Some questions

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Some questions

by Vince855 Nov 8, 2015 7:00AM PST

1. Month ago I bought FX 8300 which I will overclock to ~4,4 Ghz. In the near future I will buy some strong GPU when AMD release R9 400 series. Do you think that AMD FX is future proof, will it be enough for 4k gaming? For 4k gaming I read that game are going to be strong GPU bound, not CPU.

2. Can Nvidia DSR cause damage to GPU or monitor?

3. My monitor (Benq GW2470H) is between speakers. Can speakers cause some damage to monitor?

4. In my Nvidia control panel Output dynamic range is set to limited, picture is great. When I set it to full picture is too dark in movies and games, only solution is to configure brightness in every game and in video player or to change monitor modes (game, movie...). I read that this is a common problem with Nvidia-HDMI. How much do I lose with that setting set to limited?

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Only for Nvidia?

by Vince855 Nov 8, 2015 11:16AM PST

1. I know that no PC is future proof but I was thinking in a way that my new FX 8300 won`t become scrap metal after year or two.

4. Is that problem specific only for Nvidia? Last few years I had TN monitor, HDMI with Ati card and haven't noticed any problems. Good luck or?

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1. Here I have this laptop wtih an i5-430m

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Nov 8, 2015 11:25AM PST

That's many generations old yet I find it more than capable of running today's apps.

Then we have this:
"Our tests demonstrate fairly little difference between a $225 LGA 1155 Core i5-2500K and a $1000 LGA 2011 Core i7-3960X, even when three-way graphics card configurations are involved. It turns out that memory bandwidth and PCIe throughput don't hold back the performance of existing Sandy Bridge-based machines. "
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-4.html

That tells us that at about this class CPU (you can compare this to your CPU at cpuboss) it's not where the bottleneck is for gaming.

4. Remember I won't go too deep here as there are so many priors. There has been a lot of grief for consumers over the color space of a video card versus the display. That color space or gamut varies with each display so tricks to deal with this can result in what you are seeing. I see no end to that issue today as Plasma is no more and OLED is still ramping up. LCD color space (gamut) is not full enough IMO on many monitors so we're back to seeing complaints like yours.

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That was helpful

by Vince855 Nov 8, 2015 11:32AM PST

Ok, thank you. Regards

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I think I found solution for monitor HDMI problem

by Vince855 Nov 23, 2015 9:05AM PST

I saw today in monitor settings that there is a option HDMI RGB PC Range in which I can choose between RGB (0-255) and RGB (16 ~ 235 - set default). Option description in manual:

Determines the range of color scales. Select an option that matches the RGB range setting on the connected HDMI device.

Following the logic I put this on the RGB (0-255) and in NVIDIA control panel Output dynamic range to Full. Now in full I have no problem with dark scenes

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r. proffitt · Answer 1 · Nov 8, 2015 9:08AM PST

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1. No PC is future proof.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Nov 8, 2015 9:08AM PST

And overclocking is unsupportable.

2. Yes and only to some very old monitors.

3. Haven't seen that yet. My bet is the speakers would wear out before harming the LCD.

4. You answered your own question and as you found out there are priors to read until you understand this. I have not found a good treatise on this area that fits in this small space. Sorry about that but this will have to remain a simple stripped down answer to "Yup, that happens."

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