re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

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Thank you I do plan on adding another card down the line as well. If that changes anything.

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No big deal to me. Buy the case you like. Just didn't want you to think you need all that room, even if you add a second card. A lot of people tend to prefer small form factor. But personally I have a case that makes full towers look like steam boxes.

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New PC part picker:

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Much better. About the monitor ... I don't know what kind of panel is in the BenQ, or if you care about the displayport and HDMI, but you can get a QNIX QX2710 glossy perfect pixel on ebay for $299. They use Samsung PLS panels and ship from Korea (surprisingly, the shipping takes like 2-3 days though). I have no knowledge of the BenQ to say whether it's better or worse, though.

If anybody wants to put their glorious rigs to the test, Steam has The Vanishing of Ethan Carter on sale right now for $7.99

I picked it up, eye candy galore...
I pushed the game all the way to 4k resolution using the DSR ability of my 980. It sure is pretty that way and was still getting 40-50 FPS.

The 970s should perform better.
You don't have to have a 4k monitor, use DSR in your nvidia control panel to render the game in 4k then it down-converts it to your native resolution.
Open the nvidia control panel (Not nvidia experience panel) and it is under the 3D settings tab.
You can enable DSR at different levels. I have 2x and 4x enabled. You can then select the higher resolutions in your games.
Usually, you can do without AA at this point.

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I pushed the game all the way to 4k resolution using the DSR ability of my 980. It sure is pretty that way and was still getting 40-50 FPS.

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How much vram was it using at that point? I'm curious if SLI 980s could keep it at 60fps consistently, or if the vram is the sole bottleneck.

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Usually, you can do without AA at this point.

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Sometimes, FXAA or a hair of SMAA can bring it over the top. At least in 4K DSR. I've never seen true 4K gaming on a monitor in person.

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How much vram was it using at that point?

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I did some testing running at 3840 x 2160 DSR:
This is with all game settings on max other than AA.

This is with an i5 2500k OC to 4.2 ghz, 16GB RAM, MSI 980 Gaming 4G OC model.

Disabled - A fairly steady 60 FPS and around 1 gig of vram used

2XMSAA - 45-50 FPS, about 1.6 gig of vram used

4XMSAA - A cinematic 30FPS with about 1.8 gig of vram used

8XCSAA - Crashed

2xFSAA - 55-60 FPS with about 1.4 gig of vram used

System RAM usage at a max of 7 gig.

My poor little i5 2500k was maxed out. Definitely the bottleneck here and most definitely would render more FPS with a better CPU. This is my next upgrade later this year. Waiting on the next gen from Intel at this point.

So for this game, VRAM is not the issue at all, seems to be CPU bound for me. I would expect a dual card setup with a faster CPU to be able to run this game very well at 4k.

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Here's a couple of screenshots in 4K from The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. This is with everything maxed except AA.
Running at a fairly steady 60FPS with AA turned off. Really don't need it though at this resolution.
You can see some jaggies on the power lines, but not bad really.

Shot 1

Shot 2

Did you see the Newegg sale on the Samsung 850 pro? 512GB for 250.

itunes though?