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"Pushed by nvidia" Bro has never heard of 3dfx

If your monitor has freesync and you have discord or chrome open in a secondary monitor that has a lower refresh rate this can also be the cause of that

Limiting fps? You can do it with rivatuner, amd catalyst and nvidia control panel This can help as if you get 60 fps that constantly drop to 30 you will feel the stutter as there is a significant drop compared to if the game was locked at 30 fps

"upgrading for diablo 4" bro literally wants to play a worse path of exile

Let me tell you, those PSU recommendations on the manufacturer site are way overspec. I'm rocking a 6700XT with a 550W power supply, and according to MSI afterburner I never use more than 200-250W, AS A WHOLE SYSTEM, way smack dab in that 50% load efficiency.

All that just pales in comparison to what I think is the real killer app of DP. A mounting system. No way in hell will a DP cable accidentally unplug by itself.

Why the hell are you comparing apples and oranges? Of course an iGPU will be worse than a dedicated one, especially way before they started taking graphics drivers seriously with the ARC cards.

Then stop playing that game with its rootkit malware level of anticheat (remember that hackers found an exploit in it, as I predicted it would happen when vanguard was new). I just hate it when games make it outright impossible for you to use any kind of useful program because "we don't allow overlays". Fuck tencent to hell and back who is with me

What do you mean "wait and spend more money" the 6700 xt surely won't increase in price

Those 12V cables are notoriously hard to plug in, make sure you push really hard on them. Watch the gamersnexus analysis about it, very informative. This cable spec is fucking awful.

Yeah I wasnt suggesting he keep lowering his clocks, thats just a bandaid that will only delay the inevitable. He should definitely RMA

Fair enough

I dont know about the audio but the visuals sure do look as if the card itself is unstable (basically not enough voltage to propey drive the clocks) Since you most likely didnt overclock yourself i would suggest downloading msi afterburner and actually lowering the clocks by ~100mhz and see where it takes you (since nvidia locked down voltage control thanks a lot) I am a bit worried that this means it came defective from the factory and the situation is only going to worsen (had very similar experiences with two old radeon hd 7850s)

What power savings? The 40 series is hungry as hell

There are two options 1. You need a card right now in which case get the 6700 xt. I just got one in november last year and it's a beast. 2. You dont need a card right now and can wait a few months for the new cards which will drop the price of the 6700 xt

Once again, that 600w quote is a mistranslation. The actual quote is saying "we didn't really want to develop a 600w card to beat the 4090", just of course not in those words, I am just paraphrasing.

Go to MSConfig, boot tab, then click on advanced and look at "maximum memory" - is it checked? If so, uncheck it.

Sounds like coil whine to me yes. You can aleviate this by limiting your FPS to about 5 below the monitor's refresh rate (so you are firmly within freesync range if you use AMD), it should also help with temps. Another thing you could try is possibly undervolt the GPU too. Edit: make sure that any competitive games you are playing don't get the FPS limit as it will increase latency if you care about it that much.

This could work if you don't run into any driver issues. I've only tried this with two AMD cards (one was my RX 580, and the other was an r7 250 whose only purpose was as a display adapter for an old VGA monitor i couldn't run through an adapter)

I mean rtss and afterburner are kind of a must, they are just so good

The crimson software is very good in its own right. Not for the gpu controls because those suck ass, but for all the driver level settings you can set on games like image sharpening, frame limiting (so you can stay in freesync range also savings on power and temps)

Thats not the problem and you are completely missing the point, furthermore the "titans" used to be regular ass cards. Look at the GF-200 in the gtx580 and then the GK104 in the 780 and then GK100 in the titan. They intentionally offset the stack so they can charge more for an 80 class card without backlash. A 580 was never $700

That's just called corporate dumbfuckery. Any argument against cards staying the same price is just some suit trying to add 1 penny to a company's bottom line, moreover it's dumb to say THAT, instead of following the trend of past generations. And it's not even 50%, in some cases a performance increase of 100% but without competition nvidia won't EVER do that again (especially since, technically, every x80 card since the 780 is a midrange card sold for high end prices)

Unless something changed, from my experience what "prefer maximum performance" does is it makes the card run at 3D clocks no matter what, even on the desktop which isn't exactly ideal. Maybe have him set "prefer maximum performance" only as a per-game setting rather than global.

Probably a dumb suggestion, but have you checked your resolution? Did you turn on Dynamic Super Resolution? It could very well be that csgo runs at a higher resolution somehow, otherwise I'm stumped too. Edit: I'm mentioning Dynamic Super Resolution because it basically enables the video card to render at a resolution higher than native, then scale it down to your monitor. This used to be called super sampling anti aliasing. It's also the case that when enabling it, some games see the new resolutions and try to run on the highest possible one. (This happened to me, but with AMD's equivalent when launching doom eternal with my new 6700 XT, it autoset the resolution to 8k or something, and of course it ran like ass.)