• PC Building Thread V6 - "running six RGB controller utilities at once" edition
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The reason I'm looking at the VII for it's 16gb of ram is because I game but I'm also a designer and video content producer. I don't find I have issues in the vast majority of games vram usage wise. RE2 maxes out at 2k at 60-100fps.
Most games (read: basically all modern ones) stream in textures to fit VRAM, so your only real issue becomes having enough space to allocate the framebuffer, which does get problematic at 4K, but 1440p is just fine.
I stand corrected then
So I dug around to see if others were having the same issue as I had with the Gigabyte RTX 2060. Other 2060 brands were performing waaay cooler, so I tried to exchange my card at the store. They said no problem and I ended up getting an Acer RTX 2060. I ran the exact same tests as the previous card, and it's literally 10°C cooler. (I removed all the extra fans I bought after to simulate the same scenario as when I first got the gigabyte card) https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113002/d441fab2-0843-4bb0-8c99-b6ad137a7c3d/gpu2.png Glad I looked into it - That gigabyte card was hitting 80, 81°C after an hour or two of gameplay.
Gigabyte's "Windforce" and other low end cards are known to have awful coolers and absolutely awful fans. I remember seeing tons of videos on youtube of banks of gigabyte cards in mining rigs with dead fans all over the place and the owners having to constantly warranty out cards. I wouldn't recommend buying their cards unless you go for the high end.
So I ended up making a space heater by accident guys.
I just rebuilt my system with a new case etc. But now I suddenly have the issue of CPU temp. I have an FX 8350 with an H100i cooling it inside a Lian-Li O11 Dynamic. For some reason temperatures shoot up to 150F under normal loads of 50% during simple shit like starting up Windows. Windows also parks four of the eight cores when they're not being pushed too hard and the temps are still high under load. I can't tell what it's like in Linux because I can't get psensor to detect it. Either way, it's a problem. I feel like it's something to do with the way I seated the cooler. Any ideas? PS idle temps float around ambient. It's very cold in my room so that's about 60-70 degrees F.
I'd check the water block to see if it's seated properly, I didn't seat the water block on my GPU all the way down and it shot the temps in a Corsair H75(Pre-2018 Model) to 85C, I reseated it and screwed it down as much as I could and without breaking the card, and now the GPU with a fan curve on it's appropriate radiator fans keep it under 60C during games.
So I took the 1080TI apart and lo-and-behold, the TIM was crustier than cum-puter kid's socks. Cleaned that shit off, applied some MX-4, and now with an appropriate fan curve through MSI Afterburner, it hovers in the mid 70C's.
I don't know what it is about GPUs and horrible TIM. My old Sapphire R9 380 had a massive crack in the center of the glob, I shaved down a literal 25C dT by replacing it with NH-T1.
Wish I knew this before I bought. Oh well, my Asus is running perfectly. Alright. Thanks for all your help btw!
I use my living room tv as a second monitor mirroring what is on my monitor so when I play games my dad can watch, but with it being 60hz while my monitor is 120hz, it drags my PC performance down with it, so I've been looking for a 120hz TV and came across this. TCL CLASS 4 It's the same size as my current TV, is rated for 120hz, and has the Roku TV interface which my dad understands, so transitioning over would be a snap, all for $350. I'm just posting to ask if anyone here has had anything from TCL and what their opinion is on them.
TCL is a lesser known but very solid brand, but as always with anything display related, they're always sourcing the panel from somebody else and so it's always hit or miss. As long as you're not a total pixel peeper you should be happy enough with that.
Wow they actually mention frame interpolation as being good for video games. https://support.tclusa.com/20269-roku/189407-why-does-the-product-description-say-the-tv-is-120hz-but-the-specifications-say-that-it-is-60hz What bullshit.
Hahaha fuck that. I'm not entirely sure true 120Hz TVs exist at all, now that I'm looking for them.
It's notoriously hard to actually search for a TV that will accept an input frequency over 60hz. Of the ones I know that exist are TVs with 4k panels that can accept a 120hz input at 1080p, but you basically have to choose from a precompiled list as any kind of search selection on your big box website for this shit is less than useless. Shopping for televisions sucks and I really hope these big format displays take off.
So many “120hz” TVs aren’t. They’re just 60hz with tweening.
Well that was fucking bullshit to learn. Why has no one cracked down on this bullshit already?
It's pretty common in the consumer electronics space. For what it's worth, the percentage of people that would actually be able to feed a 4K TV at 120, even among enthusiasts is tiny. When I asked Sony reps at CES about if their new OLED TVs used HDMI 2.1 I was told: "That's only needed on 8K TVs". Which, sure, but you can only drive 4K at 60Hz (SDR) on 2.0, you can drive 120 at 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, but for PC use thats garbage. In HDR, HDMI 2.0 can only do 50Hz, or 60Hz with 4:2:2 subsampling. 2.1 can basically do anything, it's roughly 3X the bandwidth, with additional data channels, and a more advanced encoding.
Well that's the thing, when I use the TV as a second monitor, it's at 1080 rather than 4K because my monitor is 1080. If I could find a 4K TV that can do 1080 at 120FPS, that is the godsend I'm wishing for now. I've been able to "trick" my latest build into running 120Hz on the TV at 1080, by having it run on my monitor at 120, turning it off, and for some reason it's settings transfer over when I plug it in the HDMI on the TV, but it was making this odd as fuck electronic whine from near where the HDMI cord was plugged in. It worked but that noise deterred me and I changed the settings back, and it recognized the TV as the TV again.
Oh also Sony's "conventional" LCD TVs with HDR are stunning given good source played in them.
The other stunning thing about them is their price.
FWIW Samsung's "QLED" new panel tech was pretty nice, they solved their "shadow" issue near the edges, and their off-angle colors are much better. The reps wouldn't tell me if it was still "VA" technology or not.
Uh, it's the 2017 model but it's $800 instead of $1,600 vv Samsung QN55Q7CAMFXZA 55" QLED Curved UHD HDR Elite Smart TV Fuuuuuuuck
I bought (and returned) a Samsung QLED VA display some time ago. The most noticeable thing about it is that there's a huge vertical separation between pixels which makes the top and bottom of text look really strange. Returned it due to a stuck pixel and got a ViewSonic TN.
Samsung does have QA problems, but I find their TVs to be more reliable than their PC monitors.
It's a shame, if it wasn't for the pixel and a slight purple overshoot I would have really preferred it overall.
Especially on their gaming and ultrawide panels the overshoot is bad, AMD was using their ultrawide to demo FC5 on the Radeon 7, and I was shocked, since the overshoot was extremely noticably – to the point where it was detrimental to the demo, IMO. I think they should've demoed 4K HDR Freesync on an OLED or huge panel (88"), since Nvidia can't do HDR on a wide scale with G-sync still.
It was one of the QLED 144Hz curved ones. I probably would have forgiven the overshoot was it not for the stuck pixel. Unfortunately, while I love my current display for gaming purposes, I'm trying to get into CG and it's not at all suitable for color work. Even some 1080p IPS panel for a second monitor would be a huge improvement, but I don't want to spend that kind of money and my desk can't fit a second monitor.
I recall being able to fudge the nvidia control panel into cloning my 1440p 144hz monitor to a lower refresh and lower resolution “display”(elgato in this case), try looking up “144hz elgato hd60pro”.
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