Have you thought about OCing that 3770K? You should be able to hit 4.1-4.3GHz without even voltage tweaks.
I've never had to deal with EVGA customer service but I heard nothing but good things from them which was the deciding factor last time I bought a card.
I don't think I want to wait until May on Intel graphics. I want to use half of my PC as an expirament for hackingtosh and it's easier to install and configure with an Nvidia card.
UPS hasn't updated tracking on the gigabyte I sent back to Newegg since Saturday morning..Still says it's at the ups store. Hopefully nothing odd happened that would cause me to wait longer than 2 weeks.
That still looks odd to me. Not sure where the issue is coming from. My BF 1 settings were all set to ultra by default. Also my CPU is not overclocked. Maybe the card isn't binned as well as others?Ugh, oc'd my 3770k to 4.3ghz and oc'd the 1080 ti to 2ghz and still much 4lower results than what others are getting in reviews. BF1 in Auto, it's now doing High settings.
Yeah, I'll try tomorrow. But I actually am hoping to have the time this weekend to build out a Ryzen 1700 and oc it to 3.8-4.0ghz
Just played a few rounds of BF1 and in Ultra setting only getting around 70fps. Changed it to Auto and set everything to Medium. And even after uninstalling/reinstalling everything, when I try to oc my monitor to 120hz, still get blue and red streaks which I did not have using my Fury Nitro. Had to drop it to 110hz to have the streaks disappear.
I'm guessing you know this, but there might be a person reading who doesn't:
"Upgrading" an OCd 3770K to an OCd Ryzen 1700 probably isn't going to raise your gaming scores. (like Firestrike)
Will do good stuff for your productivity apps though, and support AMD. (which is worth doing, they improved a lot with Ryzen to become a viable high res gaming solution)
Pretty much any 1080ti should do you good for 4k. If you don't mind the noise from an FE or you are planning to run it on water, then go ahead.Quick question is the founders edition card a good purchase? My main monitor is 1440p but my tv on the other hand is 4k so I'm thinking the extra performance would be worth it over my current 980ti. The founders edition just looks abit more appealing to me but keep in mind I'm well aware of the positives of custom cards. What do think I should do in terms of going founders or aftermarket?
My EVGA reference 1080ti is solid at 2.1. Haven't been able to crash it at 2.1 so maybe that sais something about EVGA being good? Probably just luck though.
That looks better, I think it's higher than what I got when I had that card.Finally built my Ryzen 1700, at stock cpu settings and the xtreme in oc mode, I got 19035. Ugh! But I just oc'd the cpu to 3.7ghz and got this:
Dumb question, does it matter if I run Firestrike on a 1440p monitor compared to a 1080p monitor? Nvm, just switched from my 1440p as my main monitor to my 3rd monitor which is 1080p and got 21232.
It's late. Will reinstall everything tomorrow. Be interesting to see how BF1 plays now. Still haven't canceled my EVGA FTW3 pre-order. Be interesting to see how that scores.
Pretty much any 1080ti should do you good for 4k. If you don't mind the noise from an FE or you are planning to run it on water, then go ahead.
This is the first time I ordered a new card from the high end series that I had to return because it was faulty but that can happen to anyone I suppose. Can't really say which aftermarket card is better. If EVGA editions were shipping out I would say go with one of those.
All custom cards I had ran a little cooler but I also changed my case so it has different fans and now an AIO for my CPU.Yea I have no desire to put it under water and then when I look at the custom cards they are so huge. Also I don't know but every custom card I have run hotter than they are supposed to but that could be chalked up to using inferior case fans. Then again places like microcenter only has zotac and pny (reference) but bhphoto has a wider variety but so far from where I live. Newegg is out of the question since return is not allowed and amazon is my go to webstore but I'd lose the free game. Good or bad the games still has some value.
Horizon does look great in 4k. I haven't thought about a 4k monitor yet. I have the PS4 pro for my 4k TV which I'll play occasionally. I'd say if you are not worried about the noise and don't plan on overclocking it too much an FE isn't bad at all in that case. Besides most of them can be readily purchased right about now.@sze5003 I don't know to be honest I can tolerate the noise to some extent since I use headphones but the call for an upgrade is really strong since I got the tv. 4k looks so crisp but then when I launch a game and see how native 1440p looks I'm like one I can't play with these black borders and two the frame rate is crap. The low ms and better motion for games and benefits of gsync is good to have but 4k looks so crisp I'm willing to make a compromise. But I maybe a special case since I like visuals more because playing PS4 games like zero dawn with low fps and the like the game is so gorgeous at 4k.