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Seamonster posted:I was hoping for an unfucking of Crossfire so 2 of these would crank on 4K gaming reasonably well but then 2 GB of 256 bit wide memory? Also means the added expense of the 4GB cards will make crossfiring even more of a no go. I'm pretty sure two of those wouldn't be enough for 4K even with more VRAM. 4K is in 2x780ti/2x290x territory right now.
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Mr.PayDay posted:Total Biscuit showed in his "WTF is Shadow of Mordor" the Texture Quality Settings. The "Ultra" Texture Packs needs 6 GB of VRAM. No, VRAM is not additive in SLI or Crossfire. edit: drat, beaten by a hair.
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Fauxtool posted:I understand how consoles can run nice looking games while having lower end specs due to having consistent hardware that makes it easier to squeeze every bit of power out. Well, there are different reasons for different games, it seems. For example, Far Cry 4 was coded such that it very specifically wants to run its main thread on the third CPU. If you've only got two, no dice. edit: There's really no good reason for a game to not work at all because there are only two processors available. Any multithreaded program should work on a system with any number of processors, even one, although it might slow down a lot. I feel like ever since early 2014 or so there's been a trend of AAA PC ports demanding a lot of hardware, more than seems right. It's possible that modern AAA games are genuinely doing a lot more work under the hood. But the evidence seems to suggest that a lot of games are just poorly coded to begin with, or get that way when they're ported. Yaoi Gagarin fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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Josh Lyman posted:Aside from Freesync (and I don't plan on buying a Freesync monitor anytime soon), is there anything on my 290 I'd be giving up by going to a 970? That cozy feeling of warmth when you cuddle your PC. 
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Mutation posted:Wait, did he say that their Sandy Bridge software processor is only almost as fast as a Voodoo 3 2000? CPU-side rendering really, really sucks, especially since the code from 1999 is, at best, using SSE1.
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Don Lapre posted:DX13 is where AMD is really going to win. And OpenGL Romulan.
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Germstore posted:Thanks. With new hardware I'm always worried I got a lemon, but with GPUs the expectation of them never loving up is probably unrealistic. It's probably just something in the driver, tbh. If there was anything even slightly wrong with the hardware, you'd probably know by now.
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I have a 280x that's recently started overheating. It idles at 53C in a room that's probably about 20C ambient. The idle frequency is 500 Mhz, the load frequency is 1020 Mhz, and under load the temperature keeps rising until eventually it hits 99C and the card throttles back to 500. There's no way the chip could suddenly start drawing more power, right? This is probably just a cooler problem? The card overheats even if I up the fan speed to 100% in Afterburner or CCC.
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VelociBacon posted:Cooler problem, is it absolutely full of dust or cat hair? Are your case intake/exhaust fans working? Case fans are working. I'll pull the card out and take a look, you're probably right about the dust. I've been using this card for about a year and the last case didn't have any filters.
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I posted here before about my 280X's temperature problems. After thoroughly cleaning and repasting the heatsink I saw a 10-15C drop in temperatures, but recently I've been seeing crashes while playing games. It turns out that under load, the card's temperature steadily rises until it hits 75C, at which point it immediately crashes the entire system. It's 100% reproducible, seems to happen sooner or later in every game, and only takes a minute to do in FurMark. Even at 100% fan speed. It's like the heatsink is literally incapable of dissipating heat fast enough. There's a couple of things that make this situation pretty weird. First, I got this card refurbished in July of 2014, and the heat problems didn't start until this past summer. Is it possible for the cooler to degrade over time? It's not even a stock blower or anything, it's an MSI GAMING 3G. Second, it's strange that the failure point is 75C. That's new, from within the last few days. Last summer the problem was that the card would hit 100C and then throttle to 500 MHz, and the repasting fixed that. I'm not sure what would cause this behavior, could the GPU itself be damaged? I'd be willing to try one of those Arctic aftermarket coolers, but their website doesn't seem to have a compatibility list for specific boards. Does anyone know if the GAMING 3G uses a different PCB than a stock 280X? I could also just buy a 970 but that's a last resort option right now, I'd rather keep a perfectly good card and wait for Pascal.
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Ozz81 posted:^ My thoughts exactly, especially with Furmark crashing in under a minute. Vostok, do you know how old and what wattage your PSU is? Only eight months old, an EVGA supernova 550 GS. Got a pretty good review: http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story6&reid=438 Seamonster posted:Check your VRM temps, bruh. You rightfully expect the card to throttle once the GPU temp hits a certain point but most BIOSes don't give a poo poo about VRM temps and VRMs start to poo poo out past a certain temp too. When I get home from work I'll look at the VRM temps. Can I see that in MSI Afterburner or do I need something else?
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Ozz81 posted:I think you can still use tools like GPU-Z to show you the temp of the VRMs at idle and load, it has a Sensors tab that shows what's monitored. If it's not the PSU or anything else the card might just be bad, might be worth swapping parts around if you've got a spare card to test with. GPU-Z doesn't show VRM temperature, nor does Afterburner. I think it's probably not exposed by the driver for this card. I guess I'll buy both a PSU and GPU and return whichever doesn't fix the problem. e: Power consumption scales linearly with frequency, correct? I underclocked the card to 510 Mhz and it still crashed around 70C. Does that exonerate the PSU? Yaoi Gagarin fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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In the end the problem was with the GPU after all.  280X, you did good.... Does anyone know a nice 970 OC guide they could link me to?
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Funnily enough I had no trouble with amd drivers for the last five years across three cards until my 280x actually started to die, but since getting a 970 a couple months ago I've been experiencing driver crashes intermittently. Sometimes it won't even be during a game, but while watching a video. One time the driver got stuck in a loop of crashing and restarting until I escaped the full screen twitch stream. Then I spent five minutes clicking the X button on the windows 10 notifications it spawned 
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Gonkish posted:This latest driver (368.39) is loving godawful. I'm on dual 760s right now and I had to roll back to the previous driver just to get basic stability back. It was crashing randomly, even doing basic poo poo in Windows (like playing Youtube videos) and poo poo. Swapping back solved all of that instantly and things are back to normal. There's something seriously fucky going on with 368.39, and the 10xx series is stuck with it. This sounds a lot like my problem. Is there a particular stable version I can roll back to?
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wicka posted:agreed, progress is not real Don't be a revisionist 
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Harik posted:I gave GPU passthrough a try, to free up one of my machines for other stuff. Apparently yes, but if you're using KVM there's a way to hide that it's a virtual machine Though I haven't done it myself but I've been reading various VFIO guides and that's what they say
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I had a fun graphical hiccup today. My screen became pixelated, some of the colors messed up, and the whole thing "vibrated." It looked like something out of a movie where the bad guy subverts a computer system. After a few seconds it stopped and everything was normal, not even a notification saying the driver had to restart.
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Risky Bisquick posted:Seems like you like to live on the edge placing not one, but both MXM cards on the outside of an anti-static bag. People do this at work all the time and I feel sad but don't correct them... 
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Josh Lyman posted:About 12 years ago, I remember Nvidia's cafeteria having a reputation for being the best in Silicon Valley and employees from other companies (like Intel) would go there to eat. They just let people from other companies use their cafeteria?
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Paul MaudDib posted:hahahahah I told you fucks that GPU manufacturers wouldn't be able to hold back from intervening when lovely DX12/Vulkan coders wrote garbage code that ran like poo poo on your architecture, the pressure to have your hardware look good isn't going anywhere It is funny how we've come around, but even so it makes sense. A world where you can choose between using a well-defined low-level API and a high-level API implemented in terms of the low-level API is still better than one where your only option is a high-level API with pure magic underneath
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Zero VGS posted:Okay, I have a GTX 1080, playing Mass Effect Andromeda in true Fullscreen, with the Asus 34" Ultrawide Gsync monitor running at 100hz, Gsync is set to "enable Gsync for windowed and fullscreen mode", Vsync and Triple Buffering were on in the game options by default so I turned those off... What happens if you cap to less than the monitor's refresh rate, like 96 E: Gsync only works when your fps is less than the monitor's refresh rate; if it's higher then your choices are to either enable traditional vsync, limit to less than the monitor's refresh rate, or enable fast sync in your Nvidia options (which is vsync with "real" triple buffering), all of which introduce some level of input lag Yaoi Gagarin fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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repiv posted:I can't comment on AMDs driver quality in general these days (haven't owned one of their cards for a while) but I find it hilarious that their cursor corruption bug refuses to die. Wait is this the bug where the cursor gets a weird outline that inverts the colors of whatever is behind it? That's an ATI/AMD driver bug??? I'd been seeing that for years and always just assumed it was a windows thing but I guess I haven't experienced it since I switched GPU sides...
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Isn't it because GCN has better integer operation throughput?
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repiv posted:Yeah, GCN has always kicked rear end at 32bit integer math. I do wonder why they chose to put so much power there, it seems like cryptocurrency and password cracking are the only applications that really need it and there's no way AMD saw Bitcoin coming. GCN was designed soon after GPGPU had become A Thing, right? Maybe they thought they should make a more balanced architecture, not knowing all the applications that might emerge in the future
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I think I just had my first-ever driver-induced bsod, at least on windows 10 The error code was VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE and I didn't fully catch the program name but it was nvldd-something. I have a feeling that my system isn't playing nicely with my gsync monitor. Sometimes when I launch or alt-tab from games on it both of my screens go black and I have to reboot the pc. Anyone else see stuff like that after getting a gsync monitor?
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Kazinsal posted:Profitability is tanking. Wait a couple months and then scoop some barely used GTX 1080s on the cheap. I'm kind of worried that this won't actually happen. Now that nicehash lets people mine whatever is most profitable at any point in time, and there are lots of cryptocurrencies to choose from, what if we have a situation where it's always profitable to be mining something on a GPU, and so the demand from miners never goes down? An eternal GPU famine...
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Zero VGS posted:My 7700k gets 4.2ghz with turbo disabled at 1.08v, which caps out at 50 watts, so yeah Intel still is the better value. But you're getting 50w at 4.2 on just four cores, he's describing an 8 core CPU at 3.0. That seems like a better deal to me
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I got a 970 that sits at 99% utilization when I'm playing battlefield 1 #WaitingForVolta
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At this point I'm really loving hoping all the crypto currency miners just roll over and die before Volta hits because I really want to get a new card
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Another data point for GPUmageddon: I was in microcenter yesterday and the one 1060 they had was 3 GB and cost $250
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Is an RX 560 or a GTX 1050ti a noticeable upgrade from an HD 6850? And how much would either of those cost if the market wasn't hosed right now?
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Thanks for the many responses to my question, everyone. Not going to quote them all for space. The person using the 6850 is for the most part fine with it since they play a lot of 2d games that would run well on anything. They've only had trouble in Skyrim. But if they ever want to play more recent games it's going to be a problem. Also this 6850 is now the noisiest component in the computer since I modernized everything else but the drives this weekend PBCrunch posted:Even if the difference in specifications isn't that great, the fact that Terascale driver development has been dead for years means either of those cards will beat an HD 6850 silly. From my experience even something as old as a GeForce GTX 460 smacks an HD 6850 around in newer games. Nvidia is still putting a tiny amount of effort into Fermi drivers. Yeah, it being old terascale is part of why I want to replace it. I set them up with the crimson relive beta driver for terascale and that seems to work ok at least.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I don't know. I really don't. I assumed it would be in the system tray or an application to find in the start menu. I seriously searched for half an hour a few weeks ago, and this time within 2 minutes of searching I found it. It definitely used to be in the system tray. I went looking for it last week as well and didn't realize it was in the right click menu until I googled where to find it
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