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Cyro
United Kingdom20323 Posts
What's your current CPU, and i can give some comparison numbers You don't need a 7870 to max sc2, it will only increase your framerates early game when they are nowhere near their worst. Don't buy over a 7770 unless it's for other games Haswell is looking ~8-9% better at stock, overclock performance nobody that can say anything about it has any real idea | ||
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Alryk
United States2718 Posts
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DnCL
86 Posts
On May 10 2013 00:56 skyR wrote: Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way - at least not for chrome. Though if you have local storage enabled for flash, the volume on flash videos should remain constant throughout websites (eg. Twitch and Youtube). Yeah the problem is not that I have to change the volume locally for each site (it's always at max on youtube for example.) What I'd like to be easier is that when I change sites, I have to go into window's sound mixer to change the balance between chrome and other applications because otherwise my neighboors become deaf. | ||
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Craton
United States17274 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/sjVp3YD.jpg) What is a "sub-ship" and how does it fit into "Product Received > (Waiting) > Repairing > Final Testing > Packing > Ready for Shipping > Repair Finished" Best guess is something to do with the repair center getting shipped something. I also had a WAITEX before this for 3 days, which would seemingly overlap (i.e. no difference). | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
On May 10 2013 05:39 DnCL wrote: Yeah the problem is not that I have to change the volume locally for each site (it's always at max on youtube for example.) What I'd like to be easier is that when I change sites, I have to go into window's sound mixer to change the balance between chrome and other applications because otherwise my neighboors become deaf. If you don't mind some quality loss, you could try some dynamic range compression for everything. Some sound cards have it as an optional feature (e.g. Turtle Beach Micro II, ~$25). There's probably some VST plugin that can do it too (and probably better, more controllable), so with some trickeration you could apply that to all OS sounds: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=91100 | ||
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Count9
China10928 Posts
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
You could try to turn on anti-aliasing at 1080p to make the pixels on the edges of units and buildings not so noticeable. The SC2 ingame anti-aliasing option doesn't do anything bad to the FPS numbers for me. Forcing anti-aliasing on in the graphics card control panel software looks better than the ingame option but causes the FPS to drop a good bit. | ||
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Count9
China10928 Posts
On May 10 2013 12:21 Ropid wrote: It looks better, it's not blurry at the native resolution. Perhaps that's what makes you think 720p feels smoother? It could be some kind of optical illusion because things get blurred from stretching 720p to the native resolution of the monitor. You could try to turn on anti-aliasing at 1080p to make the pixels on the edges of units and buildings not so noticeable. The SC2 ingame anti-aliasing option doesn't do anything bad to the FPS numbers for me. Forcing anti-aliasing on in the graphics card control panel software looks better than the ingame option but causes the FPS to drop a good bit. That's probably it now that you mention it, just making sure I'm not crazy. It's more crisp but the animations and stuff dont' feel as smooth, might just be the eyes tricking me. | ||
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Craton
United States17274 Posts
On May 10 2013 11:43 Count9 wrote: Is there another way to measure game performance than fps? I've been trying 720p high graphics and 1080p medium graphics and they both tell me 60 fps but the 1080p one "feels" a lot laggier. Also, is there a benefit to using native resolution on lcd? I see everyone say I should but why? Is it bad for hardware? (trying to decide between just plyaing at 1280x720 with ok graphics rather than native 1920x1080 with super bad graphics) Yes. Latency between frames & minimum FPS are big culprits of good FPS but bad experience. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20323 Posts
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Flaiker
Germany235 Posts
On May 10 2013 11:43 Count9 wrote: Is there another way to measure game performance than fps? I've been trying 720p high graphics and 1080p medium graphics and they both tell me 60 fps but the 1080p one "feels" a lot laggier. Also, is there a benefit to using native resolution on lcd? I see everyone say I should but why? Is it bad for hardware? (trying to decide between just plyaing at 1280x720 with ok graphics rather than native 1920x1080 with super bad graphics) If it is both always 60 FPS you might have VSYNC on? For me that makes the game very unresponsive. If you want to limit the FPS because you gfx card overheats or sth. you can do that in the variables.txt without having the choppiness vsync causes. Just a guess, | ||
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Rannasha
Netherlands2398 Posts
On May 10 2013 11:43 Count9 wrote: Is there another way to measure game performance than fps? I've been trying 720p high graphics and 1080p medium graphics and they both tell me 60 fps but the 1080p one "feels" a lot laggier. Also, is there a benefit to using native resolution on lcd? I see everyone say I should but why? Is it bad for hardware? (trying to decide between just plyaing at 1280x720 with ok graphics rather than native 1920x1080 with super bad graphics) Don't have a direct answer to your "laggier feel", but your other questions: An LCD has a set number of pixels (individual display units), unlike a CRT which was just a plate of phosphorous that you could project an electron beam on. This number of pixels that the display has determines the native resolution. If you run your display at a lower resolution, it has to interpolate to determine what colour the pixels should get. Take a 1080p panel (1080 pixels in the vertical direction) ran at 720p (720 pixels vertical). Each "virtual" pixel has to be smeared out over 1.5 physical pixels (per direction). That means that the image becomes more blurry, especially with sharp contrasts. It is not at all bad for the hardware, your LCD will live just as long when operated at 720p. But you should be able to clearly see the difference is sharpness between running at 1080p and 720p. | ||
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
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{ToT}ColmA
Japan3260 Posts
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
Depending on the graphics card(s) and load, you can even have more noise using one than if using something else with better airflow. So it's relevant to know everything that's in your build and your expected range of noise level. Are you more worried about gaming noise levels or idle? If you could make one better at the expense of the other, which would it be? | ||
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{ToT}ColmA
Japan3260 Posts
concerned about both, but idle noise level lower would be cool, when gaming i have headphones on anyway but it would be nice in any case to not have a freaking 5000db machine next to u like i do now =( | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
Make sure you force things like the CPU fan and GPU fans to run as slow as possible while idle. Go about deciding what is "idle" aggressively, set up the fan profiles so that the fans only start to ramp up if it's getting seriously hot. You can also let the fan speeds typically max out at for example 60 %, only going higher with the last step of the fan profile if temperature hits 85 C or something. The fan profiles are usually set up in the (overclocking) software that came with your motherboard and graphics card. If you can't force the GPU fans below 40 % speed, you can research how to go about patching its BIOS to allow it to go as low as 25 % or something like that. If you don't like the motherboard's and graphics card's software, there's a program called "SpeedFan". You need to replace fans that are not quiet. The aftermarket coolers for graphics cards are better than anything that ships with a graphics card. Some of it is pretty ridiculous (meaning: awesome) like a cooler that uses a 140 mm fan. There are products for decoupling the HDDs from the case that beat the typical solutions that come with the silent cases. There are products to insulate HDDs to muffle the sound of their rotating disks that handily beat the dampening of a silent case. Silencing the HDDs is pretty pricey but there are ghetto do-it-yourself solutions. | ||
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{ToT}ColmA
Japan3260 Posts
 turned out thats probably not possible lol | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/D5nfdjl.png) For the CPU and case fans go into the BIOS and choose whatever setting is the weakest cooling. Next time you buy parts, decide on the PSU and the graphics card by looking at its reported noise in reviews. Your HR-02 CPU cooler is already something for silent PCs so you should keep it. For HDD noise you can go with a neat pricey PC case that's mostly closed and has dampening on the side panels and front door. The HDDs and fans have to be decoupled from the case so that vibrations aren't translated into noise. The pricey silent case will come with some kind of solution for this. | ||
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Scones
Wales99 Posts
I have a feeling I might be overestimating how good a processor I need. Thanks | ||
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