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welcome back to tech yeah city this is bran he's coming back to you guys today with some relaxed gameplay footage / heroes of newerth and today I wanted to talk to you guys about graphics cards and the right settings because I've been getting asked a lot of questions with my in regards to my benchmarks and how do I get such high frame rates and that has to do with a few things but when i first started benchmarking games on my gtx 670 i had 120 hertz monitor and basically i would want to get 120 FPS on any game regardless of the settings because I loved the fluid motion of 120 Hertz however when I started tweaking with settings I noticed that there was a lot of settings in games that really you didn't need to have them set to the max and they really had a huge impact on your frame rate so we're talking like twenty ten twenty percent and basically I didn't make the game look much better anyhow the first thing I'm going to talk to you guys about its anti-aliasing or a setting in your graphics settings called MSAA and now this setting essentially it makes the game look smoother the higher you set this I think usually 88 times as the max however the high you set this the better it makes all this more I guess the more smoother of a picture takes away the jaggies on the picture makes the game look smoother and it is a good setting however I find it has a real big diminishing return after your four times and the difference if you go from four times to eight times and you can test this on any game you'll notice that the frame rates will will drop a heap if you go from four speed 28 speed MSAA now I usually have this setting around to speed or I use a setting called SMAA so essentially SMAA is a guess it's a better version of MSA I love to use it as it looks just as good as to speed or four speed msaa however it just it doesn't have the performance hit of either to speed or four speed so it's a good setting if games support SMAA i recommend you turn on SMAA however if they don't then I usually stick with trusty old MSAA on two or four speed so that's the first setting you guys should watch I mean if you've got a graphics card like a gtx 780 or a gtx 780ti r9 290x and you generally don't have to worry I mean generally any game at altar is fine but if you're on a mid-range card like a 270x or an i-9 280 or gtx 760 you may want to play around with this setting and get the best frame rates and get get the smoothest experience out of your graphics card because I mean generally a lot of people from time to time they'll be like they'll get their gravis card whether it be a GTX 760 or whatnot and they'll install it max the graphics on the game and then they'll be like oh this game sucks because the gameplay is choppy and generally it's not the games fold it's just I guess what you do with the frame rates so yeah mainly you want to get the highest frame rate possible that your monitor outputs usually most monitors output 60 Hertz so you want to generally be getting around 60 frames per second for the best gaming experience in my opinion so let's move on so that's the first setting that you guys want to play around with this MSAA the second setting that you guys may want to look at is ambient occlusion this one I find is a big killer of frame rates I noticed even in a game like black ops 2 this setting would kill my frame rates by about ten or fifteen percent in crisis it's called lens flare I believe this setting yeah generally it just takes away a heap from your frame rates and it I mean it does make the game it does give it that realistic feel but it doesn't make the game look better in my opinion so ambient occlusion is one of those settings that if I can't afford the frame rates I generally switch off first I do that before MSAA so maybe you might want to switch this off first if you like your MSA or your SMA so anyway that's the setting that's a big one you should turn it off if you can or turn it on low settings I mean if you've got again if you've got that 780ti 780ti and you just don't care that's not going to worry you but if you're on that mid-range graphics card look out for this setting and the third setting I wanted to talk to you guys about is obviously the textures and the quality of the models and 3d modeling and stuff like that and generally you want this as high as possible you want this on ultra if you can if not high or even medium depending on your graphics card so this is the last setting that you should sacrifice ice in my opinion but if you need to get those higher frame rates then definitely drop this setting down and drop it down to medium or high in my experience especially with the game like Battlefield 4 for instance I don't notice a big difference between ultra and high it was it was weird though the frame rate it gave me an extra 10 15 or percent when I switched it from ultra too high so that's something you may wish to play around with depending on your depending on your graphics card so there as it goes like this in order in priority switch off ambient occlusion if you need extra frames and then play with MSA and then play with your textures that's just my recommendations to getting the best gameplay out of your graphics card now I am talking to you guys on the so I just want to talk about a few different things besides gravis now because a lot of you guys probably want a quick update I am recording off the zoom h1 now it is connected to a computer so it is acting as a condenser microphone so let me know how that sounds in the comments I also wanted to talk quickly about leper power supplies and damn i have had two leper power supplies fail on me now this is this is like consecutively so Wow stay away from this brand they called leper I just did a power supply review for that power supply the first one was dead on arrival and the second one it was working however it's starting to cut off it's starting to break my computer started randomly cutting out I checked all the connections everything was fine everything was good to go I reconnected everything receded the RAM whatnot you name it I did it and then the computer was still cutting out and it wasn't until then I like okay I'm going to put my trusty and antec earthwatts 650 watt bronze in there and see how we go and I've put that in there and I've been running it for a few days and ya lo and behold my computer has not been switching off so this is me getting two power supplies now one after the other the same power supply leper G 800m gold rated power supply and its failed on me twice and the 650 watt power supply hasn't missed a beat for years so leper you guys are making trash power supplies lay I don't know what you're doing I mean if they're from enermax or if they're from channel well whatever but you guys aren't quality testing your products clearly because I've got to pounce players that are dead now to file a little faulty and that's consecutively one after the other and that's sealed from the factory I've never had that in my entire life I've never had a part come and then it's faulty and then I've got a replacement and that's faulty again so I mean wow what what what is going on leper what are you guys doing in the factory that's making these power supplies not work so my advice is to stay away from this brand if you're thinking about buying a power play make sure you cross leper off your to look less so don't just cross that brand off completely just don't put that in your power supply you'll be I mean in your power supply cart or whatever seriously stick to see sonic antec of course I mean corsair use seasonic anyway I think so yeah you want to stick to the trusted brands that have been around for years that's what I've realized and I ain't going anywhere but see sonic or antec personally so that's just my advice for you guys yeah leper stay away from this brand my god what two for two holy crap I've never had this in my life so I'm just I had to tell you guys about it seriously it was terrible I'd last thing I want to talk about two is actually hooking this microphone up as well there's I looked for a three three eighths of an inch bolt to a quarter of an inch thread just so I could hook this up to my mic stand because the h2 zoom h1 it only has a tripod mount stand in it and so I was looking around and I could only find one guy selling this a tad adapter bolt for like twelve dollars posted twelve dollars for a bolt are you kidding me like twelve dollars this guy wanted twelve dollars just for a little bolt so anyway I went down to my local hardware store and I got I got a three three eighths of an inch bolt and then I got a quarter of an inch thread super glued it and then sold it together and it costed me twelve cents I'll repeat that twelve cents so I just I mean I had to get this off my chest because it's like anyone else who wants to make one of these bolts just do it yourself and you'll you know literally you'll save ten dollars so i just thought it was a ripoff i mean if the bolt was like three dollars i could understand maybe even five dollars posted i can understand but twelve dollars like come on Jesus there's only a limit to how much you know I can get fleeced so that's about it for me guys I will be coming back to you guys with tech talk very soon I just wanted to sort of test this microphone out make sure it sounded good also talk about that topic of graphics cards which a lot of people have been asking me lately and I enjoyed this commentary if you did please give it a thumbs up and if you have any questions please leave a comment the comment section below and I'll go out to you as soon as I can and in the meantime in the description below put some up with these recommendations that I've talked about in the commentary as well so you don't miss out on it and yeah I'm just playing a bit of dr. report on heroes of newerth and it is a fun game I've actually got to compare this game to dota 2 honestly I like both games I just prefer here as in u.s. due to some things that I'd liked it I mean I'd like to have a discussion about it because ultimately I mean dota 2 has a huge player base and I think they get a lot of things right that here is in u.s. doesn't but um yeah something I want to talk about anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this commentary and yet peace out for now bye