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I discovered this dudes channel a few days ago and he's made some pretty interesting videos including this one here. He goes on about optimal resolution given an certain viewing distance. He says that you can't tell the difference between certain resolutions if the pixel density is high enough and you're sitting a certain distance from the screen. Although, he based this claim on one made by Steve Jobs (although he says that it's up for serious debate). Anyway, what is everyone's honest opinion about this. I know that I definitely can't tell the difference given certain viewing distances, screen sizes and resolutions. Even if I could I don't really care, I honestly would rather have more frames than more pixels for now anyway. I remember NCIX Tech Tips did a video seeing if they could tell the difference between 144hz and 60hz, a video on resolutions with "normal people" and LMG employees who think they could tell the difference would be interesting.

The R9 380 or the GTX 960 should do fine then if that's your budget, just don't expect to max out ALL your games at 1080p with a full 60FPS.

It would probably perform similarly to an X4 860K, maybe just slightly worse. Nothing that negligible, just 1-2 FPS. It's not a particularly powerful CPU though, which isn't a bad thing, I'm simply saying that because you don't want to spend TOO much on your graphics card. What kind of monitor would you use and what types of games would you play?

Buy a used card.

For more budget oriented people, buying a smaller monitor would probably be more beneficial then. Pixel density is another point I didn't bring up, its probably one of the reasons I find 480p on my phone acceptable.

I was kinda thinking maybe that's what it is too. If you're on a budget (like a REALLY tight budget) I'm sure any type of PC would make you happy, even if it only cost you $360 and the performance reflected that, but once you see how much better it gets when you spend that extra $100, then another $100 and so on its hard to go back to the lower end system even though you initially were having just as much fun with it. Lesson to take away from that is to just spend your money responsibly in the first place, don't get jealous of other people's stuff and be happy with what you get because beggars can't be choosers.

Fair enough point about my example.

I agree, if you're ok with either playing at a lower resolution or just lower quality graphics then its perfectly capable, but a lot of people seem to think otherwise.

Yeah, I'm sure it can.Also, for the thread as a whole, my question isn't really regarding frame rates, just resolution. I can't stand anything below 60fps either in gaming.

I already know people are going to jump the gun here and say that anything less than 1080p is garbage, or "too casual", but it's something that generally bugs me about the PC Gaming community that I feel like asking now. Is it really all that bad, especially for casual gamers? So, let me take a step back for a minute. I'm definitely not a "casual" gamer by even my own standards. I have an expensive rig that I really like with a 4690k and a GTX 970, I'm personally not slouching in the hardware department, but I justify spending over $1,000 on my computer because I find it a fun hobby I can get satisfaction in, I use it for more than just games (I'll be it, not much more), and because I use it so often it was well worth the expenses. What about a more "casual" gamer though, who doesn't like consoles? Or just someone who likes PC Gaming, but their on a really tight budget? Sure everyone wants a 5960X with dual 980 Ti's, but a responsible person with low income isn't gonna blow all their money like that. Yet everyone who talks about PC Gaming really degrades anything less than 1080p, 60fps. I know that there is a standard as far as the community goes with modern game developers. If you're game can't run on mid range to high end hardware at 1080p 60 FPS, it's either not well optimized or too graphically demanding to be consumer friendly (usually the first one though). I also understand that's the reason consoles get so ragged on is because their terriblely underpowered for today's day in age. The prices have dropped to something much more reasonable, but because the damage has already been done it is still an unappealing purchase for the smart consumer. However I see people taking this standard used by developers, and push it to be a community standard. As in, if you're system doesn't run 1080p, you didn't spend enough money on it, or spent money on certain hardware that didn't improve performance (ex: buy 64gb of ram, but you only got a GTX 960, that's generally not a good decision for part picking). Does it really matter though? Generally speaking I understand the point in having these high standards from the PC Gaming community. It influences the hardware manufactures and game developers in a positive way by making the hardware more powerful for less cost, or just developing better optimized games. I guess my real point that I'm trying to get at is would the more casual PC gamer be considered outcasted for owning a rig like this: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/78yT23 No, its not fancy AT ALL. It actually sucks, but it's a capable system for 720p Gaming (or even lower) if all you want to do is play games on your computer and nothing much else. It's not meant to do 1080p 60fps with maxed out settings, but it could still play games, and that's really what matters to some people, and honestly is what deters console gamers from moving over to PC Gaming. The system alone is about the same price as a current "next gen" console, but it can still deliver an experience thats more enjoyable because of the benefits of PC Gaming. People are generally correct when they say that PC Gaming is expensive because that's what everyone keeps making it out to be as. Everyone likes to pull the "but look at this budget PC" argument whenever their talking about the price of PC Gaming, but most of those people (from what I see) own $1,000+ rigs and have never even thought about Gaming at lower resolutions just because it "doesn't look as good". LinusTechTips actually did a video I remember seeing maybe 2 or 3 years ago where Linus showed the difference in price to performance on the extremely low end side of graphics cards vs something $20-$30 more expensive, which he was in fact correct on his stance when he made the video, but does it really matter all that much? If you're OK with Gaming at lower resolutions, do you really need a GTX 970 then, or even a 960? You could go as low as a 750 Ti and the casual consumer probably won't notice the difference. I really want to know what people think about this. Am I the only one who thinks its ok to own a cheap system and not game at 1080p? Or is the difference really so drastic for some people (maybe because we can actually tell the difference?) that anything less is rubbish? I guess as a closing statement I'll say that my family owns a 480p television and a 720p television and they can't tell the difference in picture quality between the two. They can see the difference between 60 and 30 FPS, but the differences in resolution don't phase them at all because they just want something "good enough". Even I run videos on my phone at 480p when I'm using 4G service just because I honestly don't see much of a difference between that and 1080p, it just saves me on data usage. I CAN tell the difference, its just not a significant enough one in my opinion to make me enjoy whatever video I'm watching with less satisfaction. This is where I got the thought for this topic from.

It was a driver issue. I'm copying everything back to the blue to partition it again. Thanks everyone.

That might be it, I've never partitioned an HDD that's already being used, will it delete all the files on it, or once I download the drivers can I partition the drive without any issues?

MSI Z97M Gaming Motherboard Windows 7 Ultimate 64 BIT

I just recently bought a WD Black 4TB HDD to replace my WD Blue HDD and as I partitoned the HDD to transfer my files to the new black drive I noticed that Windows would only let me partition about 1.7TB of the data and not even close to 4TB. I've never had this issue before, the BIOS shows 3.6TB of usable space, what do I need to do to get the actual capacity out of my new hard drive? It's still more, but I was expecting to pay for a 4TB drive, not a 2TB one, and yes, it IS most indefinably a 4TB HDD., that's what I bought, that's what it says, and the BIOS says so as well.

Nothing out of the ordinary. She has all the stuff that comes on any android device, and a few games that take up only a few megabytes each, so nothing unusual, but it won't let her download anything, which means she can't check her email either, which is why this is a problem. The device says she stil has lots of storage available, and deleting apps wasn't helping.

My Aunt is having issues with a fairly oldish verizon exclusive android tablet. I'm not too sure what the device is actually called, but it's telling her she has insufficient storage every minute or so, even though she has only used a little over half of her total storage. It's running Android 4.2.2, looks completely stock. Any idea on how to fix this?

Broken chargers aside, my device specifically destroyed Icestorm Unlimited. Beat out the official score by over 1,000.

I'm mainly wondering if this is a common issue, or should I contact Nvidia? It happened to me on the first day, surely other people have the same problem.

The socket is working with other chargers too, the ones that broke weren't working on other sockets either.

I just got a new shield tablet yesterday and already I've busted 2 wall chargers while having them plugged into my shield. One that had come with it and the other WAS for my HTC One M8 GPE. The USB cables are fine and still working, but I've had this tablet for two days and it's burned through two wall adapters. I can't see any visible damage, but does anyone have a solution for this that doesn't involve me buying more wall adapters every time one breaks? They look fine like I said, but aren't charging anything anymore, the Micro USB cables are still working with other devices like I've already said too, so it has to be the wall adapters.

So I've dumped my iPhone and got an HTC One M8 GPE, and so far I love it, but since I'm new to the Android crowd can anyone recommend me some useful apps I can add to make stock Android more functional?

I'm still new to the forum, what's that?

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