Simple Questions Simple Answers - Page 146

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On May 30 2012 01:21 TheToast wrote:


Lol, yes. 9 series only comes with a 1.3 MP webcam standard, it's also $1000 and has shit hardware. Ultra books are a terrible value for what you get. HP offers a number of models with a 2mp webcam.

But this is the absolute worst thing to base buying a laptop on. Most video chat software is going to compress the image anyway, so any additional quality you get from a 2mp webcam is lost anyway. If you're planning on doing vlogs or recordings, get a real webcam. Far more cost effective, you'll have a better webcam for the same price, and you won't be spending money on an overpriced POS laptop just to get a decent webcam.

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On May 30 2012 01:24 yann wrote:

Thanks a lot! Your advice helped me! GG

Still, say I found e.g. HP 625 XT960UT Notebook which has 2.0 Mpix webcam. How do I know it can handle recording videos in -say- 1024x768 at 30FPS?

I understand your point with the external webcam and stuff, but still I would like to know if I can get an all-in-one solution (no matter the cost)?

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On May 30 2012 04:51 jimthelege wrote:
Just a quick question, (probably a stupid one but I'm gonna ask it anyway lol).

I've got a TV hooked up to my comp through a HDMI cable into my GPU (GTX 560 Ti) which I use for watching live streams films etc on a bigger screen. The video works fine but my question is, is there a way to get the sound to output down a HDMI thats being output from the graphics card? I know I could probably just use another cable coming straight from the motherboard but the TV is on the other side of the room so I would rather not if there was another way.

Thanks in advance TL Tech Gurus!!

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On May 30 2012 05:23 TheToast wrote:


Well, 2 megapixle would be a max resolution of about 1600x1200, I would think it should be able to do 30FPS pretty easily. Though all web cams are not built the same, picture quality would depend on the camera. My guess is laptop manufacturers use the cheapest possible models they can get.

Buying a really nice external webcam is pretty much going to be the best solution.



Depends on the video device. Most support it, but you'll need to set it as the default audio playback device within control panel.

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On May 30 2012 06:16 TuElite wrote:
Hi, quick question!

I just uninstalled a couple of big programs from my SSD drive and figured I'd do a disk clean + defrag and while doing the disk clean thing in control panel this popped up.+ Show Spoiler +
Now that's quite a lot of temporary files and system error memory dump files, 9.25GB and 539MB if you can't see...

Do I need those or can I delete them ? At this point I pretty much only have my OS, Starcraft 2 and everything that's hardware/drivers related installed on my SSD.

Thank you for your time

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On May 30 2012 06:16 TuElite wrote:
Hi, quick question!

I just uninstalled a couple of big programs from my SSD drive and figured I'd do a disk clean + defrag and while doing the disk clean thing in control panel this popped up.
+ Show Spoiler +
Now that's quite a lot of temporary files and system error memory dump files, 9.25GB and 539MB if you can't see...

Do I need those or can I delete them ? At this point I pretty much only have my OS, Starcraft 2 and everything that's hardware/drivers related installed on my SSD.

Thank you for your time

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On May 30 2012 06:24 JingleHell wrote:


Why would you defrag an SSD? It's literally pointless, as fragmentation is only an issue where physical colocation on the disk decreases access times, which doesn't happen with flash, only mechanical drives. And yes, you can delete that shit.

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On May 30 2012 06:31 TheToast wrote:


Yeah, you can get rid of those. Temp files are basically everything in C:\Windows\Temp and %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp

That includes stuff like when you open an email attachment, files that unpack when you install something, random files that applications need to store, etc. Basically, if a program puts something in a temp directory, it's basically saying that file is okay to delete later. It's also a location that viruses and malware often try to install themselves to. So clear those out.

System error files can go too, those just save the output information when Windows BSODs or something encounters some kind of error. To send off a useful error report, Windows saves a lot of information about the problem which is usually never used or needed again. So clear that stuff off too.



.... That's actually an interesting question, and I'm not 100% sure you are right. If the file or files are split up across multiple memory modules, I imagine that it could theoretically take slightly longer to retrieve the files as it has to access multiple memory modules. I'm just stabbing in the dark here, but I wonder if there's any info out there about this.

Anyway, a defrag never hurts so why not?

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On May 30 2012 06:33 JingleHell wrote:


Uhm, a defrag on an SSD, even if you're theoretically right (which I sincerely doubt, since we're talking the speed of electrons travelling millimeters, which is probably beyond most ability to benchmark), would still be a cost/benefit thing of picoseconds faster against tons of wasted write cycles due to the way a defrag works, combined with the way an SSD works. It would be horrendously stupid.

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On May 30 2012 06:40 TheToast wrote:


Well I'm thinking if you've got a massive file such as a virtual harddrive or Outlook OST file that's highly fragmented we could be talking into the realm of percievable difference, though probably still well within a fraction of a second.

Though what I'm reading on a lot of forums is describing that where Windows percieves the files are stored on the SSD has no correlation to where they are actually stored. In which case, a traditional defrag would do nothing at all.

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On May 30 2012 06:44 jaj22 wrote:
SSDs are faster at sequential than random reads, but not by much these days, and with modern drives, sectors being logically sequential doesn't mean that they're physically sequential.

Losing all those write cycles is much more important, so don't defrag a modern SSD.

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On May 30 2012 06:44 jaj22 wrote:
Losing all those write cycles is much more important, so don't defrag a modern SSD.

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On May 30 2012 06:57 nosliw wrote:
What voltage/current stats is most important in a Power suppply? There are like 5 sets of them. If I want to overclock, how do I make sure the PSU can supply the increased voltage?

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On May 30 2012 07:24 Apollo_Shards wrote:
For college, would you guys recommend me buying a gaming laptop or buying a premade if I have never worked with laptops before? I have installed RAM/Videocards/ Motherboards/ PSUs on a desktop however.
The biggest two factors I am looking for is ease and the savings.

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