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Does anyone know a good guide to overclocking a GPU? I am pretty happy with my 780 but want to eek out that extra performance. Happily it was able to run Witcher 2 at Max (except ubersampling) at 30 fps at 3860 x 2070. Wouldn't mine getting it up to 40 fps. I have EVGA Precision X downloaded but I am not sure exactly where to start. Overclocked my Ivy Bridge i5 before fine so have some experience.
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cheesetriangles posted:Does anyone know a good guide to overclocking a GPU? I am pretty happy with my 780 but want to eek out that extra performance. Happily it was able to run Witcher 2 at Max (except ubersampling) at 30 fps at 3860 x 2070. Wouldn't mine getting it up to 40 fps. I have EVGA Precision X downloaded but I am not sure exactly where to start. Overclocked my Ivy Bridge i5 before fine so have some experience. What display setup do you have that uses 3860 x 2070?
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Shaocaholica posted:What display setup do you have that uses 3860 x 2070? Probably meant 3840*2160
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madsushi posted:Probably meant 3840*2160 Unless its a single 4K display, thats an odd resolution for mutli monitor right?
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cheesetriangles posted:Does anyone know a good guide to overclocking a GPU? I am pretty happy with my 780 but want to eek out that extra performance. Happily it was able to run Witcher 2 at Max (except ubersampling) at 30 fps at 3860 x 2070. Wouldn't mine getting it up to 40 fps. I have EVGA Precision X downloaded but I am not sure exactly where to start. Overclocked my Ivy Bridge i5 before fine so have some experience. Assuming you mean 4k, I wouldn't worry about getting more than 30fps, since hdmi doesn't support 60hz@4k. Apparently displayport 1.2 does, but seemingly almost nothing uses dp 1.2.
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Did mean 3840 x 2160 sorry. Also I was using downsampling. My monitor is only 1080p. Decided to stop using OGSSAA though and use SGSSAA instead. At 3840 x 2160 only half the games I tested worked properly. Probably a lack of Vram on the 780.
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Is there any Nvidia comparable to the 7850? I don't play TOO much video games outside some CS:GO and whatever else I can find on a Friday night. I am currently selling my 6950(flashed 6970), thinking I can get 150 for it on the goon mart. The two cards I am looking at are, The 560 Ti BOOST http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127731 and The 7850 1Gb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202004 I am leaning more towards the 7850 as it comes with 3 games I don't have, and from what I can tell the 7850 seems to do a bit better. However, I can't seem to find some benches of the 1GB model of the 7850. Going from Anand the 7850 seems to pull ahead, however like I said I am unsure how much the lower vRAM affects it. Most my gaming will be at 1920x1080, however I am getting a second monitor soon. Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jun 2, 2013 |
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Corvettefisher posted:Is there any Nvidia comparable to the 7850? Also if it's flashable you can probably get more than $150 for it, especially since people are buying them up for bitcoin mining. Price it to used 6970's instead if it's stable at 6970 reference clocks.
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LCD Deathpanel posted:Why are you selling your videocard to do a sidegrade? For an appreciable upgrade on the AMD side you'd need at minimum a 7950, and maybe a 660ti on the Nvidia side. Going to a 560ti or 7850 wouldn't change performance at all really. If it's because of the reference fan on the 6950, you could always replace it with aftermarket if it bothers you or something (that's what I did with mine because the reference fan is a piece of poo poo). The Flashed 6970 I have, 1) won't fit in my new case, 2) I doubt my 460w PSU won't power it, 3) is a small space heater. I sold off the parts of the PC it was originally in to build my ESXi server, I'm actually running off a 8600GTS right now. Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Jun 2, 2013 |
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Well did some googling and watched some youtube and got a 190 mhz overclock on the gpu clock and 280 mhz on the memory overclock for my 780. Might me able to push it further because it was totally stable and temps never went above 70 degrees.
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Nondescript Van posted:That is the exact opposite of a phantom.
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Corvettefisher posted:The Flashed 6970 I have, 1) won't fit in my new case, 2) I doubt my 460w PSU won't power it, 3) is a small space heater. I'm almost tempted to see if I can flip mine to bitcoiners, but I don't know if I want to go through that much  for more videocard noise and a minor performance upgrade. If I was limited by case size like you I'd probably be more likely to look into an exchange.
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cheesetriangles posted:Well did some googling and watched some youtube and got a 190 mhz overclock on the gpu clock and 280 mhz on the memory overclock for my 780. Might me able to push it further because it was totally stable and temps never went above 70 degrees. First, you have some INSANE ideas about how to go about making games look pretty, unless I'm misunderstanding you - for real, games look better downsampled from an absurd resolution as opposed to high levels of conventional or more modern AA methods that aren't quite so demanding? I mean, godspeed if that's your roll, just, woooah. I thought I was nuts for scouring the net for SGSSAA compatibility bits for any game that doesn't support TXAA (my new favorite in-practice AA method, that guy is so good at making games look great - performance hit closer to 4xMSAA thank 8x with graphics that can't really even be compared to any MSAA because it's a whole different *look* entirely, I'll take it over SMAA or FXAA or MLAA any chance I get. I wish I got more chances.) Second, I would be careful to call it stable 'til you've played a lot of games with it. Seriously, video card overclocking is way more situational thanks to video card drivers and videogame engines basically being a whole bunch of rather specific hacks that work with the logic in this or that very specific way. And the DX9, DX10, DX11, and OpenGL stuff may or may not be stable at the same clocks. I wish it were as easy as CPU overclocking where you've basically got two or three utilities and you can say with a very, very high degree of confidence that all is working as it should, there just aren't things like that for GPUs. The stress tests and tech demos help but they aren't definitive and artifacts can pop up in unexpected places. But hopefully your OC holds - what kind of performance increase are you seeing relative to clockrate increase on the GPU especially? Agreed fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Jun 2, 2013 |
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Well I didn't really record any FPS from before the overclock. I have been playing a wide variety of games all night and didn't have any problems but I understand what you mean. We will see if it holds. I decided to give up on OGSSAA because it wasn't giving enough benefit for the performance hit. Just gonna stick with SGSSAA. Games do really look insane when downsampled however. Check out the NeoGaf bullshot thread for some examples.
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cheesetriangles posted:Well did some googling and watched some youtube and got a 190 mhz overclock on the gpu clock and 280 mhz on the memory overclock for my 780. Might me able to push it further because it was totally stable and temps never went above 70 degrees. Mind posting the video and the model of the card that you have?
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http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184701 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDfIxE8gQbY EVGA GTX 780 standard edition.
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Corvettefisher posted:The Flashed 6970 I have, 1) won't fit in my new case, 2) I doubt my 460w PSU won't power it, 3) is a small space heater. If you're worried about space and power consumption but can afford to put in a little extra money for an actual upgrade, there's this 670. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121768&Tpk=670%20mini&IsVirtualParent=1 It pulls less power than your old 6970 neé 6950.
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I'm not sure if this would go better in the Haus of Tech Support, but I recently decided that I wanted to move my computer from the gigantic case it's in currently to a mini-ITX case instead so it takes up less room on my desktop. I've used everything I had previously except the motherboard (including a full size Geforce 670) and now the second I install the drivers downloaded from Nvidia's site and restart, the picture on the monitor will switch off about 5 seconds after Windows loads and then will occasionally flicker back on for half a second every so often. It does this in both Windows 7 x64 and Windows 8 x64 and with all of the drivers I've tried (306.97, 310.70, 310.90, 314.22 and 320.18) and I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure out what the hell is wrong since I had this card working with no issues previously. This seems to be a relatively common problem with Nvidia drivers on Win7/8 x64 and Nvidia even have a KB article about it which hasn't helped at all. I can uninstall the drivers from safe mode and it'll work normally immediately but the second I reinstall the drivers either from the Nvidia site or Windows Update it starts flickering again. I've also tried using Driver Fusion to wipe out any traces of the drivers that are left with no luck. I'm still using the same CPU (i7-3770K), RAM and power supply (850w Corsair) that I had in the old case and the only thing that's really changed is the motherboard, which is now an Intel DH77DF mini-ITX board. Has anyone here run across anything similar?
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:If you're worried about space and power consumption but can afford to put in a little extra money for an actual upgrade, there's this 670. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121768&Tpk=670%20mini&IsVirtualParent=1 Ha look at that, I appreciate it but I went with the 7850, the 3 free games and the fact I really don't need that much power for Source based games.
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How important is the amount of VRAM above 2GB? I am considering a GTX 770, and Gigabyte has a 4GB version that is out of stock everywhere for ~$460 (http://tinyurl.com/n373wp3), where the other options are 2GB and ~$400 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127741). I occasionally do multi-monitor gaming (2 1920x1200) is the extra 2GB of VRAM worth waiting or paying for? VV Thanks Alereon VV Hollis Brown fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Jun 3, 2013 |
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Hollis Brown posted:How important is the amount of VRAM above 2GB? I am considering a GTX 770, and Gigabyte has a 4GB version that is out of stock everywhere for ~$460 (http://tinyurl.com/n373wp3), where the other options are 2GB and ~$400 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127741). I occasionally do multi-monitor gaming (2 1920x1200) is the extra 2GB of VRAM worth waiting or paying for?
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Alereon posted:Yes, buying a 2GB card would be a very poor choice if you want the ability to do multi-monitor gaming. You also mentioned earlier in the thread about getting 4GB in general to be a good idea. Is that also because of the prospect of console port games utilizing future systems' shared 8GB of GDDR5 memory?
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Hollis Brown posted:How important is the amount of VRAM above 2GB? I am considering a GTX 770, and Gigabyte has a 4GB version that is out of stock everywhere for ~$460 (http://tinyurl.com/n373wp3), where the other options are 2GB and ~$400 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127741). I occasionally do multi-monitor gaming (2 1920x1200) is the extra 2GB of VRAM worth waiting or paying for? You can get a Radeon 7970 GHZ Edition for $400 or even a little less after rebates. It's also generally faster. Of course, it has 3GiB. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Jun 3, 2013 |
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:You also mentioned earlier in the thread about getting 4GB in general to be a good idea. Is that also because of the prospect of console port games utilizing future systems' shared 8GB of GDDR5 memory?
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TheRationalRedditor posted:It has nothing to do with consoles, it's because recent and upcoming graphically intense titles can eat all of 2GB VRAM on ultra settings at 2560x1440 right now. I'm graphics-effects-dumb, how much of that can be taken up by the various methods of anti-aliasing? And where does memory bus size come into all of that? I've read a few comments on various 770 reviews somewhat lamenting missing out on the 384-bit bandwidth that came with GK110 cards like the 780 and Titan. Does the blistering 7 Ghz memory clock on the 770 somewhat make up for it?
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Memory bandwidth will do squat for high resolutions like 1440p, those pixels are eating the memory.
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If you're still looking for a gtx 780 sc with the acx cooler you'd probably have better luck in the evga store than amazon. They are typically out of stock but go briefly in stock at about 6:50pm eastern for about 20 minutes. I snagged one on Friday and it shipped today.
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Nondescript Van posted:If you're still looking for a gtx 780 sc with the acx cooler you'd probably have better luck in the evga store than amazon. They are typically out of stock but go briefly in stock at about 6:50pm eastern for about 20 minutes. I snagged one on Friday and it shipped today. But after reading the last few pages I'm a little worried that the 3GB memory may end up disappointing me when I inevitably go 5760 x 1080 
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randyest posted:Same here; amazon and newegg were leaving me in the cold for a week, then I was able to get one from EVGA direct (no tax, $5 shipping) in 1 day after setting up auto-notify. It'll be here Thursday... A single 780 will struggle at 3x1080p no matter how much vram you have, unless you start turning things down.
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Magic Underwear posted:A single 780 will struggle at 3x1080p no matter how much vram you have, unless you start turning things down.
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randyest posted:Even the ACX 780 SC? Would a 2nd one SLI'd be enough even though they're just 3GB each? http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU13/578 - A Titan gets 37 FPS in Far Cry 3 Ultra quality @ 3x1080p. Other games are similar, 30-40fps. SLI 780s would be pretty beastly even at 3x1080p. I think 3GB would be sufficient, but I can't say for sure.
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Magic Underwear posted:http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU13/578 - A Titan gets 37 FPS in Far Cry 3 Ultra quality @ 3x1080p. Other games are similar, 30-40fps. I was just worried about the vram because I understand SLI'd 3GB cards is still 3GB effective, so I'd hate to get SLI two 780's and find I'm memory limited at 3x1080p. randyest fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Jun 4, 2013 |
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EVGA Custom cooled 780 GTX is in stock from EVGA: http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=03G-P4-2784-KR Saw it was out of stock at Newegg and Amazon so I'm assuming its a fairly hot item! emuporium fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Jun 4, 2013 |
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:I'm graphics-effects-dumb, how much of that can be taken up by the various methods of anti-aliasing? And where does memory bus size come into all of that? I've read a few comments on various 770 reviews somewhat lamenting missing out on the 384-bit bandwidth that came with GK110 cards like the 780 and Titan. Does the blistering 7 Ghz memory clock on the 770 somewhat make up for it? Buying a >2gb card is mostly about the larger textures available in the big PC releases. Personally I'd say it's only a major requirement if you're buying an expensive card that you plan to keep for years. With a midrange 2gb card you might have to lower the game's texture setting a notch from ultra quality, meh. Not a huge deal, I'll keep going with cheaper cards more frequently myself. I'm sure by the time 2gb feels constricting I'll be ready for a new one.
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HalloKitty posted:You can get a Radeon 7970 GHZ Edition for $400 or even a little less after rebates. It's also generally faster. Of course, it has 3GiB. I for one will most likely never buy another AMD card regardless of price or performance. It's not worth it to deal with the frame latency issues plaguing AMD cards lately, or the constantly buying a new game only to find that you can't play it properly for three weeks while AMD unfucks their drivers. I bought a gtx680 when my 5970 died, and have had exactly zero headaches since.
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The Lord Bude posted:I bought a gtx680 when my 5970 died, and have had exactly zero headaches since.
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Klyith posted:Only super-sampling AA requires additional memory capacity in any significant way. Multi-sampling needs memory bandwidth, and the various post-process types (FX-, TX-, ML-, and SMAA) hit GPU shader performance hardest (also needing memory and bandwidth to varying extents, but less so). Alereon fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Jun 4, 2013 |
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