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Cookybiscuit

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  1. As high as you can get it, the voltage is locked in the BIOS so you can't easily damage the card unless you overheat it, and even then it'll just downlock itself. It's pretty idiot-proof.
  2. If you overheat a Intel CPU to the point where it can't keep itself below TJMax by downclocking it'll just shit the bed entirely and shut the system down. Since installing Windows is mostly HDD/SDD/RAM load you're unlikely to have damaged anything at all, but I'm guessing you knew all of this already or you wouldn't have had the confidence to risk destroying $500 of gear because you're so lazy that you couldn't put the cooler on.
  3. I think your expectations are unrealistically high, CSGO DM has always had pretty crappy FPS. I'm on a 1080Ti, 5GHz 8700K and 4000MHz memory which should on paper be a bit faster than your system in CSGO but it's about the same standing in the same spots. It's multiplayer though so it obviously isn't a repeatable test. Pics are at all lowest at 16:9. Like I said earlier in the thread, try a 5:4 or 4:3 stretched resolution and see what happens to your FPS, for me it goes through the roof. I'm a dipshit and had a FPS cap enabled. Dunno what to tell you tbh, I don't think a 8700K should be getting double the FPS of a Ryzen system. Are the people you're talking to who have "double" FPS on Ryzen or Intel?
  4. What is so difficult to understand that one setting is called "4K optimised" and the other is "1080p extreme"? It's like being surprised that you get more FPS in a game at 4K all lowest compared to 1080p ultra.
  5. Have you asked what resolution the people who are getting "double FPS" are at? CSGO sets its FOV based on what aspect ratio you're at, it has a massive impact on CPU load. Try 1280x1024 and see what happens to your FPS. CSGO doesn't give a shit how much GPU power you have and GSYNC will introduce input lag you don't want, so your plan to get a 1080 and different monitor is pointless.
  6. The PSU you have is probably fine unless it's a shit one, you'll probably struggle to pull more than 350W from the wall with that setup. Also, 1070Tis don't really overclock much, if at all.
  7. Probably so socialist countries with "free" healthcare can simply let people die on the operating table because Google said they'd be unlikely to survive.
  8. lmao Agreed, all I'm saying is that there are some benefits to be had, but those are heavily offset by the downsides for the majority of people.
  9. Buying two of the same card costs twice as much than buying one of those cards, how is that biased or opinionated? I posted links that objectively prove that SLI is shit because FCAT testing shows that even if FPS is higher than on a single card the frame delivery can be inconsistent and thus worse. Don't you remember the big scandal about this kind of crap on AMD cards years ago? Your counter to this will no doubt be "works great on my machine". This logic doesn't follow what so ever. 8400 vs 8700K is like if Corvette A had a 500BHP LS, Corvette B cost 25% more and had a 510BHP LS but you could tune it yourself to 550BHP with relative ease. Car analogies are always stupid when they are computer related. I could do that, but it still wont change the fact that my posts are factual and yours are opinionated.
  10. I'm saying the majority of people either don't give a shit about this in the first place, or when they learn one card isn't enough, will learn to temper their expectations rather than spend another $1000 on a GPU so they can bump the graphics settings a bit higher in a couple of games. Do you really think that someones quality of life improves in any meaningful way because they decided to SLI two Titan Vs rather than just stick with one 1080Ti and turn the graphics settings down? The answer is of course, broadly speaking, no, but anyone who is in the financial position to do something like that isn't looking at things from a price to performance perspective. There are many, many ways to waste money in life on things that make no logical sense but some people like them anyway, SLI is a perfect example of that. OPs question is "is it even worth the effort?", if he has to ask that, of course the answer is no. It's like trying to talk someone into buying a classic car or a $5000 watch, if they haven't already justified it to themselves, they more than likely don't need it. None of this really matters of course as OP has already made the purchase.
  11. A 100% price increase (in the GPU alone) for maybe possibly hopefully a modest performance increase and almost certainly additional stutter isn't such a hot deal. https://babeltechreviews.com/the-50-game-gtx-1070-ti-sli-review/3/ https://babeltechreviews.com/the-gtx-1070-ti-sli-vs-gtx-1080-ti-performance-review-35-games-tested/3/ http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_1070_ti_2_way_sli_review,1.html This is also assuming the user is only playing well known, AAA titles. The user has to know for sure the games they want to play support it well, they actually have a usage scenario to justify it (i.e. 4K or triple monitors, since VR isn't supported), and they actually need to care enough that they'd rather spend another $900 on a 1080Ti and stronger PSU, all this just so they can play their games at ultra instead of a mix of medium-high in super demanding games. SLI makes no sense for 99.999% of users, much in the same way spending the extra money on a 8700K, Z370 motherboard, a delid and aggressive cooling and overclocking time makes no sense over a simple and much cheaper 8400 setup for 99.999% of users. SLI is an enthusiast thing even more so now than its ever been, the value isn't there unless you're a hardware enthusiast. If someone is at the level where they are still asking what games even support it then of course SLI makes no sense for them.
  12. Sharpkeys should be able to do it, but it depends how your system recognises the FN key.
  13. I always get Haribos from them too no matter how expensive or cheap the order was.
  14. They aren't dropping support, they are actively blocking users from continuing to use software that already exists.
  15. Exactly, so why pull the plug? Doing this is akin to booting up a iPhone 5 to see that Apple pushed a software update you couldn't opt out of and now the phone is completely non-functional.
  16. How many man hours do you really think it would take for them to simply not push an update that locks people out of the client?
  17. It's terrible that they are pulling the plug without even offering a legacy client, and even worse that people are celebrating this. I don't think the people still on XP and Vista will be too happy to boot up Steam on January 1st and just see a message that says "go fuck yourself u cant use ur games anymore lmao".
  18. People have been saying super dooper optimisation will be a thing forever and it still hasn't happened. If you read much of anything back when AMD FX was a thing you'd be lead to believe it would be outperforming Sandy Bridge by now, but it hasn't happened yet and it likely never ever will.
  19. The 8700K is already sucks up a bunch of power, will be interesting to see if an eight core version sets fire to the socket like X299 does. Shitposting aside, I don't think the average consumer really cares about power consumption that much, it's really only vitally important for mobile platforms (including laptops). I much prefer this universe where a manufacturer is willing to produce a CPU with a silly TDP in the name of competition rather than one where they don't because "muh power draw would be too high". Products like this and for example 7990 are stupid, but they are on the enthusiast side of things anyway, people who buy them don't really care if they consume 400W or 500W, in much of the world electricity is cheap as chips.
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