1080 or 1070's sli

[i_build_nanosuits]

1 minute ago, Mick Naughty said:

I'm sure it could help quite a bit but I can't bring my self to find out. If I went down that road I would waste about 3 grand. Current titles aren't worth that for me right now. 

Also, can you really feel and tell the difference between 120FPS and 144FPS?
i can't...i do have Gsync though...but for me personally anything above or around 100FPS is perfectly fine and well, even for online FPS i play BF1 a lot and i get around 85 to 110FPS on Ulra depending on the map and honestly it's way good enough and my CPU is pretty much never above 80% usage except when there is heavy fog (don't know why, Fog in that game load up the CPU a lot)

[Mick Naughty]

2 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

Also, can you really feel and tell the difference between 120FPS and 144FPS?
i can't...i do have Gsync though...but for me personally anything above or around 100FPS is perfectly fine and well, even for online FPS i play BF1 a lot and i get around 85 to 110FPS on Ulra depending on the map and honestly it's way good enough and my CPU is pretty much never above 80% usage except when there is heavy fog (don't know why, Fog in that game load up the CPU a lot)

Are you referring to my monitor set ups? Cant say I do but they are in different classes now. I play on both so much I can only tell when frame time becomes an issue. Which is why I stopped using the 1080. Only got the monitor because of the res, 144hz wasn't a selling point as I cant play a single new game at those frames anyway.

[App4that]

10 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

I'm sure it could help quite a bit but I can't bring my self to find out. If I went down that road I would waste about 3 grand. Current titles aren't worth that for me right now. 

This, all of this.

 

I spend 99% of my time playing games that are over a year old. Why buy Watchdogs 2 when GTA V looks the dame and runs better. And no hipster BS. 

 

We need games that aren't coded by monkeys.

[i_build_nanosuits]

1 minute ago, Mick Naughty said:

Are you referring to my monitor set ups? Cant say I do but they are in different classes now. I play on both so much I can only tell when frame time becomes an issue. Which is why I stopped using the 1080. Only got the monitor because of the res, 144hz wasn't a selling point as I cant play a single new game at those frames anyway.

i'm the same...framepacing is very important for me as well and i've seen 65FPS being buttery smooth and i've seen 100FPS being stuttery as fuck...so yeah...and when you're CPU bound things do tend to go all over the place
But 100FPS smooth vs 144FPS smooth i don't see much difference...so maybe your solution to get a good experience on 144hz with the GTX 1080 would be to limit your FPS to 110FPS or something like that?

[Mick Naughty]

5 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

i'm the same...framepacing is very important for me as well and i've seen 65FPS being buttery smooth and i've seen 100FPS being stuttery as fuck...so yeah...and when you're CPU bound things do tend to go all over the place
But 100FPS smooth vs 144FPS smooth i don't see much difference...so maybe your solution to get a good experience on 144hz with the GTX 1080 would be to limit your FPS to 110FPS or something like that?

I'm gonna mess around with is some more but it seems that may be the only choice as turning down the settings isn't helping. 

If I can get the frame time back to 3-5 and not have the CPU struggling I would be happy regardless of frames. I'm guessing using console in bf to set frame limit or precision?

[i_build_nanosuits]

2 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

I'm gonna mess around with is some more but it seems that may be the only choice as turning down the settings isn't helping. 

If I can get the frame time back to 3-5 and not have the CPU struggling I would be happy regardless of frames. I'm guessing using console in bf to set frame limit or precision?

use precision x or afterbuner

limiting the FPS should help your CPU staying afloat a bit and it should overall be smoother and more consistent.

 

Be advised though Gsync does not like framecaps (at least on my machine all goes to shit if i use one) but i think your monitor doesn have gsync right?

[App4that]

10 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

use precision x or afterbuner

limiting the FPS should help your CPU staying afloat a bit and it should overall be smoother and more consistent.

 

Be advised though Gsync does not like framecaps (at least on my machine all goes to shit if i use one) but i think your monitor doesn have gsync right?

Only RivaTuner in Afterburner limits fps on the driver level. Why I use it. No problems with GSYNC. 

[Morgan Everett]

I don't have a problem setting an FPS cap using G Sync, either. I also use RTSS.

[Simon771]

There are 2 things you need to concider first.

 

1.) What is your monitor resolution and refresh rate?

2.) What games do you play? Do those games support SLI?

 

So if you have 1080p monitor that can only handle 60Hz, you should just buy single GTX 1070.

For 1440p 144Hz it would be better to use GTX 1070 in SLI, but only if your games support SLI. If your games don't support it, it will acctually only use single GTX 1070, so you would be better of with single GTX 1080.

[i_build_nanosuits]

11 minutes ago, App4that said:

Only RivaTuner in Afterburner limits fps on the driver level. Why I use it. No problems with GSYNC. 

i tried that that's how i used to limit my FPS and it became stuttery when i did it but maybe it was a particular situation to the game i was playing (can't remember i think it was fallout 4...which is very wierd so far i played like 200 titles with my gsync monitor and fallout 4 was the first and to this date the ONLY game that did not worked with Gsync out of the box...i saw screentearing after playing tear free for a couple months i was like WTF is that haha

[App4that]

11 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

i tried that that's how i used to limit my FPS and it became stuttery when i did it but maybe it was a particular situation to the game i was playing (can't remember i think it was fallout 4...which is very wierd so far i played like 200 titles with my gsync monitor and fallout 4 was the first and to this date the ONLY game that did not worked with Gsync out of the box...i saw screentearing after playing tear free for a couple months i was like WTF is that haha

Watch out for windows updates too. GTA V ran like butter for months, then the latest Windows update brought in stuttering and screen tearing. 

[i_build_nanosuits]

3 minutes ago, App4that said:

Watch out for windows updates too. GTA V ran like butter for months, then the latest Windows update brought in stuttering and screen tearing. 

GTA 5 no longer installed i needed room on one of the SSD to install BF1 and i was no longer playing it

[Mick Naughty]

9 hours ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

use precision x or afterbuner

limiting the FPS should help your CPU staying afloat a bit and it should overall be smoother and more consistent.

 

Be advised though Gsync does not like framecaps (at least on my machine all goes to shit if i use one) but i think your monitor doesn have gsync right?

Used the frame limiter in precision. Set it at 100. Think the max the CPU hit was 70%~. Frame time still wasn't like it was awhile ago so at this point I assume the updates played a factor.