JeffMan1212

My apologies. this is my first time posting to a forum. As for your response, do you mean yes as in I will need an amp, or yes as in my onboard solution will be sufficient?

Will the onboard audio card in a Biostar TA970 (a Realtek ALC892) be able to power a Sennheiser G4ME ZERO Headset with an impedance of 150 ohms, or will I need an external amp?

You are such a beast... My problems are solved! My CPU temps were far too high. All I had to do was blow out the CPU heatsync.

From heat?

Vsync was off during the gameplay. I feel like an idiot at this point, but could you explain the polling rate?

I'm a newbie, what do you want me to do?

Yeah, but I don't run into this problem when the GPU usage is constantly maxed. Only when it fluctuates. I think that the card thinks it's idling when the GPU usage is low, and lowers the clock rate to save power.

Oh, sorry, I'll add that to the post. I'm using the latest omega drivers. I've also tested the problem with the previous version.

I've tried it in far cry 3, and crysis 3. Both show the same results.

So I recently picked up a Sapphire Tri-x r9 290 4GB UBER MEGA SUPER-COOL EDITION, (Just kidding about that last part, but come on guys, GPU names can be silly) and let me tell you, it's been no walk in the park. When the card runs at it's full clock rate (1 Ghz), everything works like a charm. Unfortunately, the damn thing decides to underclock itself automatically IN GAME. This is no slight underclock either. The card will literally half it's speed in an instant. As you can imagine, this drops the frame rate quite significantly. I'm not going to stand for 20fps on a $300 card playing Far Cry F***ing 3. I've tracked the issues in MSI afterburner, and the screenshot attached to the post illustrates the problem pretty well. Is there some way to diasable this excuse for a feature, even if temporarily? I understand why my card underclocks on the desktop, but in game? Please help! Oh, and ignore the 130 memory clock. it's really 1300, the last zero just got cut off. the top sector is te GPU temp. System Specs: sapphire tri-x r9 290 AMD fx 8320 factory clock biostar ta970 mobo 8gb g.skill ripjaws ram tb seagate hard drive windows 7 64 bit asus optical drive corsair CX750M PSU Driver version: Omega (14.12)