Do you have a system speaker, and is it beeping? If you don't have one, go get one, install it, then if it beeps, tell us what the beep code is. Beep codes are like error messages for POST, it should tell us what's up with your PC.
Try right clicking on your desktop and clicking NVIDIA Control Panel. If that's not there, try looking for it in control panel. If you still aren't met with success, try uninstalling anything NVIDIA and then doing a clean installation of the drivers (there's a little checkbox somewhere int he...
Okay great, I'll have a look. I'm starting to consider a complete upgrade from my intel 3770k to an AMD FX 8350, in which case I'd obviously need a new board, and not any of those, but we'll see. Either way I've got choices to make
Okay, I was more just wondering if you knew of any particularly good value ones or whatever, but thanks anyway, I'll have a look.
Thanks again for the clarification!
Try opening up GPU-Z and checking the clocks. Compare them to the advertised clocks and if they're significantly lower, check the PerfCap Reason.
Hope that helps
Okay so I've unlocked my BIOS with Kepler BIOS Editor, the fan and TDP unlock worked a treat, but the voltage slider in MSI Afterburner STILL will not do anything. Voltage readouts don't change a bit. I've got it to a +50 MHz core clock and a +450MHz memory clock and I want to drive it harder...
My first stop would be to check your clocks... If they're low, then use GPU-Z or GPUShark or something to tell you what your limiting factor is. If not, check for things like background 3D applications and try setting the process priority to high.
Hope this helps!
I have 16GB of RAM and I've never had an issue with any games. I don't expect to in the near future either, mainly because very few systems are sold with higher RAM than that, and it would be unlikely for a games company to attempt to sell a game that's ahead of the hardware market. If you start...