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ESA Medals :D

1. there was going to be one for i58, and it comprised of basically the top koreans
2. said top koreans decided to play overwatch instead
3. asia's top players are now not very good anymore
4. therefore it's a waste of money / embarrassment

if alan activates the other half of his brain (which he is striving towards) then he will be a good player. just needs to stop feeding at the wrong times and time his mids / roamer things better :D

here's a simple and quick guide on getting a free dollar. let's use up all 5k YouStake has allocated :D

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basically when i first bought the motherboard it was completely defective and i went to RMA it, and i think I accidentally broke something trivial to the function of the motherboard (like the GPU lock clip thingy) so the store i bought it from refused to take it back. they ended up exchanging one for me anyways, but i theorize that's probably the reason why the two RAM slots don't work, in that they gave me a less broken mobo instead :D also i needed to use the extra 2 RAM slots like two months or so ago (and i bought this PC like a year+ ago), so that is extremely past the exchange date. the mobo was also bought in Hong Kong so the policies might be different to whatever people use here.

anyways thanks for the advice, i think i will go make absolute certain of how much time I can wait.

< anything before this was just me asking questions so i'm giving it a blanket response of "ok i understand now" >

so 1. [ 2/4 ] of the RAM slots on the PC are non-functional (for reasons i'm not 100% on, but i'm confident it's not like disabled on the software side) and i explained that i'd like to have more than 16 gbs.
2. i want it to be smaller than a mATX too if that's possible. i don't really know about how practical / possible it is, so this is more like a question. But if it can be an mITX then I'd want that instead.
3. there's also the fact that i'm likely to pass on this current computer onto a family member / have it as a backup.

i also think I need to build it before ~ Jan 20th because of some commitment stuff, but that's kinda flexible. I might be able to work around it. Have there been any news on January when the Zen is coming? and when is the intel 6 core one releasing?

you realize that's literally how seeding works right? You can't have a tournament where people are fairly matched at first because it means the good teams fight each other early then your grand finals will have the best team vs an open team. wouldn't it be better to have that scenario happen early in the tournament and save the good matches for last? that's also how literally any tournament is run in any sport...

i'm not sure if i'm right about this, but i thought the reason i "have" to upgrade- is that if i wanted ddr4 ram, i'd have to upgrade the motherboard to fit, and newer motherboards don't support the older cpus anymore? (there's obviously still the question of whether i really NEED ddr4 ram, but this is basically the root of my thinking. also forward compatibility? don't wanna be stuck with a motherboard that's outdated and new tech isn't usable on it)

my current motherboard is the ASRock B85M Pro4

i use basically only sony vegas / after effects / premiere / photoshop / illustrator.

also would the lower clocked cores negatively impact the performance that much? Like i don't need 10000 fps, if i get solid ~300 fps with decent graphics i'd be happy to compromise that way for more cores. otherwise if it really is that bad then i suppose i'd stick with 4 cores.

i'd also feel that it might be a little bit of a bad strategy to grab a cpu with a ton of cores when most applications aren't that well optimized to take advantage of all of them. sure, the video editing programs i'm using will be using it in some capacity, but i would want to give myself an contingency of sorts. like i wouldn't wanna be stuck with a pretty slow cpu with a bunch of cores i can't use when i decide to do something else instead, so then i feel like a 4 core would be safer. i could also be overestimating the impact of whatever i'm talking about here, so feel free to let me know if i misunderstood them.

i just mentioned the 6700k as an example but i mean the whole point i'm asking in the first place is because i don't know about hardware too intricately.

what would be a good upgrade? i was under the impression that clock speeds are stagnating around 4.5 ghz so any cpu i pick wouldn't be an upgrade? anyways this is kinda a useless point to continue. it would be great if you could recommend one instead.

the comment about not wanting things to be faster was just to explain what my expectations were, in that I don't NEED things to be faster, but it'd still be good for it to be faster. eg i wouldn't want to dump an extra 1k just for a faster gpu, but if it's a reasonable choice then i'll go for a faster gpu or something.

also i don't want to take apart my current machine because i might be leaving it for a family member or leave it in another place so i can use it when i go between different locations.

i thought i said before i'm using the computer primarily for video editing / rendering / TF2? idk what else to say.

so same speed would be acceptable, but upgrade would be better. i'm saying this because i don't know how much can fit into the budget and all that so i wanted to explain that i can accept an alternative.

yeah i'm not like super keen on overclocking, i can live without it.

nah i don't need that.

maybe you would have a better idea of if zen is actually better for me, but i'm inclined to just stick with like a 6700k or something like that. as far as i understand it, most programs aren't optimized well enough to actually fully take advantage of the extra cores so i think just a higher clock speed would work better. but this is just my understanding, i could be misled.

likely moving by hand and monitors are not included. i would maybe also bring peripherals but not a monitor for sure.

that's true. in that case i'd still lean towards grabbing an nvidia for the [better] adobe support.

i guess the GPU actually isn't that big of a deal; i only play TF2 and i don't need render speeds to be like godly fast. so i won't need a quadro to go balls deep on the rendering. it would just be nice to shave off a few minutes type of thing.

kinda answered above, but the render speeds don't need to be like lightning fast; it'd be more important to make the editing itself smooth and stuff like that. i have an i7 4790k atm without overclocking, r9 280x and 16gbs of ddr3 ram. did i miss any other important specs?

i think the current machine is pretty ok tbh, but the problem is that it's not very portable and that's the whole point of this new build i'm doing.

Never touched over clocking before but I don't see much reason to fear it without thought. I guess I'm apathetic to over clocking.

Not sure what ecc is.

When is zen coming out? I'm likely to build before mid January.

The situation is that im not completely sure on how I'm using it, but I'm guessing I might be moving it between locations somewhat frequently. Maybe you should ask me a few more questions or let me know what kind of form factor is ideal for what use and I can give a better answer

On storage the biggest use is archiving project files but I could just get like a ssd to work on then when its close to full move it to a terabyte drive. I never have any reason to install new programs.

Sorry I was thinking about the 1080/1070/1060. I've used both (amd & nvidia) throughout my past builds and AMD has always been like consistently unreliable with display driver crashes and just general bugginess I feel. Would rather just pay a bit more for nvidia and not deal with all that especially since i'm doing editing so I'm risking crashing while editing. Obviously I could be wrong and im just unlucky or something but I'm not very comfortable getting another amd card, I use a r9 280x atm.

Also don't think I can afford a quadro.

this might be an oxymoron but i'd like to be able to build a somewhat portable / mATX video editing machine. budget ~2k usd / whatever is reasonable to grab the good stuff around currently.

have an AMD card atm but absolutely not going back to AMD, getting one of the 3 new nvidia cards no matter what. (also because AMD has terrible support with adobe rendering implementations)

peripherals (monitors, keyboards etc) and and storage would not need to be considered in this possible build. storage as in hdd/sdd, would need RAM.

32 gbs of RAM would be nice as even with the 16 gbs I have currently, I can hit the limit and have to start closing some stuff.

would appreciate knowing if a portable build for this use is not possible, because i'm not too sure on it.

also don't really care about purchasing windows. i'd either use one bought before or acquire through some means.

thanks setsul / whoever :)

it was a trade off, either i show the playoffs bracket or what you said. i thought people would wanna have playoffs bracket instead.

climb_work is a base speed (sniper / engineer / pyro) movement map that challenges you with tricky thin platforms and jumps of varying distances and angles.

demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QorOfPaNLac
screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/cLzqd
download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9ZYqLqlPkT9WmNCenZ1cXRlQzg&pageId=105301469788528128239

give it a shot, the map is actually super fun. I found 3-4 little optimization tricks that will be interesting to see if others found too. the race i mentioned in the title is b4nny's challenge to whoever can run the map the fastest. winner gets the hat "Class Crown".

editing advice:
- use a proper sans serif font
- don't use text color that blends so easily. the holy grail is white text with black outline
- motion blur is bad on fps games
- hard cuts only work if the next visual is related to the previous one
- zoom when it makes sense. you didn't seem like you understood when you wanted to enlarge the facecam or not
- artistic editing [eg the music with the heavy] needs to be less overdone [i don't mean how much it's done] or else it becomes overbearing
- your volume levels are everywhere