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Why not eliminate the bottlenecks now, so that when the new generation of cards finally arrive, you can buy something truly 'tasty'? You'd enjoy a bit of performance boost for the time being... At least that is what I did last November.
Hardware & Technical GTX 1080 price bottom
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Why not eliminate the bottlenecks now, so that when the new generation of cards finally arrive, you can buy something truly 'tasty'? You'd enjoy a bit of performance boost for the time being... At least that is what I did last November.
Why not eliminate the bottlenecks now, so that when the new generation of cards finally arrive, you can buy something truly 'tasty'? You'd enjoy a bit of performance boost for the time being... At least that is what I did last November.
That would mean a new machine (board, CPU, RAM) that I am not prepared to buy at the moment. That's another $500 that doesn't fit the budget. Believe me I have thought about it though.
Then again i could just slap it on the ol' credit card and try to not let the wifey ever see the statement.
Yeah right!
Edit.... And add in the need for a new OS and I really am not looking forward to Win 10. But since Win 7 losing its viability in 2yrs I wont build with it.
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There probably isn't a good reason to pre upgrade if you're not going to see any benefit IMO. I upgraded from a 5 yo board and CPU (overclocked a lot) to a bleeding edge setup with the same GFX card and get about 5% extra gaming performance. That's about £125 per 1% so as hardware tends to get less expensive unless you get a once in a lifetime bargain or need a faster machine for other things (like I do) you'll see not a lot of benefit. Yeah, I can run a couple of 1080s but I don't need to upgrade the GFX as everything runs just fine. FWIW the bottleneck site was about right in its prediction for my system.
P.S. anyone who isn't clocking their CPU up a bit, especially if it's a K series, isn't making the most of what they have. It's like engineering dirty drives for your PC
so as hardware tends to get less expensive unless you get a once in a lifetime bargain or need a faster machine for other things (like I do) you'll see not a lot of benefit. Yeah, I can run a couple of 1080s but I don't need to upgrade the GFX as everything runs just fine. FWIW the bottleneck site was about right in its prediction for my system.P.S. anyone who isn't clocking their CPU up a bit, especially if it's a K series, isn't making the most of what they have. It's like engineering dirty drives for your PC
P.S. anyone who isn't clocking their CPU up a bit, especially if it's a K series, isn't making the most of what they have. It's like engineering dirty drives for your PC
Correct. If any of you have a K series Intel CPU then by god get an Arctic Freezer Pro V2 and go to overclockers and check their forum or ask someone there. The guides are easy to follow. I am running i5 2500k over clocked from 3.3Ghz to 4.5Ghz on air and has been running fine for 7 years nearly. I get a 6% bottle neck with the very respectable RX 570 4GB.
Do it you won't fry the CPU if you keep the voltages within the limits which will be spelled out to you in one of the many, many guides available.
I like the closed loop watercooling systems because you able to vent the hotter air straight out of the case, there is no reason why you can't extract the hot air from the case if you use an internal air cooler but maybe it's better if the hot air wasn't in there in the first place. I ran a 2600k @ 4.14 for years on a Corsair H50, that's not going to break any records but gave me an estimated 3% bottleneck with a GXT980 so a good match. That was simply a case of leaving every BIOS setting on auto and raising the multiplier, it's that easy.
Unfortunately I'm running an ordinary i5-4460 @ 3.2GHz with 16GB DDR3 1600 on a Dell proprietary MB. Supposedly the board can handle an i7-4790K (to the tune of $400) but even then the bottleneck potential is still high if you go by the bottleneckers site.
No overclocking for me at the moment.
No overclocking for me at the moment.
Hah. 22% bottleneck. And that's my current system :-(
(2x GTX970s + Core i7-2600K @ 3.4GHz)
And I came onto the tech forum because I think one of the 970s is about to give up the ghost and wondered about new GPU discussions.
First the desktop wasn't behaving, so I'd close a program, but it would stay on screen and could be removed by drawing a box over it
Then this morning the 2 monitors plugged into the main card... zilch, nada.
So I disassembled, cleaned the dust out, re-assembled and swapped the cards over. (Main has rift + 2 monitors, second has 3rd monitor; no SLi - it's more trouble than it's worth)
But from the bottleneck site I might as well not buy a better card it seems, as the CPU wouldn't be able to keep up.
Any advice on upgrade paths...?
I had to force some covers off the front (badly thought out design) that revealed the below. Warning... not for the faint hearted: there's an SSD in there somewhere!
(It's all clean now )
(2x GTX970s + Core i7-2600K @ 3.4GHz)
And I came onto the tech forum because I think one of the 970s is about to give up the ghost and wondered about new GPU discussions.
First the desktop wasn't behaving, so I'd close a program, but it would stay on screen and could be removed by drawing a box over it
Then this morning the 2 monitors plugged into the main card... zilch, nada.
So I disassembled, cleaned the dust out, re-assembled and swapped the cards over. (Main has rift + 2 monitors, second has 3rd monitor; no SLi - it's more trouble than it's worth)
But from the bottleneck site I might as well not buy a better card it seems, as the CPU wouldn't be able to keep up.
Any advice on upgrade paths...?
I had to force some covers off the front (badly thought out design) that revealed the below. Warning... not for the faint hearted: there's an SSD in there somewhere!
)I know, I shelled out $1k for a new system (Excl. GPU and the drives) last November. Still it is much better to buy a system and a GPU together, because that would really hurt.
Had I known 2 years ago that Elite is coming to consoles, I might never stared down the endless money pit that is PC gaming.
And I still don't have a top-tier card, I have a simple 1080p monitor and a wooden chair to sit on - though I'm about to offload the drving sim PlaySeat and buy a gaming seat.
Unfortunately I'm running an ordinary i5-4460 @ 3.2GHz with 16GB DDR3 1600 on a Dell proprietary MB. Supposedly the board can handle an i7-4790K (to the tune of $400) but even then the bottleneck potential is still high if you go by the bottleneckers site.
No overclocking for me at the moment.
I thought that you were wrong about that price, but no, sadly, you're not. For that cost you can get a new I7 8700k... but then you'd have to buy new ram and motherboard... That would be way too expensive!
(It's all clean now
A photo ? Otherwise we do not believe
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I had to force some covers off the front (badly thought out design) that revealed the below. Warning... not for the faint hearted: there's an SSD in there somewhere!
(It's all clean now
Oh the humanity!!!
Good God man, spring cleaning is just an expression!
I have been kicking around the idea of going with a Ryzen 1600(X) but with the 2600 out now I may go there instead. I would still need a new board and such but I know that going in so i can live with it. I have had Intel chips for so long I am ready for a change in that department.
I. Just. Can't. Live. With. Windows 10.
Everyone I know save one guy has asked me to help them rid themselves of that software. Maybe something nice and friendly and more privacy oriented will come along before win7 bites the dust. Not that I am holding my breath on that but one can dream right?
You can switch off a lot of the nonsense in 10 with O and O shutup and run something like Privatefirewall to block apps and components on a fairly granular basis.
I have a mixture of 7, 10 and a Linux for a specific purpose. 7 is the main machine, I have 10 on laptops for web browsing, watching films and stuff like that. Not a big fan of 10, it works OK but I don't like it being so connected to microsoft for no perceivable benefit to me, I don't use a microsoft account to log in so wish it was a bit more self contained, it also comes loaded with crap I never use which keeps reinstalling itself.
Any advice on upgrade paths...?
I had to force some covers off the front (badly thought out design) that revealed the below. Warning... not for the faint hearted: there's an SSD in there somewhere!
(It's all clean now
Dude, if you watered that card you could upgrade it into a vegetable patch.
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It's like Big Brother, a computer virus and rash all rolled up into one.
You don't want any of it anywhere near you but it all keeps hanging on for dear life.
Update: Plumped for a MSI 1070 Ti from Scan.co.uk (Can't be dealing with failing hardware as it's my work rig too)
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Nice. Wind up the clock a bit on your card too. It's free speed (apart from an extra dab of leccy)
So as I understand it I need to find a guide for the 2600K and my specific motherboard, right? It was OC'd but instability forced me to revert to default speeds.