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On August 16 2016 11:53 Sufficiency wrote:
This is an incredibly stupid question:
If I have a graphics card (GTX 1070) which has two 8-pin power sockets, I need two 8-pin connectors?
Right now it seems that my PSU only has one 8-pin and one 6-pin... is it time to buy another PSU?
An 8-pin and 6-pin can provide more than enough power for a 1070, even a custom model. >90% sure it works fine without the last 2 pins but triple check that :D
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On August 16 2016 12:04 Cyro wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2016 11:53 Sufficiency wrote:
This is an incredibly stupid question:
If I have a graphics card (GTX 1070) which has two 8-pin power sockets, I need two 8-pin connectors?
Right now it seems that my PSU only has one 8-pin and one 6-pin... is it time to buy another PSU? An 8-pin and 6-pin can provide more than enough power for a 1070, even a custom model. >90% sure it works fine without the last 2 pins but triple check that :D
It keeps complaining about "PCIe not connected", which seems like an indication that it's not sufficiently powered.
After chatting with some other people, it seems that my PSU might be.... well, terrible. I am using an EX2 525 which only has 400W.
I am super stupid for not doing enough research on this matter, but it might be time for me to buy a new PSU, regardless of the socket problems...
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Yeah that doesn't sound good. You could get a new one (probably 550w for a pair of 6+2's, though you don't actually need anywhere near 550 watts of power)
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On August 16 2016 09:22 Cyro wrote:Show nested quote +So the only solution i can think of is bandwidth managment software (im using netlimiter 4) installed from your side This would have to be on the router ideally, installing cross-platform software on every internet device would be a huge pain if it were even possible. I'l grab the router model number etc soon. I was kinda wondering how normal that increase is.
Does your router configuration have some sort of "QoS = quality of service" screen somewhere? Try to set a limit of 80% or so for both down and up, meaning if your connection can do 20mbps down, set 16000 kbps (because 20 * 0.8 = 16, and do the same calculation for your upstream).
The reasoning for this is to try to avoid something called "buffer bloat". The various devices and software that are involved in everything you do might have large buffers to look good in throughput benchmarks, which is shitty for latency when all of bandwidth is used. Instead of returning an error saying that they can't transmit something, they collect data in their buffer and if your game's packet comes in at the end of such a queue, it will have to wait.
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Here's a review that looked at and judged the internals of the XFS TS 650 model, which is hopefully related to how the XFX TS 550 is built:
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story6&reid=426
If the two models are using the same manufacturer and same design internally, this should mean the PSU you look at is good and a safe choice.
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On August 16 2016 02:21 Cyro wrote:
Is it normal to get a ping increase when downloading or uploading near max bandwidth? If so, by how much?
Yes, very normal. The amount will vary by load and how well the router handles it. This is a really common networking problem, where basically you want to prioritize time-sensitive traffic.
The simple term is Qualify of Service (QoS). Some routers have it available, but most residential-grade routers suck with it. I believe the normal approach residential routers take is to let you prioritize by IP and/or port, but I haven't had a good experience with it.
Commercial grade routers do a good job with it, but obviously they're very expensive and will require manual configuration.
I haven't actually tried it with my current setup since I'm the only user and I have bandwidth to spare. I use the Tomato firmware which was flashed onto my router in place of the default crap. Its freeware available online. May or may not be compatible with your router. Mine basically looks like this.
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On the classification section I can classify traffic by things like TCP/UDP, port, source/destination IP, KB transferred, or select from some pre-configured options. Basically, I could classify web traffic (port 80 & 443) as low and game traffic (whatever port for your game) as high. Or I could say my desktop gets high priority on everything, while my Kindle Fire gets low priority.
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I don't know a good PSU to buy in canada, that one has only one 8-pin pci-e connector though
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I got a Macbook 12' 2016 M7 recently. I have the official Apple USB C to HDMI, USB C, and USB. Do you know if this USB is USB 3.0?
Does anyone recommend a good capture card for streaming that works with Mac?
Does getting a PC capture card and running through parallels desktop work?
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Hello,
I'm playing Overwatch on a standard old 2500k/560Ti build and the fps is pretty shitty. Would upgrading the 560Ti to a 1060 be a huge boost in performance or is it necessary to upgrade the cpu and thus the rest as well?
I have ~100 fps on 1920 res at the moment and I would like to have at least stable 150+. Thanks in advance.
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On August 22 2016 02:16 mechengineer789 wrote:
Hello,
I'm playing Overwatch on a standard old 2500k/560Ti build and the fps is pretty shitty. Would upgrading the 560Ti to a 1060 be a huge boost in performance or is it necessary to upgrade the cpu and thus the rest as well?
I have ~100 fps on 1920 res at the moment and I would like to have at least stable 150+. Thanks in advance.
A 6700k will help a lot for maintaining those framerates, 2500k may be able to do it pretty well with a good OC
http://www.techspot.com/articles-info/1180/bench/CPU_01.png
A 1060/980 has to drop many settings to have ~150 minimums in my experience, extra perf of a 1070 is useful
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When I go to sleep at night, I sometimes hear my hard drives making that electrical static noise it makes when it's writing something or loading or whatever. What is it doing? I like leaving my computer on because the fans add some white noise to my room that I like, but that hard drive static gets annoying.
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Passive anti-virus scan, maybe? It's not necessarily doing anything, I suppose. Unless you've got power saving configured to have the drives spin down, they basically just keep spinning waiting to be used. If you've got them configured to sleep, something else might be waking them up intermittently.
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Can't be! I have no anti-virus lol.
I got 4 hard drives, and I just tested them right now by clicking on them to access stuffs. 3 of them had to spin up and one of them that had all my steam games didn't. So makes me think maybe steam is automatically updating overnight or something and it's making my hard drive be annoying.
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Steam will auto-download its updates and then apply them the next time you restart it. I'm not sure where it saves the download files. That said, Steam doesn't usually update nightly. I'd say it's closer to once every week or two.
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On August 25 2016 09:46 Craton wrote:
Steam will auto-download its updates and then apply them the next time you restart it. I'm not sure where it saves the download files. That said, Steam doesn't usually update nightly. I'd say it's closer to once every week or two.
It might be downloading and updating your games, but there is a setting to turn off automatic game updates.
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Think it's worth it to upgrade from a GTX 770 and core i5, 8 gb ram, assuming I'm willing to spend a decent amount?
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Depends what you're doing. For gaming: Which games, settings & screen resolution+refresh rate?
"i5" also says very little about the performance, it's a fairly simple brand name. You need the model number to know the performance or features
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I'm playing Witcher 3, Deux Ex, SC2 mostly. In general it's a mix I would say. I'd like to be able to play new games on good settings. Resolution is 1080p, 60 hz.
And it's the i5 4670k.
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There's quite a lot of benefit from upgrading graphics card but sc2 would only see improvement from CPU/RAM
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1768?vs=1731
the difference between a 770 vs 1070+ is a lot bigger than the difference that you can get between CPU's as well
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