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by w00tstock
Fri Mar 28, 2014 2:09 pm
Forum: General Software
Topic: Configuring 3ds Max for Max performance
Replies: 12
Views: 16224

Re: Configuring 3ds Max for Max performance

Why not run perfmon with cpu cores, memory and hd selections ticked? should be able to find out where the slow down is occurring.
by w00tstock
Sat Jul 06, 2013 1:28 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Just joined the GeForce
Replies: 30
Views: 7848

Re: Just joined the GeForce

http://anandtech.com/show/6877/the-grea ... r-part-3/2


Its amazing, the GPU in most peoples smart phone's are faster than your new GPU....
by w00tstock
Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:10 pm
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Time to upgrade the camera gear...
Replies: 57
Views: 10531

Re: Time to upgrade the camera gear...

That said, it does look like they did a decent job of having the command dial change the most common setting for each mode. It also looks like I'd rely more on "Programmed Auto" mode than full manual since it would be a pain to change aperture and shutter speed independently. Why not rely...
by w00tstock
Fri Apr 12, 2013 12:33 pm
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Time to upgrade the camera gear...
Replies: 57
Views: 10531

Re: Time to upgrade the camera gear...

Even down at f/3.5 I've lost good pictures because AF picked a target on the subject's body that was too far forward of their torso, and voila, a limb is fully in focus but the face is not. Single-point AF or manually selecting a focus point would be better options. I generally use just the center ...
by w00tstock
Fri Apr 12, 2013 12:22 pm
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Time to upgrade the camera gear...
Replies: 57
Views: 10531

Re: Time to upgrade the camera gear...

Even down at f/3.5 I've lost good pictures because AF picked a target on the subject's body that was too far forward of their torso, and voila, a limb is fully in focus but the face is not. Like End User said, ALWAYS pick your focus point or go to single focus and frame your shots. Please keep crop...
by w00tstock
Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:58 pm
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Time to upgrade the camera gear...
Replies: 57
Views: 10531

Re: Time to upgrade the camera gear...

You might want to consider a used nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 vr1 if you can find one. Great lens for dx cameras and around $1300.
I would personally rather have the lower fstop than the better vr of the 70-200f4 since you will be capturing motion.
by w00tstock
Thu Apr 11, 2013 2:40 pm
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Time to upgrade the camera gear...
Replies: 57
Views: 10531

Re: Time to upgrade the camera gear...

Kind of had to make any real recommendations when you haven't put a price target for camera + glass.
by w00tstock
Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:48 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Keep my Nikon D5100 or upgrade to D5200?
Replies: 9
Views: 5240

Re: Keep my Nikon D5100 or upgrade to D5200?

Well I'm getting sold on the D5200 for video lol. Watched some videos from it and its pretty nice.

I'm gonna revise my opinion to a buy IF the OP already has some 2.8 glass and an external mic system. If not I would suggest getting those things first.
by w00tstock
Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:59 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Keep my Nikon D5100 or upgrade to D5200?
Replies: 9
Views: 5240

Re: Keep my Nikon D5100 or upgrade to D5200?

The D5200 is massively better at video than the D5100, in fact, is better than the D800 . If you're really keen on (amateur) video, it's pretty attractive. But it's limited to 24 Mbps, so beware high bitrate scenes. If you're really serious about video, though (but not serious enough to buy into a ...
by w00tstock
Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:12 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Keep my Nikon D5100 or upgrade to D5200?
Replies: 9
Views: 5240

Re: Keep my Nikon D5100 or upgrade to D5200?

I think Jive and yourself answered your question. BUT What you get with the video modes on the 5200 are 720p60 and 1080i60. So sports will be more fluid and you can do better slow motion. Ether mode is going to increase post. The extra focusing points are quite nice and will really help with your fr...
by w00tstock
Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:09 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Suggestions? DIY SSD RAID on HP DL380 G5 w/P400i
Replies: 34
Views: 24959

Re: Suggestions? DIY SSD RAID on HP DL380 G5 w/P400i

So I misunderstood overprovisioning. I thought some utility could change the SSD to report a lower capacity and BOOM I'm done. But no, the process is to just make a partition smaller than the full size of the drive. That leads me to the question of whether or not having something in a RAID will uti...
by w00tstock
Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:06 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Suggestions? DIY SSD RAID on HP DL380 G5 w/P400i
Replies: 34
Views: 24959

Re: Suggestions? DIY SSD RAID on HP DL380 G5 w/P400i

Heh, some how I think going form about 200 iops of a 15k drive to 80,000 iops of a SSD is going to be ok. You could probably get away with raid 1 with room to spare. The only thing that I can see as a potential issue is lack of trim on windows. I would probably set up a linux server with zfs and run...
by w00tstock
Thu Jan 24, 2013 2:05 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Suggestions? DIY SSD RAID on HP DL380 G5 w/P400i
Replies: 34
Views: 24959

Re: Suggestions? DIY SSD RAID on HP DL380 G5 w/P400i

What are you going to be doing with the server? What raid lvl?
by w00tstock
Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:34 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Need help fine-tuning this Z77 gaming build
Replies: 60
Views: 13392

Re: Need help fine-tuning this Z77 gaming build

Why not get 2 x 8GB sticks of ram?
by w00tstock
Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:00 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: How to force pcie x16 slot to run at x4 on a GA-790FXTA-UD5?
Replies: 9
Views: 5317

Re: How to force pcie x16 slot to run at x4 on a GA-790FXTA-

I would try the revo in the first pcie 16 slot and the gpu in the 3rd if you haven't already. Also i would make sure you were running the latest firmware for the card and the latest bios for the mobo.
by w00tstock
Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:58 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Dark Lord Day 2012
Replies: 11
Views: 1811

Re: Dark Lord Day 2012

3 Floyds will be closed to the public on Darklord day. Only people with tickets will be allowed on property. But this will be like 6k people. It will be a 97%+ outside event, so dress appropriately. If you don't show up before 10 am you will have to walk miles from your car or pay one of the local b...
by w00tstock
Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:55 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Fixing an aging CRT monitor?
Replies: 21
Views: 3298

Re: Fixing an aging CRT monitor?

Yeah crt's are cheep, those sony 24 inches were going for about $100 too. If i were you i would try to find one of those if you are into the crt thang!
by w00tstock
Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:21 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Dual-boot from USB stick?
Replies: 13
Views: 2256

Re: Dual-boot from USB stick?

Microsoft makes a tool called windows-7-usb-DVD-tool its free. I know it can do ONE OS.

you best bet is to install some sorts of PE to the usb disk and choose the install from there.
by w00tstock
Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:56 pm
Forum: Mobile Tech
Topic: Laptop wish list; suggestions needed
Replies: 46
Views: 6816

Re: Laptop wish list; suggestions needed

There are MANY 15 inch laptops that have 1920x1200 res screens. Overall I think the thing that makes your laptop hard to find it the AMD based only. Seems to me that its quite irrational to sign off on 70% of the laptop market.
by w00tstock
Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:46 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Awaiting Fermi Review
Replies: 130
Views: 11186

Re: Awaiting Fermi Review

Worth keeping in mind though, when we say "idle" we mean "idle." Even light browsing or pretty much any kind of computer usage kicks the power usage up very quickly. It was not uncommon to see the GTX 470 and GTX 480 jump 50 watts with the opening of a web page.

Hardocp
by w00tstock
Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:55 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Awaiting Fermi Review
Replies: 130
Views: 11186

Re: Awaiting Fermi Review

Kyle Bennet posted in his forum that we will know something at 7:01 pm today.
by w00tstock
Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:54 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Fermi Launch to Eclipse HD5800
Replies: 104
Views: 8194

Re: Fermi Launch to Eclipse HD5800

I have heard countless reports that 5970s are being sold at a loss. Take it with a grain of salt, but the 5970 is hard to get if for some reason you want it and sells at a stupidity high price (remember X800XT Phantom Edition?). Interesting, do go on. but he didn't and you did. Anyways its really n...
by w00tstock
Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:24 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: GTX 470/480 ... new revision, new features
Replies: 63
Views: 7811

Re: GTX 470/480 ... new revision, new features

Anybody care to clarify the limitations / benefits of how it is going to be that Fermi, and the 5000 series cards from AMD handle tessellation? I'm not sure I follow the reasoning behind each move and what the end result is. Why is it thought that the way Fermi handles tessellation is going to be b...
by w00tstock
Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:54 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: GTX 470/480 ... new revision, new features
Replies: 63
Views: 7811

Re: GTX 470/480 ... new revision, new features

Fermis tessellation is done with the polymoph engine. There are 16 of these on the chip and they send instructions to the shaders(cores) to execute. the reason I don't call this dedicated hardware is because if you use tessellation it is my understanding that you lose a block of shaders. (the more t...
by w00tstock
Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:15 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: GTX 470/480 ... new revision, new features
Replies: 63
Views: 7811

Re: GTX 470/480 ... new revision, new features

Let's not get in the direction of the other thread which was already blocked. The point here was about the fact that Fermi was late because was redesigned from top to bottom and a dedicated h/w engine for tesselation was added. Fermi doesn't have dedicated tessellation, all of the cores can do tess...
by w00tstock
Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:56 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: GTX 470/480 ... new revision, new features
Replies: 63
Views: 7811

Re: GTX 470/480 ... new revision, new features

http://vr-zone.com/forums/576902/gtx-470-benchmarks.html GTX470 around 25% faster in FC2 than a 5870. I'm betting all these unverified benchmarks are on A1 or A2 cores. I can't wait to see the full review from TR. I think the 470 will be a lot faster than the 5870 and the 480 will be up with the du...
by w00tstock
Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:10 pm
Forum: Cases and Power Supplies
Topic: Symptoms of an underpowered PC?
Replies: 13
Views: 4820

Re: Symptoms of an underpowered PC?

Yeah sounds like a serious case of Adobeisapiceofcrud, you should disinfect your pc of it now.
by w00tstock
Sun Mar 07, 2010 3:49 am
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: New system build (flexible $2k range) - looking for feedback
Replies: 6
Views: 1294

Re: New system build (flexible $2k range) - looking for feedback

Get the OEM version of Windows, save yourself 70$.
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