Author: ElectroStingz

I was that child that took my toys apart when they broke to see how they worked and if I could fix them. My dad was an electronic engineer so I grew up playing with computers and electronics. Studied computer programming, know how to use a soldering iron and have basic SMD skills. I like to learn and enjoy DIY'ing and my first gaming computer was an Amiga 500 when I was 4 years old.

Converting My i7-6700K ATX Build To Mini-ITX

Posted on September 7, 2017July 11, 2018 by ElectroStingz

My gaming PC is based on an ATX board, MSI Z170A Krait gaming which is good for what I use it for but the overall space and noise are things which I dislike the most. Keeping things cool such as the processor requires a decent sized heat sink / AIO

Upscaling OBS Recording For YouTube 1440p

Posted on August 16, 2017August 3, 2018 by ElectroStingz

As mentioned previously OBS can upscale your recordings instantly to 1440p, see the screenshots for details. Set the following options in OBS Base (Canvas) Resolution = 1920×1080 Output (Scaled )Resolution = 2560×1440 Next go to the Output option and set the recording options Tick Rescale Output Type the resolution =

Trying Out Bitdefender Free Edition

Posted on August 15, 2017July 11, 2018 by ElectroStingz

A simple Antivirus real-time scanner with virtually no options to configure, its quite fast with no noticeable impact on performance but didn’t quite work for me. One game would not launch correctly with Bitdefender installed, APB Reloaded. Even with the software disabled it still caused the APB Reloaded game process

GTA 5 Survival: Maze Bank

Posted on July 31, 2017July 11, 2018 by ElectroStingz

A short video of a survival mode in GTA 5, recorded using OBS and upscaled to 1440p for the YouTube VP9 codec.

YouTube Video Playback Quality VP9 or AVC1

Posted on June 29, 2017August 3, 2018 by ElectroStingz

Since trying out different OBS settings I have noticed that YouTube videos uploaded seem to suffer from a very poor quality no matter what encoder settings I use. Some of my videos seem to pixellate every few seconds with a noticeable blur in 1080p@60. I spent some time trying to

BT Infinity Resetting Every 14 Days

Posted on June 19, 2017July 11, 2018 by ElectroStingz

I have been watching closely at my connection’s uptime and so far it appears to be resetting every 14 days with the downstream currently at 65.90mbps, upstream at 19.46mpbs. Not sure why this is occurring and the issue isn’t isolated to just my connection, many other users in the BT