Yeah, this is the reason I haven't jumped on the Acer hype train. ULMB @ 100Hz is not great, and yeah, I would just go with 144Hz despite having a less crisp picture.So I'm looking at a monitor that does 144Hz g-sync, but also ULMB at 100Hz. I suppose I could wait and see for myself what the difference is like, but would locking a game to 100fps and using the ULMB be a huge downgrade from just having the game/monitor run at 144Hz?
Yeah, this is the reason I haven't jumped on the Acer hype train. ULMB @ 100Hz is not great, and yeah, I would just go with 144Hz despite having a less crisp picture.
The RoG Swift does ULMB @144Hz.
Guys i have a NZXT S340 case, should i place the fans to exhaust air on the rear and top and use the Corsair h100i as intake on the front under the radiator?
I paid 450 for my 7950 a few years back. I want to rebuild my pc and take it to the living room with the steam controller when it comes.
I refuse to pay more than 500 bucks for a video card to me the price to performance ratio isn't worth it to spend more.
I'm having a hard time finding something that will replace my 7950 and offer me a significant boost in performance is there really nothing available yet?
Very nice.Installed EVGA ACX 2.0+ Coolers on my Titans X.
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In W3, I was hitting high 80s with lots of throttling with the stock fans. With these, even with a +100 core & +200 memory, hitting low 80s and hardly any throttling. And, they are much more quiet under load.
I paid 450 for my 7950 a few years back. I want to rebuild my pc and take it to the living room with the steam controller when it comes.
I refuse to pay more than 500 bucks for a video card to me the price to performance ratio isn't worth it to spend more.
I'm having a hard time finding something that will replace my 7950 and offer me a significant boost in performance is there really nothing available yet?
Installed EVGA ACX 2.0+ Coolers on my Titans X.
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In W3, I was hitting high 80s with lots of throttling with the stock fans. With these, even with a +100 core & +200 memory, hitting low 80s and hardly any throttling. And, they are much more quiet under load.
Corsair 240 Air is already sexy inside and this is even sexier. You're making me want to keep mine but returning stuff to Newegg seems a lot more costly than returning stuff to Amazon (I have a case from each).Clean setup
What games do you play? What settings and framerate do you want to play at?
Assuming you're in the US, the GTX 980 can now be had for a bit less than $500 and should be about twice as effective as the 7950 for gaming performance.
Hey Guys,
Just wanted to check what you guys think of the setup i'm thinking of purchasing.
http://www.ncix.com/detail/msi-z97m-gaming-matx-lga1150-bb-97046-1257.htm - motherboard
http://www.ncix.com/detail/intel-core-i5-4690k-unlocked-c2-97889-1115.htm - CPU
http://www.ncix.com/detail/kingston-hyperx-fury-memory-black-5e-95971-1115.htm - Memory
http://www.ncix.com/detail/corsair-carbide-series-air-240-b4-100902.htm - Case
The power supply and hard drives I already own from my previous computer. As for the videocard I wanted to ask you guys if I should wait a bit (assuming new cards get announced soon) or if I should buy a gtx970 now.
Edit: also wanted to ask which gtx970 card is the best, there is a lot of options out there.
I'm in Canada the gtx980 is about 850 here right now. The gtx980ti is the same price.
I pretty much want to be able to play anything that I might be interested in.
I play alot of dota at the desktop but I also recently picked up a logitech g27 and project cars and dirt rally.
I'd like to be able to pretty much pick up and play any game however I do game on my ps4 at the couch and in order for the pc to compete with my time I would need the games to perform and look better than they do on the ps4.
2nd link is this for $430:
Dell Outlet Inspiron 3847
Processor: Intel Core 4th Generation i5-4460 Processor (6MB Cache, up to 3.4GHz)
Windows 8.1
1 TB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
12 GB Memory (8GBx1 + 4GBx1) Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz
Tray load DVD Drive (Reads and Writes to DVD/CD)
Intel HD Integrated Graphics
Bought the above, this would be ok with it right? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IDG3PRI/?tag=neogaf0e-20
All I have to do is take out the intel HD one, put in the 750 ti and I'm set w/o having to worry about power supply or any of that mess? Idk anything about overclockin so idk if that is the right model for me.
I know this is half a year early, but how much of a discount do components generally go on during the Thanksgiving sales (Black Friday, Cyber Monday, etc.)?
Skylake doesn't appear to be a huge leap in performance. If you wait for Skylake, you're mostly getting a slightly better future-proofed PC (DDR4, new socket 1151 motherboard with USB 3.1 and type C, etc) that will be reusable with any future parts that come out after Skylake. There's nothing wrong with buying socket 1150 now in terms of performance, DDR3 and socket 1150 is just on the way out and won't be reusable in the future, that's all.should i wait for skylake i want to build a micro atx box that's quite, and small for the living room.
Latest SSD Firmware installed?
Remember, the larger SSD sizes perform better than the smaller SSD sizes of the same model. That might explain the differences you see in benches. Although i think you are right, it should be around the low 300MB/s.
Yes, the GTX 750 Ti will work with that. No, you don't have to take out the Intel HD graphics, that is built into the processor and will automatically be disabled once you put in the new graphics card.
That graphics card you linked to is EVGA's entry level GTX 750 Ti. If you want a slightly better card for your money, the slightly faster (1.02GHz vs 1.18GHz) EVGA Superclocked edition is the same price ($120) after rebates from Newegg. it's factory overclocked, meaning it's set to run at that speed and you do not have to overclock it yourself.
I think the Noctura NF-F12 or something similar is the go-to replacement fans. Anytime I read about someone replacing the fans on a Corsair AIO, it seems to always be those for performance and lower noise.So one of the fans on my corsair h105 has started making this low buzzing noise which gets somewhat loud when the CPU is under load. The temps of everything are still really good so its not affecting cooling as of now but I was thinking of changing both fans before anything happens and they stop working or something.
Any suggestions for replacement fans for the h105?
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by turning the volume down on the monitor and increase it in Windows.Try turning the volume down on the monitor/speakers and increasing it in Windows. I had the exact same issue 2 months ago, and this fixed it for me.
I still don't know what the reason for it is but it seems to be tied to framerate/on screen movement.
30fps was noticeable but playing cs at 120fps made it so much worse
Do you have physical buttons on either your speakers or monitor? If so turn the volume down using those buttons. You should be able to then raise the volume in windows to make up for the loss of volume.I'm not exactly sure what you mean by turning the volume down on the monitor and increase it in Windows.
I don't have physical volume control buttons on my monitor or speaker. I mainly use earbuds/headphone whenever I use computer.Do you have physical buttons on either your speakers or monitor? If so turn the volume down using those buttons. You should be able to then raise the volume in windows to make up for the loss of volume.
I didn't have the issue with my headphones though, that said they run through a separate dac/amp
I think the Noctura NF-F12 or something similar is the go-to replacement fans. Anytime I read about someone replacing the fans on a Corsair AIO, it seems to always be those for performance and lower noise.
I stream a bit on Twitch and have a question
I want to build a streaming PC(obviously to stream and do most of the work on the encoding side of things)for no more than $550. If I need to, I can throw in my GTX 770 in there and save some money since I plan to upgrade to a 980Ti.
Would an i3 be fine or should I go with something like the 8350?
If you use NVENC for encoding, you can offload the encoding to the GPU instead.
Twitch recommends no more than 3500 on the bitrate. NVENC encoding doesn't seem to give even average results without going 15000 or higherThough it has been awhile.
It has been a while. Then again, NVENC on the 770 is meh.
Oh, I wasn't aware. NVENC works much better on the newer cards?
Yeah. Kepler was basically first gen. Maxwell has 2nd gen NVENC on the 750Ti and 3rd gen NVENC on the 900 series.
Those are rather expensive, lol. I'd rather keep it at 15-20$ a fan. Any cheaper alternates in mind?
Corsair SP series?
Yeah, I was looking at those as well. Amazon has a 2-pack on for 34$ which isn't a bad price. Any idea about their performance?
Have HD Audio cable on my case' where do I connect it to the motherboard? Asus z97-a
Any specific reason why you want to go with the slightly lower power T type processor? I'd be worried about the quality of the power supply, but otherwise the rest of the build looks OK. Looking at reviews, the power supply is not great at all. In reality it's probably closer to being a 300 watt PSU. I wasn't able to get a good shot of the label.. but the stated numbers don't seem to look very good.Theoretically, is a budget $450 build with a GTX 960 + i3 4130T one that could work? Specifically this one:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/hqPrsY
120 watt TDP GPU with a 35 watt TDP CPU, running on a basic 480W PSU that only has 2 molex connectors.
Go buy a lotto ticketBleurgh. So I ordered an i3 and Amazon has sent me an i5 worth like £60 more. I'm going to contact them as I don't feel morally okay with keeping it but this has really inconvenienced me as I'm going away for the weekend and wanted to build this today.
Edit: holy shit, they said to keep it! Awesome!![]()
Any specific reason why you want to go with the slightly lower power T type processor? I'd be worried about the quality of the power supply, but otherwise the rest of the build looks OK. Looking at reviews, the power supply is not great at all. In reality it's probably closer to being a 200 watt PSU. I wasn't able to get a good shot of the label.. but the stated numbers don't seem to look very good.
Even if you stick with that power supply, you'll need to use a molex to 6 pin PCI-E power adaptor to power the GTX 960. One of those adaptors should come in the box along with the graphics card. I'd really advise against using that power supply.
If you want to make a little better use of your money, the slightly faster i3 4160 ($109) is a few dollars cheaper than the i3 you were looking at, and the slightly faster twin fan EVGA SSC edition GTX 960 after a $10 mail in rebate is available at the same price as the EVGA SC edition you had on the list. Hmm, not sure if the longer twin fan EVGA GTX 960 SSC will fit in that Logisys case.
Here's a somewhat better build for $12 more. No need to worry so much about the power supply, and it comes with a larger hard drive and case to better support the internal parts.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor ($108.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($36.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Pareema 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($25.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Hitachi Deskstar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($42.50 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($189.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case ($22.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $447.44
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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