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    #8762
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    What card have you got and what resolution screen?

    edit: Sorry forgot to metion this is to An C Dorcha.

    Cheers W.

    It's a Gigabyte RX 580 and a 1080p 144Hz monitor. I've the refresh rate set to 75Hz as I think any higher was killing my GPU with Shogun 2.

    I get a solid 75 fps out of Arkham Knight, half that for Crysis as well as what I mentioned above.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #8763
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users Posts: 13,986 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    Cheers W.

    It's a Gigabyte RX 580 and a 1080p 144Hz monitor. I've the refresh rate set to 75Hz as I think any higher was killing my GPU with Shogun 2.

    I get a solid 75 fps out of Arkham Knight, half that for Crysis as well as what I mentioned above.

    Throttling? Or Windows set to low power mode?


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    #8764
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    Throttling? Or Windows set to low power mode?

    I don't know what you mean by throttling? I think I have the default power plan selected.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #8765
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    You do seem to be getting low framerate. What CPU?


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    #8766
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    You do seem to be getting low framerate. What CPU?

    It's a Ryzen R5 1600.

    One thing I did try for Far Cry 3 was turning V-Sync off. Last time I tried it there was a bit of tearing but it seemed better this time and the frame rate went up. Is this normal? I didn't think V-Sync was such a performance killer and it's nice to eliminate tearing.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #8767
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    It's a Ryzen R5 1600.

    One thing I did try for Far Cry 3 was turning V-Sync off. Last time I tried it there was a bit of tearing but it seemed better this time and the frame rate went up. Is this normal? I didn't think V-Sync was such a performance killer and it's nice to eliminate tearing.

    Always turn off vsync but AMD have their own called enhanced sync that eliminates tearing. Just look through the AMD settings. Sorry I can't give exact details of where the settings are as I sold my Fury X a while ago and was all set to get a RX Vega but the prices have shot up and no way I am paying over the odds for one.

    https://www.anandtech.com/show/11664/amd-radeon-software-crimson-relive-edition-1772/6


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    #8768
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    Always turn off vsync but AMD have their own called enhanced sync that eliminates tearing. Just look through the AMD settings. Sorry I can't give exact details of where the settings are as I sold my Fury X a while ago and was all set to get a RX Vega but the prices have shot up and no way I am paying over the odds for one.

    https://www.anandtech.com/show/11664/amd-radeon-software-crimson-relive-edition-1772/6

    I never thought it'd be that and I figured that Far Cry 3 was old enough for my machine to smash it on Ultra. Anyway, tearing seems minimal. I checked my monitor and it says that it supports it but the driver says that it does not. It used to but I think this changed when I went from HDMI to Displayport.

    I really appreciate the help all!

    Edit: Turns out I had to change my monitor settings. Thanks again. I really do appreciate this.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #8769
    Squaredude
    Registered Users Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭Squaredude


    Gehad_JoyRider wrote: »
    Hey folls I need to be able to split audio, game / ts3-discord/ mic ive looked at the astro mix amp but their exspensive has any one got a suggestion for alternatives?

    Take a look at voicemeeter banana, it's basically a software version of a mix amp, there's plenty of setup guides on youtube. I've used it in the past and it works quite well


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    #8770
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    Sigh. Nobody ever listens.

    Forum Announcement: Up for weeks, 17 views, turds already floating to the surface in BA. Next turd will net the user a Darwin Awards ban, and as soon as they receive it they will be screaming because nobody ever told them about BA being a no-chat thread, or that said is referenced in the forum charter, or that there was a Forum Announcement about it, or that there was a Size=7 text post just posted in there warning everybody.

    :rolleyes:


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    #8771
    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    You mean that's not the chat thread?! **** sake Sol, why didn't you tell anyone?!


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    #8772
    Remouad
    Registered Users Posts: 974 ✭✭✭Remouad




    Interesting theory video by the hardware unboxed guys on why there have been and will be feck all Vega partner cards


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    #8773
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Haha! I will include an affiliate link below to buy a 8,000 dollar plus Mac, I'm always looking out.

    I found that joke really funny in that above YouTube link.


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    #8774
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    My homeplugs arrived. It says that I'm connected to an unidentified network at 100 MBps but no internet. I've spent the last few days trawling for solutions. If anyone's dealt with this before, I would be very grateful!

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #8775
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    My homeplugs arrived. It says that I'm connected to an unidentified network at 100 MBps but no internet. I've spent the last few days trawling for solutions. If anyone's dealt with this before, I would be very grateful!

    I'm really sorry about all this. I just updated my driver. I really had no idea that would work. I've been at this for several hours now. That said, the homeplugs are a serious improvement over the wifi. I really appreciate anyone who tried to help me here. I don't even know why I tried updating that driver. I had to run a wizard to enable DHCP or something. The port has an orange light.

    Sorry again.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #8776
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Glad you got it sorted anyway. I have no experience with home plugs so couldn't offer any advice.


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    #8777
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    Glad you got it sorted anyway. I have no experience with home plugs so couldn't offer any advice.

    I just clicked on updating that driver in between hamfisted attempts at manually getting my PC on the network. Updating the wifi driver made it no faster so I was quite shocked when it updated the driver!

    Ta.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #8778
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users Posts: 18,706 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    After hemming & hawing over Skinflint for weeks, I have concluded that there are no beautiful cases in the PC market.

    ... in my price bracket.


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    #8779
    Mr Crispy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,875 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    I'm personally sick of the tempered glass/RGB fads.


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    #8780
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,529 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Darch Nemesis wrote: »
    I'm personally sick of the tempered glass/RGB fads.

    One of my housemates thought I installed strobe lighting in my room...

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #8781
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Threadripper CPU's can be used to mine some cryptocurrency's.

    https://overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/can_you_make_money_using_threadripper_for_mining/1


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    #8782
    Skerries
    Registered Users Posts: 12,418 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    pc building to get even pricier as wafer makers to increase prices by 20%

    FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

    https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/silicon-wafer-makers-plan-20-price-increase-for-2018-cpus-gpus-ram-and-nand-to-be-affected/
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    #8783
    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    As far as I understand it, the wafer is one of the cheapest parts to manufacture, and is only a tiny fraction of even a CPU die, let alone a full system.


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    #8784
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Serephucus wrote: »
    As far as I understand it, the wafer is one of the cheapest parts to manufacture, and is only a tiny fraction of even a CPU die, let alone a full system.

    Yea but if that price goes up for the wafer the rest of the chain goes up as well including to us the end buyers.


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    #8785
    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Yes, but my point is I think it's small enough that we probably won't notice.


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    #8786
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users Posts: 18,706 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    Bitcoin gonna drop below $6'000 :pac:


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    #8787
    tadcan
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭tadcan


    Any thoughts on this i7 5th gen for $50 from Alibaba. It kind of makes sense since they were quickly superseded a few months later by the 6th gen chips. But this seems very cheap.

    http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Intel-Core-i7-5775C-Processor-6M_60665524980.html?spm=a2700.7724838.2017115.11.2f1fbac0onNsPJ


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    #8788
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    I would say that is 100% a scam.


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    #8789
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users Posts: 18,706 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    tadcan wrote: »
    Any thoughts on this i7 5th gen for $50 from Alibaba. It kind of makes sense since they were quickly superseded a few months later by the 6th gen chips. But this seems very cheap.

    http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Intel-Core-i7-5775C-Processor-6M_60665524980.html?spm=a2700.7724838.2017115.11.2f1fbac0onNsPJ

    It's too cheap; this chip retailed for $377 in July 2015.
    I'd love to be wrong though :pac:


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    #8790
    tadcan
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭tadcan


    The nearest competitor price is $150 for 50 minium order. Still very tempted to take a chance. This really is overriding the sensible part of my brain!


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    #8791
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,242 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    The website is literally named after a thief :p


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