Recent content by Starbird0

It's completely stable at 4.4, but if I start going above that hinky things start happening. Going to close this thread now I think and fiddle when I have more time. Thanks for the help all.

Grr, now it seems to be locking it at a 4.4gz boost regardless of what I change. Will call it a day for today and pick this up tomorrow afternoon. Thanks for the help thus far!

A few results - got it up to 4.4 at 1.22V Adaptive. Temps seem a lot better in the 60-65 degree range. However I still get a few weird artifacts on my ASRock and Windows booting screen. Not sure what that is. If I go higher I get my old booting problems - but once I'm in Windows everything is...

Wow, thanks! I will definitely give this a look. Not going for anything silly, just a modest OC. The watercooler came standard with the prebuilt rig (got an amazing deal from a custom building company in Tokyo). Will do some testing this afternoon and update here if need be.

Hmm. Okay, will give it a try. Very new to overclocking and there are so many settings to tweak ':|. I wish there was some way to test stability within the BIOS program itself. Very hair raising when it refuses to boot. Why is it that it runs fine in games etc, but isn't happy booting from a...

So about a month ago my old PC died and I bought a new PC - this time I decided to buy something with overclocking in mind and so I ended up with an i4790k with an h100i cooler (prebuilt machine) and an AsRock extreme 4 mobo. I decided to overclock it using the OC Tweaker (Automatic Optimized...

I was forced to buy the 780ti about a month ago. I was lucky enough to get an aftermarket card for the price of the reference card and I will say that I am not disappointed. I have been able to overclock the thing by almost 25% and not getting close to stock load temperatures. That said, I...

Off to bed now. Not sure about GPU-Z, will give it a look if I have some time after work tomorrow and will report back. Thanks for all the help all!

Yeesh. That's a good question OP. Now I am partial to Nvidia, but right now at your budget range I'd say the AMD R9285 is correctly suggested above. I recently went up to 1440p (same monitor as yours, lovely screen!) and especially in modern titles the performance hit is pretty huge. I would...

I would absolutely recommend the Asus VG278H for 3D gaming. Not horribly expensive, pretty decent quality and it does Lightboost, which makes a big difference darkness wise. Keep in mind that this is an active 3D screen, meaning you will want the Nvidia 3D kit.

Or is it really this good? I was lucky enough to get my hands on a Zotac OC 780ti (not the AMP version, although the cooler is identical afaik) when my BTO PC builder could not get any more stock cards - at the price of a stock card (not complaining). Now I've heard that 780tis tend to run...

Found an interesting video: Cliffnotes: - FXAA - barely any vram. - SMAA - about 100 mb in Crysis 3. - TXAA - about 400 mb. - MSAA - about 700 mb. Not sure what level they were using, but still interesting! This is all 1080p, would love to find some more info at 1440p.