ChrisCCH

Yeah, it seems pointless to me to upgrade to an older i5 when intel has new ones, especially when going for AMD to intel, so you're having to get a new motherboard anyways. I'm gonna wait until AMD releases their new processor before thinking about upgrading, It's just that it will be a pain to get a new motherboard.

Benchmarked GTA. Something I spaced on mentioning was that the cards are 2 GB. Anyways, the game was maxed out, other than MSAA being at x4, and Texture quality at normal to stay within the vram limit. Got about 40-50 fps in that, CPU stayed around 50%, and the GPU's being at 80%.

Fallout 4 most likely wasn't a good example there, that game for sure has other issues as I get 50-60 fps on that with SLI, 40 with it off. I'll do a benchmark in GTA V again real fast and see what I get on that.

I don't have enough money Would overclocking my CPU more help at all? I definitely have room for a better overclock.

So I'm guessing I shouldn't be only getting 40 fps in fallout 4?

So I noticed when looking at the usage in games for my graphics cards, in all the games I've tested (GTA V, Fallout 4, Far Cry 4 and quite a few others) ever time the CPU usage goes up, say past 80%, my GPU usage goes down. For example, I could be looking at the floor in a game, GPU usage is 80-100%. Look up, my CPU usage goes up and my GPU usage goes down to 60%, I'm not too familiar with bottlenecks or CPU/GPU usage in general, is this a bottleneck, just something that happens, or a different problem? Specs: 2 GTX 770 FX 8350 (OC'd 4.4 GHz) ASUS m5a99fx pro r2.0 mobo 8GB Ram

So, I somewhat recently added a new GTX 770 to my build, and it was making an odd noise, exactly the same as this. (Note: not my video, but is the same noise my current card makes.) I just ignored at first, didn't bother me a whole lot, but it seems to be getting worse. Any idea what the source of the problem could be?

I don't believe the 500r's side panel has a window. As far as I'm aware, this is the only 500r side panel.

So, I've recently been ordering stuff to add a acrylic window to the side panel on my Corsair 400r, and the guide I was looking at used this, but as far as I know Frozen cpu shut down, so I can't order off of that site anymore. I'd rather not get something that doesn't work, so If anyone knows where else I can buy this, or at least something close to it, I'd much appreciate you telling me.

So, ever since I installed another GTX 770 into my PC for SLI, windows has being doing some odd things it has never done before. I doubt that installing another GPU could cause this problems, but I wanted to say when it started nonetheless. First, and the main problem I'm having, is when windows is starting up (at the point where it shows the windows logo, when booting to the desktop everything is as fast as it has always been) the process usually takes about ten seconds, but recently it has been taking about a minute. I've yet to time it, but it is clear as day that is taking MUCH longer. This started about 2 weeks ago, right after I installed another GPU like I said, and at first it would sometimes take the usual 10 seconds, and sometimes take a minute or so. But now it always takes longer. Second is two problems I have now, both sometimes happen when I launch Fallout 4. Sometimes, the start menu will break, and it's always a little bit different how exactly it breaks, but it always gets rid of all icons, such as live tiles. The most recent time it happened, everything disappeared except "Settings", "Power", and "All apps". This is fixed by restarting. The other thing that happened has only happened once, and is what made me finally post about the problems I'm having. I launched Fallout 4, and there was no sound. I closed Fo4, tried to use other things that used sound, Such as an MP3 file, Spotify, and Youtube, but I couldn't load any of it. Youtube and Spotify just buffered, and when I opened the MP3 file, I got an error. Unfortunately, I didn't think to save what it said, and instead just closed it and restarted my computer. This problem was also fixed by restarting, so neither of these things are huge issues. The main issue I'm having is the long boot time, but these two things are both annoying and make my worry about what's going on. Before anyone asks, I've done virus scans on both Avast and Malwarebytes. In fact, I did one right before posting this, and neither of them came up with anything. Only other thing I did when I installed the other GPU was manage my cables a bit, where the SATA cable on both my hard drive and SSD were plugged into on my motherboard.

1920x1080. Do you think an overclock could help? Right now it's just at the default 4.0 GHz.

Well, I tried tomb raider on highest settings, and there was quite a big difference. Having SLI enabled gave a 30-40 fps boost in the benchmark. Is Tomb raider really much less of a CPU hog than the games I listed?

Any ideas as to what that could be, in regards to the "may have configured something improperly." part? The only thing I really changed was changing "Disable SLI" to "Maximize 3D Performance". in the Nvidia control panel. And updating my drivers was the first thing I did.

So, I recently added another 770 to my build, and everything seemed to be working great. The new card was immediately detected, I launched 3dmark firestrike and my score went up by quite a bit. But once I tried some games, (Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Fallout 4, and Battlefield 4) the performance was exactly the same as before. Hell, I'm pretty sure Fallout 4 got WORSE. Any idea what this could be? Do the games I listed just not have SLI support? Here are my full specs: GPU: 2 GTX 770 2GB's CPU: AMD FX 8350 8GB RAM