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When will we be able to run gaymes at 144fps on ultra settings in a 4k triple monitor setup?

2-5 years

Source?

gnome-mpv core dumps instantly with this as an error,i cant seem to find any information about it.What would cause this?

ERROR:gmpv_video_area.c:267:gmpv_video_area_get_xid: assertion failed: (window)
[1] 27265 abort (core dumped) gnome-mpv

Gaymen question.

Do I understand correctly that simply increasing the core and memory clocks of a graphics card, without increasing voltages and without allowing it to overheat, will not accelerate electromigration or otherwise damage the card/reduce its useful lifespan?

If the above is correct, why is OCing still seen as a dangerous/warranty-voiding activity and why doesn't literally every single person who buys a card OC it?

My ass

Why is Jim Carrey so based?

If you don't increase voltage you may end up with instability

Right. But let's assume I decide not to, and just get the clocks as high as I can on the stock voltage without artifacting/instability.

You can, but the gains will be minimum and stress testing it takes time.

Dosent work that way.

You could just do it and find out for your self

I like listening to hangouts on youtube while playing shit or doing some work

What's the "lightest" browser out there for this purpose?

Is there any indicator if 1080 diminishing returns will be as bad as the 980?

should overclocking be permanent or should i change it back to normal after the game?

I need to upload a 1.87 GB video file over DDL, and I did so, through MEGA. The problem is that I didn't know about the bandwidth limitation. While downloading the file for testing I got a warning saying that I had exceeded my quota (for downloading 1.50 GB over the last six hours) and I realized that other people trying to download it would run into the same issue.

So, the question is: what would be a better service to upload this file to? One that allows more than 2GB uploads and uninterrupted downloads.

Clock speeds scale automatically

In principle you're still making it work more, out of spec, so yes, you actually will accelerate electromigration and reduce lifespan, even when keeping the temps under control. Increasing voltage is what truly makes it dangerous.

wut?

split it in to multiple parts

Is there any benefit for encoding a B&W movie with x264 10-bit profile over 8-bit? And what about x265?

no

Dear /sqt/.

I have a problem with various programs made at my work that refuse to even start at my Windows 8.1 on laptop, while working flawlessly on Windows 7 on home desktop and work desktop.

No matter if I double click or open cmd and type "start x.exe", nothing happenes.

All three are 64bit ones.

How can I check what blocks it from running?

I did. I OC'd my 960 a decent bit (not sure of the exact numbers, not booted to Windows now) without tweaking the voltage, and it seems to work fine. Got artefacts past a certain point, reduced it a bit and they were gone. Standard stuff, as I understand it.

Played a few hours of RotTR on mostly-High (& Very High textures) and it was the difference between locked 1440p30 and... not.

See this is what I assumed before. But from researching it, I can't actually find what would actually stress it from simply "working more"- assuming stock voltage and reasonable temps. Can you give any more details?

Yes you can just leave it. Your OC only affects the highest performance step; outside of games your GPU/memory still clocks down as normal.

why do people hate Chromebooks so much? what's so wrong with them?

Does every phones battery drain when turned off or do I have a faulty phone

give them the details to your SFTP server

Doesn't Box work? I share shit off there but have an account
There's a lot of free cloud storage sites, don't think I've ever had that issue with MEGA, but sometimes I just use MEGAsync though it's probably chinese botnet

All batteries self-discharge to some degree, and many phones aren't truly 100% off when they're "off". Your own drain may or may not be normal depending on how fast it happens.

>I can't actually find what would actually stress it from simply "working more"

It's just that: working more. The fact that currents travel through the transistors in the chip slowly destroys them with time. Make it work more often (more cycles per second) and more current has to flow in a fixed time, accelerating the damage. Not accounting for the extra heat, doubling the frequency would be like using the card twice as long in the same period of time.

>Yes you can just leave it. Your OC only affects the highest performance step; outside of games your GPU/memory still clocks down as normal.
does this apply to overclocked cpus too? how long can i run the game for without damaging the cpu/gpu?

You can configure the CPU settings in the BIOS, if you want it can use adaptive settings or constant

Temperature is the main factor
Try not to exceed 80C for GPUs and 70C for CPUs

>does this apply to overclocked cpus too?

Roughly yes, if you don't disable the speedstep function (which there's no reason to do unless you're doing extreme overclocking).

what are janitors? on Sup Forums i mean

Security cop of Sup Forums
Cant do anything

They can delete posts/threads and request bans from moderators

>The fact that currents travel through the transistors in the chip slowly destroys them with time
Are we talking "it will last 3 years instead of 6" or "it will last 15 years instead of 20"? I'm not all that familiar with electronics' natural lifespans. If it's more like that latter, it seems like a very abstract matter since no-one uses a GPU for that long.

Generally CPUs do clock up/down as needed too, although it will probably run at full speed rather more often than your GPU will.

So I am sick and tired of my shitty gayman headset.
I already own a decent pair of headphones and all I need is a good microphone. I checked the wiki but all there really is, is the Blue Yeti.
I'd really appreciate some suggestions where to look.
Price doesn't matter, but I really don't need anything over the top.

modmic

...

thanks. so is there any point in restoring them back to normal or am i just being paranoid of the them catching fire when i'm sleeping? will overclocking my cpu or gpu void the warranty?

When did this becaome Retarded questions general?

Is there an easy way to cut the first 30 seconds of audio from an mp3 file whilst retaining the quality perfectly? I feel like this should be extremely easy but i am really dumb pls help me

No, overclocking it generally doesn't void the warranty, however if the problem is found to be due to overclocking your warranty may not cover it.

Again not accounting for the extra heat, at fixed voltages the lifespan would scale linearly with the (inverse of) frequency, in my gross extimation based on a very limited model of the wearing dynamic. I believe that fairly used gaming cards don't typically reach 15 years.

>am i just being paranoid of the them catching fire when i'm sleeping?

I suggest you to use a monitoring tool (such as MSI Afterburner for the GPU) and see for yourself how frequencies switch and temps change.

When you entered the thread

Thanks

I think I might have some sort of virus, but after doing a full scan using MSE it couldn't find anything.

I'm using Chrome and have that setting which keeps my tabs open for me enabled. The past few times I've turned my computer on, whatever tab is currently open isn't what page I was on originally, but one-night-affair.com/?u=0t0pae3&o=1c0e9u2&t=. I can click back to get to the original page though. But the thing is is that I just restarted my computer to see if it would happen again but it didn't. What the fuck? I haven't downloaded any sketchy files on this computer, adblock has been enabled since the second I installed this browser, and haven't used it to watch porn in a really long time. I recently reinstalled Windows on here too so it couldn't be something from months ago.

Any idea what this might be? If it's worth mentioning, the pages it's opened itself up so far on are /vg/ threads. It didn't happen when I tried restarting with a Google page open.

thanks.

Consider how long 1080 has taken. Modern graphics cards are barely pushing 4k60, you want essentially 12k 144. How about we get to 4k 120 first. Could be in for another big performance boom though now that we've got another die shrink.

What's a good way to send links and shit from my android phone to my desktop? Preferably not something that involves me manually emailing shit to myself.

can i use a network over powerline adapter and a phone over powerline adapter in the same house?
or will they interfere with eachother?

fileconvoy. set the limit to 30 days. no size limit, no bandwidth as far as i know, no registration.

you had an install that changed your homepage. change it back, and you're good.

do thisand run a script blocker

If I had to guess they probably would.

I doubt they would. They shouldn't be connected in any way.

I just installed a script blocker, thank you.

And I checked and it looks like my home page is set to this. That's really strange.

Except they would be directly connected, they share the house wiring
Unless the two adapters use completely non-overlapping frequencies they would interfere with each other.

I keep getting pop ups like 'your computer is being tracked' and 'security error detected due to suspicious activity.'

Malwarebytes didn't find anything. Any help getting rid of this?

You think the signal would get through the power supply and various other circuitry?

It varies, that's why powerline adapters can be hit or miss.

Should I get the S7 Edge or Nexus?

Did standard 3.5" desktop hdds (7200rpm) improve a lot speed wise since 2008?

Try running Spybot

Foobar isn't allowing me to add music to it, what do?

Nexus

The one that doesn't jew you for storage options

>those without an understanding of how programming languages work (probably your category)
Wrong, I understand perfectly how c++ works, but unlike you fucking turbo-autists I didn't want to go into an 11-page essay about why that semicolon doesn't go there for someone trying to get a fucking hello world-tier program to compile.

>man, this was a long way of saying stfu and gtfo
That's because you're a turbo-autist who doesn't even begin to understand concise language

Somewhat - higher density, bigger cache sizes, and better controllers speed things up a bit

whats the best nvidia driver to use? im using 358.91 which is clearly outdated but was told to use this one because nvidia has been having a lot of driver issues recently.

I dont want to brink my card like i think that one update did

What is the desktop equivalent of a thinkpad?

First check that your Win8.1 is x86-64 or if it's IA-64 for some fucked up reason. If it is x86-64, open Win8.1's "Control Panel" stand-in thing and search for "compatibility:

Building it yourself

Would a 120gb ssd be big enough for w7 and Linux mint dual boot?

for $70, is the CM Quickfire a good choice for a mechanical keyboard?

Maybe. Got the Pro for $50 and don't regret it.

does 2/4 way sli/crossfire mean double/quadruple the performance/fps? is sli/crossfire recommended in general?

>just ordered all my components
Theres no going back now. What if im missing a cable? What if it just refuses to boot? What if i blackout and just cant figure it out? This is my first pc and im scared. If it doesnt turn on the first time im probably gonna tear down and kill myself.

pcpartpicker.com/p/NsDgTW

I currently have an R9 280x, is it worth upgrading to the GTX 1080 founders edition, or wait for 3rd party cards? Or is it even worth getting at all?

alright thanks, time to upgrade :^)

You shouldn't miss a cable, everything should be in the boxes. Even if you can just buy new one, they're dirty cheap. As long as you can follow instructions, you won't fuck it up. Watch on youtube tips on building your own PC, or building PC from the scratch. Even if you fuck something up, you can go to local pc store and ask them to check, why it's not working

Better wait for 3rd party cards if you want 1080. Shit's overheating af

>does 2/4 way sli/crossfire mean double/quadruple the performance/fps?
Absolutely not. 2-way SLI generally gives 1.5x performance at best
>is sli/crossfire recommended in general?
If the CPU you have is bottlenecked by your GPU (your CPU prerenders frames faster than the GPU can render them, this is kinda rare) AND your GPU and mobo support SLI AND you can afford a second copy of your GPU, but you can't afford to buy a GPU that would give better performance than SLI-ing your current one, then go for it. If ANY of these is not true, don't do it.

You may need to buy a cable to connect the hard drive, and you'll need some thermal paste for the heat sink if it doesn't come with some. I like ceramic. It's usually not more than a degree warmer than metal and won't short stuff if you screw up. I think you goofed getting only one terabyte. It fills fast.

How long is it until 3rd party cards will be released, just as an estimate?

Why is google captcha getting steadily more obnoxious and what can I do about it? "Select all squares..." was annoying enough but now theres a ton of "Click verify..." which is even slower. And every so often it just says "Fuck you. Do it again."

I try to search for at least some commiseration but all results are two year old articles from when it was good - when they were still digitizing books.

SLI isn't worth it unless you're already using the highest end card available, unless you somehow get a second card for free.

You don't see linear performance gains, many games don't even support it, you have to get a more expensive PSU, and you get a bigger power bill.

I heard somewhere that around 1 month

Is there a program I can use to monitor my CPU/GPU temps and give me stats on them that I can save to a file for later review?

>hdd cable
Are you sure? What kind of cable? I can still order more today.

>thermal paste
I ordered arctic silver 5 but i didnt put it on the list.

>1tb
I dont need much, all i put on my hdd is video games and my Sup Forums folder.

hwmonitor, speedfan

There's a good chance something will come with the SATA cable you need. If not, you can drive to a store and buy one.

That user meant SATA cable. It works with CD/DVD/BD too.

thanks

I have a phone interview for a software dev job on Monday. What should I expect? It's a company with 200 employees in Germoney.

Thanks

thanks. another question:
how is screen tearing a thing? it happens when the gpu makes more fps than your monitor's refresh rate. according to gpu/memory clocks down to normal when not needed so assuming that the game i'm playing doesn't require too much performance, why doesn't the gpu limit itself to create less fps, it makes me think that the gpu is always pushing itself to its limits to make the highest fps as possible.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ULqAIbjCsXE

That's what vsync does
The problem is that this increases latency and can cause noticeable input lag.
Newer monitors often support variable refresh rates so you get the anti-tearing effect of vsync without the latency.