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  1. Thanks for your input guys. I was worried about the weak(er) single core performance of the 990x conpared to the current generation, and on top of that, is the bandwith limitation of the pcie 2.0 Well, I think I gotta try it out to confirm then. Hopefully with DX12 games will start using more cores effectively
  2. Hello everyone, It's been a long long time since I last started a thread in this forum I will be parting with my i7 4930k rig in July. At 1st my plan would be to upgrade to X99 platform with a GTX 1080. However, this is cut short because I need to adjust my budget for a new car. So I have to choose between a new motherboard + CPU + RAM or a new graphic card. With my old GTX 285 being irrelevant and I heard that the new Kaby lake will use a different platform (unconfirmed of course), I decided to go for a GTX 1080 with a water block on it (just my hobby, I know the performance gain isn't worth it), and I will use my brother's old rig, an i7 990x@ 4.4 Ghz on a asus WS-E motherboard. I game at 1440p and 100-120 fps. My question is, will an i7-990X @ 4.4 ghz, along with PCIE 2.0 bottleneck a GTX 1080 at that resolution and framerate? Sorry for the long post people, looking forward to your suggestions P/S: I know a GTX 1080 is not really an upgrade from my GTX 780 ti SLI, but I'm done with SLI and yes, I am aware that AMD vega is around the corner (rumor of October release); BUT I need to enjoy my gaming life right now before it's over by next summer (going to med school and getting married )
  3. thanks for the info Waco, I tried GPU-Z when running Unigene heaven 3.0 but it only shows the temp of GPU and PCB...I wonder if PCB means VRMs? anyway PCB temp is 37 C If the tessellation is stressful to VRMs then I think one of my VRMs must have gone bad, since only DX 11 (which uses tessellation) suffers.
  4. I've been using the card with the Accelero xtreme plus cooler for 2 years without any problem, and I also did take the cooler and the VRM heatsink apart and then re-apply them together but didn't solve the problem. The weird thing was that the issue only appears when the GPU is stressed under DX 11 application, 3Dmark Vantage, a DX 10 application, did not have the issue under 100% GPU load.
  5. I don't think it's overheating as 57 C under full load is quite ok for a GTX 480.
  6. Thanks EuroFight, disabling the tesselation and ambient occlusion did help the dx 11 app runs smoother. Still strange cuz doing this kills the purpose of having a dx 11 card...In the process of RMA the card to EVGA, I guess I will have to stick with my old friend gtx 275 for a while.
  7. I did that 3 days ago, just checked again and my fragment % is 1% (checked using O&O defrag). I didn't see the HDD led blink when I observe the fps drops
  8. ok now the problem got more severe, and I noticed that whenever the FPS drop the temp drop from 57 to 54, then back to 57 again. The GPU usage is constant at 99% thou. The FPS drop did slow the whole system down, I just figure this out by running the Stonegiant in windows mode, and let it run in the background while I'm typing this.
  9. temp stays at 55-57 C. the GPU usage when I run the stress test (unigene heaven, 3dmark 11) stays constantly at 99%, so I think we can eliminate the drop in GPU usage as the cause.
  10. Just tried it, taking everything apart then plug them in, still the problem exists.
  11. I've had my pc running fine for 3 years, and been having the GTX 480 for 2 years w/o any problems. 2 months ago, I stopped playing game (but I still use my computer for other things) because I was too busy studying. Yesterday I started playing BF 3 again after 2 months, and I noticed that my fps drops to 5-6 fps for a few seconds every 30s, it feels like I was going through a slow motion state for a few seconds in every 30s or 1 min. The game will work fine for 10 min, then the fps drop will appear. At first I thought it was the patch of BF 3 that messes things up, but later when I ran the Unigene heaven 3.0 benchmark, I noticed the fps drop again. Then I tried all the games I have in my pc, and the fps drop happened only in DX 11 titles, namely Crysis 2, Far Cry 3, BF 3. Other DX 10 or 9 games, like Black Ops 2, Fifa 13, DOOM 3 BFG edition, Shogun 2 totalwar played smoothly. To further confirm the problem, I tried other DX 11 applications, like Stonegiant demo, 3Dmark 11 and as I expected, the FPS drop appeared in all of them (I did all of those test with the factory clock speed, no overclock here) I tried all the tests I know of to test my overclocked CPU (Prime 95), my RAM (memtest), my HDD and could not find any error. For the video card, I tried rolling back the driver to 2xx ones (was using 310.90 when the problem appears) and couldn't get rid of the FPS drop thing. I even tried wiping my system clean, did a fresh installation of windows and still the FPS drop thing is there. I have never had this problem in my 12 years of building and using computers. I think that it's my GPU causing the problem, but I don't understand why only DX 11 applications show the issue. Can any one please give me some advice here, as after 36 hrs of "wrestling" with my pc I still can't find a clue of what is happening...
  12. thank you all very much guys, i will have a look on the links that you gave me.
  13. Today I finally got my Arctic cooling accelero xtreme plus II but I could not install the cooler because my brother threw away the thermal pad that came with the cooler (he thought it was garbage?!!?!) I have been looking all over on the internet to find a thermal pad but I'm not sure whether it is the right one. Can someone help me with this please?
  14. thank you very much david. So I can't use the optical connection with the z5500 and titanium hd to get full surround sound
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