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  1. Silver47
    Thats wrong. 2gb works just fine in 99% of games. Take the GTX 960 as an example, still runs every game in 1080p at medium to high settings.
  2. Silver47
    Now wheres that coming from? Don't really know what to say, but I've had the impression that Source games where rather well optimized... I mean every half decent system gives you about a million fps in cs:go.
  3. Silver47
    I'd suggest you rather get a used GTX 950 than a GT 1030, it can be had for about the same price on ebay and also performes a lot better. Or get basically any other semi-modern GTX card, but not a 1030.
  4. Silver47
    Might as well try, if you can find a replacement for a decent price... But I wouldn't just give up on the 8700k yet. Trust me, I know the frustration. If your fed up with it, just try again tomorrow. Maybe try to add very, very small incremental voltage increases until you get a stable result. I feel with you... This happened to me with the first ever cpu I bought, a 2500k back in the day. It just wouldn't go over 3.8 GHz no matter what I tried.
  5. Silver47
    Thats very unfortunate. Just do some more fine-tuning, but keep in mind that there is absolutely no guarantee what so ever that your chip will overclock even 100 mhz without crashing. The only thing Intel guarantees on their K-series cpus is an open multiplier and the theoretical possibility of overclocking. They don't guarantee results, your particular example might just be a bad one...
  6. Silver47
    Just run the built in oc feature of your mainboard to see whats even possible with your chip, Asus software usually does an ok job to begin with. Then take the result and fine-tune the BIOS accordingly.
  7. Silver47
    Get a four-way splitter cable from Phobya, costs 7$ on Amazon.
  8. Silver47
    For stock clocks this is definitley not a good result, not even for a Devil's Canyon chip. I'm currently running an i7 4770k at 4.2 GHz cooled by a 120 mm aio and the hottest it ever gets is 57°c in the Intel XTU stress test. But on the other hand your temps aren't a desaster either. Preferably they would be lower, but low 70s isn't hurting your cpu at all. Its just unfortunate, because the 4770k/4790k is still a very decent cpu and overclocking works wonders in terms of performance. According to Hardware Unboxed it will bottleneck a GTX 1080, though the margin can obviously be minimized by overclocking. If you want to keep your 4790k for a couple more years I'd say a 120 or 240 mm aio watercooling unit would be a very good investment. Also maybe check your BIOS settings, some mainboards use weird default profiles or tools like llc when they detect certain cpus to "increase stability" even if you don't ask them to and in such a case you'd have to disable it manually. I've had this happen on a MSI board once, but its also a thing with other manufacturers.
  9. Silver47
    Exciting news about AMD graphics cards? Yeah right, curb your excitement. The last two times the hype died off pretty quickly, once everyone realized that the new generation of AMD cards weren't all that great value for money after all and they certainly didn't blow Nvidia out of the water in terms of raw performance either. No reason why this should have changed this time. At this point its only rumors, and theres no reason whatsoever to believe them. Also msrp isn't a thing anymore.
  10. Silver47
    Since fourth gen is allready starting to show its age a little you should go for the a 4790 if you dont want a 4770k. The 4770 is quite a bit slower than an overclocked 4770k.
  11. Silver47
    Really depends. For GTA 5 it might do since its a couple of years old now. But not for the latest games at ultra settings. I own a GTX 1060 6GB and in some games its barely enough to keep maxed out settings above 60 fps in 1080p. For example in The Witcher 3 it really struggles in some forest areas despite being paired with an overclocked 4770k, so I think a cpu bottleneck can pretty much be ruled out. Games where it also struggles (in no particular order): Rome 2 Total War, Arma 3, Assassins Creed Origins (should not have bought that one...), Dishonored 2. If you want to go all out on the graphic-options in 1080p (and also 1440p) I'd suggest getting at least a GTX 1070 (if you can find one that wasn't abused by f****** miners lol). The 1060 is really good for its original msrp, but in some scenarios it doesn't quite cut it.
  12. Silver47
    Yeah right... On CPUs and Mainboards with locked multipliers and locked voltage settings. Most cpus of the last Intel generations couldn't be overclocked at all. And if you bought AMD thats on you anyways...
  13. Silver47
    lol no. Thanks to miners theres no gpus in the used market that havent been abused these days...
  14. Silver47
    Would be a decend upgrade, but still depends on the price I'd say. If you can find a good deal on a Haswell/Devils Canyon go for it.
  15. Silver47
    Unnecessary for a Ryzen, its not gonna get that hot. The boxed cooler will do. Also unnecessary, get an Asus B350. Too much, get a cheaper one with like 450-500w. Ditch the rgb fans, the expensive cooler, the overkill psu and the expensive mainboard and get a better graphics card instead. A GTX 1050 ti isn't that much more expensive but gets you better value for money. Rather spend 30$ more and get a r5 1600. The r3 1300x isn't good value for money.
  16. Silver47

    Miners

    Silver47 replied to Nik Balor's topic in Graphics Cards

    Supply and demand.
  17. Silver47
    Exactly that was the problem lol. That was back in the day when I didn't know wtf I was doing.
  18. Silver47
    For what cpu specifically?
  19. Silver47
    This chipset will theoretically allow it, but the M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3 is a really cheap board that you really shouldn't overclock at all. The VRM probably has only very, very little capacity outside of the stock specifications...
  20. Silver47
    This isn't a question you should be asking yourself when planning a custom loop. 60$ more or less shouldn't matter that much compared to how much a full custom loop costs in general...
  21. Silver47
    Send an Email to Asus support. They usually reply very quickly.
  22. Silver47
    I once ruined a perfectly good FX 8320 by leaving the voltage setting on auto on some Asus FX990 board... Never do this on a substantial overclock. Just manually search for the lowest settings your chip can handle.
  23. Silver47
    That vastly depends on your mainboard and ram. But when I was building a pc for a friend of mine we had problems fitting a Hyper T4 on both a MSI Z97S SLI Krait and a MSI Z87-G45 beacuse of VRM cooling clearence issues. (Unrelated: Once we got it fitting by mounting it the other way around and thus having to trim a piece off of the heatspreader of a ram module and modify the bracket it cooled a 4670k @ 4.2 GHz just fine. These early haswell chips aren't exactly running cool, so thats why I think your 8700 would be good)
  24. Silver47
    I worked with both of these multiple times (when the 212x was still called 212 evo) and unless you don't use an AMD AM3+ or FM2+ type mounting bracket on your motherboard the mounting mechanism of the Hyper T4 sucks really really bad. Doesn't completely hold the cooler down unless you use ridiculous amounts of force. And then its still really easy to pop back off because theres no screws holding it down but some lever mechanism which you have to overtighten on intel. Also the Hyper T4 seems to perform slightly worse than the 212, but that should not matter since your can't oc your chip anyways. Also the T4 doesn't take up less space then the 212.
  25. Silver47
    You shouldn't ever do that in a performance oriented setup. GN made a video showing that it does make a big difference if you run dual or single channel. Regardless of that I dont think that missmatched ram causes your framerate issues.
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