I had artifacts very frequently in Euro Truck Simulator 2 while I was on 12.11 beta, however it have gotten a lot better after 13.1. Not completely gone though. It's the only game I've had artifacts on my 7950(stock).
Nice to see it put in numbers, but nothing I haven't experienced after owning a HTC One X for a while. I've been very unimpressed by Tegra 3 from the start, and not just because of the power consumption. The only positive thing I can think of is the companion core, but for me any gains in idle...
I thought of this as well, as I had a Sapphire 7950 with that problem. I wrote to Scott at TR and asked if he had thought of this. He wrote back that he thought that the card itself could be the issue, so he also tested another 7950 without boost. The results were the same.
My German is a little(very) rusty, but on the Nvidia side it reads something like:
A GTX 690 SLI runs in 2560x1440 pixels with only 40 fps and shows strong microstutter, which negatively affects "gamingfeel".
AMD is a little more difficult for me to translate, but it's something like that...
The i5 is absolutely enough just for gaming, chances are it will never bottleneck whatever graphics card that Mac come with. In fact I wouldn't get a Mac for a gaming machine, unless you also want one for other reasons.
Same thing happened to me. My 1100mhz, 1.181v OC was stable in every single game I tried. Hitman Absolution, Arma2, BF3, could run heaven for hours. Then I started Far Cry and it crashed instantly. What is up with this game?
Downloading the game now. Hopefully we will get a performance increase driver from AMD soon, as I'm not completely happy about the 7950's performance judging by those benchmarks.
That's what I did, and then adjusting offset accordingly in 0.05 increments until stable. Now I'm running at 4.4 with -15 offset. I'm no expert by any means, but this worked for me. I see they have another way of figuring out offset in that guide but I didn't do that.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1291703/ivy-bridge-overclocking-guide-asus-motherboards
I have the same mobo as you with a 3570k, and this guide helped me a lot. The bios layout on that mobo is a little different, but nothing major.
It's very easy. The MSI 7950's at least usually have high ASIC scores, which means they go quite far with little voltage.
Since you're new to this you probably shouldn't touch voltage yet. Just download MSI Afterburner and see how far you can get on stock voltage. Increase power limit to 20%...
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