dainity4576

soooo i know im a little late (* a few years late LOL) but im praying that you still use the forum regularly and can help me im wondering how you replaced the side panel of your nzxt h440? is there a website that i can order it from? did you use the original side panel mounting hardware to mount the tempered glass? i love the case but that damn acrylic side panel that blocks off half of the inside of the case is a deal breaker for me and your came out really clean thanks for any help you might be able to provide

they should have just postponed it until today and done it tonight heres to hoping? ....yea i know its not happening **sad face**

i would like the 1100/volta series to come out or 2k series what ever they are going to name it

hmm ill keep that on my radar while researching

OK so i got a 8700k for the holidays (rather i got some cash and bought an 8700k) and im getting quite a nice overclock and ok temperatures but i would feel a lot better about keeping this high of an overclock and overvolt if the temperatures were lower and i know that delidding and adding liquid metal on coffe lake can end up with a 20c decrease... SO i had so reward points on my amazon credit card and figured what the hell its no money out of my pocket and order the rockit 88 delid and relid tool and a package of thermal grizzly conductonaut and have watched enough gamers nexus videos in the past on delidding and have been watching even more videos in the past 2 hours since but i wanted to get some answers from some people who have actually delidded a chip and added liquid metal to it. I have heard some people say they have NOT added liquid metal to the top of the ihs (to clarify i mean the top of the inside of the ihs) in all the tutorials i have watched everyone has said they do add it to the top of the ihs. Also finger nail polish....what brand? IF i could find a way to protect that small grouping of capacitors? or what ever connections that could be harmed to the bottom left of the die i would feel a hell of a lot more comfortable about adding liquid metal. i mean im doing it anyway but id feel better if i could protect them somehow. Also has anyone used liquid electrical tape? is that a possibility? And if anyone has used nail polish and it has "worked" can you please list a brand or at least the main ingredient or some information please.

unfortunately i believe ashleyashes has it correct on the job condition you be likely to be working in if you are wishing to manufacture motherboards for asus. I think more of the idea in your head would be someone like der8auer who "works for" asus with extreme overclocking and testing products before they come out. Even someone like vince aka KINGPIN for EVGA who gives input on the higher end more or less "blueprints" for a kingpin card" these guys are more or less sponsored by these companies more than they are technically employees. Any true employee that actually manufactures the products will be overseas in Asia where the working conditions and pay are much much less than they are here. Being sponsored and working higher up in the company like some of the beforementioned guys would be more about who you know a little about what you know sadly.

yea especially when im playing destiny 2 my cpu is sitting at 99% and my gpu isnt at 99% which was my first indication that i may need to upgrade the cpu to keep up with the gpu

yea ive done that already =/ ive got a corsair clc on there at the moment but because i went with the non K 7700 i also didnt go with Z series motherboard so thats another reason i wanted to upgrade to the intel 8700k with a z370 motherboard so that i can actually have some bios options and have some room to grow with overclocking and or delidding it i just feel at the moment that a non k 7700 on a H series motherboard is holding back my 1080ti to the point that im wasting money. I think at this point im pretty sure im going to upgrade my processor becuase i know i can recuperate some of the funds by selling the 7700 and the 1060

My main reason for this post was because i was thinking of upgrading to coffe lake once i sell my 1060 that i still have lol. I really just needed reassurance that i was indeed bottle necking the 1080ti with my cpu before i went out and spent the money on a new mainboard and cpu.

Ok so i recently upgraded my 1060 to a 1080ti because i also upgraded monitors from 1080p to 1440p (black friday being a week long thing this year at best buy really helped me out as i could basically spread it out between 2 paychecks lol) when i had built my system i was still learning and purchased the 7700 non k because at the time i had figured " im never going to over clock i dont even know what that really is" a laughable thought now. My long question is do you think that my 1080ti is being bottlenecked in some gaming titles by the 7700 non k as the base spead is lower as well as the turbo/boost. In a lot of the benchmarks that i see im not getting nearly the FPS that the benchmarkers are and a lot of the time my cpu is at a higher utilization than my graphics card is and that was NEVER the case with my 1060. thanks for any replies im really feeling like i am holding it back with the cpu given the circumstances but some input from people with more experience will make me feel better.

i just watched a "ask gn" episode on it last night because i was curious and you are absolutely correct. The magical number is 60c tho and once it hits 60c it will do exactly as you said it will start to step down but once you hit 80c is when he considers to truly thermal throttle and loose significant clocks and at 85c you hit a wall and the card will just drop all clocks to stay cool i guess i just didnt know how sensitive pascal was to temperatures this makes me want to get an open loop even sooner to try to keep my gpu as cool as possible.

do you really think that pascal starts to throttle at only 70C? maybe im wrong but i remember that number being much higher at least when you have power target set to a higher setting than stock. Smart idea with the unigine benchmark.

i would highly doubt you are thermal throttling your max temp isnt even 70c and most cards can go to like 80 before thermal throttling (and as a side note my 1080ti is running at 5.9 ghz boost clock at 65c VERY happily theres no way to hit that high while thermal throttling) but im going to agree with everyone else on this one only because you said stuttering. sli these days is just shit sadly. although you saying your cpu was around maxed out on both tests i suppose it COULD be variance in size of the lobby/server but i leaning towards sli scaling just being bad sadly i followed this post because i am curious to see if someone smarter than i has any input and if you figure it out. GL!

yes what everyone is saying is very true that sli scaling with pascal is pretty garbage. What i meant by the server was the size of the server, the bigger the server the more difficult it will be on your cpu. I think the main issue here is that battlefield 1 is an extremely taxing game on your cpu. Every game uses both your cpu and gpu to some extent but some games require more cpu power than others and with a massive game like battlefield 1 if you dont have a high enough frequency on your cpu it will hold back your graphics card. So if your cpu is maxed out the gpu cant do anymore as it is waiting on cpu to process the size of the server. Its either bad sli scaling or cpu bottlenecking im not leaning more towards bad sli scaling because you were getting more frames before with a single gpu BUT your cpu wasnt hitting 99% when you were getting those fps's either so it technically could still be a cpu bottleneck if the server size was big enough. i would look around to see if anyone else has gotten sli to actually scale properly with battlefield 1.

if your cpu is hitting near 99% in the only game that you are having trrouble with i would bet that your cpu is bottlenecking your sli config and with a game like battlefield 1 and the size of their servers sometimes that is going to fall heavily on your processor something tells me thats your problem if its only battlefield you are seeing this issue