TheSprinkle

Super nice and clean!

Really nice and simple rig!

Where did you buy it? And are you sure you didn't get just a upgrade key?

Disabling UPNP worked for me when I had opened the port on my manually. Games like Battlefield dont like UPNP anyway so keep that disabled is my recommendation. 

Follow this guide, its extremely easy  http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19249/how-to-assign-a-static-ip-address-in-xp-vista-or-windows-7/

Be honest, the reason you want to be in the US is... lower online gaming latency.  

I love Valve but at the same time I hate them.

Hello everyone,
Not too long ago I bought the EVGA GTX 780 SC with ACX cooling with high expectations of running games to near or at the highest settings the game offers, my Driver version is 326.19 Beta. But recently I have been running into issues with the 780. My first problem when I was playing Battlefield 3 and Crysis 3, after a few short minutes both the game would crash, although they both had different error messages.
 
Battlefield 3 would have an error message stating ' DirectX function "GetDeviceRemovedReason" failed with DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG: Device hung due to badly formed commands.. GPU: "NVIDIA Gefore 780 ", Driver: 32619 '
 
Crysis 3's error message would state ' DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG '. When both of those errors would happen it would also come up with something along the lines of ' NVIDIA Displays drivers have stopped working '. Also in some other games such as Chivalry medieval Warfare the game would just freeze and when I would Alt Tab and then Alt Tab back into the game it was fine. So as you can see this is just a few of many problems.
 
My other problem is my frame rate on Crysis 3, I played with everything on the lowest settings and didn't have  Vsync or Adaptive Vsync turned on and still dropped to 50FPS every now and then. I would think a 780 wouldn't never drop to the a low of 50FPS with everything on low.
 
Over Clocking, alright I have been doing testing with my 780 with overclocking to see what I can hit frame rate wise in games. 
So the 780 has a GPU clock offset of 223Mhz and a 200Mhz memory offset, now this overclock was running fine and not crashing or overheating, so I am pretty sure it is stable but cannot fully test it out in Battlefield 3 or Crysis 3 until the error problem in the game is solved. Now just before someone says it is my overclock that is causing the errors I will tell you that I have ran my 780 at reference/stock settings to see if that was a problem but I am pretty sure that the overclock is not causing those errors.
 
3D Mark 11, so I used 3D mark 11 to see what kind of a score I would get but sadly the score I got was 10929 at stock settings. So I then overclocked my 780 at 223Mhz GPU clock offset and 200Mhz memory offset to see if I would get a increase in frame rate and score but no, a error message came up saying ' Workload work failed with error message: eva::d3d11::rendering::scene_renderer::render(): draw_unshadowed_illumination_task for thread 0: File: device_context.cpp
Line: 515 Function: struct ID3D11CommandList *__cdecl eva::d3d11::deferred_device_context::do_finish_command_list(bool)   Expression: native()->FinishCommandList( restore_deferred_context_state, &result): DX11 call failed.   Device hung due to badly formed commands. DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG: ID3D11DeviceContext::FinishCommandList: ' as well as The NVIDIA Display error came up again.   So as you can see I am a bit concerned if there is something wrong with my 780 as it looks to be a DirectX error which are the errors I got with Battlefield 3 and Crysis 3.   System Specs:
Graphics card: EVGA GTX 780 SC with ACX cooling
CPU: i5 4670K
RAM: Corsair vengeance 1600MHz 16GB 
PSU: Corsair HX 850 power supply
CPU cooler: ThermalTake water 2.0 extreme
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus Hero IV (6)
SSD: Samsung 840 120GB SSD
HDD: 2TB seagate Barracuda
Operating system: Windows 8 64-bit
Case: Corsair 650D Case
CPU fans: 2X Noctua NF-F12 PWN fans (Linus Should be happy  )
Front Case fan: The Corsair fan that comes with the case.
 
They are the problems I am having with my 780 and hope anyone on the forum knows of these issues or knows how to fix them . If anyone needs more information about my PC or errors I will be happy to tell you them, and any comment would be well appreciated, but please no fanboy arguments in the comments as this is a serious issue and would love to get these problems solved as fast as I can. 
 
Just to also tell anyone reading this forum post I do not take myself as a know it all in computers, so if you think I am doing something wrong or I have got something at the wrong setting please do tell me in the comments. I will try my best to respond as quickly as possible to any questions or enquirers.  
 
Thank you to anyone who took time out of their day to read this forum post and I hope to get some answers soon.
 
Thank you, TheSprinkle  :D
 
And here is the my GPU overclock settings if anyone needs them.