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Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
Get a GTX670. 560Ti will be RAM limited at those resolutions, SLI wouldn't help much.

Mayne fucked around with this message at 23:55 on May 13, 2012

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Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
Any idea why adaptive vsync is not working with Diablo3 fullscreen windowed mode?
It only works in fullscreen mode for some reason and i'd prefer to use adaptive mode instead of Diablo3 ingame vsync.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.

zer0spunk posted:

Support for the 680 was just added in an update. I re ran an encode I did right before the switch from software to hardware. Software only (i7 3770k oc'd to 4.3) a 60 minute video being encoded to 480p from a mix of 1080i hdv and 1080p h.264 footage took 15 minutes..with hardware (gtx 680), 7 minutes.

Yeah but quality of GPU encodes cannot compare at all with software encodes with a decent encoder like x264.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
I get that coil whine noise in Minecraft and Skyrim and it's quite annoying, have to play with headphones on. No other game i play at the moment does that and I have no idea how to fix it but limiting fps helps.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.

Kramjacks posted:

I have a 120hz monitor. In the Neverwinter MMO I set the refresh rate in the game's settings to 120 and it still caps out at 60. I'm using to Fraps to monitor my fps, maybe I should try something else?

I'm almost certain that Neverwinter has a FPS cap setting set to 60, try checking troubleshooting section of video settings.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.

Nondescript Van posted:

Does any other game recording software use the h.264 encoder on the newer nvidia cards or do i need to wait for that shadowplay thing to be release? I've tried a few but they kill my frame rate and MSI afterburner video is about 10 fps even though i told it 30 and then 60.

Open Broadcaster Software uses x264.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
You really shouldn't be ditching a SSD unless all you do is play games.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.

Lolcano Eruption posted:

Yes but currently there are no IPS panels that can do 120/144Hz. Unless this tech can somehow boost their inherently slower response times.

There are plenty of those korean 27inch 2560x1440 IPS monitors with 120hz refresh rate.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
Does anyone have any experience with Gainward GeForce® GTX 970 Phantom 4GB? I can get one for about 50€ cheaper than other "cheap" 970s like Palit/KFA/Inno3d.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
As much as people like to say AMD drivers are fine now, they've been nothing but a pain in the rear end on my laptop. It's an HP with i7, 8GB ram and AMD 6750M card in it and I've had a lot of issues with it. GTA5 for example still doesn't work at all, doesn't even launch. I really wish I'd gone with Nvidia mobile gpu. M

On the desktop side I've gone from 8800GT->560Ti>660Ti>970GTX without major issues, the only really notable fuckup I remember was when they hosed up a driver update and removed termal throttling back in 8800GT days, had it running at 100C for a day before they released a fix. Made a decision to stay away for awhile after the amazing fuckup that was my ATI1950PRO card, and it's been working well for me.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
At what speed should my GTX970 be running in desktop mode? It's running at 924mhz core/3506mhz memory which seems high when there's nothing running. I've 2 monitors and a TV connected to it.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.

Alereon posted:

This is probably expected based on the number of monitors and their timings, in order to prevent graphical artifacts downclocking is reduced. What resolutions and refresh rates are they running at?

1920x1200 60hz
1440x900 60hz
1920x1080p 60hz TV

I'm not running Shadowplay or Chrome or anything that uses HW acceleration as far as i know.
It might be a Win10 issue, i'm almost certain that it didn't happen in Win8.1

E: looks like multiple displays are the problem, if I disable the other 2 displays the card clocks down to 135mhz or something like that.

Mayne fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Aug 19, 2015

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.

EoRaptor posted:

Every Windows 10 that was upgraded from windows 7 or 8 has the same product key (for pro, it ends is 36VVT). The upgrade process submits a hardware id to microsoft, that then 'blesses' it for use with windows 10, so you can install as much as you like once you have finished the first upgrade.

What constitutes a hardware id MS hasn't said, but likely mainly consists of MB and CPU.


The free upgrade promotion officially ends July 29th, 2016. MS may choose to extend it, depending on how stabilized windows 10 has gotten.

So how do I keep my copy of Win10 if I'm getting a new MB/CPU/RAM? Do i have to install Win8.1 and upgrade again?

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
I don't know about black friday deals but unless water cooling is a must I don't see a reason for buyin a 1070 MSI Sea Hawk for 560€ when you can get one of the cheap GTX1080 versions for like 600€.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

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teagone posted:

Very insightful, thanks. I'm honestly not really worried about actual power usage; I have a Plex server running 24/7 that's powered by a Phenom II X4 840 processor :haw: It'd just be sweet if i could run 3 displays on my 1060 without it boosting clocks as I'd honestly prefer a 28-30C idle GPU temp over 40-45C.

You can. I have 2x 24inch LCD connected to my GTX1070 and 1x HDTV connected to the iGPU of my 6700k CPU. The GTX 1070 is at 139 MHz core/202Mhz memory at idle.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.

Agrajag posted:

:shrug: I guess I just happen to be winning.

Are you using same resolution screens? I think that if it's the same resolution the card will properly drop down to lowest possible idle mode.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
If i remember correctly this is my CPU/GPU combo over the years:

Celeron 450: ATI Rage 128 -> Nvidia Geforce 2
Celeron 700: Nvidia Geforce 4MX -> Nvidia FX5200 :argh:
Pentium3 933: Nvidia FX5200 -> ATI XT1950PRO
AMD X2 4200+: ATI XT1950PRO -> Nvidia 8800GT
Core2Duo E6750: Nvidia 8800GT -> Nvidia GTX275
i7 2600k: Nvidia GTX560Ti -> Nvidia GTX660Ti -> Nvidia GTX970
i7 6700k: Nvidia GTX970 -> Nvidia GTX1070

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
Don't use VLC first of all. Get MPC-HC and test different decoders there.

Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

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Mindfactory is probably the largest EU shop and they have best prices, it really hosed me over when they suddenly decided to stop shipping to other countries.

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Mayne
Mar 22, 2008

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
It was kind of depressing playing Witcher 3 maxed out on my PC with 27inch IPS display, after playing it on in 4K HDR on my XboxOne X + 65'' Samsung Q90R with VRR.
It just looks so much better on TV albeit with lower framerates.

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