Can someone help me to build a nano file, that automated the update/upgrade process an a debian distribution? That would be kind. I don`t have root (but the rights [sudo] to update/upgrade the virtual server(?)

Also; I`m a little worried about the fact that a few of my games installed on a laptop, getting forced to start with the hd4600 instead of the gtx760m.
The option to change this setting is greyed out (in-game) and displays the 4600 (nvidia control panel doesn`t apply changes) It`s a fresh installed win 8.1.
On the other hand, i can`t imagine that the 4600 can handle skyrim and grey goo as it does at the moment. So i`m somehow sure that it`s just an graphic issue.
If i start skyrim via geforce experience, games run a lot smoother, though.

d_runk

124 Posts

March 05 2015 17:26 GMT

#10484

Hi all,
My rig is getting quite old and even though I carefully choose my games in order to avoid disappointment/burning desire to blow 3 months rent on a new PC, the time has come for an upgrade of some sorts. Main components are:
Gigabyte EP43-DS3L mobo
Q6600 G0 Processor with arctic freezer 13 cooler
ATI HD 6770
8gb crucial ballistix sport ram.
SSD for windows and games

I know that pretty much any modern GPU will get bottlenecked by the CPU at this point, yet I'm inclined to replace the current vga to a low-mid current card like 750ti (i have corsair builder 430cx PSU so any beefier older cards are out of the question). Is this a complete waste of money, or will i get to play some recent games on a reasonable (I'm fine with 720p to be honest as long as fps/detail levels are good) setting?

(Eventually I will give in, but not before the arrival of Skylake CPU-s drives the price of 1150 stuff down to a tolerable point)

Cyro

United Kingdom20321 Posts

March 05 2015 17:42 GMT

#10485

~400w is actually fine for most GPU's, especially if you're not overclocking both CPU and GPU. I don't know the power consumption of OC'd q6600 but you could probably do fine with a 960 if you wanted, at least

Intel doesn't lower their prices, the only lga1150 prices that will drop with skylake launch will be used stuff

Kupon3ss

時の回廊10066 Posts

March 05 2015 18:56 GMT

#10486

Q6600 even oc'd should not exceed 150W, so a 960 would definitely be fine
stock Q6600 goes up to like 130 or so running benchmarks on all core iirc

Cyro

United Kingdom20321 Posts

March 05 2015 20:13 GMT

#10487

It probably depends a lot on what you do with the voltage. For example taking a 4770k from 4ghz@1.1v to 4.7ghz @1.4v pretty much doubles power consumption. It wouldn't surprise me if it was more (like 200w)

~but then again a 960 when not overvolted uses like less than 100w. A 960 is only about 1/3'rd of a Titan X which will probably ship with ~250w TDP lol

d_runk

124 Posts

March 05 2015 20:29 GMT

#10488

Thanks for the replies, a 960 is a bit steep on price, goes around £185 (i would get the msi twin frozr from any card) and considering I wouldnt get the same performance as with an 1150 CPU, it would still be a waste of money to some extent, no? That's why I'm eyeing the 750ti, it's almost half the price yet still a considerable step up from what I currently have, plus I would still have some headroom on the PSU to OC the processor to get some more juice out of that card...
edit:
Then again, a decent card now might save me the pain of upgrading again when I change all the other stuff...

Cyro

United Kingdom20321 Posts

March 05 2015 21:05 GMT

#10489

Yea it's just generally a bad idea to upgrade to the lowest end parts

Kupon3ss

時の回廊10066 Posts

March 06 2015 01:15 GMT

#10490

titan X - 10.5 gigs of VRAM inc?

Cyro

United Kingdom20321 Posts

March 06 2015 03:15 GMT

#10491

That's reserved for the gtx 1080 :D

though it would probably be 5GB or 5.5GB (6GB on the card, 12 blocks of L2 with 1 or 2 of them disabled)

Fully enabled gm200 with rumored specs would be 1.5x faster than 980 if you match clock speeds. If they cut it down at all, the gap between 980 and the "1080" wouldn't be that big. They could do like 30-40% at OC performance gap quite easily, but "stock" benchmarks will always favor the smaller GPU's because they're clocked relatively higher, but lose that advantage at OC.

980 hits 250w at 1.25v. gm200 being 1.5x everything would hit like 350w under the same volts, but they're just gonna ship it at like 1.06v and call it a 225w tdp :D :D

I really wanna see AMD response though. They're weeks away from Nvidia's flagship being a good 60-80% faster than anything they have on the field at any price point.

Kupon3ss

時の回廊10066 Posts

March 06 2015 03:46 GMT

#10492

amd did announce the 390x, which should be about 25% faster than the 980 iirc if the previously leaked "next gen" benchmarks are to be believed, which puts it probably about 80% of the performance of the titan

Cyro

United Kingdom20321 Posts

March 06 2015 04:48 GMT

#10493

They announced nothing formally and any performance or specifications are rumor at best. We know for sure that Nvidia's shipping gm200 (full chip has same architectural revision as 980 with 24smm and 384 bit bus) with 12GB of VRAM.

They do seem to have something and who would be surprised if it has 4GB of HBM at this point but really we can't say much. Any new die would have all of the Tonga improvements though. ~30-40% gains to effective memory bandwidth through color compression and such.

Seeker

Where dat snitch at?37043 Posts

March 06 2015 06:38 GMT

#10494

Wondering if anyone could help me out with this:

As you can see, the font for regular messages are fine, but whenever something gets quoted the font looks really weird. And the side bars all have the same weird font as well. Not sure what's going on here since I didn't touch anything nor install any kind of extension.
R1CH suggested zooming out so I tried that and I noticed that quoted messages and the side bar thread titles all fixed themselves at 110% but then the regular messages looked too big after that. So how do I get my side bar/quoted posts looking 110% but at the same time make regular font look like 100%?
R1CH then asked me if I somehow changed my windows display settings DPI scaling, but I have no idea what that is or how I would even do that.

Craton

United States17264 Posts

March 06 2015 13:58 GMT

#10495

DPI scaling is set under control panel > display and can be reached through a few paths, but it doesn't look enabled to me.

Maybe you're missing a font or failing to receive it from TL (assuming it's being sent as a resource). To me it doesn't look like a size issue, but rather the font isn't the standard one TL uses. It might be simply using a fallback font if the primary one the site wants isn't available.

Grumbels

Netherlands7031 Posts

March 06 2015 19:28 GMT

#10496

What should I do if I want (inexpensive) back-up? I'm a bit worried about hard drive failure and losing important data and I wonder if there are any more sophisticated schemes out there than occasionally copying data to an external hard drive?

I was worried that if you were to copy 1 TB of data it would take too long. Also, I don't know if RAID arrays are still a thing (I have no experience with that anyhow), and I was thinking that might add electricity and performance costs if you install another hard drive (don't know if my PSU can handle that).

Cyro

United Kingdom20321 Posts

March 06 2015 19:35 GMT

#10497

Mirroring 1TB would take 2-3 hours on a regular fast-ish HDD i guess. RAID arrays are still very much a thing, and any PSU that's not a fire hazard would probably handle it fine. HDD power usage, i think, is around ~10w when spun up and working hard - while 200 watt graphics cards are not out of the ordinary.

Seeker

Where dat snitch at?37043 Posts

March 06 2015 19:54 GMT

#10498

On March 06 2015 22:58 Craton wrote:
DPI scaling is set under control panel > display and can be reached through a few paths, but it doesn't look enabled to me.

Maybe you're missing a font or failing to receive it from TL (assuming it's being sent as a resource). To me it doesn't look like a size issue, but rather the font isn't the standard one TL uses. It might be simply using a fallback font if the primary one the site wants isn't available.

Okay, so how do I fix this?

Craton

United States17264 Posts

March 07 2015 01:32 GMT

#10499

Looking more closely (though only using my eye comparing to a sample), the quoted text does appear to be correctly the arial font. That said, it does look a little different than mine, though I run 1440p with TL zoomed in and various custom Chrome extensions.

It seems the main difference between quoted text between us is the line spacing (the gap between each line). Yours seems to have bigger spacing.

Thinking more on it, I don't really think it's a case of a font missing from your PC, but it's also not really coming to me what the difference is - it's hard to tell without examining the dev console (browser "debugger") between two machines. I deal more with functionality development than website appearance, so this is somewhat outside of my area of expertise.

Maybe something in website feedback could help you more.