Recent content by turn_pike

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    [gamegpu.ru] APU gaming including Skylake GT2 and Broadwell Iris Pro 6200

    I'm thinking of buying more RAM 'cos one of mine went bad. As a result my system only have 3 gb ram to work with as the igpu is using 1gb. Didn't know that A8-7600 only support up to 2133. That's rather disappointing, was thinking I could use up to 2666 or 2400 at least. On the other hand it'd...
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    AMD Announces their GameWorks Equivalent

    After numerous Gameworks fiasco you'd think people would be at least cautiously optimistic about this. The Nvidia-Koolaid is just too strong.
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    ITT: We list current generation CPUs that are in most need of improvement

    As a user of the A8-7600 I can only concur. After tasting life with APU I really dont want to go back to dGPUs with all that heat, noise, opening it every few months to clean the fan, etc. Now that the best games for me are mostly indie / kickstarted games and the one I play the most is a MOBA...
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    How hard do you try at games?

    - Get on the top of Soloq ladder - Join or form your own team then climb up the 5v5 Ladder to qualify for your region's amateur League - Win your regional amateur league then make it into pro - Win your regional pro league and qualify for World Championship - Win Worlds and be the MVP
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    Steam Exploration Sale (Nov 26 - Dec 1 2015)

    8693 titles on sale across Steam. The ones featured on the front page, among others, are: - Fallout series - Civilization series - Company of Heroes series - Endless Legends series - Darkest Dungeon - Life is Strange - Ori and the Blind Forest - Assetto Corsa As for myself, I'd probably buy...
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    How much of your gaming enjoyment comes from graphical fidelity?

    Absolutely. I just played the hell out of ADOM last month and it was an awesome ride. ADOM is a roguelike that started as ASCII game but recently got graphics tile. I still often play it in ASCII mode since it actually makes the tactical decision easier. Nope. Look at how many people are...
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    CPU Benchmark in realistic condition (multiple programs running)

    The question raised and the response is asymmetric to each other. Young gamers as well as old one rely on benchmarks to gauge the cpu's performance, they know what they want to do but only have vague notion how well a new cpu can cope with the task. Its not "modern gaming needs" which is...
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    CPU Benchmark in realistic condition (multiple programs running)

    OP here. I feel that many here on the forum as well as Anandtech's reviewers are perhaps of the older demographics that might be out of touch with what younger (15-30 yo) gamers do with their computers. Go to twitch.tv and see what those streamers do. As you get better and better at online...
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    CPU Benchmark in realistic condition (multiple programs running)

    Do people have problems understanding what I've written. I just wrote that I understand wanting to isolate confounding variables. The point is to ask if the benchmark would be representative at least for the portion of gamers who do run other stuff in the background. Many people whom I...
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    CPU Benchmark in realistic condition (multiple programs running)

    That is missing the point. What I'd like to know is if they still are good while streaming and recording your gameplay. There's also 30 tabs browsers and multiple programs running in the background (unlike benchmark scenario which is usually clean windows install).
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    CPU Benchmark in realistic condition (multiple programs running)

    So I was reading yet another vociferous debate on the merit of intel vs amd cpus here on AT forum. Amongst the mudslinging there were a couple of interesting points being raised: - Modern games requiring more and more thread; 4 years old i7 2600 can sometimes outcompete modern i5 - Most...
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    Windows 10 and mouse lag / stutter when CPU usage is high

    Back in the days of win 95 to win xp this is what my friends and i used to do. We would go to a friend's house who was moonlighting at repairing pc, each one of us armed with our hard drives. Then we would plug our drive on a usable pc and start a lan party. My windows must have drivers...
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    Windows 10 and mouse lag / stutter when CPU usage is high

    Well I gave up and reset the whole thing. Start -> Settings -> Update and Security -> Recovery -> Reset this PC The computer is now way faster than before. And there's no mouse stutter whatsoever in the 2 hours of testing; at least not yet. My suspicion about the stutter is because I moved my...
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    Windows 10 and mouse lag / stutter when CPU usage is high

    I'm using catalyst. Used to have random BSOD after upgrading to windows 10 where it says THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER or something like that which is apparently graphic card related. Had to wait for an updated driver which fixed most of the random BSOD but it does happen from time to time...
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    Windows 10 and mouse lag / stutter when CPU usage is high

    Almost as soon as I upgraded from Win 8.1 to Win 10 Pro I noticed this very annoying tendencies where my mouse lags / stutters when cpu usage is high. Kaveri A8-7600 4 gb DDR3 RAM 1600 mhz with 1 GB used for iGPU 256 gb SSD My computer spec is rather underwhelming since I will be leaving the...