Retroblique posted:

A quick PSA. Somehow I've managed to go the last 30 months or so, since I built my current system, with my RAM (2x8GB sticks) in a single channel configuration instead of dual channel. I've no idea how that happened because I'm usually quite careful about that sort of thing, but I think it was a combination of my previous motherboard having the dual channels arranged consecutively rather than alternately, and the color coding being two shades of gray with low contrast.

I've had my suspicions that my GTX 1070 was somehow being bottlenecked, but I just assumed it was the CPU (i5-6600K), despite third party benchmarks suggesting that shouldn't really be the case. And I haven't been getting bad performance out of the GTX 1070, quite the contrary, but because I typically run stuff at 1440p, I just assumed it was perfectly normal to have to nudge various visual settings down from Ultra to Very High/High and go for a very basic AA setting to get framerates in the 45-60fps region. Other games (such as Doom) were staying at 60fps fine.

Last night I just so happened to come across some optimizing guide for Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Someone with a GTX 1070 was having framerate issues and while everyone was offering useful troubleshooting advice, one solution stood out, where it was recommended he check to see if his RAM was running in dual channel mode because many Ubisoft games can be quite RAM dependent. My initial reaction was, "Well, I'm not sure that'll help me, I'm 99% positive my RAM's dual channel because I always make sure it is!" And various replies to that suggestion suggested the performance difference between single channel and dual channel was near enough zero. But something compelled me to fire up CPU-Z, hit the memory tab, and sure enough my RAM was being reported as running in a single channel configuration. Five minutes later, I'd opened up my machine, swapped one of the sticks into its rightful slot, closed her up again, ready to fire up Odyssey to see if it had made any difference (and expecting there to be nothing).

HOLY loving poo poo.

It was like I'd upgraded my video card. Not only was Odyssey running at 60fps in 1440p, but I was able to crank all the settings up to maximum. I rode my horse around crowded areas, got into fights, no framerate dips whatsoever. Solid 60ps. I then started firing up other games. Watch Dogs 2? I previously had to turn a lot of poo poo way down to even get 45fps at 1440p, and even then the framerate wavered between 30-45fps and driving a car around anywhere would result in uneven framerates. Now I was able to crank everything up to Ultra and was driving around without any framerate issues. Tried a bunch of other stuff where I'd previously had to make small compromises -- Far Cry 5/New Dawn, Dishonored 2, Prey, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Hitman, Project Cars 2, No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Forza Horizon 4, etc. Everything was now running a buttery smooth 60fps at max settings.

Long story short, if you suspect your video card is underperforming vs. similar setups, CHECK YOUR RAM CHANNEL CONFIGURATION! And ignore anyone who says single vs. dual doesn't matter, because for me the difference in performance was like night and day. Now I feel like a right loving chump having gone so long with so much untapped power under the hood of my GTX 1070, but at the same time it's so liberating to get such a significant boost without having to spend a single dime.

BIG HEADLINE posted:

Recreational shooting/guns as a hobby (excluding those who make it a compulsion) makes PC building seem cheap.

Kraftwerk posted:

Just a quick tally again-
Who plans to get a reference card for the long run and who's going AIB?

akadajet posted:

I couldn’t find a windowless meshify c when I was looking. But the black tempered glass looks nice enough with no rgb stuff turned on

Romulux posted:

drat, that's cold.

Rabid Snake posted:

The video description is creepy AF

Rubellavator posted:

FE drop with a captcha, stuck on captcha.

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Paul MaudDib posted:

money can be exchanged for goods and services!