i ran a semi budget build, running a 1060 and the 7600k.

pubg setting on a mixture of very low / low settings i get 140fps usually in both maps,

I'm looking to build a RAID system where I can plug my laptop in right into it. Kind of like this Drobo.

I don't necessarily need it to be a NAS but I want to be able to just plug a USB from that box to my laptop and edit photos / videos from it if I need to.

Would my best option be to buy someting like the drobo instead of building something? It seems quite expensive and I hope I can build something a bit cheaper.

Right now my workflow is just Photos -> Import into External -> Backup to NAS

I want it to be

Photos -> Import to external / copy into raid -> back up to NAS.

Any good deals on AIO water cooling?

Oculus Rift with touch controls dropped to $450 yesterday but went back up $529 ...lets just see if amazon.ca drops lower than that for boxing day...we'll see


edit: microsoft deal at $699.00 with audio strap and free 70 dollar game on stream for vive..
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/stor...1770-122617-CA
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wireless router recommendations?

xmas present for myself :fuckyea:

BALLA!!!

4k gaming...awwwe shit.

start mining :troll:

bought this entry level gaming desktop since i only do casual gaming. most of the time i'll surf the web, stream, watch movies on my desktop.

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX69327

For laptops Intel claims 9 hours of battery life and better performance than a Maxq 1060 laptop.

Nvida is up at 8 p.m. Wild rumors have Nvida releasing 11 series GPU's with volta.

start mining your laptops :troll:

People already are. With good results.

damn, i was only able to afford the 1070 ti.

What would cause a video card to only be using some of it's available memory? It's a 3GB card, but in game GPU-Z shows the "Memory Usage (Dedicated) only going to ~500MB. It's a Gigabyte 7970 (GV-R797D5-3GD-B).

What game/application are you running that the GPU is using 500MB? I have a 1080 with 8GB, and I don't think I've ever seen it using up all of the memory while using it for daily tasks/games.

I was running Guild Wars 2 and then PassMark, PM got it a little higher but it was still under a GB. In game it's showing 100% load and full clock but getting terrible framerates, I put my 7870 back in and get 4-5x the framerate in the same conditions.

sounds rare but maybe some of the memory dies, died
what does it say under properties under device manager, or info from your driver? does it report full vram?

That's odd man. RMA the card?

If it is a new card, you could try a clean driver install. Boot into safe mode and run Display Driver Uninstall. Then normal boot into Windows and install the latest driver package.

I bought a brand new card and had to RMA yesterday due to memory issues.

To confirm, I used MSI Kombustor on the memory profile to recreate the issue.

I don't see any listing for memory in the properties under device manager, GPU-Z shows some info on the main tab but I'm not sure what it's actually measuring vs just pulling from what it "should" have. I updated to the latest drivers from AMD since the ones from Gigabyte were extremely old.

I'll swap them back this evening and give Kombuster a shot. The card is used but within the eBay return window still if I can't get this thing working properly.

Anyone have a pretty decent streaming computer? My friend and I are working on a project and I need to live stream a pre-recorded video to youtube, not necessarily gaming. I thought my PC would be able to handle it no problem but I seemed to start dropping frames 30 minutes into it then it stopped.

Specs:
CPU: i5 4670k
MOBO: Gigabyte Z87MX-D3H
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
GPU: ASUS GTX 770

Would it be the i5 that's causing the slowdowns? I'm not running anything else except OBS and the video is just a regular 1080p mp4.

It's the i5. You want an i7 at the bare minimum. Ryzens are great if you plan on doing a lot of streaming into the future.

Thanks I'll take a look into the Ryzens. The streaming is only about 30 minutes once a week but we're looking to scale that soon to possibly everyday. Once we get it that frequent, we can't really afford any hiccups once it's daily lol.

If it's pre recorded why are you streaming it?