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ragnasaur
United States804 Posts
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
On January 09 2016 05:30 ragnasaur wrote: What are some important things to look for when buying a wireless pci card for a new computer? Like does b/g/n matter? Also what about the data rates like 150mb/sec, 300mb/sec, 500mb/sec. How do these factors affect starcraft & streaming movies & first person shooters? Take all of those speeds with a grain of salt. Maybe a bucket. They matter - find out what your wireless router supports. Then make sure the card you buy will support it. The speeds the card can support will never be better than what your router can send. N seems to be the most recent standard, but I could be wrong - in any case b is slow, g is slow, n is where you start seeing silly speed claims. | ||
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Craton
United States17250 Posts
On January 09 2016 05:40 ragnasaur wrote: Ya, theres no cable jack in my room I'd look into Ethernet over power, which uses powerlines in the walls. In my experience, the only thing that really matters (for gaming) with wireless is signal strength. That said, even with wireless in the same room as the wireless source, I've had issues with "high" loads (e.g. 2 HQ streams) causing stuttering or latency, even though it's well under the actual available bandwidth (have had similar issues with two PCI-e and one USB adapters). It's not usually a positive experience. Best case is just putting a hole in the corner of the room and running cable through the floor/wall. | ||
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B40
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Core i7-6500U 2.5ghz 8gb mem Intel HD520 thanks | ||
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ragnasaur
United States804 Posts
the R7 360 graphics card i want to run recommends a minimum PSU of 500w. Would a 430w supply work though? I'll only be running the single graphics card, an i3-6300, 2 sticks of ram, & ssd Is it like the food Best By Date Printed so they cover their asses or is it pretty accurate? this is the psu + Show Spoiler + http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139049 | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
AMD says its R7 360 uses at most 150W of power. The i3 CPU should never use more than 40W or so. The SSD's power use is probably boring. When you look at the specs of the PSU, it says it can do 32 Ampere on its 12 Volt output. When you multiply that, you see this: 12V * 32A = 384W This means the manufacturer promises that the PSU can do 384 Watts for the interesting 12V that are used for the CPU and GPU and the drives. The other outputs of the PSU aren't interesting because the board uses them for things that don't need a lot of power. I'm guessing the parts in your PC will use about 200W while you are playing a game, so the PSU should be fine. | ||
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ragnasaur
United States804 Posts
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z0rz
United States350 Posts
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ragnasaur
United States804 Posts
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
not a powerful one, but you need one nonetheless | ||
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y0su
Finland7871 Posts
On January 11 2016 14:36 z0rz wrote: When streaming, would the final product (what the viewers see) of a 1440p monitor downscaled to 720p encode look noticeably different (better? worse?) than a 1080p monitor downscaled to 720p? Iirc the viewer experience should be the same. I remember reading that using exact downscales was best - like 2:1 vs 1.5:1 - but that could have been regarding load on the streamer. Just do some samples and see what the vods look like. | ||
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Craton
United States17250 Posts
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Monokeros
United States2493 Posts
Card on newegg + Show Spoiler [Hardware IDs] + ![[image loading]](http://puu.sh/muMnX/6cf13f026a.png) | ||
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scott31337
United States2979 Posts
8086 is Intel so I'd try http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html?cid=cim:ggl | ||
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Simberto
Germany11542 Posts
I recently got a new Radeon Graphics card, and thus installed the AMD Setup Utility Thingy. I then set the screen light levels, alpha and stuff to levels i like. I am a bit fuzzy as to whether the problem only appeared after the drivers updated, or was there from the start. My PC completely ignores those settings whenever it launches, i am forced to open the AMD Settings thing (The video settings options in this seem to not be working at all), open the "Additional Radeon Options", which opens the options panel i used to set my settings before, at which point it remembers my settings (I do not change anything here, i just open the panel once) I then close all those settings menus, and stuff works until i relaunch the PC, when i have to do the same thing again. It is obviously not very problematic, it wastes about 10 seconds each time i launch my PC, but it is mildly annoying, and maybe someone knows a fix. | ||
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B40
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Core i7-6500U 2.5ghz 8gb mem Intel HD520 thanks (this is a repeat; i never got an answer :l) | ||
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ragnasaur
United States804 Posts
If i'm not using a case, how will I turn the computer on and off? Thank you! | ||
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OsaX Nymloth
Poland3244 Posts
On January 16 2016 06:01 ragnasaur wrote: can I use a Windows 8.1 ISO file & THIS program with a USB flash drive & THIS new motherboard to install windows on THIS new SSD storage device? If i'm not using a case, how will I turn the computer on and off? Thank you! No reason that shouldn't work, myself I'm installing a lot of PCs/laptops using multiboot USB. Just make sure you have the correct boot order setup in BIOS/UEFI As for the next question, just use screwdriver  + Show Spoiler + | ||
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Craton
United States17250 Posts
On January 16 2016 00:34 travis wrote: Is there a way to turn off automatic updates in windows 10 home without downloading a 3rd party program? Probably can block the servers in your HOSTS file. | ||
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