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Womwomwom
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Sid(TB)
United States314 Posts
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162085 GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 2GB 256-bit http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130759 GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 it seems alot of sites say the 480 is really good, but the memory is less, but higher bit rate. also i look at core clock speed and such and it seems they are pretty simular in other aspects, heres a site i was looking at about performance rating. http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html# as you can see the 480 is rated pretty highly for alot less money, and it shows its actually better than the 6950 and is 50$ cheaper. i could prob get a family member to spot me 50$ if you guys think its a large enough upgrade? how much is 20% better? or w/e i dont know how to rate performance. i know anything i guess since u said the 6850 is a huge upgrade, will make me happy, but i dont want to upgrade again for atleast 2-3 hours (this graphics card is prob closer to 5-6 and still works >.>) thanks again for the quick info. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
On July 06 2012 13:12 taldarimAltar wrote: Any good earphone/earbud review sites that aare impartial? Google turns up sponsored sites or cnet. Like Womwomwom mentioned, InnerFidelity is okay. There's not too much else. Unfortunately, they don't do many IEM reviews, mostly portable and fullsize headphones. The main writer at IF is usually good. head-fi is mostly full of junk, but you can start here: http://www.head-fi.org/t/478568/multi-iem-review-245-iems-compared-phonak-pfe-232-added-07-05-12/30 http://www.head-fi.org/t/541204/concise-multi-iem-comparison-rha-ma-350-added-june-23th-2012 Some sites take some acoustic measurements, but note that some results are suspect. Furthermore, there's not really one established standard on how raw frequency response data should be normalized (not to mention test setups being different), so results are not comparable between websites. But there's a lot of good information worth a look. http://www.innerfidelity.com/headphone-data-sheet-downloads http://en.goldenears.net/index.php?mid=GR_Headphones&category=275 http://doctorhead.ru/base_report http://www.headphone.com/learning-center/build-a-graph.php http://www.headphoneinfo.com/ http://www.geocities.jp/ryumatsuba/review.html HD 6850 is probably somewhere around twice as fast as the 8800 GTX? That's a whole lot of money on a GTX 560, by the way, which is not any faster than a heavily factory overclocked GTX 460 (which goes for $140 before rebate these days, and is faster than a HD 6850 by a bit). GTX 480 is really power hungry, really hot, and really loud. About $210 for that level of performance is good, though, if you can stand having it in your system. | ||
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Womwomwom
5930 Posts
This isn't the most academically honest way of doing explaining it, because it doesn't take into account system upgrades and driver updates, but it should give a general idea of the situation. Using this really old review, the 8800GT can end up being 10% slower than your 8800GTX at really obscene resolutions where the limited RAM is obviously choking it. Using this more recent benchmark, the HD6850 basically runs circles around the 8800GT. Edit: Talking about the video card benchmarks not the audio measurements above. Its like smartphone Sunpsider scores...in the real world, who the hell cares man? It doesn't explain anything at all. Use relevant benchmarks (for you, that would be video games and video games alone) if you're going to look at benchmarks at all. Real talk: I hate tech reviewers. 99% of them are dead useless. | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On July 06 2012 14:29 Womwomwom wrote: Real talk: I hate tech reviewers. 99% of them are dead useless. I wouldn't put that at dead useless, because they're using passmark. Uselessness usually implies that it's not distinctly counterproductive. Dead useless is considerably better than passmark,, which assigns a score based on some combination of model number, price, and how many lapdances it's developers got the night before. | ||
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MisterFred
United States2033 Posts
On July 06 2012 14:20 Sid(TB) wrote: + Show Spoiler + never heard of idle mode and ive had it for years >.> so doubt it. so ive been looking at benchmark charts, and trying to decide if thats how much i want to spend or if upgrading like 50$ would be better, to something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162085 GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 2GB 256-bit http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130759 GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 it seems alot of sites say the 480 is really good, but the memory is less, but higher bit rate. also i look at core clock speed and such and it seems they are pretty simular in other aspects, heres a site i was looking at about performance rating. http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html# as you can see the 480 is rated pretty highly for alot less money, and it shows its actually better than the 6950 and is 50$ cheaper. i could prob get a family member to spot me 50$ if you guys think its a large enough upgrade? how much is 20% better? or w/e i dont know how to rate performance. i know anything i guess since u said the 6850 is a huge upgrade, will make me happy, but i dont want to upgrade again for atleast 2-3 hours (this graphics card is prob closer to 5-6 and still works >.>) thanks again for the quick info. Quick primer on video card RAM (simplified version): If you have a 1920x1080 or less resolution (and you do, unless you have a huge screen), 1GB or more is enough for you. More will not help. RAM is not an indicator of video card performance, other factors influence a card's actual performance. Two good video card upgrades: EVGA 460 (very bottom of linked page): Much better than your current card. Quite cheap. http://www.evga.com/products/prodlist.asp?switch=20 If you were going into the 200ish range, this is probably the best way to go. Better than the 480. Quieter & cooler, too: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150617 | ||
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autoexec
United States530 Posts
 ) My internet has now visibly slowed. I used to be able to watch streams in 720p. Now I can only in 480p. Would anything I have been doing that I listed caused this? | ||
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On July 07 2012 01:17 autoexec wrote: I just build a custom computer about 2 months ago. I use it everyday for starcraft, other gaming, stream watching, and general browsing. I have also downloaded a few torrents. (legal of course ) My internet has now visibly slowed. I used to be able to watch streams in 720p. Now I can only in 480p. Would anything I have been doing that I listed caused this?Let me say this, none of the things you mentioned could cause that. Something you did, like downloading a virus, could've slowed your interent. Though I suspect the real cause lies elsewhere. If there's someone else on your network, it's possible they have a virus or are downloading stuff; it's also possible your internet provider is throttling you for some reason. Could also be an Abobe Flash issue with the most recent version of your browser. Saying that you used to watch 720 and now can only watch 480 is totally subjective, and can't really narrow down anything at all. If you want to look into the issue more closely you'll need to do some basic monitoring of the network traffic coming to and from your PC (resource monitor in Windows 7 can do this) as well as some basic testing of your interent speed using something like speedtest.net | ||
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
I have a question about VLC. Sometimes after updating VLC it wont run the audio from any of my video files. I think iv tried it with mp4 and avi files and it always runs the video fine but I get no audio, iv been reduced to using windows media player. It doesnt seem to be a problem with the preferences, and reinstalling doesnt fix it, can anyone help? | ||
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Sid(TB)
United States314 Posts
On July 07 2012 00:27 MisterFred wrote: Quick primer on video card RAM (simplified version): If you have a 1920x1080 or less resolution (and you do, unless you have a huge screen), 1GB or more is enough for you. More will not help. RAM is not an indicator of video card performance, other factors influence a card's actual performance. Two good video card upgrades: EVGA 460 (very bottom of linked page): Much better than your current card. Quite cheap. http://www.evga.com/products/prodlist.asp?switch=20 If you were going into the 200ish range, this is probably the best way to go. Better than the 480. Quieter & cooler, too: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150617 so about the 1GB ram being more than enough for that resolution, i use dual monitor's, does this change anything? do i need 2GB for dual? also how much of a difference does bit rate do? (like 256 to 320, or w/e) like comparing the 7850 you posted to the gtx 570 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127682 thanks again for all the simplified explanations. | ||
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autoexec
United States530 Posts
On July 07 2012 01:22 TheToast wrote: Let me say this, none of the things you mentioned could cause that. Something you did, like downloading a virus, could've slowed your interent. Though I suspect the real cause lies elsewhere. If there's someone else on your network, it's possible they have a virus or are downloading stuff; it's also possible your internet provider is throttling you for some reason. Could also be an Abobe Flash issue with the most recent version of your browser. Saying that you used to watch 720 and now can only watch 480 is totally subjective, and can't really narrow down anything at all. If you want to look into the issue more closely you'll need to do some basic monitoring of the network traffic coming to and from your PC (resource monitor in Windows 7 can do this) as well as some basic testing of your interent speed using something like speedtest.net On resource monitor I noticed a ridiculous amount of "utorrent.exe" programs using my network. Like 40 or so. Would that be a problem? Also, my speeds on speedtest.net have decreased signifigantly. I have lower download speed but not upload speed. My ping has also tripled. | ||
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On July 07 2012 01:34 autoexec wrote: On resource monitor I noticed a ridiculous amount of "utorrent.exe" programs using my network. Like 40 or so. Would that be a problem? Also, my speeds on speedtest.net have decreased signifigantly. I have lower download speed but not upload speed. My ping has also tripled. For your first question, it depends. Just because something is using a network protocol doesn't mean it's using your bandwidth. Plenty of programs use the 127.0.0.1 loopback to connect to the same device. If the IP it's connecting to is entirely foriegn to your network and the b/s usage is very high; that would indicate utorrent is downloading something in the background that is affecting your speeds. I've not used utorrent, but for most p2p clients unless you specifically turn it off in the options, the client will continue uploading files to other p2p users. Not only does that use up upload and some download bandwidth, but it also makes it possible for your ISP and any other organization to track you for illegal downloading (unless you're regularly connecting to a proxy server or TOR). You're ping tripling doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, as ping is a measure of latency and not bandwidth. Unless something is really chowing down your bandwidth to the point that a simple ping request is being delayed. | ||
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autoexec
United States530 Posts
On July 07 2012 01:40 TheToast wrote: For your first question, it depends. Just because something is using a network protocol doesn't mean it's using your bandwidth. Plenty of programs use the 127.0.0.1 loopback to connect to the same device. If the IP it's connecting to is entirely foriegn to your network and the b/s usage is very high; that would indicate utorrent is downloading something in the background that is affecting your speeds. I've not used utorrent, but for most p2p clients unless you specifically turn it off in the options, the client will continue uploading files to other p2p users. Not only does that use up upload and some download bandwidth, but it also makes it possible for your ISP and any other organization to track you for illegal downloading (unless you're regularly connecting to a proxy server or TOR). You're ping tripling doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, as ping is a measure of latency and not bandwidth. Unless something is really chowing down your bandwidth to the point that a simple ping request is being delayed. After doing a few runs on speedtest, it seems as my internet has slowed a lot. Keep in mind I had slow internet to begin with, but now it's almost unbearable Ping stays the same at 50ish ms. (guess that one time was a fluke) Download Speeds go from 6 Mbps to about 1.25 Mbps Upload Speeds go from .5 Mbps to .2 Mbps I know I already had really slow internet, but this seems a bit ridiculous now. | ||
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Maski
Germany335 Posts
I am very interested in the Steelseries 6Gv2 Gaming Keyboard. http://steelseries.com/products/keyboards/steelseries-6gv2 Since it is pretty expensive I would like to try it out for like 2 minutes (just to see if it feels comfortable) but in the local multimedia stores this product is not available. Is there any way of getting to test it before buying it? Thanks in advance! | ||
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Gluon
Netherlands418 Posts
I'm considering building a new pc, and I was wondering if I could use some old components like my graphics card. Would it be better to retain my old Sapphire HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E and crossfire it with a HD5870 (about 350 euros), or get an entirely new card like the XFX Radeon HD7950 Double Dissipation Edition (340 euros) or Sapphire HD 7970 OC Dual-X 3GB? So, crossfire with a semi-older series or start over with a single card from a newer series? | ||
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Gluon
Netherlands418 Posts
On July 07 2012 17:57 Maski wrote: Hello, I am very interested in the Steelseries 6Gv2 Gaming Keyboard. http://steelseries.com/products/keyboards/steelseries-6gv2 Since it is pretty expensive I would like to try it out for like 2 minutes (just to see if it feels comfortable) but in the local multimedia stores this product is not available. Is there any way of getting to test it before buying it? Thanks in advance! Thats typically pretty difficult, depending on the country you're in. You'd do wise to ask questions like this in the mechanical keyboard guide thread  | ||
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Womwomwom
5930 Posts
On July 07 2012 20:18 bblack wrote: Hi guys, I'm considering building a new pc, and I was wondering if I could use some old components like my graphics card. Would it be better to retain my old Sapphire HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E and crossfire it with a HD5870 (about 350 euros), or get an entirely new card like the XFX Radeon HD7950 Double Dissipation Edition (340 euros) or Sapphire HD 7970 OC Dual-X 3GB? So, crossfire with a semi-older series or start over with a single card from a newer series? There's no point doing Crossfire with the HD5000 series. Unless recent drivers have changed something, the scaling of the cards weren't all that great to be honest. I don't think there's a lot of point ditching the HD5850 just yet. It should still be a very adequate card. Personally I'd keep it and upgrade the GPU next year when new GPUs and new consoles are likely to emerge. | ||
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uLysSeS1
Germany210 Posts
i'm looking to buy a notebook with a long battery life and have concluded that this one looks nicest: http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/review/notebooks/acer/aspire_timeline_ultra_m3_ultrabook/426375/specs the version i'm interested in (since it's not so expensive) is one with an i3-2367m processor and the gt 640m graphics card. now apart from using the laptop for boring stuff, i'm of course going to use it for sc2 as well the cpu seems to be a bit weak, so i'm not sure if this will be able to process 200/200 battles in 2on2 without having a framerate drop below 20 fps. can anyone here enlighten me in that regard? thanks in advance. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
If you were looking at an Ivy Bridge low-power i5, like i5-2467M (1.6 GHz up to 2.1 GHz on two threads, on a slightly better architecture), that might be borderline okay, but still not that good. | ||
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Bleak
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