Daventure

I forgot to list that my mobo is an Asus P8Z77-V LK

Hello all. For the past several months I've been getting annoying texture flickering in many of my PC games. The flickering mostly occurs on certain spots of walls and terrain, and it is very noticeable when I move the camera in games. I have an MSI R9 390 and I noticed that the flickering started happening shortly after AMD launched their crimson drivers, I never noticed it on their catalyst drivers. The flickering occurs in many of the games I've been playing including Deus Ex: HR, Doom 3 BFG, Dragon Age Origins, and Quake 4. I haven't noticed the flickering in more demanding games like Doom (2016) or Dragon Age Inquisition as of yet. I've tried completely uninstalling the video card drivers with DDU, running games in compatibility mode/admin, verifying game cache, refresh steam files, defrag/optimize my SSD and HDD, fiddling with settings in AMD's drivers but to no avail. I should mention that I did overclock my i7 3770k to 4.5 GHz, but I believe the flickering started occurring before the overclock and I did stress test my CPU with OCCT, RealBench, and Metro 2033/Last Light for many hours and did not get any crash whatsoever. If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it, because this has been bothering me for the past several months. I will be getting a new Nvidia GPU soon (gtx 1080 or 1070), and I really hope that I don't experience these issues on Nvidia's part as well. Specs: OS: Windows 10 64bit GPU: MSI R9 390 CPU: i7 3770k @4.5 GHz CPU Cooling: Noctua NH D15 RAM: 16gb @1600MHz Corsair Vengeance LP PSU: 1250w OCZ 80 plus gold SSD: 250gb Samsung 840 (boot drive) HDD: 2TB Seagate Barracuda

I'm upgrading from my MSI R9 390 graphics card, and I'm currently indecisive as to which graphics card I should get, so I wanted to ask the community what your recommendation is. I will be replacing my current monitor (AOC G2460PF) with the Acer XB241H which is 1080p @144Hz (with g-sync) and I'd prefer that my fps stay above 60 at all times while at the same time maxing out games. I'd ideally want the card to last three years before I make another gpu upgrade. This article from pcgamer got me to consider the gtx 1070 as an option: http://www.pcgamer.com/the-geforce-gtx-1070-review/ P.S. I also want to enable nvidia exclusive features in games like advanced PhysX and HairWorks.

Hi everyone. I've been wondering whether I should start overclocking my stock i7 3770k or upgrade to Intel's new Kaby Lake CPUs this year. I know games are more GPU dependent, but I've been worrying about the more CPU bound games to come in the future. This article from techreport.com shows a 29 fps increase from the 3770k to 6700k in Project Cars: http://techreport.com/review/28751/intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake-processor-reviewed/6 What do you guys suggest I do? P.S. If you suggest I overclock, what cooler do you recommend I get? I currently have an Arctic Freezer 13 CO cooler installed, but I'd still want to maintain lower temps when overclocking.