It's definitely throttling down because of the hotspot. Your paste either dried up or reflowed and left a bare spot. This happened on my 2080 Ti. Worked fine after a repaste, but over time I was getting huge frame drops and the hotspot was out of the control. Took it apart and an entire corner...
You can get great value out of used. A few months ago I snagged an RX 470 4GB for $62 shipped. Over a year ago I was able to get a couple of GTX 1060 3GB for under ~85 shipped. Both of these cards are good enough for 1080p gaming, producing suitable framerates. I would advise getting a 4GB...
It's quite possible a patch broke the game for the Core 2 lineup, and most of the time developers won't update their minimum requirements for performance.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find an earlier build of the game.
I will note that I recently had a 2015 version of...
26W @ idle, most programs manually closed.
45W @ idle, my normal suite of programs idling (web browser, game launchers, plex, etc)
3700X, PBO enabled
DDR4-3600, manually tuned Rev. E.
X470-F Asus ROG Strix
Ryzen Balanced Windows Power Plan
The stock 3770 will struggle to maintain 60 FPS in GTAV, especially if you are (I'm assuming) running slower than DDR3 1600 RAM. I just booted up GTA V on a 3770k @ 4.5 GHz and it will not keep my GPU @ 100% load and frames will drop to 50 during heavy action sequences. So you will get some...
Gaming application performance typically responds well to cache sizes (as well as latency). How does the fact Ryzen's L3 cache is an exclusive victim cache play into all of those, as opposed to if it were an inclusive one?
The Phenom II x2 570 will bottleneck an R9 270x or HD 7950.
An older Xeon will be less of a bottleneck.
You have another option. Your motherboard should support a Phenom II X4 or Phenom II X6 processor.
http://www.gigabyte.us/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=3141
Go for a single card, and have him just upgrade whenever the latest and greatest come out. Either a 1080 or a Titan X will hold its value fairly well, as there are tons of people buying second-hand Nvidia flagship cards for a good price.
If I had to guess, I'd say the 1080 will hold its...
In my experience, the Crimson drivers under Windows 10 are not very good for the 280x. I had issues with them, and of course (even though I disabled automatic driver updates) for some reason Windows 10 update would install the Crimson drivers. I did a clean sweep of the drivers three stinking...
Just separating the Windows installation and the game install onto different drives improves usability and load times. Since an SSD improves Windows performance the most, buy an SSD, put Windows on that, and then use the current HDD as a dedicated gaming drive.
The heavy hitters are always the exception. He'll have to compromise and play those at a lower resolution (or even lower settings), otherwise there is no solution near his budget to game at 4k.
Start off with an SSD and video card upgrade. You don't have much of an upgrade path for your processor without replacing the motherboard and/or RAM, so invest in an SSD and video card now and start saving up. 4k requires lots of GPU power, and the Phenom X4 can still by for now.
You'll have...
They were just forced to release it at the same time as Episode VII, as well as dumb it down for all the kids who will play it. Hence the lack of content and depth.
This is probably not the problem, but the ESEA client is garbage. I left ESEA and wiped all traces of the client after the fiasco they had a few years ago where they incorporated bitcoin mining code and then "accidentally" turned it on for all ESEA users, without user knowledge.
I don't know...
There won't be too much of a bottleneck on average, and the bottleneck will also vary from game to game. Some games will have no bottleneck; other games will have a small one.
There is no definitive, one-size-fits-all, answer to your question.
It's a good upgrade though. You should go for...
I don't think Techpowerup can be used as a good reference. They have the 1060 consistently outperforming the GTX 980. While every other review has it slower than the 980.
Their drivers are just too out of date; that's the biggest reason for this.
Also, they did not test the RX 480 with...
They change their definitions so there is no real answer to this. If we answer your question in the here and now, the answer to this same dilemma will probably change next year.
This define TDP to suit their needs in the here and now. To market the cards how they see fit. They are not...
I don't believe i3 and FX six cores will perform that well with AMD cards. I had a 2500k, overclocked, and during the intense firefights it would drop below 100 and into the 80s. Graphics were on low, too.
Since the game is competitive the intense firefights is where performance really...
One thing these sites don't test is how frametimes are affected with slower CPUs.
I just upgraded from a 2500k to a 3770k, particularly to improve Overwatch performance. And the difference in smoothness is amazing. Here are my settings and performance results. Now if you ask me why do I run...
You'll be CPU limited in Overwatch no matter what. A 960 might be a good option, compared to AMD cards besides the 480, because of the lower CPU overhead of Nvidia drivers.
There are no crickets about the power consumption. It's too high. Less than 110W was definitely a dream, but the 480 is going to be positioned in this generation the same as the 7850/7870 was positioned in its generation, and as such I would have expected the 480 to be no more than 130W and...
The only way current Nvidia cards can compete in the future for DX12 game performance superiority is if they sponsor the game. Otherwise, the trend is already happening.
How does the GTX 680 compare to the 7970 today?
How long before the GTX 970 falls off a cliff as Nvidia stops writing...
Overwatch seems to have a strong correlation to mouse latency and framerate. When I drop from 150 to around 100 fps, mouse latency increases. Anything below 100 just exacerbates the issue.
So if you're not getting a steady 130+ frames per second you're going to be amazed when you do.
Those are odd settings indeed, as he cranks up the ones that hit the CPU hard.
I ran the same same settings on my 280x (2500k @ 4.3 GHz) and got better results than he did. AT least at the bottom end. My frames did not dip as low during the last scene with all the cars, but it looks like he...
I think it's better to go a tier or two below the top of the line and then just upgrade more often, unless you're loaded. Gaming is a hobby, and there are more expensive hobbies out there.
I remember trying to discuss performance per mm2 back in the Evergreen and Northern Islands days, but not as a metric to make a purchasing dicision but as a metric of what engineering feats each side accomplished and would they could do if they scaled up or down. I distinctly remember tviceman...
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