Recent content by SplinterCell

Wow so many answers in such a short time o.o Thank you all for your input. My CPU usage I think is posted in that screenshot. But if you fine gentlemen believe this is normal then I guess I am just paranoid.. not sure though. Shouldn't the GPU usage be like 99% or something like that ? (sorry if...

My rig: AMD FX 8320 Overclocked at 4.0 GHz (stable, low temps) GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 G1 GAMING Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 PSU Sirtec - High Power Element BRONZE 600W Hard disk WD Blue 1TB SATA-III 7200 RPM 64MB 8 GB DDR3 RAM 60 Hz Monitor 1920x1080 Hello. I recently installed...

I decided to run a benchmark test with Unigine Valley. Preset: Extreme HD Resolution: 1920x1080 AA: x8 My score was 2010. Max temp was 65. Min FPS 15, Max was 90 and the Average was 55. Is that normal for this card and this cpu ? I did not OC my Gigabyte GTX 980 at all but I did OC my FX 8320...

After a small inspection I found out 4 of my 8 cores are parked according to the Resource Monitor. My obvious question now becomes: should I unpark them in order to have all of 8 active all the time ? Or should i leave them as they are ? I only wish for an increase of performance in games and i...

Thank you again for your answer good sir ! I will not touch the Geforce settings then since I don't wish to mess up anything. For the most part I am just trying to see if my gpu is running as good as it should. Maybe some of my cores are parked ? I read about this problem in similar posts. I...

I understand. Although I understood I could overclock my gpu as well if I am not mistaken. Should I consider that over OC the CPU even more ? Also I read something about tweaking settings in NVIDIA GeForce Experience for better performance. I did not do that because it's my first NVIDIA product...

Thank you for the responses ! I was afraid my card was faulty but now that i look closely at the benchmarks the performance seems fine. I will keep the card then. Could i please have your opinion on the next upgrade ? I only care about performance in games. I was thinking maybe adding another 8...

Before anything, here are my specs: AMD FX 8320 Overclocked at 4.0 GHz (stable, low temps) GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 G1 GAMING Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 PSU Sirtec - High Power Element BRONZE 600W Hard disk WD Blue 1TB SATA-III 7200 RPM 64MB 8 GB DDR3 RAM 60 Hz Monitor 1920x1080 I...