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Staeni

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About Staeni

  • Birthday Nov 09, 1992

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    sniffy92

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Norway
  • Interests
    PC hardware (obviously), technology, video games, taekwondo, cycling

System

  • CPU
    i7-5820K @ 4.2Ghz
  • Motherboard
    ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer
  • RAM
    16GB G.Skill Ripjaws IV DDR4 2400mhz
  • GPU
    2x SLI: MSI GTX 980 "Gaming 4G"
  • Case
    LD Cooling PC-V7 (Black 420/280)
  • Storage
    Samsung 840 EVO 500GB, WD Black 4TB, WD Black 500GB
  • PSU
    Corsair RM1000
  • Display(s)
    ROG Swift PG278Q, BenQ GW2760HM, BenQ GW2250HM, Philips BDM4065UC
  • Cooling
    EK Supremacy CPU block, EK-FC980 GTX TF5 GPU blocks, EK Coolstream XTC 420mm + 280mm radiators, EK-XRES 140 D5 Combo pump + reservoir
  • Keyboard
    Corsair K70 RGB (MX Brown) / CM Storm Quickfire XT (MX Blue)
  • Mouse
    Mionix Naos 7000 / Roccat Kone Pure Color (blue)
  • Sound
    Headphones: V-Moda Crossfade M-100 / Speakers: Creative Gigaworks T40 Series II / DAC: Asus Xonar U7
  • Operating System
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
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  1. You guys do realize that CAM; for anything other than the Grid+ / Grid+ V2 or Kraken coolers, it's purely monitoring software? The regular Grid is purely a fan hub/splitter. Cam does not offer any fan control options whatsoever for me. However I should be able to control the fans' speed (all together, not individually) through the motherboard because the Grid is connected to the SYS_FAN header, like I've mentioned before. The only thing remotely relevant is that is shows my case fan header switching between 0 and 1200-ish RPM, which speedfan and my motherboard's BIOS already did. Uninstalled.
  2. So I just built another PC, a mini ITX. I'm using 5 case fans, but the motherboard has only one fan header (SYS_FAN) apart from the CPU fan. So I got the NZXT Grid along with it so I can use all my fans. It works, but all the fans are at 100% and I can't control their speed, neither through the BIOS or in Windows with Speedfan. It'll simply show either 0 RPM or 1200-ish, changing them does nothing. Now, I know you don't get PWM control with 3-pin headers (both the NZXT Grid and the fans themselves are 3-pin), but at least I should be able to adjust the RPM somehow? My other computer also uses 3-pin fans on a fan controller, and it works without a problem there. Motherboard: MSI Z97I AC Fans: 5x Phanteks PH-F140SP NZXT Grid fan hub/splitter Fans plugged into Grid, Grid powered by PSU molex and also connected to the motherboard's SYS_FAN header. I mean sure, I could get an actual fan controller and find a place to stash it in my case, but I've read dozens of reviews of the NZXT Grid saying that they're able to adjust the fan speeds as long as the Grid is connected to the motherboard.
  3. Yeah, I'll probably use the rear as an intake then. I'm not sure if you understood my question; what I meant is whether this upper fan should be a static pressure or airflow fan, since the HDD cage (and really nothing else either) won't be right front of it. http://i.imgur.com/FTaT1Lx.png
  4. Interesting.. I rarely see anyone doing this, let alone mentioning it. But doesn't positive air pressure just decrease dust buildup, since negative makes air get sucked in through every tiny crack and opening rather than the actual grilles/vents? The intakes on the front and bottom of this case have dust filters, btw. What do you think about that upper front intake fan, though?
  5. Alright, so I'm going to do a build with the Evolv ITX case from Phanteks very soon. One thing I've seen across several reviews and opinions from people who use this case is that airflow can be somewhat restrictive. Mostly in regards to how the front intake and top exhaust slits are very narrow. Out of the box this case comes with a single 200mm fan in the front, and that's it. This is the hardware I'll be putting into it: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Staeni/saved/JDcLrH Now, at first I will be building the computer with just the stock fan and nothing else just to see how it performs (I've ordered the components, but no fans yet). But it's likely that I'll add some fans possibly even replace the 200m fan with two 120/140mm fans. The case can fit 5x 140mm fans, two in the front, two in the top, and one at the back exhaust. As I've mentioned the front intake and top exhausts are pretty narrow, so I'm most likely going with static pressure there. The rear exhaust is a honeycomb grille, and there'll be plenty of space between a fan there and the CPU cooler. So I'm thinking a regular airflow fan for the rear. The only thing I'm slightly unsure about is the upper front intake fan (if I choose to replace the 200m fan). It would make sense with static pressure because of the tight intake, but then again there'll be nothing blocking airflow in front of it. Or just altogether in general if static pressure really is the best choice here. One more thing, I would go with Corsair SP140's, but they're only available with LEDs and I don't want any lighting in the case, unless I can switch it off. Does anyone know if there's a way to easily disconnect the LEDs or in any way disable them? Otherwise I'll probably be getting Phanteks PH-F140SP fans, even though I'm not a fan of the white color on them. I kinda want this build to have an all black theme.
  6. The C920 is a piece of junk. Save yourself the trouble and RMA it for a refund. I've been through 4 of these with the exact same problems, two of them being DOA. The 2 that DID work, would only work like 1/5 times I plugged them in, and then have a ton of artifacts in the image. Horrible QA from Logitech.
  7. I have the exact same version/build as before, though.
  8. Nope. Tested it with only the game/benchmark I'm running at a given time + MSI Afterburner to monitor stats. Even if I do have some stuff open (steam, spotify, firefox with 2-3 tabs, skype) there's no noticable impact on game performance. As for Windows, I'm aware that 8.1 has better scaling in some games, but I've always beeng using Win 7, the same build as earlier. There's just... something... I don't know what, that's preventing my GPUs from staying at high loads. Everything that'd previously put both cards at a rock solid 95-99% is now just making them fluctuate between 50-80% rapidly for most of the time. Another thing that hasn't happened before is that one GPU will have considerably lower usage (being 20% lower sometimes, whereas it never differed more than 5% before). I don't know what else to tell ya, I have no clue what is causing this. I'll provide any info I can.
  9. Yes, but it's not the issue. I have several games, some on my SSD and some on the HDD. No difference in performance except loading times. If anything, it would only cause some hitches or stutters when loading a new area, but my issue with the poor SLI scaling happens even when I stand still in one area for a very long time, it stays low. I have the Valley and Fire Strike benchmarks on my SSD, for example.
  10. Hi, I've been noticing lately my GPU usage with SLI has been getting drastically worse lately for some reason. I can't remember exactly when this got worse, but it seems to have been a gradual decline. Back when I first built my rig in October 2014, I could play Crysis 3 with both GPUs under 95-99% load most of the time, and never dropping below 90%. It was awesome. Tomb Raider (2013) also scaled very well; and apart from the single thread CPU-bottlenecked areas, I'd also get a constant 90% and higher usage on both GPUs. These games have since been my "go to" SLI games. The Unigine Valley and 3DMark Fire Strike benchmarks have also scaled very well. But currently, all of these scale okay (60-80%) at best, but often dip below 50% for seemingly no reason, and there is never any CPU bottleneck, not a single thread under 100% load, I keep an eye on this all the time. As far as I know there should be no other system bottlenecks elsewhere whatsoever. Nothing is thermal throttling as my CPU and GPUs are watercooled aswell, and temperatures are low. I usually play at 2560x1440 on my main monitor, but even upping this to 3840x2160 shows little to no increase in GPU usage (which it should in a case of bad SLI scaling or a bottleneck). As a base of comparison, back in the day I could run Crysis 3 at 1920x1080 and still get amazing scaling. Now I'll be running Crysis 3 at 3840x2160 (same settings otherwise), and average 60-80% usage, and in some areas it will nosedive into the 30-40% range. I should also mention, the GPU usage (on both cards) fluctuates very rapidly. Viewing the GPU usage graphs in MSI Afterburner shows it spiking up and down all over the place. It also feels/looks like my framerate is lower than it actually is ingame. I was playing Crysis 3 at 40-70 FPS and it honestly felt like 30. Here's two screenshots for examples: http://puu.sh/ixR9d.png http://puu.sh/ixSwL.png Specs: ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer i7-5820K (4.4Ghz, watercooled) MSI GTX 980 Twin Frozr V (watercooled) MSI GTX 980 Twin Frozr V (watercooled) 16GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 2400Mhz Samsung 840 EVO SSD Corsair RM1000 PSU Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (I think this is all that should be relevant anyway) What I've tried to solve the problem with no avail: -Installed NEWEST GPU driver with clean install. -Installed older GPU driver (from when I built my rig) with clean install -Disconnected secondary monitors to only use the primary one -Put PhysX to both auto-select or selecting one of the GPUs -Fiddled with a bunch of Nvidia Control Panel settings (power management mode, multi-display performance mode, pre-rendered frames, SLI rendering mode, etc) -Tried both factory GPU clock speeds (1320-ish mhz) and my own overclocks (1500-1550mhz). -Turned it off and on again Well, I'm at a loss here... Any suggestions?
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