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  1. GTBTK
    I found this that may be useful:
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    Is that the sabertooth? the digital display on the board?
  3. GTBTK
    I was gob smacked when I saw the price
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    sometimes if you over tighten the screws on the CPU cooler it can distort the motherboard making the ram not get good connections. Have you tried loosening the cooler and making sure that the thumbscrews are only an even finger tightness all the way around?
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    I wasn't talking about reinstalling windows. It cant be that because you are having trouble POSTing at boot time and the PC doesn't know anything about windows at that time.. I was talking about checking the vendor website for the motherboard model you are using and make sure that you have the latest UEFI bios installed on the motherboard. that can improve memory compatibility
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    updated the boards to the latest bios versions?
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    NZXT h440 is a "silent" case with partially restricted airflow. What are the temps like if you remove the side panel? Have you checked that all your case fans are still working? The Turbo is not that old, maybe you knocked a fan cable off a motherboard header when you installed it and did not notice Did you install anything else in the case at around the time you noticed the temperatures going up? The blower may have sucked in some fluff and restricted airflow inside the card. I understand you can hear the fan but can you feel any air blowing out the back of the card?
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    If you are desiring to overclock your card to get max performance, You should really try stretching to a multi fan design like the MSI Armor. Better fans/cooler and a higher power limit than the EVGA (140W). The base model EVGA has the power limit and cooling handicaps to get it to start dropping clock rates more. I looked at the MSI Gaming X 1060, looks like it could be an excellent card with 210W power limit, 8 pin power and a meaty cooler, but at $420.00 I don't think that there is reasonable value in that card, It you were thinking about that, you might as well pay slightly more and buy a 1070 for an extra $20
  9. GTBTK
    absolutely true, but I mentioned that because that is something that is indicative of what can be expected from a rumored dual 480 Polaris RX490 and you will be facing similar issues
  10. GTBTK
    Agreed. However, you have to be aware of the better alternative first before you can buy it.
  11. GTBTK
    I'm running my 1070 on a z68 with PCIe 2.0 motherboard with an i7-2600 and getting great performance. A Z87 with a 4770K will be even better. You wont be getting any bottlenecks
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    possibly, but I have never tried it. My Corsair HX850i PSU does not come with solid 8pin connectors on the pcie cables. The supplied PCIE cables are 6+2 pin units that have a pigtail with an additional 6+2 plug so you plug the 6 pin into the 8 pin socket and then plug the extra 2 pins in next to it to give you the full 8 pin connection. The PCIE ends of the cable have standardized pinouts so electrically it will be providing all the power the card draws regardless. The card will check if there is PCIE power connected at startup but I don't know though if the card will check if the last 2 pins specifically are set to ground or not for it to operate.
  13. GTBTK
    It should work fine. 1060s are only 120W cards and the PCIE bus + 6 pin will supply 150W. The extra two cables in the 8 pin connector are only extra ground cables, they don't supply any extra current
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    GPU question

    GTBTK replied to Dethanu's topic in Graphics Cards

    be aware that there are models of 1050ti that only use PCIe bus power and the higher end models that have an additional 6 pin power connector to give you some extra power to overclock if you desire, these models should also give you better out of teh box performance. If you are buying a card to upgrade a low end PC/PSU that is power limited make sure you check that you are choosing a bus powered card first before buying, or alternatively the extra power cards for the best out of box performance
  15. GTBTK
    crossfire 480s are pretty close to a 1080
  16. GTBTK
    remember that the pcie connectors date back over 10 years, back to the days when all high capacity power supplies were multi rail to get the high capacities. high power single rail PSUs are much more recent
  17. GTBTK
    Thats true too but that marketing speak post dates the reasons for 6 pin vs 8 pin. There is nothing wrong with modern quality single rail power supplies. It means that single pcie cables with the double end pugs can be used on high power draw cards that have 6 +8 pins or 8+8 pins
  18. GTBTK
    Look at the MSI Gaming cards. They are quieter, have higher power limits so they don't throttle because they hit the power limits and the coolers are more efficient than either the Asus or the EVGA.
  19. GTBTK
    SLI 1080s in a PC will pull 400-500W total. 750 is fine
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    Gaming mode only underclocks the GPU to the same as the Nvidia 1070 reference clocks. With lower clocks, it will produce less heat. Combined with the zero frozer design that does not spin the fans until the card reaches 60 degrees, it is designed to mimimize the amount of time that the fans need to remain on making noise. With heavy loads, you will the get better performance you paid for if you have the fans on all the time and run it either at the default or with an over clock It will stay in that mode until you either change it to Gaming or OC mode in the gaming App or reboot your PC. The "modes" are simply 3 different overclock profiles that the gaming app sets the card to
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    2 x 6 pin connectors spread power over 2 different power rails on a multirail PSU with each cable pulling a lower current (6.25A each). A single 8 pin pulls all the power from a single rail with a higher current (12.5A) that needs a PSU with power rails (usually a single rail PSU, that supports the higher current. It is only in the last couple of years (5 or 6) that higher capacity single rail power supplies have become more commonly available.
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    with a dual GPU card, Pcie lanes used are the same as a single card. Bandwidth should be fine also. With GPU usage, 8x vs 16x pcie 3.0 is about a 1% difference in performance. This card if true, will be able to crunch about the same as a 1080 which is not bandwidth constrained. The crossfire communication would stay only on the card itself
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    Video playback at 4K 60hz, yes. Using nvenc, it can also encode hevc and h264 video at a reasonable rate as well. Game play would be limited at 4K to say the least
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    I have not used on recent PCs, so maybe someone can confirm this it but I think that is also connected in with the software overclocking/fan management suite
  25. GTBTK
    Being in Malaysia, I suggest that you just focus on the best cooled cards. The MSI Gaming coolers are very good and arguably the quietest at 100%. The strix range is also very well cooled. That applies equally to the AMD as it does to the nvidia range
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