpu loads. |
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| dj_alfi |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN�
Its definitely the screen temp. After inactivity (with the monitor on) the screen will come back and I can use it regularily until something process intensive occurs and then it heats back up and goes out again. So I"m assuming to repair something like that will be at least a couple of hundred dollars. The same cpu I have now is only $429 and I get paid on Tuesday so I can just swap it out, but I'd rather drop a few more dollars on "hardware" and get something a little better (in a laptop). I'm not sure though on which processor (which is really what I'm concentrating on) will handle my cpu loads. |
i read somewhere that taking a piece of aluminum and glueing it onto the little chip on the tcon board would do the trick. although i have no idea what a tcon board is.
but you didnt answer my q. does it start on one side and move to all of the screen, or is it a white "frame" that just gets a smaller and smaller picture. Or is the whole screen gradually going white? or boom white.
these are important you answer as it could rule out certain scenarios.+maybe save you a couple of bucks
also; i made this song and am I using enough white screen in it? |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by tehlord
Without a silly gaming card in your case you can get away with a 500-600W one anyway from somebody like Antec. |
With a silly gaming card, I get away just fine with 450 W. Enthusiasts/builders are buying ridiculously over-rated PSUs. Even with high-end SLI/CrossFireX rigs, I cannot even imagine what kind of crazy person would buy one of those 750 W and higher units; that's enough to power a medium-priced server. |
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| DJRYAN� |
it just goes all white. It doesn't matter when, its happened at start-up and its happened doing normal use. The tech support people said it was probably an issue with the motherboard because of the things I've already done:
*opened laptop, checked all connections.
*rolled back display drivers
*turned screen hz down to 65 (demenishing screen temp)
*reduced brightness (demenishing screen temp)
*updated drivers
*reformatted pc
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On a cool-start-up simulated graphics card test and almost immediately it goes white. Went from a 5.2 graphics card Windows Experience Score down to 3.2 overall, Ram is a 7.3, Processor is a 6.2 and the rest are right at 5.9's
after all the trouble shooting and downloading a piece of software to monitor internal temperature. Once it gets above 80. The screen goes out again.
Wierd ..
So yea, its hard to think it would be a connection issue, it sounds more of a screen or motherboard issue which is gonna cost as much as gettinga new mass produced laptop equivalent to what I have now. The only thing is, time to purchase an extended warranty. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
With a silly gaming card, I get away just fine with 450 W. Enthusiasts/builders are buying ridiculously over-rated PSUs. Even with high-end SLI/CrossFireX rigs, I cannot even imagine what kind of crazy person would buy one of those 750 W and higher units; that's enough to power a medium-priced server. |
there is more to a power supply that output. Well output in terms of the number they list. This is the one component that affects all other components and given that most ty power supplie last a year, that means that between the time it fails and functions, you have everything else exposed to irregular output which i'm pretty sure is not something you want.
I"m not an electrician, but ever since having my power examined and regulated, i've had zero components fail.
I did however have one nightmare incident with a PC where everything would go wrong, hardrives, ram .... turns out the psu was giving me jew power.
Perhaps you know more about this as i do believe you work in this field. And i am basing everthing of an article i might of read and my gut. |
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| Constantin |
| Putting a PC together ain't that hard, you have to know for what and how long you gonna intend to use it and read the description of the components so you can know if they are compatible. I strongly advice you to stay away from the over clocking crap, get a clock locked CPU, if you aim for Intel go together with an Intel mobo. Besides a good PSU as ppl mentioned here, don't forget about the cooling, a cooled computer is a happy computer. |
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