The "Quick Questions That Don't Deserve A Thread"...Thread. v5 - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;48842698]How much would you guys sell this for?[/QUOTE] I could be wrong, but I think the general rule of thumb for selling older systems is to take 25% off of the original total price.

Anyone can suggest Video Card for 200 Euro? It's for friend, he has i5 2500k installed and AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series , 4095MB It runs like shit.

[QUOTE=arleitiss;48847471]Anyone can suggest Video Card for 200 Euro? It's for friend, he has i5 2500k installed and AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series , 4095MB It runs like shit.[/QUOTE] Team red: R9 380 Team green: GTX 960

[QUOTE=Samiam22;48847764]Team red: R9 380 Team green: GTX 960[/QUOTE] Assuming 960 has ShadowPlay (friend loves to stream) Does team red have ShadowPlay equivalent?

[QUOTE=arleitiss;48847814]Assuming 960 has ShadowPlay (friend loves to stream) Does team red have ShadowPlay equivalent?[/QUOTE] The 960 very much does have Shadowplay (I have one), all nVidia ones above the GTX650 are available with Shadowplay. AMD has Raptr GVR, which functions similarly to Shadowplay, though it isn't quite as optimised from the benchmarks I've seen, it's still functional and will work like you want it to.

[QUOTE=Samiam22;48847851]The 960 very much does have Shadowplay (I have one), all nVidia ones above the GTX650 are available with Shadowplay. AMD has Raptr GVR, which functions similarly to Shadowplay, though it isn't quite as optimised from the benchmarks I've seen, it's still functional and will work like you want it to.[/QUOTE] Well, friend mostly is playing CS GO and trying to stream. Has very bad stutter and fps drops (assuming because of GPU). So he asked me what he should replace, i5 2500k seems still decent CPU today so only GPU seems to be needed replacement. ShadowPlay has built in streaming which works very well as I tried it on my 970, I assume ShadowPlay will reduce load form CPU during stream?

[QUOTE=arleitiss;48847909]Well, friend mostly is playing CS GO and trying to stream. Has very bad stutter and fps drops (assuming because of GPU). So he asked me what he should replace, i5 2500k seems still decent CPU today so only GPU seems to be needed replacement. ShadowPlay has built in streaming which works very well as I tried it on my 970, I assume ShadowPlay will reduce load form CPU during stream?[/QUOTE] Most likely. Shadowplay offloads the duty of recording things to the GPU so it definitely improves performance. And yes, that CPU is decent, shouldn't need to upgrade that.

Well, I just finished upgrading my PC. 4690k + 16 GB ram + new Motherboard installed. So happy. One question though: What determines which monitor is enabled during BIOS/Win install? Out of my 3 monitors, it always seems to go for the shittiest one (lowest res VGA)

I think AMD cards default to cloning the display across all screens, and nVidia goes for whichever port got numbered "#1" in manufacturing

uhh what is this bullshit. I expected decent increase in 3D Mark score with 4690k after replacing FX8350. [url]http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/5053832/fs/6165543[/url] Wat :v:

Your speeds on the gpu are overclocked in your previous build and 3.5ghz on a 4690k is low. It can go way higher than that.

Is this okay? [t]http://i.imgur.com/nez1pn1.png[/t] Sorry I have no idea what I am fucking doing, I just changed multiplier in BIOS and voltage automatically adjusted itself I think. All I am doing is watching temperature and for smoke coming out of PC.

I feel really stupid asking this, but I just formatted my computer and it has no network drivers so I can't go about finding all my other drivers :V: I can't figure out which network driver is appropriate. It's a custom built computer, I can't get any info on the adapter other than WAN miniport SSTP. Any ideas? What driver do I need?

[QUOTE=meek;48851441]I feel really stupid asking this, but I just formatted my computer and it has no network drivers so I can't go about finding all my other drivers :V: I can't figure out which network driver is appropriate. It's a custom built computer, I can't get any info on the adapter other than WAN miniport SSTP. Any ideas? What driver do I need?[/QUOTE] Generally if you search for motherboard drivers, it will have driver for network.

-nvm I found it in the BIOS, ty!- [editline]7th October 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=arleitiss;48851498]Generally if you search for motherboard drivers, it will have driver for network.[/QUOTE] it works now. Thank you so much for the quick answer my Irish friend <3

Latest result: [url]http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6166239[/url] [t]http://i.imgur.com/7GRBVCW.png[/t] I am pretty sure I am not overclocking it but rather just bumping up some shitty value which barely affects performance....

That max voltage value is too high. You'll want to manually adjust it. Follow [URL="http://www.overclock.net/t/1411077/haswell-overclocking-guide-with-statistics"]this[/URL] guide.

That's the problem, all guides seem to use specific terminology while gigabyte has some different namings. [url]http://imgur.com/2FR962b[/url]

[url]http://www.overclock.net/t/1401976/the-gigabyte-z87-haswell-overclocking-oc-guide[/url]

Okay, tried adjusting voltage and multiplier manually. Is this better? [t]http://i.imgur.com/dBc5yMz.png[/t] [editline]7th October 2015[/editline] Ok done, I like this. [t]http://i.imgur.com/bCJz56S.png[/t] 4.5 Ghz @ 1.22v + I learned a bit of shit. I could probably push for 4.6 if not 4.7 but I don't want my CPU to burn out of life. I expected more from h100i, would stock cooler be dead by now or what? Do I need to enable/disable anything?

Yes that's much better. Voltage is well within safe values, OC is 4.4ghz, temps are really good. [editline]7th October 2015[/editline] Above 4.6 the upper end of the average haswell i5 unfortunately. Feel free to bump your voltage up to 1.3 though and see what you can get. Above that I wouldn't entirely recommend.

[QUOTE=Levelog;48853097]Yes that's much better. Voltage is well within safe values, OC is 4.4ghz, temps are really good. [editline]7th October 2015[/editline] Above 4.6 the upper end of the average haswell i5 unfortunately. Feel free to bump your voltage up to 1.3 though and see what you can get. Above that I wouldn't entirely recommend.[/QUOTE] How come motherboard automatically adjusted voltage to above 1.3? Would that not be considered kinda stupid when someone was designing motherboard? What are safe temps for 4690k?

[QUOTE=arleitiss;48853199]How come motherboard automatically adjusted voltage to above 1.3? Would that not be considered kinda stupid when someone was designing motherboard? What are safe temps for 4690k?[/QUOTE] Nah, it'll pump it quite a bit. There's no hard designated "safe voltage" by Intel. Safe voltage is stock voltage. 1.3v and below is considered long term safe voltage, 1.35v is considered still non-frying voltage, your chip just won't last forever. Above 1.35v is usually reserved for the suicidal or LN2 coolers.

Well the more i look into this whole OC stuff the more fun and interesting it seems. Used to be terrified of it as I thought setting anything over stock wrongly = instant death but now it makes more sense about voltages/heats.

[QUOTE=arleitiss;48853530]Well the more i look into this whole OC stuff the more fun and interesting it seems. Used to be terrified of it as I thought setting anything over stock wrongly = instant death but now it makes more sense about voltages/heats.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it's a lot of fun. It basically just boils down to overheat=bad for processor and poor performance. Too high voltage = fry chip either slowly or quickly. Frying your chip slowly is fine for some people. I run my voltages a bit higher than I should because I generally upgrade the proc every couple years.

[QUOTE=Levelog;48853704]Yeah, it's a lot of fun. It basically just boils down to overheat=bad for processor and poor performance. Too high voltage = fry chip either slowly or quickly. Frying your chip slowly is fine for some people. I run my voltages a bit higher than I should because I generally upgrade the proc every couple years.[/QUOTE] Oh wait so it's not a matter of few months of frying CPU? I thought running at higher voltages will fry it in few months eventually, I've upgraded CPU every two years generally, next one will probably be Skylake or so in a year or two or depending what comes out. I generally skip one or two CPU lines/generations, like I've never owned Intel Quad or i3 or i7. My history: Pentium 4, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Pentium G860, AMD FX-8350 and now this 4690k.

[QUOTE=arleitiss;48853774]Oh wait so it's not a matter of few months of frying CPU? I thought running at higher voltages will fry it in few months eventually, I've upgraded CPU every two years generally, next one will probably be Skylake or so in a year or two or depending what comes out. I generally skip one or two CPU lines/generations, like I've never owned Intel Quad or i3 or i7. My history: Pentium 4, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Pentium G860, AMD FX-8350 and now this 4690k.[/QUOTE] It's not an exact time, and different CPU's will wear out differently at the same voltages.

Is it important to have Chrome's cache saved onto a secondary HDD and not your SDD? I've recently installed an SSD and I have moved the cache location to my HDD but it is noisy as fuck, whenever I load up a page full of images it's like the whole HDD buzzes. Never did this when I was on just the HDD and no other apps cause it to happen.

Is it possible that running games at 2560x1080 fucks up my performance? I seem to only get 50 fps in Far Cry 4 on everything on Ultra except Antialiasing which is off completely. Spec: i5 4690k @ 4.5 Ghz, Asus GTX 970 , 16 GB RAM @ 1600Mhz

Hopefully last quick question I have: Is it worth updating BIOS? mine is F7, while newer one released last month is F8. Website states "Better system compatibility for Intel® 5th Generation Core™ Processors"