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Question Custom loop - worth it?

I am very big into custom loops, have done three so far. I started because my gpu, at the time, was hitting around 85*C and with the fans at 100% the noise was driving me crazy. I put together my first custom loop and doubt I will ever go back to air cooling. The three reasons I do it are for...
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- Post #28
- Mar 25, 2021
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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GTX 670 4GB TRI SLI Review. "Wasting my money so you don't have to!"

4gbs is plenty. i dont think ive ever even seen my cards go over 3gbs. im mostly likely going to be ordering tomorrow, seeing as in this thread he experienced a 20%-35% increase in games. that seems like a very nice increase. people have to remember that the more cards you add, the less...
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- Post #88
- Dec 17, 2012
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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GTX 670 4GB TRI SLI Review. "Wasting my money so you don't have to!"

sorry to bring back a dead thread but i actually came across this on google while doing some tri 600 series research. i currently have two 4gb 680s and was looking to add a third. along with that third i was going to add a asus rampage iv extreme and a i7 3930k. i am also doing this for...
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- Post #86
- Dec 16, 2012
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Sli 4gb 680, 5760x1080, issue

So i have three 27 inch monitors and a pair for the 4gb 680 gtxs. i7 950 at 4ghz, 12gb 1333 ram, 850w psu. Now overall these cards perform great but while playing battlefield sometimes i get great gpu usage and other times it feels like v sync is on. For instance for the past couple...
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- Sep 23, 2012
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Sli 460s and Nvidia Surround

Hey, i want to get nvidia surround, three monitors, but don't have the money for a gpu upgrade right now. But, i would like to buy the monitors and at least get that out of the way. So obviously, i wouldn't be able to play bf3 on sli 1gb 460s at 5760 x 1080. But, would i be able to at least...
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- Thread
- Jul 18, 2012
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Can anyone explain these cpu spikes to me?

wow i think it was the motion blur. i turned it off and i can play on high settings, 16x aa, hbao and play smoothly now. i get spikes here and there but not like every three seconds anymore.
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- Post #23
- May 7, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Can anyone explain these cpu spikes to me?

no other programs were getting spikes. but i found out that with forcerenderheatlimit 0, which is how i normally play, i usually got a 40-50 CPU for bf3.exe*32 as seen here i get 46. http://i47.tinypic.com/2mh8tnb.jpg when ever the CPU would drop below 40, it usually dropped at 38 or 36, the...
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- Post #21
- May 3, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Can anyone explain these cpu spikes to me?

no more help? well, i found a fix. i typed renderdevice.forcerenderaheadlimit 1 into console and this fixed the spikes but.... now my gpu usuage drop to only 60% and im getting terrible fps. in these pics my fps is at 59/61 but while playing it jumps from like 38 to 78 depending on if im...
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- Post #17
- Apr 29, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Can anyone explain these cpu spikes to me?

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- Post #16
- Apr 29, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Can anyone explain these cpu spikes to me?

i dont know all that much about ocing. so what cblk and vcore should i use to get 4.2ghz? also, i was running prime95 small fft over night, just went to check up on it now and it looked like my pc restarted. prime 95 wasnt open. EDIT: These shots are all while in game, on shaqri and bazaar...
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- Post #15
- Apr 25, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Can anyone explain these cpu spikes to me?

Yes 64 player, and it seems to occur more in open areas.
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- Post #13
- Apr 25, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Can anyone explain these cpu spikes to me?

got my hopes up turned off sli and was getting this for the majority of the game http://i50.tinypic.com/2exu92t.jpg but once the the game got to a certain point, it started running like this for the remainder of the round. http://i45.tinypic.com/21kxmrl.jpg oh and i dont have software to...
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- Post #10
- Apr 25, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Can anyone explain these cpu spikes to me?

still spiking but i thought this was pretty interesting, with default clocks, when the cpu spikes the gpu spikes the opposite direction almost identically. http://i46.tinypic.com/nzocok.jpg
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- Post #8
- Apr 25, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Can anyone explain these cpu spikes to me?

my temps are great, great air cooling. cpu doesnt pass 55*c on full load. if i set my cpu back to default and run the game, would this be a better way of testing rather than testing my oc for stability? so if i set my cpu to default and still get the spikes than its not the oc...
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- Post #6
- Apr 24, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Can anyone explain these cpu spikes to me?

not besides the random battlelog related crashes. and i tested my cpu with prime95 for 5 hours with 0 errors.
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- Post #3
- Apr 24, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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