I've had an interesting problem arise with my AsRock motherboard thanks to a dirty memory slot and I think some of you may be interested in learning something from it. Okay on with the story. My computer started hanging at shutdown just after the drives would spin down, so I tried removing my overclock as any normal person would do and when I hit Save and reset my PC froze, Restarted same issue, after a while of pulling and replacing components I gave all the memory slots a good old spray of contact cleaner. Huzzah! This fixed my shutdown issue. So I cheerfully went into the Bios to reset my overclock and wouldn't you know the multiplier was stuck at a max of 38 and wouldn't go any higher... Nor will my 2600k clock upto its turbo speed... So when my PC froze saving the bios setting after removing my overclock something in the Intel ME firmware (Which is stored on the CMOS chip along with the Bios.) got porked and corrupted, my suspicion was later confirmed by AsRocks support team. So now a nice chap in the Netherlands has programmed me a new CMOS chip and has sent it out to me. Thankfully the CMOS chip in the Fatal1ty P67 series boards is socketed so I don't have to unsolder the old chip from the hell that are multilayerd PCBs...
so today i got my new 1060 and installed it fps wise i get on utah with max settings even dynamic reflections 60fps sometimes higher sometimes lower. On WCUSA i get with max settings around 30 FPS but usually with the tendency to go higher. In Forza Motorsport 7 i get 70-80FPS with everything on max settings all of the test were made at 1080p
But i dont know what a card needs to be good at it. Also i dont see a real diffrence from the looks but i see its smoother probably because i was normaly on the low end of 30fps and now am on the high end of 60fps. Also i notice the 1060 is alot hotter than the 750ti like 40 degree celcious hotter
Keep dynamic reflection off or minimum faces per update and less than 140 meters, keep vsync on and if you are not holding steady 60fps, turn ssao off. After driving little while with constant 60fps and using vsync, you can tell how fps over 60 without vsync is not smooth at all. Then you can have same obsession that I have about never dropping below 60fps 1060 should run around 60-65 degrees, but it does produce more heat and if your case has not the best ventilation, it might get hotter. Oh and shadows need to be at partial, it saves CPU time often, which tend to limit fps quite often instead of GPU, it is bit complicated, best is to monitor CPU and GPU usage with something better than task manager.
Really annoyed looking for a monitor.. So, PC monitors are quite good value, until they hit 32in which they increase price, and becomes quite a money making area. So i looked at TVs, and they were much cheaper, until i read the specs, HD Ready!! 720p panels in 2018, no thx. So to get a 4K monitor, for about £350 i can go for either a 24-27 inch 4K monitor that'll probably be TN panel, or go for a 43 inch TV with 4K, only issue is 50Hz panel refresh. (which means 30P videos will look shite).
If you order it from amazon germany or europe wich should work you can get around the 50Hz problem but i dont know how pluging in is going to work
oh yeah that's true. But really i also need a new GPU, i'm looking at AMD as i have a freesync monitor, but some things are just so silly, eg. no VP9 hardware decode!! Ok maybe in 2016 i didn't mind much, but with Polaris being set to be used in 2019's cards for RX 680 then there's no VP9 decode! Also no 4K above 30FPS recording is possible, or decode!
Overclocking the old fashioned way since my processor won't go above 3.5GHz. This replacement CMOS chip can't come fast enough.
Vp9 is a video format. A format that both intel and Nvidia GPUs can decode in hardware rapidly with good performance, AMD cannot and you need to use software acceleration. --- Post updated --- But then again. AMD kinda sucks for GPU technology right now. They aren't outdoing NVidia on price, performance or energy usage or mixed ratios of the 3
only reason i'm looking at AMD is cos of my freesync monitor. Polaris and Pascal were not too far apart though. But Nvidia launched Ti's and now RTX series, AMD's kabylake approach (same arch. improved clocks) wont hold a candle. And with rumours of the RX680 having Polaris again, AMD is going to be in the dust, for a very long while.
Yeah, sadly also their drivers seem to have quite big issues, but it has been like that as long as I can remember. After I switched to Nvidia, there hasn't been such constant annoyances with drivers, which I had with AMD/Ati and which I constantly read from forums. I wish they would get their products and drivers better than intel/nvidia so that there would be some proper race between giants and some real alternatives without need to give up something.
Lol, I've had the exact opposite experience. Nvidia's current drivers are so hilariously and hideously broken. I had to go back 3 driver versions to get something that was both stable AND could set up Nvidia Surround correctly. I refuse to update because then Surround will break and then my use case becomes all but impossible because the recent drivers REFUSE to allow a 3x1 configuration for no reason at all. Also driver related blue screens. My GTX 570 equipped secondary PC suffers from chronic driver related blue screens despite several complete clean installations of Fermi compatible drivers. My GTX 980 equipped HTPC has some HDMI audio driver issue that I've yet to even care about because thank god it has a dedicated sound card. My sister has a GT 1030 equipped SFF HP system that I've not had any issue with, surprisingly. I'd gladly take a 10% performance hit (actually, Vega 56 is faster than my 1070) for drivers that work correctly in my use case... or drivers that work correctly at all.
lol ive had driver issues with both Nvidia are quite quick to fix their mistakes though, especially on new cards, but the older cards are left in the dark, for example GTX 750, the NVENC isn't used, it instead uses the 3D cores (CUDA acceleration) even for things like H264 encode, which has been hw accelerated for years. Been like that for over a year. Alright in fairness this is quite old, but AMD do not provide support for their ATi Mobility Radeon X1600, it needs a driver fix to run Windows 10, and the only thing available is a community sourced half broken driver. Hence it can only go to Win 7. To add insult to injury, strangely the ATi X300 series is supported, but the one after isn't! C'mon AMD, we can't upgrade our laptop's GPU. Bricked my OP5T trying to go back to stock firmware from root. I need to do this as my bus ticket app will not work on rooted phone Anyway there was an OTA update, and it said it would remove my root and i thought this would be good, no work. Now it crashed in TWRP, my custom recovery. So i tried to flash the stock recovery back, and that finished in 0.7 seconds so it didn't work. Now i have a phone with no recovery and no OS. So i should use MSM Download tool, well everywhere i look has broken links, mainly all of them being android file host, and that site just doesn't work for me. No adblock on my end, and when i start the download i get maybe 50K/s and then it stops. Tried different mirrors, everything. I'm now sat with a dead phone, and can't do anything about it. I have filled about 5 chrome windows full of tabs and still can't fix anything. AFH isn't working for me.
Grandparents PC stopped booting, said GPU failure. (with diagnostic lights) , I thought blown caps or actual gpu fail, but I opened it and found a fair amount of dust. Armed with a toothbrush and an Argos Vax special offer hoover, I cleaned it and now it runs.
so i recently got to try a 1080ti with beam at 1080p its getting 80fps at max settings and with v sync its dropping to 60fps all on utah and max settings. Also WCUSA runs at max settings only with 35 fps
Vsync locks fps to frequency of your monitor so it is 60 because of that. CPU single core speed is what limits fps on this game, especially when you crank up dynamic reflections as that is very heavy on CPU for reasons. Not much worth going faster than 1060 without CPU upgrade, that is just how it is. I guess 1070 can do already as much any CPU can feed it in this game. Of course keeping dynamic reflections down can be bit better, however it is still CPU limiting on many maps and with several cars it is not physics that cause CPU limitation, it is the graphics. I'm thinking about future memory upgrade, but these listings are confusing, afaik this should be just different color and no other differences, but they list one kit as 25600U which I can't find anything about, maybe their own spec?: https://www.computeruniverse.net/en/gskill-trident-z-16gb-ddr4-16gtzsk-k2-3200-c14 https://www.computeruniverse.net/en/gskill-trident-z-16gb-ddr4-16gtz-kit-3200-cl14-2x8gb