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JcFerggy:
I don't exactally want to Overclock due to if I fuck it up, I won't be able to replace it. I did read though that a cooler computer will help, so I downloaded SpeedFan, checked my tempature, then opened my backroom door (Its winter, and it's not heated, so it is as cold as outside), took off the side of my computer, and took a fan and really cooled it down.
Now because of this, I think my FPS have improved greatly. Here is my tempature.
-Edit-
Went down more
And my graph from Achives
keefy:
that seems to have helped a little did you clean any dust from the fans?
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More players means more data to download.
You want to download this data as fast as possible just like you do when you downloaded GE:S beta3 I bet you would be pretty annoyed if the content servers limited your download RATE to 30KB/sec (30000)
Chances are you will max 30000 pretty easy wth 20+ players.
major:
Try loading your computer up and see what the load temps are.
http://www.eocfiles.com/bdc86eb1ed2989c30dcd1902e84939ae/motherboard/utilties/p95v258.zip
^^^ For CPU^^
http://download.softpedia.com/dl/872d6a3959240a21a6dd62f0fe989a20/4990c15b/100102854/software/system/bench/FurMark.exe
^^^ For GPU^^ Just run in windowed mode, stability test, at res lower then your monitor res.
Try to run both at same time, and open Speedfan and take a look at the temps.
And like Keefy said clean the inside of your computer get all the dust out.
VC:
lol, 30000 rate.
30000 rate is the most Source supports. Thus, using it means the server will always try to send you as much data as fast as possible. Of course, that's only good if 1) your game/mod somehow needs to send that much data in real time, and it doesn't 2) you have that much download bandwidth, which you probably do 3) the server can hit everyone with 30000 and not run out of upload, which it usually will.
10000 is fine. Higher doesn't help except in special cases. But it doesn't hurt you, unless you are a server host who doesn't set your max client rate appropriately according to your server's connection.
For example, a few nights back one of our spare-box-at-home hosts was having sold 400~700 pings for all clients when a fifth man connected. I told him to set sv_maxrate to 5000, and everyone's ping dropped to 40 and gameplay quality was unaffected. He just doesn't have the upload rate to let Source send the low-priority data all the time.
keefy:
Home connections do not but sure as hell a professional host will have enough bandwidth and if they do not I suggest you switch until you find one that does.
30000 is just a magic number that everyone you included seems to think is the max but it isn't. look at this pic 23KB/sec and that server was capped at 25000 oh yes plenty of spare bandwidth ::)
If you do not want to limit your servers bandwidth you use sv_maxrate 0
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