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re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

Posted on 2/5/15 at 7:53 pm to
Posted by ILikeLSUToo
Central, LA
Member since Jan 2008
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Posted on 2/5/15 at 7:53 pm to
benchmark rumors are usually overstated, but I'm sure it's gonna be better than the 980 by a good bit. This is how it's been happening for years.
Posted by UltimateHog
Thailand
Member since Dec 2011
69472 posts
Posted on 2/5/15 at 8:05 pm to
I just hope it'll power my 4K freesync fine.
Posted by DoUrden
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Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 2/5/15 at 8:45 pm to
there is a ton a crap going wrong right now, my system isn't using my 2nd card it looks like. I wish I could reset to factory on all of it at least then I scored in the 20K range and not the 15K range. Not happy right now.

Posted by DoUrden
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Posted on 2/5/15 at 8:56 pm to
I got faulty cards (not blaming your ILike), the control panel isn't worth a shite compared to AMD, the CPU bios menu with gigabyte is a mess and hard to navigate and doesn't offer the easy OC options that Intel does. Basically Gigabyte and nVidia are only for the advanced users not for the "know enough to frick shite up" people like me.
Posted by UltimateHog
Thailand
Member since Dec 2011
69472 posts
Posted on 2/5/15 at 9:01 pm to
Ouch.
Posted by ILikeLSUToo
Central, LA
Member since Jan 2008
18018 posts
Posted on 2/5/15 at 10:00 pm to
I don't see your 3dmark11 score or settings, but I assume you're running it "stretched" and not "centered" right? Because running it centered caps your frame rate at 120 and you will get a lower score.

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I got faulty cards (not blaming your ILike), the control panel isn't worth a shite compared to AMD


That I'll agree with. Catalyst is easier to navigate than the NVIDIA control panel, but you can do more in the NVIDIA control panel (most of it not worth messing with, though).

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the CPU bios menu with gigabyte is a mess and hard to navigate and doesn't offer the easy OC options that Intel does.

Not sure of the issue here. UEFI bioses are all set up to be pretty simplistic by default, with an "advanced" view option for extremely detailed overclocking settings. All boards worth a crap are set up like this. Auto-overclocking is not a good option, if that's the "easy" option you're talking about.
This post was edited on 2/5/15 at 10:07 pm
Posted by DoUrden
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Posted on 2/6/15 at 11:10 am to
I had it stretched and i was scoring around 15K. afterburner showed minimal activity on the 2nd card during the benchmark. Out of the box without any OCing I was scoring just over 20K
Posted by ILikeLSUToo
Central, LA
Member since Jan 2008
18018 posts
Posted on 2/6/15 at 12:34 pm to
And I'm assuming it's not using the second card in games either, right? Have you tested each card individually? (swapping the card positions). If they both seem to work independently, try wiping NVIDIA drivers and reinstalling. Multi-GPU is still an imperfect implementation, annoyingly so. I remember with my 7970s and a certain couple of releases of beta drivers, I would get a BSOD the instant I enabled crossfire. Reinstalling the driver a few times would make it work inexplicably.

Posted by Dam Guide
Member since Sep 2005
16723 posts
Posted on 2/6/15 at 12:42 pm to
quote:

I had it stretched and i was scoring around 15K. afterburner showed minimal activity on the 2nd card during the benchmark. Out of the box without any OCing I was scoring just over 20K


I had something similar happen when I installed drivers, but it changed my windows settings, looks like you have that configured fine.
This post was edited on 2/6/15 at 12:44 pm
Posted by DoUrden
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Member since Oct 2011
26158 posts
Posted on 2/6/15 at 12:53 pm to
reinstalling the drivers is my next step.

40% oc on the cpu
no oc on the gpu's
Posted by DoUrden
UnderDark
Member since Oct 2011
26158 posts
Posted on 2/6/15 at 5:45 pm to
It looks like the driver reinstall may have fixed it. Time to run 3dmark.

Posted by DoUrden
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Member since Oct 2011
26158 posts
Posted on 2/6/15 at 5:53 pm to
Back in bidness!



Posted by ILikeLSUToo
Central, LA
Member since Jan 2008
18018 posts
Posted on 2/6/15 at 8:31 pm to
well there ya go. Any other problems?
Posted by stout
Porte du Lafitte
Member since Sep 2006
181955 posts
Posted on 2/6/15 at 8:35 pm to
Anyone here have a Raspberry Pi? I see the Pi 2 just released and I am probably going to order one to tinker with.

Might build it into an old NES and make an emulator out of it.
Posted by DoUrden
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Member since Oct 2011
26158 posts
Posted on 2/7/15 at 3:34 pm to
quote:

well there ya go. Any other problems?


None that I can tell. I can't think of anytime I could tell the the slow .5 gig has affected me.
Posted by BoogerNuts
Lake Charles
Member since Nov 2013
938 posts
Posted on 2/8/15 at 7:26 pm to
Well after my fittings finally came in after a bit of a shipping fiasco, I've got the whole rig built. Taking a break for the rest of the night; gonna fill and test the loop tomorrow. I will get better pics of everything when its all up and running...can't wait. I wished for tiny hands many times during this build.


Posted by ILikeLSUToo
Central, LA
Member since Jan 2008
18018 posts
Posted on 2/8/15 at 7:41 pm to
Very nice.

When leak testing, wrap every fitting in toilet paper (as opposed to paper towels or cloth). Tiny leaks show up much more visibly that way and still helps protect your components.
Posted by sbr2
Member since Apr 2011
15421 posts
Posted on 2/8/15 at 7:43 pm to
PC won't power on :-(
Posted by sbr2
Member since Apr 2011
15421 posts
Posted on 2/8/15 at 8:46 pm to
For real though, powered it down last night with no issue and no response when I hit the power button tonight. I swapped out the power cable and still no juice, when I toggled the I/O the lights on the motherboard came on but still no juice.
Posted by UltimateHog
Thailand
Member since Dec 2011
69472 posts
Posted on 2/8/15 at 8:48 pm to
RIP
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