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i only use my computer for gaming (mainly SC2 but also D3) dunno if that answers your SLI/crossfire question
i dont know what modular means unfortunately >.>
as for warranty its not a big deal for me its nice but its not something i would obsess about
for GPU i have NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 and my CPU is Intel core i3
im planning to look into upgrading my CPU some point in the near future and im trying to find a power supply thats a good deal that i wont have to worry too much about but i dont really know that much about computers so im a bit lost trying to figure how good a PSU is and what exactly i need to get :/
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Modular means you can remove some of the wires you don't want to use.
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You mostly can't tell what's good without consulting 3rd-party technical reviews.
A more sophisticated design with more stable outputs, requiring more components or some more expensive and higher-grade components, higher manufacturing quality, more electrical fault protections implemented, a better fan, better housing/cabling quality (mechanically not going to fall apart), and longer warranties cost extra. You're not going to be able to really get a sense of some of those things based on the label and product description.
If whatever you have handles a GTX 580 and i3, it's probably fine for whatever. It's not like a better CPU for gaming purposes would actually draw more than a couple dozen watts more. That said, if it's a really bad model you have, it could be running your computer fine now, but slowly damaging it over time. What do you have?
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On June 25 2012 10:14 Myrmidon wrote:
You mostly can't tell what's good without consulting 3rd-party technical reviews.
A more sophisticated design with more stable outputs, requiring more components or some more expensive and higher-grade components, higher manufacturing quality, more electrical fault protections implemented, a better fan, better housing/cabling quality (mechanically not going to fall apart), and longer warranties cost extra. You're not going to be able to really get a sense of some of those things based on the label and product description.
If whatever you have handles a GTX 580 and i3, it's probably fine for whatever. It's not like a better CPU for gaming purposes would actually draw more than a couple dozen watts more. That said, if it's a really bad model you have, it could be running your computer fine now, but slowly damaging it over time. What do you have?
i had a 750 watt one but it recently decided to stop running so im stuck with my old 300 watt one >.>
im been laying off the high graphics and running stuff on low to be safe
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Hello, I have an evga nvidia gtx 560 and for some reason - im not sure if it does this during games - but whenever im looking at replays or just in the menu of a game it will occasionaly have this small picture in the top left that says "HyperFormance universal GPU Virtualization" and i can't click on it or anything. I've looked for a solution but there is nothing i can find. Does anyone know how to get rid of this stupid thing?
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What is a pretty safe internet connection to stream (240 quality to 1080)?
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my comp is 6 months old now and recently whenever i on my comp theres a very low buzz noise coming from my fan[i think] but its only for like 30 secs. I went to open my cpu and clean everything then on again the noise is still there.Should i be worried about this?
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Was wondering if some stream smart dude would help me setup my stream in a couple of hours? at work now but My stream knowledge equals Zero and whatever I do the stream drops frames or laggs. PM me if your a kind soul <3
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On June 25 2012 17:52 justiceknight wrote:
my comp is 6 months old now and recently whenever i on my comp theres a very low buzz noise coming from my fan[i think] but its only for like 30 secs. I went to open my cpu and clean everything then on again the noise is still there.Should i be worried about this?
Make sure you don't have wires brushing up against your fans. In particular the CPU cooler, if it's stock.
If there's no wires brushing things, it's either vibration or coil whine. Really, without isolating the fan, it's hard to say what you should do about it.
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On June 25 2012 19:34 NeWeNiyaLord wrote:
Was wondering if some stream smart dude would help me setup my stream in a couple of hours? at work now but My stream knowledge equals Zero and whatever I do the stream drops frames or laggs. PM me if your a kind soul <3
There's a number of good streaming tutorial threads on TL that you should start by reading through first:
Streaming 101 - By TheGunrun
The Ultimate Xsplit+Dxtory streaming Guide.
[G] Streaming With FFsplit
Also note that streaming requires a high end CPU, at least an i5; and requires a pretty decent upload speed, around at least .4 Mb/s for lower quality streaming if you're using dxtory. You can check your interent speed with www.speedtest.net
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Anyone can recommend a good movie converter for ipod?
EDIT: Free one 
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How do I go about using a proxy to connect to the internet in general (not just browser)?
I'm getting a connection error that has seemingly no solution to it for PSO2, error 105. I feel like using a proxy in japan to connect to the game servers may work.
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Hey all,
Quick question here, hope this is the right place to ask:
The Ivy Bridge chips are showing issues with heating when overclocked. I am planning on building a new PC around the desire to do a lot of design focused work and heavy video editing. I was thinking about an i7-3770k but I'm wondering if I should change my mind on that for the following:
1. Will it be too hot and a pain in the ass to OC when a 2600k Sandy Bridge might be a safer/easier alternative?
2. Will Intel implement some fix for this issue with overheating in the new chips in the future?
Anyone who follows this sort of thing have a suggestion?
Thanks in advance.
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That depends on your definition of "good", what you have, what you need, and your budget, but generally, no.
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On June 25 2012 23:43 TheToast wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2012 19:34 NeWeNiyaLord wrote:
Was wondering if some stream smart dude would help me setup my stream in a couple of hours? at work now but My stream knowledge equals Zero and whatever I do the stream drops frames or laggs. PM me if your a kind soul <3 There's a number of good streaming tutorial threads on TL that you should start by reading through first: Streaming 101 - By TheGunrunThe Ultimate Xsplit+Dxtory streaming Guide.[G] Streaming With FFsplitAlso note that streaming requires a high end CPU, at least an i5; and requires a pretty decent upload speed, around at least .4 Mb/s for lower quality streaming if you're using dxtory. You can check your interent speed with www.speedtest.net
Well yes I understand all that, I have 40/10 speed with a i72600k not overclocked with 2x gtx 480 SLI with 16 gigs of ram. And have probably checked thoose guides atleast 20 times each. but whatever streaming setup I do i feel slight input lagg or worse. Even tho my computer and internet should handle it 
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On June 26 2012 03:18 Mjolnir wrote:
Hey all,
Quick question here, hope this is the right place to ask:
The Ivy Bridge chips are showing issues with heating when overclocked. I am planning on building a new PC around the desire to do a lot of design focused work and heavy video editing. I was thinking about an i7-3770k but I'm wondering if I should change my mind on that for the following:
1. Will it be too hot and a pain in the ass to OC when a 2600k Sandy Bridge might be a safer/easier alternative?
2. Will Intel implement some fix for this issue with overheating in the new chips in the future?
Anyone who follows this sort of thing have a suggestion?
Thanks in advance.
2600k isn't actually going to be that much better than the i5 3550. In fact, if the application doesn't support hyper threading (an application like photoshop) the i5 ivy bridge will actually out-perform the 2600k. You can take a look at some of the benchmarks that show a 2700k barely pulls ahead of the i5 ivy bridge in some of the applications: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i5-3570-low-power,3204-6.html
Even for encoding work the 2600k is probably going to fall behind an i5 ivybridge, 2700k doesn't beat it by much: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i5-3570-low-power,3204-9.html
Anyway, the bottom line is that unless you're doing an absurd amount of video encoding, there's really no reason a stock i7 3770 wouldn't be sufficient. It's a blazingly fast CPU, unless you're doing a lot of rendering I can't see anyone really needing more speed than it offers stock or even with a light OC.
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It will probably run between medium to high settings, skewing more towards medium. I'm assuming you already own an AM3 motherboard? If not, there's really no reason to go AMD at the moment.
But if you've already got the motherboard it may be worth it. Sort of depends on what you're upgrading from.
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