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Craton
United States17281 Posts
That said Windows can do defrags every X days automatically. W10 has it set weekly by default. | ||
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supperanime
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
Got an Oculus for Christmas from my wife and it is so far AMAZING. Thing is... for REAL games(i mean no oculus demo or games sold with oculus. Talking like... elite, Tomb raider for example.), i feel my computer is lagging a little behind (it's old now). What could i upgrade without changing too much (don't want to change MB as i would need to buy new ram and new proc). - i7 4770K (reverted to stock because too much BSOD even with less than 4.2ghz. Bad chip i guess (or i'm just bad at OC now.)) - R9 290X (yes i still have it for those who remembers and never got the heart to change it) - 16GB of Ram (can't go past 32 on the MB). - Asus Maximus Formula VI C2 (so chipset is : 1150). Budget is... Not too much if possible. Like no, i won't buy a 2080 unless i win the lotery (holy cow the prices). Basicly i want to know if i can upgrade my hardware withtout chaning everything and for something like... 200€ ? man sometimes it sucks having a new born ! diapers cost too much ! Not sure if possible because chipset/bottlneck etc... | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20326 Posts
On December 04 2018 03:56 alone wrote: How important is defragmenting HDD used only as storage? If you're regularly writing & deleting files and going anywhere near the capacity of the HDD it'll get a lot slower without regular full defragments (~weekly). If you're putting some movies and stuff on there and then just watching them occasionally then the performance wouldn't actively degrade so it'd be fine for far longer. | ||
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Craton
United States17281 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20326 Posts
On December 27 2018 18:29 FFW_Rude wrote: Hello guys, Got an Oculus for Christmas from my wife and it is so far AMAZING. Thing is... for REAL games(i mean no oculus demo or games sold with oculus. Talking like... elite, Tomb raider for example.), i feel my computer is lagging a little behind (it's old now). What could i upgrade without changing too much (don't want to change MB as i would need to buy new ram and new proc). - i7 4770K (reverted to stock because too much BSOD even with less than 4.2ghz. Bad chip i guess (or i'm just bad at OC now.)) - R9 290X (yes i still have it for those who remembers and never got the heart to change it) - 16GB of Ram (can't go past 32 on the MB). - Asus Maximus Formula VI C2 (so chipset is : 1150). Budget is... Not too much if possible. Like no, i won't buy a 2080 unless i win the lotery (holy cow the prices). Basicly i want to know if i can upgrade my hardware withtout chaning everything and for something like... 200€ ? man sometimes it sucks having a new born ! diapers cost too much ! Not sure if possible because chipset/bottlneck etc... You'd have to be more specific than that to diagnose performance issues - slow load times? GPU bound low FPS, CPU bound low FPS? etc. A 4770k even at stock should be fine most of the time, a 290x will struggle if you're trying to run high graphics even on 1080p. You should make sure that stuff's running fine, at expected clock speeds without thermal throttling under load etc. Solid replacements are expensive as 200 euro buys you a sidegrade at best in both cases (Graphics card or CPU+Mobo) The kind of graphics card that you'd want to buy costs more like 500 euro on the current market as it's in Nvidia monopoly territory at the moment - much cheaper than that and you're not getting good value. | ||
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
Graphic cards are SO expensive nowdays... But if i was to buy one. What do you think my system can handle ? Cause i think buying something like a 1080 or a RX would be overkill with that cpu no ? | ||
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Craton
United States17281 Posts
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FFW_Rude
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Craton
United States17281 Posts
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti,4972-2.html | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20326 Posts
On December 29 2018 19:30 FFW_Rude wrote: So i could go for a 1080 ? Are 1070 that different ? There's so much cards now i'm really out of the loop On techpowerup benches against the 390 (similar perf to your card) the 1070 is ~49% faster, 1080 is ~81% faster and 1080ti is 132% faster. 2070 is around twice as fast with some better tech - the one that sticks out to me the most is substantially improved NVENC encoding efficiency. That and some other improvements meanwhile make it so that you can record pretty great videos at high resolution and FPS (e.g. 1080p240, 4k60+) with basically zero performance hit which will likely drive me to replace my 1080ti earlier than i would from just a raw performance point of view. Personally i don't like buying an expensive new GPU for around a 1.5x performance difference - nearer 2x is much more noticeable and it's good to get improved efficiency and tech at the same time. For efficiency, all of those Nvidia cards are 2.5 - 3x stronger performance per watt* at stock which is a pretty awesome upgrade for reducing heat and noise. * + Show Spoiler + easy to beat | ||
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Craton
United States17281 Posts
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
Most car batteries are 12V with a 15A fuse and are rated for 120W for a bit safety overhead on the current side. Now the common charging technology QC 3.0 can charge at 18W max, so in a car charger I think it does 9V at 2A, and really no phones go higher minus off exceptions like Oneplus Dash Charge that can do 5V/5A. In theory USB PD 2.0/3.0 can do 100W over USB Type C, but at 20V. Is it possible for the voltage in your car to be stepped up to 24V, and then provide a 20V at 5A? And if so, are they out there, because I can't find it. Highest I can find on Amazon is stuff like this: https://www.amazon.ca/Nillkin-Charger-Delivery-MacBook-Samsung/dp/B07D7XCJN1/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546236304&sr=8-1-spons&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=Usb pd car charger&psc=1# Which is 45W, but according to the USB PD standard that's 15V / 3A which means that the voltage is stepped up from the lead acid battery conservative voltage of 13V... Unless it uses 9V and 5A, but that's not part of the USB PD standard. So if the voltage is being stepped up to 15V, why don't we see anyone go all the way to 20V 5A? | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18280 Posts
https://www.powerstream.com/ADC-p006.htm Long answer: beware ruining your car battery quickly. A standard car battery has 45 Ah, and you shouldn't drain it faster than at 1/10 its capacity if you want it to last. Drawing 100W of power at 12V requires a current of 8.3A. And that's assuming your transformer is perfect. Using that a lot would be an excellent way of ruining your car battery quickly. It's not meant for this type of rapid discharge, especially not if you drain it (which will take under half an hour of charging at that rate), which is also not good for car batteries. | ||
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
On December 30 2018 08:15 Cyro wrote: On techpowerup benches against the 390 (similar perf to your card) the 1070 is ~49% faster, 1080 is ~81% faster and 1080ti is 132% faster. 2070 is around twice as fast with some better tech - the one that sticks out to me the most is substantially improved NVENC encoding efficiency. That and some other improvements meanwhile make it so that you can record pretty great videos at high resolution and FPS (e.g. 1080p240, 4k60+) with basically zero performance hit which will likely drive me to replace my 1080ti earlier than i would from just a raw performance point of view. Personally i don't like buying an expensive new GPU for around a 1.5x performance difference - nearer 2x is much more noticeable and it's good to get improved efficiency and tech at the same time. For efficiency, all of those Nvidia cards are 2.5 - 3x stronger performance per watt* at stock which is a pretty awesome upgrade for reducing heat and noise. * + Show Spoiler + Ok so i can go with either if i want. Was unsure because i heard a lot about good graphic cards that could not deliver their full capacity because of a dated processor Thanks | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20326 Posts
On January 01 2019 16:40 FFW_Rude wrote: Ok so i can go with either if i want. Was unsure because i heard a lot about good graphic cards that could not deliver their full capacity because of a dated processor Thanks That really depends on the game. Higher framerates are more demanding on the CPU while higher resolutions and graphics settings are more demanding on the GPU MMO and RTS tend to be more CPU heavy as well. If you ended up buying a GPU you'd probably want one that you could stick with for a while as your next upgrade money goes towards cpu+mobo. | ||
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United States1405 Posts
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