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RyanMacRocks

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  1. Hi guys, I know there are probably a million other threads on this topic, but bottlenecking in my case seems particularly bad. I have a Pentium G3420 @ 3.2 GHz (bought about a week before the G3258 came out), and a Radeon HD 5870 clocked at 950 MHz. I watched Luke's GTA V benchmarks, and he got around 51 fps on a dual core cpu, whereas I am only getting around 30, with cpu capped at 90-100% and only 24 fps in the city. It is clearly a cpu bottleneck, as my gpu rarely exceeds 35%. I am running all settings at normal, with distance scaling, population, variety, etc. turned all the way down. I am running the game at 1600 by 900, and have tried running at lower resolutions but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Thermal throttling is also out of the question since temps are fine and I have installed larger heatsinks on both the cpu and gpu. I have even been using a script to close the launcher after 60 seconds and set gtav.exe to high priority. There are no other background processes consuming excessive cpu. Does anybody have any suggestions to improve my frame rate, or worst case scenario, if I have to keep my game capped at 30 fps, are there any settings I could turn up to use some more of my excess gpu without affecting my cpu much? Thanks! PC Specs: Pentium G3258 Dual Core @ 3.2 GHz Radeon HD 5870 @ 950 MHz 12 GB DDR3 1600 MHz Samsung 840 EVO 120 GB SSD 250 GB WD HDD Gigabyte Z97-HD3 Motherboard Antec Three Hundred Case
  2. My friend recently acquired an old Power Macintosh G3 (not the all-in-one, the pizza box style one), and we are wondering what one of the connectors is. It is labeled with the little display figure, and it looks similar to VGA, except it has 8 holes on the top and 7 on the bottom. Could anybody tell me what the connector is called? I'm looking for a way to connect it to my VGA monitor. Thank you and sorry for the noob question!
  3. Ended up going with Lubuntu for the large community. Found out that I needed flash player installed to play 720p videos, since Firefox would only play 360p with HTML5 video. Thanks everyone for the help.
  4. Hi everyone, I am working on my friend's extremely low end laptop, but he just wants to watch YouTube smoothly at 720p. Which Linux distribution would you recommended? Note: I have tried Lubuntu but videos only seemed to play at 480p using Firefox. Specs: 1.86 Ghz Single core Celeron M 1 GB DDR2 RAM Integrated Graphics Display: 1280*800
  5. Yes, currently the 280 is only $5 more on Amazon, so I will most likely be going with that, thanks.
  6. I am thinking of upgrading my ATI Radeon HD 5870 to a R9 270X, but will the performance be very noticeable, or should I stay with my current card? Thanks for your help. System Specs: MSI Z97 PC Mate ATX Motherboard Pentium G3420 Dual Core 3.2 GHz (will be upgrading to a 4690k soon) ATI Radeon HD 5870 1 GB GDDR5 4 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 MHz Samsung 840 EVO 120 GB 700 Watt Power Supply 80 Plus Bronze
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