@Dagbiker: It's more just because I can rather than for performance. Why else would you buy the unlocked version of a CPU? Besides, I'm still a fair ways away from maxing The Witcher 2... really want to enable that Ubersampling or whatever it is.
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@Jimmi: as i said, if the psu cant cope, the symptoms wont be 10% less physics performance.
Point taken. The physics score doesn't mean just a physics test though, it is a test to benchmark your CPU as a whole that uses physics as a measuring stick. Unless I'm missing the point of 3dMark all together.
@Ravenlight: I thought I did that when getting 500W for a 1 GPU system.
Oh well, I guess I'll keep overclocking a little at a time and see if that trend continues. I really shouldn't need 700+ watts for my system, even with a little overclocking.
I don't know how knowledgeable these forums tend to be on matters of overclocking, but hopefully someone can help me figure this out.
Just built a new PC, important specs for my question being: i5 3570k; XFX 6870; Corsair CX 500W.
I thought 500W would be more than enough for just the one 6870 as it's not a very power hungry card (http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1605/15/) but once I decided to overclock the card a little (haven't OC'd the CPU yet), I had some interesting results in 3D Mark 11. As expected, my graphics scores went up significantly at a very modest OC from stock 900 Mhz core/1050 Mhz memory to 950/1100. Haven't touched the voltage. However, my physics scores also went down significantly, in the realm of -10%. Since the physics tests are mostly CPU dependent, the only explanation I can think of is that my PSU is already close to maxed out, so when I overclock the video card not enough power is delivered to the CPU.
Any thoughts? It's a decent, if on the budget side of the spectrum, power supply from a good company, and 500W should be more than enough to leave some room for some light overclocking.
Sounds like fun! I have experience writing/copy editing and a degree in English lit so I would be happy to lend my skills to whatever kind of script this might have. I'm not the strongest dialogue writer, but for everything else I could certainly help. I would imagine that with the amount of time most of us have spent listening to the crew talk about one thing or another the script would almost write itself.
Also, I think that the idea of a GB themed Tetris Battle Gaiden is amazing.
just imagine the worst video game discussion board you know and times that by 2. It's really rather terrible
worse than system wars on gamespot?
It still exists. WHY DOES IT STILL EXIST??
Because it's massively popular. People like to argue about bullshit on the internet, so why not give them a place to do it where you profit from their anguished clicks?
@MattyFTM: I'm going to have to disagree with you on your point about the time taken to prepare for a Quick Look... While something like an MMO or a big release gets many hours put in before a QL comes, it's (painfully) obvious that the crew often only has a couple hours or less put into a game.
I'm not too worried about content though, even with the amount of stuff they're currently putting out I can't watch/listen to it all.
That SCP thing seems kind of lazy... They block out some of the details so that they don't have to make them up. There is something to be said for leaving some things up to the imagination of the reader, but there are more subtle ways than just erasing key parts of the story.
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