Biggest thing I found useful was to listen to your casters. People want to see what the casters are talking about.

If there is no clear hint of who to follow from the casters, think "who is likely to go huge very soon?". E.g. one team got forced, other team has full uber, first team's roamer is likely to do something to force the other team.

Keep an eye on the classes to make sure you catch offclasses.

Don't switch POVs too quickly. I'd make an exception for this if you accidentally switch to someone respawning which isn't that big of a mistake anyway. For example, if there's a x2 backcap, there are 2 or 3 likely classes it could be, chances are you could switch to a scout grabbing health way behind the action whilst the other is capping but whatever shit happens.

Sometimes switching to the medic's POV is better than trying to guess what's going to kill the medic.

Above all, concentrate on the game. Get into it as much as the players are getting into it. When I streamed, I had information 20 seconds ahead of what was happening, so if someone bombed the medic and got the uber drop, I'd know 20 seconds in advance and I'd be able to switch to the person. However, in some games I'd find myself not using it at all but still catching the action because I was so focused on the game.

Finally, remember that you can't catch every single bit of action. One particular moment I've experienced this was during this game (i think) when both roamers got huge plays at pretty much identical times. You're always going to miss something, don't let it get to you and carry on following the game.

coleman is a harsh mistress

thanks
but holy shit that guy what the fuck

mirror of the video anywhere?

G-sync is only not useful when your FPS is exactly the same as your refresh rate, i.e. 60fps 60hz with absolutely no fps drops, or 120/144. At any other time, G_sync will help. Even when you are getting exactly 120fps with no drops, it can help since your monitor could receive the frame in between a refresh, meaning up to 7ms (15ms on 60hz) delay between the frame being drawn and you seeing the frame. G-sync will prevent this by keeping your refresh rate exactly in sync with the FPS.

What it won't help with is input delay if you're below your refresh rate. E.g., if you're at 30fps on a 60hz monitor, you will have a 33ms delay between your inputs being shown on screen. This won't change with G-sync, it will still take 33ms for the new frame to display.

This. Back up everything you need. Wipe everything and make sure the old drive isn't connected any more. Just make sure your Window's license can be used another time before you wipe because otherwise you might end up needing to buy a new one

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3570k + 7970 here, haven't really had any major drops (I cap at 132fps) but I'm getting more smaller drops than I used to so far as I can tell. I play on absolute max settings though, no graphics config at all aside from disabling gibs and ragdolls.

He hasn't been home for 2 days I'm getting worried

About 4 months because 0 internet at all :(

Personally as a camera man, I much prefer first person POV, with a fair amount of switching, particularly between the flank and combo. Knowing where every individual player is isn't really necessary during a hold, and I am (or at least was) fairly decent at catching action during pushes. Free cam does have it's place, I do quite like using it on mids where so much happens at once that you can't hope to catch it all from POV. I usually take cues from the casters for mids, they might say "okay lets see what schocky does on mid" and I watch schocky that mid after the rollouts. Of course, taking caster cues isn't really possible when you're also the caster. The camera man job is much more involved and complicated than it might first appear. There is so much more going on behind the scenes than just watching a game. Trying to cast on top of that, especially solo casting, is something I can't imagine ever even attempting. If not streaming, from what I've seen most casters like to free cam their way around the map to not miss anything at all (unlike as a streamer where I know what I need to look at in advance), clip through walls, zoom in on players to see their name and that sort of thing. Trying to break out of that habit to get some decent camera work in and still cast is on another level. Props to anyone who can do it, like Byte at winter/spring LANs, Kip, eXtine and so on.

8 more months until I can stream again...

Not quite, graphics cards use GDDR5 (not DDR5, that won't be around for probably another 5-10 years) which is a variant of DDR3 with higher latency but insane bandwidth which is suitable for storing the kind of data GPUs need.

No point in getting one of the best air coolers on the market (Noctua NH-D14) and pairing it with a motherboard that can't provide the power to use it. Personally I'd go with a 4670k, NH-D14 and a Gigabyte Z87x UD3H over the D3H, despite Haswell's overclocking headroom being much lower. That said, if you aren't the smartest with PC hardware and don't really want to learn about overclocking, you can save a fair amount of money by going with a 4670 (identical to a 4670k but can't be overclocked), something less beefy like a Noctua U12S or U14S and the D3H motherboard.

Overclocking total: $224 (4670k) + $85 (NH-D14) + $150 (Gigabyte Z87x UD3H) = $459
Non-overclocking total: $220 (4670) + $62 (U12S, $75 if you go for the U14S) + $140 (Gigabyte Z87x D3H) = $422 ($435 with the U14S)
Difference: $37
Personally, I'd go for the overclocking one with the deals you can get, sure it costs 8% more but if you can learn to overclock (it really isn't that hard, check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBEeXajbG2o even though it's an older socket all the advice still applies, although expect lower clocks, e.g. 4.3 max instead of 4.6 max maybe) it will last you longer before you need to upgrade.

The 3570k/Z77 route is also an option, one that can save you even more money for potentially the same performance but only if you are willing to overclock. Haswell (LGA1150, Z87) is faster than Ivybridge (LGA1155, Z77) at the same clock speed, but Ivybridge overclocks higher in general compared to Haswell, so if you achieve the "average" overclock, probably around 4.2Ghz for Haswell compared to 4.5Ghz for Ivy, the 3570k can start to pull ahead. Personally, I'd go for the newer Z87 platform since you aren't guaranteed the higher clocks of the 3570k and the Z87 chipset offers more features than the Z77 chipset. For me, the main advantage would be that Haswell has much lower power consumption than Ivybridge, depending on your location this might be a non-issue such as in Canada where energy is much cheaper in comparison to England.

Z77 route: $200 (3570k) + $85 (NH-D14) + $124 (Gigabyte Z77x UD3H) = $409
Difference: $50

I'd suspect it may not even be noticeable in a pub if someone is invisible, in comp you have people telling you someone is there.

More like impossible without serious overhaul