Masada02

Aint that the truth. With the H100i GTX you should be able to go to around 1.375 core voltage before you run into cooling issues. Honestly though, if you can run 4.6 at 1.300 core voltage you are in a good spot. 4.7 is difficult on X99 with factory cooling setups, 4.8 is nearly unheard of, and most anything higher needs LN2 (unless you're super incredibly lucky and got an awesome piece of silicon).

It really does need to be updated to use more cores. I saw my biggest gains from CPU overclocking. I mean, OCing the GPUs would gain like 200-300 points, but 400mhz on the CPU would be like 1000. It doesn't really help that the Fury's aren't at their best at 1080 either. That's OK though, I bought a Kingpin to push as far as I can. OCing turned out to be a lot more fun that I used to think and the Fury's just aren't that great at it (although I think mine did pretty good).

I did. I turned off everything that it would let me. I'm not sure it did anything though. Some programs still seem to override some of CCC's settings. Too bad I'm selling the Fury X's. I'd love to give it one last go, but Trixx won't apply overclocks anymore so it's not really possible.

God damn! I've been beat by a single card! Impressive OC. Also, dat CPU voltage...

Check the Valley thread spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1knE1MXUbQ3tyR48CuD_6K_EfCF3cHHqL9ra5NPt6o8U/edit#gid=0 And actually I stand corrected, it was 1195 and 570 mem.

I got 1190 on both of my Fury X's...

Different CPU, but a better overclocker. Was able to get to 4.8 easier than it took to get to 4.7 on the previous one. Might try for 4.9, although I really don't think my motherboard can supply enough power to support it.

Bumped up the RAM speed to see if I could improve the OpenGL test. Got some extra fps, though for whatever reason it didn't help the CPU scores. Maybe I had something else going on. I'll play with that at a later time.

But that's how it works. The GPU should always be at 100% usage while the cpu should not. If you are maxing out the CPU before you get close to maxing the video card, then you have a problem.

Tweaked some settings and tightened up the RAM a little. Seemed to help.

Finally got around to pushing my 5960x. I think it did alright.

I'm going to guess July 25, about a year after Fiji.

Nice, glad you got it fixed.

Not sure if you've solved this yet, but I when I still had my 4790k with my 2 Fury X's the max power draw I'd see was 650 watts under full load for the whole system. So I think you should be fine with that power supply, although maybe close to its limit. What's happening looks like a driver issue. Did you uninstall all your old drivers with DDU before installing 15.12?

Ya, well I had a bad experience with Nvidia. I gave them a shot, and my money, and they gave me an awful experience. So now they have lost my business until my saltiness over that period of time goes away. Maybe some day I'll give them another shot, but that day hasn't come yet.

I use my computer a considerable amount, and yes I do run into driver issues. Currently, my main issue is that I can't freaking turn off frame rate target control without a shitload of fiddling around. It's annoying as shit. But you know what's worse? Owning SLI 970's and having the drivers bluescreen every 30 minutes. That was the worst. And that went on for 2 weeks before I threw in the towel and bought 2 Fury X's. 980ti is faster than the Fury X. Everyone should know this. But, at least to me, the Fury X is just... cooler... oh God does that mean I'm a hipster? Shit, maybe I need help.

Trade blows implies 50/50 win/loss. The Fury wins 80+%. Drivers were never brought up. And when you have a single GPU you don't have to wait for driver support to play games. Driver support really only applies to multi-GPU setups. You might gain a few fps on a single card with driver support, but thats about it.

I stand corrected, OP does (or will). Maybe consider buying a cheaper GPU if you're only running 1080p for the forseeable future? Like a 390 or 970?

That test is at 1080p. Who the hell buys a 980 or a Fury and then only runs 1080p? Useless test is useless. Did you even read the FOUR separate reviews for the Fury that I posted? If anything, according to those reviews (and your video), the 390X trades blows with the 980 while the Fury walks away from both of them.

Yes, the Fury is better. I'm sure you could push a 980 to the performance of a Fury, but that depends on the owner. From the factory, the Fury is better. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2946532/radeon-r9-fury-review-the-fury-xs-little-brother-is-amds-geforce-gtx-980-slayer.html?page=2 http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/209665-amd-radeon-r9-fury-review-chasing-the-gtx-980s-sweet-spot/2 http://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-r9-fury-review?page=5 http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/69792-amd-r9-fury-performance-review-6.html Even on the old release drives it's considerably better. Only in a couple very Nvidia favorable games does is just slightly lose or tie.

Get a Sapphire Fury Nitro for $540 on newegg. It is better than a 980 by a decent margin and only around $20 more expensive.

I think in terms of single threaded performance the 6700k is on average 5-10% better than a haswell chip at similar speeds. So in games where 4 or less cores are used the 6700k and CPU limited the 6700k will be 5-10% better. Unoptimized games like Arma will see the biggest gain from the 6700k, but newer games are tending to be optimized (or at least benefit from) for more cores so the 5960x should be able to hold its edge for quite some time. Especially since you can run yours at 4.8. I imagine your single threaded performance is up there with a 6700k with that overclock. You have to remember that most benchmarks for the 5960x show it at its stock 3/3.5 speed and of course it's going to get crushed in single threaded performance like that. But once it's overclocked it's basically a 4790k with 4 more cores.

That's pretty low for 4.8. A lot of people need 1.3 just to get to 4.4. Since you seem to have gotten a damn good 5960x I'd be more inclined to keep that then change to something else.

Damn, that's pretty good. What voltage were you at for that speed? I haven't pushed past 4.6 because my h100i just can't handle the heat output. Maybe I'll go to a custom loop at some point then push it farther.

Just overclock the nuts off the 5960x. Not sure if you got a decent chip, but you should be able to at least get 4.4.