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Return the card if you want to by all means but I will tell you this about the MSI cards: the MSI cooler is one of the most efficient ones going, it is also one of the quietest ones around, The MSI cards have higher power limits at default settings than the EVGA, Asus and gigabyte cards that help get higher stable overclock. The EVGA cards in particular bounce around because they hit the power limit and downclock a lot you can flash a Gaming Z bios and get a free upgrade default clock. The PCB and circuitry are identical, the only difference is the naf led on the Z backplate. You shoudl also be able to upgrade the non OC Strix card to the OC version with a bios flash as well

have a look in the nvidia control panel at the resolution settings. maybe someone changed something on you

1050 is a much better card that a 750 ti

GPUs are usually set up to save power and to keep temps low. If BF1 is not requiring all the GPU power at a given time, it would not be unusual to see the usage level drop off and then load up again when the application needs more graphics power. for your first question, applications like web browsers do use GPU acceleration to operate. You could determine exactly what it is by closing down each application and in tern and see when the behavior stops

Sell it and get a 1070

The combination will work great. Dont cheap out on the cpu cooler though. 4770K ran hotter but you will have a better experience if you use a quality cooler and not, say, the stock one

Corsair source PSUs from different OEM manufacturers and different model ranges have different quality levels. The CX range is a budget brand of PSU and not at the same quality level as the HX or AX ranges. Cheap power supplies tend not to provide power as smoothly as the more up market units, the voltage will have greater fluctuations which will not effect lower loaded devices quite so much as when a device such as a GPU is stressed by being overclocked. Artifacts dont blow up GPUs, bad components or power supplies providing power that fluctuates too much particularly when overclocked and they are drawing more power do damage cards. The reason people are questioning the PSU is that the CX range do not have the greatest reputation as being good to do enthusiast things such as overclocking. It is not that the people here are elitist about gold or platinum PSUs, it is just through experience, the quality ranges of PSUs cause less problems with Overclocking etc than the budget ranges do.

You would be better off asking that question over at the evga forums. no-one here will be able to give you a definitive answer

Its not my video and no the subject of that video is a 1080, however, the axial fan used in all of these blower designs draws in air around the inner silver circle you can see in the photograph and ejects air in 360 degrees. Without ducting to force the air to go in the direction you want, which in this case is over the main heat sync and out throug the silver grills to outside the case. On your photograph, on the smaller rear heat sync at the top right of the photo, look closely. There is a line that runs across the direction of the fins, perpendicular to the length of the card. That line is solid material that blocks off airflow. If it wasn't there, the axial fan would be blowing air out both ends of the card instead of maximizing airflow over the GPU to the fans left side.

It is blanked off in the middle of that heat sync. While it does add to the thermal mass and case fan airflow would help with cooling a bit, The card shroud is not an open tube with a fan in the middle. Towards the end of this video, he shows how the fan shroud is shaped to block off the back of the card and direct air toward the outside of the case. if you look at the heat sync, you can see the blanking panel that is molded into the heat sync that blocks air flow. Just think, if it was an open tube with fan in the middle, how can you make sure that the air is always exhausted out of the case? You cant, it would also exhaust air into the case out of the back end as well but those cards do not do that. all the air is exhausted outside of the case

That is not correct. the end of the card has a blanked off heat sync. the air intake is sucked in around the fan

Further to what I just said, that is why watercooling graphics cards is a potentially desirable thing. it keeps the card really cool and allows the boost to turn the clocks up to as high as the card will support it

with a 60hz monitor you are probably right

your GPU starts managing the max clock speeds/voltages when it hits 43 deg and will step down further every 3 or so degrees

yes I know. that is why I pointed out the native resolution setting. a 1070 is never going to make lots of FPS at 4K

I didn't know that they changed it to a more sensible 100%. But yes I did read that he said 200%. That is why I mentioned what I thought was native scaling

Gaming X is a great card with a great cooler. It is quiter than the EVGA cooler and as effecient or slightly better than the EVGA cooler but the differences are very small. The performance differences could be because of different card overclocks, or different setting in BF1. If antialiasing is turned off or scaling is set to different values, then you will see frame rate differences.

42% scaling is native screen resolution in BF1.

1. I assume then that there is about 6" between card and basement? Is your CPU Aircooled? 2. there is space for 2 x 140mm fans in the front of that case behind the dust filter. I suggest that you would benefit by installing 2 x 140mm fans there. it will increase the airflow and give your CPU and GPU more cool air to suck through the cooler, and give your case positive pressure so that the computer wont suck so much dust inside the case. 3. take the door of and test it. If it is cooler it will confirm that the extra fans will help

blower cards rely on having air available in the case to suck in and blow out the back of the case. They also tend to run a bit hotter than the open style cards anyway. 1. is there any blockages in front of the fan inlet of the card such as the top of a power supply? 2. what sort of case is it installed in? 3. what case fans do you have installed in the case to feed air into your case 4. how much cooler does it run if you remove the case cover/door

AMD Gpus are much better that Nvidia for GPGPU type operations in things using OpenCL and the like. That is why the bitcoin miners rushed to buy R9 290s and 390s.Check out luxmark benchmark league tables and the AMD cards top the tables AMD even market the Pro Duo as for creative types rather than gamers. the power of those cards are ideal for rendering 3d graphics for CGI animation and the like. I am not sure how they do in GPU video encoding like quick sync on Intel iGPUs or NVENC on Nvidia cards. I know that AMD cards have a video encoding feature called VCE but I have not had any experience using it. As GPU encoding does not produce the best quality video, most NLE applications don't use it but some like Premiere Pro CC use openCL to accelerate filters while the CPU does the rendering. I would imagine that ReLive is using VCE though to encode the game recording just as the Nvidia equivalent uses NVENC

According to PCPer Firestrike is slightly faster but only by about 50 points in the graphics score. The AMD card is slower in fallout 4, Witcher 3, ROTR, GTA V by significant amounts

It can be enabled, but today, there is no evidence that it provides any benefit. On pascal, games get a framerate boost, on maxwell, there is no apparent improvement in performance. in fact in some cases there is performance degredation

That is certainly true. Pascal gains have come more from clock speeds than from some amazing new innovation other than die shrink that allows the higher clock speeds. The only real exception to that is the implentation of pascals ability to use software to enable async compute that Maxwell lacks

yes Intel licences 64 bit tech from AMD but AMD also licenses CPU tech from Intel as well