SamTheWelshDragon

I'm not terribly fussed about the on-board video encoding. I guess I'll eBay my GTX 970, then get a VEGA 56 and sit cosy until 2020.

As someone who tinkers around in Unreal a lot and has a background in 3D art; I wholly disagree. Real-time raytracing is an important step in the right direction and I'm excited to fool around with it. I may finally be able to move more of my workflow into Unreal 4... Render times suck. Next year? Gotcha. I'm waiting for AMD to put forward their offering since I'm hoping it'll shake up the current pricing, but perhaps that's wishful thinking...

Hi, Folks. Recently I've been considering an upgrade to my system to target better performance in Unreal 4 based titles. I've had my eyes on a VEGA 56, however given that hardware accelerated DirectX Raytracing is just now cropping up I've become more hesitant. In your eyes, how likely do you think AMD will have DXR hardware acceleration in their next round of GPUs? Do you think they'll be budget targeted? Is it worth the wait? I'd love to hear what everyone's thinking. I know AMD has rather good DirectX 12 performance so I'm excited to see if that'll translate into a solid raytracing solution. Thanks.

Lowering my RAM speeds to 1600MHz restored stability to my system. I’d still like to be able to run my memory at 1866MHz, so if anyone has any suggestions I’d be very thankful. EDIT :- I have discovered the culprit; it was my mobile phone signal. Phone calls or data usage made within a foot of my case will cause a system-wide lockup.

Hello! After over 2 weeks of wracking my brains over this issue I have decided it's best to seek the help of you lovely folk. My computer has been suffering random system lockups for a good while now. It all started shortly after my H100i died a pump-grinding death. The symptoms of the crashes are odd to say the least; whatever is displaying on my monitor at the time will lock up entirely and the system will stop responding to all input (this includes the power button) and there has never been a BSOD. The crashes are extremely peculiar as it even happens in the BIOS on rare occasion! There seems to be no correlation between what tasks I am running and the crashes as they occur just as often while doing nothing at all at the desktop as they do while the system is under heavy load. I have attempted to diagnose the issue with little success. I have tried; Running CPU, GPU & RAM stress testing Running diagnostics software Reviewing the S.M.A.R.T status of my SSD Testing each RAM stick individually Testing the system with internal graphics only Ensuring all thermals of my system components are within their safe limits Reseating my CPU, CPU heatsink, GPU, RAM and all PSU power cables Tinkering with Windows power plan settings Clearing my motherboard CMOS Installing Windows onto another drive Upgrading (and downgrading) my BIOS, drivers, etc … And likely other things I’ve forgotten about! None have revealed any errors nor a pattern to the crashes, and so I am left stumped. My system specifications are as follows; Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VII Impact Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury 2*8GB @ 1866MHz Graphics: ASUS GTX 970 STRIX Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 500GB Power Supply: Corsair AX860i And the software I am currently running is; Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (Version 1803, build 17134.228) BIOS: Version 3003 (2015/11/23) Thank you in advance for checking out my post! As I was writing this post I experienced another crash. After a reset my system repeatedly failed to boot (only reaching the BIOS or displaying a blank screen) though it eventually reached Windows after some perseverance

Blade Stealth for sure.

Do you have any benchmarks to back that up?

I'm assuming you're making reference to GTA V and not in general?

Ultra is a requirement.

I've been fishing around for parts on behalf of a friend. He's shopping for a build which is both quiet and can perform well at 1080p~1440p. The system must be capable of running Grand Theft Auto V and Killing Floor 2 at a bare minimum of 60 FPS on their ultra graphics presets. Thus far I have compiled a list on PCPartPicker (http://pcpartpicker.com/list/FKzbhq) which I'm rather confident in and would like feedback on my choices. Thank you!

Syskey is a security feature in Windows NT and above designed to help protect against local attacks on the SAM (Security Account Manager). The SAM database stores your local password and has been rather vulnerable to exploits in the past, thus Microsoft implemented Syskey to try and combat the brute-force decryption of the file. Simply put Syskey adds a secondary layer of encryption to your SAM file which in turn makes it much more difficult to crack the local password of your computer, providing your Syskey password is strong of course.

I run my games at the maximum FPS possible as the likelihood of your GPU rendering in sync with your monitor's refresh rate is unlikely without a synchronization technology like G-Sync or FreeSync.

Unless your BIOs has some kind of security flaw viruses should be unable to set a password on it from in the OS. As for resetting your BIOs password; you'd likely have to get a new BIOs chip or perhaps clear your CMOS by removing your motherboard battery.

The first few lines answer your question, and there's more detail further down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(computing)