Got a question. Kinda techyish

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got my new logitech wireless keyboard. much happier to have a fully functioning keyboard again.

now I have an issue getting my monitor and tv connected to my pc. I have a gigabyte branded geforce gtx 660 gpu with 1 hdmi, 1 display port and two dvi.
my samsung 27 in monitor only has hdmi & d-sub connections. my tv has hdmi and d-sub. the issue is that i prefer using hdmi with tv as it enables the sound on the tv to be used. so i bought a display port male to hdmi male cable for the monitor but it doesnt seem to work.

so my solution was to buy a google chromecast to connect to my pc and use that for the tv, the tv is 25 ft from the computer the monitor much closer obviously.
 
Bought a new 27 inch Samsung monitor from Staples last week.

Looked good, then after a couple of days noticed a couple of dead pixels near the centre of the screen. Staples not currently accepting returns and I tossed the box it came in. So I order another one - same model and go pick it up. Looks great. Now, two days later I notice a dead pixel to the right side of the screen.

I'm taking both these motherfuckers back when Staples re-opens their stores to the public. I don't think they will give me any grief about the returns, this is one of the reasons why I like Staples, they usually are hassle free with returns.

I'm pretty sure the monitor I get that replaces these two will not be a Samsung. Most likely ASUS, LG, BENQ or ACER.
 
I do have a question. My current laptop is a low-end affair, 7th gen i3 running at 2.4ghz. It's fine for general use but it struggles when I do photo and video editing. It's got 8gb of RAM, 4 of which are soldered to the board. I can buy a 16gb stick and upgrade to 20gb total - is it worth it?
 
Matty
I do have a question. My current laptop is a low-end affair, 7th gen i3 running at 2.4ghz. It's fine for general use but it struggles when I do photo and video editing. It's got 8gb of RAM, 4 of which are soldered to the board. I can buy a 16gb stick and upgrade to 20gb total - is it worth it?
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A few things. First , what type of RAM does the laptop use? DDR3 or DDR4?

Most likely its DDR3 and I don't think I've seen a single 16GB DDR3 RAM module. So you would have to use 8GB modules and if you only have one slot available on the mainboard for RAM you're stuck. 12 GB should be fine though, not really much difference from 12-16 GB RAM on a laptop, the sweet spot is just over 8GB anyway.

Also, you should check the laptop specs to see what limits are regarding allowable memory. Some laptops have a max capacity.

If you decide to add an 8GB stick of RAM its probably worth it because DDR3 Laptop RAM isn't expensive. You should be able to buy 8GB sticks for around $30 CAD on Facebook Marketplace or Kijiji Toronto.

Also, since you mentioned photo/video editing your i3 will also be a bottleneck as its ony a two core / two thread CPU. You really need a more powerful CPU for video editing.

So I'm basically saying you can gamble with $30 to see if the extra RAM helps but then it still may be the two core i3 CPU that struggles with the workload.
 
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It uses DDR4 and it can be upgraded to 20gb. Board was built in 2018 according to HWInfo.
 
Matty
It uses DDR4 and it can be upgraded to 20gb. Board was built in 2018 according to HWInfo.
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OK, then that changes things. I'm not too familiar with pricing on laptop DDR4, its obviously more expensive and considering the i3 CPU is the weak link here I'd say don't bother upgrading the RAM. You really need a more powerful laptop with a newer gen i5 minimum or preferably i7 CPU with at least 16GB RAM to handle video editing without struggling the way your current laptop does.
 
Yeah, that's what I'm debating. A 16gb stick is about $100. A "new" refurbished i7 laptop on Best Buy starts at $400, but those are ancient i7s that benchmark lower than my CPU.

I donno man.
 
Matty
Yeah, that's what I'm debating. A 16gb stick is about $100. A "new" refurbished i7 laptop on Best Buy starts at $400, but those are ancient i7s that benchmark lower than my CPU.

I donno man.
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Yeah the intel naming system of CPU's is very misleading. I'm using an 8th gen i3 that is actually a 4 core 4 thread CPU in the desktop I put together myself, Intel started making i3 CPU's 4 cores starting with the release of the "Coffee Lake" processors. An 8th gen i3 Coffee Lake processor is more powerful than most older generation i5's etc.

Laptop CPU's like the i7's have much lower clock speeds and are optimized to use less power in order to extend battery life.

Ideally you should be using a desktop PC for video editing because the laptop equivalent is much more expensive. Much!
 
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Left a draft response hanging when kid blasted off.

Revised to read, "what plommay said."
 
Thx boys. A desktop is not in the cards, nowhere to put it.

I've decided to order the 16gb stick. What happens right now is that Premiere Pro will only start and work reasonably well after I've closed every other program and unneeded service running in the background, so I think the extra RAM will at least allow me to have Chrome and Premiere running simultaneously without paralyzing the computer.

When all else fails I'll get a better laptop that can use the DDR4 stick.

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Did a software update today on my MacBook. First time I go to play poker after the update, I buy into a tournament, get seated and then lose my entire buy in, not because I got felted, but because my Mac kept freezing up and shutting down/re-starting did nothing to resolve it. Frustrating.
 
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lots of people on the macrumors forum complaining

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WARNING macOS Catalina 10.15.4 Supplemental Update BRICKED my 13 inch Macbook 2018!

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Tron
Did a software update today on my MacBook. First time I go to play poker after the update, I buy into a tournament, get seated and then lose my entire buy in, not because I got felted, but because my Mac kept freezing up and shutting down/re-starting did nothing to resolve it. Frustrating.
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Tron
My laptop is fucked
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Matty
Those are not questions.
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Tron did you solve the problem? What did you do? Rollback the update?
 
plommer
Tron did you solve the problem? What did you do? Rollback the update?
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My Mac seems to work fine as long as I don't try and play poker on BetOnline. But that's half the reason I bought the laptop in the first place.

The rollback did not work. Hit Restart then Command R and held it down but it never gave me the option to roll back.

My laptop was getting quite warm when I would play on BetOnline.
 
Is BetOnline a standalone app or is it browser-based? If it's browser-based you should try a different browser. The site might be causing memory hangs which would explain the heat.
 
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