Celcius
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In the house.
Unboxing and benchmarking happening tomorrow live over Facebook at a local custom gaming PC builder.
Nice, what rig are you putting them in?
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Nice, what rig are you putting them in?
Strafebogey
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Here's the PCPartPicker list : http://pcpartpicker.com/list/Yfjtpb
With the twin Titan XPs taking over the three Titan XMs. Here's how it currently look now:
With the new component update, the color scheme (PSU shroud, fans, RAM, cables, screws, coolant, backlights) will be changed entirely from that fiery red theme to Nvidia/lime green. Starting with the coolant.
Waterblocks with backplates on preorder from EKWB too.
josecitoxnyo
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Will a 1200w PSU be enough to run a 6950x, 128gb of ram and 4 GTX 1080 G1 gaming??? I'm already running the system with 4 1070 G1 gaming and i was wondering if i could reach that stretch.
The PSU is this one. I know there are better, but it's the only one i could get for now. :/
The PSU is this one. I know there are better, but it's the only one i could get for now. :/
Got my EVGA 1080 FTW DT yesterday as well as my XB271. The card is huge! I had to install it in my lower PCI-E port just so I could see what I was doing. The Hyper212 cooler was getting in the way. I guess the card placement doesn't matter right? Anyway I was easily able to OC it to 2050 stable I don't see any reason to push it much further. Crazy how this card wasn't good enough for the "FTW" branding but still OCs to nearly the same level. Now I just need to figure out my video settings for this XB271. Any settings I need to change in my NVIDIA control panel to take full advantage of this monitor? I already OC'd it to 165hz. Not sure what else I should do.
hooijdonk17
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As of today I have joined the enlightened, wiped Windows 10 and reverted to Windows 7.
The joy is comparable to finally having a soft bowel movement after months of constipation.
The joy is comparable to finally having a soft bowel movement after months of constipation.
Any actual reason other than big bad MS stealing my data?
Unless you are benching you do know that Nvidia only supports 2 way SLI? If you have that kind of dough, you might as well sell your 1070s and get two Titan XPs.
In the house.
Unboxing and benchmarking happening tomorrow live over Facebook at a local custom gaming PC builder.
What did you have before?
hooijdonk17
Member
The anniversary update was the final straw. It started downloading in the most inappropriate moment, did not allow me to stop it, corrupted the setup files when I forcefully stopped it, was a pain in the ass to get to install again, and when I finally got it to install it decided the installation didn't go through correctly and rolled back to a state where the downloaded update was corrupted.
At that point I backed up my data and wiped it off. I can only take so much bullshit on a night when all I wanted to do was play some games.
Yes, although if you're spending that much on a build, why not go for a Gold or Platinum rated PSU? Not a good idea to cheap out on a PSU powering a high end processor and video cards like that.
josecitoxnyo
Member
Yes, it's not for gaming per se, i need the 4 cards installed on the same machine for rendering and some experiments with VM's.
Sadly it's the only that i could find for now, finding such high rated PSU's in my country is quite the problem. I'm trying to get a Seasonic but so far i've only found 850w Gold. :/
I was asking cause i need the PC to work for at least 3 days with that PSU until i managed to get something better, it's currently working with the 4 GTX 1070's and i want to install the 1080´s but i think i´ll be too close to 1000w and that might push things too much.
RamaTheVoice
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Well, 1080s have a 180W TDP compared to 150W for the 1070, so that's an extra 120W. Are you gonna be OCing at all?
josecitoxnyo
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Nope, not at all. Not until i manage to a 1500w PSU at least. lol
outunderthestars
Banned
I need help: One of my ram slots in my alienware alpha appears to be bad. I need to get a single slot of 8GB ram by Friday, and I have amazon credit.
Crucial says I need: DDR3L PC3L-12800 CL=11 Unbuffered NON-ECC DDR3L-1600 1.35V 1024Meg x 64
Would this work?
Any other options?
Crucial says I need: DDR3L PC3L-12800 CL=11 Unbuffered NON-ECC DDR3L-1600 1.35V 1024Meg x 64
Would this work?
Any other options?
test_account
XP-39C²
Not sure if this is the best thread to ask in, but my sister got a new PC today. When she connects the PC to the TV, she cant enter the Nvidia settings, and it says "NVIDIA Settings are not available. You are not currently using a display attached to an NVIDIA GPU". Tried to uninstall the drivers in safe mode with DDU, and reinstalling them. Doesnt work. She got a GTX 1070 and a Sony Bravia TV from 2012.
opticalmace
Member
Are you sure it's connected to the 1070 and not the motherboard? What connection? There are multiple ports on the 1070, maybe you need to use a specific one.
xCaptainCanadax
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Can anyone offer any input on AOC gaming monitors? Specifically looking at this one:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824160226
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824160226
I just got this exact monitor a month ago. I love it. 144hz and gsync is AMAZING. Using it with a 1070. Just make sure to lookup some calibration settings for it as out of the box it is not that great. For a gaming monitor, especially if you like competitive shooters, it's really good. Have no complaints.
EDIT: Also keep in mind the Acer and Asus equivalent. I think Asus just came out with a brand new one that looks pretty nice.
I have a bit of a dilemma. I can't decide whether to upgrade my pc as best I can, do an incremental upgrade Or just get a new one. I play on an htdv and am likely to get a 4k TV this fall if prices are decent.
GPU prices in Canada are still high, but from what I've read I can safely out in a 1070. A 1080 would fit, but I'm not sure about my mobo.
Anyway, should I assume I'll have to replace this system for 4k gaming in the near term, or is it upgradable moving forward? If I have to replace the thing anyway, I don't want to spend much on a GPU for the short term.
Bitfenix Prodigy mITX Mini-ITX Tower Case
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 OC Gigabyte Z77N-WIFI
Intel Core i5 3570K Unlocked @ 4.2
Corsair Vengeance Lowprofile 8GB DDR3-1600
Cooler Master GeminII S524
2 Bitfenix Spectre Pro BFF-SPRO-12025KK-RP
Samsung 830 Series 128GB SSD
Western Digital 1TB SATA 7200RPM
Antec HCG-620M 620W
Thanks
GPU prices in Canada are still high, but from what I've read I can safely out in a 1070. A 1080 would fit, but I'm not sure about my mobo.
Anyway, should I assume I'll have to replace this system for 4k gaming in the near term, or is it upgradable moving forward? If I have to replace the thing anyway, I don't want to spend much on a GPU for the short term.
Bitfenix Prodigy mITX Mini-ITX Tower Case
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 OC Gigabyte Z77N-WIFI
Intel Core i5 3570K Unlocked @ 4.2
Corsair Vengeance Lowprofile 8GB DDR3-1600
Cooler Master GeminII S524
2 Bitfenix Spectre Pro BFF-SPRO-12025KK-RP
Samsung 830 Series 128GB SSD
Western Digital 1TB SATA 7200RPM
Antec HCG-620M 620W
Thanks
xCaptainCanadax
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Thats good to hear, yeah the one thing drawing me towards it is the price. Everything else ive looked at here in Canada seems to be 800-1200$ and though I would like a 27 inch monitor I could sacrifice that for the price point of this AOC
I got mine a couple of months ago at Canada Computers for $499. Fantastic monitor but as was already mentioned, make sure you calibrate it. Mine looked really dull out of the box but after some serious fine-tuning, it looks great. No complaints.
Edit: Canada Computers has it for just $10 more if you happen to have one local. I wouldn't buy a monitor online in case I had to deal with returning it.
xCaptainCanadax
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Oh good to know they are selling it as well! Thanks for that. Still doing my research but getting closer to buying one I think. The Asus PG248Q that is speculated to come out this month looks pretty close but I suspect a higher price point
Goldenmoney
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I have this monitor too, care to share what settings you changed? or give me a url? I think it looks fine out of the box, but if you say it can look better, then I'm down to try some changes.
neogaf help me.
My friend is selling me his water cooler build with 1 year warranty:
Intel Core i7-5820K 3.30Ghz
16 GB Ram -DDR4 GSkill
Coolmaster V850 80 Plus Gold
AsusRock Fatallity X99
Corsair H 110 i GT Hydro Series
Fractal Design S C/ Janela Acrílico
for 650, then I would add a 1070gtx and make it 1150 and I have the SSD ready for it.
I had a build ready with the following:
Intel core i5 6600K 3.5ghz
Kingston Savage 16gb DDR4 3000mhz black
Asus z-170 Pro gaming
Thermalright True spirit 140 bw
Corsair Modular RM650X 80 gold
1TB HDD (Plus the SSD I own)
1070GTX
Fractal Design S with window
All for 1330.
Should I buy my friend build and check it out or is not worth to pay less 200 and lose 1 year warranty?
Honestly the only reason I didn't buy it's because I need to go to his place and test his build for 30min on some benchmark right? I dont know if its working correctly....
Please help me, I don't know if I should buy his build or make my own build.
My friend is selling me his water cooler build with 1 year warranty:
Intel Core i7-5820K 3.30Ghz
16 GB Ram -DDR4 GSkill
Coolmaster V850 80 Plus Gold
AsusRock Fatallity X99
Corsair H 110 i GT Hydro Series
Fractal Design S C/ Janela Acrílico
for 650, then I would add a 1070gtx and make it 1150 and I have the SSD ready for it.
I had a build ready with the following:
Intel core i5 6600K 3.5ghz
Kingston Savage 16gb DDR4 3000mhz black
Asus z-170 Pro gaming
Thermalright True spirit 140 bw
Corsair Modular RM650X 80 gold
1TB HDD (Plus the SSD I own)
1070GTX
Fractal Design S with window
All for 1330.
Should I buy my friend build and check it out or is not worth to pay less 200 and lose 1 year warranty?
Honestly the only reason I didn't buy it's because I need to go to his place and test his build for 30min on some benchmark right? I dont know if its working correctly....
Please help me, I don't know if I should buy his build or make my own build.
These are the settings I use:
Contrast 55
Brightness 100
Gamma 1
Overdrive Light
R 57
G 59
B 61
It might be too bright for many people's tastes, but I don't mind!
If your friend took care of that PC, I'd definitely go with it. You'd want to run some stress tests and stuff just to be sure.
Holy crap 100 brightness! haha. My settings are similar, but my brightness is at 70 and at night in the dark it is bright! I do have led strip under and behind my desk to help with the eye strain tho.
This!
Im using win10 atm but if at any point it totally craps under or I have to format im going back to win7, it actually lets you decide what to do and doesnt decide everything itself.
There was so many things I had to fix at start when I installed win10 that I almost gave up.
Now its at usable state finally that you can use without it doing all kind of stuff that you dont want to etc etc etc etc.
You should never have brightness at 100 in any screen, try something like 30-50, first it will look dark but when you get used to it its much better.
test_account
XP-39C²
Good question. Its connected with HDMI at least, not sure if the motherboard has such an output, but i'll call her tomorrow and ask. She do get picture on the TV by the way, its just that games are lagging while playing, even when the TV is set to game mode. Its like theres some settings that makes it lag.
That my friend, is the real question.
He is the second owner and I will be the third with 1 year warranty.
I will run 3D mark and cinebench R15 with MSI afterburner to check if the cpu doesn't go above 70-80degrees.
Is there anything else I should check?
Any leaking on the water?
I have no idea, i'm not a specialist, this is almost worst than looking at a car hood and say yep...the engine is still there!
opticalmace
Member
If she's a novice she probably accidentally hooked it up to the integrated graphics connection.
Could really do with some help, so please read!
My system is a Gigabyte P35-DS3L, Q9550, 6GB RAM and a 9600 GT. I have changed the CPU, RAM, PSU and the GPU and nothing has helped.
My computer loads up into Windows and runs for a few minutes before crashing and shutting down (all without a BSOD). I have done a clean install of Windows 10 but it hasn't helped. On the other hand it runs fine in Safe Mode.
Should I be worried that the motherboard is going?
My system is a Gigabyte P35-DS3L, Q9550, 6GB RAM and a 9600 GT. I have changed the CPU, RAM, PSU and the GPU and nothing has helped.
My computer loads up into Windows and runs for a few minutes before crashing and shutting down (all without a BSOD). I have done a clean install of Windows 10 but it hasn't helped. On the other hand it runs fine in Safe Mode.
Should I be worried that the motherboard is going?
RamaTheVoice
Member
At this stage, it's either an underlying software issue (have you tried doing a clean install?) or the mobo.
lostsupper
Banned
Ethanol evaporates very quickly at room temperature. Blot up what you can and the rest will evaporate.
Thinking about switching my R9 Nano to a GTX 1070 miniITX (there's simply no room for a full-width card on my setup without removing the 4TB HDD), and despite costing the same as when I bought my Nano, I was thinking if it would be better to wait for it to become cheaper or maybe get one during a sales event.
Right now though I'm not hurting on performance (DOOM runs quite fine and anything past 60fps for me doesn't really matter much), but I hear Nvidia has better streaming algorithms (for Steam Link/In-home streaming) and that Multi-monitor multi-projection thing that would be really useful and nice for Elite: Dangerous. I'm sort of strapped for cash, too, considering the expenses I've spent for building this.
So yeah, I was wondering if it would be better to wait until the 1070 miniITX drops in price before doing a step upgrade.
Right now though I'm not hurting on performance (DOOM runs quite fine and anything past 60fps for me doesn't really matter much), but I hear Nvidia has better streaming algorithms (for Steam Link/In-home streaming) and that Multi-monitor multi-projection thing that would be really useful and nice for Elite: Dangerous. I'm sort of strapped for cash, too, considering the expenses I've spent for building this.
So yeah, I was wondering if it would be better to wait until the 1070 miniITX drops in price before doing a step upgrade.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
The A has more stuff like HDMI and a bigger heatsink
The Hamburglar
Banned
Can someone explains how g sync works. I have g sync monitor, gtx 770 latest drivers. I turn g sync on and v sync off but I see tearing everywhere in dark souls 3. Monitor native refresh rate is 144 but dark souls 3 seems to self cap at 60 which is fine but the tearing is horrible.
What's the point of paying for g sync when you have to use v sync as well...
What's the point of paying for g sync when you have to use v sync as well...
1070 or 1080 are both compatible. Your motherboard has pcie 3.0. The current fastest standard.
Warm Machine
Member
I got a new PC with the LG 4K IPS monitor. Any idea why iTunes looks like upscaled pixely garbage? I would have imagined Apple would have made the program scale properly.
Beerman462
Member
I upgraded my monitor from 1080p/60Hz for the first time ever.
I got a 24in Acer GN246HL 144MHz monitor. It has NVIDIA 3D w/light boost. I didn't realize light boost was a 3D technology and to get it to work with 2D you have to do some modding. Also you have to get your frame rate to match or exceed the refresh rate. So it's not that enticing to me. I tried getting it working, but it made my display dim.
Anyways in order to get 144hz I had to swap out my HDMI with the dual link DVI. I had noticed that textures in Witcher 3 looked lower res than they should have since I got my 1070 and started the game again. When I started it up with the DVI they seemed to be a lot sharper. Any idea what's up with that?
Only on Mac OS
I got a 24in Acer GN246HL 144MHz monitor. It has NVIDIA 3D w/light boost. I didn't realize light boost was a 3D technology and to get it to work with 2D you have to do some modding. Also you have to get your frame rate to match or exceed the refresh rate. So it's not that enticing to me. I tried getting it working, but it made my display dim.
Anyways in order to get 144hz I had to swap out my HDMI with the dual link DVI. I had noticed that textures in Witcher 3 looked lower res than they should have since I got my 1070 and started the game again. When I started it up with the DVI they seemed to be a lot sharper. Any idea what's up with that?
Only on Mac OS
So it is fine to keep the system going forward (4k setup)? No significant issues with PSU or cpu?
Beerman462
Member
Nope both are fine. If you want to go 4K you just want the beefiest GPU your budget can afford.
d00d3n
Member
Yeah, I just continued with my build. Worked nicely.
For those wondering... "What wattage PSU should I get?"
I just tested my 4790K at 5.1Ghz at 1.43v and 980 Ti Classified at 1550Mhz at 1.3v in folding at home... while running Crystal Disk Mark on all 4 of my drives... while every one of my 6 fans and 1 water pump was at max... basically only leaving my RAM and chipset not being maxed out...
and...
I got up to a peak of 560 watts measured at the wall. Now this is a crazy scenario that doesn't represent normal loads. In games, almost the same settings (no other processes running)I get around 400 watts.
So outside of X99+TItan or Z170/X99+SLI you will never, ever, need more than 650 watts. With that said, if you do plan on doing SLI, I would just make the jump straight to 1000 watts (not 850).
TLDR: Single GPU? Get a 550-650w PSU. SLI? Just get a 1000w PSU. Some crazy setup that requires more? You already know what to do.
I just tested my 4790K at 5.1Ghz at 1.43v and 980 Ti Classified at 1550Mhz at 1.3v in folding at home... while running Crystal Disk Mark on all 4 of my drives... while every one of my 6 fans and 1 water pump was at max... basically only leaving my RAM and chipset not being maxed out...
and...
I got up to a peak of 560 watts measured at the wall. Now this is a crazy scenario that doesn't represent normal loads. In games, almost the same settings (no other processes running)I get around 400 watts.
So outside of X99+TItan or Z170/X99+SLI you will never, ever, need more than 650 watts. With that said, if you do plan on doing SLI, I would just make the jump straight to 1000 watts (not 850).
TLDR: Single GPU? Get a 550-650w PSU. SLI? Just get a 1000w PSU. Some crazy setup that requires more? You already know what to do.
Can't tell if the 1080 is truly worth it for 4k. Maybe get an interim card then pick up the ti?
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