April 8th, 2020 at 12:15 AM
Reigniting the HP hate thread.
Laptop is incredibly close to its EOL. I feel it.
Crashed a couple minutes ago with only Edge and a calculator open. Had MSI afterburner running as well, even though it doesn't work, and when I clicked the little airplane icon (to take you to their webpage,) shit hit the fan.
(No, I'm not overclocking. I had it open because I figured maybe it would finally work with the latest Nvidia drivers, but as always, the 940MX is too close to integrated to do anything with and MSI can't even fetch the data like clock speed and temperature from it, let alone change those clock speeds.)
Never again. Getting a Lenovo (with an actual GPU instead of the cheapass 1050 or 940 or lower) and never gonna have this problem again. Complete dipshit of a company.
I clean my memory ever hour with memclean. I optimize drives with Defraggler every week. I make sure there's no massive files sitting on my drive with WinDirStat. There's no good reason for it to f*** die like this.
EDIT:
After searching online for a while for new laptops, I've found a used thinkpad T430s with dual hard drive (500gb ssd and 500gb hdd) with 8gb RAM and a 1600x900 screen. 400$CAD. Comes with the workstation dock as well, all in great condition. Incredible deal, given my GF got a T430s with a 256gb SSD, no HDD, and no dock for the same price. GPU is negligible, Intel 520, kinda shit but whatever. I'll just stick to my PS4 and Vita for games.
I also checked for my model online to see what they go for. Give or take, most of them sell for close to a grand, even used. I'll probably sell this one for 700-800$, then buy the thinkpad. Gonna wait til exams, in any case, since I can use this for uploading exam papers and whatnot until then.
f*** Windows. I'm installing Linux on it once I get it. Not gonna deal with 3GB RAM usage during idle anymore. I'll use Wine for Photoshop and Clip Studio if I really have to, as much as I hate it. But I'm just fed up with the shitty performance Windows has given me for the last while.
Laptop is incredibly close to its EOL. I feel it.
Crashed a couple minutes ago with only Edge and a calculator open. Had MSI afterburner running as well, even though it doesn't work, and when I clicked the little airplane icon (to take you to their webpage,) shit hit the fan.
(No, I'm not overclocking. I had it open because I figured maybe it would finally work with the latest Nvidia drivers, but as always, the 940MX is too close to integrated to do anything with and MSI can't even fetch the data like clock speed and temperature from it, let alone change those clock speeds.)
Never again. Getting a Lenovo (with an actual GPU instead of the cheapass 1050 or 940 or lower) and never gonna have this problem again. Complete dipshit of a company.
I clean my memory ever hour with memclean. I optimize drives with Defraggler every week. I make sure there's no massive files sitting on my drive with WinDirStat. There's no good reason for it to f*** die like this.
EDIT:
After searching online for a while for new laptops, I've found a used thinkpad T430s with dual hard drive (500gb ssd and 500gb hdd) with 8gb RAM and a 1600x900 screen. 400$CAD. Comes with the workstation dock as well, all in great condition. Incredible deal, given my GF got a T430s with a 256gb SSD, no HDD, and no dock for the same price. GPU is negligible, Intel 520, kinda shit but whatever. I'll just stick to my PS4 and Vita for games.
I also checked for my model online to see what they go for. Give or take, most of them sell for close to a grand, even used. I'll probably sell this one for 700-800$, then buy the thinkpad. Gonna wait til exams, in any case, since I can use this for uploading exam papers and whatnot until then.
f*** Windows. I'm installing Linux on it once I get it. Not gonna deal with 3GB RAM usage during idle anymore. I'll use Wine for Photoshop and Clip Studio if I really have to, as much as I hate it. But I'm just fed up with the shitty performance Windows has given me for the last while.
