High Quality Fraps at a Good Frame Rate

[Scooter92]

Hey guys!

I play a lot of crysis 2 and fraps a lot of my footage, however I'm always looking to get better quality and go higher whilst spending the right amount of money on the correct components. So I come before you today with components that I have thought up that might improve my frapsing experience. For anyone who doesn't know, fraps is a video capture system that captures video/audio on your desktop or in a program.

Currently I record at 60 FPS on Half-Size but I want to go to full size baby! My current hardware that would lend itself to the processing is, a core i5 750, GTX470 (1), and a 2TB 5400 Seagate External HDD that I record to.

Considered Parts/Ideas: OC my i5, SLI my GTX470 (or sell it and buy a 580?), and obtain a HDPVR to record to (everyone seems to use that).

Would those parts + ideas allow me to achieve what I want so dearly?

 

[purple stain]

What resoultion is your monitor?

I really don't see the need for you to upgrade anything.If your i5 is still at stock speeds thats the one componet thats holding you back.In fact it is bottlenecking your GTX470.All bottlenecks aside Crysis 2 likes really fast processors.

So my suggestion to you would be to buy a good aftermarket CPU cooler and start O.C.ing.

 

[Scooter92]

Well thank you! I always like to save money Would you suggest water cooling or air cooling? I guess it depends on how far I'd OC. And being a novice probably not that far, but I would push it really far in the future once I become more adept so go big with water cooling?

Train of thought writing, right there.

 

[purple stain]

Water cooling is mostly for the advanced.Since your still a novice when it comes to O.C.ing I would suggest sticking with Air cooling for now.
Water cooling rigs take lots of experience and lots of matienece.

Something like this is what you need...

XIGMATEK Gaia $30 + Free Shipping

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233082&cm_re=xigmatek-_-35-233-082-_-Product

That cooler is realtively cheap but it performs almost as good as the higher end coolers that sell for $50-$60.Even on air and this cooler you should be able to hit 4ghz pretty easily,once you get the hang of it.

Here's a O.C.ing guide to help with all your O.C.ing needs.It is based off of the exact processor your using.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/263043-29-1156-core-core-overclocking-guide

 

[Scooter92]

You are helping out so much! I have done quite a bit of research about OCing and water cooling but never have tried it out, but I'll go with the air cooling, and I'll take a look at that link!

I've heard a lot of good things about thermaltake and zalman when it comes to air cooling, any news on those?

 

[purple stain]

Thermaltake doesn't really have any low end coolers.All of their coolers are high performance and high cost.I'd say the closeest competion for the XIGMATEK Gaia would be the Zalman Performa but it doesn't have the Direct Heatipipe contact like the Gaia.Honestly i'd say the best cooler for your money is gonna be the Gaia.

Here's a look at some of the best Air CPU Coolers on the market...

http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

 

[Scooter92]

Best answer selected by Scooter92.

 

[Scooter92]

The Gaia wasn't on that list, maybe I should snag one of them?

 

[purple stain]

Even if it's not on Frostytech's list that doesn't mean it's not a good cooler.The Gaia is a great cooler,just look at some benchmarks.