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BTGBullseye

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  1. Update #2: Wattage used sits around 75w idle on the desktop in W10 Poo. (sorry, Pro) Max draw, with all possible ways to draw maxed out, (including overclocking the CPU and GPU) just under 300w. This is actually an extremely ideal wattage draw for a 500w PSU, as lower draw makes it last longer, and stay cooler.

     

    CPU overclocked to a fixed 3.7GHz (no variable Turbo mode that doesn't actually work) and undervolted to 1.25v (down from 1.4v) means that the CPU stays under 90°c at all times using the stock air cooler. (AMD Wraith Stealth, it's not too bad if you remove the stock thermal paste and replace it with Prolimatech PK-3)

     

    GPU comes at stock speeds with instructions for overclocking manually. This is not a bad thing, but many don't understand how to do it properly without destroying their GPU. The company tests their GPUs for stable overclocking performance, and markets them with and "OC+" rating, telling you what it is stable at. Going over that is not stable in any way ever. The one I got is a 1405/2025 (core/VRAM) overclock capable card. At that overclock, with adjusted fan speeds, (linear increase from 30°c to 60°c from 35% to 100% fan speed) makes the GPU max out at 62°c. If I had the 100% fan speed set to 65°c, it would never get used. Default settings are meant to reduce noise, but it's so quiet anyways that it doesn't matter.

     

    Found a setting that massively improved framerates on this card, and apparently does so for all of this type of card... I switched the "Workload" setting from its default of "Graphics" to "Compute", and gained about 10% performance in some of the more demanding games/programs/benchmarks while simultaneously reducing GPU temps by 1°-2°. This is a very common performance improvement level for these cards, and no one outside of AMD seems to know what it's actually doing to achieve this, as there is no difference whatsoever in visual quality or fidelity according to multiple sources. (including me) Also seems to reduce the screen "flicker" somewhat when using FreeSync. (though it is still there)

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    By "front facing" you mean the "selfie camera" right? As Luis said, all but an extremely few have fixed focal lengths, and software for focus adjustments on any of them have always been very buggy at best. (the ASUS Zenfone line being a notable exception, having great software with good hardware)

     

    As far as the API is concerned, that's just how it is when it's a radically new experimental technology.

  3. I want to have the biggest negative reputation possible, I don't care if the system works or not, just give me an impossibly negative rep.

     

    Also, I don't really care about the rep system, just make it either work, or not appear at all.

  4. 13 hours ago, Im_CIA said:

    I used to be a steam non-gamer like you, but then i took a crack pipe to the mouth

    21 hours ago, Psychotic Ninja said:

    I used to play games on Steam. I still do, but I used to too.

    No, no... "Opposite" as in "I play games on Steam. I used to, but I do now too."

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