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Antoine
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States7481 Posts
February 07 2014 14:41 GMT
#1841
it just came out recently - I'd suggest giving it a shot (if you use the beta geforce drivers you don't need to dl the custom dll). It seemed like it worked pretty well to me but I don't have FRAFS so I didn't do any hard benching.
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20323 Posts
February 07 2014 14:50 GMT
#1842
Ok, i downloaded ~343? driver this morning, will throw it on and test
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Mackem
Profile Joined May 2011
United Kingdom470 Posts
February 07 2014 14:52 GMT
#1843
I wonder if any enthusiasts on a forum would be interested in buying my 2500K. Quite a few people have told me that people would pay a good price given the fact that I achieved a 4.5GHz overclock with a voltage of 1.240V (Apparently it's in the top 5% of 2500K chips).

I could sell it and upgrade to a 4770K
Do you need a pole? I ask because your logical leaps are becoming logical vaults and your mental gymnastics are Olympic standard.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20323 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-07 15:12:57
February 07 2014 15:03 GMT
#1844
I don't know sandy bridge voltages in particular (32nm) but there's some silly good chips out there.. a 2500k @5.2ghz though, would still be way worse than an average 4670k on mid tier air cooling, in basically every way, so they have less value now

There was a few batches of 3570k doing like 4.5ghz on 1.05v, like 5.2 maybe even higher without custom water, but in the end, if you consider haswell to be 15% faster with x264.. you only need ~4.52ghz to match it, so in the end it's not even that special any more. I'm not sure on actual sandy bridge - ivy bridge - haswell encoder performance, hard to find good data - everybody uninformed is using x264 benchmark 5.0.1 with the default encoder from mid 2012 without any of the haswell improvements or avx2 support etc

You could sell it, to be honest i'd buy boss-level cooling, have some fun with it, wait for a bomb to drop like 6 core intel on mainstream socket (skylake 6-core, ddr4 2015 could be cool if it happens) that'll blow the roof off instead of making an upgrade that's likely somewhat incremental, if potentially big
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Mackem
Profile Joined May 2011
United Kingdom470 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-07 15:15:17
February 07 2014 15:14 GMT
#1845
There's still quite a few people that won't move away from SB because of the heat issues with a lot of Ivy and Haswell chips. I mean I'm happy with my 2500K and I can probably stream LoL fine in 1080p 30FPS so I doubt I'd really benefit from an upgrade.

EDIT: Yeah, I'm more inclined to wait for a while longer. My H100i has my temps at about 56 degrees across all cores and that's under full load Prime95
Do you need a pole? I ask because your logical leaps are becoming logical vaults and your mental gymnastics are Olympic standard.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20323 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-07 15:44:50
February 07 2014 15:25 GMT
#1846
Higher temperatures than neccesary are unfortunate but even an undelidded Haswell can match every bench score put up by a 2500k/2600k while having a lower temperature. Having read probably 20 thousand posts in haswell overclocking threads, the issues are greatly exaggerated, largely by people who don't know how to use the chips

I encoded for about 5-10 minutes w/ 1920x1080, 60fps veryfast setup in OBS - my peak temp on hottest core was 67c on air, with HT on - so it's not exactly a problem. It's harder to run dangerous levels of voltage, but i5 is hardly limited - i7 is more of a worry being like 12c hotter under threaded loads, but it's still ok, you just have to delid or have great cooling to run degradation-level voltages

Given that to match a 2500k @4.5ghz - you'd only have to be at about 3.8ghz on Haswell for this type of load - i could use below 1.0vcore, my power consumption and temperatures would be very very low

lets avoid turning this into SB vs HW thread though :D
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Mackem
Profile Joined May 2011
United Kingdom470 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-07 17:56:08
February 07 2014 16:04 GMT
#1847
On February 08 2014 00:25 Cyro wrote:
Higher temperatures than neccesary are unfortunate but even an undelidded Haswell can match every bench score put up by a 2500k/2600k while having a lower temperature. Having read probably 20 thousand posts in haswell overclocking threads, the issues are greatly exaggerated, largely by people who don't know how to use the chips

I encoded for about 5-10 minutes w/ 1920x1080, 60fps veryfast setup in OBS - my peak temp on hottest core was 67c on air, with HT on - so it's not exactly a problem. It's harder to run dangerous levels of voltage, but i5 is hardly limited - i7 is more of a worry being like 12c hotter under threaded loads, but it's still ok, you just have to delid or have great cooling to run degradation-level voltages

Given that to match a 2500k @4.5ghz - you'd only have to be at about 3.8ghz on Haswell for this type of load - i could use below 1.0vcore, my power consumption and temperatures would be very very low

lets avoid turning this into SB vs HW thread though :D


Oh yeah, I believe that the 'issue' was hugely exaggerated as well, but you always get the hysteria with new product launches. I'm just pleased that my upload speed is good now, went from 1.86Mb upload to almost 13Mb :D

But the main issue for me is whether to stream the likes of LoL and SC2 in either 1080 30fps or 720 60fps. Which would be better do you think? A lot of people says 1080 45FPS is good as well but not quite sure on the limits of my system
Do you need a pole? I ask because your logical leaps are becoming logical vaults and your mental gymnastics are Olympic standard.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20323 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-07 18:20:00
February 07 2014 18:17 GMT
#1848
0.6mbit upload adsl ftw

1080p30 vs 720p60 is preference, 1080p48 is probably just better if you can throw max twitch bitrate at it. I would on a pushed 4770k, dunno about 2500k (if your temps are in the 40's encoding.. why don't you OC further? Surely you bought h100i instead of an air cooler at a fifth to a third of the price for a reason :D)

My preference would be the native resolution, probably. For a game like an FPS, then framerate>all and 540p@120fps over twitch would be pretty lovely to have, but nobody will stream for a niche market
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Mackem
Profile Joined May 2011
United Kingdom470 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-07 18:20:52
February 07 2014 18:20 GMT
#1849
On February 08 2014 03:17 Cyro wrote:
0.6mbit upload adsl ftw

1080p30 vs 720p60 is preference, 1080p48 is probably just better if you can throw max twitch bitrate at it. I would on a pushed 4770k, dunno about 2500k (if your temps are in the 40's encoding.. why don't you OC further? Surely you bought h100i instead of an air cooler at a fifth to a third of the price for a reason :D)


I bought it partly for cooling but for aesthetics as well haha

I just figured that pushing it past 4.5 would yield minimal gains for higher temperatures. A lot of people say to not go over 1.4v to run an OC 24/7, so I could probably get to something like 4.8 / 4.9, maybe even more, but I'm not even sure it'd be worth it.

The only games I'd probably stream are LoL and SC2.
Do you need a pole? I ask because your logical leaps are becoming logical vaults and your mental gymnastics are Olympic standard.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20323 Posts
February 07 2014 18:53 GMT
#1850
1.24v on sandy bridge is childs play, some chips will give you 200mhz adding 0.1 on that, others 400. If it'll scale up nicely it could be fun to play with
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
cYaN
Profile Joined May 2004
Norway3322 Posts
February 08 2014 20:16 GMT
#1851
Hmmmm, I'm trying to get the clr browser plugin to work, but the option doesn't come up in OBS after i've put the files into the plugin folder.

Got the latest version from this thread: https://obsproject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6714

Anyone have any ideas? I can't imagine what I'm doing wrong but clearly I'm being a moron.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26242 Posts
February 10 2014 02:01 GMT
#1852
My performance has generally been OK, but today the game capture and the window capture just refuses to register SC2 at all, getting a black screen there. Literally streamed stuff fine yesterday as well with the exact same settings, and haven't updated in the interim.

Any ideas what the craic could be? Had a look, made a second profile as well, restarted OBS and my PC as well.

Also somewhat related, could anyone recommend a good microphone? Possibly looking to do other audio content, maybe podcasting in the future so something of high quality.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Firkraag8
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden1006 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-10 07:25:58
February 10 2014 05:51 GMT
#1853
On February 10 2014 11:01 Wombat_NI wrote:
My performance has generally been OK, but today the game capture and the window capture just refuses to register SC2 at all, getting a black screen there. Literally streamed stuff fine yesterday as well with the exact same settings, and haven't updated in the interim.

Any ideas what the craic could be? Had a look, made a second profile as well, restarted OBS and my PC as well.

Also somewhat related, could anyone recommend a good microphone? Possibly looking to do other audio content, maybe podcasting in the future so something of high quality.

Are you in fullscreen in sc2 if so preview screen is black while alt tabbed to the preview screen I believe.

And here's a microphone for you that's very good:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Microphones-Bidirectional-Omnidirectional-Microphone/dp/B002VA464S/
Too weird to live, too rare to die.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26242 Posts
February 11 2014 03:58 GMT
#1854
As expected, my recording just randomly started working again without me doing anything.

Cheers for the mic recommendation, was actually the one I had in my brain I remembered seeing it ages ago and then forgetting the name of the product. Much obliged!
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
fortun
Profile Joined February 2012
United States3 Posts
February 13 2014 09:03 GMT
#1855
From scanning this thread it seems like the max settings most ppl are going are 720p 60fps or 1080p 48fps with 3500 bitrate on twitch. Is there any benefit to raising those settings? Right now i'm streaming 1080p 60fps 3500 bitrate with obs or 1080p 60fps ("high" settings) with shadowplay so i guess the only setting i'd be able to raise is the bitrate on obs. I shouldn't have any bottlenecks so sky is the limit.

i5-3570k no overclock (3.6ghz with default boost) hyper 212 evo but can get a h100i and oc if ever needed
gtx 670
1gb/s pipe

tldr: should i stick with 1080p 60fps 3500 bitrate, lower it to 48fps because the extra 12fps does nothing but work my cpu harder, or try raising the bitrate even higher for smoother streaming?

twitch.tv/fortunefighting for reference, if there's on screen "current song" its obs, if not shadowplay
Firkraag8
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden1006 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-13 13:39:03
February 13 2014 13:20 GMT
#1856
I stream 720p@45fps on my 3570k, with 2500 bitrate. Not because I can't go higher but because it looks good already, and some viewers complain when it's higher because of issues on their end. 1080p@60fps is really overkill for Sc2 I feel.

Edit: also a question, why 48fps everywhere? sure it's 3fps higher than 45 but it's strange to speak of this for anything other than movies(24/48).
Too weird to live, too rare to die.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20323 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-13 17:09:35
February 13 2014 16:01 GMT
#1857
45 = 3/4 of 60
48 = 4/5 of 60
50 = 5/6 of 60

^limitations of most screens (60hz as opposed to infinite, synced refresh rate)

tldr: should i stick with 1080p 60fps 3500 bitrate, lower it to 48fps because the extra 12fps does nothing but work my cpu harder, or try raising the bitrate even higher for smoother streaming?


IMO not worth going past ~48 for most stuff on 1080.. too bitrate starved. Dropping FPS from 60 to 48 gives you 1.25x as much bitrate for each frame, while meanwhile you were probably having trouble keeping FPS far enough above 60 anyway in sc2 (and reducing capture framerate, at least using game capture+x264, will increase performance)

1080p60 on stock 3570k sounds a little crazy

I might make an x264 benchmark thread
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
fortun
Profile Joined February 2012
United States3 Posts
February 13 2014 21:32 GMT
#1858
Thanks for the clarification, using 48fps with obs in the future till shadowplay gets more features. Also in doing more research for shadowplay it looks like twitch streaming on "high" setting is actually 1080p 30fps 3500 bitrate and that was looking just about the same to me as when i was streaming 1080p 60fps 3500 bitrate with obs. As you said probably bitrate starved so the lower fps is actually better for twitch.
Mackem
Profile Joined May 2011
United Kingdom470 Posts
February 13 2014 22:45 GMT
#1859
On February 14 2014 01:01 Cyro wrote:
45 = 3/4 of 60
48 = 4/5 of 60
50 = 5/6 of 60

^limitations of most screens (60hz as opposed to infinite, synced refresh rate)

Show nested quote +
tldr: should i stick with 1080p 60fps 3500 bitrate, lower it to 48fps because the extra 12fps does nothing but work my cpu harder, or try raising the bitrate even higher for smoother streaming?


IMO not worth going past ~48 for most stuff on 1080.. too bitrate starved. Dropping FPS from 60 to 48 gives you 1.25x as much bitrate for each frame, while meanwhile you were probably having trouble keeping FPS far enough above 60 anyway in sc2 (and reducing capture framerate, at least using game capture+x264, will increase performance)

1080p60 on stock 3570k sounds a little crazy

I might make an x264 benchmark thread


Yeah I mean I tried streaming SC2 at 1080p 60FPS with my 2500K and my CPU usage was like above 90% constantly. I'm wondering what's the highest FPS I can go whilst not suffering performance wise?
Do you need a pole? I ask because your logical leaps are becoming logical vaults and your mental gymnastics are Olympic standard.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20323 Posts
February 13 2014 23:50 GMT
#1860
On February 14 2014 07:45 Mackem wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 14 2014 01:01 Cyro wrote:
45 = 3/4 of 60
48 = 4/5 of 60
50 = 5/6 of 60

^limitations of most screens (60hz as opposed to infinite, synced refresh rate)

tldr: should i stick with 1080p 60fps 3500 bitrate, lower it to 48fps because the extra 12fps does nothing but work my cpu harder, or try raising the bitrate even higher for smoother streaming?


IMO not worth going past ~48 for most stuff on 1080.. too bitrate starved. Dropping FPS from 60 to 48 gives you 1.25x as much bitrate for each frame, while meanwhile you were probably having trouble keeping FPS far enough above 60 anyway in sc2 (and reducing capture framerate, at least using game capture+x264, will increase performance)

1080p60 on stock 3570k sounds a little crazy

I might make an x264 benchmark thread


Yeah I mean I tried streaming SC2 at 1080p 60FPS with my 2500K and my CPU usage was like above 90% constantly. I'm wondering what's the highest FPS I can go whilst not suffering performance wise?


You'll suffer regardless, as i measured from Game Capture + x264 - even though CPU never hit 50% average load (though i didn't affinity cores away from the game) there was >20% performance hit on raw average and minimum FPS - i'm not sure what effects come into play as CPU gets to a higher load, but i know averaging too high can result in spikes and very slight performance hangs if you're too highly loading CPU (i saw on my i7 950 @4ghz trying to encode high res at higher fps, when jolting camera around, but my current cpu is far, far more powerful)
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
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