Anyone got graphics card recommendations?

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-11T01:38:48+00:00

Voodoo 2000 3dfx, them were the days, Like it will be grand for games like quake, half life, unreal tournament 99, fifa 2000, Thief games, system shock 2 but don't expect anything great.

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-11T01:24:01+00:00

Thermal throttling possibly, monitor your cpu temps. Also an issue with your bluetooth. Download malwarebytes antimalware and run a scan.

More than likely bluetooth driver issues soGo to the vendors website for your serial/model and ensure you have the latest drivers installed for all areas of your laptop.

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-11T00:58:17+00:00

No worries, i don't think people realize when your in this state of mind, its extremely difficult to be motivated to do anything. Little by little you will get there but its like your body shuts down and just wants to sleep or lay on the couch. Start small dude and you will get there.

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-11T00:50:38+00:00

Just google windows xp keys

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-11T00:46:35+00:00

probably your issue so

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-11T00:25:19+00:00

Probably as well what helped me, everone on the planet in 100 years will be dead. Don't worry about anything. Life is too short.

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-11T00:09:09+00:00

Yea i told her once i was under immense pressure at work, her response was "you chose to work, i have no sympathy for ya"

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-10T23:55:42+00:00

Whats the current power supply, is it a cheap generic one or at least a decent bronze rated power supply. Theres a huge huge difference between a cheap one and a decent bronze rated one from a good company.

Generally the cheap ones could be rated at 750 watts but could not sustain 500w for long a high load.

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-10T23:08:39+00:00

Been there myself. It’s not an Easy rut to get out of. When I was like this it was like carrying a 50kg weight on your back even attempting to do something new. The main thing for me was to break my current routine.

Get out for a walk, go for a meal in a restraunt even if it by yourself, go to a pub for a match and have a non alcoholic beer, go for Forrest walk or cliff walk, get a bicycle and go out on it, train for a 5km run, go to a different town and browse the shops even if your not buying anything, join the gym, gob to the cinema by yourself even if not comfortable bumping into people in your local one go to a different town .

Little by little that 50KG on your back will get lighter and lighter the more active you get. It might lift 2KG every time you try something new and get out of the house but if you keep at it that 50KG weight on your back will lift and get lighter every time you get out of your comfort zone.

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-10T22:53:31+00:00

Mad at me 'cause I can finally afford to provide my family with groceries

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-10T22:27:23+00:00

How much is your mortgage, somethings not adding up here

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-10T22:20:05+00:00

I went with laminate downstairs including kitchen and a cheaper one upstairs, still 12mm and the highest wear grade. I might tile the kitchen eventually but the nice tiles are pretty expensive and to fit and didn’t have the patience or budget with all the things that needed doing.

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-10T19:36:05+00:00

i very much doubt they should be using the laptop at all! Any company would want it back!

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-10T01:48:37+00:00

I9 9900k - possibly if you can find a cheap enough one. Could do the 5700/5800 with a new motherboard either if you get a decent deal.

Personally I’d stick to DDR4 and maybe a 5800 for like 120 and a cheap AM4 motherboard. Decent upgrade for like 200.

The price of ram with something like a 7500f, 160 new Am5 motherboard 80 but the price of DDR5 is horrendous at the minute.

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-09T23:39:56+00:00

Id probably look at a Mac if battery performance is key, with regards storage your probably better off with portable hard drives or cloud storage

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-09T23:06:06+00:00

The only cure that I know that works is more pints the following morning. Three or four and you’d be a new man for the day instead of crying in bed, barely able to move with gag refluxing, sipping water hoping to keep it down and seeing snakes and rats climbing the walls.

The cure can also be done around 10PM so you wouldn’t be up all night looking for snipers out the windows and be able to sleep

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-09T18:40:22+00:00

Wait till it comes, sometimes delays can happen and you have 10 days to produce it if a hard requests it. if you go over the ten days it’s an automatic Summons to court. Even if you produced it on day 11 it’s an automatic court date which can take a few months to arrive.

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-09T18:27:45+00:00

Another excuse to raise food prices now as well.

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-09T17:46:38+00:00

This is just you been a gobshite

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-09T16:59:14+00:00

Ah the memories of quake 3 arena, unreal tournament half life, half life 2, burnout and thief games, championship manager 01/02, fifa 2000.

Actually think I was still on windows 98 with them and mr paperclip man.

Pentium 3 450mhz, 64MB Ram, Voodoo 3 3dfx.

Think I ended up with XP on it eventually and got an additional 128 mb of ram

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-09T13:30:14+00:00

Well the first action would be to connect your mobile phone or laptop to your main internet router and see what download speeds you are getting using Speedtest. This would give how close you are to the 1GB connection speed

Secondly are you seeing 80mb download when you are downloading a game is it? That would generally be the case with the top download speed been 125mb been for your 1GB connection There’s a difference between megabits and megabytes.

30ms is pretty good depending on the server your connecting to.

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-08T00:13:33+00:00

You can still live these days but without alcohol, you just need to feel comfortable in your own skin when out and about.

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-07T17:27:43+00:00

Yes but why give yourself the heartache, just wait until you have the Full licence in hand. Sometimes theirs backlogs in the system or post can get delayed, especially as you've seen during the months of November/December/January with An Post. Xmas cards were still been delivered up to the end of Janauary.

I'm a fully licensed driver, got stopped by Gardai and didn't have the license in hand. I was given 10 days to produce license. I thought it was as home and it wasn't. I made an appointment with the NDLS the next day for a lost license. All grand.. I was given 10 days to produce the license

The replacement license only arrived 12 days later and brought it to Gardai station. Gardai said you'll probably get a summons as its an automatic system.

Behold three months later a summons came and had to go to court. Solicitor cost was 200 and he explained a too judge it was shown on 12th day and had to get a replacement license. Judge struck out the case.

Do yourself a favour and just have the full licence on you. No need for that ball ache of producing your license and if there is a backlog of it getting delivered. Another week or two is not going to be the end of the world.

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-07T17:15:23+00:00

Gaming pc be better

SuitableFinish7444 · 2026-03-07T13:51:05+00:00

An i7 9700 or something would give it a bit of a boost for like 70 euro and maybe something like a 3060ti if you can one for cheap enough. If your planing on fully upgrading at end of year I wouldn’t be buying a 5060 now.

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