General computer talk/advice

So what I have gleaned by moving into northampton. A GTX460 cannot play GTA at 1080p nicely. Doesnt even have the VRAM to do it at all under DX11. Sadly cannot SLI another bargain basement 460 on this rig D:

Every computer display should be at least 1080p however.

 

A small question: I have now an ASrock 970 Extreme 4 with an AMD FX 4130 Black edition. Can I replace The 4130 with a 6300 or higher? Somebody meant with another CPU the board would just smoke up

 

You can replace it with a FX 6300, but if the chipset can only support a 95W TDP CPU, and if you try to shove a 8-core CPU in it, it will kill it.

 

Key word 8core. On my board it says 8-Core Ready. Weird

 

Your mobo has 4+1 power phases + heatsinked mosfet, it is enough for a 125W CPU (Most FX 83xx).

 

Old Dell feels fine in every dept. except playing back video, YouTube, Netflix, lags to hell playing above 240P. GPU upgrade is in order, found a GeForce 6200 online for cheap. It'll work.

 

I think you will be fine. Their website says:

Lets hope that's not just errors in their English
They also have a compatible CPU list here: http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/970 Extreme4/?cat=CPU

This website also seems to say that your mobo is compatible with quite a few different high end AMD CPU's as well: http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-ASRock/970_Extreme4.html

 

Arkam Knight was odd, I've seen some people with some serious stuttering issues with Arkham Knight on better systems then mine, but I've also seen some people with the same card as mine or lower and they've been fine. I cannot say that the FPS was locked 30 or 60 but it was in that range. I was one of the lucky ones that was able to play the game okay. Ultra? No. High / Ultra? Yes.

 

It has double the memory, so for instance GTA V would run better as the memory 'buffer' would be much greater. That game uses around 1,5 à 1,8 GB of VRAM on normal/med settings in 1080p.
My GTX 580 (1,5 GB VRAM) is barely enough in terms of memory. It does have somewhat great power though.

 

my gtx460 struggles with VRAM on gta5. Dx10 uses less VRAM than 11, actually the only way I can run in 1080p, then its kinda stuttery as fuck. Looks like I'm stuck playing in half res or something until I can get a better gpu (might be awhile)

 

The GTX 580 costs about 80$ around here now. It draws a lot of power though...
A GTX 750 TI can run the game on 80 fps if you pair it to a decent CPU

Source: http://nl.hardware.info/reviews/613...-line-up-met-bestaande-chips-benchmarks-gta-v

 

Having just moved into a house as a student with no job. Yeah. $80.... Just, just slightly out of reach.

 

I can imagine
I'm in the same situation (with a side job on saturdays). Student life!

 

Decided to overclock my CPU again. Cities skylines basically required it at this point since my city outgrew my CPU quite a while ago. This time i did the overclock properly rather than getting the mobo to do it which means it has a chance of working.

Im at 4.3Ghz @ 1.3v currently and it seems to be stable so far, only time will tell i guess. It idles at 40c and under 100% load in cities skylines it reaches 62c (taking rough average of the cores).
I did try to get 4.5Ghz but that still wasn't stable after hitting 1.35v so decided i would probably be better of keeping it at 4.3 and giving the CPU an easier life.

It might even make a few other CPU heavy games like GTA5 run better. I will find out at some point though.

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Ah fuck everything

I cannot get this computer to remain stable for over a few hours on ANY overclock at all. Unless the CPU is at stock clocks it will crash after a few hours. Not even the motherboards built in overclocking could get the computer to be stable. Im back at stock clocks again, i will take the stability over the extra 600mhz any day.

 

My athlon wont overclock either, so much for AMD overclocking well, I made it 10 minutes before crash once...

 

That's me and ram. The only thing I can get ram to do is underclock. Case in point: my 8 gig set of EVGA 1866 is running at 1333 because I can't get the 1333 Patriot to overclock.

 

yeah, i have tried to overclock RAM before (because i could) and i couldn't put anything on it at all. Admittedly my RAM isn't intended for overclocking anyway.

 

My RAM is pretty damn stable. I'm running at 1.55v close to 1700MHz. Stock is 1.65v 1600MHz.

I remember on my old P4 system, even though it never crashed or anything, I would get massive artifacting in games. Took me awhile to figure out that it was the CPU overclock causing it instead of anything else. (I believe it was running something like 3.6GHz at the time. I've had that system over 4GHz stable before. And months ago that motherboard went missing with my 3.2 P4 in it. I miss you, Asus P4P8X. You were the love of my life.)

 

My 970 doesn't seem to overclock very well. At +200MHz it's not very stable with +15mV over stock. I didn't want to increase voltage any more for now so it's at +100 MHz (1416 total) and +10mV, no crashes so far with this setting.I think I'm hitting the power limit with higher clocks/voltages, which is set at 110%.

 

I've never been one to overclock GPUs, as good ones are really expensive. CPUs and RAM (well, fine, less ram), yes. I once got my i5 to do 4.7 GHz before crashing. But not GPUs.

My poor little 7850 is along for the ride now, as I've burned up my funds from the summer. Canyon of Speed makes it shit itself, though, causing me to have to lower the graphics settings all the way down to Low.