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gaming What Fighting Game Do You Actually Enjoy Playing and Somewhat Good At?
Azure Envy replied to Tohru Adachi's topic in Media Discussion
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SSDs have rendered these VelociRaptors extinct. That, and a modern ultra high capacity/density drive will probably outclass them in sequential transfers -- which is probably what you'd use a drive like that for anyway.
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Pretty sure the gigantic cooler is responsible for your dip in temps.
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I would go with one of those new 8TB drives. For your amazing pone collection.
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Touch typing, all ten fingers.
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I'm of the opinion that their hardware is sound, but the software left something to be desired. The 7000 Series was excellent but it took several driver sets before most of the issues were ironed out, months after the cards dropped.
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I actually bought an R9 290 (couldn't pass up the price) a while back, but replaced it with a 970 as I could never get display on more than two monitors regardless of what driver set I used. It was absolutely mystifying. Couldn't turn up much in a search other than the fact that it was happening to other 290 owners with all kinds of different configs. At that point I was just impatient and the 970 was the new hotness so I just went for that. I've had better luck with NVIDIA drivers, but that's just my personal experience. The 290s are great deal at this point in time, though.
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290X will do slightly better at high resolutions (1440p+) with higher power consumption and heat, so buy one with a good cooler. 970 will do better at 1080p while consuming much less power/run cooler. Also that whole 3.5 GB debacle.
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Well then I'd just go to Hawaii and marvel at the beauty of Mt. Kilauea...
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It's not going to hurt it any, but obviously running CPU intensive apps like games are out of the question. It would make a nice heater during that time, though.
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I'm guessing it's already set on an automatic curve. You could probably go in and play with it later to suit your tastes if its running too loud.
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You're gonna hear everything from 10 minutes to two weeks. I personally run prime for two or three hours. If its stable during that, it's good enough for me. Just know that prime will push your CPU far harder than any game. But really, play a few games after that. Sometimes you'll crash in a game and not prime... every program uses the CPU differently.
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I've never used it, personally. People use it to tweak their OC settings but I'd rather just do that all in the UEFI. It does have a stress test that's comparable to p95 and AIDA. A note, if you do use AIDA or p95, the latest versions use AVX instructions which cause Haswell/DC CPU's to overvolt slightly. Not a concern normally but if you're tweaking voltage, it could be an issue -- prime versions 26.6 and before don't use those instructions.
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Prime95 http://www.mersenne.org/download/ AIDA64 http://www.aida64.com/ Tools used to stress test your CPU. Personally I use prime95 and a temp monitor like CoreTemp or OpenHardwareMonitor and run the 'blend' option with as much RAM used as possible. There are probably newer ways to go about it and others can chime in, but this is what I've used in the past.
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It's a little higher than I'd expect but not too bad. How are your load temps running p95 or AIDA64 or something?
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It works on any number of factors, current load, power consumption, temperature, etc. In general, it'll clock to the highest possible turbo bin on demand based on these parameters. So long as your temps are under control, no reason to worry about it fluctuating, just doing its job.
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It'll turbo depending on load. 4690K goes to 3.9 stock iirc
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I was about to link the same thing. These new boards have really nice OC features from what I've read and it seems like the automatic overclocking features aren't half bad. Still not up to the level of manually going through the motions, but if you're not too interested in getting down to the extreme details, they can be a real timesaver and shortcut to getting a stable overclock. More heresy -- I'd give the auto-OC a go and see where you land. Another easy way is to just leave your volts at stock and increment the multiplier and run a stability test. Keep going until you crash and then you can decide whether or not you want to tweak the voltage to get more out of it.
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No, you can just reinstall Steam to the same folder and it should pick up all your games. You might need to revalidate some of them (Left 4 Dead 2 comes to mind) but other than that, you should be fine.
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Right on that, but Intel would never compromise reliability just to score points on a benchmark -- this ain't OCZ.
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Intel 730. It's a rebadged datacenter drive with top-shelf Intel flash running on an Intel controller.
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This is going to sound really boring -- buy a Crucial MX100 or 200. BX100 is cheaper and based on a Silicon Motion controller, which I've read has pretty solid reviews, but at this point you can't really go wrong with the Marvell-controlled Crucial drives. What's your budget? That's not a bad drive, but PNY warranty service is pretty meh and for $20 more you can get a *drumroll* MX100 which is faster in all conditions (not SandForce).
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At this point I'm not touching TLC with MLC drives being very price competitive, coming in below the cost of those EVO drives. That slowdown issue that plagued 840 EVOs appears to have returned for some people after the firmware fix/refresh tool and as an owner of a vanilla 840, I doubt they ever plan to fix those drives. No idea how this is going to work with the 3D TLC but there's a ton of great choices out there with established track records for reliability.
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Yeah, that's exactly the the thing. It's boring! What SSD should I get? Crucial MX100. Reliable, decently fast and CHEAP. Once Crucial came along and blew out the bottom of the NAND flash market -- I'm just envisioning a future like the hard drive and graphics industry, a wide variety of players whittled down to a handful. I felt like the added competition really forced some vendors to try and differentiate themselves to be a cut above the rest.
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Yeah, I'd say so, personally. Back on topic, I wish Corsair would give me a compelling reason to purchase one of their SSDs at a considerable premium at this point, but I suppose that's what happens when you're not Intel, Samsung, Crucial, or SanDisk.
