The lesser-known early Zen bug. In the absence of a fix, my system randomly reboots every week or so. The more common fix is just to crank VSOC way up (as happens automatically when running DDR4-2800 or higher).
When I tell Windows to always run the CPU at 100% speed, Planetside gains ~30% to minimum framerates (finally bringing it in line with everyone else's numbers). This also fixes the problem with that memory latency bench where Windows is slower (~130 ns) than Linux or Wine (both ~114 ns). I spend lit...
I like option 2's general direction. The stop-gap (1) will show its low-end nature pretty quickly, and waiting (3) won't get you that much relative to the improvements that have already happened since you built/upgraded your current system. Aside from 2C4T and 8GB of RAM being weak for the long haul...
^ Everything DPete27 said. ^ EVGA's lineup is weird because they sell a bunch of PSU platforms from different manufacturers under different names. The G2/G3 are great, but last I knew all of the others were fairly meh. A 650W should be comfortable unless you're overclocking everything to the moon (e...
There's two reasons why video games may benefit from somewhat faster frames than video: timing interactions (input lag, refresh/scanout interactions, the response time of the monitor, etc) and temporal aliasing. (A normal video game renderer has 'infinite shutter speed' i.e. no natural motion blur;...
Whatever it takes to get to diminishing latency returns. At UE3's general tech level, 30 fps is about the minimum and 60 is pretty good. For big titles from the past couple of years, double that. The smoothness and motion clarity from 90+ fps is a nice bonus, but an inconsistent 30-60 fps is entirel...
As this thread is necro'ed anyway... WU's throttling got worse again. It just makes WU downloads bursty, such that when throttled it does actually accomplish its own work slowly (still faster than I told it to), but intermittently hogs the entire connection and makes gaming hopeless. 5% and 25% beha...
I suggest only buying a computer when you need one. There's always something new coming around the corner. Is your current computer up to all the tasks you are doing? Gaming, video editing / other productivity, programming, etc etc ?? If so, keep your old computer until you feel like you need to up...
Unless you have a specific workload that needs very fast storage, you should go with the cheaper one. For the vast majority of desktop workloads, there's basically no difference in practical speed between a mid-range SATA SSD and the fastest stuff on the market.
Certainly, having a ton of graphics power beats not having a ton of graphics power. Discussions like this just inevitably contain a lot of statements like "4K is pointless without a 1080 Ti", at which point I've got to wonder what's being smoked.
1440p, 144 Hz, and RX 460 here (maybe 40% of a 1060 6G on a very good day). I don't intentionally do a 5-year lag or anything, but most of the AAA blockbusters just aren't that compelling to me, and I'm fine with turning down settings (to 1440p/low if necessary). That graphics setup is almost never ...
It will be a problem to anyone who plays video games after they're done with their Blender render. For example: Me. All of my video games will be 21GB/s on a 1+1+1+1 setup (when a far cheaper Ryzen 2700 or Intel i7-8700k will be 42GB/s on a 2-channel setup), because games are typically low-latency ...
4.17.2. Not only have I not been able to find any reports of my particular problems from the ALC1220, the ALC1220 has been completely disabled for a while now (at least in theory). The OSes can't ID it at all, at least.
Everything is still terrible. :evil: Last I knew of the mobo's built-in audio, it was getting steadily worse over time. That shouldn't be an issue, as I'm now using both a USB DAC and USB ADC (separate boxes) and have the mobo's audio disabled in UEFI, but problems are creeping back in. * Mic qualit...
That still sounds like a problem that will only actually be a problem if they're marketing this to people who want 32 cores because it sounds cool instead of for a real workload (which they probably are, to be fair).
1+1+1+1 would be a significant degregation in single-threaded memory bandwidth, in fact it would half your bandwidth. I almost would expect that 2+2+0+0 would be faster for most people who'd buy Threadripper. In the case of 2666 MT/s RAM (aka 21GB/s), 2+2+0+0 would have 42GB/s bandwidth, while 1+1+...
Exactly what tanker27 said, to the letter. I'd hazard an ill-informed guess you're right that the Cloud Alpha will sound a lot better than the Void Pro, but I'd also guess that an Audio-Technica M30x ($70 nominal) or Grado SR60e ($80 nominal) would blow them both out of the water. (I could ramble ab...
When speccing out a specific build, the motherboard is the troublesome one. There's altogether too much junk out there. Overall, right now it's CPUs by far. That mostly isn't about choosing the right one to buy, though, it's about understanding performance for development reasons (and before that it...
Today's front page deals post has a relevant-looking machine in it. It's Dell, fits the RAM/storage/budget requirements, and has an 8550U (4C8T, 1.8 base, 4.0 boost).
I don't anticipate doing anything with monstrous amounts of data until at least grad school. As ludi said earlier, if I really need anything super powerful, the school should provide me with it. If I'm able to provide some more cooling (better thermal paste, maybe?), then it can turbo up to 3.6 GHz...
It won't hurt anything, it just seems unlikely the old driver has gotten serious improvements since then (not that I've been following it closely or anything). AMDGPU was already good enough for everyone to be focusing on it in July 2017.
That's recent enough that the open-source driver is probably about as good as it's going to get, unfortunately. Running the Catalyst installer you downloaded should probably be the next thing to try. We can provide instructions for the graphical interface if we know what the file manager is (maybe s...
I don't have much feel for where the cutoff between being bound by CPU and RAM would normally be on Excel, but if you do run out of RAM, it'd definitely be more of a problem than not having enough of a CPU. Taking 20 minutes to load may be a sign that it is RAM-bound in the use of it you're seeing r...
Emulated games - may barely work depending on the games and emulator. Dolphin, for one, is liable to be pretty shoddy on that CPU. 3D printing - should be fine so long as you don't go for crazy polycounts. Light coding - depends what light means, of course, but it should be at least servicable. Exce...
All RAM, excepting the smaller working set sizes in the first battery of tests. Its behavior in that first battery can confirm transitions (and the shape of transitions) between cache levels and looks to be probably not entirely useless for L3, but the compute side is way too slow to make L1/L2 numb...
Hmm, something weird is going on with that 2600X - I've never seen bandwidth drop like that with SMT use, and 39 GB/s only requires 2800 for me. That's some awesome Intel-grade latency, though, and massively better than my 1700 would manage at settings like that. Something about this isn't handling ...
Yeah, sorry about the weird distribution. I don't care at all about wide distribution, the usual ways to distribute code have real names all over everything (which it isn't quite time for here), and most of the people I'm sending it to would prefer the non-coder version anyway. Nice, it looks like a...
