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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
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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 )
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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?