Haha! If you can wait till January I applaud your restraint. Did Microcenter email you about the Intel gaming bundle? I did not know about it when I bought the chip so it was a nice surprise. I stayed up waaay too late Wednesday night into Thursday morning assembling my pc after I got the last part but it all works! I can run to the back of my field in Rune Factory Frontier with no stuttering. It zooms back and shows your whole field when you do, and my Core 2 Quad always struggled. I ripped my Star Ocean 3 disc to my hd and tried emulating that and it worked quite well too, so i might be revisiting some of my old ps2 games too. So far I have not found anything that really stresses the cpu and the temp have been low so it seems my heat sink and paste install is working well enough. That bundle came with a Steam key for Just Cause 3 so I need to load that up and see how I fair. All in all though it is a nice change of pace from my 8 year old pc! Congrats on your upgrade too!
Questions about a new pc.
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12-06-2015, 04:59 PM
I have another question, is it helpful to run a higher internal resolution than my monitor can support? My tv does support 4k resolution so I might see how well I can run that, but I wonder if it will look different on my monitor which is 1080p. Also, are any of the post processing effects worth using? I have a 970 GTX and am wondering if there are any of those I can try that wouldn't slow me down too much.
12-06-2015, 06:23 PM
I didn't know about the Intel gaming bundle. The sales person didn't say anything to me about it. Dag nabbit! Maybe I ought to go back and ask about the bundle and show them my recent receipt.
I'm glad you see such a nice performance boost. Did you overclock it at all...or is everything stock? At 4Ghz, I doubt you'll have to do any overclocking to run most of the Dolphin games at full speed. My G3258 at 4Ghz is running nearly anything I throw at it at 1080p with a solid 30fps...so I guess the i7 4790k should see similar performances. The self restraint is sort of out of necessity. I'll go flat broke if I go balls to walls on this new build. I plan to get a video card, ram, and PSU next month...probably 970gtx like you, 16gb, and 600watt respectively. I'd like to liquid cool it...but we'll see when I pick out a case. After putting together the G3258, I'm getting into trying to build something small. I wanna see how much ooomph I can cram into a small case. I think I'll turn my current FX8350 into a NAS box or something. Regarding the resolution, I'm not too sure about that. I'll defer that to someone on this forum who knows their dolphin shizzz. Anyway, happy holidays! 12-07-2015, 01:27 AM
(12-06-2015, 04:59 PM)Beoron Wrote: I have another question, is it helpful to run a higher internal resolution than my monitor can support? My tv does support 4k resolution so I might see how well I can run that, but I wonder if it will look different on my monitor which is 1080p. Also, are any of the post processing effects worth using? I have a 970 GTX and am wondering if there are any of those I can try that wouldn't slow me down too much. I think you already know it, but Nvidia's 900-series graphics cards have a featured called DSR (downsampled resolution) which renders the game at a desired resolution (let's say 1440p or 4K) and then outputs it at 1080p. The graphical improvement gained this way should be quite substantial, even though it's of course not like native 1440p or 4K. I haven't played with it too much myself, but to my understanding it works with all DirectX programs, including Dolphin ran in D3D mode. You should definitely try it out and report how it runs! The 970 should be just fine with at least 1440p. The post-processing effects I have used with my 970 are limited to anti-aliasing and anisotrophic filtering. I know that's not what you were asking for, but I can definitely recommend those! 8xAA and 16xAF doesn't slow my rig down a bit when playing lighter games like Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Paper Mario: TTYD. |
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