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Gumbi · 13-05-2013 11:31PM

Can't even do 1400

. Crashes after 30 sec (stock voltages). I know it's a not a big deal (for most games, anyways), but for the sake of showing off

tuxy · 13-05-2013 11:36PM

Is there any kind of guideline to go by to figure out if your memory speed is holding back your core overclock?

Gumbi · 13-05-2013 11:39PM

tuxy wrote: »

Is there any kind of guideline to go by to figure out if your memory speed is holding back your core overclock?

I've seen random comment here and there. Can't remember the numbers off-hand. Doesn't the 7950 have huge memory bandwidth such that it doesn't make much of a difference to overclock it?

I do know that I get almost 100 % linear gains from overclocking my core, though, so I don't think stock memory speed is holding me back. If I have a 1100mhz overclock going (over stock of 950), that's a 16% increase in clock speeds, I get pretty much spot on, that increase in frames.

BloodBath · 14-05-2013 12:17AM

Gains from memory will be minute in comparison. They already have huge memory bandwidth. I wouldn't touch the voltage on them. Just overclock it to whatever it will go to at stock voltage.

marco_polo · 14-05-2013 12:26AM

tuxy wrote: »

Is there any kind of guideline to go by to figure out if your memory speed is holding back your core overclock?

I haven't seen a huge amount of articles on GPU memory scaling, but from what I recall the most sophisticated DX11 graphics games/benchmarks (3dmark etc) will nearly always see some performance improvements as you increase memory speed, never anywhere same scale as GPU of course.

I have one article in particular in mind will post the link if I can find it.

EDIT:

Found it, Metro 2033 actually shows much more impressive gains that I was expecting from the memory overclock itself, over 10% :eek:

http://www.techbuyersguru.com/VRAMocing.php

Also stumbled across this for BF3 while searching from the above, seems it also gets a decent performance boost from just the memory overclocks .

http://abundantcores.blogspot.ie/p/overclocking-gpu-and-vram-performance.html

Deano12345 · 14-05-2013 12:56AM

Anyone seen that leaked driver/BIOS that flashes a 680 into a 770 ? I know it's technically the same card, but I thought NV would have locked this thing down. Near 7GHz IIRC on the memory, would be interesting to see how it runs though !

ED E · 14-05-2013 01:17AM

Cata update from 13.1 to 13.4 crashed midway on me, caused a load of hassle. F'ck sake. Gotta re-enter all my OC settings into the bios now, fun times(there are loads in a deluxe board).

BloodBath · 14-05-2013 02:50AM

Did you not save your BIOS settings to a profile?

cherryghost · 14-05-2013 04:16AM

You can download the lifelike human rendering head from nvidia now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydwKJwgMbRs

ED E · 14-05-2013 02:25PM

BloodBath wrote: »

Did you not save your BIOS settings to a profile?

Had forgotten that step ^^

The PCI/PEG setting had me scratching my head for a while with the second GPU. Got to bed at like 3:o

Damo 2k9 · 14-05-2013 03:17PM

Anyone know what delivery times are like with dabs?

Serephucus · 14-05-2013 03:21PM

Two nights, usually.

Damo 2k9 · 14-05-2013 03:23PM

So if I ordered today, be here by friday ??

Serephucus · 14-05-2013 03:24PM

Yup, should be. Assuming the item is in stock, etc.

Deano12345 · 14-05-2013 03:45PM

770 BIOS works on 680 ! Only slight risk of memory explosions

marco_polo · 14-05-2013 04:01PM

I see the front USB3.0 compatible refreshes of the Asrock 970 Pro3/Extreme3 are coming into stock at HWVS.

Serephucus · 14-05-2013 04:52PM

Some more ASRock Z87 details:

http://www.chiploco.com/asrock-a-style-features-24136/

Details some new features - Purity Sound, HDMI-in, Home Cloud, etc. - what they do, and which motherboards will support what features.

Burgo · 14-05-2013 05:22PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Some more ASRock Z87 details:

http://www.chiploco.com/asrock-a-style-features-24136/

Details some new features - Purity Sound, HDMI-in, Home Cloud, etc. - what they do, and which motherboards will support what features.

Waterproof motherboards, finally!

HDMI-in seems pretty interesting.

beno619 · 14-05-2013 06:43PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Some more ASRock Z87 details:

http://www.chiploco.com/asrock-a-style-features-24136/

Details some new features - Purity Sound, HDMI-in, Home Cloud, etc. - what they do, and which motherboards will support what features.

Any idea which boards are itx ?

Burgo · 14-05-2013 06:52PM

beno619 wrote: »

Any idea which boards are itx ?

I think the two boards in red are itx, the yellow are matx and grey are atx.

tuxy · 14-05-2013 07:06PM

Burgo wrote: »

I think the two boards in red are itx, the yellow are matx and grey are atx.

2 red boards? I only see one

http://www.chiploco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ASRock-A-Style-Features_1.jpg

They are all ATX boards similar to asrocks z77 lineup

Burgo · 14-05-2013 07:18PM

tuxy wrote: »

2 red boards? I only see one

http://www.chiploco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ASRock-A-Style-Features_1.jpg

They are all ATX boards similar to asrocks z77 lineup

This was what i was referring to http://www.chiploco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ASRock-A-Style-Features_7.jpg

Serephucus · 14-05-2013 07:50PM

They're all ATX, except for the two mATX boards denoted by X87M.

They have a Z87 ITX board, but it's not listed there, and I haven't seen much about it in the various info posts around the place, but I know someone is building an SFF gaming system around it, so it does exist.

NTMK · 14-05-2013 08:12PM

Serephucus wrote: »

They're all ATX, except for the two mATX boards denoted by X87M.

They have a Z87 ITX board, but it's not listed there, and I haven't seen much about it in the various info posts around the place, but I know someone is building an SFF gaming system around it, so it does exist.

heres a pic of the board

its black:D

Serephucus · 14-05-2013 08:19PM

Yup, that's the one.

Holy crap, it is! I completely missed that.

Now, someone, please bring a 3-slot WC-friendly ITX case to market...

NTMK · 14-05-2013 08:23PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Yup, that's the one.

Holy crap, it is! I completely missed that.

Now, someone, please bring a 3-slot WC-friendly ITX case to market...

why a 3 slot case?

beno619 · 14-05-2013 08:26PM

NTMK wrote: »

why a 3 slot case?

Soundcard if I know Serephucus :P

Serephucus · 14-05-2013 08:29PM

beno619 wrote: »

Soundcard if I know Serephucus :P

Yes!

That said, ASRock's new sound might be up to the task. That, or I'll pick up something like a Xonar STU.

NTMK · 14-05-2013 08:36PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Yes!

That said, ASRock's new sound might be up to the task. That, or I'll pick up something like a Xonar STU.

I was just about to suggest the Essence One :pac:. I'm guessing the STU is its replacement. I need to get mine shipped over

Serephucus · 15-05-2013 04:54PM

GTX 780 to cost €500?!

http://www.overclock.net/t/1391488/vc-inno3d-geforce-gtx-780-boxing-picture-specifications-confirmed

I'll take 80% of a Titan for that money! If this gets released before June 10th (Step-Up expiry) I'll be ordering one for sure.

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