Technically yes.

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Would like to throw in my 2 cents here and say the addition of OW is a good move imo, while PUBG not so much. OW is at least a similar audience as tf2 and you have to play alongside as a teammate to people you don't know at all. PUBG doesn't really have that and I don't think a game which doesn't foster a community aspect to it would be a good choice. Honestly I think BF1 would be a better choice over PUBG despite PUBG being the hot new thing right now.

http://www.strawpoll.me/13673381/r

Get fucked pyro mains.

Depends on the game.

TF2 will almost always be bottlenecked by the CPU. If I recall a R9 390 with 32x AA is GPU bound but who the fuck does that.

NVENC is literally a non-factor in this. You can use QuickSync or AMD VCE with basically the same quality as NVENC. So if they wanted to have a high framerate and have a reasonable stream they can do that with just the i5 or i3 and not even use NVENC.

But if what they want is at minimum of 100fps and be able to have a quality stream Ryzen 5 fits the bill A LOT better than the current iX equivalents. As setsul mention Coffee Lake might be the better choice but that involves waiting.

In the end it's the buyers choice either way they go they'll get a PC that can play TF2 and Stream. i3/i5 will have a higher FPS when not streaming or using hardware encoding, Ryzen 5 will have a better quality stream and higher FPS if using x264. Ryzen 5 will also be faster and doing any other encoding the user may want it'll just cost a tadd more.

In terms of quality for the bitrate x264 is leagues ahead of NVENC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV5btdqQfu4

Which if what you're going for is a good quality stream you would want x264 which in this case the Ryzen 5 would be better largely because it has an extra 4 threads over the i3 and i5, but if your CPU cant handle it while also playing a game that's CPU bound that's when you would use NVENC, VCE, or QuickSync which is why basically every TF2 streamer uses 1 of those.

Standards change and should be regularly updated if something comes out that's better able to support higher quality streams and that's what someone wants to do why should they follow an older lower quality standard?

This morning I actually looked up the pyro update and saw the original post for this update and thought if someone realized it, it would become a shitpost on tf.tv

Thank you for proving me right.

here is some quotes from a very salty dude I play on a pub server with

http://www.noheroesstats.com/stats/hlstats.php?mode=chathistory&player=1240333&page=1
"spoken like a true beta cuck."
"cuck down\."
"i wish i sat around all day on welfare getting good at tf2 also."
"thats 3 ubers in a row ive had shut down, on the 4th youll be hearing from my attorney blu."
"im better looking than you ."
"we are getting beaten harder than my ex wife."

The real question is which one is the worst one.

http://www.strawpoll.me/13673381

seems to work fine for me...

https://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr38/BlueNinjakoopa5/buffed_blu_heavy.jpg

About the only things that are about to come-out that are worth talking about from a gaming perspective are some Ultrawides, the 27in 240Hz panels rather than the 24.5in ones, and HDR panels most if not all of which are going to be outside your price range.

Gsync still costs a bit extra and if it's worth it is down to how much do you want it. Do you play games that are regularly below the max refresh rate while also being above the minimum refresh rate (I believe typical is 144Hz to 48Hz)? How important to you that those games are butter smooth?

As for recommendations, depends on what you're going for.

Samsung CFG70 (24in) their's also a 27in model. 144Hz; 1ms; VA Panel. Has a slight curve good color, and an amazing contrast ratio. VA panels tend to have inconsistent GTG times though but if you're playing mostly for smooth gameplay and having a great contrast ratio I'm not sure if their's a better option.

BenQ XL%%%% basically any of the benq 1ms 144Hz TN panels. Good features, decent customer service, 24in and 27in models. 1080p or 1440p, some have Freesync some have GSync, some neither. You'll probably find something that fits your requirements from 1 of their gaming monitors.

Asus VG, MG and PG line ups more or less the same thing as benq, but with a few more options like some IPS models. Personally I think they have some issues with QC with their flagship monitors. PG278Q has roughly 20% 1 star/egg rating on Newegg and Amazon (BenQ equivalent XL2730Z was around 10% 1 star rating) PG279Q is a similar story.

AOC and Acer also have several models but tbh I never paid much attention to them due to either ASUS or BenQ offering a similar product with a higher quality or a lower price with similar quality for the time I was looking.

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Read reviews. http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/ has a wealth of information and several comparisons you can make.

http://www.teamfortress.tv/post/775684/comanglias-config-fps-guide

Now see you could've helped yourself here by posting how you fixed it you could be able to fix it again.

I appreciate the effort you put in but I think the underlined settings are different than what mastercomfig has.

Basically the graph I linked shows the time between each frame granted the graph I showed isn't a great comparison but basically by doing it this way with a graph of how long it took between each frame you can find the Average, and Minimum FPS, as well as see which one has a more consistent framerate (which in practice would be a lot smoother if it was more consistent even if it has a lower average and minimum framerate by a small margin)

Please post how you fix it in case anyone else ever has the issue.

It kinda looks like a double image effect, similar to if he got jarated. No idea what would be causing that though.