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[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Do you hear any hard drive noises before then? Because if the rest of your PC (e.g. case fans) are silent, you should hear it easily.

 

Nothing but the normal hum, no screeching, whining, squealing or other nasty sounds that would lead me to think my HDD is going out(and my temps are fine, under 60 across the board even under heavy load). It's a tad high-pitched but nothing I'd really worry about or that sounds out of line with the other equiptment with HDDs I've used. 

 

Side note, Bioshock Infinite running at Ultra(which my system is handling fine so far, average is above 50FPS and it never drops below 44FPS even when it "hangs up") is one of the most mind-blowing things I've seen. I'm amazed a game can look this good and not need a beat of a machine to run decently. 

Edited November 22, 2014 by Shoboni

[long gone 8,929]

Nothing but the normal hum, no screeching, whining, squealing or other nasty sounds that would lead me to think my HDD is going out(and my temps are fine, under 60 across the board even under heavy load). It's a tad high-pitched but nothing I'd really worry about or that sounds out of line with the other equiptment with HDDs I've used. 

 

Side note, Bioshock Infinite running at Ultra(which my system is handling fine so far, average is above 50FPS and it never drops below 44FPS even when it "hangs up") is one of the most mind-blowing things I've seen. I'm amazed a game can look this good and not need a beat of a machine to run decently. 

Interesting. Better hope you're ready to do some diagnostics then.

 

And yeah, Bioshock Infinite can be a really pretty game on ultra. Some of the textures are pretty low-res, but... damn. All that lighting.

[Azure Envy 1,092]

Why does my computer keep this thing every so often where it slows to a crawl and I have to restart after using it a few hours?

 

Memory leak / excessive CPU utilization due to misbehaving program?

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Memory leak / excessive CPU utilization due to misbehaving program?

 

Could it be Chrome? I've noticed Chrome acts up first then everything else follows until even opening a folder feels like I'm on a old Pentium with 512MB or RAM. 

[long gone 8,929]

Could it be Chrome? I've noticed Chrome acts up first then everything else follows until even opening a folder feels like I'm on a old Pentium with 512MB or RAM. 

Probably. Chrome is not a light application.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Interesting. Better hope you're ready to do some diagnostics then.

 

And yeah, Bioshock Infinite can be a really pretty game on ultra. Some of the textures are pretty low-res, but... damn. All that lighting.

 

Don't what those would be.

 

I don't even have quite maxed(high shadows instead of very high and high distant object detail instead of Ultra) and it still looks Gorgeous. 

[Azure Envy 1,092]

Could it be Chrome? I've noticed Chrome acts up first then everything else follows until even opening a folder feels like I'm on a old Pentium with 512MB or RAM. 

 

Possible. When it happens again, might be worth seeing what's up in task manager. What you describe points to software to me.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Here's what I mean by "looks good", if anyone hasn't played the game but is interested to see how it really looks(my settings are pretty much Ultra with just a couple thinks tweaked down to high to kill the FPS dips I was getting)

 

 

My GPU hit 61 while playing Bioshock, is that normal?

[Azure Envy 1,092]

Here's what I mean by "looks good", if anyone hasn't played the game but is interested to see how it really looks(my settings are pretty much Ultra with just a couple thinks tweaked down to high to kill the FPS dips I was getting)

 

My GPU hit 61 while playing Bioshock, is that normal?

 

61? Is that thing even on?

Yeah, you're good. Don't worry about it.

 

[VulpineTaco 525]

Not to bring it back to the Far Cry 4 discussion, but...

Apparently there's some pretty bad framerate dips on even monster rigs. Ubisoft, get your shit together.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

61? Is that thing even on?

Yeah, you're good. Don't worry about 

 

At any-rate, I adjusted afterburner to up the fans from 44% to 60% when it hits that point just to be safe, I like to run a cool system. I hope that helps keeping down a little bit. I'm not sure what temp I should tell it to back it down again on(maybe tell to go back to 44% when it gets back down to 54?) 

Not to bring it back to the Far Cry 4 discussion, but...

Apparently there's some pretty bad framerate dips on even monster rigs. Ubisoft, get your shit together.

 

Just trust me, it can't be as bad as The Evil Within(a game that looks like it came from 2012 and has some textures that look even worse, yet benchmarks show it has a hard time keeping 60FPS on a GTX-970 and high-end i7, and you'll be lucky to keep a consistent 35FPS+ at 900p with all post-processing off on a more modest right like mine)

[Azure Envy 1,092]

At any-rate, I adjusted afterburner to up the fans from 44% to 60% when it hits that point just to be safe, I like to run a cool system. I hope that helps keeping down a little bit. I'm not sure what temp I should tell it to back it down again on(maybe tell to go back to 44% when it gets back down to 54?) 

 

Matter of what you're comfortable with and how much noise you're willing to deal with. Believe the default boost temperature target is 80C for that chip, so you have plenty of room. My 670 routinely runs around 75-80 C under load. I could keep it cooler but the noise is deafening. :okiedokielokie: I like my quiet.

Edited November 23, 2014 by Lunatic Envy

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Matter of what you're comfortable with and how much noise you're willing to deal with. Believe the default boost temperature target is 80C for that chip, so you have plenty of room. My 670 routinely runs around 75-80 C under load. I could keep it cooler but the noise is deafening. :okiedokielokie: I like my quiet.

 

I assume 60% fan-speed won't be to bad because I use headphones and have a fan running behind me all the time(my ears ring like hell if I sit in the quiet without at least a fan, AC, or something else that makes noise going near me)

[long gone 8,929]

Just tried out streaming on my new PC with Shadow of Mordor. Unsurprisingly, it works quite well compared to it.

[Azure Envy 1,092]

I assume 60% fan-speed won't be to bad because I use headphones and have a fan running behind me all the time(my ears ring like hell if I sit in the quiet without at least a fan, AC, or something else that makes noise going near me)

 

Headphones are also a good solution.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Oddly enough, I did that and keeping it under 60 did wonders for stabilizing my FPS. I wonder what's going to happen when I get a new cooler for the CPU later on... 

[Azure Envy 1,092]

Oddly enough, I did that and keeping it under 60 did wonders for stabilizing my FPS. I wonder what's going to happen when I get a new cooler for the CPU later on... 

 

I think you're limited by 60W TDP of the card. Do you have a slider to increase the power limit? You could probably get some extra performance there.

 

'course if you're happy with whatcha got, that's cool too.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

I think you're limited by 60W TDP of the card. Do you have a slider to increase the power limit? You could probably get some extra performance there.

 

'course if you're happy with whatcha got, that's cool too.

 

It fine for now, no idea why hitting 61 was giving it issues when it's rated to run far hotter gave it issues but I guess it did. I went getting pretty bad drops(down to 40FPS or less) to a smooth 57FPS+ when I adjusted the fans to keep it under 60 degrees. 

 

Also no, it's at 100% limit and the voltage slider is locked with this card.

Edited November 23, 2014 by Shoboni

[Azure Envy 1,092]

It fine for now, no idea why hitting 61 was giving it issues when it's rated to run far hotter gave it issues but I guess it did. I went getting pretty bad drops(down to 40FPS or less) to a smooth 57FPS+ when I adjusted the fans to keep it under 60 degrees. 

 

It's probably bumping into its power limit, causing it to throttle. There's no way you'd throttle on temp unless the fan stopped working.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

It's probably bumping into its power limit, causing it to throttle. There's no way you'd throttle on temp unless the fan stopped working.

 

Then why did turning the fans up improve it's performance?

Edited November 23, 2014 by Shoboni

[Azure Envy 1,092]

Then why did turning the fans up improve it's performance?

 

Not sure. There's a thread on this on your card over at the EVGA forums. Might be worth looking into if you're curious.

 

http://forums.evga.com/Throttling-issues-with-GTX-750-TI-FTW-m2184271.aspx

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Not sure. There's a thread on this on your card over at the EVGA forums. Might be worth looking into if you're curious.

 

http://forums.evga.com/Throttling-issues-with-GTX-750-TI-FTW-m2184271.aspx

 

Either way, this card is locked down where afterburner can't give any more voltage(and it's set to the 100% limit by default)

[Azure Envy 1,092]

Either way, this card is locked down where afterburner can't give any more voltage(and it's set to the 100% limit by default)

 

There's always flashing a custom BIOS... 

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

There's always flashing a custom BIOS... 

 

There's level of crazy even I haven't reached XD.

 

In all seriousness, I'm looking to make this build last so I don't want to do anything to intensive to it. 

[Azure Envy 1,092]

Yep. It runs about the same, but FC4 looks waaaaaaaaaay better. All the added graphics settings and tweaks in FC4 barely use up any FPS.

 

Except NVIDIA's enhanced Godrays. Can't run those on my AMD card without a major performance hit... and I really don't wonder why.

 

Also, I bet you guys could never guess what my favorite weapons are to use in FPS games. xP

 

Just ran through some of the first missions. Game looks great and runs a decent clip on the HIGH preset. NVIDIA preset turns it into a slideshow.

 

That said, the game still looks really good even on LOW. The lower resolution textures aren't really obvious and unless you're right up next to an animal, you probably won't miss out on the fur either.