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[w4ldO]

Abisha, on 14 March 2018 - 09:28 PM, said:

only think that remotely can have happen is that guy overclock his system for zero reason and damaged a component on his videocard.

you cant really damage hardware these days by just overclocking.

[visionGT4]

LordNothing, on 14 March 2018 - 10:26 PM, said:

gaming laptop is an oxymoron.

I play MWO on a 6700k @ 4.8ghz with desktop (MXM format) GTX 980 equipped laptop. $:performance is atrocious but form factor is awesome.

FWiW cryengine is hard on VRM's in my experience. Less than idea cooling generates quite a few blackscreens

Edited by visionGT4, 14 March 2018 - 11:55 PM.

[visionGT4]

w4ldO, on 14 March 2018 - 11:41 PM, said:

you cant really damage hardware these days by just overclocking.

Its hard to damage gfx cards these days because they are usually voltage locked and TDP limited. With a custom vbios its still very possible to kill them. Ive killed a couple of MXM cards chasing records

[Dogstar]

For all those who are wondering about my poor old PC here's a link to the config.

TLDR? W10, i7 4790, Z97, 32gb ram, GeForce GTX 760

Here's the specific graphics card from the supplier - bought in Dec 2014

https://quietpc.co.u...x760h1042-1042j

and there was no overclocking malarky, that's far too difficult for me.

Edited by Dogstar, 15 March 2018 - 12:21 AM.

[w4ldO]

visionGT4, on 15 March 2018 - 12:01 AM, said:

Its hard to damage gfx cards these days because they are usually voltage locked and TDP limited. With a custom vbios its still very possible to kill them. Ive killed a couple of MXM cards chasing records

after posting, i immediately had this twitch that told me i should have phrased it better.
yes, with custom vbios you disable many failsafe settings and rely on heady cooling solutions only

what i meant was in terms of starting msi afterburner and applying some 200 mhz boost.

Dogstar, on 15 March 2018 - 12:15 AM, said:

GeForce GTX 760

what brand?

[Dogstar]

w4ldO, on 15 March 2018 - 12:19 AM, said:

what brand?

I've edited it into my post just above

[PocketYoda]

Abisha, on 14 March 2018 - 09:28 PM, said:

scary you people think it's even remote passable that software can damage yo hardware.

only think that remotely can have happen is that guy overclock his system for zero reason and damaged a component on his videocard.

Badly coded software can.. Even malware can destroy hardware.

[Ghogiel]

El Bandito, on 14 March 2018 - 05:27 PM, said:

MWO killed my brand new AMD card (which could easily support it with highest quality), back in 2013. I bought Nvidia afterwards, and there have been no issues. Bottom line is, I never bought AMD card again cause of MWO.

I actually prefer AMD cards for MWO. I don't know about the latest gen AMDs as they are more expensive than nvidias, so only run a 1060 6GB atm but it's imo inferior to AMD in regards to MWO. And thats been the case for 5 different cards over the years.

The main issue with nvidia cards is the micro stutters and the lag at ToD changes is twice as bad imo. Which leads to the feeling at least the hitreg is better on AMDs. Of which I have run 3 of in MWO compared to 2 Nvids.

Pinch of salt as needed.

[El Bandito]

Ghogiel, on 15 March 2018 - 03:47 AM, said:

The main issue with nvidia cards is the micro stutters and the lag at ToD changes is twice as bad imo. Which leads to the feeling at least the hitreg is better on AMDs. Of which I have run 3 of in MWO compared to 2 Nvids.

What is ToD change?

[Thorqemada]

It was probably Dust, a cheap PSU, Current Spikes, Voltage Fluctuation, a bad Cooler, a hot PC, malmanufacturing, overclocking etc.

[Ghogiel]

El Bandito, on 15 March 2018 - 05:02 AM, said:

What is ToD change?

time of day. when the transition happens on River city for example is a big culpret.

Edited by Ghogiel, 15 March 2018 - 05:57 AM.

[El Bandito]

Ghogiel, on 15 March 2018 - 05:56 AM, said:

time of day. when the transition happens on River city for example is a big culpret.

Hmm, I gotta pay attention to it from now on.

[Mystere]

Abisha, on 14 March 2018 - 09:46 PM, said:

what your people claim a person can die by thinking.... ever see Eisenstein fallen dead or hawking's?.

Of cource a person can die by thinking:

constantly thinking about business/life problems >>> increased stress >>> heart attack >>> death

Edited by Mystere, 15 March 2018 - 08:17 AM.

[Dogstar]

Thorqemada, on 15 March 2018 - 05:09 AM, said:

It was probably Dust, a cheap PSU, Current Spikes, Voltage Fluctuation, a bad Cooler, a hot PC, malmanufacturing, overclocking etc.

Nope, none of the above, I do actually know what I'm doing thanks.

Oh and it happened in the mech bay as I was editing a mech build.

Edited by Dogstar, 15 March 2018 - 07:52 AM.

[Almond Brown]

Bloody PGI. They won't FIX the "Internet", like players want, and now they are killing Video cards? When will it all stop fcol.

[Thorqemada]

Dogstar, on 15 March 2018 - 07:38 AM, said:

Nope, none of the above, I do actually know what I'm doing thanks.

Oh and it happened in the mech bay as I was editing a mech build.

The Mechbay was in the past the most demanding part of the game as it had no fps Limit but afaik they have limited the fps now so no more 4000+ fps...

[Jackal Noble]

Thorqemada, on 15 March 2018 - 08:54 AM, said:

The Mechbay was in the past the most demanding part of the game as it had no fps Limit but afaik they have limited the fps now so no more 4000+ fps...

Wow. That is pretty damn terrible tbh

[Abisha]

Mystere, on 15 March 2018 - 06:48 AM, said:

Of cource a person can die by thinking:

constantly thinking about business/life problems >>> increased stress >>> heart attack >>> death

so must physicist or mathematician do not life past age of 50? kind of funny that most of them are professor at age of 50+ something ain't right.

[Jackal Noble]

Abisha, on 15 March 2018 - 09:23 AM, said:

so must physicist or mathematician do not life past age of 50? kind of funny that most of them are professor at age of 50+ something ain't right.

I'm not sure..... I don't even..... I just can't.

Mystere was illustrating not profession of choice, but stress. You are equating profession of choice to stress. That is not true. Many professors, physicist and mathematicians choose their professions out of love for the subject not because it stresses them out. It is in fact quite the opposite of your reasoning.

Stress in your ill choice to compare organics to hardware is equitable to heat on PC components.

[Nightbird]

Mechlab is limited to 30 or 60 fps. Pretty easy to check, just click f9 ingame.