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So it is finally changed. Upgraded from an original Corsair H50 to a Corsair H75. I kept the fans I had on the H50 due to already being SP fans, and I replaced the top Zalman fan with one of the fans that came with the H75, I might place the other one in the front as well. But yeah MASSIVE temp difference... That and I probably should of blown out the other one again -_-+ It was getting quite dusty. But man I am happy with the swap. That pump had been sounding questionable for some time lol.
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#Cooling

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That pull fan looks like its backwards...and quite a bit of an opening for bypass air! Looks nice though! Almost looks like corsair is making a statement here...pull is bad! Hmmm...interesting! — an hour ago

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So... After streaming only today, no local recording cept trying to have the graphics card do both, it failed hah. But either or in the end I took a look at the temps... They shot up to 81c on one of the cores. I am breaking down and going to use my bedroom comp to stream it then... It is in a Cooler Master Elite 130, and only has 2-3 cables plugged in. So an easy move. It is just annoying I will have to do that. Also I will plug it into my 2nd monitor while using. But yeah, I can't risk that laptop… See More

crapping out. The bedroom comp is an i5 6600k liquid cooled quiet, and a 980 graphics card installed.
#Gaming #GameOn #Streaming

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Apex This Morning For Funsies  

Good morning GTribe   How are things going? I hope well! I am finally getting back on the bandwagon with streaming! Going 2 hours a day if possible. More if I am free to do it! Come join in the fun. I am sure I will get wrecked in Apex LOL
#Gaming #GameOn #GTribestream #twitch

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Good morning Clay Clement. I just finished Layer of Fear, now I think I will play Hal Life 2, so many games, so little time. I fish you great day —

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Tomorrow I have one of these arriving. I was absolutely shocked to find an NVME 1TB drive for less than 150$ (Great reviews on newegg and amazon). Now it doesn't do over 3gb a second. it does around 2, but that is still vastly superior to my standard SSDs. Also I need the storage for all the video I have for the project I have been working for at the TV station. Now I should be able to fit all of season 1 on it hahah. Then archive it all after   Debating on Putting one of my 240s in the laptop and… See More

pulling the 480 out... Then I could raid the Mushkins together since they are the same drive as well. Then I would have 2 1 TB SSDs overall for games/OBS, and all the video things I have been doing of late... But I think I will leave the laptop alone for now hah.
#Hardware #Gaming #GameOn

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I have used these and they are spot on, price/performance is excellent —

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So after around 10 years now I have had an original Corsair Hydro H50. Honestly I would of replaced it YEARS ago... But have pushed it off time and again. This has been on 3 processors, and 2-3 motherboards. Currently cooling a 3770k at 4.4ghz. I am finally upgrading it. The thing is OLD and I worry on the pump. So on Thursday a Corsair Hydro H75 will be here and will go in the system.
#Gaming #GameOn #Hardware

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So long old friend time to upgrade feeling cool already     —

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Good morning #GTribe   How are things? I hope well!
So I have been doing some testing this morning between H.265 on handbrake. I did a video encoding test using the software version of it vs the hardware NVENC now available. In sort, it isn't worth it. Keeping it at a CQP of 20 on both is not going to get you the same result. Stick to Software.
The long version... At CQP of 20 the NVENC bloats the file to over 400MB for around 5 minutes (Bigger size than the H.264 file), while the software H.265 is… See More

only 127MB. On top of that the quality of the software looks better, and even smooths the image slightly, so it helps with gain levels being high adding say "noise" to a video. So it can act as a simple "noise reducer" if you can't use it in say Resolve (Due to being on the free version   lol). On top of that when I set the NVENC to 5mbps on the encode it did reduce the file size quite a bit (to under 200MB), but it didn't smooth appropriately like the software encode.
There are 2 major points towards H.265... ONE as I mentioned is to help "clean" up a general image to look better, and 2 COMPRESSION. It delivers 2:1 compression ratio against H.264 with the same quality. So the whole point of using it is to have a much smaller file. So in that using the Handbrakes hardware encoding with NVENC is a waste of time because it doesn't do either other than just speed through it.
I know this was a bit long lol, also not on specific "gaming", but if you are trying to archive videos and need to save space, I hope this is informative.

An article on H.265 High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC)
www.cnet.com/news/what-is-hevc-high-ef…
#learning

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Good morning —

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Good morning Clay  
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Enjoy your day
Hope you feel well —

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Thank you for that very valuable information. SOmething worth keeping in mind. —

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Good morning GTribe how is it going? I hope well!  
4k video test with Handbrake using my graphics card (NVIDIA GTX 1070) to encode H.264. AVERAGED 100 FPS! Wish my gaming at 4k was that good   My 8core 16 thread 1700x machine does it around 15-20fps. So that is a gain of around 7x the performance... I am completely shocked.

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Wonder what my 2070 would do —

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Oh hi —

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Good morning Clay have a great day! —

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Not bad. Was easy enough to open with a screw driver and flat head   found out the issues people had work Linux was the wireless but since then the wireless now works easily enough. So this will be easy! Time to replace hard drive.

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Sata?...SSD for sure! Be happy it's not an apple...they are a real pain to work on! —

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Good morning #GTribe   How are you all doing? I hope well!
The first thing to do when you get a new laptop... Uninstall McAfee... Oh the things I am going to do to this thing   What are some of the "first things" you do with a new computer/laptop?
Honestly I won't be doing to much haha. Just a little linux on it, and OBS streaming/recording :), and replacing the SSD with a 480gb one.

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make sure to get EVERYTHING from McAfee deleted. Could have impact on your internet speed otherwise.
Back when i uninstalled McAfee from my vaio, i did it the normal uninstall, but McAfee left some stuff in registries which totally lowered my internetspeed to not even 10MB! Had to download a specific tool to clean and delete all that McAfee stuff. —

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Assembly the parts, install Windows, install drivers, update it to the latest bios/edition etc. anf finally before anything else, create a system backup image with Symantec Ghost Solution . —

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First thing I did was log into GTribe and bookmark it. Then install some games. —

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Testing out Apex, Lets See How This Feels!

Good morning GTribe! How is it going? I hope well   Going live on Apex. I am testing out this new game and seeing how it plays out, and checking the stability and what kind of performance I am seeing on the highest settings on my 1070. Stats are on screen.
#Gaming #GameOn #Apex #GTribestream

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I thought it played well, the servers were a bit of a mess last night so I went on elite —

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Good morning Clay
Hope you feel well and enjoy the game   —

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