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Negative on Google Chrome, and everything is at stock speed currently. I'll try a previous driver.

It's been happening for a couple weeks now where every other day my screen will go black for a few seconds, then I'll get a message that the Nvidia drivers crash and successfully recovered. I've heard that this is some issue with SLI where the driver doesn't actually crash, but the GPUs fall asleep for a second and windows interprets it as a driver crash. It seems to happen when just fiddling around on the Internet. The cards are not overheating and temprarily shutting down, the hottest card sits at 80 degres under 100% load wth the default fan profiles (that piroritize not having the sound of jet turbines next to you). It has happened while playing any games, but I also haven't been playing many games in the past couple weeks so it may just be coincidence that it hasn't happened. Any ideas what to do about it? My drivers are all up to date, and I updated Adobe Flash since the first time it happened was while playing a YouTube video, and then videos were acting weird until a restart. Specs: Intel i7 4790k Two EVGA Superclocked GTX 980's in "max performance" SLI configuration. ASUS Z97-AR motherboard. 8GB of ADATA 1333MHz RAM (4x 2GB sticks) Corsair RM850 PSU GeForce Game Ready Driver version 353.30 (current at the time of writing)

Probably. I have two EVGA "Superclocked" 980's, which already have a pretty modest overclock out of the box, and they run at like 80 degrees under 80-90% load, so I'm not too keen on pushing them any further. I could boost the fan speeds way up, but my radiator fans are already loud as as hell, so adding the sound of a jet turbine into the mix would probably be more annoying than it's worth. In the end, my primary concern is that my non-OC'd processor isn't holding back $1,000 worth of GPU.

I finally got around to ditching the stock cooler on my 4790k, so now overclocking it is a possibility, and it will at least not be limited from full turbo speeds due to thermals. I've seen many people around say that a 4790k isn't going to be a bottleneck for gaming in a system, even if you have a ludicrous setup like quad Titan X's, but they don't mention any overclocks in such statements. I don't do any kind of rendering work or whatnot, so the heaviest load my computer will see (at least for now) is games. Would overclocking it from the stock 4.0-4.4GHz yield and increased performance in games? If not, I'd feel it's not worth the trouble of making sure the overclock is stable, dealing with increased heat/power draw, and having to potentially tinker with Windows power settings to prevent it from running at maximum speed even when the system is idle. For reference, I just got a second GTX 980, so I don't want my performance to be artificially low because of my CPU, and I'm running games at 3440x1440, although I think that higher resolution monitors mostly just tax the GPU more (or even exclusively tax the GPU more).

I recently got a Corsair H100 (not H100i for clarity), and I'm happy with it so far. My 4790k tops out at like 50 degrees celsius with the stock clock, and my Texas ambient temperatures aren't do it any favors. I haven't gotten around to fiddling with any overlcocking yet, so I don't know how quickly the temps will go up. The H100i looks very similar, just in a 240mm radiator configuration instead of a 280mm. Corsair recommends setting up the radiator to push cold air from outside the case into the radiator with both fans, so -->Air--> Case Exterior ||| Fans ||| Radiator -->Air--> is the idea. Whether or not this is best is probably going to depend on your fan setup and where you mount the radiator. Pulling air from inside the case to outside will lower ambient temperatures in the case, but then you're cooling the radiator with hot air. Pulling cold air from outside will cool the radiator better, but then you're dumping more hot air into the case. So it all depends, you'll have to play around and see what works best if you really want the best setup. I'm currently using two low mounted front case fans for intake, one high mounted exhaust fan in the back, and two fans intaking and pushing air into my radiator that's mounted on the top, so hopefully the air coming through is pretty slow since it hit the radiator and then gets caught up in the front to back airflow and exhausts out the back. So far the CPU sits at like 50 degrees under a heavy gaming load, and the GPUs get to 80 degrees under like 90% load with the fans automatically doing their thing, so I'm fairly pleased with the setup.

Cool, thanks for the quick replies guys. I've been on AMD for a few years and only a couple months ago went to team Green, so still learning my way around the software. I wonder why I didn't have to enable that before. Oh well.

All of them should be fine. I haven't used any 970's myself, but I helped a friend build a computer recently with an ASUS Strix 970, and it's pretty slick looking and comes with a backplate. EVGA makes some fine hardware, but I know their 980's don't come with backplates. They're not a huge deal, but if all the prices are the same (or very similar) then may as well get more prodcut for the money. I'd personally avoid Gigabyte. Myself, and some people I know, have had many problems with them in the past, but maybe they're better these days or we all just had very bad luck. It's mostly been with their motherboards though.

I originally had a single GTX 980 and a 2560x1080 resolution screen, so I made heavy use of Nvidia's DSR to render games at 5120x2160. It was just a matter of selecting the resolution in the Geforce Experience program. I semi-recently upgraded to a 3440x1440 resolution screen, and the option to use DSR in Geforce Experience vanished, but I didn't really care at the time since the GTX 980 was struggling on demanding games at 3440x1440, so I wasn't looking to do anything higher anyway. Now I've added a second GTX 980 to my computer, so I'm interested in DSR once again since I can do it for moderately demanding games, but the option is simply gone. I have all the latest versions of all the relevant software, but any option to select is is non-existant, not even greyed out or anything. I'm guessing DSR wants to double resolution dimensions, which would put my resolution at 6880x2880, which is higher than the GPU supports. Anyone know of a way to enable me to render at 5120x2160, with or without using the Geforce Experience program?

I recently upgraded most of my rig, and I kept the RAM from my old system (four 2GB 1333MHz sticks). I would like to upgrade my RAM, but I can't really fustify the cost. My computer setup can support up to 1600MHz RAM, and I doubt there will be any noticeable difference going from 1333 to 1600. I could upgrade from 8GB to 16GB, but I think the highest I've ever seen my RAM get used is ~6.5GB, barring the one time Battlefield 4 had a memory leak. My board supports dual channel memory, but not triple or quad channel. I honestly have no idea what the ramifications of running two "instances" of dual channel memory has over just two sticks in one "instance of dual channel. Is there a performance gain (assuming same speeds and amount) to having fewer sticks of RAM? Or does having 4 sticks in dual channel end up with a pseudo quad channel? Since the speed and capacity upgrades aren't worth the cost, I'm wondering if going from four to two sticks on top of the other benefits would make it worth considering. My computer is primarily used for gaming, if that matters in this case. Thanks in advance for any insight.

All the plastic is removed and I redid the thermal paste just to be sure I didn't flub it up. Like the other guy said, the K version of the 4790 has a higher stock clock rate. I also may want to overclock it in a couple years to squeeze some more performance out of it before upgrading.

I just got a 4790k, and I've installed the stock cooler since I have no interest in overclocking. My processor idles in the low thirties celsius. While playing "low harware intensity" games like World of Warcraft the temperatures hover around 50-60 degrees, and while playing "high intensity" games (I've tested Arma 3 and Battlefield 4), the processor gets up to around 70-80, and thus far I've seen a max of 82. For reference I live in Texas, and my computer is set up in the hottest room in the house. As a result, ambient temperatures aren't particularly in my favor. Is hitting 80-ish degrees and being there for an extended play session going to lower processor lifespan? I believe the "danger zone" for a 4790k is like 95-100 degrees, so in the short term it shouldn't matter. Should I look into getting a liquid cooler, and if so, does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks in advance for taking the time to read/respond to my topic.