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Josh_rakoons
United Kingdom1158 Posts
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XXhkXX
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Wabbit
United States1028 Posts
On June 14 2012 20:45 Josh_rakoons wrote: This may or may not be a "simple question" but i don't think it deems its own thread, i'm currently running my i5 2500k @ 4.7ghz with a dynamic vcore of 0.09v. What kind of voltage am i looking at where i start to decrease the life of my CPU?? There doesn't seem to be a clear and 100% accurate answer anywhere, but some of my research has indicated that starting around 1.36 - 1.38 with continuous high loads (folding) can degrade a chip. I can't seem to find the link now (thought I had it bookmarked) but it was somewhere on overclock.net. You can probably find reports from folders who overclocked their chips high. As far as I can remember, no chips died but they increasingly required much higher voltages to remain stable at overclocks they were previously stable with lower Vcore. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
It really depends on how you're using the CPU and operating temperatures. If you have a 24/7 load, more electrons are passing through per day (and probably in higher temperatures), and you can expect problems to occur sooner, as opposed to normal desktop usage. And of course there's non-trivial sample-to-sample variance. What happens for somebody else may not happen for you. | ||
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Josh_rakoons
United Kingdom1158 Posts
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iTzSnypah
United States1738 Posts
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On June 15 2012 22:24 iTzSnypah wrote: Any reason CPU-Z would be saying my CPU is running at 3.49Ghz when I have it set at 3.2Ghz and Windows says its 3.2? + Show Spoiler + Well, did you mess around in your BIOS at all? Try checking clock speed with another chunk of software? Maybe CoreTemp? Of the two you show, I'd be expecting CPU-Z to be the one that's right. But a 291.2 FSB, 12x multi IS 3.49. Something somewhere is wrong about the multi would be my best guess. Maybe double check it in BIOS. | ||
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BlackKiller
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iTzSnypah
United States1738 Posts
On June 15 2012 23:01 JingleHell wrote: Well, did you mess around in your BIOS at all? Try checking clock speed with another chunk of software? Maybe CoreTemp? Of the two you show, I'd be expecting CPU-Z to be the one that's right. But a 291.2 FSB, 12x multi IS 3.49. Something somewhere is wrong about the multi would be my best guess. Maybe double check it in BIOS. CoreTemp states 266x12 which is what I have it set at (3.2Ghz). Looks like CPU-Z is off. | ||
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Zushen
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On June 16 2012 10:25 Zushen wrote: i tried to make an overlay for my stream in ms paint and when i went to apply it in xsplit it isnt transparent and shows the white background behind it. how do i fix it? http://i.imgur.com/jSDmh.jpg .jpg format does not support a transparent layer. Only .png or .gif format can do so. Also, I don't believe that mspaint supports doing transparent layers. Though there are some free and open source options like inkscape that might let you do what it is you are trying to. | ||
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Zushen
275 Posts
On June 16 2012 10:50 TheToast wrote: .jpg format does not support a transparent layer. Only .png or .gif format can do so. Also, I don't believe that mspaint supports doing transparent layers. Though there are some free and open source options like inkscape that might let you do what it is you are trying to. can i just copy paste the image into the program or do i have to make it again? | ||
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On June 16 2012 10:55 Zushen wrote: can i just copy paste the image into the program or do i have to make it again? Well if you were to utilize inkscape, you'd for sure have to completely remake it as inkscape is a vector graphics program. Technically you could copy it into something like photoshop and delete out the areas you want to be transparent, but going from a .jpg lossy format and recompressing into a .png format it going to look like shit pretty much. Unless you have it saved in .bmp format somewhere, I'd suggest redoing it. If you do it in inkscape, you can save it in both a raster format (static pixles) like .png for use on your stream, and you can (and should) also save it in a vector format which can be resized to anything later and will still be high quality. | ||
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Zushen
275 Posts
do you think Krita or PS express can do what I need? EDIT: PS express only supports JPG and krita only works on linux, Paint.NET had everything I needed and was super easy to use | ||
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On June 16 2012 11:34 Zushen wrote: I dl'ed Inkscape and holy hell was it complicated and I couldnt really find what I was looking for (photo editing newbie here) do you think Krita or PS express can do what I need? PS express probably can, Krita I have no idea but I would guess it probably can. | ||
Womwomwom
5930 Posts
Really though, I'm fairly sure GIMP can do transparent layers easy enough. | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On June 16 2012 17:24 Womwomwom wrote: Isn't Inkscape specifically designed to deal with vectors? That's probably the wrong software to use. Really though, I'm fairly sure GIMP can do transparent layers easy enough. GIMP is what I used for making transparent stuff when I was making a rainmeter theme. Free, not too difficult to learn, what's not to love? | ||
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Nabutso
351 Posts
I'm currently running 2600k @ 4.5ghz 1.38v (Or 5ghz 1.55v depending on how crazy I am) H100 closed loop (my temps are great but my chip sucks and needs massive amounts of voltage...) GTX 680 ASrock Extreme3 Gen3 Xonar DG Sound Card 4 120mm fans total keyboard/mouse/headset etc Neo Eco 520c (480w on the 12v line) I was wondering if I could power a 690 in my system instead of a 680. I saw that the Tom's setup had a 3960x at 4.5ghz in their power consumption testing for it, where it reached about 450w total system power draw during 3D mark. I do a lot of streaming and I think I'd end up putting more load on the CPU than they did with 3D mark, although their CPU generally uses more power. I'm just not sure if I should bother trying or not. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
So would you be streaming anything that would actually max out two GK104s? What's your monitor setup? | ||
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
This was a few months ago, and I just cut my losses and bought a sound card, but I'm thinking about reevaluating my situation. Does anyone have an idea of where I should check/what I should check, or should I just use the sound card that I have? The main reason I don't want to use a sound card is cause it's PCI and PCI sound cards are absolute shit, at least from my experiences with them. Another issue I've gotten is that there's a slight humming from the graphics card that creates feedback with the sound card =/ Thanks for any responses. | ||
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