Well I sold both my R9 290X to some miner and was actually planning on getting Vega since I believed in the hype. Siggraph was such a huge letdown that I ordered an MSI 1080 Ti Sea Hawk EK. It was fairly cheap and not much more expensive then adding a waterblock myself. Pretty happy with it...
What single number? Do you even know what they mean? "Single Batch GPU Util" is a CPU bound test and the lower number on AMD system actually means that the Polaris chips can't stretch their feet because of the CPU. Polaris CF will before even better on a OCed CPU.
That being said as a owner...
I can't recommend ASRock at the moment. I'm rocking the Z97 Extreme9 on the newest BIOS and I can't overclock the i7-5775C with it. I can set everything up in the BIOS, but it actually doesn't change anything and the processor will downclock to stay within it's 65W limit. The only way to...
I really haven't tried anything else out. For me 4K, IPS and Freesync was important.
The OIS is a pain the ass, but which OIS isn't?
I like the monitor(s) and planning on purchasing my third one.
For me the resolution is perfect as I like 27" with a 1980x1080P like picture and that scaling...
I recently purchased my second LG 27MU67. It's a 27" IPS LED 4K monitor with Freesync and a nice stand. I used one for gaming with two R9 290X crossfire and both for working with my 13" rMBP. They are perfect, especially for all the text work I'm doing and gaming is stunning. I tried both 3D...
Well it seems there really is a hard wall at 4,2 GHz. I can get it somewhat stable with using LLC 1 (off) and pumping quite a bit more voltage into the processor, but it seems the sweet spot is at 4.1 GHz.
EDIT: The BIOS doesn't solve my problem.
Again, stress testing implies just that: stressing your CPU as much as possible. Chances are that when your CPU survives Prime it will survive other things you throw at it. On the other hand I thought my CPU is stable after it passed 24h XTU just to figure out it the next game it would crash...
Does it matter? I want it stable (at least in the sense stable under the highest pressure I know off). I know the processors passes Prime at stock so I want it to pass over clocked as well. Am I perhaps giving up performance in games like that? Perhaps...but I get some peace of mind :-)
Oh and a little update: using the Intel Extreme Tuning utility I can actually raise the wattage and current limit, so it would appear that the option ASRock implemented is at fault, because it really doesn't override the settings like the XTU does.
That didn't work at all (nor should it, since the C-States are for lower power operation and have nothing to with the CPU throttling in order for it to stay within a given power limit). What needs no be adjusted is said power limit as explained here at MaximumPC.com:
"The problems with...
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