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Hmm you only have to reduce for the PSU's efficiency if the measurement is coming off a wall meter but given the similarity to xbitlabs' review of an i7 920 system with a GTX295 which is definitely measured from the PSU rather than from the wall I'd guess that graph is direct PSU measurement as well. So that 500W measurement would be a 625W measurement if it was done at the wall. |
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Wow, I actually though the 5890 had a much higher power consumption than it does. 190W for the 5890. That would have an absolute maximum power draw of 500W in an i7 920 system, so a 750W PSU would cover it easy. If he wanted to put another 5870 or 5890 into Crossfire he'd probably want a 800W-950W PSU though.
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Wow that's a hell of a rig. Only thing that could make it better is an SSD on top of your 1TB drive.
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I have not played skirmishes, and do not like them, what they should have done was....
General Discussion « Lord of the Rings Online 12/02/09 6:15:12 PM
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I have not played skirmishes, and do not like them, what they should have done was....
General Discussion « Lord of the Rings Online 12/02/09 5:46:51 PM
Oh I did 1 raid, was a lvl 50 raid in the snow with a spider cave and a dragon at the end, could swear we had 4 groups. It wasn't too bad, slightly boring cuz of the lvl 60's there. I think my burglar wasn't much fun though, gonna go minstrel or RK this round. |
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I have not played skirmishes, and do not like them, what they should have done was....
General Discussion « Lord of the Rings Online 12/02/09 4:50:11 PM
Wow I totally failed at /quote. And 1/3/6/12?? This sounds awesome.. these skirmishes are what give you the new coins for hand in rewards right, how do those compare to end-game gear? I don't really want to get into huge raids, 10-12 people is a lot of fun but anything past that sucks. |
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Page 4 rocks, good info. Page 2 and 3 suck except for the lvl 30+ clarification. This skirmish stuff sounds awesome. I don't find the wide open zones in any MMO to ever be very interesting. If you don't limit my freedom and give me an objective you don't have a carefully crafted exciting adventure waiting for me.
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I have not played skirmishes, and do not like them, what they should have done was....
General Discussion « Lord of the Rings Online 12/02/09 4:33:37 PM
No way, I'm hijacking this thread for people who haven't played skirmishes but think they sound awesome. I hopped into that other thread and read one line and instantly got excited, and it was from one of the naysayers too:
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sigh.. you are the one making assumptions. DX11 does not automatically give you tessalation. The engine still has to be designed for tessellation, the models have to be designed for tessellation. This is a huge undertaking to redesign the engine and models for tessellation this late in the game and not something I foresee Turbine doing.
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Yea, the Uningine video is sweet. What I meant was you can write DX10 code (ie no tesselation or graphics enhancements) in DX11 mode, take no advantage of the new DX11 graphical features, and it will run faster. Like Battleforge did.. graphically there's no difference between Battleforge DX10 and Battleforge DX11 but it benchmarks better because DX11 is more efficient.
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Was there a pre-existing problem? Why did you get a new PSU and mobo as well, or are all 3 just upgrades? Did you reinstall Windows when you put in the new motherboard? Does the crash only happen during games or what kind of tasks? What video card, motherboard, PSU and CPU are you using now?
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I'll agree with the Linksys preference. I've found Netgear to be decent, Belkin terrible. I haven't tried a D-Link router but their network cards have worked great and I've read good things about Buffalo. You don't need anything fancy above $70 if you just want it to get you on the internet.
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Oh, when shortstroking a home HD why not allocate the remaining 675gb to a rarely-accessed data storage partition? As long as you don't access that space often, the heads shouldn't end up down there right..? |
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I'm not really sure what he's wrong about.. he's pretty close on everything he's said in this thread. 32 bit Windows can technically use 4GB total RAM (system+video) without PAE mode enabled, MS has it artifically limited to ~3.5GB system to make sure it doesn't break drivers. Windows will only assign 32 bit apps 2GB of RAM even in a 64 bit environment, so all 32 bit games (99% of games) are limited to 2GB of personal RAM.
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Pretty sure the DX11 enhancements for LoTRO will mostly be performance enhancements, you can do the same stuff in DX10 in DX11 and it'll run faster because it's more efficient. It'd be awesome if they add some tessellation though, I plan on getting a 5770 for xmas :) |
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Is there an option for neither? :P |
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Hmm I disagree on the RAID 0.. no matter how much you build up a platter based HDD RAID you will always be limited by the access time based on platter rotation speed which is the limiting factor in drives now. You get increased throughput but your latency never improves so performance just can't match the SSD's for desktop/gaming tasks which normally require a lot of randeom reads. If you look at SSD's not only do you get quicker load times but you get better minimum frame rates (though avg frame rates remain near the same) because access time is instant, even if RAID's can win on many synthetic tests at the same price point.
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Acrobatics is a dangerous travel power, I love the power but it's really a pain in the ass to use whereas teleport makes the game trivial since you can disengage any fight you are losing.
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