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More pixels are always better, plus I don't want to run at a non-native resolution just to capture gameplay.

Tons of YouTubers have got it working, but they're doing 1080p and there are tons more options around that resolution. There are even cheapish devices that capture from HDMI at that resolution.

I'll give it a go, but from what I've found so far it has to do with how ENB hooks into the rendering pipeline.

I can get a 1440p black screen from OBS, but that's it.

I've got a 290X and an MG279Q and I play highly modded Skyrim, which is of course quite the frame rate pig. DXtory doesn't work with modded Skyrim, Afterburner kicks your FPS in the teeth and OBS just captures a black screen. Fraps is inefficient to the point of hilarity (literally halves my FPS) and I can't find any capture devices that do 1440p. I've got multiple drives and SSDs so I'm not storage bottlenecked in any way and my 4670k seems like it'd be beefy enough. What's a guy gotta do to capture 1440p@60fps? I've basically resigned myself to buying a device of some sort, but they all seem to be limited to 1080p.

I didn't know that! Pretty much seals the deal then. I considered the 980Ti, but I got a really good deal on my MG279Q and the comparable monitor with GSYNC is ~$800 and since team green is married to their GSYNC module it makes switching rather prohibitive. Our setups are practically identical. I've got my Skyrim on an 850 Evo 500GB. What's you modlist like? (Maybe share it with modwat.ch ?)

I thought for sure a single 290X would be fine, but I went more than crazy with my mods. Gotta have them 8k tomato textures. I'm being serious when I say I have spots that dip under 30fps. I've modded the everloving hell out of this game. The Wizard's Balcony in Markarth hits a cringeomatic 24fps if I get the whole city in one shot.

Hey dudes and dudettes. I've got a single 290X powering my MG279Q 1440p Freesync display and I've modded my Skyrim hard enough that I've got a couple areas that go under 30fps! The leading graphics mod for Skyrim (ENB) can't use more than 4GB of VRAM so there's no push to go higher. So for optimal dragon punching and shouting Lydia off cliffs what do you think I should do? Get a second 290X or sell my 290X and purchase a Fury/Fury X?

Rekt. BTW You should do a strawpoll for the hug pillow. Luke obv. found his better half.

I had disabled hibernation and that makes it so the checkbox doesn't even show up. Reenabled and unchecked. Testing since it's intermittent as heck.

I'll have to hunt again as for some reason the "Fast Startup" option wasn't visible even when I clicked the "show currently unavailable settings" dialog. I suspected it might be the case, but was left a bit stymied by that.

Backed off to stock and reloaded defaults already, but no joy to be had.

Hi folks, built myself a computer using *mostly* new parts and it's working *mostly* great. The problem is that after I shut it down it doesn't want to start back up. Here's the sequence of events: 1. Shutdown computer because I'm away for a while 2. Come back and press power button 3. Computer doesn't turn on 4. Toggle switch on power strip 5. Press power button 6. Computer turns on like nothing was ever wrong The fun part is that it doesn't seem to be the PSU as when put in a different system no issues occur... and for additional hilarity if I shut it down and then turn it back on within a short time frame the issue doesn't *seem* to happen then. System with the issue: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/d2BQsY (i5-4670k - ASUS Z97-A - 16GB DDR3 - R9 290X - Corsair HX750 - Define R5) The PSU was utilized in a previous build with zero trouble for several months and also put back in to test: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8jLWvK (Phenom II x4 955 @ 4.2GHz - - 12GB DDR3 - HD 7870XT - Same Corsair HX750 - Antec 300 v1) The PSU has not been subjected to any temperature extremes. I don't use hibernation or any fancy power features (knowingly at least) and I *am* using the ASUS Ai3 suite somewhat since it seems fairly decent. Any thoughts?

SSDs don't follow conventional wisdom regarding temperature vs life expectancy. The above chart from Intel shows the relationship between temperature in Celsius and SSD data retention lifespan measured in weeks. Of note this chart is for drives that have already reached or exceeded their rated maximum lifetime writes, so for an Intel 730 240GB that's 91TB of host writes. (Your drive is rated for 72TB for all capacities.) A quick reading of the chart shows us that for maximum NAND longevity we actually want *higher* temperatures (to a point) while the drive is active, but lower temperatures while the drive is off. Poking around into the Google machine we see that the M500 has a maximum rated operating temperature of 70c, so if that 80c number you're getting is from the SSD (I can't say for certain from your post) then we'll want to verify its accuracy. If you're actually seeing 80c then some variety of heatspreader on the offending chip(s) would be in order. Likely only the controller chip is seeing these elevated temperatures. For the thermal tape you'll either want to use 3M 8810 or Akasa AK-TT12-80 if you don't want to use a more permanent thermal adhesive like Arctic Alumina's two part paste. (Despite the name it's actually nonconductive.)

You're my hero.