Random Hardware topics

[Zed Clampet]

i have never used any in game. or really outside of it.
I have hwinfo tracking some temps in task bar but they don't show in game.
Never really bothered with the one from AMD or Afterburner.

Could just as easily set up logging if you really cared, that way its tracked but not on screen.

Yeah but that would take extra time to go through whatever data it produces

 

[Colif]

and hwinfo produces too much info.

If you don't need it, just turn them off.

 

[MystriVogt]

mines real or I wouldn't be typing this now

I actually watched that just before I got my new CPU. Immediately checked it out when it arrived. Good infos

 

[Colif]

So realistically, since the faster drives get, the less you gain in return (I mean, in game load times), there is no real point getting the fastest drives for pretty much anything - unless you move super large files daily. As long as you don't have a hdd, you are fine.

I knew answer to his tests before he ran them.

read times are losing their meaning with storage, they should sell them on write speeds as those are noticeable.

 

[Zed Clampet]

So realistically, since the faster drives get, the less you gain in return (I mean, in game load times), there is no real point getting the fastest drives for pretty much anything - unless you move super large files daily. As long as you don't have a hdd, you are fine.

I knew answer to his tests before he ran them.

read times are losing their meaning with storage, they should sell them on write speeds as those are noticeable.

I'm not sure what is involved in processing the shader cache that every big game does these days, but I'm willing to do just about anything to get that process to move faster.

 

[Colif]

I got bored of blue rgb after 2 months
This is a darker green to my eyes

looks like a fish tank again. I should get some plastic plants and put inside... I used to have some years ago... for my fish tanks.

 

[Colif]

Stupid Gigabyte RGB program had turned off motherboard link to ram randomly at start-up and instead was using windows 11 dynamic lighting to make the light on motherboard pulsing red... not the green everything else was. It took me a few hours to notice, - as its rgb is underneath the GPU and I don't look there all the time. I have fixed it now by disabling dynamic lighting in windows settings, and just picking the colour I want on motherboard without linking it to the ram. Hope it remembers this time.
I guess I find out if it remembers it tomorrow. Love to be able to save colours onto the board and not need to use their software to run it.

 

[Colif]

A month ago I ordered replacement fans for front and bottom of case. I would have bought 2 x 120mm reverse blade fans in white if they existed at time, but no one had any. Typical, now they have the ones I wanted.
I haven't swapped bottom fans as in winter they don't really need to spin fast to keep parts cool, but I might pick up two of these before Summer so when I do swap I won't be looking at the rear of the fans.
added bonus is they support daisy chaining the cables and have RGB so more light to make case easier to see into.

Maybe I just get:

No, maybe needing a new PSU just to run my fan... would be too much. 2k PSU to run entire system. pass.
That and strapping the case down so it doesn't blow away is also a thing I can live without.

 

[Colif]

I'm not sure what is involved in processing the shader cache that every big game does these days, but I'm willing to do just about anything to get that process to move faster.

Its out of your hands to a certain extent

Shader cache production doesn't directly utilize cores in the same way that a CPU or GPU core does for processing. Instead, it utilizes the existing hardware resources of the GPU and CPU, specifically the memory and processing units, to store and access compiled shader code.
The shader cache itself is stored in memory, and its size is configurable, impacting how much shader code can be stored for faster access

So its the GPU and maybe Smart Access Memory that would be the two things that might improve that. I doubt faster ram would really make a noticeable difference. Unsure if the compilation speed would be any faster on 5090

Storage won't help. CPU might help a little... depends where the processing occurs.

The only other people that can help with that are the game devs

 

[Zed Clampet]

Its out of your hands to a certain extent



So its the GPU and maybe Smart Access Memory that would be the two things that might improve that. I doubt faster ram would really make a noticeable difference. Unsure if the compilation speed would be any faster on 5090

Storage won't help. CPU might help a little... depends where the processing occurs.

The only other people that can help with that are the game devs

You sure storage won't help? Seems like if they start off on your storage and then extract to your VRAM then having faster storage might help?

 

[Colif]

Its probable that faster storage would help on the initial setup of the cache, As that is likely a process only run once unless the GPU driver changes its format

Shader cache is something your graphics drivers do already. It takes the shader programs that the game uses and transforms them into a format optimized for your specific graphics card, then stores that transformed data somewhere on your hard drive so it doesn't have to do the transformation step again next time. If it's a game you play frequently, you probably already have all of its shaders in this cache. If a shader isn't in there, all that means is the first time a game tries to use it, there will be a pause while your computer translates the shader program.

Shader pre-caching and compiling. :: Suggestions / Ideas

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I don't know what the differences would be or if you can actually tell.
Cache size is normally 4gb on Nvidia/AMD.
I don't think the benefit would be massive really.

The speed of CPU & GPU cores is more important than the load/write speeds

faster ram: realistically the differences noticed between fast and slower ram aren't that big, provided the two sets being compared are of similar performance. Timing isn't noticed as much except in benchmarks.

The chain from the nvme to GPU has to pass through CPU and ram on way to VRAM. Would be faster if it could just go from storage to VRAM. Shame Direct storage didn't take off

What happened to DirectStorage? Why don't more PC games use it?

DirectStorage was released for PC in 2022 but it hasn't really taken off since then. What's going on? Is it dead in the water? Or is there still hope for it going forward?

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[Colif]

Looking to replace three cables in my PC with custom cables. Technically its 5 cables but two of them are two groups of two cables linked together.
3 cables = $300... maybe I think about it for a while longer

they will look good though. Contrast.
Wonder if I should choose a different colour other than black for some of them. They don't have to only be 2 colours... I will have to think about it.

Sleeving Colors – CableMod

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finding that did help me reduce which colours I would choose apart from black/white

1. I didn't want red or bright green or yellow - anything too bright
2. I don't want purple or Brown or Noctua Beige
3. I don't think Nvidia green makes any sense in a PC with an AMD GPU.
4. carbon is more sliverish. I had to watch a video to figure out how it was different to black

Next time I play I might make the middle 2 cables Corsair Blue instead
At least they aren't like Hart cables and have about 100 colours. It took me way too long to pick headphone cables last year.

clearly I am bored, last few days I looked to buy something new every day.
PC really doesn't need anything otherwise.
GPU isn't being replaced until 2027.

I can wait.