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I'm trying to overclock my 780, but I can't seem to get a stable enough overclock. After a 3-4 hour run of heaven with no crashes, Crysis 3 consistently freezes after 5 or 6 minutes of gameplay. Furmark and OCCT seem pretty much useless since the card downclocks itselfs in 30 seconds even though it doesn't overheat. Is there any automated way to test my overclock? Or should I just play crysis until it doesn't crash any more?

Because it's not an answer. Please read my OP. I wouldn't mind playing on 1080p with black bars. Actually, gaming on both of them will be done on 1080p most of the time. It's the other stuff that I'm not sure about. Ultrawide will ve better for movies and multi-tasking, 1440p will be better for youtube and web browsing.

Unfortunately, the games I play the most (heroes of the storm, sc2) don't support ultra-wide resolutions. On the other hand, my gtx 470 handled them fine at 1440p when I tried Nvidia's DSR.

I want to buy a new monitor and I don't really know what to do. I now have an old 23 inch 1080p acer TN LCD that I can either sell or keep. My use case includes mostly web browsing, watching TV series, playing indie and blizzard games and a movie once in a blue moon. I will also play an occasional AAA game if it gets really good reviews, but I generally don't bother with them any more. I guess I should also mention my GPU, a trusty old GTX 470 which I intend to upgrade further down the line. I have three viable options in my budget: 1) LG 29UM57-P -> http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-29UM57-P-ultrawide-led-monitor This thing looks pretty amazing, but I can't find any good use for it other than web browsing. Most TV series are shot in 16:9, blizzard games don't support 21:9 since they give you a "competitive advantage" and I seldom watch any movies. Also, I will probably have to fidget with most indie games' settings to make them work correctly. On the other hand, even when it displays unsupported content it will be like a good 23 inch 16:9 monitor. 2) Acer G247HYU -> http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/model/UM.QG7EE.005 This looks like a safer upgrade. Even if I'll have any scaling or performance issues, I can just dial it back to 1080p when I need to and be done with it. But i probably won't be able to enjoy the bigger resolution on anything but some youtube videos and heroes of the storm. Text is sharp enough for me on my old monitor. 3) Keep my old monitor, get a good 1080p IPS/VA panel with a nice stand and use them both in the future. I don't have enough space on my desk to keep them both atm. But I would love a dual monitor setup. I should mention that the other two options would imply selling my old monitor to a friend.

The Oneplus One came pre-installed with Cyanogen OS, not Cyanogenmod. They're different things. Cyanogen OS is a more stable port with more features of Cyanogenmod, developed by Cyanogen Inc. Cyanogenmod on the other hand is entirely community driven. This just proves how many people have installed CM on their phones because the stock ROMs are so bad. Same here. Remember, Cyanogenmod and Cyanogen OS are different things. Those things you've seen on the internet, they've all been said by Cyanogen Inc. and their a**hole CEO. Cyanogenmod on the other hand is the same as it's always been: developed by people on their own time.

I'm sure this was posted before. And even if it wasn't, this is practically a bookmark to the mobile version of the FB website, in a very bad browser with very bad resolution. To top it off barely runs at 30 fps even on high-end devices.

It's not cheaper. It's just that the resources are allocated differently. It's a more expensive design (read: metal and glass vs plastic) and a more refined look. Don't you think it would be more profitable in the long run, for Samsung at least, to include micro SD card slots? Especially since their flash storage is the best in business. I guess they just caved in after pressuse from google and angry customers who had issues with using cheap SD cards and knock-off bateries.

It's just a clickbait article from gizmodo citing a Seagate spokesperson worried that they'll lose their business. Instead of, you know, innovating, they're bad mouthing competing technology. Typical marketing, nothing to see here.

How do you calculate that? I was mostly doing approximations in my head.

It's not the power that those cards have that's the issue. It's the cables and interfaces. The most capable interface that those cards have is displayport 1.2a which doesn't suppport 3440x1440@144Hz. The maximum resolution that DP1.2 supports w/o chroma subsampling is 4k@60Hz. 3440x1440@144Hz requires more bandwidth than that. Back in 2009, 21:9 1440p displays capable of 144Hz weren't exactly a thing. I doubt they are, even now. You could argue that someone could do a split-screen, two cable interface like the first 4k monitors had. I doubt it would be a good idea to do that at 144Hz. I also suspect adaptive sync features would be quite a nightmare to get working on such a setup.

Have you thought about the fact that there was no interface that could drive 3440x1440@144Hz at the time of development? And that it probably won't be present on any of the video cards which will come out this year?

Again, photo and video editing benefit from a more powerful chip iirc. The only cheaper versions of maxwell that are still available to OEMs are the 840m and the 950m. The 950m isn't much cheaper and the 840m doesn't make much sense in a 2000$ laptop. It strikes a good balance between price and performance and it also ticks the "more better specs than the MBP" mark.

JJ is a member of the MB/GPU divisions of Asus. Not from the laptop division. Anyways, my 2 cents regarding the matter: the iGPU is not enough for hybrid hardware decoding of h.265/HEVC encoded videos, especially at 4k. It would be kinda silly to have a laptop with a 4k display and not be able to efficiently play 4k videos. You should read this article regarding the matter: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9152/futureproofing-htpcs-for-the-4k-era-hdmi-hdcp-and-hevc It would also help with photo and video editing, which is probably one of the main selling points of this very portable workstation. It even has thunderbolt. If that doesn't scream Macbook Pro competitor, I don't know what does.

Even if they were PWM, he wouldn't be able to control them through PWM signals w/o splitters. Most motherboards on the market use voltage control on every port except the CPU. Even if they have 4-pin connectors, the speed is controlled through voltage. Which is kinda sad.

Guys, say it with me : "THIS IS NOT A GAMING LAPTOP".