Zalphor

I think the answer is that they could matter if the price was right. Why focus on these high end systems that seem to be out of the way. i mean your talking to an audience that either games or probably wants to do this much cheaper. I think a better idea for a video would be to explore server refurb sites like servermonkey and come up with a cost effective server for students/hobbyists. Hell it might even be beneficial to take a poll and just outright ask what people are doing / would be interested in doing. IE do you need an Application server, a webhost, a storage server, VM host, a rendering server, or just a platform to learn how to manage servers. At the very least if you decide its not viable you could always compare those machines to just using an old desktop for server tasks.

If its CPU rendering then that should be a decent option, though a more modern machine would likely work much better(though its out of your price range). just dont go any older than that machine because it only gets worse in efficiency(my dual E5310s dump alot of heat just idling). You could always look at a refurb site like servermonkey(I have not used them so i cannot vouch for them) but from browsing they look inexpensive as long as you play your cards right. they also give you options on your CPU, RAM, and storage.

After testing out two monitors of the same resolution with and without my primary monitor, Both DVI(one using a DVI to miniDP), with slightly varrying refreshrates i have discovered that it does this only when the monitors are of different resolution. I find it hard to believe this is the core issue as my monitors never acted this way until either windows 10 fall creators update or a newer set of crimson drivers came out(dont remember which one did it). Im going to conclude it is driver related and see if i cant get a hold of AMD but the only fix i can find is getting another 1920x1080 monitor or using only both of my 1280x1024 monitors, something i do not intend to do as it will hurt my capacity to develop webpages effectively. and my only other monitor capable of scaling to 1920x1080 died just this last fall. thanks for your time, ill post if i can get an update on the drivers situation.

problem persists on whichever monitor i make it to by switching pannel frequencies. Monitors Asus 23.5inch 1080p 1ms not sure what kind of pannel at this point. ref-rate = 60Hz(but its been defaulted to 59 for some time now tried changing to 60 didnt help). NEC dont know much about it but its 1280x1024 60Hz or 75Hz(though i run it at 60) its also old and ive been using it for over 7 years it has no known issues and starts up faster than the asus. has slightly off color though. also tried changing refresh rate, did not solve problem. Ill go try out my machine on different monitors but but there is no way for me to really test out my monitors in this way on different machines as it requires overclocking to begin with.(edit: which will break my only path to OC if i use the old machine because i cant extend official OC limits as the APU is not unlocked) original stystem: A8-7600 16GB DDR3 gskill ripjaws 2133 MSI A88x-G45 Gaming 7200 WD Black 1tb xfx HD7850 1gb 975MHz some factory oc edition but exactly the same physically. xfx HD7850 1gb 860MHz corsair cx750m R5 1600 ASROCK AB350 16GB DDR4 gskill Tridentz 3000MHz 7200 WD black 1tb xfx HD7850 1gb 860MHz (currently in the machine) corsair cx750m

After a year or so of ignoring my problems i think its time for me to ask if anyone can help. pre-note: i used to run these two HD7850s (1GB ver) in Crossfire, a factory OC XFX HD7850(975MHz) and a stock XFX HD7850(860MHz the one im now using, which i replaced the fan and thermal paste on). In technicality this issue began back during the time of both cards being in crossfire but would only give me overclocking issues when trying to overclock my second card.(I also didnt notice the screen tearing issue back then). Im having really 2 major problems, and this happens with either card, 1: AMD overdrive sometimes doesn't actually overclock, it even shows that its not running at its set overclock. MSI afterburner had the same issue but now i have an unlocked CPU so i can finally extend the official overclocking limits. MSI afterburner is a temporary fix for me but it works. some discussion about this issue from 2016 can be found here https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/708049-gpu-not-overclocking/ I even tried switching back to an older driver when it all began but didn't have any luck. 2: After managing to get it working kinda(got msi afterburner working), i began to notice something weird on my second monitor it looked like the image was tearing and halves or quarters of the screen(from bottom to top or top to bottom) would start shifting like 10 pixels and then resetting.(This only happens when the GPU is overclocked and on the desktop, it doesnt tear in games) After fumbling around in the device settings in windows i managed to get it to switch the problem to my main monitor by changing the refresh-rate of either monitor. after undoing that i tried many things up to and including, uninstalling and reinstalling AMD drivers, reinstalling windows, swapping cards, chaning monitor refresh rates. No luck, still it continues if i try to overclock. At this point im somewhat sold that they are trying to disable overclocking for older cards, dont know why they would do that but maybe its native to the driver and thats why the 7000 series is basically at the bottom of the driver support list. So at the end of the day i actually have no clue whats going on. I know its worth moving on and upgrading my graphics card, but right now is not exactly the time to buy and i dont have the money to do that either. If you have any experience with this issue i would appreciate the help. I really dont want to resort to buying a new GPU when i have two 7850s i could use interchangeably.

please do run some benchmarks while your troubleshooting. if you can, hit 99 or 100% GPU utilization and see if it crashes or not. If it doesn't crash then its likely CPU bound and not the GPUs fault. could be RAM Mobo or CPU. Had some issues with similar outcomes with unsupported ram recently and thought my GPU was dying, it was infact not my GPU. Tested 3 GPUs HD3850, HD6850, and HD7850,(Not even kidding). under 99% utilization crashes within the hour. however it wouldn't crash on desktop or in browser only in games.

Currently running two Radeon HD 7850s both xfx 1gb edition both of which i overclocked to 1GHz. I rarely feel a bottleneck and sometimes i feel the heat. i bought the second one to overcome the age of the first one considering it was bought new when it came out approx 4 years ago. the point of buying the second one(via craigslist) was to achieve a cheap upgrade but there are clearly some aspects that anchor me to a lower performance profile.

that would be a really cool projector. i could turn any white wall in my house into a screen, along with my box trailer. ive had projectors on my mind for a while and this is ideal.

Rig name - my rigAPU - AMD A8-7600GPU - 2x Radeon HD7850 1gb i got these babies cheap. core overclocked to 1ghz with a mem clock of 1200mhz. Ram - Gskill ripjawsX 16gb 2133mhzScore - capable why am i not surprised that my mid range GPUs ended up giving me a medium result..... Edited on March 10th 2018, Wow revisiting a thread almost exactly 2 years later what a weird coincidence. Figured id update the post seeing as running games with crossfire GPUs isnt realistic(at-least for most titles) and i was looking back into VR recently after changing my build. Oddly enough a CPU upgrade was the last thing i needed to run VR but that APU was the last thing i wanted to keep in my build moving forward. System: CPU: R5-1600(3.8GHz) Memory: GSkill TridentZ 16GB 2933MHz GPU: Single HD7850 1GHz Core clock, 1200MHz 1gb VideoMemory OS: Windows 10 Status: Not Ready. Not surprised, not exactly a high end card, but still a good card for most games at full 1080p.