MoT Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 (edited) How the hell do i delete a post when the site decides to create one for me? Edited July 13, 2023 by MoT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoT Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 14 minutes ago, Military Grade said: The FX Chips had very poor IPC(instructions per cycle) speeds, that's why even an old 4790k clocked at 3.5ghz smashes a FX 8550 clocked at 6 ghz in gaming. When I upgraded from a FX 8350 to a I7 6700k was the moment I realised clock ghz speed ls don't tell the full story. the 9590 was pretty much a sledgehammer at the time, it WAS very powerful, but in terms of how much sheer force had to be put behinf it to make it do anything was silly, because it was all about ghz asyou said, and the output in comparison was again, just silly, that said, i remember me and my pals ribbing each other about one ofus having a 100mhz, me having a 120mhz, and my "rich pal" having a 133mhz , i had to beg, and save up to get my folks to buy me that 120mhz so i wasn't the pauper...fecking hell... lmao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flamedodger Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 I used to play Unreal Tournament in a European league back in the day. I believe we won the European Domination Ladder in the early noughties. Gaming on a dial up modem had its challenges I’ve got 500gps straight into my router now, well until the half price offer finishes. Different world today 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgeSmith Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 Just now, Flamedodger said: I used to play Unreal Tournament in a European league back in the day. I believe we won the European Domination Ladder in the early noughties. Gaming on a dial up modem had its challenges I’ve got 500gps straight into my router now, well until the half price offer finishes. Different world today Hopefully you mean 500Mbps or my forthcoming upgrade seems rather weak and you might be a Tier 1 ISP. I reskinned UT to put my face and that of an old friend in it so we could kill each other or play together face to face, the challenges of early internet online gaming were very real as you say! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flamedodger Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 Just now, MidgeSmith said: Hopefully you mean 500Mbps or my forthcoming upgrade seems rather weak and you might be a Tier 1 ISP. I reskinned UT to put my face and that of an old friend in it so we could kill each other or play together face to face, the challenges of early internet online gaming were very real as you say! Haha… my bad, it is as you say 500Mbs. It’s an awesome connection though. I’m only paying £22.50 a month for it (1/2 price for 12 months). I have a NAS server that is a multimedia hub and I ran CAT6 cable through my house in 2008 when I had my extension built. I am an unlikely geek 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgeSmith Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 (edited) 41 minutes ago, Flamedodger said: Haha… my bad, it is as you say 500Mbs. It’s an awesome connection though. I’m only paying £22.50 a month for it (1/2 price for 12 months). I have a NAS server that is a multimedia hub and I ran CAT6 cable through my house in 2008 when I had my extension built. I am an unlikely geek Still amazing. I am just upgrading from 50Mbps to 500Mbps myself, though I will be paying about £32 a month for it (once the cashback is accounted for) its still not bad. I have a media server to hold our movies on. Like you I have cabled our whole house, but that was 18 years ago now. So, unlike you, I only have Cat5 in place currently and will be upgrading to cat 7 this time. Edited July 13, 2023 by MidgeSmith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokey McBongface Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 The upcoming Intel Xe-LPG iGPU with AV1 video hardware encoding, yes please. Pop one of them in a NAS and let it re-encode your entire collection - save GB’s or TB’s of storage. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgeSmith Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 45 minutes ago, Smokey McBongface said: The upcoming Intel Xe-LPG iGPU with AV1 video hardware encoding, yes please. Pop one of them in a NAS and let it re-encode your entire collection - save GB’s or TB’s of storage. Sounds good, I've not heard of that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KC Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 I couldn't imagine gaming on dial up. This site was bad enough when a few users had broadband and the rest of us had to wait a few minutes for a picture to load. Posh wankers 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boojum Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 (edited) I remember playing Quake on dial up ("Welcome to Gamespy." ), and Half Life deathmatches (that's where my username comes from). Incredible how things change (and in so little time, relatively speaking). E2A And Usenet porn Having to download a 5 inute clip in about 100 segments (which took all night) and put them together before you could watch and sometimes one of the segments was corrupted or missing Edited July 13, 2023 by Boojum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoT Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 (edited) 37 minutes ago, KC said: I couldn't imagine gaming on dial up. This site was bad enough when a few users had broadband and the rest of us had to wait a few minutes for a picture to load. Posh wankers Christ those weren't the days lmao, waiting for an image to load from top to bottom slowly filling each line and then halfway through BAM, rest of the picture just a random mass of psychadelic colours and refreshing doing bollocks all Edited July 13, 2023 by MoT Missed a space 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boojum Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 And paying for every minute you spent online Should have seen my phone bill when I first got the internet 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokey McBongface Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 4 hours ago, MidgeSmith said: Sounds good, I've not heard of that. Roughly 30% smaller file size than H265 video with no loss of quality, great for network bandwidth and saving HDD space. Possibly a saviour for anyone with shit internet once all the streaming services start using it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgeSmith Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 (edited) Just now, Smokey McBongface said: Roughly 30% smaller file size than H265 video with no loss of quality, great for network bandwidth and saving HDD space. Possibly a saviour for anyone with shit internet once all the streaming services start using it. Wow! That's game-changing in the same way FLV based video was and I guess H265 after that. Surely this is going to be as good as they can get efficiency wise?! Edited July 13, 2023 by MidgeSmith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokey McBongface Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 @MidgeSmith Yeah really is cool mate, the new standard for streaming, for gamers and alike on twitch it’s ideal, can dedicate the integrated graphics to streaming, while the GPU does all of the heavy lifting for gaming. I guess its only going to get better, it’ll maybe take a while but presumably some encoder algorithm will optimise things further later down the line. I was looking for the link but can’t find it, someone did a test with a 50GB 4K H265 sample and got it down to 5GB with no visible loss in picture quality. Revolutionary stuff! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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