Off Topic Thread V2.0

Ordered a 1080 today so my Pc will be complete*

I7 5960X
32Gb DDR4
1080

I went all in on X99 2 years ago so now its complete, I imagined X99 would be a stopgap between Haswell and Skylake but it has turned out to be as good as if not better then Skylake and now a 6950X was released. Maybe I didnt go all in on a lame duck after all

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Looks like some beast of a machine. You hardly just game on it though?

umm what else would it be for?

Using two different models of RAM as a test. Just threw in the new 16gb kit on top of the existing 8gb kit. G-Skill Ares + new Crucial Ballistix.
Running Prime95 on Blend. Going for the last 30mins without everything exploding yet. Looking good so far :O
Only difference I can see is the tRC, which I think is the refresh cycle. 33 for the G-Skill, 37 for the Crucial. Timings and speed are the same.
I have a program which shows some other interesting information, displaying the differences between the two, which makes it easy to see why this is probably a bad idea. No harm in testing it though

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Turns out the 1050ti is faster than the old flagship GTX 680.

Is that surprising? The 680 is over 4 years old now(i think)

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

It's interesting because in a direct spec comparison (Transistor count, Shader count, Compute units, TMUs, Memory bandwidth) the GTX680 should win.
http://hwbench.com/vgas/geforce-gtx-1050-ti-vs-geforce-gtx-680

Chip, Manufacturing process, Frequency, PCIe interface and Memory?

I've still got my 3930k and a 580

"Why your gigabit broadband lags like hell – blame Intel's chipset
Software fix coming after Puma 6 code bug hits Virgin Media, Comcast, Arris and other boxes"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/03/intel_puma_chipset_firmware_fix/

I posted a query on Virgin's forum here on boards.
http://www.boards.ie/ttfthread/2057678773

question lads, I rma'd my evga ftw 1080 due to the whole vrm problem, got a new one that has been working flawlessly for the last 3 weeks. I was playing the witcher 3 last night (have been for about a week now) and suddenly i started getting artifacts until it crashed. Everytime i restarted the game this was happening within 2 minutes. So i tried fire strike and time spy and i was getting pretty much the exact same issue, artifacts and crash. Temperatures where sitting between 60-70 degrees and i had an overclock of +110 core +500 memory.

First thing i did was put my overclock back to default settings, no difference, I then installed a new nvidia driver through geforce experience, no difference there either. I then used DDU and cleaned all video drivers off of my system before installing an old driver from back in october, I also went into nvidia control panel and changed the power management setting from optimal to maximum performance. This worked, no more artifacts or crashes. I then reinstalled the new driver using DDU. Perfect no problems, even when i changed the power management setting back to optimal there was nothing.

Was this just a dodgy driver or should i be worried about the gpu?

Yeah working grand, memory is at +500 still though. Might bring it down to be safe

SterlingArcher wrote: »

Damn Sean are you struggling to run on stock?

I have a slight problem OK :cool:

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Lads, do ye rate Logical Increments at all? Getting a bit burnt out looking at various different components...

Logical increments is pretty good for getting a general idea for how to balance a build to a budget.

It's a good companion to PCPartpicker (for pricing a build).

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

AMD ReLive looking good.
http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2710-amd-relive-vs-nvidia-shadowplay-benchmarks

Literally have a 1080 sitting in a box beside me and installed Relivetoday.

I feel I am cheating......i waited a year for a 490!!!!! and if they announce one at the Zen thing well does anyone want to buy a 1080

Relive well it works.....so theres that.