Thread: Compute guru's HELP

looking at benchmarks it will be a good improvement over my 6870, but i wanted a gtx 580 cause its even more powerfull...but stupid future shop and their gift cards and their LIMITED selection of video cards lol. ah well free video card cant complain, as long as the 2nd one works
comes in next week

well just came in, computer is a ton more stable, 11.12 ati drivers just came out today so that was all worked out well lol.
i made it threw windows experience index benchmark without crashing lols(first 6970 would crash instantly)
now to try some BF3!

BF3 everything cranked with 4xaa playing new expansion, new outside map, was getting 35-55 fps.6870 it was a picture slide show pretty much lol, very pleased. probably gonna drop the aa to 2xaa just to save ALOT OF FPS.

Awesome.

I still can't run any AA with two 460's.

that makes me feel really good then! lowest I saw was 35 fps with 4xaa and the was jet blasting down on me and all the dirt flying up. new mouse a gpu im good to go!
try to catch you on BF3 and play with ya, or you can join me and my brothers party we usually leave it open for my friends list to join whenever they get on.
your 460's the 1gb version?

They're 768's.

I found more stable gameplay with one running at a 40% overclock versus two running at stock speeds.

I find if I let it run at 60 FPS, its smooth as silk. If its down in the 40's, not so much. Need water

lol wow thats nuts! im a cpu oc guy not much for gpu oc, got my phemon II 945 to 3.5 ghz with only 1 tick on voltage, max temperture on prime95 is 40 celsius. dont think it could squeez much out of this video card.
this is not my computer, but is exactly how i got it setup, coller also works on all intel cpu's incase i want to switch over.
hyper 212+

It seems the limits of air are closer with modern components.

Unless you're a moron like me with a huge 250/300W TDP cooler on a 150 W TDP card.

lols, that would help, kinda like my cooler on my cpu its also overkill lols.
after some research i downloaded msi afterburner, made my own fan profile, and oc gpu from 880-950mhz, and 1375-1450mhz and run furmark and some bf3 match, everything was smooth. never went over 80 celsius

Nice.

I like seeing 40* or less.

thats probably your card failing.

Note AMD has worse driver issues.

And new cards are coming out sometime next year.

Might be worth waiting.

thats the card i just got in the mail. first one was a dud, this second one is running STRONG, would like to crossfire it one day lol.
and like matt said might be worth waiting.
for me i needed to give the brother inlaw someting for christmas so thought good time to upgrade and having a $650 future shop gift card given to me also helps

Just played skyrim, turned some gpu graphs up, everything cranked 4xaa.
I am now cpu limited in skyrim, enter a town like whiterun and go 3rd person view and just stand there the camera will do circles around your character. after 20 minutes winodwed out check the grapsh, gpu hit 86% load, and hit 75 celsius.
my phemon II 945 @ 3.5ghz, graph showed only 2 cores were being used and even at 3.5 ghz use 99%....think they would have theis game to take as many cores as you have.. it is 2011 not 2005
Battlefield 3, everything crank gpu hit 99% constantly and gpu temp went to 86 celsius. BF3 also uses all my cores but doesnt use 100% of my cpu, 80% though ever give or take.
I love Benching new parts.

furmark scores
1080- stock speeds(for video card) 1757 points
1080- overclocked 950/1450 2579 points
720- overclocked 950/1450 3727 points

those test scores are with furmark, supposedly hardest benchmark on gpu.
ill try msi kombuster and tell you my results