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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
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Cyro
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
My siblings play skyrim on my computer (max settings 1080p) when I'm not here and they tell me that a couple times, all the clothes/armor in the game become white and if they keep playing, the game crashes (can't remember if just game or all computer). Would that count as an artifact? this was at stock clocks, no OC, though. i've never seen it myself and after playing skyrim for 40 minutes, nothing happened, the game ran normally. thoughts? i don't think much of it as every other game i've played (far cry 3 and il-2 clod more than the others) haven't encountered a single problem. | ||
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Leeoku
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i5-4570 ($208) Gigabyte H87 mobo ($70) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=89799&vpn=GA-H81M-S2PV&manufacture=Gigabyte 2x4gb Corsair RAM, 1600mhz ($72) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=55445&vpn=CMX8GX3M2A1600C9&manufacture=Corsair&promoid=1307 Fractal Design Midi ~100 WD Blue (1TB*2) ~140 Samsung 840 SSD 128 or 256 GB $150/200 DVD-burner ($18) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=76258&vpn=SH-224DB/BEBE&manufacture=Others&promoid=1307 USB Wireless Dongle ($22) http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=46387&vpn=USB-N13&manufacture=ASUS&promoid=1307 Now the problem I have is narrowing down the GPU and the PSU. I guess the GPU is heavily narrowed down by budget so lets set 150-200 as the budget for GPU. I'll prob buy a new gpu during the sale days so the specifcs are unknown. Let's limit it to a 680 nvidia as highest and 460 lowest (from friend). (No clue what the amd equivalent is). At this range would Nvidia or AMD perform better for these range of cards? Now I tried reading more on PSU and still unsure how to judge what I need. What PSU is required for this setup assuming the 680 (highest gpu) is used? Can you please provide like 3 options of PSU I guess $100 or less (abit more is ok) | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
Hmm ya nothing beats the Capstone in value. Hmm why buy two 1TB drives? Why not just buy one 2TB drive for like $50 less? Why buy a Samsung 840 Pro? | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
On November 12 2013 00:26 Incognoto wrote: Quick question that may or may not have anything to do with artifacts. My siblings play skyrim on my computer (max settings 1080p) when I'm not here and they tell me that a couple times, all the clothes/armor in the game become white and if they keep playing, the game crashes (can't remember if just game or all computer). Would that count as an artifact? this was at stock clocks, no OC, though. i've never seen it myself and after playing skyrim for 40 minutes, nothing happened, the game ran normally. thoughts? i don't think much of it as every other game i've played (far cry 3 and il-2 clod more than the others) haven't encountered a single problem. No idea.  It really sounds like artifacts, but it just might be a bug in the game. On that note, I remembered something someone said about how to overclock on an AMD card. According to that, there's a good chance to not have artifacts while still going too high with the settings. There is some sort of error checking going on. You should always check with some sort of benchmark after increasing clocks. If the benchmark results start to decrease, it's already too much and the error checking has started to fix something by repeating calculations. | ||
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Leeoku
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On November 12 2013 02:39 skyR wrote: Hmm ya nothing beats the Capstone in value. TY Hmm why buy two 1TB drives? Why not just buy one 2TB drive for like $50 less? I Just threw that in there for a 2TB capacity. Honestly it will be whatever I find on sale Why buy a Samsung 840 Pro? Last time I asked i think that was the answer cant find the post way far back. I'm probably wrong so what SSD would you recommend (not sure if i want 128 or 256 gb range) | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
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Madoga
Netherlands471 Posts
For ~250gb and up I'd get the M500 - more reliable, the speed difference isn't that big and its cheap(atleast it is over here  ).For ~120gb I'd get the samsung - Awesome performance. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
madoga, what's so great about MLC nand? | ||
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Madoga
Netherlands471 Posts
If you want to know the details you could read some articles, for example this one on anandtech. | ||
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Leeoku
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skyR
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Mavvie
Canada923 Posts
Would've grabbed that M500 in a heartbeat. Oh well, I get to reap the benefits of faster random read with my Samsung Evo 250GB! :D | ||
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
On November 12 2013 09:31 skyR wrote: Any Samsung or Crucial. To expand on this... from this generation or last. Except probably not the Crucial V4. Intel too, and maybe some others, but it gets more complicated. The performance and endurance differences are largely inconsequential to the desktop user. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20326 Posts
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6325/crucial-v4-256gb-review ^grabbed quick from google Btw, i think this is looking pretty good Stock Kaveri A10 vs gt630 More interested in the steamroller cores. With Kaveri launch two months out, we should have info soon. Seems pretty hard to know what to expect i think, but ~15-20% faster singlethreaded performance would be sweet There's also the performance penalty from running both cores in the same module in a typical task - for Piledriver right now, if you run one thread in a module and score ~100 on a benchmark, you'll often score only ~170 by running both. Result of this is that on an Intel core for example, if you score ~150 on a single core benchmark, you can multiply that by the number of cores (say 600 for a quad core) and you're right about where performance will be. On an AMD 8 core though, you don't get 8x performance from 4 module 8 thread - it's only about ~6.7 - 6.8x or so in many actual tasks. If we get a boost to singlethreaded performance and less penalty from running both "cores" in a module simultaneously for a normal task (through the added decoders or whateverthehell honestly i can't even remember most of the steamroller stuff) then they would be added multiplicatively and could look great. 120*3.6 is way faster than 100*3.4 (432 vs 340) Also, that dude calls it Kav-aahri. Am i saying it wrong? That way sounds so uncool | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
The performance improvements are largely coming from each integer core getting its own decoder so performance isn't so much significantly worse when you're using both simultaneously. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20326 Posts
I'm kinda worried though still hearing nothing on >4 core steamroller.. Looks like they have nothing to compete with Haswell i5's | ||
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