What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)

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Ordered a Toshiba Satellite S850 so I don't have to use my dad's ancients Dell. :lol:
It isn't a game monster but it should play the games I need it to play. šŸ‘

Specs below if you're interested


CPU - IntelĀ® CoreĀ™ i5-3230M Processor clocked @ 3.2GHz w/ 3M cache
GPU - AMD RadeonĀ™ HD 7670M Graphics w/ 2GB of DDR3
RAM - 6GB of 1600 DDR3
Storage - 640GB 5400RPM HDD
Optical Drive - DVD SuperMulti drive (+/-R Double Layer)

Accessories and I/O
-TruBrite Backlight Technology
-SRS Premium Sound HDĀ™ stereo speakers
-Integrated 1MP Webcam and Microphone
-Intel 1Gbps LAN
-Wi-FiĀ® Wireless networking (802.11b/g/n) with BluetoothĀ® (v4.0)
-1-USB (2.0) port with Sleep and Charge, 2-USB (3.0) ports
-HDMIĀ® output port
-RGB port
-Memory Card Reader

Misc.
Screen Size - 15.6 Inches
Resolution - 1366x768 (HD), 16:9 aspect ratio
Battery - Lithium-Ion Battery (6-cell/48Wh)


Price - $694.99

Good enough for me. šŸ‘
 
Sold my Samsung P2770 27" LCD monitor. A buddy needed it and it gave me excuse to get a different one. On order and hopefully here today, Asus 27" 144hz 3D ready. Now I have a couple options. Play in 2560x1440 Super High Res, or if playing games like Crysis 3 forces me to step down my resolution to 1920x1080, I can check out a higher refresh rate at the lower resolution. Something that I am not completely clear on, with a refresh rate of 144hz or effectively 120hz, I wonder if I need to be pushing those kinds of frames in order to realize the full benefit of the higher refresh rates. I'll have to experiment and report back as I have read conflicting posts about it out on the interweb. :)
 
Pako
Sold my Samsung P2770 27" LCD monitor. A buddy needed it and it gave me excuse to get a different one. On order and hopefully here today, Asus 27" 144hz 3D ready. Now I have a couple options. Play in 2560x1440 Super High Res, or if playing games like Crysis 3 forces me to step down my resolution to 1920x1080, I can check out a higher refresh rate at the lower resolution. Something that I am not completely clear on, with a refresh rate of 144hz or effectively 120hz, I wonder if I need to be pushing those kinds of frames in order to realize the full benefit of the higher refresh rates. I'll have to experiment and report back as I have read conflicting posts about it out on the interweb. :)
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I always thought and heard that, since they say the human eye sees only 60fps, monitors above 60Hz and games above 60fps have no real advantage since the eye can't see the difference. Is this true?
 
Eks
I always thought and heard that, since they say the human eye sees only 60fps, monitors above 60Hz and games above 60fps have no real advantage since the eye can't see the difference. Is this true?
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I cannot see the different between 60 FPS and 120 FPS, but in watching HD programming on a 120hz vs. a 60hz TV I can sure tell the difference.
 
Eks
I always thought and heard that, since they say the human eye sees only 60fps, monitors above 60Hz and games above 60fps have no real advantage since the eye can't see the difference. Is this true?
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You'd find as many people who agree with this as you would people who disagree. I can tell the difference between 60Hz and 120Hz but I think it's up to the individual, I can see 60Hz monitors flicker if I look at them out of the corner of my eye (your peripheral vision is more sensitive to strobing) whereas my girlfriend can't. That was a weird sentence but I'm sure you'll know what I mean.

I'd love a 120Hz monitor...
 
Here's an interesting thought, and maybe worth it's own thread, but if you are getting 120 FPS in a game, but your refresh rate is stuck at 60hz, are you only seeing 60 of those 120 frames? Hummm......

Maybe that is why people say that they see no difference between 60 FPS and anything higher when gaming, hence why 60 FPS is the holy grail.
 
Well, yeah, that's why vertical sync locks your frame rate at your refresh rate. If your frame rate exceeds your refresh rate you'll see screen tearing because it's not drawing complete frames; you're basically getting more than one frame in one refresh. I think. But yeah, you're right, for a 60Hz monitor you'll never see more than 60fps.
 
neema_t
Well, yeah, that's why vertical sync locks your frame rate at your refresh rate. If your frame rate exceeds your refresh rate you'll see screen tearing because it's not drawing complete frames; you're basically getting more than one frame in one refresh. I think. But yeah, you're right, for a 60Hz monitor you'll never see more than 60fps.
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Wait, so 120fps on a 60Hz monitor will cause screen tear? Ok, that makes sense, but will 60fps on a 120Hz monitor look like lag/slowdown?
(Like 30fps on a 60Hz monitor doesn't seem as fluid)


 
Eks
Wait, so 120fps on a 60Hz monitor will cause screen tear? Ok, that makes sense, but will 60fps on a 120Hz monitor look like lag/slowdown?
(Like 30fps on a 60Hz monitor doesn't seem as fluid)
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I would imagine 60fps on a 120Hz monitor looks exactly the same as 60fps on a 60Hz monitor, but I have no experience with a 120Hz monitor so I really don't know; I just can't see why it wouldn't look the same. You would notice the difference between 120fps and 60fps though.
 
Infinital-NG
Things done to my home desktop.

6GB to 8GB RAM on my home desktop
Replaced ancient geforce 210 with Geforce GTX 650 TI
Replaced one intake 120mm and one exhaust 180mm fans.

Didn't get much time to test, but went from a crappy 25fps on Diablo3 on low settings to ~80fps on high settings (D3 changed graphics settings on it's own, so didn't get chance to tweak it out)

Went from not being able to play Planetside2 as FPS were in the 10-20 range, up to a good consistent 50-60. Once again didn't get to change the settings around very much.

Didn't get to try out simraceway or Iracing to see what happens, but am excited.

Not the greatest graphics card, but that was my budget for it and I think it was a pretty good deal on a GTX650TI, when I had almost resorted to getting a 7770 instead.
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I have the same Video card model as yours, but mines is a 2GB Evga card. After 4-5 months with it, I am very satisfied with it. Consistent 50-60 frames on Just Cause 2 w/ 1920X1080 & high settings (does get a bit choppy here and there), & I think that game favors AMD cards.
 
neema_t
I would imagine 60fps on a 120Hz monitor looks exactly the same as 60fps on a 60Hz monitor, but I have no experience with a 120Hz monitor so I really don't know; I just can't see why it wouldn't look the same. You would notice the difference between 120fps and 60fps though.
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I dunno, I've never had experience with a 120Hz monitor either it's just that if it is refreshing 120 times/second (that's how fast hertz are right?) and you have a game only sending in 60 frames/second, it just seems like it would be like running a game at 30fps. (Half speed)

Heh, I have no clue. I need to do some research. :dunce:
 
Eks
I dunno, I've never had experience with a 120Hz monitor either it's just that if it is refreshing 120 times/second (that's how fast hertz are right?) and you have a game only sending in 60 frames/second, it just seems like it would be like running a game at 30fps. (Half speed)

Heh, I have no clue. I need to do some research. :dunce:
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It looks the same.
 
Haven't done anything TO my computer today, but I've started a little something ON the computer: Making a simple game :)

So far the list of features is rather short:
1 car
1 location
Night time
2 obstacles
A nasty dent in the road surface
A siren (with rotating beacons and - as I discovered when I drove off the edge of the world - doppler effect!)
Physics. Sort of.
Free roam (in an empty space...)

But I've only just started learning the software, so with time I hope to that it will grow to something that's at least playable.


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Redid the 4.3GHz overclock on my 3570K due to suspected subtle instability. Decided to use a fixed voltage this time like I had to use with my old Lynnfield; ended up at ~1.23v as opposed to the dynamic maximum of 1.272 I was getting with a -0.010v offset. Hopefully that was the issue, time will tell if I've solved it :)
 
Finally set my printer to the network to my mom can print documents from the tablet I bought her.

The only issue now is why it's printing so slow..
 
Attempted to diagnose the cause of the spate of BSODs I've been getting lately -through a combination of winDBG !analyze -v and Windows' driver verifier tool I think the root cause is/was NetLimiter 3. Uninstalled NL3, and now I play the waiting game for the next hard freeze or blue screen...
 
Tested a monitor last night. Brand is X2GEN and frankly I never heard of it. Long story short the monitor is dead due to some popping capacitors.
 
Today I decided to dust out my PC while it was light and nice as I had nothing better to do outdoors and while I was at it I decided that since I had the graphics card out to clean the cooler on that (which was super clean anyway), I'd re-route all of the cabling. I'd made a right mess of it before because I was dying to get my first ever PC working and had no time for the small stuff, but man, I made such a bad job of it. Now, though, if you had small enough arms you'd be able to put your hand in the front fan aperture and out through the rear fan... If the drive cage wasn't in the way, anyway.

I'd like some fan recommendations though!

Right now I have:
2 fans in the front - 1 Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm, 1 stock Fractal Design 120mm
1 fan in the side - 140mm Yate Loon
1 fan on top - Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm
1 fan at the back - Fractal Design 120mm
Stock Intel fan cooler.

I'd like to have:
2 fans in the front (120mm only)
1 fan in the side (140/120mm)
2 fans on top (140/120mm)
1 fan at the back (120mm only)
Noctua NH-D14 (unless there's something better now? I last checked roughly a year ago).

But which fans do I go for? I've tried researching but I can't find any solid recommendations.
 
Jesus Christ that's a lot of fans...does your system really get that hot? Or you just prefer it to run cool?

Today I used CCleaner to fix my dad's PC registery and good lord, there were at least 300 errors :yuck:
 
Eks
Jesus Christ that's a lot of fans...does your system really get that hot? Or you just prefer it to run cool?
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It doesn't get that hot yet (~60C CPU, ~69C GPU (If I remember correctly that is)), but I want to overclock both. I also very much like to keep it as cool as possible, so naturally I don't mind going overboard on the cooling. The other problem is the Fractal cases (or at least the Define) has thick sound proofing lining the sides and top of the case and what look to be fairly restrictive covers on the front fans (in front of the filters, I mean, I'm not talking about the filters themselves) so it's a little warmer than the average case too because it keeps the heat in to a certain extent.

But you're not wrong, it's a lot of fans... I'd be thinking about liquid cooling if I could justify the cost of doing it properly, the Corsair all-in-one CPU liquid cooler type things don't really strike me as something I want to do. Also what's good for the air-cooled CPU is good for the air-cooled GPU, so even if I did liquid cool the CPU with one of those coolers I'd still need to cool the GPU anyway!
 

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