Kevin_Walter

Or maybe it's just a sandstorm because Oman is a desert and the sirens just help sell the fact that a dangerous weather event is incoming...

I wouldn't trade my S340 for anything. It's not the "best" for noise (it doesn't really come with anything to muffle internal noises), but the cooling is pretty great. Really easy to create and maintain positive pressure, the cable management and lack of optical/storage bays in the motherboard compartment keep it nice and open so air can flow nicely.

When I OC'd mine to 4.3 back in the day, I was getting around 67c temps with a 212 Evo. The ceiling you don't want to go over is about 70c.

I live in northern Ohio and I have AC. My idle temps are around 25-30c. They were even lower on my old FX 6300. lol EDIT: So I just ran P95 for two hours at 4.3GHz and 1.3 volts. No stopped cores and no crashes. Temps were averaging 73c again and maxed 75. I don't think I'll push it further. Marking solved.

Well if the latest version is wrong for some reason, and running Small FFTs to test heat is wrong, then you're probably right. Thanks for the tip about voltage though.

So I have a 6600k (duh) and I'm working on OCing it. I've had it since Christmas and it's worked fine running at stock speeds. I'm cooling it with a Hyper 212 Evo. So I pushed it to 4.5 GHz and it wasn't stable at all. Loading up Chrome caused a crash. So I dropped it down to 4.4 GHz and I'm running Prime95. No crashes yet, and no cores have stopped working (Core 3 just stopped. I guess I'm bumping dow to 4.3GHz.). Though my temps are hitting a maximum of 75c (69-73c average. 75 is max I've seen so far.) on the socket and core 0 according to CPUID. This doesn't really seem safe to me. So what are the safe temps for a 6600k? 70 seems like it would be the limit, though that could just be my brain saying so because I had an FX 6300 before and 70c was about the limit for that. This is on stock voltage, by the way. Obviously, if I push the voltage higher, it's only going to get hotter, so I'd like to push it as far as it can go on stock voltage and just leave it there. I've never been one for extreme OCs.

ACE 52 CQB. I prefer weapons that can handle the majority of situations, rather than specialized ones that may put me at a significant disadvantage the rest of the time. The ACE 52 is just an all-around great gun. Oh, and the SG553... if you just want to hip-fire people down all day.

The lore for the games tends to change to suit Bethesda's whims. If something they want to do in the game they're making doesn't make sense in the lore... they just change the lore. You could always just find a wiki list of all the different books in the games and read them though. Pretty much all of the lore is contained inside the books you can find scattered around in the games. Everything else comes from playing the games themselves. There is a wealth of information concerning the series though. The history and events are vast and numerous.

Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel?

They work just as any other hard drive. They simply have some extra features that make them a little better suited for RAID and NAS configurations.

If I'm going to be away long enough, then I'm more likely to just unplug my entire power strip.

Requiem Feels like playing an entirely different game.

Nah. He should really wait and save up for 4 years. Then he'll be able to build an even bitchin'er rig in 2020!

I played both StarCraft 2 and HotS on a 6300 for a couple of years and it performed admirably. StarCraft isn't even close to unplayable at 30-40 fps, and I don't remember HotS ever having issues on that system. That game was solid as a rock. I did, however, have some issues with Diablo 3. Though the issues I had were located in very specific areas of the game that many other people also complained about. Certain locations became a slideshow the moment enemies started attacking. Once leaving those locations, it was fine. Blizzard fixed a lot of those areas before I even built my new rig though. I do know that there are some settings in those games that despise AMD hardware though. So you can't really run any of them on true "ultra" settings. Indirect Shadows, for instance, in StarCraft 2 completely murdered my performance on my 6300/270X system. I'd go from an average of 30-40fps on relatively high settings right down to about 10 just by ticking on Indirect Shadows.

I remember when I thought Kameo had good graphics...

If you think it's a fair point that you wouldn't want to play CSGO with in-home streaming, then you must admit that the latency is noticeable. Otherwise, you're not applying your own beliefs consistently across all variables. The latency is either noticeable or it's not. If it isn't noticeable, then CSGO would be a perfectly acceptable title to play with in-home streaming, the same as any other.

Not worth the $5, imo. Though I'm not really opposed to it that much considering I'm one of those who bought the season pass when it was $30, so I can count it as a sort of throw away patch more than a bona fide DLC. A lot of the things in it already existed as mods, as you said. Sure, it's nice that Bethesda decided to implement them officially, but still... it feels a little like paying for a mod. A mod I could get for free anyway. (this sounds familiar...) I do like the whole build your own arena concept, but it also gets old pretty quickly. Watching AI fight AI isn't incredibly engaging, and if I wanted to fight animals, I could just go find them and fight them out in the wasteland anyway. What I would have really liked to see them add were settlement themes or types. Something that allows you to populate a settlement with different kinds of settlers which changes the way the settlement functions. For instance, it would be interesting if you could assign a faction for any given settlement location and then that faction's NPCs populate it. Initiates, scribes, etc if you're a Steel Bro, synths and such if you're Institute, raiders if you want to become a raider king (I want this SO bad!), and so on. The NPCs of said settlements could then behave in different ways to make the settlements less generic. It seems like a logical addition considering all of the gore bags and raider decorations and devious traps and institute items that you can use in your settlements. But why would I want to decorate a settlement with tons of evil-looking items if all of the people in said settlement are farmers?

Everything is a preference. I don't like super low sensitivity where you need to use your entire desk as a mousepad. I like playing most compatible games with an Xbox controller. I'm not a fan of mechanical keyboards. My opinions are "wrong" according to elitists. I don't like mouse acceleration though. But you do you, bro.

Life expectancy is a non-issue. Don't worry about it. At all. No, really... http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes

I've done testing with both the living room tv and the monitor connected to that desktop. The results are the same, and there's no noticeable latency on either when playing games from that desktop instead of streaming them. All I'm saying is that there's just enough latency to throw off timing in games that require precise timing. Which happens to be quite a lot of games, actually. Shooters require precision, some more than others. Action games (like aforementioned Mad Max) require precision during combat to counter and respond to enemy attacks. And rhythm games obviously leave extremely small amounts of room for error. When you calibrate an "instrument" in Rock Band, as an example, you may only have 20 or 30ms of latency in your display, but it's still enough to throw off the accuracy of your notes and cause frequent misses, which is why that calibration tool exists. No such tool exists for streaming games from one device to another. You just have to deal with the latency. If you don't notice it, awesome. Some are more sensitive to it than others. My sister has a plasma screen that her kids play CoD on all the time. The input latency is unbearable for me, but they have no idea what I'm talking about. In-home streaming is a novel idea for sure, but it still needs refined, and I don't see the point in wasting money specifically on something that is consistently going to provide a non-optimal experience. But of course, that's just my opinion. People can spend their money however they wish. (normally goes without saying, but...)

I already said it's neither my network nor my system. I've done the testing with my setup. You haven't. The streaming feature has just enough latency to throw off games that require any kind of precision. Linus even says as much in the video, recommending it only for light/casual gaming. Also, there's more to it than straight ping to the host PC. As for all of that about HTPCs... I'd wager there are more people out there with HTPCs or even secondary PCs that are capable of being HTPCs than there are people who would buy this product. Its usefulness already depends on a relatively decent home network and host rig. So I think you're the one who may have it backwards... but I don't actually know for sure. I probably have about as much solid data on that subject as you do. And that display latency is killer in games that require precise timing. It's like playing Rock Band without calibrating your guitar controllers.

Neither of those. The problem is input latency. Can't stand it. Even half a second of latency throws me off so much, I just don't want to play at all. I tested with games like Mad Max, Shadow of Mordor, Fallout 4, Bit.Trip Runner, and some others. Bit.Trip was frustrating, and combat was pretty challenging in Mad Max because there wasn't enough time between when the enemies started throwing a punch for you to accurately counter. SoM and FO4 were more forgiving. And yeah, that's exactly what Steam Link is. Not sure how that's relevant though. Even Linus said at the beginning of the video that owning one when you already have pretty much anything available is kind of pointless. It just seems like a really niche product to me. One that relies on a feature that is still somewhat unsatisfactory in how it performs. My frustration comes from the things Steam Link can do that standard In-Home streaming can't. Such as being able to actually control the source PC (to an extent) through the remote connection. As Linus pointed out in the video, you're forced to run back and forth between rooms if you need to deal with a splash screen or if something goes wrong and you can't otherwise close a game. Though I will admit, they're not nearly as expensive as I thought they were. I was assuming they were in the neighborhood of $100+, not $50. More akin to the standard Fire TV or Apple TV.

For visual reference... the red cables you see in this potato-quality pic are the ones you would be getting in that kit. Whether or not you can see the rest depends on your case's layout and how good you happen to be at basic cable management.

Considering how generally poor the performance is streaming from my upstairs gaming rig to my downstairs older gaming rig, I see no reason to waste money on an expensive device that is meant solely for that. The extra netflix and stuff is nice, but you can dump 40 bucks on a Fire TV Stick if you need to fulfill that need. It would be nice if they implemented more of the Steam Link features into the normal In-Home Streaming functionality though. But I guess doing that would mean Steam Link had even less of a reason to exist...

Sounds like a sure case of hardware failure to me. My XFX 270X did basically the exact same thing. Had to RMA the damn thing within 3 months of ownership. Luckily the one they sent back still works fine, but I'm still a bit salty about having to RMA a basically brand new card and getting back a refurbished one with an older model cooler...