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GangstaRas

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    Intel® Core™ i3-3240 Processor (3M Cache, 3.40 GHz)
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    ASROCK B75M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX Motherboard
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    Kingston HyperX Blu 16 GB (2x8 GB Module) 1600MHz 240-pin DDR3 Non-ECC CL10 Desktop Memory
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  1. Why Ryzen doing so well? They completely destroyed Intel's crap lineup both in performance and price. So unless AMD does the same thing in GPUs, become that no brainer option no matter how biased a fanboy might look at it, then long story short, they'll still struggle. 1080 performance at 250 USD isn't exciting to me, it's at best an expected change (as the 1060 jump was from the 960). The card's been out for years now so no excuse. Stagnation in the market doesn't make it any greater, we're backwards. What would be more damaging for the market is if they did these GPUs in such a fashion where its so cheap to produce, you can give the 1080 performance at 150 USD by next year and still profit but we ain't there yet, and GPU market harder to manipulate like that. The only thing left they can do is first NVIDIA on some necessity in games, like how video recording and FreeSync answered a need. What does the average gamer need right now? Built-in HDMI input to capture video with the GPU?
  2. AMD's been doing that whole H.264 encoder like NVIDIA for recording right? So I think if that's in the chip it should be fine. Would be a nice selling point bonus imo since the NVIDIA for whatever reason doesn't put that encoder in their GT series
  3. Title says it all. Does it support Relive to record gameplay footage or even use for streaming? Haven't seen reviewers answer this question on the new Ryzen APUs, both the desktop chips and the laptop chips
  4. Nah there should be a file just like pagefile.sys for hibernation. The OS writes that to the HDD then shuts off so even if I kill the power it shouldn't cause this, and it didn't before infact. I'll check for that BIOS setting though Unfortunately it's a price I'll have to pay. The 7W savings doesn't sound like much but it adds up in my country. Picture your electric bill right now, similarly that's our price. But now picture getting 10x less pay in your profession or any you can think of, whether prestigious to mediocre, yeah, every drop counts here, a real inconvenience to deal with. Yeah I use hybrid mode but I never had issues with it before. I've had power loss in hybrid mode before, and all it does is reboot the system like it was just hibernating which is great. Without power loss, it operates like sleep mode keeping RAM powered up. I'll try disabling and re-enabling hibernation. Maybe the file is corrupt or something.
  5. Interesting little issue I see developing. Recently I've started flipping the power supply switch around the back to save some power (draws 7W while PC off). After a hibernate, when I turn on my PC, it will shut off the minute it tries to load Windows. After it happens the first time, I press the start button and the PC is able to boot no issues, only now I've lost the hibernation data. This only happens when I flip the switch or plug out the system. If I leave the switch on and plugged in, all is fine. I've ruled out the PSU being a problem as the voltages are all fine and stable (tested with DMM), plus the mere fact that this doesn't happen if I press shutdown in Windows then boot from there. Also, whenever the issue arises, upon the second boot, Windows asks me for a diskcheck that works on the system partition for a very short period, then boots like normal. So that making me think if hardware is at fault it would be the HDD at most. Anyone have any ideas what could be happening that's causing the HDD to behave in a volatile memory kind of way? And why does it take the approach to completely shut down the system? I'm use to failed hibernations causing a restart, not shut off.
  6. Do a lil bit more research into it to verify what I'm saying before you try it but I believe instead of finding the right BIOS, you should be able to edit it instead and place voltages you deem appropriate for the different levels of clock states of GPU boost. I believe there's a Kepler BIOS tweaker that you can find, just like how there's a Maxwell one. This would be much safer doing that than trying your luck at matching online the BIOS your card uses. Word of warning though should this method be available to you. Don't trust that the card will run at the voltage you set it at in the BIOS. In light loads, usually it will run at that voltage or be negligibly off from it if checked with a multimeter, but under heavy load, for my card (EVGA GTX 960 SSC) the difference can be as high as 4% under 100% load (1.243v set in BIOS runs upwards of 1.292v in reality). If you want your card to last, keep that in mind when setting a maximum voltage in the BIOS editor that you'd want to feed to the GPU core. For my Maxwell card, anything over 1.3v degrades it, idk what that limit is for the 780. And just as a reminder, flashing your BIOS is the easiest way to turn a graphics card into a worthless gadget you can play catch with should things go wrong. Whichever method you choose, do this at your own risk, we're all not responsible for any damages that should take place.
  7. what I hope is that with the power efficiency they can fit 6 and maybe even the 8 core Ryzens onto laptops. That would definitely help them. If they go the 4 core 8 thread route like Intel, idk how convincing that's going to be
  8. it might but I don't think a clean clean install is necessary, a refresh is enough. I had an issue when I was on Windows 8.1 where for whatever reason my system showed only 1 core for my i3. BIOS update was a waste of my time and Windows wasn't tinkered in msconfig or something to disable cores. Got rid of the issue when I updated to Windows 10.
  9. Yes it should work with either GPU fine enough. That setup is practically like my system currently both in the GPU and CPU department, just a tad bit weaker on both. It works for me though admittedly I want more CPU power for a more well-rounded experience. A 960 can do roughly 50-60 fps 1080p max in GTA5 without AA if paired with a stronger CPU for example. With my i3 3240, I typically get in the 38-50 fps range. Some 30 player online races are a bitch, expect 20 fps, the usual 16 player ones are fine at like 40s. Those should give you an idea where you stand. Don't have many modern day games that I play unfortunately so that's my only worthwhile example
  10. As a person from a third world country where foreign exchange is a bitch for me, AMD Ryzen is amazing for the price. It's not easy buying an i5/i7 out here, let alone the enthusiast i7s. Every price for hardware you can think of right now in USD, doesn't matter if it's Pentium, i3, i5, cheap motherboards, HDD......anything....just double its cost and you'll understand the struggle. Although AMD might not be as strong in IPC as the current Intels, what they've done right over the FX is to be competitive with Intel on a core for core basis. 8 cores AMD now puts it comparatively in line with an 8 core Intel chip, 6 core, 4 core etc., that wasn't so with the FX, 4 cores matching i3s, 8 cores matching i5s in multithreading, that was horrible. So potentially paying for 12 threads that are about as strong as Haswell per core vs paying for 4 threads is a huge win and value for money for me. I would be greatly disappointed if AMD chose to stay at this level of IPC they're at now and added more cores as the CPU gens go by. That's when Ryzen would be another FX to me. What I hope to see is AMD bringing more cores to laptops. If they make APUs their highest end laptops, that would be wasted investment and they move nowhere. Instead, it would be nice if they utilized their improved power consumption to the max and bring an 8 core 16 thread CPU to laptops. Many regions across the world where the consumers are generally not as tech savvy buy laptops over building a desktop. They really shouldn't underestimate this.
  11. you might also want to give Sweet Home 3D a try. I don't think anything you use as freeware gonna beat the ease of use of that program. You can whip up a house in atleast 10 mins, rooms, furniture and all, albeit simplistic in nature
  12. This Idk but to me to change platform for a problem of room ventilation is frankly madness and a waste of money. Any chip you get is gonna push out heat that's gonna add up in the environment. The Ryzen chips may not heat the room as quickly but it's still gonna be a problem if you don't ventilate the room the PC is in
  13. To OP, you need two things for longevity, more cores and a strong IPC. What happens when you have one and not both? Well as examples, you get the Pentium series or the FX series of CPUs. Fewer cores, strong IPC: Pentium G3258, overclock like a champion, unfortunately it didn't mean shit cuz in almost every game the CPU is pegged 100%. Any background processes you have running at this point you're going to feel it, the game will freeze and have horrible stuttering, FPS jumping all over the place, then you're going to learn about setting game priority in Task Manager to "high" and even "realtime" to hopefully fix the issue which in most cases doesn't, it's a horrible mess and terrible experience. More cores, weak IPC: FX series, especially 6000 and 8000 series. Has CPU headroom for so many years now, still not maximized at 100% CPU usage in most of today's games. But their flaw is that they are off the pace. Gaming performance is ridiculously worse. FPS is stable, no stuttering and hiccups, but much lower in FPS for the GPU you pair it with compared to Intel's offerings. Long story short, your i5 is gonna be the Pentium soon. It might be on pace a lil longer sure but the experience is gonna get jittery and unstable as more games using 80 to 100% of 4 threads now, so it's best to invest in the 1500X or even the 1600 for the value of your dollar right now. They have a weaker IPC compared to Kaby Lake CPUs but it's nowhere near as horrible as the FX series are, AMD has at least managed to keep pace with Intel on a core for core basis this time. Because of that, expect i7 performance out of all R5 chips, at absolute worst, the i7 4770 level in gaming which more often than not is slightly better than the i5 7500 these days in gaming.
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