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SlayVus posted:So I haven't updated my drivers in a bit, sitting on 314.22. I think the reason why I didn't update was because there were problems with the cards not down clocking while not in use among other things. Should I update or stay where I am? Single GTX 680.
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td4guy posted:I'm in the same boat as this guy. Anyone? You should try updating, and even consider running it as a clean install unless you have some spectacular settings you will miss dearly. I have not had a single issue with the current beta.
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Gonkish posted:FWIW, like I said, the 760 is really god damned impressive. Everything I've thrown at it thus far it has eaten up and asked for more. It's basically a faster, less-expensive 670, after all.
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Any word on new generation cards coming out late this year or early next year, in response to the new consoles launching? I'm right on the cusp of putting together a completely new system, and I'm curious if Nvidia/AMD are going to have any major generational changes in their next batch of cards to bring them in line with any new tech in the console GPU's, or if it'll be just business as usual and I don't need to bother waiting.
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The "new tech" in console GPUs is the same tech that's been in the HD 7000 series for well over a year now. But we are expecting new Radeons for the holidays. No new GeForces for a while, though, except the super-high-end Titan Ultra (uncut GK110) and GTX 790 (dual GK110 SLI on a card).
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Digital Jesus posted:(Watch_Dogs, BF4/COD:G, Titanfall, The Division). I know this poo poo is impossible to predict but that's my goal nonetheless. I can tell you that Watch Dogs is going to be one of those titles that are far more taxing on the CPU than on the GPU. And if my experience on that title is any indication, I think this is going to be the same for many of the "PC port" next gen titles. In short, the consoles are much more efficient at multithreading rendering. You can issue draw calls from multiple threads with little to no overhead. On the other hand, on PC, something between the GPU driver and the Windows DDI adds a ton of overhead to multithreaded draw calls, to the point it can perform worse than single threaded. So you're better off with a CPU with faster single core performance than a GPU, as your rendering speed will be dictated by the critical path of the rendering thread. There's still some time for GPU driver developers to try to address this before next gen launches, but I'm not holding my breath. Of course, this is entirely dependent on the engine, and I'm sure there are better performing examples out there. But that should be even more indicative of waiting for the games to actually launch before shopping hardware for them.
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I'm thinking about moving from 1080p to 1440p or multi-monitor gaming. I currently have a Sapphire HD 7950 and was wondering if it would run in crossfire with a MSI HD 7950. I realize that for CF or SLI, it would typically be better to get the same/similar card, but wasn't sure if I could use the MSI branded with a Sapphire. I ask because after rebate then MSI 7950 is only $179.99(!!!). It also comes with three free games on top of the price cut. I am having a hard time not purchasing it but wanted to see what the thread thought first. Bad idea? Will it work?
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Looks like anyone buying an EVGA 760 or 770 can now get a free backplate:http://www.evga.com/articles/00779/ posted:Awesome Card, Awesome Deal http://www.evga.com/articles/00779/
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I am a cynical bastard because the first thing I thought was "Oh poo poo, they found something they missed in QA!"
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Mad_Patter posted:Different vendors and crossfire: Will it work? There shouldn't be any problems, but only do crossfire on a single monitor, multi monitor and frame pacing is not working yet.
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Alereon posted:I am a cynical bastard because the first thing I thought was "Oh poo poo, they found something they missed in QA!" It's only two specific models, meaning anyone who bought a 760/770 but didn't get THOSE TWO SPECIFIC MODELS (like me) don't get poo poo.
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Gonkish posted:It's only two specific models, meaning anyone who bought a 760/770 but didn't get THOSE TWO SPECIFIC MODELS (like me) don't get poo poo. I also notice it's only for the models with the ACX cooler, the 770 with the blower (eg: Titan/780 cooler) doesn't get one, neither does 4gb version it seems....
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Fuzz1111 posted:For me, that's a big part of why it sounds like a fix for some underlying problem. I have an EVGA GTX780, why isn't it important for my PCB to be re-enforced? Where's my goddamned backplate!? I find that very odd. The ACX coolers already have an 'inner plate' that reinforces the cards. It seems to me like the blower models need the backplate. Regardless of the reason, saving $20 on the backplate is awesome. I am a sucker who bought a 780 Classified and a backplate. So. poor.
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The 780/Titan blower is metal and I'd have thought it would provide all the rigidity needed. I didn't even know you could buy a backplate as an optional extra though, so I guess I'll just stick with "where's my goddamned backplate evga!?"
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I don't even know why we need backplates but now I want one!
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Backplates are kinda important with the larger custom coolers since long PCBs tend to flex, so if the card already has a metal plate and they're still providing a backplate they may be worried about long-term warranty issues or something.
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I just wish that I'd be able to get one, considering I bought a 760 (it's the 4GB model because reasons), but nope.
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So a major fire broke out in Hynix.quote:SK Hynix Inc, the world’s second-largest maker of computer-memory chips, suspended operations at a factory in China after a fire. http://www.kitguru.net/components/memory/faith/hynix-fabs-on-fire-after-chemical-explosion/ So uh, gently caress waiting and buy a GPU immediately?
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I'm a bit worried about what this'll do to the PS4 stock after the first wave as well. e: Looks like this might effect ssd prices more than gpus. quote:A massive fire broke out this afternoon (local time), at a SK Hynix production facility in Wuxi, China. At this moment, pictures and videos of the fire are swarming through local social networks, and there are no official announcements by either the local authorities, or the company itself. Incidentally, this isn't the first fire accident at an SK Hynix manufacturing facility, a Korea-based fab suffered one in February 2008. The facility hit by fire is rumored to be one that handles packaging (placing bumped dies inside ceramic or plastic shells, and labeling them). If the extant of damage to the facility is high, it might affect NAND flash prices more than DRAM, since the company recently prioritized NAND flash over DRAM for the facility. http://www.techpowerup.com/190121/massive-fire-at-sk-hynix-facility-in-wuxi-china.html Either way this is still terrible and I hope no one was killed. MagusDraco fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Sep 4, 2013 |
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Mutation posted:From what I heard no one was killed, just a dude injured. That's good. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/china-hynix-idUSL2N0H013R20130904?irpc=932 It also looks like no "material damage" was caused to the clean room where the chips are made so Hynix really lucked out. They are going to resume production shortly.
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My EVGA superclocked GTX 770 is here!  and drat is it a nice looking card. My last graphics card was a Powercolor Radeon and it was just ugly, but this... This is glorious.I'm a little bummed that Australia is apparently not part of the Arkham Origins promo, but I'm still happy with my purchase! I ended up going with the 770 over the 760 because there's a very real chance I'll get a 1440p screen shortly and wanted to keep the SLI option as a possible performance booster later when they drop in price (as opposed to getting two 760s and then having nowhere to go). Also, I hate money.
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The latest beta drivers (still the ones posted earlier that is) have done in two aspects of my overclock, I had to lower my memory clocks by 10MHz too, haha. I was getting artifacts in, of all things, Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm. Since this matters absolutely not at all, I don't really care, but it's kind of silly how driver revisions can take a stable clock and make it unstable out of the blue (or into the blue...screen  ). I have no room to gripe, though, it's a loving GTX 780 at 1080p, I haven't met the game it can't run well at stock clocks, overclocking is pretty much academic and "just because it's what you do."
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Hey GPUGoons.. I have a GTX 560 Ti Fermi, and it's been locking up for several months with no real regularity. Most the times, I'm browsing the forums or youtube and the mouse will stop for a few seconds, then it'll work again, but nothing in windows responds. Then the mouse will lock up again and I'll have to reboot. I'm reading in the thread history and all around the internet that the 320 drivers pretty much borked some user's cards. I'm just not really finding any official word from Nvidia on it. I'll roll back to 314.xx when I get home and see if that fixes it, but I wanted to see if anyone knew of acknowledgement/eta on resolving this issue?
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Aexo posted:Hey GPUGoons.. I have a GTX 560 Ti Fermi, and it's been locking up for several months with no real regularity. Most the times, I'm browsing the forums or youtube and the mouse will stop for a few seconds, then it'll work again, but nothing in windows responds. Then the mouse will lock up again and I'll have to reboot. I'm reading in the thread history and all around the internet that the 320 drivers pretty much borked some user's cards. I'm just not really finding any official word from Nvidia on it. I'll roll back to 314.xx when I get home and see if that fixes it, but I wanted to see if anyone knew of acknowledgement/eta on resolving this issue? Update to the current beta. What are your temperatures while idle and doing nothing? Under load?
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So on my reference cooler, gtx 760, my fan is making a noise where its almost like theres a piece of paper hitting the fan, and brushing up against it. It's really annoying. Anything I can do?
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jink posted:Looks like anyone buying an EVGA 760 or 770 can now get a free backplate: gently caress them, the 4GB models are not included in this? What the gently caress, first Amazon fucks me out of Blacklist and now this? 
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deimos posted:gently caress them, the 4GB models are not included in this? What the gently caress, first Amazon fucks me out of Blacklist and now this? This is Nvidia's way of telling you to fuckoff.  They clearly want you to buy the upcoming GTX 790.
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Phiberoptik posted:So on my reference cooler, gtx 760, my fan is making a noise where its almost like theres a piece of paper hitting the fan, and brushing up against it. It's really annoying. Anything I can do?
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An Unoriginal Name posted:Update to the current beta. Current beta didn't help, unfortunatley. ~35 idle and no more than 75 under load.
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Aexo posted:Current beta didn't help, unfortunatley. 35 idle is within the normal range I believe. I myself idle at 37, under load around 58-64. Agrajag fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Sep 7, 2013 |
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Yeah, I realized I had my case fans on low when I did the test. Re-running it with the case fans cranked, I'm getting around 70 degrees. Still not as low as you, but I don't think it's anything to be concerned about, especially since most the lock ups occur when I'm just web browsing.
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Aexo posted:Hey GPUGoons.. I have a GTX 560 Ti Fermi, and it's been locking up for several months with no real regularity. Most the times, I'm browsing the forums or youtube and the mouse will stop for a few seconds, then it'll work again, but nothing in windows responds. Then the mouse will lock up again and I'll have to reboot. I'm reading in the thread history and all around the internet that the 320 drivers pretty much borked some user's cards. I'm just not really finding any official word from Nvidia on it. I'll roll back to 314.xx when I get home and see if that fixes it, but I wanted to see if anyone knew of acknowledgement/eta on resolving this issue? I'm in the same boat as you, running a 560Ti and started having issues about a month ago. Although my issue is the driver stops responding and Windows is unable to restart it so I get the dreaded BSOD. Don't remember exactly what driver I was using when it first started happening but reverted to 314.22 and didn't have a problem for a month until I decided to try the latest beta drivers. Ran fine for about a week and when I got home today Windows had recovered from a blue screen so again I've reverted back to 314.22 and we'll see what happens. Temps were pretty much what you stated above, ~35C idle and about 70C on load.
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Hey, I bought a new EVGA superclocked gtx660 and I'm wondering about temperatures. It can go over 70C° under load at 60-70% fanspeed in demanding games. Is this normal or do I have a problem?
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That's normal.
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LCD Deathpanel posted:Is there a cable or wire touching it? Is it under warranty? If it's not then your only other options are to deal with it or go with aftermarket cooling, though if it's under warranty you may be able to get it replaced. No cables touching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxMV8YFFJgs Is that typical for noise?
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Phiberoptik posted:Is that typical for noise?
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No, that does not sound typical, IMO. It's too rattle-y. I'd contact the manufacturer, probably get an RMA for the card.
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Factory Factory posted:No, that does not sound typical, IMO. It's too rattle-y. I'd contact the manufacturer, probably get an RMA for the card. If you want a second opinion, yeah that's the sound of something wrong - either the fan making contact with something poking up under the shroud, or the motor having severe issues. RMA all day everyday. Wait, no, just as often as needed and hopefully not often at that.
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