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On May 21 2012 13:26 Nabutso wrote:
Quick quesstion: Can I SLI a 680 and a 670? I know you can Xfire certain AMD cards that aren't the exact same card, so I'm just wondering. I'm not getting quite the performance I want for Tera in 2560x1440 with a single 680.

AFAIK Nvidia doesn't allow different GPUs to be used in SLI, unlike AMD.

However, I wonder if you could BIOS mod a GTX 680 to a GTX 670 and then SLI with another GTX 670. If the GTX 680 can just pretend it's a GTX 670, and the drivers think you have two GT 670s...?

Rollin Australia. May 21 2012 14:24. Posts 1139

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What's the best antivirus program?

Malwarebytes passive scanning every so often, coupled with no-script in your browser.

What's the best comp-cleaning program?

You are. Fresh Windows reinstall every 12-24 months as well I'd recommend.

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OneBaseKing Afghanistan. May 21 2012 16:56. Posts 408

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What's the best comp-cleaning program?

You are. Fresh Windows reinstall every 12-24 months as well I'd recommend.[/QUOTE]

Lol are you serious?

EdenPLusDucky Singapore. May 21 2012 16:57. Posts 566

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On May 21 2012 09:35 bbrian wrote:
What's the best antivirus program?
What's the best comp-cleaning program?

None, all you need is a HIPS firewall and know what you're doing. As long as you educate yourself and don't do anything stupid, its fine.

CCleaner is pretty popular.

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OneBaseKing Afghanistan. May 21 2012 17:04. Posts 408

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On May 21 2012 16:57 EdenPLusDucky wrote:

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None, all you need is a HIPS firewall and know what you're doing. As long as you educate yourself and don't do anything stupid, its fine.

CCleaner is pretty popular.

How can I set up an HIPS firewall?

Rollin Australia. May 21 2012 17:05. Posts 1139

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On May 21 2012 16:56 bbrian wrote:
Lol are you serious?

I am serious. Unless you were referring to cleaning the hardware (like from dust and such)?

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AceLight New Zealand. May 21 2012 17:16. Posts 199

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When I open SC2 on my external monitor (1920 x 1080p) for some reason it seems very zoomed in. Any way to change that?

Rollin Australia. May 21 2012 17:24. Posts 1139

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On May 21 2012 17:16 AceLight wrote:
When I open SC2 on my external monitor (1920 x 1080p) for some reason it seems very zoomed in. Any way to change that?

Is the ingame resolution 1920*1080 (or a different 16;9 resolution)? All the 16;9 resolutions will have the most screen space, the 16:10 resolutions will have slightly less, and the 3:4 resolutions will have the least.

Here's a comparison: [image loading]

EDIT:

gets me every time

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crappen Norway. May 21 2012 19:27. Posts 1042

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I see Eizo monitors everywhere, especially in tournaments. Is there something amazing about these monitors, or can I safely buy a Dell U2711 without feeling fucked 1month later as I learned,, something new.

taldarimAltar May 21 2012 19:55. Posts 833

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Do I need all drivers on my motherboard website? I don't know if I need:

Intel Management Engine driver ver

.0.4.1197
Intel Rapid Start driver ver:1.0.0.1014
Intel Smart Connect driver ver:2.0.1083.0
Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver ver:1.0.1.0.1008_PV

I'm using an ASRock H61M/U3S3

Womwomwom May 21 2012 20:49. Posts 5514

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On May 21 2012 19:27 crappen wrote:
I see Eizo monitors everywhere, especially in tournaments. Is there something amazing about these monitors, or can I safely buy a Dell U2711 without feeling fucked 1month later as I learned,, something new.

+ Show Spoiler [Boring Eizo monitor chat] +

You most likely won't regret getting the Dell U2711 over a 27" Eizo Flexscan for instance. For a typical user, there shouldn't be a real difference between a Dell or an Eizo. Eizo 27" monitors will be better built and have professional features but that's not worth 3x the price if you're unable to benefit from them.

Anyway, the monitor that you see in tournaments would be the Eizo Foris FS2332, which is a 23" 1920x1080 monitor. As far as I know, its pretty well priced in Scandinavia (~$300 USD) for some reason...all Eizo monitors seem to be. Here is a very complete review of the FS2332 if you care at all.

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crappen Norway. May 21 2012 22:20. Posts 1042

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On May 21 2012 20:49 Womwomwom wrote:

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+ Show Spoiler [Boring Eizo monitor chat] +

You most likely won't regret getting the Dell U2711 over a 27" Eizo Flexscan for instance. For a typical user, there shouldn't be a real difference between a Dell or an Eizo. Eizo 27" monitors will be better built and have professional features but that's not worth 3x the price if you're unable to benefit from them.

Anyway, the monitor that you see in tournaments would be the Eizo Foris FS2332, which is a 23" 1920x1080 monitor. As far as I know, its pretty well priced in Scandinavia (~$300 USD) for some reason...all Eizo monitors seem to be. Here is a very complete review of the FS2332 if you care at all.

Thank you, but as time went on, I went and bought a Eizo 23" LED FlexScan EV2335W-GB. Hope I wont regret. Half the price, but a lot smaller, which I dont care that much about.

Womwomwom May 21 2012 22:31. Posts 5514

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Yeah I posted in the Monitor thread. You bought a different monitor but its a sidegrade at worst. You don't get the 10 bit LUT but you *do* get a nice spring loaded stand and you don't have to deal with that easy-to-lose remote.

Whatson United States. May 22 2012 00:55. Posts 4447

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Terribly sorry if this question has been asked before

. I recently redownloaded SC2 onto a new laptop. On my old laptop, I loved to listen to music/streams through my headphones while playing, but on my new computer for some reason whenever I try to play music/streams and play SC2 at the same time, all sounds go through the laptop's individual speakers. Is there a way to solve this problem without having to run the Blizzard gauntlet?

hefty Denmark. May 22 2012 01:26. Posts 489

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Hi

I recently bought an Arctic Freezer pro13 for my CPU as it needed cooling. The cooler is a bit big though and doesn't leave enough room for my current RAM sticks to go into slot 1 although plenty of room for slot 2,3, and 4.

My question is now. Is there any way to reconfigure slots so I can run on slot 3,4 or 2,3?

If not, another idea is to get some smaller RAM sticks that could fit even when the cooler is in place. I could then move my current to slot 3,4. My father may have some small spare sticks, but if those are older and slower than my current, would this mean I bottle necked my system and got an overall worse performance? Is there any way around this - for instance making the small, slow sticks run as "slaves" or simply "dummies" to allow the better sticks to work?`

My current RAM:
2x http://www.corsair.com/cmx4gx3m2a1600c9.html

My MB:
ASRock M3A770DE

Cooler:
http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/cooling/cpu/365/freezer-13-pro.html

CPU:
AMD Phenom II X4

TheToast United States. May 22 2012 01:49. Posts 4804

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On May 22 2012 01:26 hefty wrote:
Hi

I recently bought an Arctic Freezer pro13 for my CPU as it needed cooling. The cooler is a bit big though and doesn't leave enough room for my current RAM sticks to go into slot 1 although plenty of room for slot 2,3, and 4.

My question is now. Is there any way to reconfigure slots so I can run on slot 3,4 or 2,3?

If not, another idea is to get some smaller RAM sticks that could fit even when the cooler is in place. I could then move my current to slot 3,4. My father may have some small spare sticks, but if those are older and slower than my current, would this mean I bottle necked my system and got an overall worse performance? Is there any way around this - for instance making the small, slow sticks run as "slaves" or simply "dummies" to allow the better sticks to work?`

My current RAM:
2x http://www.corsair.com/cmx4gx3m2a1600c9.html

My MB:
ASRock M3A770DE

Cooler:
http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/cooling/cpu/365/freezer-13-pro.html

CPU:
AMD Phenom II X4

I'm assuming what you mean by slots three and four is channel B dimm 0 and dimm 1 slots? So you're talking about having both dimms in channel B and leaving channel A empty, correct?

You should be fine. + Show Spoiler [caveat] +

The only issue is that your memory controller won't be able to run in dual channel mode. For gaming, that means for the most part nothing. If you do anything memory intensive such as video encoding you might see a considerable performance difference. But it sounds to me like you had the memory installed incorrectly in the first place (dual channel mode would require one dimm in each slot) so you may see no difference at all.

As far as installing slower RAM, the memory controller will just run all RAM at the speed of the slowest dimm; but you would likely see no major performace differences in gaming applications.

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hefty Denmark. May 22 2012 02:20. Posts 489

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On May 22 2012 01:49 TheToast wrote:

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I'm assuming what you mean by slots three and four is channel B dimm 0 and dimm 1 slots? So you're talking about having both dimms in channel B and leaving channel A empty, correct?

Just opened my case but couldn't see any notation like "dimm 0" etc. To make sure we are talking about the same thing:

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I called the slots 1,2,3,4 from top down. So 1 2 is really called dimm 0 and 1 in channel A and 3 4 are dimm 0 1 channel B if I understand correctly.

On May 22 2012 01:49 TheToast wrote:You should be fine. + Show Spoiler [caveat] +

This surprise me. I didn't expect anyone to say I could simply move the RAM, I just hoped it was possible to reconfigure the slots. I already tried moving both from channel A to B. My computer wouldn't start. It just made three loud noises - Beep beep beep.

On May 22 2012 01:49 TheToast wrote:
The only issue is that your memory controller won't be able to run in dual channel mode. For gaming, that means for the most part nothing. If you do anything memory intensive such as video encoding you might see a considerable performance difference. But it sounds to me like you had the memory installed incorrectly in the first place (dual channel mode would require one dimm in each slot) so you may see no difference at all.

So this means that a better configuration would have been placing the sticks in dimm 0 on both channel A and B? Interesting. Doesn't solve the problem as dimm 0 channel A is the blocked slot, though.

On May 22 2012 01:49 TheToast wrote:
As far as installing slower RAM, the memory controller will just run all RAM at the speed of the slowest dimm; but you would likely see no major performace differences in gaming applications.

This also holds true for smaller RAM? If I can simple but 2x 256 MB RAM in channel A and my 2x2 GB in channel B and not experience trouble while gaming, that sounds okay to me.

TheToast United States. May 22 2012 03:19. Posts 4804

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Yes, on a motherboard capable of running in dual channel memory mode, having equal amounts of RAM in each channel is the optimal configuration.

But assuming the motherboard doesn't have any shitty firmware that can only load on channel A dimm 0 (like intel) then you can pretty much put the RAM in any configuration you want.

This also holds true for smaller RAM? If I can simple but 2x 256 MB RAM in channel A and my 2x2 GB in channel B and not experience trouble while gaming, that sounds okay to me.

As long as it's DDR3, you can put it in your motherboard without issue (I doubt the 256 dimms are DDR3 though). If it's slower, the memory controller will just run all your RAM at the slowest speed, which is unlikely to affect gaming performance at all.

I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly's a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.

hefty Denmark. May 22 2012 04:58. Posts 489

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On May 22 2012 03:19 TheToast wrote:But assuming the motherboard doesn't have any shitty firmware that can only load on channel A dimm 0 (like intel) then you can pretty much put the RAM in any configuration you want.

We have established that my MB has shitty firmware then. I guess my easiest fix is getting some dimensionally low DDR3 dimms then.

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Zushen May 22 2012 06:51. Posts 275

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im about to go to microcenter in about 30 mins to get a new 2011 i7 and board, how do i prepare my system for it? (erase everything?)