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Jer99
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skyR
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Chrisboy
Australia118 Posts
Edit: So far I have tried the following with no success: Tried 32 and 64 bit windows 7 disc (both legit) and a less legit windows 8. Connected the hard drives to my working Comp and formatted them so they are blank Very frustrating because I know the mouse and keyboard work, and the keyboard works on boot into bios etc. | ||
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Craton
United States17275 Posts
There's also sometimes a setting in the BIOS to enable USB kb/mouse. | ||
micronesia
United States24753 Posts
On May 05 2015 09:51 micronesia wrote: For a while now (months) I've been noticing more noise than normal coming from my CPU fan. I have removed the fan many times and cleaned all the dust off, but it doesn't seem to help. The noise has gotten worse lately... what's my best bet? PC: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/tech-support/137554-computer-build-resource-thread?page=1016#20317 So I replaced the fan on my cooler successfully, and I think it eliminated some fan noise, but I'm noticing some extra noise coming from the GPU fans. My GPU is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150521 Is there anything I can do about this, or does it make more sense to just replace the GPU? | ||
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geokilla
Canada8245 Posts
What could be limiting my FPS in 200/200 fights in SC2? MY computer specifications are as follows: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.4Ghz XFX 7950GB 3GB with a modded BIOS that was used to improve cryptocoin mining. 990/1400 Kingston 8GB RAM Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD Corsair AX750 My graphic settings are as follows: Texture Quality: High Shaders: High Lighting: High Shadows: High Terrain: Medium Reflections: Off Effects: Medium Post-Processing: Medium Physics: Medium Models: High 3D Portraits Anti-Aliasing: Off | ||
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d_runk
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![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/TWiVBfB.jpg) Disk is a Samsung EVO 240 250GB SSD. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20323 Posts
On May 15 2015 14:13 geokilla wrote: My APM is at 150APM and sometimes when I input a key very quickly, say a double tap to build SCVs for example, that double tap doesn't get registered. I already formatted my computer thinking there was a driver conflict but still the same problem. Is my CM Storm Quickfire Ultimate not polling correctly? I bought this keyboard a year ago because I thought it was my keyboard holding back my progress. What could be limiting my FPS in 200/200 fights in SC2? MY computer specifications are as follows: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.4Ghz XFX 7950GB 3GB with a modded BIOS that was used to improve cryptocoin mining. 990/1400 Kingston 8GB RAM Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD Corsair AX750 My graphic settings are as follows: Texture Quality: High Shaders: High Lighting: High Shadows: High Terrain: Medium Reflections: Off Effects: Medium Post-Processing: Medium Physics: Medium Models: High 3D Portraits Anti-Aliasing: Off Your CPU limiting performance for sure, there will be almost no graphical load. You should put physics off, leave reflections off. Effects changes CPU-limited performance, but you used to need them on medium to see some important things. Other graphical settings will just increase GPU load (from some low amount to some other low amount) and you'll probably see no notable change in min FPS with them because you're just waiting for the main game thread to finish on one CPU core for every frame long after the GPU is idle. RAM also matters for performance in sc2. You say 8GB of RAM, but nothing about it (frequency, timings, if it's in dual channel correctly etc) The keyboard thing - it's a usb keyboard, which is not ideal. ps/2 is better. It's pretty hard to diagnose issues like that, especially if they're infrequent | ||
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Baatun88
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Sovano
United States1503 Posts
My specs: i3-4130 CPU @ 3.4 GHz Geforce GTX 750 Ti 8 GB RAM 256 GB SSD The minimum and recommended requirements listed on the steam page: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/0ia4WQF.png) | ||
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d_runk
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On May 16 2015 05:32 Sovano wrote: Hey everyone, I'm hyped for The Witcher 3 coming out next week but before pre-ordering I want to get some feedback on whether or not my desktop could run this game smoothly or not. My specs: i3-4130 CPU @ 3.4 GHz Geforce GTX 750 Ti 8 GB RAM 256 GB SSD The minimum and recommended requirements listed on the steam page: Your GPU might be strechted a bit thin, but if you are happy with low/med textures and shaders, I think you'll be fine, especially on 720p. Edit: No Idea how much the game will rely on multi-core performance (seeing as they provided a quad-core even as minimum), but your CPU should still be OK. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20323 Posts
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Kupon3ss
時の回廊10066 Posts
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geokilla
Canada8245 Posts
On May 16 2015 01:48 Cyro wrote: Your CPU limiting performance for sure, there will be almost no graphical load. You should put physics off, leave reflections off. Effects changes CPU-limited performance, but you used to need them on medium to see some important things. Other graphical settings will just increase GPU load (from some low amount to some other low amount) and you'll probably see no notable change in min FPS with them because you're just waiting for the main game thread to finish on one CPU core for every frame long after the GPU is idle. RAM also matters for performance in sc2. You say 8GB of RAM, but nothing about it (frequency, timings, if it's in dual channel correctly etc) The keyboard thing - it's a usb keyboard, which is not ideal. ps/2 is better. It's pretty hard to diagnose issues like that, especially if they're infrequent Should I turn up the GPU graphics then? I do want to enjoy my eye candy. It's not infrequent. It occurs in every single SC2 game I've played for the last year or two since I owned this keyboard. Should I buy a PS/2 adapter? Or are all mechanical keyboards plagued by this problem? If so, it's hard to imagine how players like Polt, who has a low APM, plays at a high level. Pretty how all mechanical keyboards use USB and not PS/2. | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
I have several questions, but a lots of answers on TL have mostly been through personal experience and stuff like that... And I was looking for a "R1CH" explanation. I just want to get a more fundamental understanding about computers, not have everything explained in layman terms, which results in really fragmented knowledge. I currently enjoy AnandTech. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20323 Posts
On May 16 2015 18:03 FiWiFaKi wrote: What are the top3-top 5 tech websites out there? I have several questions, but a lots of answers on TL have mostly been through personal experience and stuff like that... And I was looking for a "R1CH" explanation. I just want to get a more fundamental understanding about computers, not have everything explained in layman terms, which results in really fragmented knowledge. I currently enjoy AnandTech. I would vote www.overclock.net. Honestly the state of tech websites is pretty bad. After gaining more knowledge in some areas, i've found very bad/misleading stuff posted by a lot of the sites that a lot of newbies follow (tomshardware was one for example) ~ anandtech has posted stuff about haswell and water cooling where they got bad results because of nothing but user error and then claimed that the hardware was at fault/bad (cpu, motherboards, water cooling as a whole) which was then read by probably tens or even hundreds of thousands of people. A lot of tech sites regularly post things like RAM testing while GPU bound - or GPU testing while CPU bound - and make a conclusion that's actually just wrong. OC.net is a community site where there are quite a few educated people, lots of pretty good guides and everything up for nitpicking from people who actually know what they are talking about on the subject, just have to avoid the links to clickbait speculation sites and the GPU arguments  I used to read quite a few of those sites religiously, but now i don't really at all (aside from reviews on review sample hardware, where it's best to scan through pretty much every review posted or at least 2-3) www.blurbusters.com is pretty good, but is kinda a niche site for those interested in motion blur and input lag on displays | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
http://www.realworldtech.com/ For normal review sites, Anandtech does still have decent analysis at times, but more for some areas than others (not the benchmarking / tweaking / enthusiast cooling, overclocking, etc. / peripherals side). The Tech Report and PC Perspective are about in that boat: some of the analysis and ideas are worthwhile, but plenty is not necessarily great or can be found elsewhere. There are other sites for more specific and narrow categories, especially those less abstract. I don't really check tech forums, but those tend to be better at gathering specific knowledge from experience (say, what matters for overclocking a certain chip on a certain motherboard) than deep technical analysis. You do see some of the latter, but from very few posters. There's a lot of noise. If you want to learn about computing and computers on a more fundamental level, there are textbooks. | ||
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France10239 Posts
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