Quality

[chimmychunger]

ok so im new to pc gaming and have a gtx 780 and an i7 3770k and was wondering is it safe to put duel rendering on and put anti aliasing on high. i dont want to fri my graphics card or my prossesser. thanks

[Altecice]

You wont fry your GPU buy doing anything that any game can ever throw at it. At most you will just get rubbish FPS.

The only way you could fry is is running a benchmark and holding the fans with your finger and even then it would thermal trip and shut down your PC before any damage

[chimmychunger]

You wont fry your GPU buy doing anything that any game can ever throw at it. At most you will just get rubbish FPS.

The only way you could fry is is running a benchmark and holding the fans with your finger and even then it would thermal trip and shut down your PC before any damage

ok its just once i read someone running 1080p on a 720p monitor and fried his gpu. i was just wondering that anything would happen to my gpu. i dont exactly know what a lot of ingame options actually do

[Altecice]

ok its just once i read someone running 1080p on a 720p monitor and fried his gpu. i was just wondering that anything would happen to my gpu. i dont exactly know what a lot of ingame options actually do

 

That would be down to his Power Supply being rubbish and not supplying enough clean voltage or it as just time for that bit of hardware to go to silicone haven.

 

What in game options do you want to know about?

[chimmychunger]

That would be down to his Power Supply being rubbish and not supplying enough clean voltage or it as just time for that bit of hardware to go to silicone haven.

 

What in game options do you want to know about?

fxaa or smaa whats the difference and what do they do

[Altecice]

fxaa or smaa whats the difference and what do they do

 

They are both types of Antialiasing (takes the jagged edges of an 3D object and smooths them)

 

FXAA isisnt as good as SMAA but requires less GPU power to do the job, but its not as smooth and clear. SMAA on the other hand is very effective as edge smoothing but requires more GPU power to do so 

 

More GPU power required = less FPS in your games

 

you get things such as X2,X4,X8,X16 AA. this can be known as super sampling Antialiasing. Taking multiples of the objects texture and smoothing them down by a factor of X2,4,8,16 but each stage requires more GPU power to do so. Realisticly for 1080p you dont need anything more than x4. 

 

you can look at some examples and get a better explanations here:

http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help/150SP1/examples_image_sampler.htm