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5 minutes ago, plasticpeeler said:

i'm now going with the 1080 as i found its also an overkill and i might upgrade earlier than 4 years  
anyways the cpu isnt the issue as its a 8700k .. but the question now i found a gtx 1070ti for 500$ and the 1080 is 560-590 .. you think the 1080 is worth it now ?

assuming same model [3rd party maker] eg asus strix for example. pick best price. if you overclock the 1070Ti and put in a bit of effort along with above adequate cooling u can get 1080-like performance while saving 60-90$. from the benchmarks i saw on average on youtube it looks like the 1070Ti is a better proposition. but then you have to ask yourself is paying an extra 60-90$ worth an extra 5-8 fps? that i can't answer but personally i would go 1070Ti. especially given your monitor has an upper limit of 75hz, if you did have a higher frame rate monitor then a 1080 would be the best thing you can buy.

according to witcher 3 i saw 1080Ti only outputting approx 130fps on 1080p maxed out which is scary given how powerful the 1080Ti is [and this benchmark i saw was run with an 8700k like you said above]... which is accurate to what I see myself [90-100fps on 1440p maxed] so do not be too down about this, it is one of the most graphically intense game i have played so far but don't mind the loss as I'm fine with floating around 100fps on avg.]

video i was watching just now to try and "deduce" :

2 hours ago, plasticpeeler said:

i know both are overkill but i like to max out the game like assassins creed , the witcher and other open world games 

but , i wont be upgrading for a while *around 4 years* ,, so will the 1080 be enough or i need a 1080ti ? 
 

You'd probably be fine even with a 1070/1070Ti lol if you really want because 1080p 75hz as you said is easily attainable with those two. Unless you really need that 1080/1080Ti spec in your comp that makes you feel good then in that case a 1080 would be best at the lower price but not tossing too much for negligible performance increase [at very high frame rates the CPU starts to bottleneck especially in 1080p gaming depending on what you have since there's a shit ton of frames to compute]. 1080Ti rather overkill for any 1080p resolutions, you're better off going 1440p if you need a 1080Ti.

2c.

Strix 1080Ti Owner here.
Fans only spin after 55*c on the default automatic setting. This is to keep it as quiet as possible.

However I set it to a manual constant power load of 36% [lowest setting i do on GPU Tweak] and it's not loud at all.

9 minutes ago, Pip313 said:

Vague? Asking you to confirm that it’s not a glitch in the software that controls the gpu speed is vague? Ok, have fun with your 1080ti, jerk.

definitely nothing to do with gpu tweak is what i'm saying. uninstalling it won't make any difference.

also cut the word jerk out it makes you look more of a lesser ;-)

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

I would DDU in safe mode to reinstall the drivers and or GeforceExperience fresh new, and get rid of all the Asus tweak program and go with MSi Afterburner instead.

 

Another major thing is get either Heaven or SuperPosition and not use FurMark.

doing that now thanks P-cadence! will let you know how it goes

2 minutes ago, Pip313 said:

Uninstall gpu tweak and run furmark

very vague advice.

Title as above, I've only noticed my games started taking a huge dip in frames at 1440p which seemed very strange given the 1080Ti should perform exceptional.

1) Tried reinstalling Nvidia Drivers + GeForce Experience, rebooted and still same issue. which i did just now

Anyone had has this similar issue or know how to fix? It's kinda bugging me because even a super simple game like for example league of legends which is nothing... on my casual days is barely mustering above 60fps which is strange as i normally see absurd fps numbers [250-400]

photo attached for reference. it's like when i turn off furmark the clock jumps up to 354MHz and when i want to run furmark the GPU clock drops to some low number.

1050 is so weak i think better off looking at rx570-580 if u can. Dont spend little and then spend more again this should be a one off thing 

Yea it should power no problem. My 1080ti and 7700k [5GHz 1.35V] uses approx 575W power.

don't think the rating should matter way too much. unless you're leaving your computer on 24/7 [eg miners]

1 hour ago, SirDarknight said:

1070ti & 1080ti are way beyond my budget at this moment. A guy is selling his 980ti for around $300 in my country, 60FPS isn't my main concern. I just bought a 4K HDR TV and games look stunning on that, unfortunately my current GPU(R9 390) can't push even 20FPS in 4K. I just want a playable experience at High-medium settings. 

i would get it considering the jacked up and messed up state of the market now. it might not be the most perfect card [hint 1080ti] but you just need to compromise a few settings in and out. [also AA off since 4k is so detailed you don't need to smooth anything]. that should help

On 4/21/2018 at 3:39 AM, EOZ said:

Hi, LinusTechTips forum!

 

I'm looking for a new monitor budget is approximately ~350€. I'm not really sure if this monitor size per resolution will be good enough ? 

It will be used for video editing, photoshop and slight gaming GTA 5, World of Tanks and maybe PUBG in future... So i'm probably need IPS screen with no overshoot ghosting 60-75hz refresh rate maybe someone can recommend some good screens there are many of them in market in this price point. Thanks!!!!!!!

at 31.5" i would be looking at 4k because the estate allows 4k.

however i do not like 4k personally on 27", 1440p standard widescreen seems fine which is what i rock at the moment and is huge in front of me.

ultrawide is another option but due to it's niche sector it isn't always the most cheapest for a bit more resolution left to right.

2 hours ago, Yoyohoneywasp said:

Is overclocking a monitor really risky and can it ruin the monitor after a couple months?

i leave mine [PG279Q] at 165hz all day whether i'm gaming or just browsing the internet. no harm, been 10 months already since

5 hours ago, Tellos said:

1080 or 1080ti or if you can find one a Vega 64.

won't recommend vega 64 imo, expensive, overrated and hard to find not to mention the basic vega 64 cost 500$ more than i paid for my 1080ti which is a dump. 1080ti is best option out there period.

From my experience, even witcher 3 which i consider quite intense in terms of graphics. at 1440p i'm stuck around 100-120fps unless i turn the preset down by 1 where i can hit the 144-165fps mark. this is with an overclocked 1080ti & 7700k.

1 hour ago, ZcanKal said:

a 1070 ti would be good, a 1080 ti would be better. (especially if you can find a good deal on a 1080 ti)

wouldn't recommend a 1070ti tbh, the prices are quite high at the moment.

On 4/13/2018 at 6:22 PM, Young Boi said:

Hello People of the Internet
I am currently looking a Power Supply and I am pretty stuck right now.

Can you please help me choose.

https://www.pccasegear.com/sc/kkU

I'm about to purchase the Corsair CX650 650W 80 Plus Power Supply, but not sure. Can someone please confirm as I am a computer noob.

Thanks!

that's quite expensive for a 1060... i'd say try looking at eBay for some 20% off deals they pop in and out like on the daily if any.

CX650W nah, don't get that. Get a TX or RMx, put a bit more quality ass power supply in your system. Also you could go for a 500W PSU with that, 650W is overkill. I'm using a 1080Ti // 7700k with a  RM750x and some still tell me it's overkill but eh whatever floats my boat.

otherwise most compoenents are good and i won't comment since it's your preference, i never built an ITX build before.

noise in high end psus should not be an issue. This includes stuff like EVGA's G2/G3, Corsair's TX/RMx and better just as some examples.

also i'd probably dump more money imo since this power supply is the heart of your system. ymmv, but i wouldn't "skimp" and get the best especially at that rating.

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i'm using a RM750x with a 7700k overclocked to 5GHz @ 1.3V and a Strix OC 1080Ti. Probably "overkill" for my needs i could have saved a bit on the 650x but eh, too late now. opened and using it so I'm not going to regret but move fforwards.

given you're rocking a more efficient cpu and a step lower than me in the graphics card you could opt for 650w to be safer imo.

On 4/20/2018 at 5:54 PM, Jhostile said:

my i5 8600k 50 percent and my 1050ti goes to 99 percent how to fix with out upgrading

1050ti is a basic graphics card lower your settings. Also dependent on the actual program. in most cases with a 1050ti that will mainly be the bottleneck due to the actual cost and simple design of the card itself.

You'll only start seeing CPU bottlenecks when it comes to stuff like high frame rate gaming at higher resolutions (just one example, there's more obviously) eg 1440p at 144-165hz, a CPU will start to be as important but then even my 1080Ti is limiting me over the 7700k so. Technically it all depends on what you do.

eg Witcher 3 for me doesn't bust over 120FPS... with maxed out settings on 1440p w/ a 1080Ti. I could drop settings but it would negate the true reason I bought a 1080Ti to play fully maxed out. YMMV.

Like the 2nd poster suggested, TURN DOWN YOUR SETTINGS, especially with a 1050Ti, that would muster 60fps on average or lower settings. For me it was a necessity not to do so, because I wanted the best gaming experience for the amount of shit i tossed on the setup.

15 hours ago, KarathKasun said:

A CPU bottleneck is exactly that, a performance limit of the hardware.

This is what people don't seem to understand.  There is always a bottleneck, weather or not you address it depends on how happy you are with performance.

This is true, most of the times anything gaming related, will have bottlenecks regarding to GPU. For other tasks, it's mostly CPU dependent.

People need to be aware that it depends on what THEY do, gaming? or workloads? For workloads, I doubt the GPU will ever be a true limitation [Video Rendering, 3d task photo etc]. Majority of the people wouldn't be concerned with bottlenecks IF they already know what they wanted to do.

If gaming bottlenecking with CPU is and only is a concern if you venture into high frame rate gaming (>>>>100fps)++, even at 4k gaming w/ a 1080Ti, the GPU still is the true limiting factor of a build, since the CPU has no issues processing 60fps without a doubt but the GPU struggles due to the intensity.

Example; my 7700k limits me when I'm using premiere pro. Since exporting and rendering is all CPU intensive based versus GPU. So much that my CPU hits 100% most of the time on stock settings.

On 4/10/2018 at 6:25 AM, The Viking said:

no. Get the 1080ti or wait for nvidia's new line-up. AMD's next cards are for 2019 in theory.

 

Vega 64 is ~gtx1080, so no real gain for you. On top of it, vega is very expensive right now due to the shortage. I would only pick one if you are a big AMD fan or have too much money laying around, which, ironically, summarize me.

not to mention a basic base vega 64 is currently the price in australia the same as an asus poseidon 1080ti which is the most exp graphics card i known to date so screw that entirely!! haahaha

On 2/21/2018 at 11:02 PM, SpotMyWifi said:

Hi so i have a WD 500gb drive so while im just watching some videos at youtube my pc just crash so i restarted my computer and it start showing the no boot drive so i checked the bios to look for my boot drive and its gone in the bios my 500gb drive is detected as a pata. Please help me i dont know what to do 

pull out and plug in again. 99.5% should work.
source: i had the similar situation before. couldn't detect M.2 nvme which was weird af.

have you tried rubbing alcohol?

On 2/23/2018 at 7:36 PM, Gzee said:

Let's start from the begining:

Costumer has a dated system, with an AMD FX-6300, Asus M5A78, 1x8GB 1600, generic case, and a 600W PSU (I don`t have the brand and model right now).

The problems started with the old XFX AMD Radeon HD 7870 that stopped working them he bought another XFX card the AMD Radeon RX 460 that was a second hand card and again it died after 6 months, he used the system with no Graphics Card for a time and bought an NVIDIA 1050 (or 1050Ti) that died after 2 months.

I will get his computer tomorrow to diagnose what is making the Graphics Card die.

How can I diagnose his computer without killing any of my components?

Important notes:

Costumer uses the case with the side open.
Case is on floor, I found lots of dust on HD 7870.
His house has serious problems with humidity, lots of rust spots on the HD 7870 also.
He said one day that he will be using one of these old stabilizers, I don`t know the right reason.
He uses an big screen (40 inch) through HDMI
Where I live voltage is 220V with dedicated ground, I do not know if its computer is grounded.

Thanks for everyone that helps me, and sorry about my english

1) use ur case on the table or elevated surface. i find floor use freaking lazy and collects dust WAY too often. ever since i shifted to top table [lost some table space], it never became dusty. in fact dust is super minimal...

2) side case open. do you [or him] clean often?

3) rusting? lol gg. invest in a dehumidifier.

4) nothing to do with grounded imo, that bit you're [he is] overthinking way too much.

high performance => higher power usage (mostly or usually... im assuming companies get better in long run) => more heat generated.

if you're worried about the temps buy an EK heatsink to mount on top of the M.2 nvme if you want. I personally don't bother because I won't even push it to the maximum where it's 70-90*c. It floats around 40*c max for me which is typical for my use.

only way i can think you will overheat it is by constantly writing data over long periods of time... but given how fast m.2 are, the file transfer is probably completed before you even worried close about "overheating"

you're overthinking it. they last pretty damn long. like themctipers say just buy and move on stop obsessing about small shit like this.

edit: by the time your drive "fails", a successor will be in the same price point as YOU paid it at 2-4x storage tenfold... if you get what i mean.

for me i think 21:9 is a niche product lineup in my opinion. it does command a more premium pricetag over the standard 16:9 monitors with relatively similar specs.

would it improve your gaming? i probably can't answer that as I myself cant justify the premium of 21:9 vs 16:9 as of now [i'm talking about a 500-600aud difference from asus pg279q to say a pg348q/x34 predator]

but some will swear by it and their opinion would then be more valuable as they've experienced it more often than i did, mine is infrequent usage at friends house when playing game.

Youtube movies, not so, you'll have black borders on left and right since most video content made for 16:9 only ratio. unless u can find cinematic ratio on some then maybe

17 hours ago, Zeketo said:

looking to buy a 27inch 144hz ips monitor.

The only reason I want Ips is because sometimes I play some games on my bed. 

Therefore, it might not be the perfect angel and I don't want it to be too dark.

Looked online and haven't found too many options.

 

what is YOUR budget because this is something you have not listed and I'm probably assuming it's huge.

Asus MG279Q = IPS Freesync 144Hz 1440p? [700aud at the time i bought it] july 2017
Asus PG279Q = IPS G-Sync 165Hz 1440p? [900aud at the time i bought it] july 2017

only quoted these two monitors as i have both of them but my brother uses the freesync variant for now as he has an amd graphics card, and I use a nvidia graphics card which benefits off g-sync... unless you need g-sync the asus is probably the lowest monitor i've seen so far that has IPS & 144hz rate at 1440p. it just makes no sense to put ips in 1080p 144hz personally as it will be too costly [the refresh rate already puts these monitors at a step higher than the base specs], adding IPS would just increase the premium even more making it not so cost wise for 1080p gamers.

also it might help if you expand your question a bit more: what's your gaming tower specs? what games do you play? what's your budget?

because right now my answer is long winded, but i try and shoot all possible angles i guess since i'm free to type a bit up now. but for others... maybe they need more refined questions.

1 hour ago, Amitradin said:

I have the gt 1030 lp by gigabyte I want a new gpu and I was thinking about the gtx 1060 3gb is it enough for 2k I have  2k monitor 

 

Thx 

Another thing can the gtx 1060 SC fit in my case I have the lenovo v520 (tower version)

Most prebuilt pcs tend to be on the smaller side [which is a benefit for those concerned about sizability/dimensions] BUT do not have the flexibility of upgradability [as this is how they sell it to most consumers on the intention that they most likely would not tweak it around in the future but use it "as it is"...

you'd might stumble in some issues so one way or another is better off building off a new system altogether...

don't expect the 1030 to even power most current titles except for ultr abasic windows games with little to no graphic usage... you'd be lucky if it does so...

also do not use the word 2k monitor... it's either 720P(HD), 1080P (FHD), 1440P (WQHD) or 4K [2160p if u want to keep it consistent (UHD)]