re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

It's great if for a 1080p living room streamer. I used mine pretty often until I decided to build an HTPC and went 4k TV

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Just bought a Steam Link from the Steam sale. Anyone have any experience or tips when using it?

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Yeah I love it. The early days at launch had been a little rough but they have come a long way.

1080p gaming is all you need for living room gaming when you play at that distance. If you want to improve quality of Stream visit the forums, a lot of simple "hacks" where you just edit txt files and upload via USB.

Remember, WIRED is the only way to go. Unless your router is in LoS with like 0 interference.

Its a great purchase, enjoy man!

If you want to game in another room, it works great. Just don't buy the controller.

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Does the PS4 controller work with it?

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Believe only wired, not sure if that changed. I only used a XBONE or 360 controller.

cheapest 1070 is currently $520 on pcpartpicker

$150 over what I paid a month ago

My buddy bought an RX580 the Aorus XTR version about 3 months ago for a new build and it's still unused.

I keep telling him to sell it, he bought it for I think $270 from Amazon and they currently go for $600+ but he still hasn't listed it.

he needs to sell that yesterday.

this craze wont last forever and eventually when this fizzles out, there will be a flood of used GPUs on the market.

Yep, back when I got a pair of R9-290s for a steal, and gave some posters some pretty good deals on my R9-270X's and 280X.

Has nothing to do with multiple monitors, which you can run with a single card. It will increase GPU performance by splitting the workload between the two. Doesn't double performance. In the best of cases, it will give you an additional 85-90% boost -- tons of caveats there, though. The game has to support multiple GPUs (a lot do, but quite a few do not), and even then, it has to support it well. Some games will claim to support crossfire or SLI but never use more than 50-60% on each GPU, or worse, will use under 50% per GPU.

VRAM can potentially bottleneck performance in certain conditions since games aren't yet pooling vram (i.e., 2 video cards with 4GB of VRAM each means you still only have 4GB of VRAM) -- So, If your single card can't push ultra textures, adding a second one probably won't help. That's why it's ideal to get the best single GPU you can afford, and don't SLI/Crossfire anything but top-tier cards.

Also, number of GPUs has no bearing on system memory.