I don't think you CPU will hold you back much. A 3.7ghz i7 is well in excess of what they built the engine around.
A 3770 at stock is leagues ahead of any CPU that was around when Crysis came out (2007, first gen C2Ds I believe).I noticed TPU removed the game from their benches as of October,there was barely 7 fps difference at 900p between a 290 and a 980 lol.I guess benching the game on something like my i7 3770 non k@ 3.7ghz would maybe produce a lower fps?
I told myself i would buy the game when a single card would max it out at 1080p lol. 1080p and a single 970 with no aa would be bottlenecked by a stock 3770 wouldn't it?I have no idea if the demo really represents the final product or not. Most likely not.
A 3770 at stock is leagues ahead of any CPU that was around when Crysis came out (2007, first gen C2Ds I believe).
im having random display driver crash and recovers with my 970. Its a MSI, running stock settings. didn't happen when I first installed it but it kinda just randomly started a week or so ago
also somewhat randomly 1 of my monitors will just go black for 5 secs and then come back, display driver does not crash when this happens.
Any ideas. running the latest drivers 347.09. Win 7, Dual Shimian QH270s
As for myself, I had some feedback from my Youtube viewers and they told me that they are getting som cpu limits with 2500k even with one 970, so my plans for going SLI are shot. I will get diminishing returns for the most part, so I will go single gpu from now on.
CPU bottleneck in what games? The only CPU limited game i've played is Crysis 1. I suppose some strategy games (Supreme Commander, etc) might be CPU bound... but I don't think that's the case for most games.
It is also a function of resolution, and once you start tinkering the Nvidia DSR (downsampling) SLI becomes very valuable.
Link to article on Nvidia DSR
Link to article on DSR in Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes (scroll down to DSR section at bottom of article.
im having random display driver crash and recovers with my 970. Its a MSI, running stock settings. didn't happen when I first installed it but it kinda just randomly started a week or so ago
also somewhat randomly 1 of my monitors will just go black for 5 secs and then come back, display driver does not crash when this happens.
Any ideas. running the latest drivers 347.09. Win 7, Dual Shimian QH270s
Did anything change between when you installed it and when this started happening? Sometimes it is something unrelated you installed or updated. Is your gpu usage changing when this happens? Maybe try turning off aero as well. You could also try a clean install of the drivers or roll back to the previous version. If nothing helps perhaps you simply have a card going bad. It does happen, I had to replace my first gtx 670 when it launched because there was a bad batch.
Yeah, Crysis 1 is very much CPU limited at this point.
No matter how low I drop the resolution, I can't get my 970's past an average framerate of 85... the bottleneck is my 4.4 ghz i7-2600K. Though, even the most recent CPU isn't going to push the game much higher, the engine is simply not optimized to utilize 8 core uber CPU's./I]
i dont recall installing anything major, just normal program/windows updates and such. Maybe a new steam game but im not sure. have not watch GPU usage when it happens
i dont recall installing anything major, just normal program/windows updates and such. Maybe a new steam game but im not sure. have not watch GPU usage when it happens
Received my MSI 980 the other day. Fantastic card so far; the best I've ever owned. Not just for speed, but it's also probably the quietest card I've ever owned too. Very impressed.
No backplate? No problem. The tried and true Dankk™-certified ziptie anti-sag solution works well here.
no backplate for a 980 GTX?
are you serious?
MSI is skimping on the backplate to their high end card?
That to me does not sound right... its the flagship card.
A backplate saves them a few dollars, but was the card cheaper then the others?
There are many things wrong with a 980 GTX not coming with a backplate.
Its mounting pressure on things like VRMS.
The 980 GTX is a longer PCB vs a 970, it has more VRMS which need active cooling, and hence should ALWAYS have a backplate so the heat sink can get a firm mounting pressure contact with these delicate things.
Is the card reference design?
If it is, and it has no backplate, that would seriously peeve me, especially on a 980 GTX.
you should try running memtest and make 100% sure it is not your ram. If you google, you will find plenty of info on how and what to do.
Also, what is your PSU like? Is it old? a good brand?
What was your old GPU?
Woah, from 460 to 970 G1!
We are talking 4X the performance here!
Awesome!
@cmdrdredd
You were so right about the new drivers... i sort of like it....
So far no issues, fixed a lot of things the old one did.
I still crash silly in DA:I once ram gets over 2.4gb.... i guess its exactly as you said, a memory leak error with the game itself.
I just went from an Nvidia 9400m 256MB (in a 2009 13" MacBook Pro) to a Gigabyte Gaming G1 GTX 970 in a newly built PC. The last PC I built in 2004-5 had an Nvidia GT 6600.
Using this is rather amazing to be sure
Anything from the last 2 years would have been amazing in your case,even something as low as a 650/7750 lol.How did you manage to punish yourself that long?