Recent content by Jungstar

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    Microsoft Surface book 2 or HP spectre 360?

    For the price difference you can buy a 200 USD egpu case and a 600 gpu!! Or for 800 usd you can build a whole gaming desktop on the side!
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    Great Quadcore Laptop for Upgrade?

    I eventually got a Thinkpad T440P with a quad-core 4800MQ. Great machine.
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    Laptop 16GB RAM SSD i7 Quadcore

    Buy a T440P used. Great 14" machine.
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    Lenovo ThinkPad T-460P vs Y700 Laptop?

    I eventually got a T440P - it is pretty awesome and i really enjoy the keyboard. I sold the Y700 after a year - the quality was not good enough.
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    Replacing a non touch laptop screen with a touch screen

    This response is more for future googlers. If you model also come with a touch screen, it is pretty likely yes, question is how hard isit? That said, I would google replacement of the screen and especially replacement for the touch screen. I.e. how would you replace the touch screen and compare...
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    Is my M.2 connected over SATA or PCIe???

    Dear Experts I have a Thinkpad W540. It has an M.2 slot. The slot was initially designed for the WAN card but I have seen people use it with SSDs. M.2 slots that are used for WAN (and the Wifi Card) are usually connected via PCIe. However, I'm not sure it is a PCIe nor what kind of PCIe...
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    Lenovo IdeaPad Y700 14-ISK RAM Upgrade Bootup Slow

    I have a 700-14inch. I added two x 8 ram from G-skill and threw out the old 1 x 8. I chose the most modern GDDR4 ram. G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (2 x 8G) 260-Pin DDR4 SO-DIMM DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) Laptop Memory Model F4-2133C15D-16GRS They work perfectly.
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    Lenovo ThinkPad T-460P vs Y700 Laptop?

    I was about to get a Lenovo T450 with a quad core i-4710Q processor for ~$1000 and throw my own SSD and add extra 8 ram in myself. Then last month, Lenovo killed the T450 and now you have to buy the T-460p which is a special performance model to get a quad core in a 14" Lenovo notebook. But its...
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    Laptop 16GB RAM SSD i7 Quadcore

    @Naturesninja! So true!!! I'm planning on this myself! Do you think SSD SATA III vs PCIe/M.2 is noticable in everyday windows life?
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    Great Quadcore Laptop for Upgrade?

    Hi I have a Sony Vaio VPCSB28gg with i7-2620m , 8GB (maxed) ram and a new BX-100 SSD. (running SATA II because Sony bios issue - another post). Great upgrade but I want more speed! What I'm looking for an affordable "12-14 laptop with a quad core processor (not the newest CPU necessary but...
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    How to fix "unable to connect to proxy server" error

    I unchecked the use proxy server under Lan settings AFTER I ran malwarebytes > found a ton of malwarebytes but had to go back and fix the setting manually.
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    i5 4th Gen 1.7 Ghz vs Core i5 3rd Gen 2.6 Ghz

    Check out https://www.cpubenchmark.net/
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    which laptop should i buy for higher gaming performance is it i7 4 th gen or i7 5 th gen ?

    As above there are not a lot of difference. Make sure to get a super graphics card. You can benchmark cup several places and you will see that high end cpu's (i7) have not improved a lot in speed the late years, see several places incl here https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ - however graphics cards...